1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00054731

Autore

FU Xiwang

Titolo

Li qing zhao / Fu Xiwang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.], : Jiangluo Tushu Qubanshe Yinxin, 1979. -

Classificazione

CIN VI A

Soggetti

LETTERATURA CINESE - POESIA - DINASTIA SUNG (960-1279) - CRITICA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Cinese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910213828903321

Autore

Forman Seth

Titolo

Blacks in the Jewish mind : a crisis of liberalism / / Seth Forman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

9780814728901

0814728901

9780585318752

0585318751

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073

Soggetti

Liberalism - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Relations with Jews

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Race Relations and the Invisible Jew -- 1. The Liberal Jew, the Southern Jew, and Desegregation in the South, 1945-1964 -- 2. Jews and Racial



Integration in the North, 1945-1966 -- 3. The New York Intellectuals and Their "Negro Problem," 1945-1966 -- 4. The Unbearable "Whiteness" of Being Jewish -- 5. The Jew as Middleman -- Conclusion. Blacks and Jews in American Popular Culture -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews? In an extremely provocative analysis, Forman argues that the commitment of American Jews to liberalism, and their historic definition of themselves as victims, has caused them to behave in ways that were defined as good for Blacks, but which in essence were contrary to Jewish interests. They have not been able to dissociate their needs--religious, spiritual, communal, political--from those of African Americans, and have therefore acted in ways which have threatened their own cultural vitality. Avoiding the focus on Black victimization and white racism that often infuses work on Blacks and Jews, Forman emphasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962899003321

Autore

Gaertner Wulf

Titolo

A primer in social choice theory / / Wulf Gaertner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2009

ISBN

9786612268823

9780191569876

0191569879

9781282268821

1282268821

9780191609893

0191609897

9780199565306

0199565309

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 218 p. : ill

Collana

LSE perspectives in economic analysis

Disciplina

302/.1301

Soggetti

Social choice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed. published in 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- A Primer in Social Choice Theory: Revised Edition -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1. Basic questions -- 1.2. Catching a glimpse of the past -- 1.3. Basic formalism -- 1.4. Aggregation of preferences - how can this be done? -- 1.5. The informational aspect -- 1.6. A path through haze, or how to read this book -- 1.7. Some exercises -- 2: Arrow's impossibility result -- 2.1. The axiom system and the theorem -- 2.2. The original proof -- 2.3. A second proof -- 2.4. A third diagrammatic proof -- 2.5. A short summary -- 2.6. Some exercises -- RECOMMENDED READING -- HISTORICAL SOURCE -- MORE ADVANCED -- 3: Majority decision under restricted domains -- 3.1. The simple majority rule -- 3.2. Single-peaked preferences -- 3.3. Other domain conditions: qualitative and quantitative -- 3.4. A short summary -- 3.5. Some exercises -- RECOMMENDED READING --



HISTORICAL SOURCES -- MORE ADVANCED -- 4: Individual rights -- 4.1. Sen's impossibility of a Paretian liberal -- 4.2. Gibbard's theory of alienable rights -- 4.3. Conditional and unconditional preferences -- 4.4. Conditional and unconditional preferences again: matching pennies and the prisoners' dilemma -- 4.5. The game form approach to rights -- 4.6. A short summary -- 4.7. Some exercises -- RECOMMENDED READING -- HISTORICAL SOURCES -- MORE ADVANCED -- 5: Manipulability -- 5.1. The underlying problem -- 5.2. The Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem -- 5.3. Strategy-proofness and restricted domains -- 5.4. A short summary -- 5.5. Some exercises -- RECOMMENDED READING -- HISTORICAL SOURCES -- MORE ADVANCED -- 6: Escaping impossibilities: social choice rules -- 6.1. The Pareto-extension rule and veto power -- 6.2. Scoring functions and the Borda rule.

6.3. Other social choice rules -- 6.4. A parliamentary vote: Berlin vs. Bonn -- 6.5. A short summary -- 6.6. Some exercises -- RECOMMENDED READING -- HISTORICAL SOURCE -- MORE ADVANCED -- 7: Distributive justice: Rawlsian and utilitarian rules -- 7.1. The philosophical background -- 7.2. The informational structure -- 7.3. Axioms and characterizations -- 7.4. Diagrammatic proofs again -- 7.5. Harsanyi's utilitarianism -- 7.6. A short summary -- 7.7. Some exercises -- RECOMMENDED READING -- HISTORICAL SOURCES -- MORE ADVANCED -- 8: Cooperative bargaining -- 8.1. The bargaining problem -- 8.2. Nash's bargaining solution -- 8.3. Zeuthen's principle of alternating concessions -- 8.4. The Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solution -- 8.5. A philosopher's view -- 8.6. Kalai's egalitarian solution -- 8.7. A short summary -- 8.8. Some exercises -- RECOMMENDED READING -- HISTORICAL SOURCES -- MORE ADVANCED -- 9: Empirical social choice -- 9.1. Theory and opinions of the general public -- 9.2. Needs vs. tastes - the approach by Yaari and Bar-Hillel -- 9.3. Rawls's equity axiom - how does it fare? -- 9.4. From here to where? -- 9.5. A short summary -- 9.6. Some exercises -- RECOMMENDED READING -- HISTORICAL SOURCE -- 10: A few steps beyond -- 10.1. Social choice rules in continuous space -- 10.2. The uniform rule -- 10.3. Freedom of choice -- 10.4. An epilogue instead of a summary -- References -- Hints to the Exercises -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This introductory text explores the theory of social choice. This text is an important starting point for students grappling with the complexities of social choice theory. Rigorous yet accessible, with new chapter exercises, it avoids the use of technical language and provides an up-to-date discussion of this rapidly developing field.