The essay set out to undermine the two main points of positivism.
It was a Scot, David Hume, who in a 1748 essay set out the first coherent theory of the links between money, inflation and growth.
There are some marvellous exhibitions of tendentiousness in "Hooking Up," but I think most observers would give the prize to "In the Land of the Rococo Marxists," an essay in which Wolfe sets out to understand why Americans did not greet the new millennium with a fully justified display of patriotic pride.
The essays in which James sets out his radical empiricism are among the most influential and most readable documents of the neutral monistic literature.
The essay, which set out to explain why the United States was so often in the minority in the United Nations, dissected the lock step anti-Americanism of the so-called nonaligned nations.
Titled "Why I Worry About Modern Dance," it waxed nostalgic and asked, "Where is the current, not to mention next, generation of great modern dance companies to carry the torch?" Mr. Pryor, like many of his colleagues, was infuriated by the essay and set out to prove that the current generation had already carried the torch into new territory.
Anyone who sets out to write an essay — for a school or college class, a magazine or even the book review section of a newspaper — owes something to Michel de Montaigne, though perhaps not much.
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This introductory essay reviews recent advances in the emergent field of social studies of finance (SSF) and, subsequently, sets out to illustrate how a closer engagement with SSF might benefit research interests in accounting and vice versa.
This week, a guest essay from my colleague Patrick LaForge on a perennial problem — leads (and other sentences) that tax readers' patience: No one sets out to write an opening sentence so long that it frustrates and irritates readers.
