John B. Thomson, Merchants of Culture

John Thomson

one whose clinical acumen, painstaking and accurate observations and valuable writings had gained for him a reputation which was world-wide and which added a lustre to British Medicine. John Thomson was born in Edinburgh in 1856, and, after receiving his education at the Academy and University, he studied in London, Berlin and Vienna. His interest was early directed towards diseases of children...

hermeneutics of paradise lost of john milton

از منظر ریشه شناسی ، واژه "هرمنوتیک" به فرایند قابل درک و فهم نمودن شی، مفهوم یا موقعیتی مبهم وغیر قابل درک اشاره می کند.علم ترجمه، قلب علم هرمنوتیک محسوب می شود زیرا مارا از فاصله ها و تضاد هایی که در امر تاویل و تفسیر موجود است آگاه می سازد( پالمر، 1969). در حقیقت ، ترجمه را می توان نوعی تمرین دشوار هرمنوتیک دانست که متضمن درک معانی متون و انتقال وفادارانه این معانی و ساختارها از زبانی خاص با...

Merchants and ivory

Two African states, Tanzania and Zambia, are seeking to change the ban on trade in ivory at the meeting next month of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in Qatar. But the countries face a battle, because other states, such as Kenya and Mali, are strongly opposed to any change and have been lobbying the EU in Brussels this month to support a block to any chan...

John Bathurst Thomson MD 1813-1850. An insight into the times of a regimental medical officer.

A model of merchants

I propose a simple model of merchants who are specialized in buying and selling a homogenous good. Facing the same frictions as in the buyer-seller direct trades, merchants can make profits with an ability to buy and sell many units of the good. They set the price to compete in the market and provide buyers with a strong likelihood of obtaining the good. This paper establishes a turnover equili...