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This book puts human beings back at the heart of the economic
process. It shows how this classical, human-centred tradition,
stretching from Adam Smith onward, gives us a much better
understanding of economic events - and what to do about them - than
the mechanistic, mathematical models of too many economists and
planners today.' - Eamonn Butler, The Adam Smith Institute,
UK'David Simpson writes about key economic issues with admirable
lucidity. He draws deeply on experience as well as on his knowledge
of economic theory.' - Asa Briggs David Simpson skilfully argues
that a market economy can be best understood as a human complex
system, a perspective that represents a continuation of the
classical tradition in economic thought. In the classical
tradition, growth rather than allocative efficiency is the
principal object of enquiry, economic phenomena are recognised to
be elements of processes rather than structures, and change is
evolutionary. The book shows the common principles that connect the
early classical school, the Austrian school and complexity theory
in a single line of thought. It goes on to show how these
principles can be applied to explain the characteristic features of
a market economy - namely incessant change, growth, the business
cycle and the market process itself - and argues that static
equilibrium theory, whether neoclassical or neo-Keynesian, cannot
satisfactorily account for these phenomena. This fascinating book
will provide a stimulating read for academics, postgraduate
students and all those with an interest in economic theory and
economic policy. Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Human
Behaviour 3. Qualitative Change and Quantitative Growth 4.
Adaptation, Emergence and Evolution 5. Self-organisation and
Complexity 6. Markets, Competition and Entrepreneurship 7.
Specialisation and Growth 8. Prosperity and Recession 9. Government
10. The Rediscovery of Classical Economics Bibliography Index
Traditionally, Wordsworth s greatness is founded on his identity
as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination
is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence
premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first
published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view
of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the
importance of the context of the public sphere and the social
environment to the authentic experience of the imagination.
Wordsworth s preoccupation with the metaphors of property and
labour shows him to be acutely anxious about the value of his art
in a world that he regarded as corrupted. Through close examination
of a few important poems, both well-known and relatively unknown,
Simpson shows that there is no unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is
there a conflict or tension between the private and the public. The
absence of any clear kind of authority in the voice that speaks the
poems makes Wordsworth s poetry, in Simpson s phrase, a poetry of
displacement . "
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a new development in the treatment
of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems,
traditionally handled with behavioural management and limited
counselling. The collected papers have evolved from the work of the
pioneering Learning Disabilities Service at the Tavistock Clinic.
Demonstrating the vast range of work undertaken by members of the
service, covering treatment for children, adolescents and adults,
it contains an in-depth look at life in residential settings and at
audit and research. This book is especially pertinent to those
already engaged in work with this patient-group, and will also be
of interest to general practitioners, students and also
non-specialists.The papers collected here draw on, elaborate and
further explore this centrally important tradition of bringing
psychoanalytic concepts to bear on the opaque, puzzling and painful
states of mind of the learning disabled referred for
psychotherapeutic help. These concepts are drawn from a range of
professional experience, in particular, that of insight into the
nature of early mother/infant interactions, and their special
complexities where learning disability is concerned."The various
chapters movingly and challengingly emphasise the impressive
changes that can be achieved within the general framework of
psychodynamic practice. The approach demonstrates how, through
adaptations and innovations of technique, people and institutions
can move towards a greater understanding of the almost unbearable
difficulties of this group of patients, and also of their
potentialities."-- From the Series Editor s PrefaceContributors
include Annie Baikie, Marta Cioeta, Louise Emanuel, Lydia
Hartland-Rowe, Nancy Sheppard, Sally Hodges, Maria Kakogianni,
Pauline Lee, Victoria Mattison, Lynda Miller, Sadegh Nashat, Nancy
Pistrang, Elisa Reyes-Simpson, David SimpsonJudith Usiskin"
Perhaps the most powerful feature of the Romantic imagination is
its ability to dissolve existing form and order and create it anew.
The Romantic investigation of the functions of the imagination also
leads to important insights concerning its problems and dangers.
Because it separates the person experiencing it from others around
him, the imagination introduces ways of seeing which cannot be
assumed to be simply communicable or easily shared, and which have
as their objects different forms or 'things'. These forms, or
figures, risk becoming for their originators both vehicles of
power, in so far as they do convince others of their reality, and
limiting constructs of prefigured order, inhibiting their users
from the perception of new relations and alternative meanings. When
the figured becomes the real, there thus arise difficulties in both
individual and social perceptions. Arguing from the stance that all
perception takes place by a creative (and hence potentially
divisive) assembly of images or qualities into things, David
Simpson shows that the analysis of figurative representation in
Wordsworth's writing is of central importance to his idea of the
human mind, and the way in which it is affected or allowed to
function by its environment, both human and physical. In this way
Wordsworth's ideas about the function of literature in society are
seen to be more fully worked out than readers have often assumed
them to be. Simpson pays particular attention to the ethical
consequences of different ways of figuring the real, offering an
explanation of Wordsworth's distinction between life in the town
and life among the mountains and lakes of north-west England. In
relating Wordsworth's poetry to important contemporary debates in
political economy such as those concerning the division of labour
and the evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of commerce
and luxury, he suggests that Wordsworth is a notable precursor of
that nineteenth-century tradition which sees the mind as open to
critical determination by social and environmental factors.
Intended as an informative but light and accessible exploration of
all things Geordie, this book examines the origins of the Geordie
dialect of Tyneside, through its Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and
Dutch roots. It includes an A-Z glossary of Geordie words along
with explanations of the Northumberland burr and topographical
words like chare, lonnen, heugh and haugh. The book examines the
Geordie dialect's relationship to the Scots language and Geordie's
place in a wider European context. The book includes a table
comparing Geordie and north European words including those of
Scandinavia. The two main theories explaining how the word Geordie
came about are examined linking its roots to either the Jacobite
rebellion of 1715 or the development of a miners' safety lamp - the
Geordie lamp - by George Stephenson in 1815. Comparisons are made
to the neighbouring dialects of Sunderland, Northumberland and
Teesside and the book pinpoints the origins of local rivalries
within the region. Some of the best-known Geordie songs are
featured in the book including the Blaydon Races, Keel Row, Bonny
Bobby Shafto and Cushie Butterfield with an explanation of their
origins. There is a brief history of Newcastle Brown Ale, Newcastle
United, the Geordie Netty and some examples of Geordie food. There
are features on the keelmen, a particularly distinct Tyneside
community who made a significant contribution to Tyneside culture
and an examination of their links to the Tudor and Elizabethan
clans called the Border Reivers. The reiving roots of the Geordie
surnames Charlton, Robson and Armstrong are explored in which it is
revealed that the region's passion for football is more than four
centuries old.
This new reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David
Simpson centers on its almost obsessive representation of spectral
forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson
argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the
modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the
increased scope of machine-driven labor and urbanization; and the
expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and social
exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant from human
agency and control. Reading Wordsworth alongside Marx and Derrida,
Simpson examines the genesis of an attitude of concern which
exemplifies the predicament of modern subjectivity as it faces
suffering and distress.
Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice takes as its focus recent work on
situated and embodied cognition, the concepts of expertise, skill
and practice, and contemporary pedagogical theory. This work has
made important steps towards overcoming traditional intellectualist
and individualist models of cognition, group interaction and
learning, but has in turn generated a number of important questions
about the shape of a model that emphasizes learning and interaction
as situated and embodied. Bringing together philosophers, cognitive
scientists and education theorists, the collection asks and
explores a variety of different questions. Can a group learn? Is
expertise distributed? How can we make sense of a normative
dimension of expertise or skill? How situation-specific is
expertise? How can groups shape or generate expert practice?
Through these lenses, this collection advances a more
experientially holistic approach to the characterisation and growth
of human expertise. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm
for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our
lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works
against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies
civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood
as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely
sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of
inciting it. This book sets out to describe the ways in which these
words—violence, literature and civility—and the concepts they
evoke are mutually entangled, and the uses to which these
entanglements have been put. Simpson's argument follows a broadly
historical trajectory through the long modern period from the
Renaissance to the present, drawing on the work of historians,
political scientists, literary scholars and philosophers. The
result is a distinctly new argument about the complex and often
mystified entanglements between literature, civility and violence
in the anglophone Atlantic sphere. What now are our expectations of
civility and literature, separately and together? How do these
long-familiar but residually imprecise concepts stand up to the
demands of the modern world? Simpson's argument is that, despite
and perhaps because of their imperfect conceptualization, both
persist as important protocols for the critique of violence.
Traditionally, Wordsworth's greatness is founded on his identity as
the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is
seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised
on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in
1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth,
arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of
the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the
authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth's preoccupation
with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely
anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as
corrupted. Through close examination of a few important poems, both
well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no
unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is there a conflict or tension
between the private and the public. The absence of any clear kind
of authority in the voice that speaks the poems makes Wordsworth's
poetry, in Simpson's phrase, a 'poetry of displacement'.
This book looks at what has actually happened when new technology
has been deployed in an industrial and commercial environment. It
considers the economic impact of new technology on three groups of
organisations: firms, governments and trade unions.
Antony Gormley's Angel of the North has only been around since 1998
but it is hard to imagine Gateshead without it. Today it is the
most widely recognised symbol of Gateshead and the North East and
has quickly become a cherished national icon. There is something
extraordinarily welcoming about the Angel; with its wings
outstretched in its lofty setting overlooking the A1 it gives the
onlooker a sense of arrival. This book tells the story of the Angel
of the North and the site on which it stands. It features facts,
quotes and opinions about the Angel and its setting and its lasting
legacy.
This book looks at what has actually happened when new technology
has been deployed in an industrial and commercial environment. It
considers the economic impact of new technology on three groups of
organisations: firms, governments and trade unions.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a new development in the treatment
of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems,
which traditionally has utilised behavioural management and limited
counselling. The papers collected here have evolved from the work
of the pioneering Learning Disabilities Service at the Tavistock
Clinic, London, which is made up from specialised professionals
from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, child and adolescent
psychotherapy, adult psychotherapy and social work. The service
mainly offers individual psychotherapy but also provides group
work, parent work, family therapy and consultative work with
professionals where necessary.
Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm
for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our
lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works
against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies
civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood
as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely
sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of
inciting it. This book sets out to describe the ways in which these
words—violence, literature and civility—and the concepts they
evoke are mutually entangled, and the uses to which these
entanglements have been put. Simpson's argument follows a broadly
historical trajectory through the long modern period from the
Renaissance to the present, drawing on the work of historians,
political scientists, literary scholars and philosophers. The
result is a distinctly new argument about the complex and often
mystified entanglements between literature, civility and violence
in the anglophone Atlantic sphere. What now are our expectations of
civility and literature, separately and together? How do these
long-familiar but residually imprecise concepts stand up to the
demands of the modern world? Simpson's argument is that, despite
and perhaps because of their imperfect conceptualization, both
persist as important protocols for the critique of violence.
Several senior natural resource analysts study the role played by
innovation, particularly technological innovation, in the pursuit
of heightened productivity. Increasing the output of a given input
improves a firm's bottom line, makes it more competitive
internationally, and reduces the potential for resource depletion
and shortages. Thus, high productivity is a necessary ingredient of
economic prosperity. This book illustrates the importance of
technological innovation in achieving an acceptable level of output
and efficiency.
In this important new offering, a team of resource scholars
describes and chronicles the development of recent innovations in
selected natural resource industries. The authors also reveal the
causes, sources, and net effect of such innovation on productivity.
In all of these sectors productivity has increased considerably
since the early 1980s, although the level of improvement varies
across industries. To what degree did technological innovation
contribute to that increase?
Individual detailed case studies detail important innovations in
America's coal, petroleum, copper, and forest industries. The
primary focus is on extraction and production technologies,
although the existence and importance of innovation in other areas
such as management technique also enter the picture. For example,
the combination of new technology with restructuring seems to have
breathed new life into a floundering U.S. copper industry. The
authors describe the origin and diffusion of important innovation,
and the concluding chapter quantifies the net effect of such
innovation on productivity.
This book is a comprehensive review of the genera of
Hydrocharitaceae, a flowering plant family, found in tropical East
Africa. It presents information on their character, occurrence,
habitat, phenotypic variations and distribution of each of the
species under these genera.
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Dordogne (Paperback)
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This new title in the Crossbill Guides covers the well-known region
of Dordogne in southwestern France. Like all other Crossbill
Guides, this title poses and answers two key questions: what makes
this area so special and how you can experience this uniqueness for
yourself. This book describes the flora and fauna, landscape and
traditional land use of this region plus 21 detailed routes and
around 50 sites with specific suggestions on where and how to find
the birds, wildlife and flora. The Dordogne area in south-west
France has a remarkable range of wild landscapes. The beautiful
rivers include tidal sections, marshes, cliffs and upland tributary
streams set amongst limestone-dominated hills. Elsewhere diverse
woodlands, hay meadows, caves, heathlands, arable plateaux plus
ancient vineyards and villages also offer visitors great wildlife
experiences in what has been called 'the cradle of mankind'.
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