A Word to the Wise, Addressed to the Pillars of the Community
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 1812
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 1812
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Author : Tom-Blaise Shepherd
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 1997-11-01
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ISBN : 9781888716054
Author : Raghuram Rajan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0525558330
Revised and updated Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization. Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor, former IMF chief economist, head of India's central bank, and author of the 2010 FT-Goldman-Sachs Book of the Year Fault Lines, has an unparalleled vantage point onto the social and economic consequences of globalization and their ultimate effect on our politics. In The Third Pillar he offers up a magnificent big-picture framework for understanding how these three forces--the state, markets, and our communities--interact, why things begin to break down, and how we can find our way back to a more secure and stable plane. The "third pillar" of the title is the community we live in. Economists all too often understand their field as the relationship between markets and the state, and they leave squishy social issues for other people. That's not just myopic, Rajan argues; it's dangerous. All economics is actually socioeconomics - all markets are embedded in a web of human relations, values and norms. As he shows, throughout history, technological phase shifts have ripped the market out of those old webs and led to violent backlashes, and to what we now call populism. Eventually, a new equilibrium is reached, but it can be ugly and messy, especially if done wrong. Right now, we're doing it wrong. As markets scale up, the state scales up with it, concentrating economic and political power in flourishing central hubs and leaving the periphery to decompose, figuratively and even literally. Instead, Rajan offers a way to rethink the relationship between the market and civil society and argues for a return to strengthening and empowering local communities as an antidote to growing despair and unrest. Rajan is not a doctrinaire conservative, so his ultimate argument that decision-making has to be devolved to the grass roots or our democracy will continue to wither, is sure to be provocative. But even setting aside its solutions, The Third Pillar is a masterpiece of explication, a book that will be a classic of its kind for its offering of a wise, authoritative and humane explanation of the forces that have wrought such a sea change in our lives.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Norwegian drama
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Author : Henrik Ibsen
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Drama
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Author : Rosita Boland
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Publishers and publishing
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Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Poetry
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"Pillars of Society" by Henrik Ibsen explores the hypocrisy and moral decay of a small Norwegian town. The story follows Karsten Bernick, a respected businessman hiding a dark secret. As Bernick's past threatens to unravel, the facade of respectability crumbles, revealing the corruption beneath. Ibsen's play critiques societal structures and the pursuit of wealth at the expense of integrity, offering a compelling commentary on the human condition.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2005
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ISBN : 9780571231553
Calamity strikes when Bernick's business reputation is threatened by the revelation of a long-buried secret. He devises a plan which risks the one life he holds dear. This work is set amid a society struggling against the rush of capitalism, the lure of America and the passionate beginnings of the fight for female emancipation.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Henrik Ibsen
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1905
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