Yes, there was an old tradition arguing that increasing returns made the case for infant-industry protection; underlying this tradition was the intuitive notion that increasing-returns industries are the "good stuff" you want to get, and keep away from other countries.
Cardano's cosmological views belong to a long-established system of astro-biological doctrines whose origins go back to Aristotelian physics, Hippocratic vitalism, and fundamental assumptions underlying the tradition of astrological and meteorological learning, reshaped through a series of Hebrew and Arabic mediations.
It posits the existence of a common African Culture, a mystical commonality that supposedly underlies the traditions and practices of the thousands of communities on the continent.
On the other side were liberal scholars willing to question both the cultural norms and the legal traditions underlying free-speech claims.
A look at some of the articles in Southern Partisan shows why it has become the nation's leading journal of the so-called neo-confederacy movement, publishing scholarly treatises, political interviews and commentary that glorify the Southern traditions underlying the secession movement.
But I have come to appreciate the amazing diversity of traditions underlying Christmas, and more than ever I see it as a people's holiday, to be celebrated -- or not -- in whatever way each family sees fit.
At the first level the 'super ordinate level' Labonté locates two major categories of elements: the political, economic and civil society traditions underlying society and the level of economic development, the availability of environmental resources and of human resources.
Both are old traditions with underlying structures that chefs and diners understand.
At the same time, it cannot presume that religion exists as some common universal underlying all the various traditions; only particular religions exist, and even the very concept of religion itself has come to be recognized as a modern and Western concept.
Recent research in animal behaviour has focused on the mechanisms underlying the spread of traditions in animal societies (Laland and Janik 2006; Whiten and van Schaik 2007; Laland and Galef 2009).
