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This article examines the role of the straight line in perspectival art through a close discussion of two 15th century paintings, from Italy and the Netherlands. The discussion here suggests that the convergence of Art with Science occurring in the Renaissance period subsequently played a significant role in early management writings. The article, through these two paintings, argues that the rules governing Science may have conditioned the understanding of studies of management to produce accounts that appear to be persuasive but upon closer, informed inspection fail to engage with its essence. Thus, producing accounts that are disappointing and this may help to explain the juncture that continues to pervade the division between management practice and theory.

Examines the emerging legitimacy of a Marxian view of science. Quantum physics, the science of chaos, & neo-Darwinism have challenged the hegemony of Cartesian-Newtonian positivism on many fronts: the idea of predictability, the presence of noise in data collection, nonlinear dynamic systems, observer-created reality, & indefiniteness. The linkages that the new sciences of the twentieth century have with Marxian ideas of science suggest that a Marxian natural science perspective may soon stand beside positivism as a legitimate scientific endeavor. 71 References. D. Generoli

AbstractWe develop an open economy general equilibrium model, with auction‐based directed search unemployment, to study the interactions of trade and unemployment. The theory ascribes all outcomes purely to the fundamentals of technology and endowment. If countries differ by endowment, trade makes both the unemployment rate and the rental in the capital‐(labour‐) abundant country rise (decline) but does not lead to equalization. If, alternatively, countries differ by technology, trade increases (decreases) the unemployment rate in the country whose technology is relatively superior (inferior) for producing the capital‐intensive good.

AbstractThe Human Development Index (HDI) is widely used as a measure of well‐being. We examine the allocations implied by the maximization of this index using a standard growth model. Maximization leads to consumption (excluding education and health expenditures) being pushed to minimal levels. It also leads to the overaccumulation of education and/or health capital and possibly physical capital, relative to the standard golden rule. We propose an alternative specification for the HDI, where consumption replaces income as a proxy for decent standard of living. Maximization of this alternative implies a 'human development golden rule' which balances consumption, education and health expenditure. We advocate the method of optimization subject to constraints for revealing the policy implications of taking an achievement measure and its underlying philosophy seriously.

In everyday life we engage with organisations at almost every turn, as clients, customers, employers, or just citizens. Such has been the hegemonic power of the large commercial corporation that public, political and cultural organisations (hospitals, universities, and even churches) have been modelled on it. But considerable re-thinking is now going on, much of which uses art and culture as models of thought, mechanisms of reflection. frameworks for critique, and as means by which to understand the challenges of organisational life. Experiencing Organisations – New Aesthetic Perspectives offers new understanding of organisations and of the experiences of the people inside them. Written for both specialist and generalist audiences, in purposively general terms the book addresses the way we encounter and engage with these different organisations, and argues that key to understanding is how we experience them in these interactions.