scholarly journals Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Bazzi ◽  
Martin Fiszbein ◽  
Mesay Gebresilasse
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2021 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 104357
Author(s):  
Samuel Bazzi ◽  
Martin Fiszbein ◽  
Mesay Gebresilasse
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Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Delton

This chapter considers how a group of six hundred manufacturers met in Cincinnati in January 1895 to address the challenges of their day, including deep depression, falling prices, and cutthroat competition. Manufacturers saw overproduction as the primary cause of their woes and had two responses to it. First, they turned to the promise of foreign markets, both to offload surpluses and find new markets. And second, they tried to find ways to subvert the debilitating effects of competition through cooperation and planning, first in the form of unworkable “pools” and “gentlemen's agreements” and eventually, more legitimately, in the form of trade associations. These manufacturers were creating an organization that would pursue both strategies, thereby facilitating the modernization of American industry and government. The result was the “corporate reconstruction of capitalism”: a new form of capitalism based on cooperation, rationality, and long-term planning superseded a nineteenth-century proprietary capitalism based on competition, “rugged individualism,” and decentralized government. Trade associations like the National Association of Manufacturers were key to this transition.


Author(s):  
Augustine Chingwala Musopole

The idea of Ubuntu meaning humanness is contrasted with that of unyama meaning beastliness. Analytically, Ubuntu touches on integrity, wisdom, hard work or economic productivity, social solidarity as a people who are in relationship as constitutive of their identity as opposed to rugged individualism. This leads to a philosophy that is very different from that which has developed in the West. Therefore, the upbringing that was shaped by the author's mother and the communal ethos insisted on that which characterized Ubuntu.


1940 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Ora B. Peake ◽  
Sydney Greenbie
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1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Durnell Cramton

This article compares public and private accounts of the creation of a retail sales business. The two sets of accounts are examined from the perspectives of literature on entrepreneurial activity and literature on family systems theory. The two theoretical perspectives explain the salience of different facts regarding the founding of the business. The article also questions the legitimacy of privileging certain types of accounts of business foundings over other types.


1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannine Monnier ◽  
Stevan E. Hobfoll ◽  
Carla L. Dunahoo ◽  
Michael R. Hulsizer ◽  
Robert Johnson

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