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Punk Preludes, Travis Gerarde Buck
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The Macroeconomics Of Sir William Petty And Nicholas Barbon : Were Their Discoveries Inevitable?, James Henry Ullmer
The Macroeconomics Of Sir William Petty And Nicholas Barbon : Were Their Discoveries Inevitable?, James Henry Ullmer
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The notion of how a discipline acquires knowledge has twin hypotheses. Discovery may be the result of individual genius or it may simply occur when certain existential factors arise in a society. Robert Merton is the most well-known proponent of the latter supposition and cites as empirical evidence for this notion, simultaneous and independent discoveries of similar concepts, which he terms "multiples." Opponents of this thesis, such as Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, criticize the idea for several reasons. For example, there is the problem of long-delayed discovery, as well as the notion that scholars may write before their time, and finally the …