Blog Archives
Pages
Tag Archives: theories (exceptions and counter-examples to)
The Spirit Level and its Critics
“THE SPIRIT LEVEL” AND ITS CRITICS Extremes of financial inequality, their possible sources and their potential dangers, have lately become the focus of an increasing number of books and articles. This has been particularly true since the western financial … Continue reading
Posted in Synopses of Books
Tagged Beware False Prophets (book), inequality (financial), inequality (measures of), inequality (social/educational), Kate Pickett, Peter Saunders, Policy Exchange (U.K.), Richard Wilkinson, significance (statistical), Statistics (Inferential), The Spirit Level (book), theories (exceptions and counter-examples to)
Comments Off on The Spirit Level and its Critics
L. Kohr (1957) The Breakdown of Nations
A Synopsis Of Leopold Kohr’s Book The Breakdown of Nations (1957) WHY SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, NATURAL, IMPERATIVE, AND GENERALLY UNOBTAINABLE Every human life has its seasons. And so does every human society, organization, and culture. There are times … Continue reading
Posted in Synopses of Books
Tagged balance/equilibrium, democracy (facilitation of), diversity (importance of), economics (sustainable), growth (excessive), growth cycles, law of diminishing effect, Leopold Kohr, nations (sustainable), necessities & luxuries, organizations (sustainable), peace (facilitation of), political economy, power (abuse of), power (dangerous levels of), productivity (optimizing), quality of life (facilitation of), redundancies (importance of), size (optimizing), Small is Beautiful, temptation (human susceptibility to), The Breakdown of Nations, theories (exceptions and counter-examples to), theory of size, United Nations (weaknesses of), war (causes of)
Comments Off on L. Kohr (1957) The Breakdown of Nations