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...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ... ...y were never exposed to them. But recent findings by a team of anthropologists, economists and paleopathologists who have completed a massive st... ...ages in 1907. The idea to incorporated cathode -ray tubes was proposed in 1911 by a Scottish engineer, Campbell Swinton. Another Scot, John Log...

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...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount... ... accommodate sentient beings - namely, us humans. Industrialists, politicians and economists have only recently begun paying lip service to sustai... ... (alternatively termed biocentric, deep, or ecocentric). First, the Utilitarians. Economists, for instance, tend to discuss the costs and benefits...

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... his response is aiming at. Ludwig von Mises Economics - to the great dismay of economists - is merely a branch of psychology. It deals with ind... ... standard theory of utility and the theory of general equilibrium. Irritatingly for economists, people change their preferences mysteriously and ir... ... also caused by its own effect. These are symptoms of an all-pervasive malaise. Economists are simply not sure what precisely constitutes their ... ...– The theory must yield policy prescriptions, much like physics yields technology. Economists must develop "economic technology" - a set of tools, ... ...ability, verifiability, refutability, falsifiability, and repeatability. Yet, many economists go as far as to argue that no experiments can be desi... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma...

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...whelmingly and tragically bad in ways that everyone, and not just lawyers or economists, should care about. We are mak- ing bad decisions that will ha... ...ibiotic, surely the market will provide it? Apparently not. You have brought economists with you into your brave new world—perhaps out of nostalgia, o... ...t of nostalgia, or because a lot of packing got done at the last minute. The economists shake their heads. 1 The petunia farmer is selling something t... ... Why create such a right and back it with the force of law? According to the economists, the answer is that trademark law does two things. It saves co... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c... ...The main thrust of the argument here is still firmly within the Jeffersonian, Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Jefferson does not wish to give the pat... ...ere is very good reason to believe that this attitude was dominant among the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers whose writings were so influential to the ...

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...and the yearly deficit stayed incredibly high. And to the chagrin of many economists, the economy sagged. ―Cutting expenses, while it seems... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp... ... call white slave traders ‗undocumented travel agents?‘ And ‗undocumented economists‘ or ‗undocumented bankers‘ could include money launderers, peop... ...t this indicated that more education for marriage preparation was needed. Economists criticizing the need for more marriage education said that more...

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...ve any money in the first place? Who do not have any capital to begin with? Economists don’t want to answer that question because they know they c... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

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...e a home feeling on the spot; for I am a countryman of the Sabbath, so to speak, and all Sabbath observances, like a Scottish accent, strike in me mix... ...ked one behind the other like tramps, but their pace was remarkable. The son led the way, a tall, ill- made, sombre, Scottish-looking man; the mother ... ...I had only to follow them; and then the mother asked me what I wanted by the lake at such an hour. I replied, in the Scottish manner, by inquiring if ... ...c; and sec- ond, my road lay through one of the most beggarly coun- tries in the world. It was like the worst of the Scottish High- lands, only worse;... ...an open house. I thought I had rediscovered one of those truths which are revealed to savages and hid from political economists: at the least, I had d... ... been led, by bagmen of a picturesque turn of mind, to expect a horrific country after the heart of Byron; but to my Scottish eyes it seemed smiling a...

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...n this planet) our English poets have possessed in the highest degree, and Scottish pro- fessors 3 in the lowest. I have often been asked how I first... ...- edge, not to be aware of the utter feebleness of the main herd of modern economists. I had been led in 1811 to look into loads of books and pamphlet... ...ic with a scholastic adroitness, might take up the whole academy of modern economists, and throttle them between heaven and earth with his finger and ... ...tly by algebraic symbols than in the usual clumsy and loitering diction of economists, the whole would not have filled a pocket-book; and being so bri...

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...ese so-called Biographical Documents are in his hand. By the kindness of a Scottish Hamburg Merchant, whose name, known to the whole mercantile world,... ...ure, indeed, little as yet has been done: with a strange indifference, our Economists, nigh buried under Tables for minor Branches of Industry, have a... ...t the Body Politic be decently interred, to avoid putrescence? Liber- als, Economists, Utilitarians enough I see marching with its bier, and chanting ... ...ne! “Still more touching was it when, turning the corner of a lane, in the Scottish Town of Edinburgh, I came upon a Signpost, whereon stood written t... ...have we endeavored, from the enormous, amorphous Plum-pudding, more like a Scottish Haggis, which Herr Teufelsdrockh had kneaded for his fellow-mortal...

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...ore essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. Amidst the welter of modern thought, a phi- loso... ...ange of daily life were therefore to suffer no dis- turbance whatever. The economists of Utopia, as I apprehended them, had a different method and a v... ... Yet I brought away an impres- sion that here was a rightness that earthly economists have failed to grasp. Few earthly economists have been able to d... ... no imports but meteorites, and no exports at all. T rading is the earthly economists’ initial notion, and they start from perplexing and insoluble ri... ...hose others, as Englishmen—which includes, in this case, I may remark, the Scottish and Welsh— he holds them superior to all other sorts of European, ...

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..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near... ...ce was given to a Royal Commission, sent to investigate one or more of the Scottish universities. In the German universi- ties, every professor holds ... ...l channel open to their instincts of abhorrence. The most important of the Scottish professorships—those which are fundamen- tally morticed to the mor... ... in supposing that any denial of that doctrine is implied by the Political Economists in calling Tithes a T ax; which, on the true definition of a T a... ...ears obtained for me double the quantity of sugar, or besoms, or political economists, which it would now obtain, I should think my- self warranted in... ... the science which had in vain been sought for before, is this: all former economists, in laying down the component parts of price, had fancied it imp... ...sider these two essential marks of distinction: 1. that by all respectable economists any true measure of value has been doubted or denied as a possib...

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...ould allow himself to touch it without gloves, it is to be wished that our Scottish brethren would resign, together with ‘backslidings,’ to the use of... ...after as a man sows shall he reap.’ The objections are overwhelming to the Scottish use of the word; first, because already in Scotland it is a barbar... ...hin so short a period were born 87 Thomas de Quincey subterraneously,* in Scottish mines, or in the English collieries of Cumberland, and were suppos... ...ches of this Pariah popu- lation, the work (title I forget) of Mr. Bald, a Scottish engi- neer, well known and esteemed in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He m... ... is rather sullen, on a winter evening, to the eye. On the other hand, the Scottish coal or most of it, being far poorer as to heat, throws out a very... ...e was more liberal than Sir William Petty, Dr. Davenant, &c., or any elder economists of the preceding century; he would have statistics treated as a ... ...sputed questions of the case. First. That, in spite of the assurances from economists, no progress whatever had been made by England or by any state w...

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...sture, indeed, little as yet has been done: with a strange indifference, our Economists, nigh buried un der Tables for minor Branches of Industry, ha... ...nnot the dullest hear Steam engines clanking around him? Has he not seen the Scottish Brass smith’s I DEA (and this but a mechanical one) travelling o... ... that the Body Politic be decently interred, to avoid putrescence? Liberals, Economists, Utilitarians enough I see marching with its bier, and chantin... ...tone! “Still more touching was it when, turning the corner of a lane, in the Scottish Town of Edinburgh, I came upon a Signpost, whereon stood written... ...O HAVE we endeavored, from the enormous, amorphous Plum pudding, more like a Scottish Haggis, which Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh had kneaded for his fellow m...

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...there? If ever Dr. Johnson said a true word, it was when he replied to the Scottish judge Burnett, so well known to the world as Lord Monboddo. The ju... ... wells without their advice. We ourselves knew an amiable and accomplished Scottish family, who, at an estate called Belmadrothie, in memory of a simi... ... before the event a description of that tournament, on the marriage of the Scottish Queen with his eldest son, Francis II., which proved fatal to hims... ... 270 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Coleridge made upon the political economists. Did Sir James Steuart, in speaking of vine-dressers, (not as vi... ...ewer or cess-pool to receive her impurities. Some time back I remem- ber a Scottish newspaper holding up the case as a newly dis- covered horror in th... ...upon our shore, once or so in the season. What amuses one besides, in this Scottish denunciation of the villany, is, that Scotland* of old, pursued th...

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..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s... ...peted one with another and died and reproduced just like animals, and that economists, following List, have for the purposes of fiscal controversy dis...