Richard Davies Orden de los libros (cronológico)

This Element puts together the arguments of Plato and Aristotle in favor of the positive value of pleasure and in the direction of hedonism. It sets store for the activities which Eudoxus has been most renowned: mathematics and astronomy.

To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier societies can teach us more about our own than we might imagine. By adapting to circumstances unimaginable to most of us, the people in these societies are pioneering the economic infrastructure of the future.

The photographs in this book have been taken over a period of nine years. These churches are the remnants of thousands that were built all over Russia from the time of Prince Vladimir, who, on his conversion to Christianity in 988, 'ordained that wooden churches should be built and established where pagan idols had previously stood. Most of those that survive are to be found in the sparsely populated north-western corner of Russia - specifically, in the Leningrad, Vologda, Murmansk, and Archangel Regions and the Republic of Karelia. The area is vast and many thousands of miles have been travelled by car, jeep, aeroplane, boat, train, snowmobile, sledge and foot to track them down. These fragile, desecrated structures retain a spiritual presence that commands respect even in the absence of their gilded icons. They are nearing the end of their days. It is extraordinary that a country as rich and powerful as Russia, with a cultural legacy beyond compare, should let these wonderful, life-enhancing treasures slip through its fingers. Along with the photographs of Richard Davies, there are first-hand accounts by Matilda Moreton of their journeys, and the insights and interpretations of writers and artists, travellers and historians, propagandists and politicians.

This important new book presents an alternative reading of Keynes's economic and political discourse viewed from the joint perspective of literary scholars and economists. The aim is to provide a wholly unified view of Keynes's language and method tempered by sensitivity to the different contexts in which he wrote.Challenging the rhetorical approach to economic methodology on its own grounds, the contributors to this volume consider the body of rhetorical devices to be the most interesting topic of methodological enquiry. As well as discussion of whether language in economics is inseparable from the object of analysis, the volume features specific contributions on Keynes's critique of classical theory, The General Theory, his work on organic interdependence and the approaches of both Keynes and McCloskey to rhetoric in economics. The volume as a whole presents converging views of Keynes's conduct both as an economic theorist and as a political commentator.Offering a fresh and innovative range of interpretations, the contributors to this volume argue that, in Keynes's discourse, language and method should be considered as a unified whole. This book will be welcomed by economists with an interest in the history and methodology of economic thought as well as by literary scholars concerned with linguistics and the use of language in scientific discourse.

Dans ce livre nostalgique, et pour la première fois, des photographies en couleurs prises entre 1908 et 1919 par le grand écrivain Leonid Andreyev évoquent l'atmosphère de la Russie. Se dessine un portrait attachant de l'auteur dont les destins se confondent avec les événements de l'Histoire.