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  • Risk

    par Jakob Arnoldi ...
    Collections series Key Concepts
    This book gives a comprehensive yet easily accessible introduction to risk and uncertainty as they have been analysed in sociology and related social sciences. The book draws extensively on the wide array of contemporary social theories of risk and relates these to the many and diverse areas in contemporary society where risk plays an important role. It will be an invaluable for both students and ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    par Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Collections series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... En savoir plus

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    par Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... En savoir plus

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  • The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)

    A Feminist Critique of Political Economy

    par J.K. Gibson-Graham ...
    In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End of Capitalism and outline the economic research and activism they have been ... En savoir plus

    $27.49 CAD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    par Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... En savoir plus

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  • Culture in Economics

    History, Methodological Reflections and Contemporary Applications

    par Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Robbert Maseland ...
    Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists like Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, there is an important body of work that invokes cultural and institutional factors to build a more comprehensive and realistic theory of economic behavior. This book provides a comprehensive overview of ... En savoir plus

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  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

    The Making of Economic Theory

    Modifié par Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume ... En savoir plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

    par Allen Thompson ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet. Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the basic conditions ... En savoir plus

    $50.39 CAD

  • Moral Dimension

    Toward a New Economics

    par Amitai Etzioni ...
    Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary of moral and social considerations in economic behaviour, he provides a provocative new framework ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Resilience

    The Governance of Complexity

    par David Chandler ...
    Collections series Critical Issues in Global Politics
    Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book analyses the key aspects of resilience-thinking and highlights how resilience impacts upon traditional ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • After Capital

    par Couze Venn ...
    Collections series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    The present crisis of capitalism has a history. A history of the private accumulation of wealth through property regimes which allow increasing commodification and the privatisation of resources: from land to knowledge and even to life itself. Understanding that history may allow us to imagine alternatives after Capital which are no longer private but common.After Capital explores this history, ... En savoir plus

    $86.39 CAD

  • From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities

    An Evolutionary Economics without Homo economicus

    par Geoffrey M. Hodgson ...
    Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality. The complex interaction of morality and self-interest is at the heart of ... En savoir plus

    $61.59 CAD