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Politics and the search for the common good
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ISBN: 1316120473 1316121569 1107705924 1107068460 1107671132 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity of political forms and values only loosely related. He contrasts two traditions in political philosophy: a 'normative theorizing' that extends from Plato to John Rawls and a newer 'diagnostic practice' that emerged with Marx and Nietzsche and has found its three most prominent twentieth-century practitioners in Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. He then examines the sources of diagnostic political thinking, analyzes its achievements, and offers a critical assessment of its limitations. His important book will be of interest to a wide range of upper-level students and scholars in political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas.


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God vs. the gavel
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ISBN: 9781107087446 9781316104286 9781107456556 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Archaeology, heritage, and civic engagement
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ISBN: 1315433605 1315433613 1598746391 9781598746396 9781611327717 1611327717 9781598746372 1598746375 9781598746389 1598746383 9781315433615 9781315433585 9781315433592 1315433591 Year: 2014 Publisher: Walnut Creek, California

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The definition of "public archaeology" has expanded in recent years to include archaeologists' collaborations with and within communities and activities in support of education, civic renewal, peacebuilding, and social justice. Barbara Little and Paul Shackel, long-term leaders in the growth of a civically-engaged, relevant archaeology, outline a future trajectory for the field in this concise, thoughtful volume. Drawing from the archaeological study of race and labor, among other examples, the authors explore this crucial opportunity and responsibility, then point the way for the disci


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Systemic Ethics and Non-Anthropocentric Stewardship : Implications for Transdisciplinarity and Cosmopolitan Politics
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ISBN: 3319076566 3319076558 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book makes a case for rights and responsibilities to be expressed through a cosmopolitan, non-anthropocentric praxis based on responsibility for others and the environment.                   Systemic Ethics and Non-Anthropocentric Stewardship: Implications for Transdisciplinarity and Cosmopolitan Politics is divided into seven chapters. Systemic ethical praxis strives to respond to the vexed challenge of how to bridge the false dualism of pitting the environment versus profit. The book begins by providing readers with an understanding of the way in which cosmopolitanism (like all social concepts) is shaped by diverse definitions and applied differently by theorists with different assumptions and values and by those who engage in transformative praxis.                                                         It develops an argument based on considering the consequences of social, economic and environmental policy decisions for current and future generations of life. The next chapter critiques anthropocentricism and explores how policy makers develop agreements on what constitutes and supports the wellbeing of the planet rather than merely addressing the GDP. It emphasizes the continuum of all life and that the survival of human beings is dependent on recognizing our reliance on all forms of life on a sustainable planet.                                                                         The book then explores the options for social democracy and ways to enhance an ethical approach to post national governance to protect the fabric of life. The following chapters reflect upon the author’s own participatory action research process and examine the transformations that can arise through critical systemic thinking and practice. Next the book makes the case for systemic ethical governance that is able to manage consumption, before concluding with a summary of the praxis based on critical heuristics.  This is the companion book to Transformation from Wall Street to Wellbeing: Joining up the Dots through Participatory Democracy and Governance to Mitigate the Causes and Adapt to the Effects of Climate Change, also by the author. The two volumes comprise a series of essays that can be read separately and in any order or as chapters on a common theme, namely, “How should we live?”  .


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Privacy, big data, and the public good : frameworks for engagement
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ISBN: 9781107637689 9781107067356 1107637686 9781107590205 1107067359 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Cambridge university press,

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"Massive amounts of data on human beings can now be analyzed. Pragmatic purposes abound, including selling goods and services, winning political campaigns, and identifying possible terrorists. Yet 'big data' can also be harnessed to serve the public good: scientists can use big data to do research that improves the lives of human beings, improves government services, and reduces taxpayer costs. In order to achieve this goal, researchers must have access to this data - raising important privacy questions. What are the ethical and legal requirements? What are the rules of engagement? What are the best ways to provide access while also protecting confidentiality? Are there reasonable mechanisms to compensate citizens for privacy loss? The goal of this book is to answer some of these questions. The book's authors paint an intellectual landscape that includes legal, economic, and statistical frameworks. The authors also identify new practical approaches that simultaneously maximize the utility of data access while minimizing information risk."


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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures : What Can the International Community Do?
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ISBN: 1498317448 1498327680 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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Abstract What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of generations. Managing risks such as these becomes a global public good, whose benefits also cross boundaries, providing a rationale for collective action facilitated by the international community. Yet, as many public goods, provision of global public goods suffer from collective action failures that undermine international coordination. This paper discusses the obstacles to addresing these global risks effectively, highlighting their implications for the current juncture. It claims that remaining gaps in information, resources, and capacity hamper accumulation and use of knowledge to triger appropriate action, but diverging national interests remain the key impediment to cooperation and effectiveness of global efforts, even when knowledge on the risks and their consequences are well understood. The paper argues that managing global risks requires a cohesive international community that enables its stakeholders to work collectively around common goals by facilitating sharing of knowledge, devoting resources to capacity building, and protecting the vulnerable. When some countries fail to cooperate, the international community can still forge cooperation, including by realigning incentives and demonstrating benefit from incremental steps toward full cooperation.

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Risk --- Economics --- Common good. --- International cooperation. --- Cooperation, International --- Global governance --- Institutions, International --- Interdependence of nations --- International institutions --- World order --- Cooperation --- International relations --- International organization --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Uncertainty --- Probabilities --- Profit --- Risk-return relationships --- Economic aspects. --- Risk management. --- Financial Risk Management --- Taxation --- International Economics --- Environmental Economics --- Diseases: Contagious --- Macroeconomics --- Externalities --- Conflict --- Conflict Resolution --- Alliances --- Financial Crises --- Public Goods --- Health: Government Policy --- Regulation --- Public Health --- Other Economic Systems: International Trade, Finance, Investment and Aid --- Climate --- Natural Disasters and Their Management --- Global Warming --- Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General --- International Policy Coordination and Transmission --- Health Behavior --- Health: General --- Climate change --- Public finance & taxation --- Economic & financial crises & disasters --- Infectious & contagious diseases --- Health economics --- Tax incentives --- International cooperation --- Financial crises --- Communicable diseases --- Environment --- Health --- Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 --- Climatic changes --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 --- United States

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