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  • Engineering the Financial Crisis

    Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation

    de Jeffrey Friedman, Wladimir Kraus ...
    The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence: the crisis was sparked by the international regulatory accords on bank capital levels, the ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Power without Knowledge

    A Critique of Technocracy

    de Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies. But as Jeffrey Friedman argues in Power without Knowledge, there is a fundamental flaw with technocracy: it requires an ability to predict how the people whom technocrats attempt to control will act in response to technocratic policies. However, the mass public's ideas-the ideas that drive their ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD

  • The Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered

    Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity

    Edición de Jeffrey Friedman ...
    In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy that continued through Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, which viewed the essential spirit of modernity ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Isaiah Berlin

    Edición de Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin’s vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and particular conceptions of the good, setting a pattern for Anglo-American political thought that is still influential and may offer resources for understanding the resurgence of ideology in the twenty-first century, but one ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on Populism

    Edición de Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe and Britain, six authors analyse populism in the United States, treating it, variously, as a reaction ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Intolerance

    Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations

    Edición de Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Intolerance of ideas different from one’s own seems to be a common attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume, political theorists and philosophers consider some of the historical preconditions of modern intolerance and debate the sources of its recent manifestations.From theories of religious intolerance during the ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Engineering the Financial Crisis

    Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation

    de Jeffrey Friedman, Wladimir Kraus ...
    The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence: the crisis was sparked by the international regulatory accords on bank capital levels, the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making

    de Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein, Sharon Wood ...
    The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history of documentary films, more and more new directors are making their first film a nonfiction one. But in addition to posing all of the usual challenges inherent to more standard filmmaking, documentaries ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • What Caused the Financial Crisis

    de Richard A. Posner ...
    The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially where public debate about the causes of the crisis began—and ended—in the month following the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • What Caused the Financial Crisis

    de Richard A. Posner ...
    The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially where public debate about the causes of the crisis began—and ended—in the month following the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

    Edición de Jeffrey Friedman, Shterna Friedman ...
    In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research, Philip E. Converse’s "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" (1964) established the U.S. public’s startling political ignorance. This volume makes Converse’s long out-of-print article available again and brings together a variety of scholars, including Converse himself, to reflect on Converse’s findings after nearly half a ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Hayek's Political Theory, Epistemology, and Economics

    Edición de Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Hayek thought that all economic behavior (and by implication other human behavior) is based on fallible interpretations of what information is important and of its implications for the future. This epistemological idea animated not only his heterodox economic thought, but his ideal of the rule of law; his road-to-serfdom thesis; and his critique of the notion of social justice. However, the ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD