1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392510803316

Autore

Clarke Samuel <1675-1729.>

Titolo

A demonstration of the being and attributes of God [[electronic resource] ] : more particularly in answer to Mr. Hobbs, Spinoza, and their followers: Wherein the notion of liberty is stated, and the possibility and certainty of it proved, in opposition to necessity and fate. Being the substance of eight sermons preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, in the year 1704. at the lecture founded by the honourable Robert Boyle Esq; / / By Samuel Clark, .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Will. Botham, for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1706

Edizione

[The second edition, corrected.]

Descrizione fisica

[1]+ p

Soggetti

God - Attributes

Free will and determinism

Title pages18th century.England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Fragment: title page only.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001124969707536

Autore

Kolmogorov, Andrej Nikolaevic

Titolo

Mathematics of the 19th century : function theory according to Chebyshev, ordinary differential equations, calculus of variations, theory of finite differences / edited by A.N. Kolmogorov, A.P. Yushkevich ; translated from the Russian by Roger Cooke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel ; Boston ; Berlin : Birkhauser, c1998

ISBN

3764358459

Descrizione fisica

x, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Classificazione

AMS 01A55

AMS 30-03

AMS 34-03

AMS 39-03

AMS 43-03

Altri autori (Persone)

Yushkevich, A.P.

Disciplina

510.9

Soggetti

Mathematical analysis-history-19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-346) and index



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807280003321

Autore

Schui Florian <1973->

Titolo

Austerity : the great failure / / Florian Schui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-300-20624-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

339.4/7

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - History

Thriftiness - History

Saving and investment - History

Economic policy - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Austere ideas for austere societies: from Aristotle to Aquinas -- 2 Austerity v. reason: from Mandeville to Voltaire -- 3 Austerity for capitalism: from Smith to Weber -- 4 Austerity for stability: from the Great War to the next -- 5 Austerity can wait: Keynes -- 6 Austerity for the state: Hayek -- 7 Austerity for the planet: green ideas of consumption -- 8 Is greed good? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse. But the notion that abstinence from consumption brings benefits to states, societies, or individuals is hardly new. This book puts the debates of our own day in perspective by exploring the long history of austerity-a popular idea that lives on despite a track record of dismal failure. Florian Schui shows that arguments in favor of austerity were-and are today-mainly based on moral and political considerations, rather than on economic analysis. Unexpectedly, it is the critics of austerity who have framed their arguments in the language of economics. Schui finds that austerity has failed intellectually and in economic terms every time it



has been attempted. He examines thinkers who have influenced our ideas about abstinence from Aristotle through such modern economic thinkers as Smith, Marx, Veblen, Weber, Hayek, and Keynes, as well as the motives behind specific twentieth-century austerity efforts. The persistence of the concept cannot be explained from an economic perspective, Schui concludes, but only from the persuasive appeal of the moral and political ideas linked to it.