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The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society
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The article was published on 2011-04-07 and is currently open access. It has received 43 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Enlightenment.read more
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Humanistic Management: Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being
TL;DR: In this paper, the author debunks the fundamental yet outdated assumptions of human nature that guide twentieth-century management theory and practice and instead provides an urgently needed conceptual and practical 'humanistic' framework, based on the protection of human dignity and the promotion of well-being.
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A pedagogy of interconnectedness for encountering climate change as a wicked sustainability problem
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the challenges of sustainability education from the theoretical perspective of modern dichotomies and argued that to combat wicked problems of sustainability, awareness of interconnectedness is vital.
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Obstacles to a world state in the shadow of the world market
TL;DR: This paper explored the obstacles to the development and operation of a world state that are rooted in functional differentiation of modern societies, the ecological dominance of the broadly capitalist world market, and the inherent tendencies of all forms of governance to fail.
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Foundations of Economic Analysis
TL;DR: Recent statistical techniques, including nonlinear programming, have been added to a basic survey of equilibrium systems, comparative statistics, consumer behavior theory, and cost and production theory as discussed by the authors, and they have been used in a variety of applications.
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History of Economic Analysis
TL;DR: The History of Economic Analysis as discussed by the authors provides a complete history of economic theory from Ancient Greece to the end of the second world war, including the major economists from Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes.
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
TL;DR: The Open Society and its Enemies as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays written by Karl Popper about the Open Society, and its enemies in the contemporary global world, with a focus on human rights.
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A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
TL;DR: In this article, the Stern Review argues that the damages from climate change are large, and that nations should undertake sharp and immediate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, but it relies on the assumption of a near-zero time discount rate combined with a specific utility function.
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Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics
TL;DR: Hayek as discussed by the authors argued that if we were to always apply the noncooperative rules of the extended order to our more intimate groupings, we would crush them and destroy it.