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I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model. Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts in modern economic thought, Ariel Rubinstein offers some powerful and entertaining reflections on his childhood, family and career. In doing so, he challenges many of the central tenets of game theory, and sheds light on the role economics can play in society at large. The book is as thought-provoking for seasoned economists as it is enlightening for newcomers to the field. Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind, describes Economics Fables as a "wonderfully inviting introduction to game theory, rich in personalities, history and sense of place. Ariel Rubinstein is not only a brilliant theorist with a knack for lucid exposition, but a gifted storyteller. Students will find the ideas surprisingly accessible. Aspiring scholars, wondering whether a life of the mind is worth pursuing, will find his personal journey of intellectual discovery thrilling."

By focusing on the human side as well as the intellectual dimensions of how economists work and think, this collection of interviews with top economists of the 20th century becomes a startling and lively introduction to the modern world of macroeconomics. A fun read! For more information, frequent updates, and to comment on the forthcoming book, visit William A. Barnett's weblog at http://economistmind.blogspot.com/. Acclaim for Inside the Economist's Mind ""In candid interviews, these great economists prove to be fabulous story tellers of their lives and times. Unendingly gripping for insiders, this book should also help non-specialists understand how economists think."" Professor Julio Rotemberg, Harvard University Business School, and Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics. ""Economics used to be called the 'dismal science'. It will be impossible for anybody to hold that view anymore ... This is science with flesh and blood, and a lot of fascinating stories that you will find nowhere else."" Dr. Jean-Pascal Be;nassy, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques, Paris, France ""This book provides a rare and intriguing view of the personal and professional lives of leading economists ... It is like A Beautiful Mind, scaled by a factor of 16 [the number of interviews in the book]."" Professor Lee Ohanian, University of California at Los Angeles "" ... if you want an insider view of how economics has been developing in the last decades, this is the (only) book for you."" Professor Giancarlo Gandolfo, University of Rome 'La Sapienza,' Rome

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Kant's Life and Work -- Part 1 Background to the Critical Philosophy -- 2 Physics -- 3 Kant and the Rationalist Tradition -- 4 Kant and the Empiricist Tradition -- Part 2 Transcendental Philosophy (Critique and Doctrine) -- A. Critical Part -- i. Theoretical Philosophy -- 5 The First Critique: Prefaces and Introduction -- 6 Transcendental Aesthetic -- 7 The Analytic of Concepts -- 8 The Analytic of Principles -- 9 The Schematism -- 10 The Transcendental Dialectic -- 11 Transcendental Doctrine of Method -- ii. Practical Philosophy -- 12 The Groundwork -- 13 The Second Critique: Preface and Introduction -- 14 The Analytic of Pure Practical Reason -- 15 Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason -- 16 Method of Pure Practical Reason -- iii. Teleological Philosophy -- 17 The Third Critique: Preface and Introductions -- 18 Analytic of the Beautiful -- 19 Analytic of the Sublime -- 20 Dialectic of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment -- 21 Analytic of Teleological Judgement -- 22 Teleological Power of Judgment - Dialectic -- 23 Method of the Teleological Power of Judgment -- B. Doctrinal Part -- i. Metaphysics of Morals -- 24 Kant's "Introduction" to the Metaphysics of Morals -- 25 Doctrine of Right -- 26 The Doctrine of Virtue -- ii. Religion -- 27 Religion -- 28 Kant on Religion and Theology -- iii. History and Politics -- 29 The Early Essays: Kant's Idea of History -- 30 The Later View: Kant on History and Politics -- iv. Anthropology -- 31 Anthropology -- 32 Kant on Universality and Accommodating Differences (Religious, Racial, Sexual, Gendered) -- v. Education -- 33 Moral Education -- vi. Logic, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences -- 34 Logic -- 35 Mathematics -- 36 Physics -- 37 Biology -- Part 3 Posthumous Writings and Lectures.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Moment -- Kierkegaard -- Jasper's Augenblick: The Border Situation -- Heidegger's Moments: The Pass, the Ground, the Clearing -- The Moment of Vision -- The Moment of Appearance from the Ground -- The Moment of Clearing -- Kafka: The Moment of Judging -- Benjamin: The Moment of the Jetztzeit -- Arendt's Moment and the Critique of Heidegger -- Chapter 3 The Beautiful -- Villa and Markell: The Posture of the Political -- Karl Jaspers's New Political Geography -- The Beautiful in Past, Present, and Future -- The Beautiful and the Life of the Mind -- The Beautiful, Amor Mundi and World -- Chapter 4 Judgment -- Karl Jasper's Phenomenological Kant -- The Beautiful and Arendt's Theory of Judgment -- Chapter 5 Spirit -- A Heterodox Kant -- Imagining the Ineffable and Judgment as Legislating -- Imagination, Spirit, and Aesthetic Ideas -- Implications -- Chapter 6 Res publica -- Freedom and the Moral Life of Downtown -- Hanna Arendt: Civic Republican, Neo-Roman Republican, or What? -- Arendt's Theory of Property -- Property and the Recovering the Real World -- Examples of Radical Republican Property -- Property for Everyone? -- Chapter 7 Conversations -- Hannah Arendt's Aesthetic Politics -- Models of Democratic Discourse -- Political Liberalism -- Deliberative Democracy -- Agonistic Democracy -- The Public Conversations Project as Arendtian Public Reason -- Freedom and the Beautiful: Findings from Participant Observation -- Bibliography -- Index.

Uriah Kriegel presents a rich exploration of the systematic thought of the great 19th-century philosopher Franz Brentano, and its importance to the subsequent development of philosophy. Kriegel sets out Brentano's unified theories of the true, the good, and the beautiful in an accessible way

Editors' Introduction -- Beautiful Minds in Dialogue -- Karin Peter and Nikolaus Wandinger -- Notes on the English Translation -- The Girard-Schwager Correspondence, 1974-1991 -- List of Publications -- Cited in the Correspondence -- List of Who's Who in the Correspondence -- Index.

Crossing the assembly line : skills, knowledge, and the borders of fashion -- All in the family? : kin, gifts, and the networks of fashion -- The cultural economy of Asian chic -- "Material Mao" : fashioning histories out of icons -- Asia on my mind : transnational intimacies and cultural genealogies

In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as 'strong Muslims', his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. This ends when, as he leaves the university following a demonstration, he is arrested. Prison, a return to life on the outside, and attending Cairo University all lead to Khaled al-Berry'seventual alienation from radical Islam. This book opens a window onto the mind of an extremist who turns out to be disarmingly like many other clever adolescents, and bears witness to a history with whose reverberations we continue to live. It also serves as an intelligent and critical guide for the reader to the movement's unfamiliar debates and preoccupations, motives and intentions. Fluently written, intellectually gripping, exciting, and often funny, Life is More Beautiful than Paradise provides a vital key to the understanding of a world that is both a source of fear and a magnet of curiosity for the west

"The Harvard Business Review looked at 300 of the most creative, successful executives in business and found that they shared a number of tendencies and characteristics, but one stood out at the top of the list--they all were master questioners. It's not necessity, but a question--a "beautiful" question--that is the mother of invention. The world's leading innovators, inventors, business entrepreneurs, and creative minds, seem to be exceptionally good at asking questions. For some, their greatest successes--their breakthrough inventions, hot startup companies, the radical solutions they'd found to stubborn problems--could be traced to a "beautiful" question, or series of questions, they'd formulated and then answered. Innovator and writer Warren Berger, who's been asking questions his entire life, brilliantly captures these innovative query-makers to try and determine what makes a question particularly beautiful, from Tim Westegren wondering how to "map the DNA of music," a project that would grow into the wildly successful Pandora internet radio service, to Abby Brown, creating a school desk with a raised seat as she thought about how she could accommodate some fidgeting students. As A More Beautiful Question will illustrate, whether we're solving tough personal or professional problems, rejuvenating businesses, or schools, or government, or re-inventing the ways we live... it all begins with asking the right questions"--

Machine generated contents note: Table of ContentsIntroduction: Preaching the Particular -- Part One: News Cycles -- 1. The Fear Gauge (October 12, 2008) -- 2. Love (May 17, 2009) -- 3. Who Sinned? (April 3, 2011) -- 4. Uprising (May 10, 2015) -- 5. War on Mercy (December 6, 2015) -- 6. Speaking Your Mind (February 12, 2017) -- 7. Protest (September 10, 2017) -- 8. Inbound (January 21, 2018) -- 9. Hear, O Israel (November 4, 2018) -- 10. Insurrection (January 10, 2021) -- Part Two: Culture Happens -- 11. Superheroes (July 8, 2012) -- 12. The Mayan Calendar (December 2, 2012) -- 13. The Reckless Shepherd (September 11, 2016) -- 14. The Keepers (November 5, 2017) -- Part Three: Church Life -- 15. The Gospel of Life (October 4, 2009) -- 16. Sede vacante (March 3, 2013) -- 17. Nasara (August 17, 2014) -- 18. Family (October 4, 2015) -- 19. Manna Gathering (August 4, 2018) -- 20. Grand Jury (August 25, 2018) -- 21. Saint Oscar Romero (October 13, 2018) -- Part Four: Feasts and Festivals -- 22. Mary and the Fire-Folk (August 15, 2010) -- 23. Scarcity and Abundance (June 2, 2013) -- 24. We Rise (June 1, 2014) -- 25. Immortal Diamond (March 27, 2016) -- 26. Witness Protection (May 8, 2016) -- 27. Security Strategy (December 24, 2017) -- 28. Hope for Everything (January 13, 2019) -- 29. Church Fires (April 21, 2019) -- Part Five: Corona Time -- 30. Social Distancing (March 15, 2020) -- 31. Inhabiting Suffering (April 10, 2020) -- 32. On Not Returning to Normal (April 12, 2020) -- 33. A New Nearness (May 24, 2020) -- 34. "I Can't Breathe" (May 30, 2020) -- Part Six: Beginnings and Endings -- 35. Theo, Mary, and Ruby (May 2, 2010) -- 36. Restless Hearts (January 21, 2014) -- 37. Of Whales and Fleas (October 8, 2016) -- 38. Current (June 29, 2019).

"Making Knowledge presents the work of leading anthropologists who promote pioneering approaches to understanding the nature and social constitution of human knowledge. The book offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the subject and covers a rich and diverse ethnography. Presents cutting-edge research and theory in anthropology. Includes many beautiful illustrations throughout. The contributions cover a rich and diverse ethnography. Offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the eternal questions concerning 'human knowledge' Contributions by leading scholars in the field who explore a wide range of disciplines through an anthropological perspective"--Provided by publisher

Perceptions of public health : the gaps between insiders and other leaders / Moriah Gendelman -- Communicating for change : how we deliver our ideas matters / Nat Kendall-Taylor -- Winning words and strategic stories : building public support for public health / Doug Hattaway and Eric Zimmermann - Tools : effective messaging and storytelling for public health / Mark Miller and Rachel Locke -- How to tell impactful stories / Soledad O'Brien and Rose Arce -- Think like a marketer : find your hook, make it beautiful, and humanize the numbers / Sarah Martin, with contributions by Anna Duin.

Beginnings hold power and promise for what is to come. As We Begin offers a scholarly yet energizing perspective on the beautiful complexity of teaching and learning during a child's foundational years. Henteleff brings together insights from big thinkers in education alongside research from Mind, Brain, and Education, and her own experiences in the classroom to explore the important role of early childhood educators and education in a way that is at once, serious, conversational, and inspiring. Explaining and applying important concepts from the science of teaching and learning in practical classroom terms, she examines the role of play, literacy, numeracy, creativity, and imagination as integrated and essential components of developing a child's intellectual curiosity. As We Begin offers ideas, rather than prescriptions, for a balanced early childhood educational program.

1. Introduction -- 2. Conservatism and Social Criticism: Pascal on Faith, Reason, and Politics -- 3. Giambattista Vico and Democratic Pluralism: Lessons for Deliberative Democracy -- 4. A Modest Spinozist: George Eliot and the Limits of Rationalism -- 5. Projections Upon the Void: Irving Babbitt's Critique of Naturalism -- 6. Carl Schmitt's Exceptional Critique of Rationalism -- 7. Moral Man in a Morally Irrational World: Max Weber and the Limits of Reason -- 8. The Moral Personality of Mikhail Bulgakov -- 9. Nec Spe Nec Metu: Philosophic Catharsis in Karl Löwith's Meaning in History -- 10. Metaphor, Meaning, and Mind: Knowledge and Imagination in Owen Barfield -- 11. Rings and Rationalism: Tolkien's Tales Against Domination -- 12. Shedding the Shackles of Rationalism -- 13. Beautiful Minds: Gregory Bateson on Ecology, Insanity, and Wisdom -- 14. Robert Nisbet: Art, History, and the Anti-Rationalism of Sociological Methodology -- 15. Elizabeth Anscombe on Rationalism -- 16. A.C. Graham on Rationalism, Irrationalism, and Anti-Rationalism ("Aware Spontaneity") -- 17. Intention, Intellect, and Imagination: Stuart Hampshire's Pluralism -- 18. Rationality and Tradition in Roger Scruton's Thought -- 19. A Counter-Enlightenment of the Present: A Defense of John Grays' Modus Vivendi Liberalism.

I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model. Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts in modern economic thought, Ariel Rubinstein offers some powerful and entertaining reflections on his childhood, family and career. In doing so, he challenges many of the central tenets of game theory, and sheds light on the role economics can play in society at large. The book is as thought-provoking for seasoned economists as it is enlightening for newcomers to the field. Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind, describes Economics Fables as a "wonderfully inviting introduction to game theory, rich in personalities, history and sense of place. Ariel Rubinstein is not only a brilliant theorist with a knack for lucid exposition, but a gifted storyteller. Students will find the ideas surprisingly accessible. Aspiring scholars, wondering whether a life of the mind is worth pursuing, will find his personal journey of intellectual discovery thrilling".