Secular Movements in Production and Prices
Author: Simon Kuznets
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13:
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Secular and Cyclical Movement in the Production and Price of Copper
Author: Charles Louis Knight
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-01-30
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1512817341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Secular Movements in Production and Prices
Author: Simon Kuznets
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecular Cycles
Author: Peter Turchin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-08-09
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0691136963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Secular Cycles elaborates and expands upon the demographic-structural theory first advanced by Jack Goldstone, which provides an explanation of long-term oscillations. This book tests that theory's specific and quantitative predictions by tracing the dynamics of population numbers, prices and real wages, elite numbers and incomes, state finances, and sociopolitical instability. Turchin and Nefedov study societies in England, France, and Russia during the medieval and early modern periods, and look back at the Roman Republic and Empire. Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, the authors examine a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigate the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications."--BOOK JACKET.
Secularisms
Author: Janet R. Jakobsen
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008-03-11
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780822341499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection that challenges the binary conception of conservative religion versus progressive secularism by highlighting the existence of multiple secularisms.
A Perspective of Wages and Prices (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Henry Phelps Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1136310193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in book form in 1981, this collection of essays originally written between 1955 and 1966 contains ground-breaking research and analysis on the study of wages and prices across seven centuries, with particular reference to builder’s wage rates and the price of a bundle of the commodities on which these wages might be spent. These seminal contributions to the economics of labour and economic growth did much to fuel the debate surrounding the problems of inflation, stability and changes in the purchasing power of money upon the book’s initial publication. These concerns are every bit as relevant in today’s post credit-crunch society and this reissue will be welcomed by all students of economic history and labour economics.
Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements
Author: George D. Chryssides
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0810861941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew religious movements--commonly known as cults--are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Most treatments of these movements have typically resorted to sensationalism rather than objectivity, and New religious movements tend to receive negative media publicity. Despite their unfavorable portrayal in popular culture, however, new religious movements are a global phenomenon and much remains to be studied about these movements. In this newly updated second edition of the Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements, George D. Chryssides traces the rise and development of new religious movements throughout the world. An updated introduction summarizes the phenomenon of new religious movements and lays out the changes to the dictionary since the 2001 edition, while the main body of the dictionary consists of close to 600 cross-referenced entries on key figures, ideas, themes, and places related to various new religious movements. An index organizes the information in the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about new religious movements.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 102, no. 1, 1958)
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781422372050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Republic Unsettled
Author: Mayanthi L. Fernando
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014-09-19
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0822376288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis signaled an Islamic revival among the children of North African immigrants; it also ignited an ongoing debate about the place of Muslims within the secular nation-state. Based on ten years of ethnographic research, The Republic Unsettled alternates between an analysis of Muslim French religiosity and the contradictions of French secularism that this emergent religiosity precipitated. Mayanthi L. Fernando explores how Muslim French draw on both Islamic and secular-republican traditions to create novel modes of ethical and political life, reconfiguring those traditions to imagine a new future for France. She also examines how the political discourses, institutions, and laws that constitute French secularism regulate Islam, transforming the Islamic tradition and what it means to be Muslim. Fernando traces how long-standing tensions within secularism and republican citizenship are displaced onto France's Muslims, who, as a result, are rendered illegitimate as political citizens and moral subjects. She argues, ultimately, that the Muslim question is as much about secularism as it is about Islam.
The Little Big Number
Author: Dirk Philipsen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0691166528
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. It only measures output: more cars, more accidents; more lawyers, more trials; more extraction, more pollution--all count as success. Sustainability and quality of life are overlooked. Losses don't count. GDP promotes a form of stupid growth and ignores real development.How and why did we get to this point? Dirk Philipsen uncovers a submerged history dating back to the 1600s, climaxing with the Great Depression and World War II, when the first version of GDP arrived at the forefront of politics. Transcending ideologies and national differences, GDP was subsequently transformed from a narrow metric to the purpose of economic activity. Today, increasing GDP is the highest goal of politics. In accessible and compelling prose, Philipsen shows how it affects all of us. But the world can no longer afford GDP rule. A finite planet cannot sustain blind and indefinite expansion. If we consider future generations equal to our own, replacing the GDP regime is the ethical imperative of our times. More is not better. As Philipsen demonstrates, the history of GDP reveals unique opportunities to fashion smarter goals and measures. The Little Big Number explores a possible roadmap for a future that advances quality of life rather than indiscriminate growth."--
