The Northwest Technocrat
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Technocracy
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Technocracy
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Author : Harold Loeb
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815603801
The origins of technocracy are shrouded in controversy, but most of its leaders were inspired by their association with the social critic Thorstein Veblen, between 1919 and 1921. Harold Loeb, an expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, was one of the more accomplished and interesting of the technocrats. In Life in a Technocracy, now a twentieth-century utopian classic, he expounds on the merits of creating a utopian society through technocracy, predicting the future of art, education, religion, and government under the leadership of technical professionals.
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Technocracy
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 616 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 1977
Category : American drama
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Author : John Stanislav Sadar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317562607
In the mid-1920s a physiologist, a glass chemist, and a zoo embarked on a project which promised to turn buildings into medical instruments. The advanced chemistry of "Vita" Glass mobilised theories of light and medicine, health practices and glassmaking technology to compress an entire epoch’s hopes for a healthy life into a glass sheet – yet it did so invisibly. To communicate its advantage, Pilkington Bros. spared no expense as they launched the most costly and sophisticated marketing campaign in their history. Engineering need for "Vita" Glass employed leading-edge market research, evocative photography and vanguard techniques of advertising psychology, accompanied by the claim: "Let in the Health Rays of Daylight Permanently through "Vita" Glass Windows." This is the story of how, despite the best efforts of two glass companies, the leading marketing firm of the day, and the opinions of leading medical minds, "Vita" Glass failed. However, it epitomised an age of lightness and airiness, sleeping porches, flat roofs and ribbon windows. Moreover, through its remarkable print advertising, it strove to shape the ideal relationship between our buildings and our bodies.
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Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1944
Category : American literature
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Author : Rüdiger Pethig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1994-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780792326021
During the last decades, environmental economics as a science has been very successful in improving our understanding of environment-economy interdepen dence. Using conventional economic methodology, environmental aspects have been explicitly incorporated into economic models making use of the concept of externality. This concept was already familiar to economists long before evidence of severe environmental deterioration found its way into the headlines and peo ple's awareness. But before that time, external effects were not considered as being empirically very relevant, they seemed to be -like the example of the bees and the fruit trees - somewhat bucolic in nature. All that changed dramatically when it was no longer possible (or easy) to ignore the large-scale environmental disruption with its negative feedback on consumers and producers caused by growing pollution and excessive use of environmental resources. In diagnosing the discrepancy between private and social cost as the cause of the problem, the externality paradigm proved very useful. The correct diagnosis implies the straightforward cure to internalise all external cost, namely the damage cost of pollution. But it is one thing to identify the qualitative nature of the problem at an abstract conceptual level and quite another thing to place specific money values on pollution damage and society's valuation of the environment, respectively, in the context of specific pollution (control) problems. Very often it is controversial not only how inefficient the no-policy situation is but also what exactly the net benefit of any public action of reducing pollution is.
Author : Victor Seow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0226826554
A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing decades, as various Chinese and Japanese states endeavored to unearth Fushun’s purportedly “inexhaustible” carbon resources. Today, the depleted mine that remains is a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fueled future and the technologies mobilized in attempts to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality. In Carbon Technocracy, Victor Seow uses the remarkable story of the Fushun colliery to chart how the fossil fuel economy emerged in tandem with the rise of the modern technocratic state. Taking coal as an essential feedstock of national wealth and power, Chinese and Japanese bureaucrats, engineers, and industrialists deployed new technologies like open-pit mining and hydraulic stowage in pursuit of intensive energy extraction. But as much as these mine operators idealized the might of fossil fuel–driven machines, their extractive efforts nevertheless relied heavily on the human labor that those devices were expected to displace. Under the carbon energy regime, countless workers here and elsewhere would be subjected to invasive techniques of labor control, ever-escalating output targets, and the dangers of an increasingly exploited earth. Although Fushun is no longer the coal capital it once was, the pattern of aggressive fossil-fueled development that led to its ascent endures. As we confront a planetary crisis precipitated by our extravagant consumption of carbon, it holds urgent lessons. This is a groundbreaking exploration of how the mutual production of energy and power came to define industrial modernity and the wider world that carbon made.
Author : Edmond Vongehr
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2018-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1642149500
Edmond Dantex Vongehr’s new book calls patriotic Americans to action. Protesters United shares a vision of taking the nation back from the corrupted elite. The gap between the rich and poor continues to widen, the elite continue to wield disproportionate power over the common man. For author Edmond Dantes Vongehr, along with countless other Americans, the situation has become intolerable, and something must be done to address the rampant inequality. In Protestors United, Vongehr reveals alternative solutions that may save the nation yet. Vongehr presents seventy-two letters from people regarding the present condition of the United States of America. The letters date back three years. The book will reveal the alternative solutions both political and economic, for a better world as predicted by Edward Bellamy’s dream in Looking Backward. The nation has been left in a state of neglect for far too long. Those in charge have abused the powers entrusted to them. To Vongehr, the time has come for the people to speak and have their voices heard. When people are no longer divided, when Protesters United across the nation take a stand, a wave of change will come and usher forth a new morning for the United States. That is the true American dream envisioned by Vongehr, the vision he shares to readers everywhere.
Author : David Ramsay Steele
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0812698622
In 1920, Ludwig von Mises proclaimed that all attempts to establish socialism would come to grief, for reasons of informational efficiency. At first, socialists and economists took Mises's argument seriously, but by the end of the Second World War, a consensus prevailed that Mises had been discredited. More recently, that consensus has been rapidly reversed: it is now widely agreed that 'Mises was right'. Yet the momentous implications of the Mises argument - for economics, politics, culture, and philosophy - remain largely unexplored. From Marx to Mises is a clear, penetrating exposition of the economic calculation debate, and a scrutiny of some of the broader issues it raises.