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"A fascinating, exciting story." — Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful MindWhile still in his early 20s, and under Hitler's shadow, Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz (1917-2008) left his home in Warsaw, Poland, seeking safety and a degree at the London School of Economics. The following years, while challenging and potentially life-threatening, contained the seeds of a lifelong intellectual adventure. Leo's story is personal (born a refugee, precarious war years for himself and his Polish-Jewish family, a new life in America), global (revolutions, wars, depressions), ideological (socialism, capitalism, economic planning, free markets) and professional (a sixty-year career as a professor of economics leading ultimately to a Nobel Prize). This book tells his story

Sociology has developed theories of social change in the fields of evolution, conflict and modernization, viewing modern society as essentially unstable and conflict driven. However, it has not seriously studied catastrophe. A Theory of Catastrophe develops a sociology of catastrophes, comparing natural, social and political causes and consequences, and the social theories that might offer explanations. A catastrophe is a general and systematic breakdown of social and political institutions resulting, among other things, in what we could call a catastrophe consciousness. The Greek 'cata-strophe' formed the conclusion to a dramatic sequence of strophes. The cata-strophe was the final act of a drama, namely its denouement. Catastrophic denouements are without hope: genocides, military occupations, plagues, famines and earthquakes. A Theory of Catastrophe analyzes Pompeii, the Black Death, colonial genocide in North America, WWI and the Spanish Flu, and Nazi Germany and finally this century: terrorism, new wars, climate change and pandemics. As a study of sociological theory, Bryan Turner discusses Spengler's Decline of the West, Marxism as a theory of catastrophic capitalism, messianic movements, Weber on modernity, and risk society. He concludes by comparing optimism and pessimism, and the idea of inter-generational justice

Der Leipziger Kommentar setzt auch in der 13. Auflage die Maßstäbe für die Wissenschaft zum materiellen Strafrecht. In 20 Bänden beleuchtet das hochkarätige Autorenteam das Strafgesetzbuch sowie das Völkerstrafgesetzbuch in allen Facetten und mit bemerkenswerter Tiefe; dabei bleibt keine Frage unbeantwortet. Von der Entstehungsgeschichte über Reformfragen, bis hin zu rechtsvergleichenden Darstellungen sowie unter Einschluss verwandter Rechtsgebiete wie der Kriminologie und des Völkerstrafrechts findet der Benutzer eine erschöpfende Darstellung und wissenschaftliche Aufbereitung der gesamten Materie. Der Großkommentar gibt den gegenwärtigen Erkenntnisstand in Rechtsprechung und Literatur vollständig wieder und bietet Hilfe zur Lösung auch entlegener Probleme. Band 15 kommentiert die Vorschriften des Dreiundzwanzigsten Abschnitts des Besonderen Teils des StGB (§§ 267 bis 282 StGB), deren Gegenstand die Tatbestände der Urkundenfälschung sowie die Vorschriften des Vierundzwanzigsten Abschnitts zu den Insolvenzstraftaten (§§ 283 bis 283d StGB)

Mit der Frage nach den Kulturen und Medien, den Gesten und Praktiken des Empfangens verbindet sich ein weites Bedeutungsfeld. Dieses betrifft mit dem Empfänger und den Empfangsgeräten nicht nur eine zentrale Instanz der Medien- und Informationstheorie, sondern kreist ebenso um die sozialen Praktiken der Empfangenden und Entgegennehmenden: Phänomene wie Gabe und Gastfreundschaft, um das Urteil, die Strafe, aber auch die Vergebung, mithin um Fragen des Juridischen, des Ethischen und der Macht. Was geschieht, wenn wir all diese Phänomene nicht von ihrer aktiven Seite, von der Seite des Absenders, des Gebers und der Gabe, aus denken, sondern von der vermeintlich passiven Seite ihres Empfangens? Welche kulturellen Formen des Empfangens, welche Gesten und Praktiken und medialen Effekte verbinden sich mit der Annahme und Aufnahme? Welche Formen der Empfangsbestätigung aber auch der Annahmeverweigerung, des Widerstands und des renitenten Umgangs konturieren das Empfangen als kulturelle Praxis?

Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk explores the shifting functions of the network as a metaphor, model, and as an epistemological framework in US American literature and culture from the 19th century until today. The book critically inquires into the literary, cultural, philosophical, and scientific rhetoric, values, and ideological underpinnings that have given rise to the network concept. Literature and culture play a major role in the ways in which networks have been imagined and how they have evolved as conceptual models. This study regards networks as historically emergent and culturally constructed formations closely tied with the development of knowledge technologies in the process of modernization as well as with an increasingly critical awareness of network technologies and infrastructures. While the rise of the network in scientific, philosophical, political and sociological discourses has received wide attention, this book contributes an important cultural and historical perspective to network theory by demonstrating how US American literature and culture have been key sites for thinking in and about networks in the past two centuries

As essential components of globalization, the study of practices and processes of space formation promotes a nuanced understanding of globalization. How do people create spaces for social action under the global condition, especially since the nineteenth century, when global interconnectedness increased rapidly? We explore the problem through specific case studies. Anthropologists, historians, geographers, sociologists, global studies scholars, and cultural studies scholars examine the agency of, e.g., members and staff of African regional organizations, Indian migrant workers, female GDR activists, Soviet planning experts, or US novelists. By studying elites as well as middle-class and micro-entrepreneurs – i.e. more and less influential actors – we encourage reflection on the relationship between power and space and examine how spatial entrepreneurs attempt to influence the shaping of space and their spatial literacy. The analysis aims at a better understanding of the different globalization projects, their crisis-like clashes, and the resulting conflictual development of spatial orders

Using Puerto Rico as a model, Pantojas-Garcia explores the political process that led to the formulation of export-oriented development strategies and presents the alternative view that such strategies are ideological contructs that express the political and economic interests of dominant class coalitions, not of society as a whole