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Social futures, global visions / edited by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : [Geneva] : Blackwell Publishers ; UNRISD, 1996Description: 208 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0631202307
  • 9780631202301
  • 0631202293
  • 9780631202295
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.49 23
LOC classification:
  • HN17.5 .S594 1996
Contents:
Preface / Dharam Ghai -- Introduction / Cynthia Hewitt de Alcátara -- Economic opportunity, civil society and political liberty / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Palace fundamentalism and liberal democracy: oil, arms and irrationality / Fatema Mernissi -- The future of the state / Eric Hobsbawm -- The national question in Africa: internal imperatives / Wole Soyinka -- Positive aspects of Community and the dangers of fragmentation / Amitai Etzioni -- The perils of utopia: the Russian intelligentsia under communism and perestroika / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The debate on economic and social security in the late eighteenth century: lessons of a road not taken / Emma Rothschild -- Traditional co-operatives in modern japan: rethinking alternatives to cosmopolitanism and nativism / Tetsuo Najita -- Affluence, poverty, and the idea of a post-scarcity society / Anthony Giddens -- On the social costs of modernization: social disintegration, atomie/anomie and social development / Johan Galtung --
Introduction / Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara -- Economic opportunity, civil society and political liberty / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Palace fundamentalism and liberal democracy: oil, arms and irrationality / Fatema Mernissi -- The future of the state / Eric Hobsbawm -- The national question in Africa: internal imperatives / Wole Soyinka -- Positive aspects of community and the dangers of fragmentation / Amitai Etzioni -- The perils of utopia: the Russian intelligentsia under communism and perestroika / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The debate on economic and social security in the late 18th century: lessons of a road not taken / Emma Rothschild -- Traditional co-operatives in modern Japan: rethinking alternatives to cosmopolitanism and nativism / Tetsuo Najita -- Affluence, poverty and the idea of a post-scarcity society / Anthony Giddens -- On the social costs of modernization: social disintegration, atomie/anomie and social development / Johan Galtung.
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"This text was originally published as special issue 27:2 of Development and change ..."--T.p. verso.

Papers presented at the UNRISD conference on "Rethinking Social Development" held in Copenhagen, Mar. 11-12, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Dharam Ghai -- Introduction / Cynthia Hewitt de Alcátara -- Economic opportunity, civil society and political liberty / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Palace fundamentalism and liberal democracy: oil, arms and irrationality / Fatema Mernissi -- The future of the state / Eric Hobsbawm -- The national question in Africa: internal imperatives / Wole Soyinka -- Positive aspects of Community and the dangers of fragmentation / Amitai Etzioni -- The perils of utopia: the Russian intelligentsia under communism and perestroika / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The debate on economic and social security in the late eighteenth century: lessons of a road not taken / Emma Rothschild -- Traditional co-operatives in modern japan: rethinking alternatives to cosmopolitanism and nativism / Tetsuo Najita -- Affluence, poverty, and the idea of a post-scarcity society / Anthony Giddens -- On the social costs of modernization: social disintegration, atomie/anomie and social development / Johan Galtung --

Introduction / Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara -- Economic opportunity, civil society and political liberty / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Palace fundamentalism and liberal democracy: oil, arms and irrationality / Fatema Mernissi -- The future of the state / Eric Hobsbawm -- The national question in Africa: internal imperatives / Wole Soyinka -- Positive aspects of community and the dangers of fragmentation / Amitai Etzioni -- The perils of utopia: the Russian intelligentsia under communism and perestroika / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The debate on economic and social security in the late 18th century: lessons of a road not taken / Emma Rothschild -- Traditional co-operatives in modern Japan: rethinking alternatives to cosmopolitanism and nativism / Tetsuo Najita -- Affluence, poverty and the idea of a post-scarcity society / Anthony Giddens -- On the social costs of modernization: social disintegration, atomie/anomie and social development / Johan Galtung.

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