Reflections On Progress

Author : Kemal Dervis
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815729624

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Reflections on Progress by Kemal Dervis Pdf

Now, more than ever, the world needs growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking. Is the world giving up on the promise of ever-greater prosperity for all, on functioning democratic institutions, and on long-term peace? Is the special set of circumstances that led to the recent rapid growth in emerging markets unlikely to be present in the future? Will the second decade of the twenty first century end with “secular stagnation”? Does the rise of authoritarianism, populism, and fanatic nihilism—all experienced over the last few years—threaten to unravel what has been built painstakingly since the catastrophe of World War II? Kemal Dervis addresses these and similar questions in this thought-provoking series of essays written for Project Syndicate from 2011 to 2015. The essays are organized in three sections: global economic interdependence, inequality and the political economy of reform, and the specific challenge of Europe. The common theme is the need for growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking in an interdependent world. These kinds of policies offer the potential for another wave of unprecedented human progress aided by breathtaking new technologies. However, a huge and destabilizing disruption is possible if policymaking is not globally cooperative and is not focused on inclusion and greater equity. These essays synthesize the experience and analysis of a scholar and policymaker with national, regional, and international experience at the highest levels. Dervis exhibits a passion for combining strongly held values with political feasibility.

Author : Annette C. BAIER,Annette Baier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674020382

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A Progress of Sentiments by Annette C. BAIER,Annette Baier Pdf

Annette Baier's aim is to make sense of David Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume's family motto, which appears on his bookplate, was True to the End. Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about truth and falsehood, reason and folly. By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work. Baier finds Hume's Treatise of Human Nature to be a carefully crafted literary and philosophical work which itself displays a philosophical progress of sentiments. His starting place is an overly abstract intellectualism that deliberately thrusts passions and social concerns into the background. In the three interrelated books of the Treatise, his self-understander proceeds through partial successes and dramatic failures to emerge with new-found optimism, expecting that the exact knowledge the morally self-conscious anatomist of human nature can acquire will itself improve and correct our vision of morality. Baier describes how, by turning philosophy toward human nature instead of toward God and the universe, Hume initiated a new philosophy, a broader discipline of reflection that can embrace Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault as well as William James and Sigmund Freud. Hume belongs both to our present and to our past.

Author : Albert Salomon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Sociology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011923500

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The Tyranny of Progress by Albert Salomon Pdf

Author : Helena Norberg-Hodge,Peter Goering,Edward Goldsmith,Martin Khor,International Society for Ecology and Culture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Canada
ISBN : 8185019436

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The Future Of Progress: Reflections On Environment And Development by Helena Norberg-Hodge,Peter Goering,Edward Goldsmith,Martin Khor,International Society for Ecology and Culture Pdf

The Authors Of The Papers Presented At A Conference In Sweden In 1991 Argue Against The Imposition Of A Single Industrial Monoculture Around The World And Say That Only By Respecting Cultural And Biological Diversity Can We Move Towards Truely Sustainable And Equitable Patterns Of Living. Condition Good.

Author : Edward Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0952122707

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The Future of Progress by Edward Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Dhanya Mohanan
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gender In 21st Century: Multidisciplinary Reflections On Struggles And Progress by Dhanya Mohanan Pdf

Women, queer and trans-spectrum throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially marginalized. This books seeks to understand gender in the 21st century. It explains in depth the background of gender according to different traditional perspective roles, challenges faced by gender and an understanding of Gender in the current generation of 21st Century. This book makes essential reading for all those interested in the intersections of class, education, social work in the 21st century. Students and researchers of sociology, women studies and education will find this book invaluable.

Author : Ruha Benjamin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509526437

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Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin Pdf

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture. Visit the book's free Discussion Guide here.

Author : United States,Joseph Galloway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : United States
ISBN : BL:A0018576374

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Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion by United States,Joseph Galloway Pdf

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022129538

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The Pilgrim's Progress .. With Explanatory Notes, by W. Mason and Evangelical Reflections Selected from J. Newton, J. Bradford, Dr. Hawker, and Others. To which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author .. [pt.1-3.] by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : Bill Kauffman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023079705

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With Good Intentions? by Bill Kauffman Pdf

Kauffman's perspective on progress in America—from the point of view of those who lost—revives forgotten figures and reinvigorates dormant causes as he examines the characters and arguments from six critical battles that forever altered the American landscape: the debates over child labor, school consolidation, women's suffrage, the back-to-the-land movement, good roads and the Interstate Highway System, and a standing army. The integration of these subjects and the presentation of the anti-Progress case as a coherent political tendency encompassing several issues and many years is unprecedented. With wit, passion, and an arsenal of long-neglected sources, Kauffman measures the cost of progress in 20th-Century America and exposes the elaborate plans behind seemingly inevitable reforms. Kauffman brings to life such people and places as Ida Tarbell, the muckraker who thought that suffrage would ruin women; Onward, Indiana, the town that took up arms to defend its high school from death by consolidation; and the motley band of agrarian poets and ghetto dwellers who tried to stop the bulldozers that paved over America. He maintains that these forlorn causes—usually regarded as quaint, archaic, and hopeless—rested, in large part, upon quintessential American ideals: limited government, human-scale community, and family autonomy. The victory of progress has uprooted our citizens, swollen the central state at the expense of liberty, and sucked much of the life from what was once a nation of small communities.

Author : Thomas Fröhlich,Axel Schneider
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004426528

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Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 by Thomas Fröhlich,Axel Schneider Pdf

Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic study of Chinese reflections on “progress,” its multifaceted expressions, contesting interpretations, highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism it encountered.

Author : Edward Goldsmith,Helena Norberg-Hodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037454363

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The Future of Progress by Edward Goldsmith,Helena Norberg-Hodge Pdf

Author : Michael Brecher,Frank P. Harvey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472023943

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Millennial Reflections on International Studies by Michael Brecher,Frank P. Harvey Pdf

Forty-five prominent scholars engage in self-critical, state-of-the-art reflection on international studies to stimulate debates about successes and failures and to address the larger question of progress in the discipline. Written especially for the collection, these essays are in hardcover in the form of an easy-to-use handbook, and in paperback as a number of separate titles, each of which consists of a particular thematic cluster to merge with the range of topics taught in undergraduate and graduate courses in international studies. The themes addressed are realism, institutionalism, critical perspectives, feminist theory and gender studies, methodology (formal modeling, quantitative, and qualitative), foreign policy analysis, international security and peace studies, and international political economy. This collection provides an accessible and wide-ranging survey of the issues in the field as well as an invaluable bibliography, and will undoubtedly determine the shape of future research in international studies for the millennium. Paperbacks for course adoption: Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies Michael Brecher and Frank P. Harvey, Editors Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy:Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies Michael Brecher and Frank P. Harvey, Editors Evaluating Methodology in International Studies Frank P. Harvey and Michael Brecher, Editors Critical Perspectives in International Studies Frank P. Harvey and Michael Brecher, Editors Contributors are: Steve J. Brams, Davis B. Bobrow, Michael Cox, Robert W. Cox, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Joseph M. Grieco, Ernst B. Haas , Peter M. Haas, Kal J. Holsti, Ole R. Holsti, Patrick James, Robert O. Keohane, Edward A. Kolodziej, Louis Kriesberg Robert T. Kudrle, David A. Lake, Yosef Lapid, Russell Leng , Jack S. Levy, L. H. M. Ling, Zeev Maoz, Lisa L. Martin, John J. Mearsheimer, Manus I. Midlarsky, Linda B. Miller, Helen Milner , Michael Nicholson, Joseph Nye, V. Spike Peterson , Jan Jindy Pettman, James Lee Ray , James Rosenau, Harvey Starr, J. David Singer, Steve Smith, Christine Sylvester, J. Ann Tickner, John Vasquez, Yaacov Y. I. Vertzberger, R. B. J. Walker, Stephen G. Walker , Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Oran Young, Marysia Zalewski, and Dina A. Zinnes. Michael Brecher is R. B. Angus Professor of Political Science, McGill University, and former president of the International Studies Association. Frank P. Harvey is Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University.

Author : James E. Huchingson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597520843

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Religion and the Natural Sciences by James E. Huchingson Pdf

The first half of 'Religion and the Natural Sciences' is an introduction to the discussion of science and religion. Here the reader learns why there is any debate at all and what resources exist for responding to it. The second half deals with specific issues that arise in the individual sciences, from astronomy and physics to biology and ecology. Any project hoping to connect science and religion must supply the categories of connection, which are found primarily, although not exclusively, in philosophy. The simplicity of the arrangement and the nature of the selections are intended to make 'Religion and the Natural Sciences' available to as wide an audience as possible, including students from the sciences and technology, the professions, the humanities and liberal studies, and theology.

Author : George Westerman,Didier Bonnet,Andrew McAfee
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781625272485

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Leading Digital by George Westerman,Didier Bonnet,Andrew McAfee Pdf

Become a Digital Master—No Matter What Business You’re In If you think the phrase “going digital” is only relevant for industries like tech, media, and entertainment—think again. In fact, mobile, analytics, social media, sensors, and cloud computing have already fundamentally changed the entire business landscape as we know it—including your industry. The problem is that most accounts of digital in business focus on Silicon Valley stars and tech start-ups. But what about the other 90-plus percent of the economy? In Leading Digital, authors George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee highlight how large companies in traditional industries—from finance to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals—are using digital to gain strategic advantage. They illuminate the principles and practices that lead to successful digital transformation. Based on a study of more than four hundred global firms, including Asian Paints, Burberry, Caesars Entertainment, Codelco, Lloyds Banking Group, Nike, and Pernod Ricard, the book shows what it takes to become a Digital Master. It explains successful transformation in a clear, two-part framework: where to invest in digital capabilities, and how to lead the transformation. Within these parts, you’ll learn: • How to engage better with your customers • How to digitally enhance operations • How to create a digital vision • How to govern your digital activities The book also includes an extensive step-by-step transformation playbook for leaders to follow. Leading Digital is the must-have guide to help your organization survive and thrive in the new, digitally powered, global economy.