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UNISA996204166803316 |
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Winkelmann Mareike Jule |
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'From behind the curtain' : a study of girls' madrasa in India / / Mareike Jule Winkelmann |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2005 |
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1-281-97908-2 |
9786611979089 |
90-485-0441-4 |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Madrasahs - India - History |
Women - Education - India - History |
Islamic education - India - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-172). |
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Table of Contents; Ch.1: Introduction; Ch.2: Discussing girls' madrasas: absences and appearances; Ch.3: The 'men behind the curtain' and the tablighi link; Ch.4: Curriculum and learning; Ch.5: Female authority and the public; Ch.6: Girls' madrasas revisited |
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This study investigates how madrasas for girls emerged in India, how they differ from madrasas for boys, and how female students come to interpret Islam through the teachings they receive in these schools. |
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UNINA9910791936003321 |
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Schlefer Jonathan <1949-> |
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The assumptions economists make [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Schlefer |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 |
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0-674-06552-2 |
0-674-06883-1 |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[317]-330) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Personal Note -- One. The Metaphor of the Invisible Hand -- Two. What Do Economists Do? -- Three. In Search of a Model -- Four. Economics When Society Matters -- Five. Chasing a Chimera -- Six. Utopia -- Seven. This Imperfect World -- Eight. Entering the Realm of Production -- Nine. What Caused Income Inequality? -- Ten. Understanding an Uncertain World -- Eleven. In the Long Run -- Twelve. In the Short Run -- Thirteen. The Puzzle of the Golden Age of Capitalism -- Fourteen. Economies in Crisis -- Fifteen. Thinking about Economies -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news-so why are their explanations often at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with these contradictions, Jonathan Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions. While economists cloak their views in the aura of science, what they actually do is make assumptions about the world, use those assumptions to build imaginary economies (known as models), and from those models generate conclusions. Their models can be useful or dangerous, and it is surprisingly difficult to tell which is which. Schlefer arms us with an understanding of rival assumptions and models reaching back to Adam Smith and forward to cutting-edge |
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theorists today. Although abstract, mathematical thinking characterizes economists' work, Schlefer reminds us that economists are unavoidably human. They fall prey to fads and enthusiasms and subscribe to ideologies that shape their assumptions, sometimes in problematic ways.Schlefer takes up current controversies such as income inequality and the financial crisis, for which he holds economists in large part accountable. Although theorists won international acclaim for creating models that demonstrated the inherent instability of markets, ostensibly practical economists ignored those accepted theories and instead relied on their blind faith in the invisible hand of unregulated enterprise. Schlefer explains how the politics of economics allowed them to do so. The Assumptions Economists Make renders the behavior of economists much more comprehensible, if not less irrational. |
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UNINA9910830653103321 |
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Titolo |
The Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere: A Review of Experiment and Theory |
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[Place of publication not identified], : American Geophysical Union, 1995 |
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Earth & Environmental Sciences |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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UNINA9910298470503321 |
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Grinin Leonid |
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Great Divergence and Great Convergence : A Global Perspective / / by Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice, , 2625-6983 |
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International economic relations |
Demography |
Population |
Population - Economic aspects |
International Economics |
Population and Demography |
Population Economics |
International Political Economy’ |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction. And yet the Twain Meet: Great Convergence brings the East closer to the West -- Great Divergence and the Rise of the West -- Great Convergence and the Rise of the Rest -- The Great Convergence and Globalization: How the Former Colo-nies Became the World Economic Locomotives -- Afterword. The Great Convergence and Possible Increase in Global Instability, or the World without an Absolute Leader. |
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This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins by situating what is called the Great Divergence--the social/technological revolution that led European nations to outpace |
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the early dominance of Asia--in historical context over centuries. This is contrasted with an equally powerful Great Convergence, the recent economic and technological expansion taking place in Third World nations and characterized by narrowing inequity among nations. They are seen here as two phases of an inevitable global process, centuries in the making, with the potential for both positive and negative results. This sophisticated presentation examines: Why the developing world is growing more rapidly than the developed world. How this development began occurring under the Western world's radar. How former colonies of major powers grew to drive the world's economy. Why so many Western economists have been slow to recognize the Great Convergence. The increasing risk of geopolitical instability. Why the world is likely to find itself without an absolute leader after the end of the American hegemony A work of rare scope, Great Divergence and Great Convergence gives sociologists, global economists, demographers, and global historians a deeper understanding of the broader movement of social and economic history, combined with a long view of history as it is currently being made; it also offers some thrilling forecasts for global development in the forthcoming decades. |
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