Alan D. Morrison and William J. Wilhelm Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296576
- eISBN:
- 9780191712036
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296576.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
The second half of the 19th century saw the high water mark for laissez-faire capitalism. Business people, politicians, and jurists were largely agreed that economic progress was best accomplished in ...
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The second half of the 19th century saw the high water mark for laissez-faire capitalism. Business people, politicians, and jurists were largely agreed that economic progress was best accomplished in free markets, supported by a minimal state. In this environment, investment banks were extremely important: they levered their reputations and their relationships to create the private laws that were needed to support large-scale financial capitalism. Technological advances forced the merchant banks mentioned in Chapter 5 to specialize in investment banking. This chapter discusses the role of the largest investment banks, and in particular of Kuhn Loeb and JP Morgan, in shaping modern corporate America. The investment banks invested investor activism, and they created the modern investment bank syndicate. In particular, their activist work with financially distressed corporations resulted in the development the ‘equity receivership’, the first coherent corporate bankruptcy law.Less
The second half of the 19th century saw the high water mark for laissez-faire capitalism. Business people, politicians, and jurists were largely agreed that economic progress was best accomplished in free markets, supported by a minimal state. In this environment, investment banks were extremely important: they levered their reputations and their relationships to create the private laws that were needed to support large-scale financial capitalism. Technological advances forced the merchant banks mentioned in Chapter 5 to specialize in investment banking. This chapter discusses the role of the largest investment banks, and in particular of Kuhn Loeb and JP Morgan, in shaping modern corporate America. The investment banks invested investor activism, and they created the modern investment bank syndicate. In particular, their activist work with financially distressed corporations resulted in the development the ‘equity receivership’, the first coherent corporate bankruptcy law.
Williams Martin
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195083491
- eISBN:
- 9780199853205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195083491.003.0053
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
This chapter describes a concert at the Loeb Student Center of New York University by the Ornette Coleman Quintet, featuring Coleman on alto and violin; Don Cherry on trumpet, cornet, and an Indian ...
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This chapter describes a concert at the Loeb Student Center of New York University by the Ornette Coleman Quintet, featuring Coleman on alto and violin; Don Cherry on trumpet, cornet, and an Indian flute; Dewey Redman on tenor, Charlie Haden on bass; and Ornette's son Denardo Coleman on drums. The occasion was also sort of a reunion. Haden and Cherry were in the first band that Ornette Coleman brought to the famous Five Spot in New York in the late fall of 1959. But the program had seven new compositions by Coleman, and one by Charlie Haden. It was one of the most magnificent, exciting, and satisfying musical performances critics had ever heard.Less
This chapter describes a concert at the Loeb Student Center of New York University by the Ornette Coleman Quintet, featuring Coleman on alto and violin; Don Cherry on trumpet, cornet, and an Indian flute; Dewey Redman on tenor, Charlie Haden on bass; and Ornette's son Denardo Coleman on drums. The occasion was also sort of a reunion. Haden and Cherry were in the first band that Ornette Coleman brought to the famous Five Spot in New York in the late fall of 1959. But the program had seven new compositions by Coleman, and one by Charlie Haden. It was one of the most magnificent, exciting, and satisfying musical performances critics had ever heard.
Fiona McHardy, James Robson, and David Harvey (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780859897525
- eISBN:
- 9781781380628
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780859897525.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This is a study of Greek tragedies known to us only from small fragmentary remnants that have survived. The book discusses a variety of Greek tragic fragments from all three of the famous Athenian ...
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This is a study of Greek tragedies known to us only from small fragmentary remnants that have survived. The book discusses a variety of Greek tragic fragments from all three of the famous Athenian tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The recent publication of translations of some of these fragments (Sophocles in the Loeb series, and Euripides in the Aris and Phillips series) means that the fragments are now more readily available than ever for study. The large number of extant fragments of ancient Greek tragedy can tell us enormous amounts about that genre and about the society that produced it. Papyrus finds over the last hundred years have drastically altered and supplemented our knowledge of ancient Greek tragedy; the book is at the cutting-edge of research in this field.Less
This is a study of Greek tragedies known to us only from small fragmentary remnants that have survived. The book discusses a variety of Greek tragic fragments from all three of the famous Athenian tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The recent publication of translations of some of these fragments (Sophocles in the Loeb series, and Euripides in the Aris and Phillips series) means that the fragments are now more readily available than ever for study. The large number of extant fragments of ancient Greek tragedy can tell us enormous amounts about that genre and about the society that produced it. Papyrus finds over the last hundred years have drastically altered and supplemented our knowledge of ancient Greek tragedy; the book is at the cutting-edge of research in this field.
Louis Loeb
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195146585
- eISBN:
- 9780199833405
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195146581.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Working within a philosophical tradition that values tranquillity, Hume favors an epistemology that links justification with settled belief. Hume appeals to psychological stability to support his own ...
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Working within a philosophical tradition that values tranquillity, Hume favors an epistemology that links justification with settled belief. Hume appeals to psychological stability to support his own epistemological assessments, both favorable regarding causal inference and unfavorable regarding the imagination. The theory's success in explaining Hume's epistemic distinctions gives way to pessimism or ”skepticism,” since Hume contends that reflection on beliefs is deeply destabilizing. So much the worse, Hume concludes, for placing a premium on reflection. Hume endorses and defends the position that stable beliefs of unreflective persons are justified, though they would not survive reflection. At the same time, Hume relishes, and strains to establish, the paradox that unreflective beliefs enjoy a preferred epistemic status. A series of amendments to the Treatise secures a more positive result for justified belief while maintaining Hume's fundamental principles. These include a stratum of psychological doctrine beyond associationism, a theory of conditions in which beliefs are felt to conflict and of the resolution of this uneasiness or dissonance. This theory of mental conflict is also essential to Hume's strategy for integrating empiricism about meaning with his naturalism. However, Hume fails to provide a general account of the conditions in which conflicting beliefs lead to persisting instability, so his theory is incomplete.Less
Working within a philosophical tradition that values tranquillity, Hume favors an epistemology that links justification with settled belief. Hume appeals to psychological stability to support his own epistemological assessments, both favorable regarding causal inference and unfavorable regarding the imagination. The theory's success in explaining Hume's epistemic distinctions gives way to pessimism or ”skepticism,” since Hume contends that reflection on beliefs is deeply destabilizing. So much the worse, Hume concludes, for placing a premium on reflection. Hume endorses and defends the position that stable beliefs of unreflective persons are justified, though they would not survive reflection. At the same time, Hume relishes, and strains to establish, the paradox that unreflective beliefs enjoy a preferred epistemic status. A series of amendments to the Treatise secures a more positive result for justified belief while maintaining Hume's fundamental principles. These include a stratum of psychological doctrine beyond associationism, a theory of conditions in which beliefs are felt to conflict and of the resolution of this uneasiness or dissonance. This theory of mental conflict is also essential to Hume's strategy for integrating empiricism about meaning with his naturalism. However, Hume fails to provide a general account of the conditions in which conflicting beliefs lead to persisting instability, so his theory is incomplete.
Edward Morris
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231170543
- eISBN:
- 9780231540506
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170543.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
The chapter describes Paul Warburg’s role in the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
The chapter describes Paul Warburg’s role in the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
Nicholas Jolley
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198238195
- eISBN:
- 9780191597824
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198238193.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
It is characteristic of both occasionalism and vision in God that they place man in a condition of extreme dependence on God; indeed, they might be seen respectively as ontological and ...
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It is characteristic of both occasionalism and vision in God that they place man in a condition of extreme dependence on God; indeed, they might be seen respectively as ontological and epistemological versions of this theme. Further, both doctrines can be seen as pushing Cartesian themes to extreme lengths. Occasionalism is a radical version of the continuous creation doctrine of the ‘Third Meditation’; vision in God is a radical version of Descartes's thesis in the ‘Fifth Meditation’ that all knowledge depends on the prior knowledge of God. We shall see that Malebranche does not achieve a fully satisfactory account of the relations between his two most famous doctrines because he sometimes has difficulty acknowledging that the realm of the psychological is not simply coextensive with the sensory; when he does try to accommodate this insight, the result is that he sets up tensions with his most basic commitments. The two doctrines may be flawed, but they are free from the arguably more serious conflations and inconsistencies that bedevil Descartes's treatment of the same issues.Less
It is characteristic of both occasionalism and vision in God that they place man in a condition of extreme dependence on God; indeed, they might be seen respectively as ontological and epistemological versions of this theme. Further, both doctrines can be seen as pushing Cartesian themes to extreme lengths. Occasionalism is a radical version of the continuous creation doctrine of the ‘Third Meditation’; vision in God is a radical version of Descartes's thesis in the ‘Fifth Meditation’ that all knowledge depends on the prior knowledge of God. We shall see that Malebranche does not achieve a fully satisfactory account of the relations between his two most famous doctrines because he sometimes has difficulty acknowledging that the realm of the psychological is not simply coextensive with the sensory; when he does try to accommodate this insight, the result is that he sets up tensions with his most basic commitments. The two doctrines may be flawed, but they are free from the arguably more serious conflations and inconsistencies that bedevil Descartes's treatment of the same issues.
Todd W. Reeser
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226307008
- eISBN:
- 9780226307145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226307145.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
The conclusion discusses the vestiges or transformations of the kinds of rereadings studied in post-Renaissance translations of Plato—including those of Jean Racine, Percy Shelley, and the ...
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The conclusion discusses the vestiges or transformations of the kinds of rereadings studied in post-Renaissance translations of Plato—including those of Jean Racine, Percy Shelley, and the twentieth-century Loeb translations.Less
The conclusion discusses the vestiges or transformations of the kinds of rereadings studied in post-Renaissance translations of Plato—including those of Jean Racine, Percy Shelley, and the twentieth-century Loeb translations.
Frederick Nolan
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195102895
- eISBN:
- 9780199853212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195102895.003.0011
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
Although it meant working for the first time away from Herbert Fields, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart accepted a new commission and made arrangements to go to London as soon as they were finished ...
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Although it meant working for the first time away from Herbert Fields, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart accepted a new commission and made arrangements to go to London as soon as they were finished with a new edition of The Garrick Gaieties. Larry and Dick had been reluctant to do a follow-up, because the element of spontaneity and youthful insouciance the first show had traded on would be missing. However, Terry Helburn and Lawrence Langner of the Theatre Guild won them over by pointing out that revenues, from the Ziegfeld Follies on down, were doing big business, and by promising them star billing, Hard and Rodgers argued no more: star billing at the Theatre Guild was very attractive. Working with many of the same talented young people — Edith Meiser, Romney Brent, Philip Loeb, Hildegarde Halliday, Betty Starbuck, Sterling Holloway — they set out once more to kid the theatrical profession in general and the Theatre Guild in particular.Less
Although it meant working for the first time away from Herbert Fields, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart accepted a new commission and made arrangements to go to London as soon as they were finished with a new edition of The Garrick Gaieties. Larry and Dick had been reluctant to do a follow-up, because the element of spontaneity and youthful insouciance the first show had traded on would be missing. However, Terry Helburn and Lawrence Langner of the Theatre Guild won them over by pointing out that revenues, from the Ziegfeld Follies on down, were doing big business, and by promising them star billing, Hard and Rodgers argued no more: star billing at the Theatre Guild was very attractive. Working with many of the same talented young people — Edith Meiser, Romney Brent, Philip Loeb, Hildegarde Halliday, Betty Starbuck, Sterling Holloway — they set out once more to kid the theatrical profession in general and the Theatre Guild in particular.
Nicholas Jolley
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199669554
- eISBN:
- 9780191763076
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669554.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Some modern scholars such as Loeb have defended Descartes’ doctrine of mind-body interaction by arguing that it is not inconsistent with his Causal Adequacy Principle. This chapter seeks to extend ...
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Some modern scholars such as Loeb have defended Descartes’ doctrine of mind-body interaction by arguing that it is not inconsistent with his Causal Adequacy Principle. This chapter seeks to extend this line of defence by focusing on the causation of mental events by bodies. It is shown that Descartes’ position here is complicated by his distinction between the formal and objective reality of ideas and by his subscription to the Augustinian principle that minds are more perfect than bodies. It is argued, however, that even when these complications are recognized, Descartes’ position emerges largely unscathed; at most the Causal Adequacy Principle is a source of difficulty only for a strong version of interactionism.Less
Some modern scholars such as Loeb have defended Descartes’ doctrine of mind-body interaction by arguing that it is not inconsistent with his Causal Adequacy Principle. This chapter seeks to extend this line of defence by focusing on the causation of mental events by bodies. It is shown that Descartes’ position here is complicated by his distinction between the formal and objective reality of ideas and by his subscription to the Augustinian principle that minds are more perfect than bodies. It is argued, however, that even when these complications are recognized, Descartes’ position emerges largely unscathed; at most the Causal Adequacy Principle is a source of difficulty only for a strong version of interactionism.
Nicholas Jolley
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199669554
- eISBN:
- 9780191763076
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669554.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter addresses the question whether Leibniz became a phenomenalist in his later years when he was committed to an idealist ontology. In opposition to Furth and Loeb it is argued that he did ...
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This chapter addresses the question whether Leibniz became a phenomenalist in his later years when he was committed to an idealist ontology. In opposition to Furth and Loeb it is argued that he did not. Although Leibniz flirted with phenomenalist ideas on occasion, he never truly accepted them; on the contrary, he maintained a rival reductionist thesis to the effect that bodies are in some sense aggregates of monads. However, this conclusion raises difficulties of its own, for in certain respects phenomenalism seems like the more attractive option; for instance, phenomenalism dispenses with the veil of perception. It is argued that Leibniz’s reluctance to accept phenomenalism must be explained in terms of his goal of reconciling monadology and physicsLess
This chapter addresses the question whether Leibniz became a phenomenalist in his later years when he was committed to an idealist ontology. In opposition to Furth and Loeb it is argued that he did not. Although Leibniz flirted with phenomenalist ideas on occasion, he never truly accepted them; on the contrary, he maintained a rival reductionist thesis to the effect that bodies are in some sense aggregates of monads. However, this conclusion raises difficulties of its own, for in certain respects phenomenalism seems like the more attractive option; for instance, phenomenalism dispenses with the veil of perception. It is argued that Leibniz’s reluctance to accept phenomenalism must be explained in terms of his goal of reconciling monadology and physics
James C. Oleson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520282414
- eISBN:
- 9780520958098
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520282414.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Criminologists estimate the true volume of crime—the “dark figure”—to be approximately four times the size of crime reported in official statistics. Most crime goes unrecorded, and criminologists ...
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Criminologists estimate the true volume of crime—the “dark figure”—to be approximately four times the size of crime reported in official statistics. Most crime goes unrecorded, and criminologists know far more about the criminal behavior of the poor, uneducated, and young than they do about the crimes of the wealthy, educated, and powerful. Although the criminal genius is a cherished villain in history (e.g., Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, Theodore Kaczynski, and Caryl Chessman), literature (e.g., Raskolnikov, Professor Moriarty, and John Galt), and film (e.g., Hannibal Lecter, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Dr. Mabuse, and Ozymandias), little is actually known about the crimes of those possessing above-average IQ.Less
Criminologists estimate the true volume of crime—the “dark figure”—to be approximately four times the size of crime reported in official statistics. Most crime goes unrecorded, and criminologists know far more about the criminal behavior of the poor, uneducated, and young than they do about the crimes of the wealthy, educated, and powerful. Although the criminal genius is a cherished villain in history (e.g., Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, Theodore Kaczynski, and Caryl Chessman), literature (e.g., Raskolnikov, Professor Moriarty, and John Galt), and film (e.g., Hannibal Lecter, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Dr. Mabuse, and Ozymandias), little is actually known about the crimes of those possessing above-average IQ.
Peter Nicholls
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199545810
- eISBN:
- 9780191803475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199545810.003.0037
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter discusses the histories of Broom and Secession, two publications that were key to the evolution of the American avant-garde and especially to its connections with European Dada and ...
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This chapter discusses the histories of Broom and Secession, two publications that were key to the evolution of the American avant-garde and especially to its connections with European Dada and Surrealism. Broom, founded in 1921, was published in Rome and Berlin, while Secession, its successor one year later, moved between Vienna, Berlin, and Florence. Broom's editor Harold Loeb and Secession's founders, Matthew Josephson and Gorham Munson, belonged to a generation of young men in the 1920s who left America in search of artistic freedom and the libertarian life style in Europe.Less
This chapter discusses the histories of Broom and Secession, two publications that were key to the evolution of the American avant-garde and especially to its connections with European Dada and Surrealism. Broom, founded in 1921, was published in Rome and Berlin, while Secession, its successor one year later, moved between Vienna, Berlin, and Florence. Broom's editor Harold Loeb and Secession's founders, Matthew Josephson and Gorham Munson, belonged to a generation of young men in the 1920s who left America in search of artistic freedom and the libertarian life style in Europe.
