Reforms in France: When Competition and Cooperation Clash

When Temperaments Clash

The motif throughout is the author's axiom that our ability to perform to capacity depends upon our relations with other humans and not on sheer skill or dexterity. He urges that the effect of intimate human contacts upon the nervous system is becoming a serious problem now that civilisation has rendered the race so highly sensitive. He points out that just as social knowledge led the way to th...

When Agents Clash

The notion of agency is central to the study of software process. Software development processes are enacted by agents, represent agents, and ultimately, must be capable of guiding human agents. This paper explores the use of the term “agent” in software engineering, and advocates a systematic study of this notion in the context of software process technology. In particular, the paper proposes ...

Cooperation Competition Running head: A THEORY OF COOPERATION - COMPETITION A Theory of Cooperation - Competition and Beyond

This chapter is concerned with my interrelated theoretical work in the areas of cooperation competition, conflict resolution, social justice, and social relations. The theory of cooperation competition is a component of the other theories. Thus, the theory of conflict resolution is based on this theory and my Crude Law of Social Relations. My work in social justice is also based on this theory,...

Recent Social Security Reforms in France

Like covered payrolls and total benefit payments, the costs of workmen’s compensation were about 10 percent higher in 1969 than in 1968. As a result, employers continued to spend for the third consecutive year the same proportion of their payrolls to insure or self-insure their risks under workmen‘s compensation program-about $1.07 per $100 of payroll in covered employment. In earlier years, th...

Competition and Cooperation