Doing compassion or doing discipline? Power relations and the Magdalene Laundries

On Doing Without Relations

Kevin Mulligan defends the view that there are relations but that all relations are internal relations. There are, according to him, no external relations, but only internal relations. He argues that true predications of external relations between things are made true by internal relations between tropes of these things. I think that he is right in claiming that one can do without external rela...

Doing Good, Being Good, and the Social Construction of Compassion

Doing It Now or Later

We examine self-control problems — modeled as time-inconsistent, presentbiased preferences—in a model where a person must do an activity exactly once. We emphasize two distinctions: Do activities involve immediate costs or immediate rewards, and are people sophisticated or naive about future self-control problems? Naive people procrastinate immediate-cost activities and preproperate—do too soon...

Doing the Right Thing or Doing the Thing Right: Allocating Resources Between Marketing Research and Manufacturing

M production with sales potential is essential for survival in volatile markets. Manufacturing and marketing managers compete for staff, space, cash, and other assets as they struggle both to determine what and how many products ought to be produced, and to actually produce them. We develop an analytical framework to answer one simple question, “How much marketing research should a firm do when...

Doing fatherhood, doing family: contemporary paternal perspectives