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Norbert Elias
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalized the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias’s sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic ‘war on all your houses’. His sociology of the ‘human condition’ sweeps aside the contemporary focus on ‘modernity’ and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, individualistic and/or rationalistic. As sociologists, Elias also asks us to distance ourselves from mainstream psychology, history and above all, philosophy, which is summarily abandoned, although carried forward on a higher level. This enlightening book written by a close friend and pupil of Elias, is the first book to explain the refractory, uncomfortable, side of Elias’s sociological radicalism and to brace us for its implications. It is also the first in-depth analysis of Elias’s last work The Symbol Theory in the light of selected contemporary developments in archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary theory.
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Zur Wirksamkeit Rechtlicher Sanktionen Bei Der Weiteren Gestaltung Der Entwickelten Sozialistischen Gesellschaft
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Microeconomic Theory
It is often said that everyone understands precisely what is meant by the notion of probability-except those who have spent their lives studying the matter. Upon close scrutiny, the intuitively obvious idea of probability becomes quite elusive. Is it a subjective or objective concept? Are random variables simply improperly measured deterministic variables, or inherently random? What is meant by the phrase "other things held constant" that often appears in descriptions of probability? These questions involve fundamental philosophical and scientific issues, and promise to elude definitive answers for some time. The same type of difficulty arises when attempting to produce a volume on microeconomic theory. The obvious first question-what is microeconomic theory?--
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Norbert Elias and Modern Social Theory
Offering a fascinating survey of Norbert Elias′s life and writings, Dennis Smith traces the growth of his reputation. He is the first author to confront Elias′s work with the contrasting theories of Talcott Parsons, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Zygmunt Bauman. He also illustrates how Elias′s insights can be applied to understand Western modernity and social and political change. Smith shows why Elias is important for sociology, but he is also clear sighted about the limitations of Elias′s approach.
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Norbert Wiener: A Mathematician Among Engineers
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) is well known by the general public as the founder of Cybernetics, by mathematicians as one of the first north-American mathematicians who win international prestige — as the person who formalized Brownian motion, solved the Zaremba problem and was the author of two seminal papers devoted to Generalized Harmonic Analysis and Tauberian Theorems — and by engineers as the person who proposed much of the Fourier analysis used by them and contributed to the foundation of the statistical theory of communication — which includes the use of wave filter theory, information theory and prediction theory in control and communications as well as the automation of all types of electronic devices.Wiener's research, which was frequently motivated by physics, engineering, or biology, was a clever mixture of Fourier analysis and probability theory. His contributions to electronics through his work on filtering (that is, the separation of noise from a message), and the theory of prediction made him very valuable to electronics engineering. In addition, Wiener addressed many other topics, including the formalization of the Brownian motion, ergodic theory, wave filter theory, and information theory. Taking all these ingredients together, he ventured to create a new scientific paradigm: cybernetics.This book contains a detailed explanation of Wiener's life, his many colleagues, and the historical context in which he lived, as well as Wiener's work. It also contains a large appendix about 'Wiener, Shannon, and the rise of a Digital World'. The main focus of the book is on Wiener's work related to electrical and electronic engineering and the way he used his mathematics to create the main concepts and techniques of the statistical theory of communication. In particular, the author presents Wiener surrounded by the engineers that worked at MIT with whom he maintained strong contact. It was in this atmosphere that information theory arose, and Wiener was a main influence on the people who developed that theory.
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Norbert Wiener
Nur wenigen l\Iathematikern ist es im 20. Jahrhundert gc!ungen, gl-ollere Kreise der UfIentlichkeit fUr ihre Arbeiten zu interessieren. Eine Ausnahme bildete das \Verk des amerikanischcn l\lathema- tikers, Vorbert Wiener, dessen Name mit seinem Buch Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine" welt- weit bckannt wurde. \Veniger zur Kenntnis genommen wurde, dall Wiener schon vor dem Erscheinen seines beriihmten \Verkes im Jahre 1948 als einer der bedeutendsten Mathematiker unseres Jahr- hunderts galt. Auch haben uns seine spaten Arbeiten, die sich vom humanistischen Standpunkt aus mit den Folgen wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen auseinandersetzten, noch vic! zu sagen. Hans Joachim Ilgauds Leipzig, im August 1979 INHALT 1. Kindheit und Ausbildung 7 2. Erste beru£Iiche Tatigkeit 19 3. Am M. I. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3. 1. Harmonische Analyse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3. 2. Untersuchungen zur Operatorenrechnung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. 3. Potentialtheoric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4. Dic faschistischc Gcfahr . Der zweite Weltkrieg 44 4. 1. Dic Yorhersagetheorie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 4. 2. Entwicklung von Rechenanlagen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 4. 3. Filtertheorie - statistische Optimierung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 5. Dic Entdeckung der Kybernctik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 5. 1. Regclungsvorgange in der Technik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 5. 2. Automaten und Rechenanlagen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 5. 3. Ein biologisch-medizinisches Problem 65 6. Der weltbekannte Gelehrte 74 Chronologie 81 Literatur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 -Personenrcgister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 6 1. KL\DIIEIT UND AlJSBILDUNG Nor{)('rt \Viel. H'r wurde am 26. November 1894 in Columbia ('fis- sOlll'i) geborell. Seine fuuer, Bertha Wiener, geborene Kahn, war die Tocbter eines \Varenhausbesitzers in St. Joseph im USA-Staat Missouri. Die Familie del' Mutter stammte aus dem Rheinland und hiel3 in ihrer deutsehen Heimat Kohn.
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Sociology of Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key aspects of Elias's work and then applies an Eliasian approach to key topics in contemporary sociology such as race, class, gender, religion, epistemology and nationalism. The editors have brought together a distinguished group of international sociologists and this book will not only change the course of Elias studies but be a valuable resource for both students and scholars alike.
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Norbert Elias Reader
Norbert Elias (1897-1990) is now recognised as one of the most profound sociological thinkers of the twentieth century, but he gained international recognition only towards the end of his very long life.
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Herbert Samuel
Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political life coincided with the long drawn-out sunset of Liberalism as a dominant political force in Britain. His career in the Liberal Party began in the age of Gladstone and ended in the era of Grimond. At the turn of the century Samuel played a vital role in the formulation of the `New Liberalism', and later helped translate that doctrine into legislation that laid the foundations of the welfare state. He played a centralrole in the history of Zionism, serving as first British High Commissioner in Palestine from 1920 to 1925. He returned to office in the National Government of 1931, and led the Liberal Party between 1931 and 1935. In later life Samuel won a broad public audience as a philosopher, a respected elderstatesman, and a much admired broadcaster.Bernard Wasserstein assesses Samuel's importance in British politics and in the emergence of the state of Israel. This accessible and scholarly biography, based on extensive research in all the available sources, provides a revealing portrait of a leading twentieth-century statesman.
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Foundations of Paul Samuelson's Revealed Preference Theory, Revised Edition
Originally published over two decades ago, this classic text within the philosophy of economics is a tour de force against revealed preference. It critically examines the research programme carried out by the Nobel Prize winner Paul Samuelson on the revealed preference approach to the theory of consumer behaviour. It also challenges two essential premises:* that the programme has been completed * that the various contributions of Samuelson are mutually consistent.This text contains a new preface by Wong, in which he provides a detailed insight into the origins of his pioneering text, and a new introduction from Philip Mirowski, analyzing the impact The Foundation of Paul Samuelson’s Revealed Preference Theory has had on the discipline of economics as well as explaining why it remains core reading for economists today.The defining statement of economic method, this book will be of interest to economists everywhere.
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Jenseits und Diesseits der Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Norbert Koubek untersucht in den Beiträgen aus vier Jahrzehnten (1970 – 2010) neben einzel- und gesamtwirtschaftlichen Themen auch Fragestellungen aus angrenzenden Wissenschaften, wobei die Kategorien Arbeit und ökonomische Rationalität im Mittelpunkt stehen.
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Beyond Sambation
The broad range of A.M. Klein's interests, ideas, and activities is reflected in this selection of articles, editorials, and reviews - a selection that also displays the qualities that distinguished all his creative writing and the highly idiosyncratic nature of his style. The writings in this volume span a most critical juncture in human affairs; a period that witnessed the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, Nazism, and communism, the Second World War, and the emergence of the State of Israel. As a journalist, Klein did more than record the events - he gave expression to the feelings of his people and helped shape their responses. His wide reading, sensitivity, and intelligence made him a perceptive observer and keen analyst, while his command of language, his passion, rhetoric, and wit, made him an eloquent spokesman. These qualities enabled him to carry out the responsibilities, as he saw them, of chronicler and champion. Though Klein's major concern was with the Canadian Jewish scene, his interests were part of the mosaic of Canadian history and his work forms a chronicle and a commentary on events of world-wide significance. Klein's journalism relates frequently, in both substance and language, to his poems and fiction, and thus provides a context for the study of his creative writing. It also reveals aspects of his personality, values, and commitments, contributing to our understanding and appreciation of one of Canada's foremost writers.
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Contemporary Metabolism
It is abundantly clear that a number of subtle abnormalities in hypothalamic function are associated with human obesity. Some hormonal abnormalities-the diminished growth hormone responses, for example-are critically dependent on increased caloric intake and are quickly reversible with weight loss. Others, such as the blunted prolactin response to acute hypoglycemia, may persist in the reduced-obese state. Still others (e. g. , the blunted ACTH responses to insulin induced hypoglycemia) may, in some patients, first appear in the reduced-obese state. It remains uncertain whether any of these abnormalities is ever antecedent to the presence of obesity. Obviously, it is difficult to plan experiments in which the amounts of stored triglyceride, the level of caloric intake, and the state or his tory of obesity can all be individually evaluated. The issue is made even more complex by the fact that there may be subgroups of obese in whom hypothalamic function may be abnormal, whereas many obese may have nearly normal hypo thalamic function. It should be remembered that for years clinicians and investigators, working with available research tools, have ruled out pituitary or hypothalamic abnor malities as a cause of human obesity. These tools have oftentimes been no more sophisticated than skull roentgenograms and samples of excreted steroid hormones in 24-hr urine. The advent of radioimmunoassays for peptide hormones and the availability of synthetic releasing hormones have offered possibilities of studying hypothalamic function undreamed of just a few years ago.
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Norbert Elias
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalized the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias’s sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic ‘war on all your houses’. His sociology of the ‘human condition’ sweeps aside the contemporary focus on ‘modernity’ and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, individualistic and/or rationalistic. As sociologists, Elias also asks us to distance ourselves from mainstream psychology, history and above all, philosophy, which is summarily abandoned, although carried forward on a higher level. This enlightening book written by a close friend and pupil of Elias, is the first book to explain the refractory, uncomfortable, side of Elias’s sociological radicalism and to brace us for its implications. It is also the first in-depth analysis of Elias’s last work The Symbol Theory in the light of selected contemporary developments in archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary theory.
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Collapse and Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to human capital. This report presents new evidence and analysis to provide a comprehensive diagnostic of the effects of the pandemic on human capital outcomes and identify promising policy responses for governments faced with the task of rebuilding human capital in the wake of the pandemic. The report identifies the mechanisms through which COVID-19 affected the human capital of people at different points in the life cycle and provides estimates of the magnitude of these losses. This analysis underlines differences in impact across countries and groups within countries to understand how the reported blow on human capital has been unequal, exacerbating existing gaps and creating new ones. Grounded in the diagnostic, the report discusses policy responses that attend to afflicted groups in the short-term as well as the medium- to long-term agenda to build back better human capital and make systems more resilient. The long-term policy discussion recognizes COVID-19 as an inflection point, using the opportunity to reimagine systems and institutions, thinking in a completely different way about some key issues. In conclusion, the report reflects on what we have learned from failed policy responses as well as the innovations that proved successful across sectors in preventing or mitigating human capital losses associated with the COVID-19 crisis, and how these lessons can be incorporated across sectors going forward.
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Statistische Mechanik
Das vorliegende Lehrbuch behandelt die klassische statistische Mechanik und Quantenstatistik und geht dabei in den behandelten Themen weit über das Standardmaterial hinaus. So wird beispielsweise die Theorie weißer Zwerge und die Rolle von strengen Infrarotschranken für die Existenz von Phasenübergängen behandelt.Im ersten Teil entwickelt der Autor die Grundlagen der klassischen statistischen Mechanik, gefolgt von vielen Anwendungen, die die Tragweite der Theorie gut illustrieren. Ein Schwerpunkt ist dabei die Untersuchung von Phasenübergängen. Die Rolle der Renormierungsgruppe bei Phasenübergängen zweiter Art wird ausführlich vorgestellt. Im dritten Teil werden die Grundlagen der Quantenstatistik entwickelt. Neben Standard-Anwendungen werden auch wieder weiterführende Themen behandelt, beispielsweise der Beweis des Mermin-Wagner-Theorems für Heisenberg-Modelle. Dieses Lehrbuch ist aus Vorlesungen zur Theoretischen Physik hervorgegangen, welche der Autor an der Universität Zürich mehrfach gehalten hat und richtet sich an Studierende, die elegante und strenge mathematische Entwicklungen bevorzugen und eine Diskussion der Thematik suchen, die über eine Kursvorlesung deutlich hinausgeht. Zahlreiche Anhänge dienen für den interessierten Leser zur Vertiefung und viele Übungsaufgaben und Musterlösungen laden zum selbst nachdenken und rechnen ein.
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Plans for Stalin's War-Machine
In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new doctrine of mobile warfare and 'deep operations'. The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened Russian archives, the book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941. It presents a new framework for estimating the Soviet war-economic preparations, drastically underestimated by contemporaries.
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Economic Reader
The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson’s Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book cover a large part of Europe, the British Commonwealth, the United States and Japan. Each chapter examines various types of textbooks, from those aimed at self-education to those addressed to university students, secondary school students, to the short manuals aimed at the popularisation of political economy among workers and the middle classes. An introductory chapter examines this phenomenon in a comparative and transnational perspective.
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On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge
Nobert Elias (1897-1990) is described as one of the great sociologists of the 20th century. Born in Germany, Elias earned a doctorate in philosophy and then turned to sociology, working with Max Weber's younger brother, Alfred Weber, and with Karl Mannheim. He later fled the Nazi regime in 1935 and spent most of his life in Britain. He is best known for his book, "The Civilizing Process," wherein he traces the subtle changes in manners among the European upper classes since the Middle Ages, and shows how those seemingly innocuous changes in etiquette reflected profound transformations of power relations in society. He later applied these insights to a wide range of subjects, from art and culture to the control of violence, the sociology of sports, the development of knowledge and the sciences, and the methodology of sociology. This volume is a collection of Elias's most important writings, and includes many of his ideas. The development of Elias's thinking during the course of his long career is traced, along with a discussion of how his work relates to other major sociologists and how the various selections are interconnected.
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