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  • Each loyal lieutenant recruited his brothers and sons, so that a sizable portion of the payroll could be delineated by reeling off a handful of names—“the Bous family, the Bryants, Zehnles, the Lee Cairnes, the Sasses, the Wirths, Holdens, Malans, McCabes ...”

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Each loyal lieutenant recruited his brothers and sons, so that a sizable portion of the payroll could be delineated by reeling off a handful of names—“the Bous family, the Bryants, Zehnles, the Lee Cairnes, the Sasses, the Wirths, Holdens, Malans, McCabes ...”

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • It uses material from both series, but builds largely from the Cairnes ones.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • It grew out of two sets of lectures I gave: the 1998 Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lectures at the Santa Fe Institute on “Digitization and the Economy” and the Cairnes Lectures in 2000 at the National University of Ireland, Galway, on “High Technology and the Economy.”

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • It was initially supported by Ernesto Illy, grew into the Stanislaw Ulam Lectures at the Santa Fe Institute in 1998 and the Cairnes Lectures at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2000, and in 2001 began to take shape as a book.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • Cairnes has not yet paid my two hundred pounds, but shams and delays from day to day.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • I met Cairnes, who, I suppose, will pay me the money; though he says I must send him the bill first, and I will get it done in absence.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • I went among some friends, who are merchants, and I find the bill must be sent to Murry, accepted by him, and then returned back, and then Cairnes may accept or refuse it as he pleases.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Cairnes is a shuffling scoundrel; and several merchants have told me so: what can one expect from a Scot and a fanatic?

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • In 1861 Cairnes was appointed to the professorship of political economy and jurisprudence in Queen's College, Galway, and in the following year he published his admirable work _The Slave Power_, one of the finest specimens of applied economical philosophy.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

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