Gladstone's response was the Irish Land Act, based on guaranteeing "three fs"—fair rents, fixity of tenure, and free sale and a tightening up of the rules of closure in parliamentary debate.
Examples are a communal formulation of rules (intergenerational closure), exchange of information and advice and informal social control and support.
New club rules Dis-closure Random harvest ReprintsEven this less ambitious agenda, however, proved thorny.
New club rules Dis-closure Random harvest ReprintsTen years on, few of those criticisms have stood up to scrutiny.
New club rules Dis-closure Random harvest ReprintsThe immediate impact of all this verbiage will be small.
New club rules Dis-closure Random harvest ReprintsFinancial globalisation has helped wean the dollar off its link to commodities.
New club rules Dis-closure Random harvest ReprintsIf, as expected, Lithuania joins the euro in 2015, the voting structure will shift slightly in bigger countries' favour.
New club rules Dis-closure Random harvest ReprintsCategory-two banks will have to pay penalties of up to 50% of untaxed balances and provide some account data.
New club rules Dis-closure Random harvest ReprintsNothing formal has been announced yet, but Taro Aso, the finance minister, has floated the idea.
New club rules Dis-closure Random harvest ReprintsAs shale-oil boomed, more crude got stuck in Cushing's ever-expanding field of storage tanks, and the WTI price sank.
So recognizable and absolute is a David Means story that it invokes the warning Mary Douglas gives about ring narratives in our time: "If a culture is... heavily against boundaries, rules and closures as such, the ring shape would seem too formal, artificial, mechanical.... Instead of being taken for granted as a normal thing, the very idea of closure is felt to be ambiguous.
