... agreement that reswitching and capital reversing were theoretically possible (Harcourt, 1972). This posed serious problems for the justification of the use of the neoclassical one-sector aggregate production function as a "parable". The revival of interest in growth theory with the development of endogenous growth theory is still squarely in the tradition of the neoclassical growth model. Pasinetti (1994) was compelled to ... can hardly be accused of not being fully aware of the aggregation problem. "I have never thought of the macroeconomic production function as a rigorously justifiab...

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... , suggesting we are all from each other, this notion of equality seems to be ambiguously intended to include, but not openly imposed on slaves. With this in mind, in the parable in sura16: sect76 it suggests that a slave with no power and a slave owner given fair provisions by Allah, are said to be equal, but most know not of this. There ... is another parable that compares the freeing of a slave to the feeding of a hungry orphan or a poor man; this comparison depicts a sense of sorrow or sympathy for the condition of the slave. This ... ...

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... . Emerson's rescaling of man to a grasshopper may not reach the extent of biocentric revisioning of the sort found in Aldo Leopold's "Odyssey" of atoms X and Y in Sand County Almanac (1970), a parable in his vision of biotic community. (39) But this shift to organic metonymy surely detranscendentalizes the implications of "organic metaphor" most thoroughly associated with Emersonian correspondence as theorized in Nature ... ...

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... -Wa and Sammo represent the profound contradictions of both Chinese and American ideologies. The Image in Action Following the series formula, "Lock and Load, Babe- begins and ends with a Chinese parable told in voice-over by Jian-Wa that frames the events within the episode. In fact, these "fortune cookie- aphorisms play a key role in Hollywood representations of the sage, but ... ...

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... purposes of preventing additional crimes by those who suffer from mental retardation is ludicrous. In this respect, the role of the death penalty can be seen, to use an old parable, as being nothing more than closing the barn door after the cow is already out. There is no purpose and no point to this extremely permanent end to a crime, where ... ...

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... . Faith in paradox does, however, generate a tremendous risk, but as Climacus counters, "without risk there is no faith."" Climacus describes the risk of faith with the example of the biblical parable, "as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith."" The inherent risk is derived from the paradox of having faith in a truth ... ...

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... such great stress. Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in their being "dead- (Moravia 163-4). He tells the parable of Lazarus in order to illustrate his point, a story that represents Cesira's life. Cesira, in accepting the capitalist way of life, is spiritually dead, as regulating the economy solely by ... ...

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