Abramson, Neil. "Kierkegaardian Confessions: The Relationship Between Moral Reasoning And Failure To Be Promoted." Journal Of Business Ethics 98.2 (2011): 199. Publisher Provided Full Text Searching File. Web. 13 Sept. 2014.
“Kierkegaardian Confessions: The Relationship Between Moral Reasoning and Failure to be Promoted”
Kierkegaard's theory of public, aesthetic, ethical, and religious spheres of moral reasoning was applied to a case of an individual (the author) being rejected for promotion to full professor. The evaluators, assuming that they represented the highest level of moral reasoning, judged that the author did not meet an adequate level of moral reasoning. The article questioned the view that moral reasoning could be discerned merely from one's actions. It was paradoxical that different spheres seemed to produce similar actions, but different reasons, making identification difficult. The article's contribution was the identification of different spheres of moral reasoning, the interactions between spheres, and the paradoxical indeterminacy of gauging moral reasoning from moral action. The article identified each personality sphere, its sub-spheres, the population of the sphere, and the population’s moral reasoning and motivation. The author of the article also included whether the population of each sphere followed yin or yang standards. It supported Kierkegaard's view that the highest truth attainable by an individual was ‘an objective uncertainty' and that this truth was lost in self-deception when one claimed to have been able to solve the paradox, therefore no one can ever be sure of which sphere one or others fall into.Galileo is a reliable source because is an educational source. The author is a recognized professor and though the article may begin as seemingly biased, the reader is taken through the scientific process of objective researched, all of which is accurately documented and referenced, and produces counter-arguments from opposing psychological views of motivation and personality. The source is very current, being published in 2011.This source was quite helpful because it fit into my research by providing a way for me to truly determine whether or not my career goal is motivated intrinsically or extrinsically. This self insight allows for greater appreciation of my personal goals and drives.
Solanki, Kamini, and Yudhvir Seetharam. "Is Consumer Confidence An Indicator Of JSE Performance?." Contemporary Economics 8.3 (2014): 257-273. Business Source Complete. Web. 9 Dec. 2014.
The effect of the United States Economy on the world economy is immense, with consumer confidence's correlation to demand and with corruption within economies and skewing of data causing artificial economic activity, the economic world and processes are complex and infinite. Income is a large role-player in a consumers "probability of being exposed to corruption". An economic lag "in the U.S. economy can generate large negative effects at different levels in different markets simultaneously because of the investment mobility and large amount of international trade between the U.S. economy and different countries/regions.”This is important for countries to consider when creating budget policy because it "is the most important economic policy instrument for a government and it reflects the government’s priorities regarding social and economic policy more than any other document".
The World Factbook. Statistics by Country. 2013. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Users can find anything from maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map. World Factbook is extremely reliable for researchers and general users because it is actually sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America. The Central Intelligence Agency uses it's plethora of resources to collect massive amounts of information,maps, statistics, facts, and so much more, and then condenses everything in a way that the general public can access and use for whatever reason. I personally took advantaged of the World Factbook's resources by using statistics I found on obesity, education, and overrall happiness for each of my researched countries. One of the coolest freatures of World Factbook is that for each collection of research it provides further explination of how, when, and from who the information was collected. For example, "happiness' can be interpreted and measured in many different ways, but from the information I collected from World Factbook, "happiness" was measured by the survey's participant's seld-declared happiness, in other words, the participant literally stated how happy they were, and I know all of this because World Factbook tells me.