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Schelling's Conjecture on Climate and Development: A Test
(ESRI, 10/06/2011)We use the integrated assessment model FUND to compute the income elasticities of climate change impacts for different world regions over time. We find limited support for Schelling?s Conjecture that development might be ... -
School Sector Variation among Primary Schools in Ireland
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Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European Political Swings: An Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time
(Elsevier, 2011)After seven waves of European Parliament elections and European Union enlargement to 27 states, the time is ripe to analyse the temporal robustness of the second-order model. We pool all the elections in a single evaluation ... -
Seeking Spinoza: The Spinozistic Origins of Early Psychological Theory in Wundt, James and Freud
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2019)This thesis investigates the previously unexamined convergence between Spinoza's monistic philosophy of psychology and early psychological theory. It argues that the three 'founding fathers' of the field of psychology, ... -
Self-organising skew distributions in an agent-based model with applications to Gibrat's Law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)Three models for the firm size distribution are implemented using an Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) framework, and a theory explaining the source of a skew firm size distribution in one of the models is proposed. The variable ... -
Self-Ownership and the Duty to Assist
(2022)Libertarians are attracted to the self-ownership thesis because it seems to satisfy four important theoretical desiderata. First, the thesis treats all persons equally by assigning them the same initial set of rights. ... -
Selling State Assets: Three Options
(ESRI, 2011)Under the EU/IMF Programme for Financial Support for Ireland, the government undertook to consider the potential for disposing of State assets. In the 2011 Programme for Government a target of up to ?2 billion was set for ... -
Sentencing in Criminal Cartel Cases in Ireland: the Duffy Judgment
(ESRI, 03/12/2012)Despite 33 convictions of individuals and firms for criminal cartel offences in Ireland since 1996, there is only one reported judgment. The paper examines the Duffy judgment concerning a member of the Citroen motor vehicle ... -
Sexy (No, No, No): the cool and hot in popular female song
(Winter Verlag, 2009)In her article on women?s advice books, Arlie Hochschild identifies a ?cooling? of the modern female self, as intimate life is commercialised and taken over by the metaphors and reality of market forces (?Commercial Spirit?). ... -
Shameless luck egalitarians
(2022)A recurring concern about luck egalitarianism is that its implementation would make some individuals, in particular those who lack marketable talents, experience shame. This, the objection goes, undermines individuals’ ... -
A shape-based approach to conflict forecasting
(2021)Do conflict processes exhibit repeating patterns over time? And if so, can we exploit the recurring shapes and structures of the time series to forecast the evolution of conflict? Theory has long focused on the sequence ... -
Shapley Values for Assessing Research Production and Impact of Schools and Scholars
(ESRI, 2011)Performance measures of individual scholars tend to ignore the context. I introduce contextualised metrics: cardinal and ordinal pseudo-Shapley values that measure a scholar??s contribution to (perhaps power over) her own ... -
Shareholder capitalism, normative smokescreens and the angry, insecure knowledge worker
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2010)This thesis is rooted within the discipline of industrial sociology. It makes connections between workplace structures and subjectivities within a contemporary, stock market listed, high technology and knowledge intensive ... -
A Short Glossary of Metaphysics
(Routledge, 2009)NOTE: Many of the words in this glossary have everyday meanings which are different from these. We give only the more specialized philosophical meanings. JOHNSONIAN HEALTH WARNING: like all glossaries and dictionaries, ... -
Should Coal Replace Coal? Options for the Irish Electricity Market
(ESRI, 20/03/2012)The Moneypoint coal plant is nearing the end of its useful life and will need to be replaced. For Moneypoint's replacement, we consider different types of baseload technologies: coal plants with and without carbon capture, ... -
Simple Bodies and Aristotle's Explanation of Change: De Caelo and De Generatione et Corruptione
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2021)Why does Aristotle commit to the existence of simple bodies? Why does Aristotle conduct an investigation into simple bodies as part of his his natural philosophy? These are the two questions I want to focus on in this ... -
Simulating Demand for Electrical Vehicles using Revealed Preference Data
(2012)We have modelled the market for new cars in Ireland with the aim of quantifying the values placed on a range of observable car characteristics. Mid-sized petrol cars with a manual transmission sell best. Price and perhaps ... -
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia
(2022)Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal for local production conditions. The response to such recommendations ... -
The Slopes of Mount Carmel: My (Israeli) Nakba story of the 1948 Fall of Haifa
(Clio Publishing, 2008)