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Anna Smajdor claims that one means of addressing the declining fertility rate of Western countries is to develop artificial womb technology and to provide widespread access to this technology. Smajdor claims that Ronald Dworkin's resource egalitarianism justifies this approach. In this essay, I argue that Dworkin's resource egalitarianism does not justify the development of artificial womb technology. I furthermore claim that we must examine a variety of issues, including how the presence of artificial womb technology will affect society, before developing this technology.

AbstractResearch indicates that the well‐being and productivity of over 100 million people in the global workforce may be compromised by posttraumatic stress (PTS). Given that work‐related experiences are often the source of the trauma that leads to PTS, and that PTS due to any cause can interfere with employees' job performance, organizations would do well to consider the antecedents and consequences of PTS. This review of research—primarily within fields adjacent to business—on the types, antecedents, consequences, and organizational implications of PTS is presented to advance inquiry within the field of business. The definition of PTS requires attention to the new classification of complex posttraumatic stress disorder that can result from threats that are not life‐threatening such as bullying and sexual harassment. PTS antecedents include organizational and extraorganizational traumas, and risk and resilience factors. Absenteeism, impaired cognitive functioning, strained relationships, and growth are among the consequences of PTS. Organizations can assist through disaster planning, empathetic leaders, mental health literacy initiatives, and employee assistance programs. Many research questions arise that, when answered, will allow organizations to better understand how they can improve employee productivity and well‐being by attending to PTS.

This essay is assembled around four loosely interrelated questions concerning Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). First, Why read this book now? Second, How should we read this book today? Third, What is the politics and poetics of the formal conceptual and argumentative apparatus that shapes How Europe Underdeveloped Africa? And finally, fourth, If How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was not meant to engage an academic protocol but a Marxist politics of revolutionary social transformation, what is the idiom in which we might translate the radical impetus of the critique embodied in it into a contemporary political project?

This essay reflects on the sources of Stuart Hall's sensibility, in particular the sense of displacement that pervaded much of his work.

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I argue that, in his effort to overcome causation as an obstacle to agency or free will, Raymond Tallis' self-described "Humean" re-working of David Hume's analysis of causation falters on historicotextual and conceptual grounds.