Increasing returns therefore seem to
argue for some form of monopoly, and in the late 1970s Joseph Stiglitz and Avinash Dixit developed a growth model of monopolistic competition--that is, limited competition with increasing returns to scale.
The centrality of affirmative action rebuts one other point made by those who now
argue for returning to the Civil Rights Act strategy.
Even if the Service successfully argued that the costs were, instead, incurred to acquire or create a new business, the taxpayer would lose the immediate deduction but could
argue for 60-month amortization.
Keller appeals to cross-gendered images of the divine in early Christianity (a female Holy Spirit, a breasted Father) to
argue for a current conception of "gender fluidity" that can maintain a sense of the connectedness and "ethical mutuality" which should characterize our moral subjectivities.
For instance, the authors of Ties That Bind
argue for a perspective on social policy that focuses on the interdependence between generations (Kingson et al., 1986).
First, he attempts to bridge the gulf between those who
argue for private property, individual rights, and freedom of contract from a "natural law" perspective and those who advance these ideas from a more utilitarian perspective.
For example, she suggests that "the majority of suffragists appeared more reluctant than male legislators to
argue for woman suffrage as a means of guaranteeing white supremacy," (p.
While each author has his own spin on gay culture, they collectively
argue for a mass movement away from promiscuous sex, widespread recreational drug use, and emphasis on the physical.