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Keynes and the 'Classics'

A Study in Language, Epistemology and Mistaken Identities

By: Michel Verdon

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Keynes and the 'Classics'

A Study in Language, Epistemology and Mistaken Identities

By: Michel Verdon

Is there a language which is adequate to describe our own economy? In this volume, Michel Verdon undertakes a path-breaking analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neo-classical economics and Keynesian economics. Each of these, he argues, has an inherent cosmology, and in the case of both Marxian and neo-classical economics these preclude the development of a language which can accurately describe and analyse an economy.

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Routledge

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1134769628

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9781134769629

The Abutia Ewe of West Africa

A Chiefdom that Never Was

By: Michel Verdon

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The Abutia Ewe of West Africa

A Chiefdom that Never Was

By: Michel Verdon

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110828340

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9783110828344

Towards an Operational Social Anthropology

Volume 1: An Epistemological History of Social Anthropology

By: Michel Verdon

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Towards an Operational Social Anthropology

Volume 1: An Epistemological History of Social Anthropology

By: Michel Verdon

Anthropology's original's aim, that of Maine and Morgan in the second half of the nineteenth-century, was to explain social variability. Behind that variability, anthropologists searched for regularities that a theory would explain. It was thus both comparative and positivist (aiming to be scientific). The first theory to emerge was evolutionism. It was soon followed by functional structuralism, structuralism and all the other 'isms' that came after. In the final analysis, unlike scientific theories, all these 'theories' did not supplant one another but merely agglutinated. The original project of a comparative and positivist anthropology thus completely failed, and the new gurus explain it by the very nature of anthropology's subject, human beings in society, which they claim are not amenable to scientific discourse. In this first of two books, Professor Michel Verdon rejects this defeatist explanation. To him, the failure does not stem from anthropology's 'objects' but from the knowing subject. The explanation lies in the process of knowing; it is epistemological, and he finds the ultimate reason in the 'cosmology' that underlies all theories, and that no one has hitherto explored. This enables him completely to upturn the traditional wisdom: it is this implicit cosmology that radically hinders any conceptual rigour in the study of social organization since it defines groups in a way that makes them ontologically variable. In the light of this unique diagnosis he can define a new language, which he labels 'operational', that yields rigourous comparisons leading to refutable and rectifiable theories. In a second book that will soon follow, he applies this language to a number of ethnographies and draws from them astonishing conclusions about societies traditionally studied by anthropology.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1803819537

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9781803819532

Rethinking Households

An Atomistic Perspective on European Living Arrangements

By: Michel Verdon

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Rethinking Households

An Atomistic Perspective on European Living Arrangements

By: Michel Verdon

In this present study Michel Verdon posits a radical and multidisciplinary method of examining household formation by refuting this 'collectivist set of suppositions' and recognizing residence as the critical determinant of all household forming practices. This book argues that the natural preference of adults not constituting part of a couple is to reside independently of others. The reasons why they do not do so are contingent on various economic or cultural constraints.

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1134675267

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ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor

Bringing a Sun to Earth

By: Michel Claessens

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ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor

Bringing a Sun to Earth

By: Michel Claessens

This book provides for the first time an insider’s view into ITER, the biggest fusion reactor in the world, which is currently being constructed in southern France. Aimed at bringing the “energy of the stars” to earth, ITER is funded by the major economic powers (China, the EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the US). Often presented as a “nuclear but green” energy source, fusion could play an important role in the future electricity supply. But as delays accumulate and budgets continue to grow, ITER is currently a star partially obscured by clouds. Will ITER save humanity by providing a clean, safe and limitless source of energy, or is it merely a political showcase of cutting-edge technology? Is ITER merely an ambitious research project and partly a PR initiative driven by some politically connected scientists? In any case, ITER has already helped spur on rival projects in the US, Canada and the UK. This book offers readers a behind-the-scenes look at this controversial project, which France snatched from Japan, and introduces them to a world of superlatives: with the largest magnets in the world, the biggest cryogenic plant and tremendous computing power, ITER is one of the most fascinating, and most international, scientific and technological endeavours of our time.

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Springer Nature

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3030275817

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Mystery and Matter

On the relationship between liturgy and architecture in the thought of dom Hans van der Laan OSB (1904‐1991).

By: Michel Remery

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Mystery and Matter

On the relationship between liturgy and architecture in the thought of dom Hans van der Laan OSB (1904‐1991).

By: Michel Remery

Most of the scholarship regarding the Dutch monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan OSB (1904-1991) has been narrowly focused on his architectural theory and projects. The liturgical and theological dimensions have been virtually neglected, though they are vital for a proper understanding of his thought. Through a thorough reading of the original sources, including previously unexplored documents from various archives, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to Van der Laan’s theory. It brings together the different aspects of his work by studying both the liturgical-theological and architectural elements. On this basis the book offers a synthesis of the way in which Van der Laan was able to link earthly matter to the divine Mystery.

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BRILL

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9004209425

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9789004209428

La France et ses administrations : un état des savoirs

France and its public administrations : A state of the art

By: Jean-Michel Eymeri–Douzans,Geert Bouckaert

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La France et ses administrations : un état des savoirs

France and its public administrations : A state of the art

By: Jean-Michel Eymeri–Douzans,Geert Bouckaert

En pleine congruence avec l’ambition du Groupe Européen pour l’Administration Publique d’encourager les échanges interculturels, ce livre constitue une entreprise originale, mi-anglophone mi-francophone. Cet ouvrage issu du Congrès du GEAP 2010 a pour objet de combler un déplorable fossé et de donner une visibilité internationale au « cas français ». Dès lors ce livre, en 18 chapitres rédigés en français par une équipe interdisciplinaire (politistes, sociologues, historiens, socio-historiens, juristes) avec plus de 150 pages en anglais et une vaste bibliographie unifiée, entend offrir à tous les spécialistes de l’administration publique de par le monde un point d’accès unique au plus récent état des savoirs sur l’administration en France – ce pays où le mot État s’écrit avec un E majuscule. ============================================ In full compliance with the ambition of the European Group for Public Administration to encourage cross-cultural exchanges, this book is a genuinely original undertaking. It is a hybrid Anglophone-Francophone product. This book from EGPA 2010 Conference purpose to bridge a regrettable gap and to give international visibility to the “French case”. Thus, this book, in 18 chapters written in French by an interdisciplinary team (political scientists, sociologists, historians, sociohistorians, jurists) with more than 150 pages in English and a vast unified bibliography, offers to all students of public administration in the world a unique entry gate to the latest state of the art of administrative studies in France – this country where the State is to be spelled with a capital S.

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636

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Primento

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2802740849

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The Map and the Territory

By: Michel Houellebecq

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The Map and the Territory

By: Michel Houellebecq

The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opus—about art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons. The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist, Jed Martin, and his family and lovers and friends, the arc of his entire history rendered with sharp humor and powerful compassion. His earliest photographs, of countless industrial objects, were followed by a surprisingly successful series featuring Michelin road maps, which also happened to bring him the love of his life, Olga, a beautiful Russian working—for a time—in Paris. But global fame and fortune arrive when he turns to painting and produces a host of portraits that capture a wide range of professions, from the commonplace (the owner of a local bar) to the autobiographical (his father, an accomplished architect) and from the celebrated (Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Discussing the Future of Information Technology) to the literary (a writer named Houellebecq, with whom he develops an unusually close relationship). Then, while his aging father (his only living relative) flirts with oblivion, a police inspector seeks Martin’s help in solving an unspeakably gruesome crime—events that prove profoundly unsettling. Even so, now growing old himself, Jed Martin somehow discovers serenity and manages to add another startling chapter to his artistic legacy, a deeply moving conclusion to this saga of hopes and losses and dreams.

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Vintage

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0307957454

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The Varieties of Economic Rationality

From Adam Smith to Contemporary Behavioural and Evolutionary Economics

By: Michel Zouboulakis

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The Varieties of Economic Rationality

From Adam Smith to Contemporary Behavioural and Evolutionary Economics

By: Michel Zouboulakis

The concept of economic rationality is important for the historical evolution of Economics as a scientific discipline. The common idea about this concept -even between economists- is that it has a unique meaning which is universally accepted. This new volume argues that "economic rationality" is not not a universal concept with one single meaning, and that it in fact has different, if not conflicting, interpretations in the evolution of discourse on economics. In order to achieve this, the book traces the historical evolution of the concept of economic rationality from Adam Smith to the present, taking in thinkers from Mill to Friedman, and encompassing approaches from neoclassical to behavioural economics. The book charts this history in order to reveal important instances of conceptual transformation of the meaning of economic rationality. In doing so, it presents a uniquely detailed study of the historical change of the many faces of the homo oeconomicus .

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Routledge

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1317817494

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From Harlem to Paris

Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980

By: Michel Fabre

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From Harlem to Paris

Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980

By: Michel Fabre

This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre (The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulattos with inheritances from French slave-owners sent their children to Paris to be educated. The book concludes that acceptance and appreciation of black Americans were based largely of French distaste both for white Americans, whom the French found egotistical, and for black Africans, with whom the French had a bitter "mutual colonial history.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252063643

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9780252063640

Yellow

The History of a Color

By: Michel Pastoureau

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Yellow

The History of a Color

By: Michel Pastoureau

Traces the history of yellow around the world, telling the story of the color's evolving place in art, religion, fashion, literature, science, and everyday life, and revealing how its meaning has changed profoundly over millennia and varied among cultures

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242

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Princeton University Press

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069119825X

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9780691198255

Sailing

By: Michel Deshors

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Sailing

By: Michel Deshors

With over 240 photographs, this comprehensive book explores the exciting world of sailing, from sailboats of the past to present state-of-the-art equipment, as well as detailed accounts of competitions and regattas from around the world, complete with diagrams of maneuvers and illustrated course maps.

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Booksales

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0785813918

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9780785813910

Towards an Operational Social Anthropology

Volume 1: An Epistemological History of Social Anthropology

By: Michel Verdon

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Volume 1: An Epistemological History of Social Anthropology

By: Michel Verdon

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Rethinking Households

An Atomistic Perspective on European Living Arrangements

By: Michel Verdon

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Rethinking Households

An Atomistic Perspective on European Living Arrangements

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The Abutia Ewe of West Africa

A Chiefdom that Never Was

By: Michel Verdon

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A Chiefdom that Never Was

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Keynes and the 'Classics'

Keynes and the 'Classics'

The Abutia Ewe of West Africa

The Abutia Ewe of West Africa

Towards an Operational Social Anthropology

Towards an Operational Social Anthropology

Rethinking Households

Rethinking Households

ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor

ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor

Mystery and Matter

Mystery and Matter

La France et ses administrations : un état des savoirs

La France et ses administrations : un état des savoirs

The Map and the Territory

The Map and the Territory

The Varieties of Economic Rationality

The Varieties of Economic Rationality

From Harlem to Paris

From Harlem to Paris

Yellow

Yellow

Sailing

Sailing

Towards an Operational Social Anthropology

Towards an Operational Social Anthropology

Rethinking Households

Rethinking Households

The Abutia Ewe of West Africa

The Abutia Ewe of West Africa

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