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"What Does Austrian Economics Predict?"
4 September 2007 at 2:42 am Nicolai Foss 22 comments
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At the professional development workshop on "The Austrian School of Economics: Applications to Organization, Strategy and Entrepreneurship," arranged by my co-blogger for this year's Academy of Management Meetings, the first question raised from the audience after the presentations was the one in the heading to this post. (Fabio at orgtheory.net has also made related, ehhh, provocations, which we will deal with later here at O&M).
It wasn't entirely clear what the person who asked the question meant, the acoustics in the room were terrible (he had to repeat the question twice), and I am sure that complex issues like the symmetry thesis were popping up in the minds of my co-panelists, so there was some hesitation in the panel to address the question. (Afterwards I learned that unfortunately this was taken by some audience members as an implicit admission that AE isn't predictive).
The question was unclear because it could mean any of this:
1) Does Austrian economics really predict anything?
2) Are Austrian predictions congruent with those of other economics approaches?
3) What is the novel fact — in the sense of Lakatos — predicted by Austrian economics, that is, what is the new Austrian explanation of a fact that, while known, had previously lacked any theoretical explanation?
4) What are the uniquely Austrian predictions?
5) Does Austrian economics only put forward "pattern predictions" (according to Hayek 1964 the only possible predictions in truly complex systems)?
6) Does Austrian economics only put forward "logical predictions", that is, it is subject to ceteris paribus clauses (and therefore only has limited operational content)?
I responded, saying that Austrian economics, for example, predicted boom-bust cycles as a result of expansionary monetary policy, to which was replied (quite correctly) that other business cycle theories entertain the same prediction. It thus turned out that the person who asked the question really meant, What are the uniquely Austrian predictions?, and I responded in terms of the business cycle example by saying that the specific transmission mechanism could be seen as a uniquely Austrian prediction.
Peter changed the terms of the debate somewhat by arguing that explanation and prediction were two different things, and one shouldn't condemn an approach for not being strong predictively, as long as it was strong explanatorily. Joe Mahoney added that in general processes approaches were likely to be stronger in the explanatory dimension than in the predictive dimension. Peter then asked for other questions.
However, it it worth pondering the issue of "what Austrian economics predicts." If by "predict" we mean putting forward unique (i.e., not embodied in other economics approaches) conjectures concerning mechanisms in the economy, I think there are plenty of such predictions. Regardless of what one may think of the plausibility of the Austrian business cycle story, the specific mechanisms conjectured by the Austrians to be operative in boom-bust cycles are unique to the Austrian approach. The Misesian calculation argument, in all its complexity and mix of property rights and evolutionary arguments, also seem pretty unique to the Austrian approach. My co-blogger has a very nice paper, published ages ago, where he argues that the boundaries of firms are constrained by what are essentially Misesian calculation problems. With a frequent co-author I have sketched an argument to the effect that bringing Austrian ideas on the entrepreneurial market process inside firms provides identifies new transaction costs that help shape firm organization (e.g., here). Such stories are clearly testable. They embody distinct predictions. Other examples may be found in the modern Austrian literature.
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There are the obvious "Austrian" predictions that:
a) economic agents will have different opinions on the expected value of assets.
b) central planners will not be able to effectively control an economy because of lack of local information
c) Following Shane, that a single innovation (patent) will be used in different ways by economic agents with different experiences (or knowledge corridors to use Shane's term)
d) that the "true" value of an asset does not exist (nor does an equilibrium or ideal state) and that the economy may not even trend towards an equilbrium (if one follows Lachmann)
e) that tinkering with the fed funds rate (and economic policy in general) may have unexpected consequences because it systematically alters expectations about future values
f) that economic (strategic) plans will be constantly revised because of new information (i.e. that strategic plans will always be "wrong" to some degree)
I guess these predictions are too obvious. If the questioner meant (and I think this is exactly what was meant), "Can you predict whether it will rain on Tuesday" then the answer would have to be no.
I think one of the real challenges that this question raises is one of institutional design (in a Northian sense). Are there interventions that the government can make that assist economic agents in functioning more effectively to reallocate resources to higher valued uses? Or is intervention simply too dangerous and we should allow institutions to evolve over time no matter how long it takes?
My own view is that parallel experimentation is a useful tool that enables multiple institutional designs to be rapidly tested and either discarded or with, in the case of the best practices, retained. Perhaps the multi-state nature of the US or EU is an example of this in practice and that the historically highly centralized government of China has contributed to its slow rate of economic development over the last thousand years.
I agree that your list captures Austrian predictions. However, the reason I didn't list these kind of predictions is that many of them are not _unique_ to the Austrian approach. I don't think the questioner had predicting rain in mind; I am pretty sure he had in mind what are the uniquely Austrian predictions. And if you look at your list, only point d) would seem to be unique to the Austrian tradition. Do you agree? -
Austrian economics in the 20th century developed a fine critique of neoclassical economics, but it barely began to propose a way forward. One prediction which held up very well was the prediction that socialism would fail economically; Mises and Hayek were almost alone in this prediction in the 30s and 40s. But their analysis of why socialism would fail was somewhat rudimentary. Mises in particular didn't seem willing to invest the effort to carry his economics beyond the "zero cost or infinite cost" modeling approach of much 20th century economics and thus confused people by saying that economic calculation under socialism was "impossible" – Hayek was better, but didn't come up with a framework for carrying a research program forward. He was vindicated by events, but a more powerful theory might have hastened events more than he did.
As a generalization, I think Austrians have been almost entirely right, but have said relatively little; mainstream economists have been often wrong but have said much. The second approach seems to lead to more successful academic careers. The ideal, of saying much and being entirely right, is still to be attained.
I think that when the right path forward is found, the pioneers will have been influenced by the Austrian tradition, but I am not sure the content will be recognized as "Austrian." But I must say I very much enjoy the attempts by the scholars here to carry the Austrian tradition forward.
I see where you are coming from. I think that the Austrian tradition is unique because it (uniquely) focuses on the idiosyncratic knowledge of each economic agent.
I am no expert in different schools of economics – my core expertise is in agent-based models, complex adaptive systems, and computational economics – but, in my view, the Austrian tradition is almost unique in seeing the economy as a set of idiosyncratic agents (perhaps only evolutionary economics shares this view).
Theory derived from bounded rationality does not tend to appreciate the path dependent (time-based) nature of knowledge, assuming that any economic agent can acquire the same information as any other agent if sufficient expenditure is made. So it is not simply the view that agents have subjective views but that those views are idiosyncratic. This has profound implications for points b) and c). This knowledge argument is also reminiscent of Dierickx and Cool's asset stocks thesis.
Researchers in complex adaptive systems are working on generalizations that can be derived from a group of interacting idiosyncratic agents – perhaps this is the way forward that Paul is talking about that owes a debt to Austrian ideas.
Hi Nicolai
a rather striking example of a "pure" Austrian prediction would certainly be Hayek's Ricardo effect. That is, under full employment, an increase in the demand of consumption goods decreases the demand for capital goods. There are others related to Austrian theory of business cycles (e.g. the Cantillon process and the non-neutrality of money). However, I think the real challenge is to develop new propositions for strategy & organization that are broadly informed by an Austrian perspective.
The theory of the firm is a natural test bed to apply Austrian ideas, and I think scholars like you have made a lot of progress on that front. Furthermore, since you mentioned pattern predictions, research on industry life cycles might be interpreted along these lines. Essentially, the industry life cycle reflects different stages in the discovery and application of knowledge by both firms and customers. I think strategy might benefit from an approach rooted in the market process with dispersed knowledge.
To be frank, I doubt that theories derived from bounded rationality do not appreciate the path-dependent nature of knowledge, as Steve Phelan claims. Levinthal & March (1981) and, of course, Levinthal (1997) clearly embrace the idiosyncratic and path-dependent process of knowledge accumulation.
Nils, nce observation on Levinthal and March.
When I said "Theory derived from bounded rationality does not tend to appreciate the path dependent (time-based) nature of knowledge" I was thinking about economic theory, in particular, transaction cost economics. Perhaps I am also overgeneralizing there as well?
Hi Nils, I agree entirely with your points on ABC (and your other points as well). That's what I meant by this: "I responded in terms of the business cycle example by saying that the specific transmission mechanism could be seen as a uniquely Austrian prediction." But one doesn't say "Cantillon effects" etc. at the AoM (or perhaps even at O&M) ;-))
One possible explanation for the question "What does Austrian Economics predict?" would be that the questioner was being tactful. He may have heard (as I have heard, though I'm no pro) that Austrian economics does not attempt to predict things at all.
The questioner may believe that a lack of predictions makes a study almost useless. But rather than expose this harsh criticism with a candid question such as "Of what value is Austrian economics if it does not predict anything?", the questioner took a more tactful route and asked "What does Austrian Economics predict?" Or at least that would make sense to me.
Richard, That is highly unlikely. The question was as provocative as it was ill-informed. As you will see from the post and the manyu comments a moment's reflection reveals that Austrian economics predicts a lot.
Steve, sorry for misreading you on bounded rationality. I think your point on TCE is spot on. TCE essentially assumes that all knowledge is common knowledge, heterogeneity only exists with respect to assets and incentives. A major weakness in my view.
Paul, To a certain extent I agree with what u are saying. However, I am not convinced that your characterization of Mises is correct. First, Mises and Hayek simply held very different views of the economic problem of socialism. Second, in some respects, Mises was "better" than Hayek; e.g., he was much more forthcoming about principal agent and property rights problems under socialism than Hayek was. (Peter Murrell has an old article (I believe from 1983) on this in History of Political Economy)).
Nils, I doubt that Prof. Williamson would agree with your characterization of TCE ;-) I think what you are talking about here is the GHM approach. After all, Williamson talks about "impacted information", the ex post bargaining problems he talks about may very well involve asymmetric information/differential knowledge, and differential knowledge seems to be involved in notions of specific human capital.
Hi Nicolai, I am sure that Prof. Williamson disagrees (and you are right about impacted information). That being said, I would still argue that the (classic) TCE analysis implicitly clings to the common knowledge assumption. In deciding on vertical integration it does not matter who acquires whom; both parties put the assets to the same use, manage them equally efficient, earn the same rent. This is a weird prediction if one truly takes bounded rationality and the specialization of knowledge into account.
Nicolai – No doubt I was unfair to Mises; I find Hayek's writings more congenial and may therefore tend to deprecate Mises. I will look for the Murrell article.
Let me rephrase and add to what I was trying to say: which is that the socialist calculation debate illustrates in miniature what I think will happen to Austrian approaches generally. Neoclassical economics was wedded to models that made transaction costs out to be always zero or infinity. Oskar Lange's position in the calculation debate was essentially that the cost of transactions between the central planning board and the citizens could not be infinite, so it must be zero, and if it was zero then socialism would have to do as well or better than the market. The Austrian position was essentially that transaction costs between the central planning board and the citizens must be higher than under those between decision-makers in the market, and Hayek's papers on the economy of information transmission through the price system, the economy of use of local knowledge specific to time and place under decentralized decision-making, etc., all were designed to illustrate specific transaction costs that were economized in market economies compared to socialist economies.
However, Hayek did not build an analytical framework that could be extended by others. That project was initiated by Coase, who developed the transaction cost idea in direct response to the socialist calculation debate – especially the socialist response that the state under communism/socialism would just be a big firm, and economic calculation worked fine in firms. However, Coase was formalizing an idea that was already pregnant in Hayek. And people who have extended Coase's idea do not consider themselves "Austrian." Coase and others were inspired by Austrians, but did not necessarily build explicitly on them. I think that will continue to be true in the future.
As for your questioner, it was a fair question I think, but one that could be turned equally well on others. What did Samuelson predict? Among other things, that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States in GDP. I would rather have the Austrian prediction portfolio, which if limited in number at least has been largely proven correct. A more important question may be: which tradition best facilitates progress. By that standard also, I think the Austrians will stand up well in the eyes of history, but there's a good chance it will be Austrian-influenced original thinkers like Coase rather than more traditional Austrians who bring the discipline forward.
One big prediction…..
If the essential problem with socialist systems is calcuation, then a government owned system in which the institutions have been set up so that these calculations can be performed in a real market (and not an Oskar Lange pseudo-market) will work.
That's the system currently in place in China, and Chinese economic reform can be seen in the context of creating a real market to resolve the socialist calculation problem in the context of public ownership. A lot of this works because there aren't vertical command and control systems, which means that actual decisions are taking place at a lower level.
Also there is a fundamental tension between prediction and human freedom. If something is predictable than that means that you don't have the freedom to change it, whereas if you to have the freedom to change something that renders it less predictable.
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Nils, I agree with your reading: In TCE as conventionally stated it does not matter "who integrates who". And as you quite rightly point out, this does not harmonize with bounded rationality. I think Brian Loasby made a similar critique in his review in Industrial and Corporate Change of Milgrom and Roberts (1992). But does this imply that we should ascribe common knowledge conditions to TCE. I think not. I would rather say that the theory may simply be incomplete in this particular dimension.
The other prediction I think is that the natural size of firms are limited by information constraints, and that firms in areas were information is more uncertain and less predictable will be smaller.
This comes from the question if "socialist calcuation works fine in firms" why wouldn't it work fine in entire economies, and the answer is that the calculation problem in economies is much larger than in firms. This suggests that there is a "natural size" for a firm at which calculation becomes prohibitive. This is somewhat like the Coasian argument regarding transaction costs, but it is different since the focus is on information processing ability rather than on transaction costs.
My view is that if you are talking about 'transaction costs" you've already lost the argument, since talking about "transaction costs" implies that you have something that is quantifiable, and if you assume that "transaction costs" are knowable then I think you've undermined the socialist calcuation position that the problem is that you can't calculate "costs." Uncertainty is a quantity that exists independent of an economic framework.
Also what exactly is a "firm." The working definition that I have is that a "firm" is a bank account, which is where matters of corporate law come into play.
One "sales and marketing" question is what do we define as "Austrian" and for that matter what do we define as "socialism." I think of myself as Austrian even though I doubt Murray Rothbard would agree with most of my beliefs.
Twofish, U should check out my co-blogger's paper in the Review of Austrian Economics 1996. It is related to what you are saying here.
The other thing that I'm trying to construct is an Austrian theory of derivatives pricing. Current derivatives pricing models have their roots in neo-classical concepts of complete markets, and my sense here is that that they "got lucky" in getting a workable theory from economic principles that are wrong.
I strongly suspect that there are mathematical connections between implied volatility, trade volume, forward curve prices, and implied volatility curve prices that can be derived from Austrian principles. The thing about derivative markets is that here you can use mathematics in a way that I think is acceptable to the Austrian framework.
If you ask "what is the utility function of this derivative" that is talking about something that is abstract and unknowable. If you ask "what are people willing to pay me for this complex derivative" that brings in numbers and mathematics in a "non-bogus" way. The interesting thing about utility-function based models of derivative pricing is that they've published a whole bunch of papers, but none of that is useful in any real world situation, and I suspect that is because the economic theory behind these approaches is flawed.
You can theoretically talk about the "utility function" of an indvidual, but it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the "utility function" of a market. Also, I strongly suspect, that even talking about the "utility function" of an individual will lend to some self-inconsistencies that can be illustrated with a derivatives market.
Some other lines of inquiry….
Mainstream economics assumes that there is a well defined price. What if there isn't? For example, right now talking about the market price of a sub-prime mortgage makes no sense. That goes with most economic objects. What is the price of a used car? What is the value of Exxon-Mobil? It *isn't* a well defined quantity and I think treating it as if it is will lead to some sort of problem or contradiction. What that problem will be, I have no clue right now, but I think that Austrian economics says that there will be some major problem that no one has thought of yet is a testable prediction.
Also related to calculation. The fact that people who deal with private equity talk human relationships and don't use quantitative methods to allocate, I think can be explained in terms of Austrian concepts and are not amenable to mainstream economists. The observable fact that large companies are just plain bad at entrepreneurship I think is something that you can apply Austrian concepts toward that you just can't with neo-classical approaches.
I think the keyword here is "unique" Austrian predictions.
a, b, and c have all been incorporated into the neoclassical framework (especially Hayekian uncertainty) and several of the information problems (stock/flow) associated with socialism have been solved by Stiglitz and Krugman and Coase back when they were economists.
d) has not yet been incorporated into the neoclassical framework in a systematic way. although a lot of the Walrasian equilibrium work that contradicts has been revised thoroughly to account for it. so yeah, d) is definitely a unique and POTENTIALLY useful Austrian prediction.
e) is not a unique prediction.
f) is very similar to other points made on certainty and true but not unique.
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This funny picture is part of an advertising campaign for a German recruiting agency called Jobsintown. These shots show workers working inside vending machines in an attempt to lure people to change for a better one through the help of this agency. Although these ads are very clever and humorous, they are probably similar to how some employees feel about working in the wrong job.
Papa John's: "Pizza is Here"
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Peru
This ad from Papa John's recently won gold at the Cannes International advertising awards for their clever picture. Created by Saatchi & Saatchi in Peru, this ad produces a clever optical illusion that a delivery boy of pizza appears at your doorstep. Although same people found this type of guerrilla advertising to be intrusive, there is no question that this ad grabbed their attention.
Sofitel: "Mona Lisa of Loo Art"
Agency: Ican, Australia
The 5 stars Sofitel Queenstown Hotel in New Zealand has gained a lot of attention not from the walls of water, slick metal toilets, and subtle lighting of their male toilets but from their huge posters. These show the images of models from Australian agency Ican after Auckland model agencies turned down the job when they heard where the images were going to be placed. Let's just hope that these images won't alter the ego of this man.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Chicken With Attitude
Made some mashed potatoes, a little "box stuffing" and some veggies.
This kind of dinner should require company. It's a lot of work, but the Prospector had this frozen turkey and wanted to eat it. We called our neighbor to come for dinner but he couldn't make it... so we had a big turkey dinner all by ourselves. We will have Turkey for quite a few nights and more. Soup maybe... sandwiches... etc. We will not waste any of it.
Yesterday the wind blew, the rain came and it was cold... really cold. Today the sun shines again.
The Prospector is still hurting from his encounter with a tree branch and a retaining wall so I'm on duty for much of the farm feeding.
This morning I considered having CHICKEN for dinner tonight instead of turkey.
I walked up to the chicken house.
Gave them the potato peels and some old tomatoes. I noticed that two of the hens were missing. I change the outside water and went into the hen house to look for the hens. The first thing I saw was one of the big hens in one of the small nests.
All squished in there like she thought she was a banty. She never gets up in these small boxes.
The big community nest only had one hen inside of it.
ONE HEN... It wasn't like the big box was crowded or anything.
The hen stuffed into the little box might have been having a bad day, so maybe she decided to do her thing in the little box... alone. We all have days like this.
I understood. But I wanted a picture.
I ran for the camera (of course) and came back in to take her portrait. I would have named it HEN IN DENIAL or something.
That's when all hell broke loose.
She obviously didn't want her picture taken while she was laying an egg.
She turned and started making a god awful noise.
And then she stuck her head out of the box and..."Whoa, chicken mama, back away from the human."
She was not a happy hen.
I actually took this photo from half way across the hen house and cropped it.
I wasn't about to get close to her. She was, as the old saying goes, "mad as a wet hen".
(Now I know what that expression means.)
She came at me like a hen with PMS. and was making a high pitched, nasty sound.
I just wanted a picture of her in that little box... but you would have thought I wanted her for dinner. As I was backing away from her, I looked over and saw Squeakie.
She was watching all of this. I think she was placing bets on the outcome.... or, she was too afraid to leave.
Napoleon, the rooster, and the other hens were not getting anywhere near the doorway but they were listening to the commotion.
I backed out of the hen house and left.
As I walked down to the driveway, Annibel greeted me.
She had that wise, "Well, what's going on" look. The cat expression that says,
"Did you kill one for me? I like the little ones best."
We walked back to the house.
I'm trying to be more chicken friendly around here but....
That chicken better lay an egg today.
She is a marked hen.
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maybe I don't want chickens again.... I've been thinking, I eat omelets for dinner and a lot of salads with boiled eggs that I would get some chickens, dogs could have scrambled eggs from ones I don't eat. But I keep thinking about the last chickens I had and why I got rid of them, and then everyone in blog land has chickens .... and reading blogs, maybe I will just continue to bring them home in the white stryrofoam cartons.
ReplyDeleteUhhh, how much do you like that hen?? I find that if I verbalize my displeasure with the hens, and how they are treading on thin ice, somehow more eggs appear very soon. Sounds like that better happen with your PMS hen. Maybe she was having a bad hair day, and things will turn around tomorrow, but if I were her, I'd sleep with one eye open.
~~Lori- Charming BagladyMarch 8, 2012 at 6:41 AM
SEE? SEE! Nobody ever believes me when I say chickens attack. I am an animal lover and, as a rule, animals love me. But not chickens (actually, fowl in general). The few times in my life when I've gone anywhere near a chicken, it starts screaming at me (some call it squawking) then it flies at me. I know it's trying to peck my eyes out. Remember "The Birds"? Maybe it's time to get one of those signs to post, "Caution---Attack Chicken" ~Dawn
ReplyDelete For shame.....Miss Chicken Licken needs to learn that you don't peck the hand that feeds you. Do you think maybe she is in need of some serious counseling. There has to be a chicken whisperer out there somewhere. Your turkey dinner sounded quite nice. I love those meals that you can be creative with and stretch several meals out of.


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In teaching his people, Jacob quoted the allegory of the tame and wild olive trees, which was originally given by a prophet named Zenos and was included in the brass plates. Jacob used this allegory to teach that the Lord would seek to bring salvation to all people—even to those among His covenant people who had turned away from Him. Because of the length of Jacob 5, it is divided into two lessons.
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Jacob 5:1–14
Jacob quotes Zenos, who likened the house of Israel to a tame olive tree
A young priesthood holder develops a sinful habit. He believes that others can be forgiven, but he doubts the Lord will accept his repentance.
A young woman transgresses a commandment. She experiences guilt, feels terrible about herself, and questions if the Lord still loves her.
Have you ever wondered about the Lord's willingness to forgive you of your sins?
Explain that Jacob prophesied that the Jews would reject Jesus Christ (see Jacob 4:15). He also taught that Jesus Christ would continue to labor for the salvation of His people even after they had rejected Him (see Jacob 4:17–18). To illustrate this truth, Jacob quoted an allegory given by a prophet named Zenos. An allegory uses symbolic characters, objects, and actions to teach truths. As students study this allegory, they can learn important lessons about Jesus Christ's willingness to help those who have turned away from Him.
Invite a student to read Jacob 5:1–2 aloud, and have the class look for who Zenos was speaking to (the house of Israel). You may need to explain that when the Old Testament prophet Jacob made covenants with the Lord, the Lord changed his name to Israel. The phrase "house of Israel" refers to Jacob's descendants and to all people who have been baptized and have made covenants with the Lord.
Who in this class is a member of the house of Israel? (You may need to explain that all baptized members of the Church are part of the house of Israel. They are part of the allegory in Jacob 5.)
Invite a student to read Jacob 5:3 aloud. Ask the class to look for what Zenos used in his allegory to represent the house of Israel. After students report what they find, explain that olive trees were extremely valuable in ancient Israel, where Zenos lived. Olives were used for food, and olive oil was used for cooking and medicine and as fuel for lamps. Olive trees required much care and labor to help them produce good fruit. Point out that in this allegory, the tame olive tree is located in a vineyard, which represents the world.
According to Jacob 5:3, what began to happen to the tame olive tree? What does the decay of the tree symbolize? (Encourage students to use footnote 3d to answer this question.)
What is apostasy? (Turning away from the Lord and His gospel.)
Invite students to read Jacob 5:4–6 silently. Ask them to think about who the master of the vineyard is and what his actions of pruning, digging, and nourishing might represent. Then have them explain what they think these symbols represent. (You may need to help them understand that the master of the vineyard represents Jesus Christ. Pruning, digging, and nourishing represent the Lord's efforts to help us receive the blessings of His Atonement and the efforts of prophets to teach and to call people to repentance.)
Invite a student to read the following statement by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:
"This allegory as recounted by Jacob is from the outset intended to be about Christ. … Even as the Lord of the vineyard and his workers strive to bolster, prune, purify, and otherwise make productive their trees in what amounts to a one-chapter historical sketch of the scattering and gathering of Israel, the deeper meaning of the Atonement undergirds and overarches their labors" (Christ and the New Covenant: The Messianic Message of the Book of Mormon [1997], 165).
To help students see how this allegory illustrates the Lord's concern for them, teach them that they can substitute their names in place of references to olive trees. You might demonstrate this by giving the following example from Jacob 5:7: "It grieveth me that I should lose [your name]." Explain that as we insert our names in Jacob 5 in places that are meaningful and appropriate, we can learn more about the Lord's concern for us.
Display the following chart. Explain that it lists the meanings of symbols in Zenos's allegory. (You may want to make copies of the chart as a handout or have students copy the chart in their scripture study journals.)
Jacob 5: Allegory of the Tame and Wild Olive Trees | |
Symbol |
Possible Meaning |
Tame olive tree |
The house of Israel, God's covenant people |
The vineyard |
The world |
Decay |
Sin and apostasy |
Lord and master of the vineyard |
Jesus Christ |
Pruning, digging, and nourishing |
The Lord's efforts to help people receive the blessings of His Atonement |
Servant of the master of the vineyard |
The Lord's prophets |
Branches |
Groups of people |
Wild olive tree |
Gentiles—those who have not made covenants with the Lord. Later in the allegory, natural olive trees become wild, representing portions of the house of Israel that fall into apostasy. |
Grafting and planting branches |
The scattering and gathering of the Lord's covenant people. In addition, the grafting of wild branches into the tame olive tree represents the conversion of those who become part of the Lord's covenant people. |
Burning branches |
God's judgments on the wicked |
Fruit |
The lives or works of people |
Ask a student to read Jacob 5:7, 9–10 aloud, and have the class look for what the master of the vineyard did next to save the tame olive tree. Have students report what they find. (You may need to explain that to graft is to insert a branch from one tree into a different tree. The grafting in these verses represents the Lord's efforts to help Gentiles become part of His covenant people through baptism and conversion. The burning of some branches represents the Lord's judgments upon the most wicked members of the house of Israel.)
Invite a student to read Jacob 5:11 aloud. Ask the class to look for evidence of the master's concern for the roots of the tame olive tree. Have students report what they find.
Remind students that Jacob 5:6 states that the tame olive tree had begun to produce young and tender branches. Ask a student to read Jacob 5:8, 13–14 aloud. Ask the class to identify what the master did with these branches. You might also ask them to consider how the journey of Lehi's family provides an example of the master's actions in Jacob 5:8, 13–14.
Jacob 5:15–40
The master of the vineyard and his servant labor to help the vineyard produce good fruit
Divide the class into two groups. Assign the first group to study Jacob 5:15–28 and the second group to study Jacob 5:29–40. Ask students to do the following as they study (you may want to write these instructions on the board):
Summarize what happened in the vineyard and what that might represent.
Identify phrases that show the efforts of the master of the vineyard to preserve the tame (or natural) olive tree and its branches.
After students have had enough time to study their assigned verses, ask them to summarize what happened in the vineyard and explain what that might represent. Begin with the students who studied Jacob 5:15–28. Below are sample summaries and interpretations.
Jacob 5:15–28. What happened: All the branches that had been grafted brought forth good fruit. However, one branch, despite having been planted in a good part of the vineyard, brought forth both tame and wild fruit. What this might represent: The good or tame fruit throughout most of the vineyard represents the righteousness on earth during the time of Christ and His Apostles. The branch that brought forth some good fruit and some wild fruit represents the righteous and wicked descendants of Lehi.
Jacob 5:29–40. What happened: All the fruit throughout the vineyard became corrupt. What this might represent: The corruption of all the fruit represents the Great Apostasy, during which the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ was lost from the earth following the earthly ministry of Christ's Apostles.
What phrases show the master's efforts to preserve the tame olive tree and its branches? What does this illustrate about the Lord's feelings toward His covenant people?
As we have discussed this allegory, what have you learned about Jesus Christ, the master of the vineyard? (Among the many truths taught in these verses, students should understand that the Lord loves us and labors diligently for our salvation.)
How does this allegory relate to the examples at the beginning of the lesson of the two youth who wondered about the Lord's willingness to forgive them of their sins?
Jacob 5:41–51
The master sorrows over his vineyard
Invite several students to take turns reading aloud from Jacob 5:41–42, 46–50. (You may want to point out that the phrase "loftiness of the vineyard" in Jacob 5:48 could refer to pride.) Ask the class to look for phrases that show the master's love and concern for his vineyard and his sorrow when the trees do not produce good fruit. Invite students to share phrases from these verses that are particularly meaningful to them and to explain why the phrases are meaningful. After students have shared, ask the class:
How does the master's care for his vineyard represent the Lord's love for us?
What are some examples, from the scriptures or from your life, that illustrate that the Lord continues to love and care for people even after they have turned away from Him?
To conclude, remind students that the master considered cutting down all the trees because the fruit on all of them had become corrupt in spite of all he had done (see Jacob 5:49).
Do you think the master will give up on his vineyard? Why or why not?
After students have shared their responses, read Jacob 5:51 to the class. Testify that the Lord loves us and demonstrates great mercy and patience as He labors to help us come unto Him and bring forth righteous works. Explain that the next lesson will include discussion of the master's final efforts to save his vineyard.
Commentary and Background Information
Jacob 5:1. Who was Zenos?
Zenos was a Hebrew prophet whose writings appeared on the brass plates but who is not mentioned in the Old Testament. He lived after the prophet Abraham and before the prophet Isaiah (see Helaman 8:19–20). He prophesied and testified of Jesus Christ (see 1 Nephi 19:10–12; Helaman 8:19). Zenos is best known for his allegory of the olive trees. If students want to read more of Zenos's prophecies, they can refer to the index in the Book of Mormon or triple combination.
Supplemental Teaching Idea
Jacob 5. Video presentation
As you teach this lesson, you may want to show portions of the video presentation "The Olive Tree Allegory," which is found on the DVD titled Book of Mormon DVD Presentations 1–19. This presentation is divided into five segments. The following paragraphs provide ideas for inserting the first four segments into lesson 46. The fifth segment is recommended for lesson 47.
Segment 1 may be used in the first section of lesson 46. Consider using this video segment after students read Jacob 5:3. The video segment replaces the teacher's explanation of the value of olive trees in ancient Israel.
Segment 2 may be used in the second section of the lesson. Consider using this video segment at the very beginning of the section. Before showing it, explain that in this segment, the students in the video wear clothing associated with Old Testament times. They wear these clothes because they are learning about a portion of the allegory that refers to that time period.
Segment 3 may be used in the second section of the lesson, just after students report on what happened in Jacob 5:15–28. In this segment, the students in the video wear clothing associated with the time of Christ.
Segment 4 may also be used in the second section of the lesson. Consider using it after students report on what happened in Jacob 5:29–40. In this segment, the students in the video wear clothing that represents the time of the Great Apostasy.


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The Arctic Ocean occupies a unique tectonic setting as a small, confined ocean between two much larger oceans - the subducting Pacific margin and the opening North Atlantic. Unlike many of the world's oceans, evidence on both timing and geometry is poor, and major elements of the plate tectonic evolution are still "up for grabs". The Arctic has experienced significant plate motion from Cretaceous to present, and because of the ambiguities in the oceanic signature, resolving the most likely kinematic history is critical in understanding paleogeography and hence reservoir and source distribution. I will show a 3-stage kinematic model which, while not a unique solution, seems to best satisfy the known constraints.
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Brendan Rodgers' leaders host second-placed Chelsea on Sunday and know victory would put them on the brink of a first league crown since 1990.
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"I have a lot of friends there, so I am really pleased for them because they are really close to the title," Benitez told Perform.
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Benitez believes home advantage could prove significant when Chelsea visit Anfield this weekend.
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Hi tree166,
Thanks for the explanation. MeeraReed asked a very good question:
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Why does he deliberately choose unstable, possessive, needy women?
The answer is because he is unstabe, possessive and needy himself, but in a different way than the women he finds are. A "compatible" way.
The two of you started a relationship with each other during a period of time when each of you were in a transition out of your then current relationship.
He wants to feel good about himself. He satisfies that need by finding women who need him. He looks for this neediness in other women, because it is the fuel that helps him feel good about himself. That means the woman's neediness is either one of a small number of things or the one thing that keeps him interested in the relationship.
You were attractive to him when you wanted out of your marriage, because your were seeking relief from your marriage. You were needy. That made you interesting to him. That was the "relationship fuel" he was looking for.
Now that you are more stable, you are no longer as interesting to him as you were when you were in transition out of your marriage. You are not as important to him as you used to be, because you don't offer him the neediness you used to. He needs that neediness to feel good about himself. He wants to feed the needy new girlfriend, because it gives him the high of feeling needed. It sounds like he is willing to sabotage his relationship with you to free up more of his time and attention, so he can give it to her. You enable all of this by accepting his lies, and trying to convince yourself and others that he is really a good guy.
Your boyfriend doesn't have relationships. He has transitions from one woman to another. These transitions take enough time that they look like relationships, but they are not.
It's time for you to look at who he is, instead of who he used to be or who you want him to be, and do what is best for you.
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Zürich, SwitzerlandSeven months ago, I released Geocoder, a PHP 5.3 library to ease geocoding manipulations. More and more applications have to deal with geolocation, and even if HTML5 provides a Geolocation API, a server side library is always useful. Today this library has more than 230 watchers on GitHub, and it's time to introduce it here.
The library is standalone, and split in two parts: HttpAdapters
are responsible to get data from remote APIs, and Providers
which own the
logic to extract information.
There are many adapters to use Geocoder with:
Guzzle, or Zend Http
If you want to use another HTTP layer, you can easily write your own provider by
implementing the HttpAdapterInterface
The most important part of Geocoder is probably all its providers:
HostIp, IpInfoDB, Yahoo!
PlaceFinder, Google
Maps, Bing
and even Geoip, the PHP extension.
Same thing here, you can easily write your own provider by implementing the
Geocoder supports both geocoding and reverse geocoding. It depends on the provider you choose, and also what you want to do. The API is really simple:
$geocoder = new \Geocoder\Geocoder();
$adapter = new \Geocoder\HttpAdapter\BuzzHttpAdapter();
new \Geocoder\Provider\YahooProvider($adapter, 'API_KEY'),
// IP based
$result = $geocoder->geocode('22.214.171.124');
// Street address based
$result = $geocoder->geocode('10 rue Gambetta, Paris, France');
// reverse geocoding
$result = $geocoder->reverse($latitude, $longitude);
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variable is an instance of ResultInterface.
Again, the API is simple.
Another feature provided by Geocoder is the ability to dump a
object in standard formats like GPS eXchange (GPX),
Keyhole Markup Language
(KML), Well-Known Binary (WKB), or Well-Known Text (WKT).
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to share geolocated data.
Geocoder is quite stable now, and is well integrated with Propel thanks to the GeocodableBehavior, and even with Doctrine2 thanks to the DoctrineBehaviors. Both behaviors are really powerful, install them, and your model objects (entities) will become geo-aware. Note for Drupal guys, the geocoder module should use Geocoder, sooner or later.
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whit bazemore lost his ride.....
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[QUOTE=crazy larry]who'd of thunk?
nhra link Reminds me of Austin Power's quote regarding Liberace. "I didn't see that one coming." Let's face it, DSR has a whole bunch of money tied up in NHRA racing. With 3 out of 16 funny cars in most fields, they don't have to have every car win. Therefore, the team orders not to pull the brake handle if the car breaks the tires loose. Whit wants to win. If that means pulling the brake and breaking some engine parts, so be it. On the flip side, I don't think Whit understands he is an employee. If the boss says, "Don't pull the brake handle.", you don't mouth off about it on national TV. Likewise, you don't punch your team mate, cuss out the starter, or drive recklessly in the general vicinity of camera crews. If I were Matco, I don't think I would throw my advertising dollars at a team that didn't do everything in its power to win or one that has a spoiled brat for a driver. With this group, they had both. DSR only fixed half the problem, IMHO. |
That would put most of the NASCAR drivers jobs in jeopardy.................. |
I never thought about the "retirement" deal..... i bet he made a chunk off that whole media package.... I can also see the other teams being hot about ray alley being able to peruse their setups, but it was john force that said "we all run the same junk anyway...".... i liked the good old days when you bought a t shirt off the trailer the car was hauled in, not the "souvenier" trailer.... force made the remark once, when scotty cannon challenged him to a 100K dollar match race,"hell, I make that much on a weekend just selling t shirts." ..... and on the note of spoiled brat drivers...... leads me to the dsr prostock motorcycle team... I don't know why it bothers me, because psm time is get up and get another beer time, but the dsr riders pee and moan alot... her more so than him.... I wonder where they'll be in a few...???? of course, i haven't heard her rag about wanting nhra to change the tree for psm much lately... I guess the reason it bothers me, is you have 16 bikes running on sunday, you redlight, and it's the tree's fault???? yeah, uh huh. |
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Bazemore is the biggest whiner in the NHRA. Nothing makes me happier, than to see him launch his supercharger against the straps.
the stories i could tell---and will----after next (my last) season. bazemore is what he is----24/7.
bernstein? tire shake makes me smile sometimes. i've been around racing for over 30 years. long enough to remember some of these -----uhhh---people---when they showed up at the track with a beater car pulled by a pickup truck and an open top 18 foot trailer. i've seen them come and go. from experiance. john force still is what he is---27/7, and that's a good thing as far as i'm concerned. he always has something to say---and say--and say, but the guy is genuine in my opinion. i have a hot wheels car in a package that is a matco funny car from a few years back. it was given to me from the dad of a funny car pilot. he said "thank you for being here to save my son's life" i nearly fell backwards. that driver i have talked to a few times during practice days, and even 1 year during the nats, and i know full well how busy the team is. i have liked dean skuza ever since, and i would do whatever i could on, or off the track for his family or him. i will do whatever i can on the track for any person. that's the job description, but for some, it becomes very personal. i deeply miss eddie and ercie. the deep down goodness of these people is amazing. when they were around it was sort of like a family reunion powered by nitromethane. there are people who bond with others, and are the salt of the earth. then there are others. in the heat of battle i understand sometimes drivers say or do things that make them appear to the fans to be something other than what they are. sometimes they appear to be EXACTLY what they are. sometimes, i just sorta grin when things happen. |
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Overland Park Katie Sarraf scored Free State's only goal in a 3-1 high school soccer loss Thursday at Blue Valley Southwest.
"We got rattled a little bit, so we didn't play our game," FSHS coach Kelly Barah said. "We gave up some goals we usually don't. But all in all, we're excited to start the playoffs next week and see how far we can go."
The Firebirds (10-4-2) likely will host a first-round playoff game Tuesday against a to-be-determined foe.


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Passion to foster talent drives music fest director
Alan Austin sees event as a catalyst to help young performers blossom
Published 2:27 pm, Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Heights resident Alan Austin says he wants to share his love for classical music with as many people as possible in Houston.
And in his job as general and artistic director of the Immanuel & Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival, he is in a position to do just that.
Austin has seen every aspect of the event. His starting point was 25 years ago when the event began and he participated as a violinist.
The four-week orchestral festival, which ends June 28, is giving 95 young professional musicians a challenging musical environment where they can develop skills in orchestral, chamber and solo performance. The intensive program on the University of Houston campus is directed by renowned guest conductors, members of Houston's orchestras and faculty from the Moores and Shepherd schools of music.
"It started as a kernel of an idea, and people come to enjoy the young musicians," said Austin, 46. "The music we play is for big orchestras. We use as many members as much as possible. It translates into visceral excitement for the audience."
Juggling the duties of general and artistic director begins as soon as each festival is completed, he said. He reviews applicants, attends auditions and travels the country and abroad.
His goal is to continue to provide a festival in which alumni come back to share talents and educate and encourage young musicians.
Sheila Johnstone, a Texas Music Festival benefactor from Tanglewood, has watched Austin work with drive and determination.
"People are coming from all over the world, and his countenance is amazing," said Johnstone, who became involved with the event in 1995.
"He's so dedicated and supportive to make this happen with the venues and conductors. His enthusiasm is contagious. This festival is in my heart, and Alan is a big part of that. It's the highlight of the summer in Houston. It never disappoints. Not once."
Performers ages range 22-24.
They can be students completing their undergraduate and graduate degrees, and some are eager for the networking opportunities at the event and hope to win an orchestra audition, Austin said.
Austin's love of classical music began at age 11 and he has been a chamber musician, soloist and orchestral player.
He's a founding member of Ars Lyrica, where he continues to perform and joins the Houston Ballet when possible.
He has also enjoyed a long association with the Houston Chamber Choir and conductor Robert Simpson and has led performances of Handel's "Messiah" and "Esther," Vivaldi's "Dixit dominus" and other Baroque choral masterpieces, including the first period instrument performance in Houston of Bach's "B Minor Mass."
Austin's work has also been recorded for the Dorian, Zephyr, Gothic, Sono Luminos and MSR Classics labels.
Houston is the greatest beneficiary of the music festival, Austin said.
"We don't have to travel outside of Houston to hear great music," he said.
"The young musicians have electricity. You get their passion. This festival is on a great track and continues to develop and thrive."


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Steven Spielberg gave his sound team a gift by opening "Bridge of Spies" with a Hitchcock-inspired chase through the New York subway with no dialogue and a sense of mystery surrounding Soviet spy Mark Rylance (nominated Best Supporting Actor).
Oscar-winning re-recording mixers Andy Nelson (dialogue and music) and Gary Rydstrom (sound effects) teamed up once again for a movie in which ambience plays an important sonic role. It's the late 1950s and there's a stark contrast between booming New York and chilly East Berlin.
READ MORE: "Writing for Spielberg: Matt Charman Honors a Real-Life Hero in 'Bridge of Spies'"
"Down on the platform Steven wanted to create a few different languages of people passing by to sense that multicultural influence in New York, and the distraction of someone's line or a giggle or a laugh as they walk past them," explained Nelson, who's nominated with Rydstrom this year for both "Bridge of Spies" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." "It makes you move your head around. And, of course, in the midst of this crowd, the agents are losing their prey. It was about creating the normal distraction on a subway train and not many people speaking."
Skywalker Sound's Rydstrom added that we're drawn to Rylance because of his great physical presence. "He's a character you want to know more about. So the image of him painting himself in this room in New York City is really great. He does all these specific things like putting microfilm inside a coin and getting the coin from under a park bench, splitting a coin in two. They are tiny little sounds that are incredibly precise. We get to have our little intellectual spy things."
Rydstrom was at his creative best during the construction of the Berlin Wall, which has never before been depicted in a mainstream Hollywood movie. "The one thing that Steven really liked that Gary got was the sound of those bricks going down onto the walls," Nelson offered. "As the camera's tracking, you hear these different voices and arguments among families, we're hearing this sort of methodical clunk, clunk of bricks going in and the wall being constructed."
"What was interesting was the Wall was being built brick by brick, by hand," Rydstrom emphasized. "There are trucks and cranes that have a nice idling engine sound, but the important sound isn't the equipment or the bricks — it's the people. That was surprising to me because what do you do if you're standing there and they're building a wall between you and someone you love? So that's where the specially loop group comes in handy, especially those that speak German, to do very specific tasks for the crowd on either side of the Wall. The voices become the key sound for the building of the Wall scene."
READ MORE: "How They Designed Cold-War Era New York and Berlin for Spielberg's 'Bridge of Spies'"
Nelson said they wanted to represent the sound of the cold in East Berlin and have a chilling sensation to the wind sounds to make it as inhospitable as possible, which played well with Tom Hanks and his cold and the fact that he had to give up his coat. "And then when he was in the safe house, there was a lot of opportunity there with the whistling wind coming through the windows that didn't shut properly."
Meanwhile, the bridge exchange is punctuated by the sound of quietly falling snow: a wonderful sound absorption. "It gave the sound team the opportunity to convey a great spatial divide," Nelson recalled. "When you heard a command from the other side, we were able to put a soft echo on everyone, so you really sensed the distance between the two sides. We did it by making the atmosphere so quiet around us and the music was thin and almost eerie at times."


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