Télécharger le livre :  From Marx to the Market
BL With a new preface by the authors This is an important work of original scholarship by two of the most distinguished East European economists now working in the West. The authors, both of whom were involved in the Planning Office of the Polish economy in the 1950s...

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Parution : 1989-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Laws and Symmetry
Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists do so in terms of symmetry and invariance. This book argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. The author analyses and rejects the arguments that there are laws of...

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Parution : 1989-11-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematics without Numbers
Geoffrey Hellman presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of structural possibilities, as opposed to absolute, Platonic objects. After dealing with the natural numbers and analysis, he extends his approach to set theory, and shows how to...

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Parution : 1989-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
This book argues for the place of capacities within an grounds of meaning, not method. Yet it is questions of method that should concern the modern empiricist: can capacities be measured? Cartwright argues that they are measured if anything is. Stanford University's...

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Parution : 1989-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  A Commentary on Horace: Odes: Book I
Horace's Odes are among the most popular, and the most misunderstood, of ancient writings. The present work is written in the belief that they are learned poems, which demand some knowledge of conventional forms and topics. Each ode is provided with an introduction...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions
This volume breaks new ground in the economic theory of institutions. The contributors show how some of the tools of advanced economic theory can usefully contribute to an understanding of how institutions operate. They show how sound theoretical analysis can in fact...

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Parution : 1989-07-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Kantian Sublime
In recent years Kant's aesthetic theory has been the subject of a widespread revival of interest amongst English-speaking philosophers. This revival, however, has not so far encompassed Kant's aesthetic of the sublime. This neglect is unfortunate because, amongst...

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Parution : 1989-07-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Responsibility and Atonement

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Parution : 1989-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Papal Monarchy
The two centuries covered in this volume were among the most creative in the history of the Church. Colin Morris charts the emergence of much that is considered characteristic of European culture and religion, including universities and commercial cities, the crusades,...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1989-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Pythagoras Revived
The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired Neoplatonist philosophers in the fourth and fifth centuries to develop theories in physics and metaphysics based on mathematical models.The theories produced by this revived interest in...

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Parution : 1989-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fabric of Character
There is a resurgence of interest in Aristotle's ethical theory, and this book contributes to the debate by asserting that, in Aristotle's view, excellence of character is constituted both by the sentiments and by practical reason. Throughout the arguments of the book,...

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Parution : 1989-04-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Berkeley: An Interpretation
David Hume wrote that Berkeley's arguments `admit of no answer but produce no conviction'. This book aims at the kind of understanding of Berkeley's philosophy that comes from seeing how we ourselves might be brought to embrace it. Berkeley held that matter does not...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Limits of Morality
Most of us believe that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand of us. We also think that certain types of acts are simply forbidden, even when necessary for promoting the overall good. Here Kagan argues that attempts to defend these sorts of moral...

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Parution : 1989-03-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Uses of Sense
The Uses of Sense provides a novel account of Wittgenstein's view of language as expressed in the Philosophical Investigations. On the account, Wittgenstein's view is a radical break with a still-dominant Fregean tradition. Travis applies this account to show the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Aristotle's First Principles
Aristotle's reliance on dialectic as a method of philosophy appears to conflict with his metaphysical realist view of his conclusions. This book exploresAristotle's philosophical method and the merits of his conclusions, and shows how he defends dialectic against the...

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Parution : 1989-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The False Prison: Volume Two

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1988-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Coming of the First World War
This book makes two distinctive contributions to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history. First, it presents readable and judicious accounts of the events and decisions directly precipitating the outbreak of war in each of the main belligerent...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1988-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality
The belief that existing distributions of income and wealth are unjust has come to be widely held, and has prompted the inclusion of egalitarian measures in many political programmes. This work uses the methods of reasoned history and comparative statistics to arrive at...

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Parution : 1988-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Keynes's Vision
Keynes's Vision is a readable and thought-provoking essay about the ideas of one of the most influential statesmen of the twentieth century. It shows how John Maynard Keynes formulated a new system of political economy, as different and inspiring as the political...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1988-08-11
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Télécharger le livre :  A Critique of Monetary Policy
This book is both a theory of monetary policy, and an examination of how it has worked in the UK. It first analyses the behaviour of the banking system, and then the difficulties of central bank control. The authors argue that money creation is an endogenous process,...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1988-05-05
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