Downtown group supports Ithaca Commons reconstruction

The Business Journal - Central New York;  September 19, 2008 ;     535 words ......The Downtown Ithaca Alliance board of directors...reconstruction of the Ithaca Commons at its meeting...Ithaca built the Commons in 1975, it was...of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance. The Alliance...reconstruction, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance says ...

Commons sense; Economics focus.(The study of the commons is still...

The Economist (US);  August 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......In it, he explained The Tragedy of the Commons . Picture a pasture open to all, he wrote...and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each herdsman...suggested two things. First, that the commons are somehow backward, characteristic of...

The restoration of Parliament. (reforming the House of Commons in the...

The Economist (US);  November 4, 1995 ;     700+ words ......reform, we explain why reforming the House of Commons is more urgent ON MAY 31st, a debate in the Commons on Bosnia showed the House at its best. Backbencher...nothing but party cliche is heard in the Commons. Most discouraging of all, this debate on...

John R. Commons's puzzling inconsequentiality as an economic theorist.

Journal of Economic Issues;  December 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Veblen, Commons, and Mitchell [are the great triumvirate...above their contemporaries. Of the three, Commons . . . probably [will be] the most important...influential . . . in the long run. . . . [For in Commons] we see the most successful attempt to...

KIDS COMFORTABLE IN THE COMMONS

Post-Tribune (IN);  May 13, 1990 ;     405 words ......FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. The question of what the student commons really is and why Portage High school actually has a student commons may come up in some conversations. The Student commons is a carpeted area next to the South cafeteria, where student...

Sharing the Wealth of the Commons

Dollars & Sense;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Institutionalizing the commons could promote both economic equality...does mean we're responsible for the commons and entitled to any income it generates...economic system scarcely recognizes the commons. This omission causes two major tragedies...

House of Commons

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;      700+ words ...House of Commons The elected house of the UK Parliament...constitutional authority of the House of Commons derives from features of historical evolution...Debate upon the decline of the House of Commons and prescriptions for its reform have...

Commons development could get city tax break

St. Joseph News-Press;  December 26, 2006 ;     335 words ...The Commons might lose its distinction as St. Joseph's only large retail...Menards, which opened in October, is the only business at The Commons. Waffle House has bought land at The Commons and plans to start building a restaurant in March. The Commons...

Virtual commons. (the Internet as a common domain for communication)

Whole Earth;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......to say much new about the Internet as commons -- we've all blabbed ourselves nearly...as I see it: The Internet is the only commons that now enjoys support from the whole...still sacred. The Internet fails as a commons in the sense that you can't fully get...

John R. Commons and Herbert A. Simon on the Concept of Rationality.

Journal of Economic Issues;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...H. A. Simon and J. R. Commons are known to have been influenced by an intellectual...of rationality developed by both Simon and Commons are very similar. The aim of this paper is to make clear that Commons provided a paradigm of bounded rationality...

Don't let a row over the Speaker obscure the value of what takes place in...

The Independent - London;  February 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The House of Commons is more interesting than it seems, possibly...if the cliches casually applied to the Commons were the whole picture. If MPs were "out of touch"- a favourite cliche - and the Commons disconnected from the real world, we would...

PARLIAMENT & POLITICS: PARLIAMENT - Commons is turning into a quaint...

The Independent - London;  October 30, 2002 ;     510 words ......end late-night sittings in the House of Commons left MPs bitterly divided yesterday. Robin...He appealed for MPs to bring forward Commons sittings from 2.30pm to 11.30am on Tuesdays...working practices. Mr Cook said: "I love the Commons, but I want it not to dwindle gently into...

What is a tragedy of the commons? Overfishing and the campaign spending...

Albany Law Review;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...I. INTRODUCTION II. THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS A. Hardin's True Tragedy B. Do Nothing...D. Other Examples of Tragedies of the Commons 1. Traffic Congestion 2. Performance-enhancing...THEMSELVES? VI. SOLVING TRAGEDIES OF THE COMMONS PROBLEMS VII. CONCLUSION I. INTRODUCTION...

No money to upgrade Commons.

Destin Log (Destin, FL);  October 4, 2006 ;     597 words ......4--When Okaloosa County began building Commons Drive, some people predicted no one would...Monday's meeting. Several years later, Commons is notorious for its congested summer...10.5 million for the construction of Commons, to compensate for the impact the company...

Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons

Personnel Psychology;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berret-Koehier, 2006...captive government, are privatizing the commons, profiting from it, and externalizing...imaginative proposal like his for reclaiming the commons under a new "economic operating system...