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Lý thuyết Tóm tắt sách

The New Economics

của Steve Keen • 2022

Loans make money. Private debt swings crash economies. Neoclassical economics missed both.

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📚 Heterodox Economics 🔍 Post-Keynesian Economics 🏦 Endogenous Money 💣 Private Debt Crises 🔄 Complexity Economics

The New Economics

Loans make money. Private debt swings crash economies. Neoclassical economics missed both.

của Steve Keen 2022 210 trang

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232 đánh giá

📚 Heterodox Economics 🔍 Post-Keynesian Economics 🏦 Endogenous Money 💣 Private Debt Crises 🔄 Complexity Economics

The Capital Order

của Clara E. Mattei • 2022

Austerity was invented to protect capitalism from democracy. Its first triumph: Italian fascism.

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📊 Political Economy 📜 Economic History ⚔️ Class Struggle 🚫 Anti-Austerity 🏛️ Technocracy Critique

The Capital Order

Austerity was invented to protect capitalism from democracy. Its first triumph: Italian fascism.

của Clara E. Mattei 2022 480 trang

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📊 Political Economy 📜 Economic History ⚔️ Class Struggle 🚫 Anti-Austerity 🏛️ Technocracy Critique

Revolutionary Suicide

của Huey P. Newton • 1973

Some deaths surrender dignity. He risked one that refused to let the state take his.

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✍️ Radical Memoir ✊ Black Power Movement 🔫 Armed Self-Defense 🚔 Police Brutality 📚 Self-Education

Revolutionary Suicide

Some deaths surrender dignity. He risked one that refused to let the state take his.

của Huey P. Newton 1973 332 trang

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✍️ Radical Memoir ✊ Black Power Movement 🔫 Armed Self-Defense 🚔 Police Brutality 📚 Self-Education

The Passions and the Interests

của Albert O. Hirschman • 1977

Before capitalism won, it was sold as a check on tyranny and a brake on dangerous passions.

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📖 Intellectual History 💰 Political Economy 🧠 Political Psychology ⚖️ Political Theory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment

The Passions and the Interests

Before capitalism won, it was sold as a check on tyranny and a brake on dangerous passions.

của Albert O. Hirschman 1977 180 trang

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📖 Intellectual History 💰 Political Economy 🧠 Political Psychology ⚖️ Political Theory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment

EL PRÍNCIPE - Maquiavelo

của Nicolás Maquiavelo • 2023

Moral rulers get ruined. The ones who survive know exactly when to abandon virtue.

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🌐 Political Realism 🏛️ Statecraft 🎭 Renaissance Politics ⚖️ Power Dynamics ⚔️ Military Self-Reliance

EL PRÍNCIPE - Maquiavelo

Moral rulers get ruined. The ones who survive know exactly when to abandon virtue.

của Nicolás Maquiavelo 2023 125 trang

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🌐 Political Realism 🏛️ Statecraft 🎭 Renaissance Politics ⚖️ Power Dynamics ⚔️ Military Self-Reliance

La sociolinguistique

của Louis-Jean Calvet • 1993

Language stripped of society is a fiction. Every accent, loanword, and policy proves it.

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🏛️ Language And Power 🌍 Language Contact 📈 Linguistic Variation 🗺️ Multilingualism

La sociolinguistique

Language stripped of society is a fiction. Every accent, loanword, and policy proves it.

của Louis-Jean Calvet 1993 128 trang

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🏛️ Language And Power 🌍 Language Contact 📈 Linguistic Variation 🗺️ Multilingualism

An Introduction to Ontology

của Nikk Effingham • 2013

What exists? That's the easy part. Deciding how to decide is where it gets wild.

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🧠 Analytic Philosophy 🌐 Contemporary Ontology 🔍 Metaontology 📜 Ontological Commitment 💭 Abstract Objects

An Introduction to Ontology

What exists? That's the easy part. Deciding how to decide is where it gets wild.

của Nikk Effingham 2013 224 trang

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59 đánh giá

🧠 Analytic Philosophy 🌐 Contemporary Ontology 🔍 Metaontology 📜 Ontological Commitment 💭 Abstract Objects

Democracy

của Charles Tilly • 2007

Democracy isn't a finish line. Three processes build it; elites can tear them down much faster.

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🗳️ Democratization 📜 Democratic Theory 📚 Historical Sociology 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🏛️ State-Society Relations

Democracy

Democracy isn't a finish line. Three processes build it; elites can tear them down much faster.

của Charles Tilly 2007 248 trang

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🗳️ Democratization 📜 Democratic Theory 📚 Historical Sociology 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🏛️ State-Society Relations

The Abolition of White Democracy

của Joel Olson • 2004

American democracy was built on whiteness. Civil rights only made that foundation harder to see.

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🏛️ Critical Race Theory ⛓️ White Supremacy ✊🏿 Black Radical Tradition 🔥 Abolitionism 💰 Racial Capitalism

The Abolition of White Democracy

American democracy was built on whiteness. Civil rights only made that foundation harder to see.

của Joel Olson 2004 230 trang

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🏛️ Critical Race Theory ⛓️ White Supremacy ✊🏿 Black Radical Tradition 🔥 Abolitionism 💰 Racial Capitalism

Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood

của Jean Piaget • 1959

Play is not a break from learning. It is how the mind constructs reality itself.

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🧠 Developmental Psychology 🧒 Cognitive Development 🏗️ Constructivism 🎮 Play And Learning 🖼️ Mental Representation

Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood

Play is not a break from learning. It is how the mind constructs reality itself.

của Jean Piaget 1959 308 trang

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🧠 Developmental Psychology 🧒 Cognitive Development 🏗️ Constructivism 🎮 Play And Learning 🖼️ Mental Representation

The Functions of Social Conflict

của Lewis A. Coser • 1956

Conflict builds the groups it seems to threaten. Without it, societies don't heal; they shatter.

3.99

⚔️ Conflict Theory 🏛️ Structural Functionalism 👥 In-Group Out-Group 🔄 Group Dynamics 🪪 Social Identity

The Functions of Social Conflict

Conflict builds the groups it seems to threaten. Without it, societies don't heal; they shatter.

của Lewis A. Coser 1956 192 trang

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⚔️ Conflict Theory 🏛️ Structural Functionalism 👥 In-Group Out-Group 🔄 Group Dynamics 🪪 Social Identity

American Citizenship

của Judith Nisse Shklar • 1991

Voting and earning: the two pillars of American citizenship, forged in opposition to slavery.

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🏛️ Republicanism ⛓️ Slavery's Legacy 🗳️ The Right To Vote 💪 Work Ethic 🎖️ Status And Citizenship

American Citizenship

Voting and earning: the two pillars of American citizenship, forged in opposition to slavery.

của Judith Nisse Shklar 1991 134 trang

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🏛️ Republicanism ⛓️ Slavery's Legacy 🗳️ The Right To Vote 💪 Work Ethic 🎖️ Status And Citizenship

The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays

của Richard M. Ebeling • 1978

Behind every boom is a central bank forcing rates too low. The bust is the cure, not the illness.

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🏛️ Austrian Economics 🔄 Business Cycle Theory 🏦 Central Banking Critique 💳 Credit Cycles 🪙 Sound Money

The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays

Behind every boom is a central bank forcing rates too low. The bust is the cure, not the illness.

của Richard M. Ebeling 1978 125 trang

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🏛️ Austrian Economics 🔄 Business Cycle Theory 🏦 Central Banking Critique 💳 Credit Cycles 🪙 Sound Money

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

của Daniel Bell • 1976

Capitalism demands discipline at work and hedonism at leisure. The contradiction is catching up.

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📊 Political Economy 🎭 Cultural Criticism 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🏛️ Secularization 🏥 Welfare State

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Capitalism demands discipline at work and hedonism at leisure. The contradiction is catching up.

của Daniel Bell 1976 363 trang

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📊 Political Economy 🎭 Cultural Criticism 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🏛️ Secularization 🏥 Welfare State

Democracy for Realists

của Christopher H. Achen • 2016

Voters punish presidents for shark attacks, vote their tribe, and ignore policy.

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🗳️ Electoral Behavior 📜 Democratic Theory 🧠 Political Psychology 🤔 Voter Irrationality 👥 Group Identity

Democracy for Realists

Voters punish presidents for shark attacks, vote their tribe, and ignore policy.

của Christopher H. Achen 2016 408 trang

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🗳️ Electoral Behavior 📜 Democratic Theory 🧠 Political Psychology 🤔 Voter Irrationality 👥 Group Identity

The Wretched of the Earth

của Frantz Fanon • 1961

Colonialism can only be overthrown by violence that destroys oppressor and oppressed self at once.

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🎓 Postcolonial Theory 🔨 Decolonization 🧠 Colonial Psychology 🏥 Political Psychiatry 🔥 Anti-Colonial Resistance

The Wretched of the Earth

Colonialism can only be overthrown by violence that destroys oppressor and oppressed self at once.

của Frantz Fanon 1961 251 trang

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🎓 Postcolonial Theory 🔨 Decolonization 🧠 Colonial Psychology 🏥 Political Psychiatry 🔥 Anti-Colonial Resistance

Durable Inequality

của Charles Tilly • 1998

Inequality's engine is organizational: categories let institutions extract, hoard, and reproduce.

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🏛️ Social Stratification 📊 Categorical Inequality ⛓️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Relational Sociology 📜 Weberian Sociology

Durable Inequality

Inequality's engine is organizational: categories let institutions extract, hoard, and reproduce.

của Charles Tilly 1998 312 trang

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🏛️ Social Stratification 📊 Categorical Inequality ⛓️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Relational Sociology 📜 Weberian Sociology

The Extended Mind

của Richard Menary • 2008

The mind does not end at the skull. Tools and notebooks may be genuine parts of thinking.

3.76

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Externalism 💭 Consciousness Studies

The Extended Mind

The mind does not end at the skull. Tools and notebooks may be genuine parts of thinking.

của Richard Menary 2008 382 trang

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Externalism 💭 Consciousness Studies

Nationalism

của Liah Greenfeld • 1992

Nationalism was born from aristocratic vanity. One form built liberty; the other, tyranny.

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🌐 Comparative History 📚 Intellectual History 🏗️ Nation Building 🏛️ State Formation 📊 Historical Sociology

Nationalism

Nationalism was born from aristocratic vanity. One form built liberty; the other, tyranny.

của Liah Greenfeld 1992 596 trang

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🌐 Comparative History 📚 Intellectual History 🏗️ Nation Building 🏛️ State Formation 📊 Historical Sociology

How States Think

của John J. Mearsheimer • 2023

Rational foreign policy: a sound theory plus a real debate. The outcome is a separate question.

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🌐 International Relations Theory 🏛️ Foreign Policy Analysis 🦅 Political Realism ♟️ Grand Strategy ⚡ Crisis Decision-Making

How States Think

Rational foreign policy: a sound theory plus a real debate. The outcome is a separate question.

của John J. Mearsheimer 2023 304 trang

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🌐 International Relations Theory 🏛️ Foreign Policy Analysis 🦅 Political Realism ♟️ Grand Strategy ⚡ Crisis Decision-Making

An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

của Jacques Hadamard • 1945

Mathematical discovery relies on the unconscious, not logic; beauty picks the winning ideas.

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🔢 Mathematical Creativity 🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🌊 Unconscious Processing 👁️ Visual Thinking ✨ Beauty In Mathematics

An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

Mathematical discovery relies on the unconscious, not logic; beauty picks the winning ideas.

của Jacques Hadamard 1945 162 trang

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🔢 Mathematical Creativity 🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🌊 Unconscious Processing 👁️ Visual Thinking ✨ Beauty In Mathematics

Le contrat racial

của Charles W. Mills • 2023

The social contract hid a racial one: whites as full persons, everyone else denied full personhood.

4.59

🎓 Critical Race Theory 🧱 Structural Racism 👁️ Whiteness Studies 🏴 Colonialism 📜 Contract Theory

Le contrat racial

The social contract hid a racial one: whites as full persons, everyone else denied full personhood.

của Charles W. Mills 2023 214 trang

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🎓 Critical Race Theory 🧱 Structural Racism 👁️ Whiteness Studies 🏴 Colonialism 📜 Contract Theory

The Savage Mind

của Claude Lévi-Strauss • 1962

So-called primitive thought builds meaning like a handyman: from whatever pieces are at hand.

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🏗️ Structuralism 🇫🇷 French Theory 🔣 Symbolic Classification 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 📖 Myth And Meaning

The Savage Mind

So-called primitive thought builds meaning like a handyman: from whatever pieces are at hand.

của Claude Lévi-Strauss 1962 310 trang

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🏗️ Structuralism 🇫🇷 French Theory 🔣 Symbolic Classification 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 📖 Myth And Meaning

Internal Colonialism

của Michael Hechter • 1975

England didn't unify the Celtic fringe; it colonized it, and industrialization only widened the gap.

3.43

🏛️ British Politics 📊 Political Sociology 🌐 Core-Periphery 🏴 Nationalism Studies 🪜 Ethnic Stratification

Internal Colonialism

England didn't unify the Celtic fringe; it colonized it, and industrialization only widened the gap.

của Michael Hechter 1975 422 trang

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🏛️ British Politics 📊 Political Sociology 🌐 Core-Periphery 🏴 Nationalism Studies 🪜 Ethnic Stratification

Democracy and Its Critics

của Robert A. Dahl • 1989

Democracy requires conditions that sound simple and are almost never present at the same time.

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🗳️ Democratic Theory 🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ Political Institutions 🔀 Pluralism ✋ Majority Rule

Democracy and Its Critics

Democracy requires conditions that sound simple and are almost never present at the same time.

của Robert A. Dahl 1989 397 trang

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🗳️ Democratic Theory 🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ Political Institutions 🔀 Pluralism ✋ Majority Rule

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

của Jürgen Habermas • 1962

Democracy was born in coffee houses and strangled by the mass media that followed.

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📖 Critical Theory 🏛️ Historical Sociology 🏢 Frankfurt School 🗣️ Public Sphere 🗳️ Deliberative Democracy

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Democracy was born in coffee houses and strangled by the mass media that followed.

của Jürgen Habermas 1962 301 trang

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📖 Critical Theory 🏛️ Historical Sociology 🏢 Frankfurt School 🗣️ Public Sphere 🗳️ Deliberative Democracy

Blood in the Streets

của James Dale Davidson • 1987

When empires decline, money dies. Where it goes, and the playbook for riding the wreckage.

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🏛️ Political Economy 💥 Financial Crises 🔄 Hegemonic Cycles 🏭 Creative Destruction ↔️ Contrarian Investing

Blood in the Streets

When empires decline, money dies. Where it goes, and the playbook for riding the wreckage.

của James Dale Davidson 1987

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🏛️ Political Economy 💥 Financial Crises 🔄 Hegemonic Cycles 🏭 Creative Destruction ↔️ Contrarian Investing

The Moral Economists

của Tim Rogan • 2017

Capitalism's best critics fought for its moral toll, not its material one. We lost that fight.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🧠 Intellectual History 🤝 Ethical Economics ✝️ Christian Socialism 🔨 Marxist Humanism

The Moral Economists

Capitalism's best critics fought for its moral toll, not its material one. We lost that fight.

của Tim Rogan 2017 270 trang

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41 đánh giá

🏛️ Political Economy 🧠 Intellectual History 🤝 Ethical Economics ✝️ Christian Socialism 🔨 Marxist Humanism

Society and Economy

của Mark Granovetter • 2017

The economy doesn't run on rational choice alone. It runs on relationships, trust, and power.

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🏛️ Economic Sociology 🕸️ Social Networks 🤝 Trust And Cooperation 🏪 Markets And Society 📋 New Institutionalism

Society and Economy

The economy doesn't run on rational choice alone. It runs on relationships, trust, and power.

của Mark Granovetter 2017 256 trang

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🏛️ Economic Sociology 🕸️ Social Networks 🤝 Trust And Cooperation 🏪 Markets And Society 📋 New Institutionalism

Waves of War

của Andreas Wimmer • 2012

The nation-state rewired war: the fuse isn't diversity, it's who is locked out of power.

3.48

🏗️ State Formation ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict 🌍 Nationalism Studies 🏴 Decolonization 📚 Historical Sociology

Waves of War

The nation-state rewired war: the fuse isn't diversity, it's who is locked out of power.

của Andreas Wimmer 2012 384 trang

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🏗️ State Formation ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict 🌍 Nationalism Studies 🏴 Decolonization 📚 Historical Sociology

The Acquisitive Society

của R.H. Tawney • 1920

When property rights outrank social purpose, owners collect without contributing. The diagnosis.

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🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Critique Of Capitalism ✝️ Christian Socialism 📜 Moral Economy ⚖️ Economic Justice

The Acquisitive Society

When property rights outrank social purpose, owners collect without contributing. The diagnosis.

của R.H. Tawney 1920 192 trang

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🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Critique Of Capitalism ✝️ Christian Socialism 📜 Moral Economy ⚖️ Economic Justice

Acts of Meaning

của Jerome Bruner • 1990

The cognitive revolution was supposed to study meaning. It gave us a machine instead.

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 📖 Narrative Psychology 🗣️ Folk Psychology 💬 Meaning Making 🪞 Self And Identity

Acts of Meaning

The cognitive revolution was supposed to study meaning. It gave us a machine instead.

của Jerome Bruner 1990 181 trang

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 📖 Narrative Psychology 🗣️ Folk Psychology 💬 Meaning Making 🪞 Self And Identity

Birth of the Leviathan

của Ertman • 1997

Dark Age local government set Europe's regimes. The timing of war shaped their institutions.

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🏛️ State Formation 🔬 Comparative Politics 🛤️ Path Dependence ⚡ State Capacity 📜 Historical Sociology

Birth of the Leviathan

Dark Age local government set Europe's regimes. The timing of war shaped their institutions.

của Ertman 1997 380 trang

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🏛️ State Formation 🔬 Comparative Politics 🛤️ Path Dependence ⚡ State Capacity 📜 Historical Sociology

Social Theory and Social Structure

của Robert K. Merton • 1949

Why false beliefs become real, rules outlast their purpose, and satisfaction is always relative.

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🧪 Empirical Sociology 🦋 Unintended Consequences 🔄 Social Feedback Loops ⚠️ Social Deviance 🪞 Social Comparison

Social Theory and Social Structure

Why false beliefs become real, rules outlast their purpose, and satisfaction is always relative.

của Robert K. Merton 1949 702 trang

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🧪 Empirical Sociology 🦋 Unintended Consequences 🔄 Social Feedback Loops ⚠️ Social Deviance 🪞 Social Comparison

The End of Power

của Moisés Naím • 2013

Power is crumbling everywhere at once. The three hidden forces dismantling every hierarchy.

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🏛️ Political Decay 🌐 Dispersion Of Power 🌎 Post-Hegemonic World 📉 Erosion Of Authority ⚔️ Asymmetric Conflict

The End of Power

Power is crumbling everywhere at once. The three hidden forces dismantling every hierarchy.

của Moisés Naím 2013 320 trang

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🏛️ Political Decay 🌐 Dispersion Of Power 🌎 Post-Hegemonic World 📉 Erosion Of Authority ⚔️ Asymmetric Conflict

Adversarial Legalism

của Robert A. Kagan • 2003

The United States chose lawsuits over bureaucracy. Here is what that decision costs.

3.72

⚖️ Comparative Law 🏛️ Law And Society 🇺🇸 American Legal System 👨‍⚖️ Judicial Politics 📜 Litigation Culture

Adversarial Legalism

The United States chose lawsuits over bureaucracy. Here is what that decision costs.

của Robert A. Kagan 2003 352 trang

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⚖️ Comparative Law 🏛️ Law And Society 🇺🇸 American Legal System 👨‍⚖️ Judicial Politics 📜 Litigation Culture

The Black Imagination

của Sandra Jackson • 2010

Science fiction erased Black futures. This collection recovers them from 1887 to Wakanda and beyond.

4.33

🚀 Afrofuturism 📚 Black Speculative Fiction 🧬 Race In Science Fiction 🌐 Black Diaspora 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

The Black Imagination

Science fiction erased Black futures. This collection recovers them from 1887 to Wakanda and beyond.

của Sandra Jackson 2010 237 trang

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12 đánh giá

🚀 Afrofuturism 📚 Black Speculative Fiction 🧬 Race In Science Fiction 🌐 Black Diaspora 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

The Horn of Africa

của Christopher Clapham • 2017

Africa's only region never fully colonized produced border wars bloodier than any colonial map did.

3.89

🏛️ State Formation 🗺️ Horn Of Africa 🏚️ Failed States ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict 🌐 Geopolitics

The Horn of Africa

Africa's only region never fully colonized produced border wars bloodier than any colonial map did.

của Christopher Clapham 2017 256 trang

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🏛️ State Formation 🗺️ Horn Of Africa 🏚️ Failed States ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict 🌐 Geopolitics

Regulating the Poor

của Frances Fox Piven • 1971

Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔧 Work And Welfare 🎛️ Social Control 💰 Political Economy ✊ Social Movements

Regulating the Poor

Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.

của Frances Fox Piven 1971 544 trang

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔧 Work And Welfare 🎛️ Social Control 💰 Political Economy ✊ Social Movements

Progress and Poverty

của Henry George • 1879

Machines and wealth multiply, yet wages fall and poverty deepens. The root is under every city.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📚 Classical Economics ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🌍 Land Reform 🏞️ Commons And Enclosure

Progress and Poverty

Machines and wealth multiply, yet wages fall and poverty deepens. The root is under every city.

của Henry George 1879 599 trang

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🏛️ Political Economy 📚 Classical Economics ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🌍 Land Reform 🏞️ Commons And Enclosure

The Ethics of Ambiguity

của Simone de Beauvoir • 1947

Freedom is never just your own: the only genuine ethics is to will it for everyone.

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🧭 Existentialist Ethics 🌍 Continental Philosophy 🔓 Radical Freedom ⚔️ Political Violence 🎭 Authenticity

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Freedom is never just your own: the only genuine ethics is to will it for everyone.

của Simone de Beauvoir 1947 162 trang

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🧭 Existentialist Ethics 🌍 Continental Philosophy 🔓 Radical Freedom ⚔️ Political Violence 🎭 Authenticity

The New Orientalists

của Ian Almond • 2007

Postmodernism attacked Orientalism. Then, from Nietzsche to Žižek, it built a subtler one.

3.41

🌀 Postmodern Philosophy 🕌 Orientalism 🌍 Postcolonial Theory 🏛️ Continental Philosophy ☪️ Islam And The West

The New Orientalists

Postmodernism attacked Orientalism. Then, from Nietzsche to Žižek, it built a subtler one.

của Ian Almond 2007 229 trang

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🌀 Postmodern Philosophy 🕌 Orientalism 🌍 Postcolonial Theory 🏛️ Continental Philosophy ☪️ Islam And The West

A Framework for Political Analysis

của David Easton • 1979

Governments fall, regimes change. The real puzzle: why any political system lasts at all.

3.94

🏛️ Political Systems 🔄 Systems Theory 🌐 Comparative Politics 🧪 Behavioralism 🏗️ Structural Functionalism

A Framework for Political Analysis

Governments fall, regimes change. The real puzzle: why any political system lasts at all.

của David Easton 1979

3.94

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🏛️ Political Systems 🔄 Systems Theory 🌐 Comparative Politics 🧪 Behavioralism 🏗️ Structural Functionalism

Africa in the World

của Frederick Cooper • 2014

Africa co-created global capitalism. The nation-state map that emerged was nobody's intended plan.

3.53

🏛️ Atlantic World 💰 Political Economy 🏴 European Colonialism 🗳️ Decolonization 🏢 Nation-State Critique

Africa in the World

Africa co-created global capitalism. The nation-state map that emerged was nobody's intended plan.

của Frederick Cooper 2014 144 trang

3.53

47 đánh giá

🏛️ Atlantic World 💰 Political Economy 🏴 European Colonialism 🗳️ Decolonization 🏢 Nation-State Critique

Nationalism

của Craig J. Calhoun • 1998

The nation you belong to was not discovered. It was built, mapped, and made to feel ancient.

3.86

🌍 Nationalism Studies 🏛️ Political Sociology 🧱 Social Constructivism 🏗️ Modern State Formation 👥 Collective Identity

Nationalism

The nation you belong to was not discovered. It was built, mapped, and made to feel ancient.

của Craig J. Calhoun 1998 176 trang

3.86

58 đánh giá

🌍 Nationalism Studies 🏛️ Political Sociology 🧱 Social Constructivism 🏗️ Modern State Formation 👥 Collective Identity

The Skilled Communicator in Social Work

của Karen Healy • 2017

Poststructuralism doesn't end critical social work; it saves it from its own certainties.

4.00

📚 Social Work Theory 🏛 Critical Social Work 🧩 Poststructural Theory 🔍 Discourse Analysis 🪢 Intersectionality

The Skilled Communicator in Social Work

Poststructuralism doesn't end critical social work; it saves it from its own certainties.

của Karen Healy 2017 261 trang

4.00

4 đánh giá

📚 Social Work Theory 🏛 Critical Social Work 🧩 Poststructural Theory 🔍 Discourse Analysis 🪢 Intersectionality

Phenomenology

của Dan Zahavi • 2008

Consciousness is an openness, not a container. An introduction to phenomenology.

4.15

303

🗺️ Continental Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Phenomenological Method 🦾 Embodied Cognition 👥 Intersubjectivity

Phenomenology

Consciousness is an openness, not a container. An introduction to phenomenology.

của Dan Zahavi 2008 158 trang

4.15

303 đánh giá

🗺️ Continental Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Phenomenological Method 🦾 Embodied Cognition 👥 Intersubjectivity

The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

của Harvey Claflin Mansfield • 2026

Reason promised to liberate us. It delivered a chain of necessity we forged ourselves.

4.21

🏛️ Western Political Thought 📜 Modern Political Theory 📚 Intellectual History 🔬 Rationalism In Politics ⛓️ Freedom And Necessity

The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

Reason promised to liberate us. It delivered a chain of necessity we forged ourselves.

của Harvey Claflin Mansfield 2026 336 trang

4.21

33 đánh giá

🏛️ Western Political Thought 📜 Modern Political Theory 📚 Intellectual History 🔬 Rationalism In Politics ⛓️ Freedom And Necessity

American Exceptionalism

của Deborah L. Madsen • 1998

How a Puritan theology of chosenness became the alibi for a continent's conquest and distant wars.

3.50

🇺🇸 American Studies 🗺️ Manifest Destiny ✊ Counter-Narratives ⛪ Political Theology 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

American Exceptionalism

How a Puritan theology of chosenness became the alibi for a continent's conquest and distant wars.

của Deborah L. Madsen 1998

3.50

16 đánh giá

🇺🇸 American Studies 🗺️ Manifest Destiny ✊ Counter-Narratives ⛪ Political Theology 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

Asymmetric Politics

của Matt Grossmann • 2016

Republicans push ideology. Democrats serve groups. The mismatch broke American politics.

4.13

114

🗳️ Party Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚖️ Political Polarization 🐘 Conservative Movement 📡 Media Ecosystems

Asymmetric Politics

Republicans push ideology. Democrats serve groups. The mismatch broke American politics.

của Matt Grossmann 2016 414 trang

4.13

114 đánh giá

🗳️ Party Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚖️ Political Polarization 🐘 Conservative Movement 📡 Media Ecosystems

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