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Actor-systems dynamics is an innovative, multidisciplinary
methodology for investigating and analyzing social struggles over
economic resources and the related interplay between economic and
socio-political institutions and processes. The authors,
sociologists and economists, offer a systemic perspective on
contemporary socio-economic issues such as economic crisis,
unemployment, inflation, economic democracy and development; in
their analyses, they identify several of the key factors that drive
people to interact, to initiate change and transformation as well
as to resist such change. Major underlying themes in the book are:
Conflict over the distribution of economic resources and economic
policies and institutions; the structural bases of economic
inequality and conflict; the shaping and reshaping of
socio-economic institutions, and the contradictions, conflicts and
instabilities evoked by such developments; the failure of orthodox
economic theories, including Keynesianism, in the face of recurrent
economic crises and instabilities; the development and application
of an open, dynamic actor-oriented systems theory - grounded in the
social sciences - addressing complex socio-economic phenomena in
ways diverging substantially from conventional economics. All in
all, the papers collected here deal, on the one hand, with social
power, conflict, and struggle concerning economic resources and
institutions and, on the other hand, the structural and other
factors which drive powering initiatives, conflict, and social
innovation and transformation. The book is addressed to a broad
spectrum of social and managerial scientists concerned with
socio-economic issues, institutions, and development.
The industrial world was built to run on cheap oil, and now the
cheap oil has run out. For a while longer, the West will depend for
its energy upon expensive oil --much of it obtained from sources
that are geographically remote* or politically unstable. so in the
near future, the world mus.t shift from oil to other sources of
energy. TRANSITIONS TO ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS explores how such
change can best be encouraged. The governments of the world, then,
do not have the option of piously washing their hands of the energy
crisis. They must be involved: they must pursue wise policies: and
they must prove far more effective in the future than they have in
the past. Through its careful analysis of past programs to promote
renewable resource development, Tom Baumgartner's new book provides
the public sector with precisely the kind of guidance it needs.
Actor-systems dynamics is an innovative, multidisciplinary
methodology for investigating and analyzing social struggles over
economic resources and the related interplay between economic and
socio-political institutions and processes. The authors,
sociologists and economists, offer a systemic perspective on
contemporary socio-economic issues such as economic crisis,
unemployment, inflation, economic democracy and development; in
their analyses, they identify several of the key factors that drive
people to interact, to initiate change and transformation as well
as to resist such change. Major underlying themes in the book are:
Conflict over the distribution of economic resources and economic
policies and institutions; the structural bases of economic
inequality and conflict; the shaping and reshaping of
socio-economic institutions, and the contradictions, conflicts and
instabilities evoked by such developments; the failure of orthodox
economic theories, including Keynesianism, in the face of recurrent
economic crises and instabilities; the development and application
of an open, dynamic actor-oriented systems theory - grounded in the
social sciences - addressing complex socio-economic phenomena in
ways diverging substantially from conventional economics. All in
all, the papers collected here deal, on the one hand, with social
power, conflict, and struggle concerning economic resources and
institutions and, on the other hand, the structural and other
factors which drive powering initiatives, conflict, and social
innovation and transformation. The book is addressed to a broad
spectrum of social and managerial scientists concerned with
socio-economic issues, institutions, and development.
Politische Entscheidungsprozesse sind meist undurchsichtig und ihre
materialen Folgen oft sozial- und umweltunvertraglich. In einem
umfangreichen empirischen Sozialexperiment mit Burgerinnen und
Burgern Nordrhein-Westfalens wurden Ideen dazu getestet, wie diese
Situation verbessert werden konnte. Das Erstaunen und die Freude
der Burgerinnen und Burger uber die Aufforderung zur Teilnahme an
diesem Experiment straft jede Aussage uber Politikverdrossenheit
Luge. Ihre Sozial- und Technikphantasie ubertraf ebenso wie die
Menge ihrer Ideen jede Erwartung. Ein generalisiertes PARDIZIPP
wurde Politik wieder spannend machen und die uberaus farblose
gegenwartige Politik vollends verblassen lassen.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and
practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the
extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases,
their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology,
agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even
cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT123421With a
half-title.Edinburgi: excudebant Adamus Neill et Socii, 1799.
8],22p.; 8
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