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For the Common Good

Computer, 2013
We don't have satisfactory answers to questions that ask what we must share with our neighbor for our common good and the rights we retain in the process. Yet such answers will be the legacy of our age. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/U0piYSt35YU is a video segment in which author David Alan Grier expands on his Errant Hashtag column, in which he ...
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The Common Good [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The concept of the common good occupied a relevant place in classical social, political and economic philosophy. After losing ground in the Modern age, it has recently reappeared, although with different and sometimes confusing meanings. This paper is the draft of a chapter of a Handbook; it explains the meaning of common good in the Aristotelian ...
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Wireless commons perils in the common good

Communications of the ACM, 2006
In the last few years, high-speed wireless access to the Internet has grown rapidly. Surprisingly, this growth has not come through cellular phone networks as many had expected, but through IEEE 802.11 standards-based wireless local area networks (WLANs).
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Governing for the Common Good

Health Care Analysis, 2015
The proper object of global health governance (GHG) should be the common good, ensuring that all people have the opportunity to flourish. A well-organized global society that promotes the common good is to everyone's advantage. Enabling people to flourish includes enabling their ability to be healthy.
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The common good

2013
The common good is an essentially contested concept in contemporary moral and political discussions. Although the notion of the common good has a slightly antique air, especially in discussions in the North Atlantic, it has figured prominently in both the sophisticated theoretical accounts of moral and political theory in recent years and also in the ...
P. C. Lo, David Solomon
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Chemists for the common good

Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 2017
HIST Award address by Ursula Klein. Like their British, French and Swedish colleagues, the late eighteenth-century Prussian chemists performed technological experiments and works of invention. Franz Carl Achard transformed the laboratory of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences into a "beet factory" in order to test the production of beet sugar on a ...
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A/the Common Good

The American Journal of Jurisprudence
Abstract The emerging school of “common good constitutionalism” takes a classical natural law approach of identifying the central case of law and constitutionalism, recognizing that a state may make positive law in part based on circumstance, convenience, or a need for social coordination. While law under the classical approach is rooted
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