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1. Translation technique and textual criticism -- 2. Biography and cultural history -- 3. The classification of the sciences and methods of research and teaching -- 4. Philosophy -- 5. Natural science -- 6. Medicine -- 7. Geometry, arithmetic and optics -- 8. Geography and astronomy -- 9. Musicology -- 10. Mechanics -- 11. The occult sciences -- 12. Literature and art.

1 Introduction -- 2 The Greek Heritage in Economic Thought -- The Old Art of Political Economy -- 3 Biblical and Early Judeo-Christian Thought: Genesis to Augustine -- Some Socioeconomic Aspects of Judaic Thought -- 4 Islamic Economic Thought -- Continuity and Change in Islamic Economic Thought -- 5 Scholastic Economics -- Scholastic Economics -- 6 The Development of Mercantilist Economic Thought -- The Language of Mercantilism -- 7 In Search of Economic Order: French Predecessors of Adam Smith -- The International Foundations of Classical Political Economy in the Eighteenth Century: An Alternative Perspective -- 8 The Scottish Enlightenment and Political Economy -- The Scottish Enlightenment: Evaluation of Origins.

In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations.

In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations.

Intro -- Arab Civilization -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Note -- Preface -- Part I. The Man and His Work -- Constantine K. Zurayk: Advocate of Rationalism in Modern Arab Thought -- Humanism and Secularism in the Modern Arab Heritage: The Ideas of al-Kawākibī and Zurayk -- Part 2. The Classical Heritage -- On the Use of Islamic History: An Essay -- The Expression of Historicity in the Koran -- Equity and Islamic Law -- The Devolution of the Perfect State: Plato, Ibn Rushd, and Ibn Khaldun -- al-Khwārizmī's Concept of Algebra -- Ibn Khaldun, the Father of Economics -- A Mamlūk "Magna Carta -- Part 3. The Modern Age: Challenges and Responses -- The Memoirs of Nubar Pasha as a Source for the Social History of Egypt -- The Neopatriarchal Discourse: Language and Discourse in Contemporary Arab Society -- The Interplay Between Social and Cultural Change: The Case of Germany and the Arab Middle East -- Criticism and the Heritage: Adonis as an Advocate of a New Arab Culture -- Aḥmad Amīn and 'Abbās Maḥmūd al-'Aqqād Between al-Quadīm and al-Jadīd: European Challenge and Islamic Response -- Amīn al-Rīḥānī and King 'Abdul-'Aziz Ibn Sa'ūd -- A Reinterpretation of the Origins and Aims of the Great Syrian Revolt, 1925-27 -- The Social and Economic Structure of Bāb-al-Muṣallā (al-Mīdān), Damascus, 1825-75 -- Imperial Germany: A View from Damascus -- The Egyptian Press under Nasser and al-Sadat -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

This groundbreaking study of finance procedures and documents for the Ottoman Empire's post-classical age introduces sources for economic and social history, provides comparisons with other early modern European states and revises the concept of Ottoman decline.

This study examines for the first time the finance procedures and documents of the post-classical Ottoman Empire. It provides an overview of institutional and monetary history and a detailed description of assessment and collection processes for Cizye, Avariz and Iltizam -collected taxes, the documents produced by these processes, and the information they contain. The finance department's detailed record-keeping, procedural continuity, and provision of economic justice made it a bulwark of stability in a period of turmoil. For specialists, this book introduces a multitude of sources on the economic and social history of the post-classical age, while for comparativists it places the empire in its seventeenth-century context. It links Ottoman administrative change with early modern state formation and reformulates the seventeenth century as a period of consolidation, not decline

1. Ethical Vision of Management: A Vedantic Outline -- 2. Holistics For Human Values: Retrospect and Prospect -- 3. Managerial and Corporate Ethico-Morality: The Indian Response -- Appendix: Tagore, Vivekananda, Gandhi and Aurobindo on Ethics -- 4. Ethics for Individual Motivation or Inspiration? -- Appendix: The Magnum Banking System-Stock Exchange Scam -- 5. Leadership Behaviour or Leadership Character? -- Appendix: The Great Leadership Succession Scam -- 6. Leadership Transformation: Insights from the Shastras -- 7. Transforming Work Ethos: The Subjective Secret -- 8. The Source of Ethics and Values: Secular Rationality or Sacred Rationality? -- 9. Work-Ethic plus Ethics-in-Work: A Few Classical Values -- 10. The Indian Heritage and Productivity: A Reappraisal

Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous formal constraints on women's public activity, but many women in Rome's leading families wielded substantial political and social influence. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Main description: Thomas Biersteker evaluates the sources of Third World economic nationalism and assesses the significance of the changes that have taken place between North and South since the early 1970s. Neo-classical and neo-Marxist approaches to international and comparative political economy are explored to develop methods and select criteria for the assessment of major change.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Notes -- Does Philosophy Still Have a Purpose? (1971) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Notes -- The German Idealism of the Jewish Philosophers ( 1961) -- Karl Jaspers: The Figures of Truth (1958) -- Martin Heidegger: The Great Influence (1959) -- Ernst Bloch: A Marxist Schelling (1960) -- Resistances to Utopia, Literary and Psychological -- The Heritage of Jewish Mysticism -- Matter as World Soul and Technology without Violence -- The Extravagance of Utopia and the Melancholy of Fulfillment -- Notes -- Karl Löwith: Stoic Retreat from Historical Consciousness (1963) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Notes -- Theodor Adorno: The Primal History of Subjectivity-Self-Affirmation Gone Wild (1969) -- Arnold Gehlen: Imitation Substantiality (I970) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Notes -- Walter Benjamin: Consciousness-Raising or Rescuing Critique ( 1972) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- Notes -- Herbert Marcuse: On Art and Revolution (1973) -- Hannah Arendt: On the Concept of Power (1976) -- Power in Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, and Hannah Arendt -- The Structure of Unimpaired Intersubjectivity -- Some Applications of the Communications Concept of Power -- Limits of Classical Theory -- Strategic Competition for Political Power -- Deploying Power in the Political System -- Communicative Engendering of Power-a Variation -- Notes -- Hans-Georg Gadamer: Urbanizing the Heideggerian Province (1979) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Notes -- Gershom Scholem: The Torah in Disguise ( 1978) -- Notes -- EULA.