1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456150403321

Titolo

Asia and Africa in the global economy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ernest Aryeetey ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo ; ; New York, : United Nations University Press, c2003

ISBN

92-808-7048-3

0-585-48550-X

Edizione

[1st American ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AryeeteyErnest <1955->

Disciplina

337.59

Soggetti

Globalization

Electronic books.

Southeast Asia Commercial policy Congresses

Africa, Sub-Saharan Commercial policy Congresses

Southeast Asia Economic policy Congresses

Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic policy Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A collection of the selected papers that were first presented at the International Conference, 'Asia and Africa in the Global Economy,' in Tokyo in August 1998"--P. 5.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The dynamics of globalization : eight sceptical theses / Laurence Harris -- Economic policies and external performance in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa / Ernest Aryeetey and Machiko Nissanke -- Governments and external performance in Africa / Beatrice Weder -- Local entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa : networks and linkages to the global economy / Deborah Bräutigam -- Resource exports and resource processing for export in Southeast Asia / Jomo Sundaram and Michael Rock -- Primary exports and primary processing for export in Sub-Saharan Africa / William Lyakurwa -- Export-oriented industrialisation and foreign direct investment in ASEAN countries / Thee Kian Wie -- Export-oriented industrialisation and foreign direct investment in Africa / Charles Soludo -- Management of financial flows in Southeast Asia / Pakorn Vichyanond -- Globalization of African financial markets / Lemma Senbet -- Aid and development : what can Africa learn from the macroeconomics of



foreign aid in some Southeast Asian economies? / Haider Khan -- Foreign aid, debt, and development in Sub-Saharan Africa : experiences and challenges / Sam Wangwe -- From recovery to accelerated development : some key issues for Twenty-First-Century Africa / Delphin Rwegasira.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00393146

Autore

Reference Division. Central Office of Information

Titolo

Social Security in Britain / Reference Division. Central Office of Information

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Central Office of Information, 1977

Descrizione fisica

42 p. ; 23 cm.

Soggetti

GRAN BRETAGNA - Condizioni economiche e sociali

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254763203321

Titolo

Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities / / edited by Jeroen van Dongen, Herman Paul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-48893-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 198 p. 3 illus.)

Collana

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, , 0068-0346 ; ; 321

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

History

Historiography

Intellectual life—History

Physics

Chemistry—History

History of Science

Historiography and Method

Intellectual Studies

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

History of Chemistry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction (Jeroen van Dongen) -- 1. Confidence, Humility, and Virtue in Nineteenth Century Philosophies (Ian James Kidd) -- 2. The Rise of Objectivity: Epistemic Virtues and Social Change in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands (Ad Maas) -- 3. The Scientific Imagination in Britain around 1900 (Léjon Saarloos) -- 4. The Documentalist and the Adventurer: Epistemic Virtues in Interwar Nature Protection (Raf de Bont) -- 5. Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Overcoming Obstacles (Matt Stanley) -- 6. ‘Broken Symmetry’: Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America (Jessica Wang) -- 7. Left Radicalism and the Milky Way: Connecting the Socialist and Scientific Virtues of Anton Pannekoek (Chaokang Tai) -- 8. The



Portraits of Hermann von Holst: Character and Virtue in the Historical Discipline around 1900 (Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen) -- 9. Weber, Wöhler, and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics, Chemistry, and History (Herman Paul) -- 10. A Virtuous Theorist’s Theoretical Virtues: Einstein on Physics versus Mathematics and Experience versus Unification (Jeroen van Dongen) -- 11. How Interactions between Humanities and Science Shed New Light on Shared Epistemic Virtues (Rens Bod).

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences and humanities. It assists in addressing such questions as: What kind of perspective would enable us to compare organic chemists in their labs with paleographers in the Vatican Archives, or anthropologists on a field trip with mathematicians poring over their formulas? While the concept of epistemic virtues has previously been discussed, primarily in the contexts of the history and philosophy of science, this volume is the first to enlist the concept in bridging the gap between the histories of the sciences and the humanities. Chapters research whether epistemic virtues can serve as a tool to transcend the institutional disciplinary boundaries and thus help to attain a ‘po st-disciplinary’ historiography of modern knowledge. Readers will gain a contextualization of epistemic virtues in time and space as the book shows that scholars themselves often spoke in terms of virtue and vice about their tasks and accomplishments. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives on questions, discourses, and practices shared across the disciplines, even at a time when the neo-Kantian distinction between sciences and humanities enjoyed its greatest authority. Scholars including historians of science and of the humanities, intellectual historians, virtue epistemologists, and philosophers of science will all find this book of particular interest and value.