“…Indeed, leading thinkers like the Scottish political economist Adam Smith, the French Physiocrats and the Milanese jurist Cesare Beccaria had come to see the fate of the poor as an urgent political question in the middle decades of the century. …”

“…En un lenguaje claro y directo, se analizan las ideas que constituyen el fundamento del sistema capitalista, sus raíces en pensadores como John Locke, James Madison o Adam Smith, así como las proezas y descubrimientos de James Watt, Eli Whitney o Henry Ford, elementos todos ellos que constituyen parte esencial de la tradición de una sociedad libre en la que el capitalismo americano se ha formado y desarrollado…”

Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The studio as resource: Buzz Spector -- Rochelle Feinstein -- Shana Lutker, Index: dream studio, 2003-2006 -- Michael Smith, Recipe: perfect studio day -- John Baldessari, a conversation with Mary Jane Jacob -- The studio as set and setting: Howard Singerman, a possible contradiction -- Frances Stark -- Robert Storr, a room of one's own, a mind of one's own -- Bruce Nauman, setting a good corner -- Michael Peppiatt and Alice Bellony-Rewald, studios of America -- Annika Marie, action painting fourfold: Harold Rosenberg and an arena in which to act -- Barry Schwabsky, the symbolic studio -- Kimsooja -- The studio as stage: David J. …”

Recurso relacionado

“…Volume 1 Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 11 new authors Includes six new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume: Ibn Khaldun, de Tocqueville, Schumpeter, Mannheim, Veblen, and Adorno Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay Addresses continuing relevance of most theories and their importance to contemporary scholarship Volume 2 Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 16 new authors Includes 11 new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume, including Deleuze, Bauman, Smith, Luhmann, Agamben, and others Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay Essays placed in social and historical context to allow readers to see how theorists have responded to pressing contemporary social and political issues Review: "The in-depth, readable, and thoughtful treatment accorded each theorist makes this resource a vital addition to social science reference collections…”

“…Relaxin’ - Willie “The Lion” Smith 12. April In Paris - Bud Powell 13. Opus Caprice - Al Haig 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…a life I never planned / Rosemarie Emanuele -- Coming to terms at full term / Natalie Kertes Weaver -- One mamá's dispensable myths and indispensable machines / Angelica Duran -- That mommy thing / Alissa McElreath -- Failure to progress : what having a baby taught me about Aristotle, advanced degrees, developmental delays, and other natural disasters / Irena Auerbuch Smith -- Infinite calculations / Della Fenster -- I stand here teaching : Tillie Olsen and maternity in the classroom / Julia Lisella -- The facts, the stories / Leah Bradshaw -- I am not a head on a stick : on being a teacher and a doctor and a mommy / Elisabeth Rose Gruner -- Lip service / Jennifer Cognard-Black -- Body double / Leslie Leyland Fields -- The long and winding road / Jean Kazez -- The bags I carried / Caroline Grant -- Of the boys / Martha Ellis Crone -- Free to be-- mom and me : finding my complicated truth as an academic daughter / Megan Pincus Kajitani -- Nontraditional academics : at home with children and a PhD / Susan Bassow, Dana Campbell, Liz Stockwell -- A great place to have a baby / Rebecca Steinitz -- Recovering academic / Jennifer Margulis -- The orange kangaroo / Nicole Cooley and Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Ideal mama, ideal worker : negotiating guilt and shame in academe / Jean-Anne Sutherland -- In theory/in practice : on choosing children and the academy / Lisa Harper -- Motherhood is easy; graduate school is hard / Tedra Osell -- Momifesto : affirmations for the academic mother / Cynthia Kuhn ... …”

“…., Nicholas Rescher, Stanley Rosen, John E. Smith, and Robert Sokolowski. Also included are Paul Weiss’s inaugural address to the Society, an introduction chronicling the history of the Society, and an original Foreword by William Desmond and Epilogue by Robert Neville…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Virtue and self-control in Xenophon's Socratic thought / Lorraine Smith Pangle -- The complexity of divine speech and the quest for the ideas in Plato's Euthyphro / Ann Ward -- Politics and philosophy in Aristotle's critique of Plato's laws / Kevin M. …”

“…Beliefs about God-given human character, about our destiny after this life, and about the purpose of our existence, were all under challenge in the world in which Adam Smith and his contemporaries lived. Those debates explain the puzzling behavior so many of our fellow citizens whose views about economic policies, and whose voting behavior too, seems sharply at odds with what would be to their own economic benefit. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Urban outfitting: the city and the spaces of fashion culture / David Gilbert -- Fashioning new forms of consumption: the case of Paul Smith / Louise Crewe and Alison Goodrum -- Be our brand: fashion and personalization on the web / Sarah Berry -- Visual seduction and perverse compliance: reviewing food fantasies, large appetites and grotesque bodies / Lorraine Gamman -- "No one expects me anywhere": invisible women, ageing and the fashion industry / Pamela Church Gibson. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kabasakal Arat and Thomas W. Smith -- The European Union and Turkey : is political conditionality promoting democratization? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rudolph -- Food product concepts and concept testing / John Lord -- Consumer driven product design of foods and beverages : methods, mind-sets, metrics / Howard Moskowitz, Matthias Silcher, Jeffrey Ewald, and Jacqueline Beckley -- New product organizations : high-performance team management for a changing environment / R. E. Smith and J. W. Finley -- Food science, technology and engineering overview for food product development / Romeo T. …”

“…It began within philosophy-Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations, but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments-and economics, as Sedlacek shows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. …”

“…También allí van a buscarla desde Estados Unidos, para que inicie una nueva etapa como primera mujer rectora del Smith College, el mayor del país, exclusivamente femenino…”