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Classical Tradition (classical + tradition)

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African American Writers and Classical Tradition by William W. Cook and James Tatum

THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, Issue 5 2010
Monica Florence
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Henry George and Classical Growth Theory: A Significant Contribution to Modeling Scale Economies

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2001
John Whitaker
It is widely recognized that the analysis of economic growth in Henry George's Progress and Poverty was considerably influenced by the British classical tradition, especially the writings of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill. What has been less clearly perceived is that George made significant extensions to the classical theory. This paper's aim is to provide an interpretation, and to some extent a "rational reconstruction," of George's positive analysis, largely leaving aside the striking normative lessons he drew from it. George's unsatisfactory treatment of capital is disposed of in Section I, while Section II,the core of the paper,follows George's lead in aggregating capital and labor into a single productive factor which is employed in a given natural environment. Section III adds the complication of improvement in the arts of production, and Section IV deals briefly with George's views on land speculation. Section V assesses, comparing George with his contemporary Alfred Marshall. [source]

Towards the earliest history of Kinda

ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 1 2009
M.D. Bukharin
In the second century AD Rome could not protect the caravan trade in north-west Arabia to the south of Dedan with its own military detachments, stationed in Mad,'in and al-'Ul,. Rome seems to have attracted Aksum for the subjugation of the Arab nomads of north-west Arabia and protection of the ,Incense Road'. At the end of the second century AD Rome, Aksum and Saba' shared common interests: Aksum helped Rome to restore peace on the caravan routes, in which Saba' seemed to have been interested as well, and Rome provided a market for East African and South Arabian products. During the west Arabian campaign, described in the inscription RIÉ 277 (Monumentum Adulitanum II), which is to be dated to the very end of the second century AD, the unnamed Aksumite king, presumably Gad,rat, conquered the lands of Kinaidokolpites and Arrabites. The former name represents a combination of two names, the first of which seems to be derived from the name of Kinda (identification of the entire name with Kinda is taken for ,somewhat unlikely' in Retsö 2003: 450, n. 60). The Kinda seem to have been also known in the earlier classical tradition under the name of Kanraitai , the inhabitants of Ghamr dh,-Kinda , and thus were the most aggressive and dangerous obstacle for the Roman traders on the land routes in north-west Arabia and in the northern Red Sea in the first,second century AD. The Aksumite invasion forced the resettlement of the Kinda on the other branch of the ,Incense road', through modern Qaryat al-F,w , and its blockade, consequently followed at the beginning of the third century by the campaigns of the Sabaean king ,,'ir ,Awtar against them. [source]

The Mathematical Contributions of Francesco Maurolico to the Theory of Music of the 16th Century (The Problems of a Manuscript)

CENTAURUS, Issue 3 2006
Tito M. Tonietti
Here, in part I, his main results are presented and also their differences compared with the classical tradition of the mathematical theory of music. These results are a new proof of the number of commas in the tone, the theory of ,ictus', and a new notation for the composition of proportions. This is followed, in part II, by an explanation of how the original corpus of these folios was put together. Finally, part III discusses the complex puzzle of the manuscripts (one still extant, another probably lost, ,) and of their possible connections with the 1575 edition of a part of the corpus. Possible scenarios of the story of the manuscripts and probable interventions of the Jesuits on this edition are described. [source]