scholarly journals The Practice of Manumission through Negotiated Conditions in Imperial Rome

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-78
Author(s):  
Egbert Koops
Keyword(s):  
Imperial Rome ◽  
The Future ◽  
Economic Considerations

Roman slaves often had to meet expressly negotiated conditions to obtain their freedom. The use of such conditions helps to explain why the Romans freed so many slaves. They are an expression of the economic considerations that underlie the extraction and manumission model of Roman slavery. Agreements between masters and slaves occurred in practice and were recognized at law. Conditions could be set among the living or by testament and could consist of settling accounts, money payments, or services in kind; some followed the slave and were actionable. The money to pay for freedom often came from the slave’s patrimony or peculium. Though evidence is scarce, conditions and the corresponding manumission prices seem to have been of a type that could be met within years rather than decades. Extracting a price from slaves for their freedom lessened the future claims of patrons. For a certain type of slave, negotiated manumission conditions may have been the norm.

scholarly journals Nitrogen Fertilizer Sources: What does the future hold for citrus producers?

EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Obreza ◽  
Larry Parsons ◽  
Kelly Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Fertilizer ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Economic Considerations ◽  
Soil And Water

Revised! SL-238, a 4-page fact sheet by Thomas Obreza, Larry Parsons, and Kelly Morgan, discusses the factors influencing the price of nitrogen fertilizer sources and economic considerations for future nitrogen fertilizer availability. Published by the UF Department of Soil and Water Sciences, February 2009. SL238/SS457: Nitrogen Fertilizer Sources: What does the future hold for citrus producers? (ufl.edu)

The Integration of Multiple Sensor Systems

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. 308-321
Author(s):  
Loren E. De Groot ◽  
William L. Polhemus
Keyword(s):  
Navigation System ◽  
Crew Member ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Sensor Systems ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Transport Aircraft ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multiple Sensor ◽  
Operational Constraints ◽  
Economic Considerations

Historically, the navigation of a civil transport aircraft has been the responsibility of a specialist crew member. In the performance of his assigned task, the navigator has applied a complex set of mathematical and intuitive procedures by which he made navigational information useful. Now, because of increased accuracy requirements and of economic considerations, it is becoming apparent that the job of navigator must become an automated task.An improved navigation system which meets present and future operational constraints does not lie in the development and implementation of more navigational sensors. While this approach may provide an equitable solution in the future, its present contribution would serve only to further burden crew members who are already functioning at or near their limit. Instead, the problem must be approached with the view of optimizing the tasks of a crew member who will ‘manage’ the navigation systems as a collateral duty.

Profuit invitis te dominante capi: social and economic considerations on the Roman frontiers - C. R. WHITTAKER , FRONTIERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDY (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1994). Pp.xv + 341, 51 figs. ISBN 0-8018-4677-3. - PATRICE BRUN , SANDER VAN DER LEEUW , AND CHARLES R. WHITTAKER (edd.), FRONTIÈRES D'EMPIRE: NATURE ET SIGNIFICATION DES FRONTIÈRES ROMAINES (Actes de la Table Ronde Internationale de Nemours 21-22-23 mai 1992, Mémoires du Musée de Préhistoire d'Ile-de-France 5, Nemours 1993). Pp. 157, 35 figs. and tables. ISBN 2-906160-10-5, ISSN 0991-5761. - YVES ROMAN (ed.), LA FRONTIÈRE (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient 21, Lyon 1993). Pp. 86, 5 figs. ISBN 2-903264-50-3, ISSN 0766-0510. - ALINE ROUSSELLE (ed.), FRONTIÈRES TERRESTRES, FRONTIÈRES CÉLESTES DANS L'ANTIQUITÉ (Collection Etudes 20, Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, Paris 1995). Pp. 457, 51 pls. and figs., 9 maps, 3 tables. ISBN 2-908-912-23-6. - STEVEN K. DRUMMOND AND LYNN H. NELSON , THE WESTERN FRONTIERS OF IMPERIAL ROME (M. E. Sharpe, Armonk N.Y./London 1994). Pp. x + 276, 3 maps. ISBN 1-56324-150-1 and 1-56324-151-X.

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 436-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin M. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Economic Study ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Roman Frontiers ◽  
Economic Considerations

scholarly journals Speculations on the Future of Economic Models in the Wake of Trans/Posthuman Sentient Evolution in Charles Stross’s SF Novel “Accelerando”

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Mariusz Marszalski
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Free Market Capitalism ◽  
Market Capitalism ◽  
Economic Considerations

Economy, understood as a domain of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, has been unquestionably comprehended as a social activity, the purpose of which is to satisfy first of all vital material, but also immaterial, needs of the biological natural human being. Whatever the underlying ideology—whether protectionist mercantilism, the physiocrats’ laissez-faire policy, Adam Smith’s free-market capitalism, Karl Marx’s socialist economics, Keynesian state interventionism, or present day neoliberalism—economic considerations have been invariably driven by the fundamental problem of scarcity. The objective of the proposed paper is to present Charles Stross’s speculative predictions, made in his SF novel Accelerando, about the future of economic models in light of trans/posthuman evolution hailed by, among others, Ray Kurzweil, Max More, and Hans Moravec.

Does Mankind Really Bear a Responsibility to the Environment?

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-258
Author(s):  
John L. Cloudsley-Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Strong Feeling ◽  
Logical Reason ◽  
The Future ◽  
Economic Considerations ◽  
Do So

Economic considerations cannot be invoked to justify long-term protection of the environment. The appeal to posterity, as Goethe pointed out, springs from ‘the pure, strong feeling of the existence of something imperishable; something that will, in the end, be gratified by finding the minority turn into a majority’. There is nothing new in the paradox expounded in the opening paragraphs of this account: Goethe also wrote that there is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again. In answer to the question, ‘What is your duty?’ he replied, ‘the claims of the day’.We should not expect to find a logical reason in the future for doing what seems right now. We should do what appears to be our duty in relation to the environment, as in all else, just because it seems right to do so, and in deference to future generations. We may not be justified in believing that there can be objective vindication of our subjective feelings; but this should never allow us to close our ears to the whispering of our inner conscience. There is much that is true which cannot be assessed, yet it is on the strength of truths such as these that actions have sometimes to be based: to ignore the future would make nonsense of the present.

International determination of the total motion of the pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Future

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).

Status of the Lick Proper Motion Program

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
A. R. Klemola
Keyword(s):  
Proper Motion ◽  
The Future

Second-epoch photographs have now been obtained for nearly 850 of the 1246 fields of the proper motion program with centers at declination -20° and northwards. For the sky at 0° and northward only 130 fields remain to be taken in the next year or two. The 270 southern fields with centers at -5° to -20° remain for the future.

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