TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hewitt de Alcántara,Cynthia
TI  - Social futures, global visions
SN  - 0631202307
AV  - HN17.5 .S594 1996
U1  - 303.49 23
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Oxford, UK, Cambridge, Mass., [Geneva]
PB  - Blackwell Publishers, UNRISD
KW  - Social prediction
KW  - Social change
KW  - Social history
N1  - "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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