A World of Ideas
Author | : Lee A. Jacobus |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 795 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : College readers |
ISBN | : 9780312148638 |
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Author | : Lee A. Jacobus |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 795 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : College readers |
ISBN | : 9780312148638 |
Author | : Bill D. Moyers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780385263467 |
Author | : Michael Mandelbaum |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2004-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 078672496X |
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced everywhere, these ideas have--for the first time in history--no serious rivals. And although the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were terrible and traumatic, they did not "change everything," as so many commentators have asserted. Instead, these events served to illuminate even more brightly the world that emerged from the end of the Cold War. In The Ideas That Conquered the World, Michael Mandelbaum describes the uneven spread (over the past two centuries) of peace, democracy, and free markets from the wealthy and powerful countries of the world's core, where they originated, to the weaker and poorer countries of its periphery. And he assesses the prospects for these ideas in the years to come, giving particular attention to the United States, which bears the greatest responsibility for protecting and promoting them, and to Russia, China, and the Middle East, in which they are not well established and where their fate will affect the rest of the world. Drawing on history, politics, and economics, this incisive book provides a clear and original guide to the main trends of the twenty-first century, from globalization to terrorism, through the perspective of one of our era's most provocative thinkers.
Author | : Andrew Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781524982508 |
Author | : David Owen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-01-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1841126144 |
Ideas are like buses, you wait forever and then 500 come along atonce. The Big Idea Book is 500 novel, ingenious anddownright crazy ideas designed to inspire, amuse and divert.Developed by the team behind the innovative website, Idea-a-Day atwww.idea-a-day.com, itcovers everything from business to travel, politics to money andeverything in between. Idea-a-Day has a vast network of followers and contributors -some famous, some infamous, some revered, some reviled – whopost ideas to be read, enjoyed, used or abused. Seth Godin, MalcolmMaclaren and Wayne Hemmingway are just a few of its fans. In TheBig Idea Book all this creative energy is mixed together withunpublished ideas, quotes, cartoons, illustrations andthought-pieces to give creatives and cool office types a visual andintellectual treat guaranteed to kickstart the imagination andcreative flair!
Author | : |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1412842239 |
Murray Weidenbaum has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings Institution, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation and has also written for their publications, and served as a reviewer of ongoing studies. In The Competition of Ideas, Weidenbaum examines the political economy of these vital institutions, drawing heavily on several decades of involvement in their activities. He is uniquely able to see their accomplishments as well as their shortcomings. Because of the importance of the activities of their organizations, and their tax-exempt status, think tanks are held to a high standard. Weidenbaum shows that sometimes think tanks are more tank than thinkâmajor think tanks are often predictable in the positions they take on public issues and are far better at analyzing the shortcomings of other elements of society than of their own operations. The overarching issue of quality control, Weidenbaum holds, deserves more attention than it has attained in the think tank world. This book presents a careful, balanced account of where think tanks have been and where they are now headed. Given the high levels of professionalism in many think tanks, a fundamental change in the attitude of their management is important. The compelling need is less for the wielder of policy than for the lucid synthesizer of relevant research and analysis. Likewise, society needs sensitivity to the long-term concerns of the citizenry more urgently than rapid response to the opportunities of the moment. Future competition, particularly among the major think tanks, could well be centered, not on achieving greater visibility, but on developing responses to economic, environmental, and national security problems that are likely to be adopted and carried out.
Author | : Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : 9780751344141 |
A collection of 175 ideas which have changed the world are presented in this volume - from time to evolution, and anarchy to Zen. Using illustrations to bring the concepts to life, this thought-provoking book could be great for dinner party conversations.
Author | : Richard Jolly |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0253003377 |
Ideas and concepts have been a driving force in human progress, and they may be the most important legacy of the United Nations. UN ideas have set past, present, and future international agendas in many global economic and social arenas and have also led to initiatives and actions that have improved the quality of human life. This capstone volume draws upon findings of the other 14 books in the acclaimed United Nations Intellectual History Project Series. The authors not only assess the development and implementation of UN ideas regarding sustainable economic development and human security, but also apply lessons learned to suggest ways in which the United Nations can play a fuller role in confronting the challenges of human survival with dignity in the 21st century.
Author | : Bill D. Moyers |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Interviews with Bharati Mukherjee, Maxine Hong Kingston, Peter Sellars, Leo Braudy, Patricia Smith Churchland, Jeannette Haien, Toni Morrison, Sam Keen, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rodriguez, M.F.K. Fisher, Cornel West, Tu Wei-ming, Joanne Ciulla, Ruth Macklin, Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr., Michael Sandel, Jacob Needleman, Steven Rockefeller, Oren Lyons, Murray Gell-Mann, Robert Lucky, Louis Kelso, Mike Rose, Lester Brown, Jonas Salk, William L. Shirer, John Henry Faulk, and Robert Bly.
Author | : Ronald A. Cass |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674067649 |
Cass and Hylton explain how technological advances strengthen the case for intellectual property laws, and argue convincingly that IP laws help create a wealthier, more successful, more innovative society than alternative legal systems. Ignoring the social value of IP rights and making what others create “free” would be a costly mistake indeed.