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The Decline of Declinism

Business History Review, 1997
The “de-industrialization” of Britain since the 1970s and the emergence of a negative balance of payments in manufacturing in the early 1980s have provided a receptive context for accounts of failure in British business and the British economy. We have political economies of decline;2 powerful polemics against the British elite; and a range of ...
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Is Efficiency Decline Rent Decline or Capacity Decline?

Southern Economic Journal, 1992
Aggregate measures of capital services are frequently encountered in which the quantities of services provided by goods of different ages are treated as being proportional to the "efficiencies" of the goods, with efficiency considered to be something that declines over time. Unfortunately, the term efficiency seems to lack an agreed upon definition and
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On Rise and Decline

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, 2009
In 1776, the year when America declared its independence, Edward Gibbon released his book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He concluded, rightly or wrongly, that the fall of the empire was mainly due to barbarian invasions and the spread of Christianity.
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British Decline or the Politics of Declinism?

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1999
Books reviewed in this article: C. Barnett The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation P. Clarke and C. Trebilcock (eds) Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance B. Collins and K. Robbins (eds) British Culture and Economic Decline A.
Richard English, Michael Kenny
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A Disturbing Decline

New England Journal of Medicine, 2019
A Disturbing Decline A 29-year-old woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus presented with diarrhea that had been ongoing for several days and had initially been accompanied by nausea a...
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Legitimacy Decline and Party Decline

2017
This chapter discusses the decline of political parties as a possible cause of the decline of legitimacy. Political parties constitute a link between the citizens and the political system, and therefore a loss of support could delegitimize the political system.
Rudy B. Andeweg, David M. Farrell
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Neurosyphilis in Decline

Archives of Dermatology, 1956
In spite of the many studies of syphilis by great minds since the end of the fifteenth century, as brilliantly presented by Pusey in his "History of Syphilis," there remained at the end of the nineteenth century many unsolved problems, especially in regard to syphilis of the nervous system.
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The Decline of Determinism*

Nature, 1932
DETERMINISM has faded out of theoretical physics. Its exit has been commented on in various ways. Some writers are incredulous, and cannot be persuaded that determinism has really been eliminated. Some think that it is only a domestic change in physics, having no reactions on general philosophic thought.
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The Decline of Innocence*

The Cambridge Law Journal, 1968
The criminological positivists at the turn of the century started a good deal of creative rethinking about the criminal law. Some of their proposals have gained widespread acceptance in the criminal law as we know it today. Others made no headway at all. One particular proposal, and a very fundamental one indeed, began a controversy which has ebbed and
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Crisis or Decline?

Current Sociology, 2006
The terms ‘licence’ and ‘mandate’ mark the characteristic of modern professionalism. On the one hand, the professional has the licence, i.e. the permission to implement specific actions that are disallowed to other actors. On the other hand, the professional is provided with the mandate to become authoritatively active.
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