Jarley (2005) recently proposed a model of social capital unionism that contends that unions should strive to recreate the dense communities of the past by systematically creating social networks among workers. Underlying this approach is the notion that sustained personal contacts with members are necessary to generate the generalised reciprocity norms that mobilise workers in times of need an...

©2002 HBD International, Inc. We’ve Moved! Since August 19, 2002, the operations of HBD Intl, Inc. have been conducted from a warehouse/office complex in the beautiful countryside near Nashville, Tennessee. Tanya HarrisonCoffinberry, Jean Coffinberry and Nancy Coste have moved from the former office in Delray Beach, Florida in order to provide more direct supervision of the packaging and shippi...

In this paper I investigate the relationship between fertility and old-age support in developing countries. In the first part of the paper, I present a two-period model. In the first period, parents decide on the quantity and the quality of children and savings. In the second period, children decide on transfers to parents. I then derive the effects of an exogenous increase in fertility in the ...

a Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Campus Sciences, B.P. 70239, F-54506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France b Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes (IRCCyN), l'UNAM, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, 1 rue de la Noë, 1, B.P. 92101, F-44321 Nantes, France c Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux (LIEC), Universi...

this paper provides a critical analysis of heidegger’s brief remarks in his “letter on humanism” in which he links ethics to ethos and ultimately to our relation to time and history. central to this analysis is the phrase of heraclitus, ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn, from which heidegger claims that human living (ethos) is inseparable from the event of appropriation (ereignis) which generates our hist...

In this paper, we turn to the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy. In his work La Création du Monde ou la Mondialisation of 2002 the French philosopher analyses the process of globalisation. Rather than denoting a new homogeneity, the term refers to a world horizon characterized in its interpalpable multiplicity of cultural, socio-economical, ideological and politico-moral content. According to Nancy,...