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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was a renowned English writer, mathematician, and photographer. He graduated with first class honours in mathematics from Christ Church College, Oxford and held the Mathematical Lectureship there for over 25 years. A daughter of the college dean, Alice Liddell, convinced him to write the stories he would narrate to them during their outings. Carroll obliged…
Clinical versus Statistical Prediction : A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence University of Minnesota Press, 1954; 'Causes and effects of my disturbing little book' Journal of Personality Assessment 1986 50 (3) 370-375; 'Why I never attend case conferences', Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 225-302, adapted). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973.
Human judgement and social policy: Irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice, Oxford University Press, 1996. [with Leonard Adelman] 'Science, Values, and Human Judgment' Science 1976, 194 (4263) 389-396 'How convergence of research paradigms can improve research on diagnostic judgment' Medical Decision Making 1996, 16 (3), 281-287 'Intuition, No! . . . Quasirationality, Yes!' Psychological Inquiry 2010 21 (4) 327–337 Mandeep…
Homo Academicus (trans Peter Collier) Stanford University Press 1988 Michael Burawoy, Symbolic Violence: Conversations With Bourdieu Duke University Press, 2019 The academy is shown to be not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also a sphere of power in which reputations and careers are made, defended and destroyed... constructs a map of the intellectual field in France and…
The Peter Principle (with Raymond Hull), New York: William Morrow, 1969 Alan Benson, Danielle Li, Kelly Shue, 'Promotions and the Peter Principle', The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2019 134 (4) 2085–2134 ["Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 131 firms, we find evidence consistent with the Peter Principle, which proposes that firms prioritize current job performance in promotion…
The Cost of Collisions, Melbourne : Cheshire, 1971. Australian Domestic Product. Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/39 Cambridge University Press, 1962; Investment in Australian economic development, 1861-1900, Cambridge UP, 1964 Claire Wright, Occupying the interdisciplinary space: A visualisation of Australia’s economic history field, 1950 – 1991, PhD thesis, University of Wollongong, 2017 [See especially ch 6 on the ANU part of…
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949 Campbell explores the theory that mythological narratives frequently share a fundamental structure. He calls the motif of the archetypal narrative, "the hero's adventure". In a well-known passage from the introduction Campbell summarizes the monomyth: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there…
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History , 1953 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply…
Animal Farm was first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before,…
Tony Culyer and Alan Maynard (eds.) Being Reasonable about the Economics of Health: Selected Essays by Alan Williams, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 1997 My review in Health Economics, 8, 181–185 Anne Mason and Adrian Towse (eds.) The Ideas and Influence of Alan Williams: Be Reasonable - Do it My Way! Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2007 Collection of materials from York about…