The American University of Beirut : Arab nationalism and liberal education / / Betty S. Anderson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781545703321
• Autore: Anderson Betty S (Betty Signe), <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 0-292-73498-0
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Disciplina: 378.5692/5
• Soggetti: Education, Higher - Arab countries; Education, Humanistic - Arab countries; Nationalism - Arab countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 ADMINISTRATORS AND STUDENTS. Agency and the Educational Process -- 2 THE UNITY OF TRUTH. Classical and Liberal Educational Systems -- 3 MAKING MEN. Religion, Education, and Character Building -- 4 MAKING WOMEN. The Goals of Coeducation -- 5 STUDENT ACTIVISM. The Struggle for Arab Nationalism -- 6 “GUERRILLA U”. The Contested Nature of Authority -- 7 REBUILDING AUB. Reaffirming Liberal Education -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the American University of Beirut opened its doors in 1866, the campus has stood at the intersection of a rapidly changing American educational project for the Middle East and an ongoing student quest for Arab national identity and empowerment. Betty S. Anderson provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of how the school shifted from a missionary institution providing a curriculum in Arabic to one offering an English-language American liberal education extolling freedom of speech and analytical discovery. Anderson discusses how generations of students demanded that they be considered legitimate voices of authority over their own education; increasingly, these students sought to introduce into their classrooms the real-life political issues raging in the Arab world. The Darwin Affair of 1882, the introduction of coeducation in the 1920s, the Arab nationalist protests ; of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the even larger protests of the 1970s all challenged the Americans and Arabs to fashion an educational program relevant to a student body constantly bombarded with political and social change. Anderson reveals that the two groups chose to develop a program that combined American goals for liberal education with an Arab student demand that the educational experience remain relevant to their lives outside the school's walls. As a result, in eras of both cooperation and conflict, the American leaders and the students at the school have made this American institution of the Arab world and of Beirut.

Liberalism and capitalism today / / Paul-Jacques Lehmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830355003321
• Autore: Lehmann Paul-Jacques
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 1-119-84216-6; 1-119-84217-4; 1-119-84222-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Collana: Innovation, entrepreneurship and management series
• Disciplina: 320.51
• Soggetti: Liberalism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1: The Conditions in Which Liberalism and Capitalism Appeared -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. Political and Legal Conditions -- 1.1. Liberalism and democracy: new eldorados of political thought and political life -- 1.1.1. Liberalism, defender of the superiority of the individual, and its economic application, capitalism -- 1.1.2. The reduced role of the state and different positions in relation to monopolies -- 1.1.3. Democracy as a guarantee of freedom and equality -- 1.1.4. The economic consequences of democracy -- ; 1.2. The right of ownership as a necessary condition for savings and capital formation -- 1.2.1. Freedom as a condition of private property -- 1.2.2. Land ownership -- 1.2.3. Property rights and savings -- 1.3. The advent of the bourgeoisie -- 1.3.1. The hold of the military and the nobility in Antiquity -- 1.3.2. The emergence of the urban bourgeoisie: a Western phenomenon -- 1.3.3. When economic power… -- 1.3.4. … transforms into political power -- 1.4. The nascent authority of state bureaucracy -- 1.4.1. Legitimate coercion by the state -- 1.4.2. The evolution of the activities of state bureaucracy actors -- 1.4.3. Advantages and disadvantages of state bureaucracy -- 2. Economic and Sociological Conditions -- 2.1. Trade and industry: competitors of agriculture and the craft industry -- 2.1.1. The lesser role of agriculture -- 2.1.2. The growing role of trade… -- 2.1.3. … generated by free competition at national levels… -- 2.1.4. … and international levels -- 2.2. The dangers of industrialization -- 2.2.1. Industrialization and the destructiveness of the division of labor for humanity -- 2.2.2. The appearance of an industrial aristocracy -- 2.2.3. Corporate concentration -- 2.2.4. Growing pauperism.; 2.3. The decisive influence of the Protestant religion on economic rationalization -- 2.3.1. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism -- 2.3.2. The sacredness of work and profit -- 2.3.3. The need for growth -- 2.3.4. Rationalization of the economy -- 2.4. The role of money and financial markets -- 2.4.1. The need for money -- 2.4.2. The first banks -- 2.4.3. The first financial markets -- PART 2: The Evolution of Liberalism and Capitalism -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 3. The Birth of a New Capitalism in a New World: Financial Capitalism -- 3.1. The emergence and development of financial capitalism -- 3.1.1. Globalization -- 3.1.2. The information revolution -- 3.1.3. The financial revolution -- 3.2. Changes in corporate governance -- 3.2.1. Taking sustainable development into account… -- 3.2.2. ... and pollution -- 3.3. New economic policies -- 3.3.1. The need to combat rising prices -- 3.3.2. Monetary policy to combat inflation -- 3.3.3. Discretionary versus automatic economic policy -- 3.4. From the perfection of theoretical capitalism to the crises of real capitalism -- 3.4.1. Changes in the assumptions of pure and perfect competition -- 3.4.2. Questioning the uniqueness of prices -- 3.4.3. Expectations which are supposedly too perfect -- 3.5. Recurrent causes of the crises of capitalism -- 3.5.1. The beginnings of any financial crash: an innovation stemming from a need for financing -- 3.5.2. From speculation to collective psychosis -- 3.5.3. A monetary expansion -- 3.5.4. The bursting of the financial bubble -- 3.6. Some examples of crises of capitalism -- 3.6.1. The crises following the discovery of the New World -- 3.6.2. Crises due to the transportation revolution -- 3.6.3. The 1929 crisis -- 3.6.4. The 1987 crash -- 3.6.5. The crisis of the new economy in the year 2000 -- 4. Towards 21st Century Capitalism.; 4.1. A responsible and proactive economic policy -- 4.1.1. A policy of growth -- 4.1.2. The search for price stability -- 4.1.3. Improving the functioning of markets through positive regulation… -- 4.1.4. … in order to ensure the ethics of capitalism… -- 4.1.5. … and respect for the freedom of the market -- 4.2. Finance that respects the principles of capitalism -- 4.2.1. Banking regulation in the form of minimum prudential ratios -- 4.2.2. Financial regulation -- 4.2.3. The need for transparency on unregulated markets -- 4.2.4. Regulation of the over-the-counter markets -- 4.3. Renewed corporate governance -- 4.3.1. Better controlled accounting standards -- 4.3.2. A different kind of business management -- 4.3.3. The necessity of training employees and citizens in general -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Other ; titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management -- EULA.