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Enacting Dismal Science New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics
In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate the book revives discussion of the fundamental questions: What precise meaning can we attribute to th…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-48876-3
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- 5 b/w illustrations
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The Welfare of Performing Animals A Historical Perspective
This timely book describes and analyses a neglected area of the history of concern for animal welfare, discussing the ends and means of the capture, transport, housing and training of performing animals, as well as the role of pressure groups, politics, the press and vested interests. It examines primary source material of considerable interdisciplinary interest, and addresses the influence of …
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- 2
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- 978-3-662-45834-1
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Human Security and Philanthropy: Islamic Perspectives and Muslim Majority Cou…
Muslims for hundreds of years have been involved in philanthropic activities targeting poor and needy people through varied types of ‘third sector’ organizations (TSOs). Nonetheless, many people in Muslim majority countries (MMCs), not having freedom from hunger, face human security crises. Not much is known about the TSOs or their human security provisions in MMCs. To fill this knowledge g…
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- 11
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- 978-1-4939-2524-7
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- XXI, 362
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- 330 HUM
Well-Being in Contemporary Society
This anthology examines the practical role of well-being in contemporary society. It discusses developments such as globalization, consumerism and the rapid innovation and use of new and emerging technologies and focuses on the significant impact of these developments on the well-being of people living today. The anthology brings together researchers from various disciplines, including psycholo…
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- 978-3-319-06459-8
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The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services from Regulation to Inno…
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind Payments for Envi…
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- 978-3-319-19345-8
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The myth that made us :how false beliefs about racism and meritocracy broke o…
"How resistance to fix economic inequality is tied to the persistent myth of meritocracy, and how to change the narrative"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375832
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- 1 online resource
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The unnaming of Kroeber Hall :language, memory, and iconoclasm
"A balanced attempt to understand the controversy over renaming a building on the campus of UC Berkeley"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377263
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Making modern medical ethics :how African Americans, anti-Nazis, bureaucrats,…
"A counter history of the birth of bioethics, which focuses on the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged law and institutions rather than simply the development of new technologies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377416
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- 1 online resource.
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Crowded out :the true costs of crowdfunding healthcare
"Crowded Out examines how charitable crowdfunding so quickly overtook public life, where it is taking us, and who gets left behind by this new platformed economy. While crowdfunding has become ubiquitous in our lives, it is largely misunderstood by the public: rather than a friendly free market "powered by the kindness" of strangers, crowdfunding is powerfully reinforcing inequalities and chang…
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- 9780262378611
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- 1 online resource
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Parenting on earth :a philosopher's guide to doing right by your kids-and eve…
"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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