discipline

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Another fundamental problem with how economics has evolved as a discipline is the extent to which theorists have embraced the notion that markets for locations in our cities and towns, for agricultural land, for natural resource laden lands, for the broadcast spectrum and all of nature, generally, respond to changes in price and demand in the same manner as goods we produce from nature.

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  1. noun Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.
  2. noun Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control.
  3. noun Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order.
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  • He knew we were fighters all right, but our discipline was an unknown quantity. —  Private Peat
  • It does not seem to me as if you had ever had the smallest discipline, and I doubt if you have ever disciplined yourself and discipline is a tiresome thing, unless you like it. —  Father Payne
  • The key terms in this discipline is the sensitivity to initial conditions and the non linearity of the system in question with its positive (amplifying) and negative (dampening) feedbacks which can cause chaos to set in. —  RealClimate
  • This discipline is the most severe violation of a professor's right to exercise her profession as a researcher and teacher. —  YayaCanada
  • As with so many fields borne of militarized science, the possible applications of this discipline are almost entirely limited to military hardware: rockets, jet propulsion, and nuclear reactors. —  Indybay newswire
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education ·  practice ·  knowledge ·  morality ·  virtue ·  exercise ·  restraint ·  courage ·  habit ·  religion ·  institution ·  skill

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discipline:   disciplines ·  disciplining ·  disciplined
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  1. Middle English, from Old French descepline, from Latin disciplīna, from discipulus, pupil; see disciple.

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  1. from Middle English discipline, discepline, dissipline, from Old French discipline, descepline, decipline, desepline, French discipline = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian disciplina = Dutch discipline = G. Danish Swedish disciplin, from Latin disciplina, also uncontr. discipulina, teaching, instruction, training, from discipulus, a learner, disciple: see disciple, n.
  2. from Middle English disciplinen, from Old French discipliner, disceplener, decepliner, French discipliner = Provencal Spanish Portuguese disciplinar = Italian disciplinare = Dutch disciplineren =Greek discipliniren = Danish disciplinere = Swedish disciplinera, from Middle Latin disciplinare, subject to discipline, chastise, from Latin disciplina, discipline: see discipline, n.
 

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/ˈdɪsɪplɪn/
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