Michael Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0803-2798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An Epistemic Argument for an Egalitarian Public Sphere
The public sphere should be regulated so the distribution of political speech does not correlate with the distribution of income or wealth. A public sphere where people can fund any political speech from their private holdings is epistemically defective. The argument has four steps. First, if political speech is unregulated, the rich predictably contribute a disproportionate share. Second, wealth tends to correlate with substantive political pers…
Go Nomadism, Evolutionary Computation and Natural Selection: A Reply to Jay Lampert
In response to a 2023 article by Jay Lampert in Deleuze and Guattari Studies, this paper develops the question of what Deleuze and Guattari might make of AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence developed by Google which defeated one of the top human Go players in 2016. It approaches the question in a way that supplements and complements Lampert’s analysis, by noting the well-worn analogy between computer programming and evolutionary biology and then…
The status of Blue Economy development in Africa
Managerial Discretion, Market Failure and Democracy
Managers often have discretion in interpreting their ethical requirements, and they should seek democratic guidance in doing so. The undemocratic nature of managerial ethical discretion is shown to be a recurring problem in business ethics. Joseph Heath’s market failures approach (MFA) is introduced as a theory better positioned to deal with this problem than other views. However, due to epistemic uncertainty and conceptual indeterminacy, the MFA…
Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives
The Corporate Power Trilemma
Authors critical of corporate power focus almost exclusively on one solution: bringing it under democratic control. However important this is, there are at least two other options, which are rarely discussed: reducing powerful firms’ size and influence, or accepting corporate power as a necessary evil. This article provides a comparative perspective for evaluating all three options. It argues that the trade-offs we face in responding to corporate…
Technopolitics in a Twilight Civilization
In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Langdon Winner was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Sharon Traweek. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social di…
The capital flight quadrilemma: Democratic trade-offs and international investment
This article argues that capital flight of real investment presents governments with a quadrilemma. First, governments can tailor their policies to attract investors – but this is incompatible with a whole range of alternative policy choices. Second, they can simply accept capital flight – but this is incompatible with a robust capital stock and tax base. Third, they can harmonize its taxes and regulations with other states – but this is incompat…
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination
Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human st…
From front-line defence to back-foot retreat: The Diminishment of Local Government’s Role in Social Health Outcomes
Family Trees and the Return of Native Title Research Material to Aboriginal Communities in NSW
For more than a decade, NTSCORP, the native title services provider for Aboriginal communities in NSW and ACT, has returned genealogical information to claimants in the form of ancestral family trees. The exceptionally popular program has seen more than 4,000 requests logged and completed. This article reviews some of the strengths and weaknesses of the program and how it has changed over time. It also considers the return of research material as…
The choice of efficiencies and the necessity of politics
Efficiency requires legislative political institutions. There are many ways efficiency can be promoted, and so an ongoing legislative institution is necessary to resolve this choice in a politically sustainable and economically flexible way. This poses serious problems for classical liberal proposals to constitutionally protect markets from government intervention, as seen in the work of Ilya Somin, Guido Pincione & Fernando Tesón and others. The…
Hometown Religion. Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia
Empathy leads to increased online charitable behaviour when time is the currency
This study shows how the empathy–altruism hypothesis can affect helping behaviour where time spent is the currency, through the novel use of a real world charity. Using an online charity task ( www.freerice.com ), we show that inducing empathy and also anger cause participants to spend more time donating rice to the United Nations World Food Programme. These findings therefore support the empathy–altruism hypothesis and add to previous research t…
Experiments in Distributive Justice and Their Limits
Mark Pennington argues political systems should be decentralized in order to facilitate experimental learning about distributive justice. Pointing out the problems with Pennington’s Hayekian formulation, I reframe his argument as an extension of the Millian idea of “experiments in living.” However, the experimental case for decentralization is limited in several ways. Even if decentralization improves our knowledge about justice, it impedes the a…
Exhibition Reviews
We Are the Dead Men: Albert Tuckers War Kendrah Morgan, curator Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria, 15 March 7 September 2014. Entry: free with general museum admission
Linguistics, Philosophy, and Montague Grammar
Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities
The Political and Civic Implications of Chicago's Unsuccessful Bid to Host the 2016 Olympic Games
Between 2006 and 2009, Chicago's political and civic leadership developed a bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ultimately selected Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Games, with Chicago finishing fourth among the finalist cities in the October, 2009, IOC voting. This article is based on 20 key informant interviews with members and staff of the Chicago 2016 Committee, neighborhood activists and organizationa…
A Radical Critique of the Learning Outcomes Assessment Movement
The economics of fishing: Sustainable living in colonial New South Wales
La Perouse
Liverpool in the Sixteenth Century: A Small Tudor Town
With Knives and Words: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England. The History of Medicine in Context
Jenner's Ladies: Women and Vaccination against Smallpox in Early Nineteenth‐Century Britain
In 1798 Edward Jenner published his theory that cowpox inoculation (vaccination) provided immunity to smallpox, the greatest scourge of his age. In the following decade the practice spread remarkably rapidly, partly as a substitute for the older and more dangerous practice of smallpox inoculation (variolation) and partly through the creation of a larger constituency for immunization. While there is some awareness that Jenner was able to cultivate…
Economic Development in American Cities: The Pursuit of an Equity Agenda
Devolution and Local Government: Evidence from Scotland
Devolution in Scotland has had a major impact upon local government. Local government, at both political and managerial levels, perceives central government in the shape of the Scottish Executive to be closer (geographically and politically) and more open to local government in terms of access to ministers and civil servants. However, Scottish central–local relations continues to be characterised by a sense of mistrust of local government, especi…
Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s
The Corporate Power Trilemma
Authors critical of corporate power focus almost exclusively on one solution: bringing it under democratic control. However important this is, there are at least two other options, which are rarely discussed: reducing powerful firms’ size and influence, or accepting corporate power as a necessary evil. This article provides a comparative perspective for evaluating all three options. It argues that the trade-offs we face in responding to corporate…
Experiments in Distributive Justice and Their Limits
Mark Pennington argues political systems should be decentralized in order to facilitate experimental learning about distributive justice. Pointing out the problems with Pennington’s Hayekian formulation, I reframe his argument as an extension of the Millian idea of “experiments in living.” However, the experimental case for decentralization is limited in several ways. Even if decentralization improves our knowledge about justice, it impedes the a…
The Political and Civic Implications of Chicago's Unsuccessful Bid to Host the 2016 Olympic Games
Between 2006 and 2009, Chicago's political and civic leadership developed a bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ultimately selected Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Games, with Chicago finishing fourth among the finalist cities in the October, 2009, IOC voting. This article is based on 20 key informant interviews with members and staff of the Chicago 2016 Committee, neighborhood activists and organizationa…
Jenner's Ladies: Women and Vaccination against Smallpox in Early Nineteenth‐Century Britain
In 1798 Edward Jenner published his theory that cowpox inoculation (vaccination) provided immunity to smallpox, the greatest scourge of his age. In the following decade the practice spread remarkably rapidly, partly as a substitute for the older and more dangerous practice of smallpox inoculation (variolation) and partly through the creation of a larger constituency for immunization. While there is some awareness that Jenner was able to cultivate…
Family Trees and the Return of Native Title Research Material to Aboriginal Communities in NSW
For more than a decade, NTSCORP, the native title services provider for Aboriginal communities in NSW and ACT, has returned genealogical information to claimants in the form of ancestral family trees. The exceptionally popular program has seen more than 4,000 requests logged and completed. This article reviews some of the strengths and weaknesses of the program and how it has changed over time. It also considers the return of research material as…
The choice of efficiencies and the necessity of politics
Efficiency requires legislative political institutions. There are many ways efficiency can be promoted, and so an ongoing legislative institution is necessary to resolve this choice in a politically sustainable and economically flexible way. This poses serious problems for classical liberal proposals to constitutionally protect markets from government intervention, as seen in the work of Ilya Somin, Guido Pincione & Fernando Tesón and others. The…
The economics of fishing: Sustainable living in colonial New South Wales
La Perouse
Empathy leads to increased online charitable behaviour when time is the currency
This study shows how the empathy–altruism hypothesis can affect helping behaviour where time spent is the currency, through the novel use of a real world charity. Using an online charity task ( www.freerice.com ), we show that inducing empathy and also anger cause participants to spend more time donating rice to the United Nations World Food Programme. These findings therefore support the empathy–altruism hypothesis and add to previous research t…
A Radical Critique of the Learning Outcomes Assessment Movement
Passage through India: Global Vaccination and British India, 1800–05
Between 1798 and 1805 the novel practice of vaccination spread rapidly around the globe, and its first introduction into India needs to be seen as the initiative of Edward Jenner and his followers rather than imperial policy. Against a background of military and imperial expansion, however, the British in India and Ceylon supported vaccination with resources and energy lacking at home. This paper examines the technical problems associated with th…
Southern City, National Ambition: The Growth of Early Washington, D.C., 1800-1860
Journal Article “Southern City, National Ambition: The Growth of Early Washington, D.C., 1800–1860.” Octagon Museum, 1799 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20006. Anacostia Museum, 1901 Ft. Place, SE, Washington, DC 20020 Get access Michael Bennett Michael Bennett National Park Service, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 95…
Demonstratives and indexicals in montague grammar
California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA): Survival of a Poverty Law Practice
I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, one of fourteen children. My dad died when I was four years old. My mother raised all of us. I lived in what is commonly known as the barrio where it's 100 percent Mexican-American or Mexicano or Raza or Chicano. Most of the families were migrant families
Demonstratives and indexicals in montague grammar
Autopsies on Fish Mummies: Possible Identification of the Classical Phagrus
Of Tense and Aspect: One Analysis
Urban Neighborhoods, Networks, and Families: New Forms for Old Values . Peggy Wireman
Literature and anti‐racist teaching: Medium or vehicle
Crossing gaps ‐ cultural literacy and others
Organizing for Neighborhood Development . Allan Twelvetrees
Putting gender on the wider agenda
Southern City, National Ambition: The Growth of Early Washington, D.C., 1800-1860
Journal Article “Southern City, National Ambition: The Growth of Early Washington, D.C., 1800–1860.” Octagon Museum, 1799 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20006. Anacostia Museum, 1901 Ft. Place, SE, Washington, DC 20020 Get access Michael Bennett Michael Bennett National Park Service, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 95…
Empowerment in Chicago: Grassroots Participation in Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation
Empowerment in Chicago asks and answers the hard questions about Chicago's early experience with the EZ process. It provides an overview and history of the Empowerment Zone initiative as an economic development strategy. It provides a wealth of information about economic growth, job development, quality of life, and citizen participation in Chicago's Empowerment Zone, Enterprise Communities, and other communities in the Chicago metropolitan area.…
Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s
Richard II, Henry Yevele and a New Royal Mansion on the Thames
A payment to a mason sent to Richard II in Ireland in December 1394 provides evidence of a proposal to build a new or substantially new royal residence at Isleworth, Surrey. The mansion was presumably intended as a replacement for the palace of Sheen, shortly to be demolished on the king's orders. The mason carried with him a model prepared by Henry Yevele and Hugh Herland. This entry in the issue rolls of the Exchequer thus offers an interesting…
Recovering the Black Female Body: Self Representations by African American Women
Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, and representation, little has been written about black women's depictions of their own bodies. Both past and present-day American cultural discourse has attempted either to hypereroticize the black female body or make it a site of impropriety and crime. The essays in this volume focus on how African American women, from the nineteenth century to the…
Does existing law fail to address nanotechnoscience
The realm of nanotechnoscience (NTS) is vast and dense. A niche industry of nanocritics has arisen to address ethical principles that should govern the field, causal factors in that development, and the types of nanotechnological futures considered desirable. Although their visions of a nanotechnologized world vary considerably, commentators of many stripes share a concern about what they perceive as the same worrisome issue: a lack of appropriat…
The Way Forward — Positive Discrimination or Positive Action
The focus of this article is an evaluation of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, which imposes duties on public authorities, and the Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002, which gives opportunities to political parties over the selection of candidates. Both of these Acts help to move anti-discrimination law in the United Kingdom away from a concentration on remedies for inconsistent treatment towards the acceptance of the need f…
Devolution and Local Government: Evidence from Scotland
Devolution in Scotland has had a major impact upon local government. Local government, at both political and managerial levels, perceives central government in the shape of the Scottish Executive to be closer (geographically and politically) and more open to local government in terms of access to ministers and civil servants. However, Scottish central–local relations continues to be characterised by a sense of mistrust of local government, especi…
Free at Last: Black America in the Twenty-first Century
Economic Development in American Cities: The Pursuit of an Equity Agenda
Passage through India: Global Vaccination and British India, 1800–05
Between 1798 and 1805 the novel practice of vaccination spread rapidly around the globe, and its first introduction into India needs to be seen as the initiative of Edward Jenner and his followers rather than imperial policy. Against a background of military and imperial expansion, however, the British in India and Ceylon supported vaccination with resources and energy lacking at home. This paper examines the technical problems associated with th…
Jenner's Ladies: Women and Vaccination against Smallpox in Early Nineteenth‐Century Britain
In 1798 Edward Jenner published his theory that cowpox inoculation (vaccination) provided immunity to smallpox, the greatest scourge of his age. In the following decade the practice spread remarkably rapidly, partly as a substitute for the older and more dangerous practice of smallpox inoculation (variolation) and partly through the creation of a larger constituency for immunization. While there is some awareness that Jenner was able to cultivate…
Liverpool in the Sixteenth Century: A Small Tudor Town
With Knives and Words: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England. The History of Medicine in Context
The economics of fishing: Sustainable living in colonial New South Wales
La Perouse
A Radical Critique of the Learning Outcomes Assessment Movement
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