Looking Into the Seeds of Time: The Price of Modern DevelopmentTransaction Publishers - 443 pagina's 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. |
Inhoudsopgave
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Production Stimulated Growth the Role of Exports in the Development of Britain and Japan with a Discussion of the Growth Delaying Factors in Co... | 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 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
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