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Art Nature Business

conflict. Researching the origins of the individual islands from centuries-old cartographic archives, Kurant aggregates individual territories falsely claimed by imperial rulers and kingdoms onto a single map. Playing with ideas of View Details
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists. This paper, dedicated to our dear friend, David Bradford, provides a general proof that standard and routinely used fiscal measures, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

definitions of self-deception, ranging from a view that self-deception is synonymous with positive illusions to a more stringent view that self-deception requires the presence of simultaneous conflicting beliefs. We then review recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Running Up the Score

some $130 million each to join the major-league fraternity. Since these teams will largely consist of players existing clubs deemed expendable, backers can have few illusions that their investment will be rewarded - on the field or at the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 18 Aug 2021
  • News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

wrongheaded notion of white superiority and creates an illusion of Black dependency on white largess. This false assignment of responsibility, while coming from an authentic desire to produce change, can create a new kind of mental... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

deficits, taxes, and transfer payments, depend on one's reference point/reporting procedure/language/labels. As such, they, too, represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists. This paper,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

was interested in supporting government policies that would help establish this agricultural market, as well as in figuring out what it could do to bring those value-added goods to world markets. The MCC doesn't have any illusion that its... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

succeeding despite structural barriers. “The narrative that white people ‘hold the power’ conveys a wrongheaded notion of white superiority and creates an illusion of Black dependency on white largess. This false assignment of... View Details