Word: diffusionism
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terized by low yield, high costs, poor management and ineffective incentive structure. Dumont concludes that Cuba's economic woes in 1963 were caused by "bad diffusion [information on] techniques of cultivation, insufficient effort, unsound organization of work, faulty pick up of produce, all of these on top of the harm...
But perhaps most striking of the collaborators is photographer Gordon Willis. His lighting captures the muffled diffusion of city sun, the dank swank of a resort ballroom, the verdant warmth of a mid-afternoon in the park. Last year his talent was used only to dress up the dross of...
Died. Sir Chandrasekhara V. Raman, 82, Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize for his work on the diffusion of light; in Bangalore, India. Professor at the University of Calcutta, Raman discovered in the late 1920s that when a beam of monochromatic light shines through a transparent substance like...
In his latest book, Two-Factor Theory: the Economics of Reality (coauthored by Patricia Hetter), Kelso maintains that the American system is "coming apart" because of its "defective financial and economic framework." One of his most potent arguments is historical. Until the close of the frontier, even the poorest laborer...
In the sharpest break yet with its Gaullist heritage, the government of President Georges Pompidou has just decided to build atomic power stations based on American technology. The government will ask for bids from interested companies and make its decision this spring. The new plants will burn enriched uranium, which...