THEORETICAL GROUNDS OF MODERN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Analytical Grounds for Modern Theory of Two- Dimensionally Periodic Gratings

Fertile Grounds of Inquiry: Environmental Effects on Human Reproduction

Modern Theoretical Approaches to Homer

[380] ‘Modern’ and ‘theory’ are notoriously imprecise terms. Before attempting to define their use in the present essay, it would be naive not to draw attention to the inevitable impermanence of any study with the word ‘modern’ in its title. When the present New Companion has aged as much as Wace and Stubbings’ original Companion to Homer now has, what critical shifts will have taken place to r...

Biomedical and Environmental Ethics Alliance: Common Causes and Grounds

In the late 1960s Van Rensselaer Potter, a biochemist and cancer researcher, thought that our survival was threatened by the domination of military policy makers and producers of material goods ignorant of biology. He called for a new field of Bioethics—“a science of survival.” Bioethics did develop, but with a narrower focus on medical ethics. Recently there have been attempts to broaden that ...

Modern Approaches to Stabilization Policy

It is a great honour to be asked to give the Doug Purvis Memorial Address at this year’s annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association. As an undergraduate at McGill University in the late 1970s, I had the privilege of studying with a number of distinguished scholars, one of whom, Jack Weldon, had a particularly strong influence on me. Of the many lessons I learned from him, two are part...