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Neither criticising Western social theory nor constructing an alternative kind of social theory is currently being thought of as a creative and fruitful method for social theorizing around the world today. The development of a new theoretical framework for understanding and explaining social...
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The book «Reassembling the Social» presents the fundamental thoughts of a leading social theorist on whata society is and what the word «social» actually means. According to the author «the social», understood asa separate domain or a kind of material, no longer contributes to the progress...
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It is our natural inclination to find stable patterns and meaning in the chaotic world around us. This assists in our efforts to understand the past and forecast the future. The starting point of this essay is the phrase "dismal science" which is an often used 'epitheton ornans' of economics....
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It is our natural inclination to find stable patterns and meaning in the chaotic world around us. This assists in our efforts to understand the past and forecast the future. The starting point of this essay is the phrase "dismal science" which is an often used 'epitheton ornans' of economics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300247
worlds of literature, history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams shows, game theory can illuminate the rational … in law, history, and philosophy. Brams's strategic exegesis of texts helps the reader relate characters' goals to their …
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philosophy. While much research is still necessary to fully test the theory, it holds promise in explaining key features of … philosophy in forcing consumers to choose among the available schools of thought by using quality indicators, such as the … character, education, and commitment of philosophy suppliers. Reflecting a behavioral model, Lucian concludes that consumers …
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philosophy. In seeking to explain the features of the philosophy market, the theory identifies the cost or price of consuming … philosophy as time, mental exertion, and money. The benefits sought include truth, firm conviction, status, solidarity, justice …, freedom, equality, moral guidance, consolation, and reduction of environmental uncertainty. Philosophy is seen as a risky …
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Most people think of science and literature as distinct human endeavours. According to received convention, science is mostly about "mind", whereas literature is largely about "heart". Science, goes the argument, is by and large rational, literature primarily emotional. Science is about...
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A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that...
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A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640599