William Morris, Use Value and "Joyful Labour"

Sustainable Socialism: William Morris on Waste

While William Morris has long been recognized for his radical approach to the problem of labor, which built on the ideas of John Ruskin and informed his contributions to the Arts and Crafts philosophy, his ideas about waste have received much less attention. This article suggests that the Kelmscott Press, which Morris founded in 1891, was designed to embody the values of durability and sustaina...

The Green Borders of William Morris

/ n the recent exhibition of Kelmscott Press books held by the University of Melbourne Library, we were treated to many examples of borders designed by William Morris. Some of these borders are repeats, but all draw on Morris's extensive repertoire of 'conventionalised' organic forms. Having spent some time studying the concept of nature in the work of Morris, it was these 'green' borders which...

Statistical Matching in ‘Labour Force’ and ‘Time Use’ Surveys

Abstract. In the National Statistical Systems‎, ‎some parts of the official statistics required for development planning and evidence base management are collected through sampling survey‎. ‎Due to the high cost of sampling process‎, ‎as well as nonresponses‎, ‎it may not be possible to collect all of the expected variables in a survey‎.‎In order to obtain a comprehensive and complete source o...

The joyful mind.

n the 1950s psychiatrist robert heath of tulane university launched a controversial program to surgically implant electrodes into the brains of patients institutionalized with epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression and other severe neurological conditions. His initial objective: to locate the biological seat of these disorders and, by artificially stimulating those regions, perhaps cure individual...

Surgery on Piecewise Linear Manifolds and Applications by William Browder and Morris