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Inherited Wealth

By: Jens Beckert

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How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. Bequeathing wealth is a vital ingredient of family solidarity. But does the reproduction of social inequality through inheritance square with the principle of equal opportunity? Does democracy suffer when family wealth becomes political power? The first in-depth, comparative study of the development of inheritance law in the United States, France, and Germany, Inherited Wealth investigates longstanding political and intellectual debates over inheritance laws and explains why these laws still differ so greatly among these countries. Using a sociological perspective, Jens Beckert sheds light on the four most controversial issues in inheritance law during the past two centuries: the freedom to dispose of one's property as one wishes, the rights of family members to the wealth bequeathed, the dissolution of entails (which restrict inheritance to specific classes of heirs), and estate taxation. Beckert shows that while the United States, France, and Germany have all long defended inheritance rights based on the notion of individual property rights, they have justified limitations on inheritance rights in profoundly different ways, reflecting culturally specific ways of understanding the problems of inherited wealth.

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Princeton University Press

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0691134510

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Beyond the Market

The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency

By: Jens Beckert

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Beyond the Market

The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency

By: Jens Beckert

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive factors that influence the coordination of economic action. Beckert searches social theory for the components of an alternative theory of action, one that accounts for the social embedding of economic behavior. In Durkheim and Parsons he finds especially useful approaches to cooperation; in Luhmann, a way to understand how people act under highly contingent conditions; and in Giddens, an understanding of creative action and innovation. Together, these provide building blocks for a research program that will yield a theoretically sophisticated understanding of how economic processes are coordinated and the ways that markets are embedded in social, cultural, and cognitive structures. Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency--as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology--this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most important arenas of human action.

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Inherited Wealth

By: Jens Beckert

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Inherited Wealth

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0691187401

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Imagined Futures

Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics

By: Jens Beckert

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Imagined Futures

Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics

By: Jens Beckert

Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do these actors assess uncertainty? Jens Beckert adds a new chapter to the theory of capitalism by showing how fictional expectations drive modern economies—or throw them into crisis when imagined futures fail to materialize.

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Harvard University Press

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0674088824

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Death, Deeds, and Descendents

Inheritance in Modern America

By: Remi Clignet,Jens Beckert,Brooke Harrington

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Death, Deeds, and Descendents

Inheritance in Modern America

By: Remi Clignet,Jens Beckert,Brooke Harrington

Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos) and how, in turn, the instrument chosen helps explain the extent and the form of inequalities in bequests, of a result of the gender or matrimonial status of the beneficiaries. The author's major is to identify and explain the most significant sources of variations in the amount and the direction of transfers of wealth after death in the United States. He uses two kinds of primary data: estate tax returns filed by a sample of male and female beneficiaries to estates in 1920 and 1944, representing two successive generations of estate transfers, and publicly recorded legal instruments such as wills and trusts. In addition, Clignet draws widely on secondary sources in the fields of anthropology, economics, and history. His findings reflect substantive and methodological concerns. The analysis underlines the need to rethink the sociology of generational bonds, as it is informed by age and gender. Death, Deeds, and Descendants underscores the variety of forms of inequality that bequests take and highlights the complexity of interrelations between the cultures of the decedents' nationalities and issues like occupation and gender. Inheritance is viewed as a way of illuminating the subtle tensions between continuity and change in American society. This book is an important contribution to the study of the relationship between sociology of the family and sociology of social stratification.

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Routledge

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Imagined Futures

Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics

By: Jens Beckert

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Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics

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German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776–1945

By: Jens-Uwe Guettel

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German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776–1945

By: Jens-Uwe Guettel

This book traces the importance of the United States for German colonialism from the late eighteenth century to 1945, focusing on American westward expansion and racial politics. Jens-Uwe Guettel argues that from the late eighteenth century onward, ideas of colonial expansion played a very important role in liberal, enlightened and progressive circles in Germany, which, in turn, looked across the Atlantic to the liberal-democratic United States for inspiration and concrete examples. Yet following a pre-1914 peak of liberal political influence on the administration and governance of Germany's colonies, the expansionist ideas embraced by Germany's far-right after the country's defeat in the First World War had little or no connection with the German Empire's liberal imperialist tradition - for example, Nazi plans for the settlement of conquered Eastern European territories were not directly linked to pre-1914 transatlantic exchanges concerning race and expansionism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139627589

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Mastering Software Variability with FeatureIDE

By: Jens Meinicke,Thomas Thüm,Reimar Schröter,Fabian Benduhn,Thomas Leich,Gunter Saake

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Mastering Software Variability with FeatureIDE

By: Jens Meinicke,Thomas Thüm,Reimar Schröter,Fabian Benduhn,Thomas Leich,Gunter Saake

This book is a self-contained, practical introduction how to use FeatureIDE for modeling and implementing variable systems. In particular, readers learn how to analyze domains using feature models, specify requirements in form of configurations, and how to generate code based on conditional compilation and feature-oriented programming. Given the interactive style of the book, readers can directly try out the open-source development environment. All code examples are available in the standard distribution on GitHub and can immediately been used for individual modifications. Each part of the book is presented as a step-by-step tutorial and additionally illustrated using an ongoing example of elevator control software written in Java. Written by the core development team of FeatureIDE, this book is suitable for students using a tool for deepening the theoretical foundations of variability modeling and implementation, and as a reference for practitioners needing a stable and scalable tool for industrial applications. FeatureIDE is the most used open-source tool for feature modeling and has been continuously improved since 2004. The success of FeatureIDE is due to being a vehicle for cutting-edge product-line research by still providing an easy-to-use and seamless integration into Eclipse.

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Springer

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3319614436

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Co-Evolution of Nature and Society

Foundations for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies

By: Jens Jetzkowitz

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Co-Evolution of Nature and Society

Foundations for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies

By: Jens Jetzkowitz

This book offers support for interdisciplinary research on the interactions of nature and society. It is based on the hypothesis that a science of coevolution is needed to explore paths to a sustainable future. Jens Jetzkowitz initially discusses why social science knowledge only rarely finds its way into sustainability discourse. One significant issue is a view of science that separates knowing and acting, and the book illustrates current problems in conceptualising interdisciplinary knowledge production. It then goes one step further and introduces a workable alternative concept, taking philosophical pragmatism as a point of departure. Sustainable development goals and transdisciplinarity are currently subject to widespread discussions and Jetzkowitz takes a stance on the debates from the perspective of coevolutionary science. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in environmental and sustainability discourses and to anyone willing to think outside the box.

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3319966529

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Nuclear and Radiochemistry, 2 Volume Set

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Jens-Volker Kratz,Karl Heinrich Lieser

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Nuclear and Radiochemistry, 2 Volume Set

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Jens-Volker Kratz,Karl Heinrich Lieser

The third edition of this classic in the field is completely updated and revised with approximately 30% new content so as to include the latest developments. The handbook and ready reference comprehensively covers nuclear and radiochemistry in a well-structured and readily accessible manner, dealing with the theory and fundamentals in the first half, followed by chapters devoted to such specific topics as nuclear energy and reactors, radiotracers, and radionuclides in the life sciences. The result is a valuable resource for both newcomers as well as established scientists in the field.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527329013

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Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Jens-Volker Kratz,Karl Heinrich Lieser

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Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Jens-Volker Kratz,Karl Heinrich Lieser

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Modeling of Wind Turbines with Doubly Fed Generator System

By: Jens Fortmann

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Modeling of Wind Turbines with Doubly Fed Generator System

By: Jens Fortmann

Jens Fortmann describes the deduction of models for the grid integration of variable speed wind turbines and the reactive power control design of wind plants. The modeling part is intended as background to understand the theory, capabilities and limitations of the generic doubly fed generator and full converter wind turbine models described in the IEC 61400-27-1 and as 2nd generation WECC models that are used as standard library models of wind turbines for grid simulation software. Focus of the reactive power control part is a deduction of the origin and theory behind the reactive current requirements during faults found in almost all modern grid codes. Based on this analysis, the design of a reactive power control system for wind turbines and wind plants is deduced that can provide static and dynamic capabilities to ensure a stable voltage and reactive power control for future grids without remaining synchronous generation.

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3658068825

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Sexuality in the Swedish Police

From Gay Jokes to Pride Parades

By: Jens Rennstam

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Sexuality in the Swedish Police

From Gay Jokes to Pride Parades

By: Jens Rennstam

Sexuality in the Swedish Police is based on the experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual police officers and the author's observations of police work. Written at the intersection of organizational, gender, and police studies, the book analyses how processes of exclusion and inclusion of LGB sexuality coexist in the Swedish police, how these processes are related to the culture and characteristics of police work, and how police management attempts to create an inclusive organization. How and under what conditions does the exclusion and inclusion of LGB officers and LGB sexuality take place in the Swedish police? By delving into this question, the author seeks to answer, among other things, how it is that there are so few openly gay male police officers and how barriers to inclusion can be understood. The book contributes to a better understanding of the problems and activities associated with diversity issues, particularly with a focus on sexual orientation, but also more generally; many of the insights in the book can be used to understand the inclusion and exclusion of other groups in society. A key insight from the book is that inclusion and exclusion are collective processes characterized by struggle, a struggle that according to the author can be understood through the concept of “peripheral inclusion”. Sexuality in the Swedish Police will be of great interest to scholars and students as well as practitioners with an interest in diversity issues and policing. The book is also relevant to those working in or interested in diversity, inclusion, and equality in other similarly "masculinized" organizations, such as the armed forces and certain sports organizations. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Taylor & Francis

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100084076X

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Optical Technology

By: Jens Bliedtner,Gunter Grafe,Rupert Hector

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Optical Technology

By: Jens Bliedtner,Gunter Grafe,Rupert Hector

A practical, full-color guide to optical manufacturing Featuring more than 300 full-color photos and illustrations, Optical Technology describes the basics of optics and optical materials and the methods and applications of optical manufacturing and assembly. Important procedures for the production of optical components and systems are examined in detail. Real-world examples demonstrate the potential of various manufacturing procedures, and end-of-chapter questions reinforce key concepts. This is an invaluable resource for optical designers and fabrication engineers and also a well-rounded introduction to optics and optical technology. On the book's website are more than two hours of video featuring selected fabrication and assembly techniques, plus SagCalc, a practical fabrication-specific software. Optical Technology covers: Development of glass and optical production Basics of optics Optical materials, including mineral glass, organic glass, and crystals Foundations of the manufacturing process Primary forming of optical glass Transforming methods Cutting processes, including dividing, grinding, drilling, lapping, polishing, and centering Ultra-precision processing, structuring, and cleaning Coating with protective and optical layers Material property changes, such as annealing, strengthening, aging, coloration, and phototropic effects Joining processes, including blocking, clamping, and connecting optical elements Selecting fabrication technologies based on required specifications

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071667911

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Death, Deeds, and Descendents

Inheritance in Modern America

By: Remi Clignet,Jens Beckert,Brooke Harrington

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Inheritance in Modern America

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Inherited Wealth

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Beyond the Market

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Imagined Futures

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Death, Deeds, and Descendents

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Imagined Futures

Imagined Futures

German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776–1945

German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776–1945

Mastering Software Variability with FeatureIDE

Mastering Software Variability with FeatureIDE

Co-Evolution of Nature and Society

Co-Evolution of Nature and Society

Nuclear and Radiochemistry, 2 Volume Set

Nuclear and Radiochemistry, 2 Volume Set

Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Modeling of Wind Turbines with Doubly Fed Generator System

Modeling of Wind Turbines with Doubly Fed Generator System

Sexuality in the Swedish Police

Sexuality in the Swedish Police

Optical Technology

Optical Technology

Death, Deeds, and Descendents

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