Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen Davies (University of East Anglia - ESRC Centre for Competition Policy), Catherine Waddams Price (University of East Anglia - ESRC Centre for Competition Policy) and Chris M. Wilson (Economics - Loughborough University) ask How...
Cato Unbound (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I would like to thank Professor Davies for his courteous response to my criticism of this thesis. I still do not think that his chronologies work. Without becoming bogged down in an historian’s squabble over dates, what seems to be at stake is just how much time one assumes has to pass, in particular in a world, or worlds, [...]
LSI Online News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
"It's been quite some year for us," says proprietor Stephen Davies. We have always had a programme of constant expansion, but over the past 12 months we've also doubled the size of our lighting business, started a 48 track live recording service, launched a new website at www.subfrantic.com, and taken on a second warehouse. We're now well placed to cover everything from small corporate...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Cato Unbound presents some provocative essays, starting with: Stephen Davies on how the world got modern ; followed by Jack Goldstone with how an engineering culture launched modernity , with a reaction by Anthony Pagden , who asks "Have we ever been modern?" An excerpt from Goldstone: This was a radical departure from the belief of almost all civilizations (including that of...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This month's edition of Cato Unbound tackles one of the most interesting questions historians have: Where did modernity come from? Stephen Davies leads off with a revision and synthesis of several classical liberal theories about the issue; his essay has attracted a friendly critique from Jack Goldstone, one of the scholars whose work Davies drew on and revised, and some more scathing...
Cato Unbound (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In his reply, UCLA historian Anthony Pagden doubts that the historical discontinuity created by the onset of modernity is "as sudden or as all-pervasive" as Stephen Davies makes it out to be. Pagden points both to much earlier and more recent changes that seem at least as dramatic as the changes between modern and pre-modern Europe, and he questions Davies' revised periodization...
prblogger.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Because you’ve never seen one of those, right? T his is one I delivered in Newcastle at a NEPA (North East Publicity Association) event on Monday night. It contains one or two UK social media examples in. Enjoy! RSS subscribers please click through to see the presentation if it isn’t visible from your reader. Social Media Marketing View more presentations from Stephen Davies .
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... standards within one to three years. He will immediately be regarded as a challenger to Surrey's Stephen Davies as the best young wicketkeeper in the country. What the ECB failed to explain was the reason for Kieswetter's late call-up to the Performance squad, nearly three weeks after the 41-strong party was named. This will invite speculation that there was a delay while the ECB...
Cato Unbound (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In this month's lead essay, historian Stephen Davies tackles one of the biggest of big questions: How did the world we live in -- the modern world -- so radically and rapidly diverge from the world of our pre-modern ancestors? Davies starts with a multitude of proposed explanations and winnows them down to three: the advent of empirical science and engineering, a shift in cultural...
Cato Unbound (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In his reply to Stephen Davies' lead essay, Jack Goldstone argues that modernity was launched when "elites developed a new 'engineering culture'" that departed sharply from European tradition. In order to gain from the commercial application of new knowledge by private entrepeneurs, Goldstone argues, political rulers were led to allow non-conformity with traditional religious...
Dipz Cricket World (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
As England's squad head off for South Africa, they leave behind an unusual flurry of county transfer activity and this time it's mostly about wicketkeepers. New Surrey signing Stephen Davies will be on the plane with Strauss and co, understudying Matt Prior but his departure from Worcestershire has prompted a game of musical chairs. Gloucestershire unceremoniously dumped Steve Adshead...
