Lse on Freedom: A Centenary AnthologyEileen Barker Transaction Publishers - Broj stranica: 357 The London School of Economics and Political Science has embraced the full range of the social sciences and its related disciplines. Contributors to this book were invited to write on the subject of freedom. The volume is an exemplary reflection of the variety, the individuality, the different interests, and the range of assumptions found in the scholars of the LSE. The authors come from varied backgrounds--linguistics, mathematics, computer science, sociology, geography, economics, industrial relations, anthropology, political science. They provide a stimulating array of viewpoints on the universally discussed issue of freedom |
Sadržaj
Choice or Chance? | 3 |
Agency Causation and Freedom | 16 |
The Positive Side of Freedom | 29 |
The Freedom of the Gene | 43 |
The Social Psychology of Free Will and Determinism | 57 |
More of Less Freedom? | 73 |
Free or Ensnared? The Hidden Nets of Language | 75 |
Achievements and Agendas | 87 |
Economic Freedom | 182 |
Measuring Political Freedom | 195 |
Choices and Policy Issues | 227 |
The Place of Freedom in the Concept of Welfare | 227 |
Freedom and Trade Unions | 244 |
Freedom from a Demographers Standpoint | 260 |
| 273 | |
| 289 | |
The Cage of Freedom and the Freedom of the Cage | 103 |
Freedom and Necessity in International Relations | 119 |
Freedom According to Law | 135 |
Political and Economic Freedoms | 149 |
The English Experience | 151 |
The European Miracle? | 165 |
Reconnecting Accounting to the Problem of Freedom | 291 |
| 306 | |
Information Technology and Freedom | 319 |
| 335 | |
Index | 341 |
Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve
On Freedom: A Centenary Anthology London School of Economics and Political Science Prikaz isječka - 1995 |
Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze
accounting action agent control alien implantation altruism Amer argued argument audit become behaviour believe Berlin brainwashing Cambridge University Press Cartesian dualism causal chain century choice claim coercion coercive cognitive dissonance Compatibilism compatibilist concept of freedom concerned constitutional constraints context countries cultural David Starkey decisions democracy demographic dissonance economic freedom Eileen Barker employers English example Freedom House Fulani genes geographical growth Hanunóo Hayek Hegel Human Rights idea individual information technology institutions interest issues Jean Aitchison language liberty London market liberals means measure Meghnad Desai ment modern moral movement nature nomic normative organisation Oxford particular person philosophy pluralist political freedom population positive principles problem question relations reproductive success rhetoric Robert Trivers role sense sexual social policy social science society space spatial theory tion Titmuss Unification Church unions welfare Whorf