Contingency And Commitment

Author : Carlos Alberto Sánchez
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438459455

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Contingency and Commitment by Carlos Alberto Sánchez Pdf

Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English. This book examines the emergence of existentialism in Mexico in the 1940s and the quest for a genuine Mexican philosophy that followed it. It focuses on the pivotal moments and key figures of the Hyperion group, including Emilio Uranga, Luis Villoro, Leopoldo Zea, and Jorge Portilla, who explored questions of interpretation, marginality, identity, and the role of philosophy. Carlos Alberto Sánchez was the first to introduce and emphasize the philosophical significance of the Hyperion group to readers of English in The Suspension of Seriousness, and in the present volume he examines its legacy and relevancy for the twenty-first century. Sánchez argues that there are lessons to be learned from Hyperion’s project not only for Latino/a life in the United States but also for the lives of those on the fringes of contemporary, postmodern or postcolonial, economic, political, and cultural power.

Author : Mitchell Franklin,Patty Graybeal,Dixon Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1680922912

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Principles of Accounting Volume 1 - Financial Accounting by Mitchell Franklin,Patty Graybeal,Dixon Cooper Pdf

The text and images in this book are in grayscale. A hardback color version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680922929. Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Each chapter opens with a relatable real-life scenario for today's college student. Thoughtfully designed examples are presented throughout each chapter, allowing students to build on emerging accounting knowledge. Concepts are further reinforced through applicable connections to more detailed business processes. Students are immersed in the "why" as well as the "how" aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.

Author : D'Maris Coffman,Adrian Leonard,Larry Neal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107435049

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Questioning Credible Commitment by D'Maris Coffman,Adrian Leonard,Larry Neal Pdf

Financial capitalism emerged in a recognisably modern form in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Great Britain. Following the seminal work of Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (1989), many scholars have concluded that the 'credible commitment' that was provided by parliamentary backing of government as a result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 provided the key institutional underpinning on which modern public finances depend. In this book, a specially commissioned group of historians and economists examine and challenge the North and Weingast thesis to show that multiple commitment mechanisms were necessary to convince public creditors that sovereign debt constituted a relatively accessible, safe and liquid investment vehicle. Questioning Credible Commitment provides academics and practitioners with a broader understanding of the origins of financial capitalism, and, with its focus on theoretical and policy frameworks, shows the significance of the debate to current macroeconomic policy making.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1915596904

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Managing Public Money by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liane Carlson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231548977

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Contingency and the Limits of History by Liane Carlson Pdf

Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Following Nietzsche and Foucault, genealogists have deployed contingency to show that all institutions and ideas could have been otherwise as a critique of the status quo. Yet scholars have spent very little time considering the genealogy of contingency itself—or what its history means for its role in politics. In Contingency and the Limits of History, Liane Carlson historicizes contingency by tying it to its theological and etymological roots in “touch,” contending that much of its critical, disruptive power is specific to our current historical moment. She returns to an older definition of contingency found in Christian theology that understands it as the lot of mortal creatures, who suffer, feel, bleed, and change, in contrast to a necessary, unchanging, impassible God. Far from dying out, Carlson reveals, this theological past persists in continental philosophy, where thinkers such as Novalis, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, and Serres have imagined contingency as a type of radical destabilization brought about by the body’s collision with a changing world. Through studies of sickness, loneliness, violation, and love, she shows that different experiences of contingency can lead to dramatically dissimilar ethical and political projects. A strikingly original reconsideration of one of continental philosophy and critical theory’s most cherished concepts, this book reveals the limits of historicist accounts.

Author : Mr.Serkan Arslanalp,Yin Liao
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513568560

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Contingent Liabilities from Banks by Mr.Serkan Arslanalp,Yin Liao Pdf

In this paper, we develop a methodology to assess potential losses to the government that could arise from bank failures. The approach is intended to be simple, parsimonious, and used in real time. It generates an index that we call the banking sector contingent liability index (BCLI), based on the banking sector’s size, concentration, diversification, leverage, and riskiness of assets. The index is illustrated for 32 advanced and emerging market economies from 2006 to 2013, as well as a group of banks including global systemically important banks (G-SIBs).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428993853

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Contingency Contracting... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ingo Venzke,Kevin Jon Heller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192652904

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Contingency in International Law by Ingo Venzke,Kevin Jon Heller Pdf

This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly a serious account left that would consider the path of international law to be necessary, and that would refute the possibility of a different law altogether. But behind every possibility of the past stands a reason why the law developed as it did. Only with a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did is it possible to argue about how the law could plausibly have turned out differently. The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, as it is in this volume, by a refusal to resign to the present state of affairs. By recovering past possibilities, this volume aims to inform projects of transformative legal change for the future. The book situates that search for contingency theoretically and carries it into practice across many fields, with chapters discussing human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, foreign investments and trade. In doing so, it shows how politically charged questions about contingency have always been.

Author : Carlos Alberto Sánchez,Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190601317

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Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century by Carlos Alberto Sánchez,Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. Pdf

Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and introduced some of the most influential texts in Mexican philosophy, which constitute a unique and robust tradition that will challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerged from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and which culminated in la filosofía de lo mexicano (the philosophy of Mexicanness). Though the selections reflect on a variety of philosophical questions, collectively they represent a growing tendency to take seriously the question of Mexican national identity as a philosophical question--especially given the complexities of Mexico's indigenous and European ancestries, a history of colonialism, and a growing dependency on foreign money and culture. More than an attempt to describe the national character, however, the texts gathered here represent an optimistic period in Mexican philosophy that aimed to affirm Mexican culture and philosophy as a valuable, if not urgent, contribution to universal culture.

Author : J. Michael Nash
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780309213851

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Guidebook for Airport Irregular Operations (IROPS) Contingency Planning by J. Michael Nash Pdf

ACRP Report 65: Guidebook for Airport Irregular Operations (IROPS) Contingency Planning is a practical guidebook for commercial passenger service airports of all sizes to develop, continually evaluate, and update their contingency plans for procedures pertaining to IROPS that may cause significant disruptions to customers. This guidebook assists aviation system partners in improving their response to customer care during a broad array of IROPS conditions and with step by step templates for the preparation of contingency plans that include necessary communications, collaboration, and coordination to address customer needs. A specific focus on the needs of smaller airports has been included in the development of the guidebook.

Author : Jennifer J. Halpern,Robert N. Stern
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Decision-making
ISBN : 0801433789

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Debating Rationality by Jennifer J. Halpern,Robert N. Stern Pdf

"Debating Rationality is a terrific collection of essays written by an obviously first rate set of scholars. Several recent books have attempted to make similar points, but this volume pushes the ideas in new directions, rather than simply restating what are now established themes."--Roderick M. Kramer, co-author of Trust in OrganizationsDecision makers strive to be rational. Traditionally, rational decisions maximize an appropriate return. The contributors to this book challenge the common assumption that good decisions must be rational in this economic sense. They emphasize that the decision-making process is influenced by social, organizational, and psychological considerations as well as by economic concerns. Relationships, time pressure, external demands for specific types of performance, contractual expectations, human biases, and reactions to unfair treatment alter the decision-making context and the resulting decision outcomes.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on United States Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117861224

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Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on United States Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad Pdf

Author : Steven C. Hayes,Kirk D. Strosahl,Kelly G. Wilson
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781609189648

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes,Kirk D. Strosahl,Kelly G. Wilson Pdf

Since the original publication of this seminal work, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has come into its own as a widely practiced approach to helping people change. This book provides the definitive statement of ACT--from conceptual and empirical foundations to clinical techniques--written by its originators. ACT is based on the idea that psychological rigidity is a root cause of a wide range of clinical problems. The authors describe effective, innovative ways to cultivate psychological flexibility by detecting and targeting six key processes: defusion, acceptance, attention to the present moment, self-awareness, values, and committed action. Sample therapeutic exercises and patient-therapist dialogues are integrated throughout. New to This Edition *Reflects tremendous advances in ACT clinical applications, theory building, and research. *Psychological flexibility is now the central organizing focus. *Expanded coverage of mindfulness, the therapeutic relationship, relational learning, and case formulation. *Restructured to be more clinician friendly and accessible; focuses on the moment-by-moment process of therapy. See also Experiencing ACT from the Inside Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists, by Dennis Tirch, Laura R. Silberstein-Tirch, R. Trent Codd III, Martin J. Brock, and M. Joann Wright.

Author : Ian Shapiro,Sonu Bedi
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814740965

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Political Contingency by Ian Shapiro,Sonu Bedi Pdf

Political science & theory.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521367816

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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty Pdf

In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.