The reasons why we as scholars prefer one paradigm to another are not only scientific but also ideological. It is suggested that pluralism should be discussed at the levels of theory of science, paradigms in economics and ideological orientations. Neoclassical economics is closely connected with logical positivism as a theory of science and is close to Neo-liberalism as an ideological orientati...

Scholars in many fields have long noted the importance of social context in the development of political ideology. Recent work suggests that political ideology also has a heritable component, but no specific gene variant or combination of variants associated with political ideology have so far been identified. Here, we hypothesize that individuals with a genetic predisposition toward seeking ou...

Eco-civilization is the integral product of material achievement, spiritual achievement and regulations. It’s the cultural & ethical manifestation of the harmonic coexistence of humans & nature, balanced development, sustainable prosperity. The key ideology is the harmony and equality between nature and humans, the co-existence of multi-species and the re-production of resources. The nature ide...

We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet’s language is more similar to a congressional Republican or Democrat. We apply the measure to study the market forces that determine political content in the news. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that incorporates slant explicitly, estimate the slant that would be chosen if newspapers independently maximized the...

Title of thesis: THE ROLE OF PROVIDER-ROLE IDEOLOGY AND CONSISTENCY IN COUPLE COMMUNICATION Jessica Lynn Brenneman, Master of Science, 2010 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor Leigh A. Leslie Department of Family Science This study investigated how problem solving and conflict in couples’ communication is affected by their beliefs about provider role ideology, and the consistency between th...

Francis Fukuyama, in his Our Posthuman Future, and Gregory Stock, in his Redesigning Humans, present competing versions of the biomedical future of human beings, and debate the merits of more or less stringent regimes of regulation for biomedical innovation. In this article, these positions are shown to depend on a shared discourse of market liberalism, which limits both the range of ends for s...

Francis Fukuyama, in his Our Posthuman Future, and Gregory Stock, in his Redesigning Humans, present competing versions of the biomedical future of human beings, and debate the merits of more or less stringent regimes of regulation for biomedical innovation. In this article, these positions are shown to depend on a shared discourse of market liberalism, which limits both the range of ends for s...

In opposition to foundational economic principles, four studies show that people view profit as fundamentally socially harmful. Studies 1 and 2 find a strong negative correlation between profit and perceived social value across both real firms and entire industries. This relationship holds for both perceived profit and actual profit information from public data. Study 3 confirms that this effec...

The relationship between design and sustainability (DfS) is forever evolving: from the early focus on cleaner production processes and resource efficiencies to more recent endeavours to promote environmentally benign behaviours or to counter the increasing impacts of climate change. The uncomfortable truth though is that the majority of design activity serves market forces at a global scale and...