Globalization and global justice : shrinking distance, expanding obligations / / Nicole Hassoun [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790137103321
• Autore: Hassoun Nicole
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-139-33424-7; 1-107-22851-4; 1-280-39402-1; 9786613571946; 1-139-33766-1; 1-139-34011-5; 1-139-34169-3; 1-139-33679-7; 1-139-33853-6; 0-511-84580-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: PHI019000
• Disciplina: 303.48/2
• Soggetti: Globalization - Social aspects; Globalization - Economic aspects; Social justice
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Human rights, autonomy, and, poverty -- Legitimacy and global justice -- Libertarian obligations to the poor? -- Empirical evidence and the case for aid -- Free trade and poverty -- Making free trade fair -- Conclusion. Expanding obligations.
• Sommario/riassunto: The face of the world is changing. The past century has seen the incredible growth of international institutions. How does the fact that the world is becoming more interconnected change institutions' duties to people beyond borders? Does globalization alone engender any ethical obligations? In Globalization and Global Justice, Nicole Hassoun addresses these questions and advances a new argument for the conclusion that there are significant obligations to the global poor. ; First, she argues that there are many coercive international institutions and that these institutions must provide the means for their subjects to avoid severe poverty. Hassoun then considers the case for aid and trade, and concludes with a new proposal for fair trade in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Globalization and Global Justice will appeal to readers in philosophy, politics, economics and public policy.

Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics / / Josef Vacheck [sic] (in collaboration with Josef Dubsky) ; translated from the French, German and Czech original sources by Ales Klegr ... [et al.] ; edited by Libuse Duskova

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956790003321
• Autore: Vachek Josef
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003
• ISBN: 9786612255380; 9789027296542; 9027296545; 9781423761006; 1423761006; 9781282255388; 128225538X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 213 p
• Collana: Studies in functional and structural linguistics, , 0165-7712 ; ; v. 50
• Altri autori (Persone): DubskyJosef; DuskovaLibuse
• Disciplina: 410/.1/8
• Soggetti: Linguistics
• 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: Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics -- French Title page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Picture -- Editorial page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Prague School of Linguistics in its classical time and today -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index to Introduction -- Editor's and Translators' ; Foreword -- Josef Vachek's Preface to the original edition -- List of the excerpted sources and the abbreviations used -- Dictionary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources, papers and monographs, by well over 30 representatives of the school (Mathesius, Trnka, Skalička, Daneš, Dokulil, Mukařovský, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Isachenko, and others). The dictionary both captures the pioneering efforts and achievements of the school from its foundation in 1926, and provides a framework for assessing the current state of affairs, attesting to its originality and serving as a preventive to treading paths already explored. The headword concepts are provided with French, German and Czech equivalents and Vachek's original preface is supplemented by a foreword which traces the development of the school up to the present date and puts it into perspective.