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Schrijver, burger, sociaal-democraat : opstellen en toespraken over literatuur en politiek
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ISBN: 9029005939 Year: 1976 Publisher: Amsterdam Meulenhoff

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MBA admissions strategy : from profile building to essay writing
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ISBN: 1283338831 9786613338839 0335241182 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkshire, England : Open University Press,

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This accessible, well-written book is a must-have for the aspiring MBA applicant. The 2nd edition of MBA Admissions Strategy is an essential guide to the four aspects of a successful, competitive business school application.

L'ère des créateurs
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ISBN: 2870279159 Year: 2002 Volume: *3 Publisher: Bruxelles : Complexe,


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Malthus
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ISBN: 0674027299 0674027078 9780674027077 9780674419407 0674419405 9780674027299 0674419413 9780674728714 0674728718 9780674419414 0674263529 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succès de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly and that societies, both human and animal, tend to overstep the limits of natural resources in "perpetual oscillation between happiness and misery," he found himself attacked on all sides--by Romantic poets, utopian thinkers, and the religious establishment. Though Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. This book is at once a major reassessment of Malthus's ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment. Against the ferment of Enlightenment ideals about the perfectibility of mankind and the grim realities of life in the eighteenth century, Robert Mayhew explains the genesis of the Essay and Malthus's preoccupation with birth and death rates. He traces Malthus's collision course with the Lake poets, his important revisions to the Essay, and composition of his other great work, Principles of Political Economy. Mayhew suggests we see the author in his later writings as an environmental economist for his persistent concern with natural resources, land, and the conditions of their use. Mayhew then pursues Malthus's many afterlives in the Victorian world and beyond. Today, the Malthusian dilemma makes itself felt once again, as demography and climate change come together on the same environmental agenda. By opening a new door onto Malthus's arguments and their transmission to the present day, Robert Mayhew gives historical depth to our current planetary concerns.


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Utilitarianism and Malthus's virtue ethics : respectable, virtuous and happy
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ISBN: 9780415735360 9781315819235 9781317819240 9781317819257 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Routledge

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"The die-hard image of Malthus the ogre has not completely disappeared yet. And yet, Malthus showed no less concern than Adam Smith for the labouring poor. In order to make full sense of such expression of concern and to appraise their relevance in Malthus's work, we need to know what moral philosophy, what view of natural science, and what view of the "moral and political science" Malthus endorsed. This book reconstructs Malthus's meta-ethics, his normative ethics and his applied ethics on such topics as population, poverty, sexuality and war and slavery. They show how Malthus's understanding of his own population theory and political economy was that of sub-disciplines of moral and political philosophy. Empirical enquiries required in order to be able to pronounce justified value judgments on such matters as the Poor Laws. But Malthus's population theory and political economy were no value-free science and his non-utilitarian policy advice resulted from his overall system of ideas and was explicitly based on a set of familiar moral assumptions. It is mistaken to claim that Malthus's explanation of disharmony by reference to Divine Wisdom is extraneous to analysis and without influence on the theory of policy; it is true instead that theological consequentialist considerations were appealed to in order to provide a justification for received moral rules, but these were meant to justify a rather traditional normative ethics, quite far from Benthamite 'new morality'"--


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Professional Communication Skills for Business Studies
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ISBN: 1780075820 9781780075822 Year: 2009 Publisher: The Open University

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