Loyola University New Orleans

Research on dissociation in sex workers is sparse, dated, and frequently framed through trauma-exclusive or symptom-focused models, leaving the occupational functions of dissociative processes underexamined. In contrast, qualitative and ethnographic scholarship consistently describes intentional work persona construction as routine in sex work and often articulated in dissociative-like terms. This Hypothesis and Theory article proposes persona-mediated dissociation, a framework describing context-specific, identity-mediated psychological distancing in which a deliberately constructed work persona mediates between the private self and the interpersonal, emotional, and embodied demands of sexual labor. The model specifies voluntariness, contextual specificity, reversibility, and preserved executive functioning as core dimensions and predicts that persona activation will co-vary with state dissociative phenomenology and maintained functioning. Distress is expected primarily when persona use is prolonged, role exit is impaired, or structural constraints limit decompression and support. This framework clarifies distinctions between occupational regulation and clinically significant dissociation and generates testable predictions for future research.

Private property rights and evictions are two sides of the same coin. You can’t have one without the other. If you really own something, anything, you have the right to evict trespassers. If you cannot evict them, then, to that extent, you do not fully, really, own the property in question. The present paper will apply this insight to abortion, regarding the pro-life, pro-choice and evictionism positions on this matter.

ABSTRACT Spillovers constitute the fundamental rationale for public investment in innovation. Unfortunately, it is difficult to directly measure and evaluate spillovers, so we can determine how to most effectively target public investment in innovation in the private sector. This study provides new empirical evidence on spillovers, simultaneously examining the role of geography, internationalization and collaborative R&D. Collaborative R&D is an important mechanism for the transmission of such spillovers. Based on comprehensive longitudinal firm-level UK data, including detailed information on different types of collaborative R&D, we find that access to public finance is a key determinant of a firm’s ability to innovate and generate sales. Another key finding is that a firm’s returns to international collaborative R&D are conditional on its productivity and access to public funding. It also appears that high-productivity firms benefit more from public funding than low-productivity firms, in terms of stimulating innovation. Should they secure public funding, firms also benefit more from regional and international collaboration than they do without such funding. In general, our findings are consistent with the view that the social returns to public investment in private sector R&D are high.

My learned colleague and I tangle with each other on the libertarian analysis of crime, punishment, property rights, and unjust enrichment. I maintain an objective four-part theory of punishment: two teeth for a tooth (first one tooth and then a second tooth), third, costs of capture, and then, finally, fourth, payment for scaring the victim. But no more. Once the miscreant has undergone his full, very draconian punishment, no more should be taken from him. If he wins a lottery for $1 million after paying for the ticket with a stolen $5, he may keep this money, pro vided he has fully paid his punishment debt. Dominiak maintains, in contrast, that the law-breaker may not benefit from his crime, and this would appear to be a para digm case of just that.