Looking Into the Seeds of Time: The Price of Modern DevelopmentTransaction Publishers - 443 Seiten This refreshing work combines the history of economics and the practice of modern development. As all living is action, and living implies choices, any theory of devel-opment must start with the person. Modern life reflects the fears of a society trying to escape the anxieties, demons, and ghosts of a long dark era of unemployment and starvation. The problem of development is the contradiction between technological potentials and cultural inheritances. |
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... became the locus of economic rationality quite independent of the personality of their owner and staff . It imposed on society a utilitarian valuation of people , objects and events . The motives of entrepreneurs could be many : the ...
... became the locus of economic rationality quite independent of the personality of their owner and staff . It imposed on society a utilitarian valuation of people , objects and events . The motives of entrepreneurs could be many : the ...
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... became ' human nature ' , and it continued to determine people's conduct in spite of the fact that in the post - war era in many spheres of life the need to compete lost its earlier rationale . Having become ' human nature ' it ...
... became ' human nature ' , and it continued to determine people's conduct in spite of the fact that in the post - war era in many spheres of life the need to compete lost its earlier rationale . Having become ' human nature ' it ...
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The Price of Modern Development Y. S. Brenner. unemployment . All became ' understandable ' to most people when done in the name of competition . - What I also did not fully recognize then was capitalism's ability to socialize opposition ...
The Price of Modern Development Y. S. Brenner. unemployment . All became ' understandable ' to most people when done in the name of competition . - What I also did not fully recognize then was capitalism's ability to socialize opposition ...
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... corrupt individuals , but the threshold which divided what is and what is not acceptable became lower . The old sense of decorum was waning . But without this sense of decorum - without xvi Looking into the Seeds of Time.
... corrupt individuals , but the threshold which divided what is and what is not acceptable became lower . The old sense of decorum was waning . But without this sense of decorum - without xvi Looking into the Seeds of Time.
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... became dearer . This was one cause for the rising cost of the Welfare State - for the relatively high taxes associated with state regulation and for a good part of the growing public debt . But the main reason for the rising cost was ...
... became dearer . This was one cause for the rising cost of the Welfare State - for the relatively high taxes associated with state regulation and for a good part of the growing public debt . But the main reason for the rising cost was ...
Inhalt
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29 | |
Demand Stimulated Growth the Role of the Domestic Market in the Development of the USA | 59 |
The SocioCultural Landscape Europe on the Eve of the Reformation | 81 |
The World Begins to Move Reformation to the Age of Reason | 121 |
The World in Motion The Struggle between the Medieval and the Bourgeois Value Systems | 143 |
The Ascent of the Bourgeoisie and the Rise of Utilitarianism | 189 |
Dynamic Equilibrium The Era of Bourgeois Consolidation | 235 |
The Rise of Egalitarian Society | 301 |
The Great Era of Prosperity | 333 |
Towards the Future | 397 |
Index | 427 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
achievements Adam Smith Alasdair MacIntyre American anarcho-syndicalism became become bourgeois bourgeoisie capital capitalist Casey Jones cause Communist competition conception consumers countries demand democratic Der Spiegel Descartes economic growth Economic Progress efficiency egoism employers employment enterprises ethical Europe example exploitation fact factor of production fear feudal freedom French Communist Party gain greater History human idea improvements incomes increase individual industrial influence interest investment less living standards man's manufacturing Marx material means mechanism medieval mercantilist middle class moral movement nature nineteenth century objective op.cit organization output party political population position problems profit pursuit R.H. Tawney reality reason revolutionary rich rise Rosa Luxemburg scientists sector share social and economic socialist society Soviet Union technological theory things trade traditional transformation true unions utilitarian Vide wages wants wealth workers Y.S. Brenner
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 166 - The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never...
Seite 143 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Seite xi - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Seite 145 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Seite 7 - ... trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility or the meaning...
Seite 147 - After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any offer proposed by wise men which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual. But before something of that kind shall be advanced in contradiction to my scheme and offering a better, I desire the author or authors will be pleased maturely to consider two -points: first, as things now stand, how they will be able to find...
Seite 189 - To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture ; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly...