David George
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David George |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | George |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4337-389X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
(Un)intentionality bias in action observation revisited
When observing individuals in action, we often infer their goals and intentions. Yet, in situations where actions are ambiguous and could be either intentionally generated or not, there is a tendency to perceive these actions as internally driven. This intentionality bias is influenced by individual differences in schizotypal cognitive style. In this study, we examined how healthy individuals distinguish between intentional and unintentional acti…
Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry characterization of wall mortars with principal component analysis: Phasing and ex situ versus in situ sampling
National Rights, International Obligations
Una armonía de contrarios: Commedia dell’arte in Two Productions of Valle-Inclán’s La marquesa Rosalinda
Through an analysis of two specific productions of Valle-Inclán’s La marquesa Rosalinda, I explore the ways in which these can inform our understanding of the play. I argue that the 1912 premiere did not do full justice to its richness and complexity, and that the first part of its subtitle, ‘farsa sentimental y grotesca’, was overemphasised at the expense of the second. I contend that neither María Guerrero and Fernando Díaz de Mendoza — the wif…
Spanish Theatre Studies: Beyond the Text
Theatre Studies was consolidated as a discipline during the 1980s as a result of dissatisfaction in academia at the inadequacy of an exclusively literary-based approach to the text, premised upon i
Revisiting the Iconic: The Excavation of the Reelfitz Pit Engine and the Newcomen Steam Engine in Cumberland, Uk
Examples of excavated 18th century stationary steam engine sites are very rare in Britain. This article records the rescue excavations ahead of road-building works of one such site in 1974-5 at Reelfitz Pit in Little Clifton, Cumberland. The Reelfitz Pit pumping engine was built around 1780 and abandoned in 1781. The remains uncovered show that the site had two external boilers and a narrow engine house with a cylinder on the ground floor. The ex…
Derek Henry Gagen (1938–2013)
Derek was one of a brilliant group of undergraduates who studied French and Spanish at the University of Manchester in the late 1950s. After graduation, the French and Spanish Departments fought to
Adrià Gual as illustrator, stage and costume designer
Catalan playwright, director and teacher Adrià Gual was a key figure in the development of modernista theatre. With his emphasis on theatre as artistic synthesis, Gual's multi-faceted work mirrors that of other European innovators and lays the path towards theatrical renovation in Catalonia and in Spain more generally. The visual element is a key component of his approach, and is reflected in his costume designs and illustrations to printed play …
Identifying needs and enhancing learning about climate change adaptation for water professionals at the post-graduate level
Using a participatory learning approach, we report on the delivery and evaluation of a climate change and risk assessment tool to help manage water risks within the agricultural sector. Post-graduate water-professional students from a range of countries, from both developed and emerging economies were involved in using this tool. Our approach included participative learning tools – group discussion, software, and risk matrices. The materials deve…
Coriolanus: Coriolanus and the late romances
Is it Time to Bury Dead-Weight Loss
The conventional argument to explain how taxes distort points out that the relative mix of private goods is altered by taxes. This argument breaks down, however, when it is recognized that a lump-sum alters the relative mix of goods as long as goods differ their income elasticities. This paper argues that claims of tax distortion rest on the assumption that collective decisions to alter consumption do not alter marginal benefits while private dec…
A Convoluted Path
Autobiography, Social economics
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
A professional development climate course for sustainable agriculture in Australia
There are few professional development courses in Australia for the rural sector concerned with climate variability, climate change and sustainable agriculture. The lack of educators with a sound technical background in climate science and its applications in agriculture prevents the delivery of courses either stand‐alone or embedded in other courses, and adversely affects the ability of graduating students to apply climate information. This pape…
Looking to France From Barcelona: Correspondence and Travel Writing in La Vanguardia (1890–1900)
On New Year's Day in 1888, the readers of Barcelona's newspaper La Vanguardia (1881–present) were greeted with an open letter from the editors announcing significant reforms in the content and form
Social class and social identity
Over the last 25 years, the relative economic situation of women, African-Americans, and other groups facing economic discrimination has improved but, paradoxically, the relative economic situation of the population's lower half has worsened. These opposite trends are surprising since the very groups whose overall situation has improved remain disproportionately represented in the bottom half. This paper presents several likely explanations of th…
Moral implications of preference change
Enric Borràs and Margarita Xirgu: Two Catalans on the Spanish Stage
Enric Borràs and Margarita Xirgu were two of the best-known actors/actresses in the early twentieth century, not only in their native Catalonia, but in the whole of Spain and in Latin America. Xirgu, in particular, was much appreciated by contemporary Spanish and European dramatists. With their highly contrasting styles and repertoires both in Catalan and in Spanish, Borràs and Xirgu attained huge popularity in Madrid as well as in Barcelona. Thi…
Enric Borràs and Margarita Xirgu: Two Catalans on the Spanish Stage
Enric Borràs and Margarita Xirgu were two of the best-known actors/actresses in the early twentieth century, not only in their native Catalonia, but in the whole of Spain and in Latin America. Xirgu, in particular, was much appreciated by contemporary Spanish and European dramatists. With their highly contrasting styles and repertoires both in Catalan and in Spanish, Borràs and Xirgu attained huge popularity in Madrid as well as in Barcelona. Thi…
Are Unpreferred Preferences Weak in Symbolic Content
“Symbolic consumption” is formally unrelated to “second-order preferences”, but the ability to symbolically consume and the ability to have preferences about one's preferences are each uniquely human characteristics. The major question addressed in this paper is this: are symbolic preferences more or less likely than other preferences to be “unpreferred” by the agent experiencing and acting upon them? In previous writings on second-order preferen…
Lisa Conde ́ (1949–2002)
BSS Subject Index: CONDÉ, LISA (1949–2002)HISPANISTS
Lisa Conde ́ (1949-2002)
Working Longer Hours: Pressure from the Boss or Pressure from the Marketers
The century-long decline in the amount of time spent working for income has been reversed over the last twenty-five years. By one account, this reversal is primarily traceable to a rise in the power fo employers who find more work hours per employee to be in their interest. By another account, that I argue to be the more convincing, the major cause of the change is the growing sophisticated of advertising and marketing which has stimulated demand…
Who says a higher wage improves the labor supply
A message coming from the popular culture in recent years has been that a rise in wages in an occupation brings forth not only more workers but better workers as well. In this paper I present reasons for doubting this claim and for suspecting that the very opposite may be true. The higher an agent's minimal acceptable wage in occupation A, the more likely it is that other job opportunities exist. To the extent that this signals other talents whic…
The Modern Brazilian Stage
An excellent introduction to a fascinating topic, concentrating on those companies and productions over the last fifty years which have made the Brazilian stage what it is: Os Comediantes, Teatro Brasileiro de Comedia, Teatro de Arena, Teatro Oficina, and the Grupo Macunaima. . . . Must reading for anyone interested in the fascinating phenomenon of theater in Brazil or Latin America in general. --World Literature Today
National Rights, International Obligations
Working Longer Hours: Pressure from the Boss or Pressure from the Marketers
The century-long decline in the amount of time spent working for income has been reversed over the last twenty-five years. By one account, this reversal is primarily traceable to a rise in the power fo employers who find more work hours per employee to be in their interest. By another account, that I argue to be the more convincing, the major cause of the change is the growing sophisticated of advertising and marketing which has stimulated demand…
Meta‐Preferences: Reconsidering Contemporary Notions of Free Choice
There has been no shortage of challenges to that most fundamental of all neo‐classical assumptions according to which people always act so as to maximise their utility. The most frequently heard objection has centred on the observation that acts of altruism are all around us. This incontestable fact has not led to a rejection of the self‐interest assumption but has instead resulted in the incorporation of altruistic actions into the standard util…
Social Evolution and the Role of Knowledge
*0034–6764/89/0301–l/$1.50/0. Notes *0034–6764/89/0301–l/$1.50/0
Distinguishing Classical Tyrannicide from Modern Terrorism
Tyrannicide has traditionally been distinguished from political assassination in terms of the difference between public and private life. Tyrannicide was a self-sacrificing act for public benefit (and so morally esteemed); common assassination, its opposite, namely, a self-serving act for private gain (and correspondingly censured). Terrorist assassinations, though similarly condemned, raise a special problem since they purport to be self-denying…
Does the Market Create Preferred Preferences
I. Introduction Since its introduction into the Economics literature over a decade ago, the notion of an agent's has held out considerable hope of providing an elegant reconstruction of rational choice. But largely neglected to this point has been the question of whether a strong case for unfettered markets is affected by the recognition of metapreferences. Simply stated, how adept is the market at instilling in agents the preferences that they w…
Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry characterization of wall mortars with principal component analysis: Phasing and ex situ versus in situ sampling
Are Unpreferred Preferences Weak in Symbolic Content
“Symbolic consumption” is formally unrelated to “second-order preferences”, but the ability to symbolically consume and the ability to have preferences about one's preferences are each uniquely human characteristics. The major question addressed in this paper is this: are symbolic preferences more or less likely than other preferences to be “unpreferred” by the agent experiencing and acting upon them? In previous writings on second-order preferen…
A professional development climate course for sustainable agriculture in Australia
There are few professional development courses in Australia for the rural sector concerned with climate variability, climate change and sustainable agriculture. The lack of educators with a sound technical background in climate science and its applications in agriculture prevents the delivery of courses either stand‐alone or embedded in other courses, and adversely affects the ability of graduating students to apply climate information. This pape…
Social class and social identity
Over the last 25 years, the relative economic situation of women, African-Americans, and other groups facing economic discrimination has improved but, paradoxically, the relative economic situation of the population's lower half has worsened. These opposite trends are surprising since the very groups whose overall situation has improved remain disproportionately represented in the bottom half. This paper presents several likely explanations of th…
Is it Time to Bury Dead-Weight Loss
The conventional argument to explain how taxes distort points out that the relative mix of private goods is altered by taxes. This argument breaks down, however, when it is recognized that a lump-sum alters the relative mix of goods as long as goods differ their income elasticities. This paper argues that claims of tax distortion rest on the assumption that collective decisions to alter consumption do not alter marginal benefits while private dec…
Social Economics in the Years Ahead: An Economist's Perspective
The present age is sometimes characterized as one in which appearances matter more than substance. Even while expressing my dismay over this development, would like to begin by expressing some concern over a particular appearance, namely, our title. Precisely what do we mean by economics? What we have generally had in mind is a determination to study the economy as a creation and, as importantly, as an institution able to be shaped by collective …
The market system and 2nd-order wants
Hispania, la leyenda: The Myth of Viriatus’ Struggle Transfigured for Television
“Hispania, la leyenda” is the first Spanish attempt to represent on screen the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula and the resistance led by Viriatus. This paper analyzes the TV series in terms of two key features that define it as a historical recreation that repackages the foundational myth as an adventure story with patriotic overtones: 1) the appropriation of a key figure in Portuguese culture to build a notion of Hispanic identity; and…
The market system and 2nd-order wants
Worker Self Management Versus the New Class: A Response
Meta‐Preferences: Reconsidering Contemporary Notions of Free Choice
There has been no shortage of challenges to that most fundamental of all neo‐classical assumptions according to which people always act so as to maximise their utility. The most frequently heard objection has centred on the observation that acts of altruism are all around us. This incontestable fact has not led to a rejection of the self‐interest assumption but has instead resulted in the incorporation of altruistic actions into the standard util…
Distinguishing Classical Tyrannicide from Modern Terrorism
Tyrannicide has traditionally been distinguished from political assassination in terms of the difference between public and private life. Tyrannicide was a self-sacrificing act for public benefit (and so morally esteemed); common assassination, its opposite, namely, a self-serving act for private gain (and correspondingly censured). Terrorist assassinations, though similarly condemned, raise a special problem since they purport to be self-denying…
The Tempest in Bali
Social Evolution and the Role of Knowledge
*0034–6764/89/0301–l/$1.50/0. Notes *0034–6764/89/0301–l/$1.50/0
Humanistic Economics: The New Challenge
The right of national self determination
Self determination is the right of all peoples/nations in international human rights law. They are entitled to rule themselves through the laws and governmental apparatus of their own independent state, an entitlement which presupposes a right to secede from an existing state. Our concern, however, is not with the somewhat ambiguous legal standing of national self determination but with its moral status. Is there, in the first place, a moral coun…
Does the Market Create Preferred Preferences
I. Introduction Since its introduction into the Economics literature over a decade ago, the notion of an agent's has held out considerable hope of providing an elegant reconstruction of rational choice. But largely neglected to this point has been the question of whether a strong case for unfettered markets is affected by the recognition of metapreferences. Simply stated, how adept is the market at instilling in agents the preferences that they w…
Social Economics in the Years Ahead: An Economist's Perspective
The present age is sometimes characterized as one in which appearances matter more than substance. Even while expressing my dismay over this development, would like to begin by expressing some concern over a particular appearance, namely, our title. Precisely what do we mean by economics? What we have generally had in mind is a determination to study the economy as a creation and, as importantly, as an institution able to be shaped by collective …
La guerra civil espanola. Arte y violencia
The Modern Brazilian Stage
The Modern Brazilian Stage
An excellent introduction to a fascinating topic, concentrating on those companies and productions over the last fifty years which have made the Brazilian stage what it is: Os Comediantes, Teatro Brasileiro de Comedia, Teatro de Arena, Teatro Oficina, and the Grupo Macunaima. . . . Must reading for anyone interested in the fascinating phenomenon of theater in Brazil or Latin America in general. --World Literature Today
Os estudantes americanos e a literatura brasileira
Who says a higher wage improves the labor supply
A message coming from the popular culture in recent years has been that a rise in wages in an occupation brings forth not only more workers but better workers as well. In this paper I present reasons for doubting this claim and for suspecting that the very opposite may be true. The higher an agent's minimal acceptable wage in occupation A, the more likely it is that other job opportunities exist. To the extent that this signals other talents whic…
Working Longer Hours: Pressure from the Boss or Pressure from the Marketers
The century-long decline in the amount of time spent working for income has been reversed over the last twenty-five years. By one account, this reversal is primarily traceable to a rise in the power fo employers who find more work hours per employee to be in their interest. By another account, that I argue to be the more convincing, the major cause of the change is the growing sophisticated of advertising and marketing which has stimulated demand…
Lisa Conde ́ (1949–2002)
BSS Subject Index: CONDÉ, LISA (1949–2002)HISPANISTS
Lisa Conde ́ (1949-2002)
Enric Borràs and Margarita Xirgu: Two Catalans on the Spanish Stage
Enric Borràs and Margarita Xirgu were two of the best-known actors/actresses in the early twentieth century, not only in their native Catalonia, but in the whole of Spain and in Latin America. Xirgu, in particular, was much appreciated by contemporary Spanish and European dramatists. With their highly contrasting styles and repertoires both in Catalan and in Spanish, Borràs and Xirgu attained huge popularity in Madrid as well as in Barcelona. Thi…
Enric Borràs and Margarita Xirgu: Two Catalans on the Spanish Stage
Enric Borràs and Margarita Xirgu were two of the best-known actors/actresses in the early twentieth century, not only in their native Catalonia, but in the whole of Spain and in Latin America. Xirgu, in particular, was much appreciated by contemporary Spanish and European dramatists. With their highly contrasting styles and repertoires both in Catalan and in Spanish, Borràs and Xirgu attained huge popularity in Madrid as well as in Barcelona. Thi…
Are Unpreferred Preferences Weak in Symbolic Content
“Symbolic consumption” is formally unrelated to “second-order preferences”, but the ability to symbolically consume and the ability to have preferences about one's preferences are each uniquely human characteristics. The major question addressed in this paper is this: are symbolic preferences more or less likely than other preferences to be “unpreferred” by the agent experiencing and acting upon them? In previous writings on second-order preferen…
Social class and social identity
Over the last 25 years, the relative economic situation of women, African-Americans, and other groups facing economic discrimination has improved but, paradoxically, the relative economic situation of the population's lower half has worsened. These opposite trends are surprising since the very groups whose overall situation has improved remain disproportionately represented in the bottom half. This paper presents several likely explanations of th…
Moral implications of preference change
Looking to France From Barcelona: Correspondence and Travel Writing in La Vanguardia (1890–1900)
On New Year's Day in 1888, the readers of Barcelona's newspaper La Vanguardia (1881–present) were greeted with an open letter from the editors announcing significant reforms in the content and form
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