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Darwin’s Incomplete Idea

Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment

By: Gunnar Odhner

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Darwin’s Incomplete Idea

Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment

By: Gunnar Odhner

Why is progress in environmental protection slow and faltering? Is it because we misunderstand our place in nature? This book argues that it is the normative implications of Darwinism and their powerful grip on collective social consciousness that are partly responsible for the tardiness. For all its positive explanatory power and undoubted veracity, the normative implications of Darwinist thinking for our environmental predicament are stark: If we are children of Mother Nature equipped by her with a human nature, the responsibility for the deterioration of nature is partly Hers. This book takes a different standpoint. We are indeed children of Nature, but not primarily of the green nature or animal world but of the nature of language. We can understand how through the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who states that “Language is a graft on instinctive behavior.” In our instinctive use of words we are parts of nature in a way resembling mice, frogs and giraffes. We are not as free as we think when we talk about our “free will”, because language uses us when we use it, hence our double roles as victims and instigators. The main thesis of this book is that rather than merely possessing language, we are language. If accepted, this realization may point the way to a more optimistic future for environmental protection and lay the foundations for a new analytical perspective on modern social behavior. "Darwin's Incomplete Idea" was much discussed when first published in Sweden (Bokförlaget Anomali, 2013). The English edition exposes, for the first time, this important work to an international audience. It should be of interest to philosophers of language and social scientists concerned about the environment and our place in it.

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Vernon Press

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1622739841

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9781622739844

An Economic History of Europe

By: Karl Gunnar Persson,Paul Sharp

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An Economic History of Europe

By: Karl Gunnar Persson,Paul Sharp

The second edition of a leading textbook on European economic history, updated throughout and with new coverage of post-financial crisis Europe.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107095565

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9781107095564

The Econometrics of Macroeconomic Modelling

By: Gunnar Bårdsen,Øyvind Eitrheim,Eilev Jansen,Ragnar Nymoen

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The Econometrics of Macroeconomic Modelling

By: Gunnar Bårdsen,Øyvind Eitrheim,Eilev Jansen,Ragnar Nymoen

Macroeconometric models, in many ways the flagships of the economist's profession in the 1960s, came under increasing attack from both theoretical economist and practitioners in the late 1970s. Critics referred to their lack of microeconomic theoretical foundations, ad hoc models of expectations, lack of identification, neglect of dynamics and non-stationarity, and poor forecasting properties. By the start of the 1990s, the status of macroeconometric models had declined markedly, and had fallen completely out of, and with, academic economics. Nevertheless, unlike the dinosaurs to which they often have been likened, macroeconometric models have never completely disappeared from the scene. This book describes how and why the discipline of macroeconometric modelling continues to play a role for economic policymaking by adapting to changing demands, in response, for instance, to new policy regimes like inflation targeting. Model builders have adopted new insights from economic theory and taken advantage of the methodological and conceptual advances within time series econometrics over the last twenty years. The modelling of wages and prices takes a central part in the book as the authors interpret and evaluate the last forty years of international research experience in the light of the Norwegian 'main course' model of inflation in a small open economy. The preferred model is a dynamic model of incomplete competition, which is evaluated against alternatives as diverse as the Phillips curve, Nickell-Layard wage curves, the New Keynesian Phillips curve, and monetary inflation models on data from the Euro area, the UK, and Norway. The wage price core model is built into a small econometric model for Norway to analyse the transmission mechanism and to evaluate monetary policy rules. The final chapter explores the main sources of forecast failure likely to occur in a practical modelling situation, using the large-scale nodel RIMINI and the inflation models of earlier chapters as case studies.

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362

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OUP Oxford

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0191529877

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9780191529870

Employee Investment Funds

An Approach to Collective Capital Formation

By: Rudolf Meidner,Anna Hedborg,Gunnar Fond

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Employee Investment Funds

An Approach to Collective Capital Formation

By: Rudolf Meidner,Anna Hedborg,Gunnar Fond

Originally published in 1978. The present study had grown out of the deliberations of wage policy at the 1971 Congress of LO, the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions. For many years the LO had pursued a policy of solidarity in wage policy – a policy which sought to relate pay to the nature of the work which an employee carried out, and not to the capacity or ability of the employer to pay. Several issues related to this policy are explored. This study was extremely controversial when first published in Sweden, and will therefore be of great interest to students of economic history and democracy.

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Routledge

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1351378031

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Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization

The Use of Information and the Transfer of Knowledge within the Firm

By: Gunnar Eliasson

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Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization

The Use of Information and the Transfer of Knowledge within the Firm

By: Gunnar Eliasson

The actual organization and use of information systems in American, European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with theoretical conclusions. Finally, following the experimental evolution of the information products over the past twenty years, the results presented indicate that information and communication firms are now starting to offer the kind of business information systems predicted by the analysis. The transformation of business information systems technology can be followed in the Chronicle, which is provided on diskette and which covers the development of modern IT and telecommunications industries. The data are arranged to allow researchers to reconfigure the data according to their own needs.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400916108

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9789400916104

Darwin’s Incomplete Idea

Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment

By: Gunnar Odhner

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Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment.

By: Gunnar Odhner

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Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment.

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Darwin’s Incomplete Idea

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Darwin’s Incomplete Idea

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