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Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to do the complexity of a phenomenon justice that is situated at the interface of ethics and economics, self and society, the real and the imaginary, and touches upon thrift and sobriety in the material sphere, but also modes of moderation more generally, not least in the spheres of food and drink, sex and power. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach drawing on ancient history, philology, archaeology and the history of thought, the volume traces the role of frugal thought and practice within the evolving political culture and political economy of ancient Rome from the archaic age to the imperial period and concludes with a chapter that explores the reception of ancient ideas of self-restraint in early modern times.
Thriftiness --- History --- Frugality --- Finance, Personal --- E-books --- History. --- Thriftiness - History
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In light of growing discourse on 'frugal innovation', this book offers novel approaches to innovation based on extensive empirical research. The study complements a decade of scholarly attention on frugal innovation by taking a research-based approach to innovation in resource-scarce and complex institutional contexts. The findings suggest that concepts such as frugal, reverse, jugaad, social, grassroots and inclusive innovation in fact represent heterogeneous assemblies of innovation for social, environmental and economic value. The conceptual framework invites attention to more plural sources and elements in the study of models of innovation to inspire further research in the fields of strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, economic sociology and development studies. The design framework offers models, metrics and competencies for practitioners and policymakers to identify, evaluate and design frugal innovations. The comprehensive view of frugal innovation demonstrates how firms can implement globally competitive strategies by pursuing innovation for humanity to improve lives for everyone, everywhere.
Creative ability in business. --- Thriftiness. --- Frugality --- Finance, Personal --- Business creativity --- Business --- Success in business
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This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau. The relationships between thrift and frugality, mindfulness, sustainability, and alternative consumption practices are explained, and connections made between myriad conceptions of thrift and contemporary concerns for how consumer cultures impact scarce resources, wealth distribution, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the book returns the reader to an understanding of thrift as it was originally used - to 'thrive' - and attempts to re-cast thrift in more collective, economically egalitarian terms, reclaiming it as a genuinely resistant practice.
Social history. --- Consumption (Economics) --- Thriftiness. --- Frugality --- Finance, Personal --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Thriftiness --- E-books --- abundance. --- austerity. --- de-growth. --- frugality. --- individualism. --- moralism. --- scarcity. --- simplicity. --- solidarity. --- thrift.
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"In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of a national movement that promoted an amalgam of values and practices ranging from self-control, money management, and efficiency to conservation, generosity, and planning for the future -- all under the rubric of 'thrift'. Emerging in tandem and in tension with the first flowerings of consumer society, the thrift movement flourished during the 1910s and 1920s and then lingered on the outskirts of American culture from the Depression to the prosperous mid-twentieth century. A post-World War II culture that centered on spending and pleasure made the early-twentieth-century thrift messages seem outdated. Nonetheless, echoes of thrift can be found in currently popular ideas of 'sustainability', and 'simplicity' and in efforts to curtail public and private debt."--Back cover.
Thriftiness --- Social movements --- Social values --- Saving and investment --- History --- Social aspects --- United States --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Accumulation, Capital --- Capital accumulation --- Capital formation --- Investment and saving --- Saving and thrift --- Frugality --- Capital --- Supply-side economics --- Wealth --- Investments --- Values --- Finance, Personal --- E-books
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Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse. But the notion that abstinence from consumption brings benefits to states, societies, or individuals is hardly new. This book puts the debates of our own day in perspective by exploring the long history of austerity-a popular idea that lives on despite a track record of dismal failure. Florian Schui shows that arguments in favor of austerity were-and are today-mainly based on moral and political considerations, rather than on economic analysis. Unexpectedly, it is the critics of austerity who have framed their arguments in the language of economics. Schui finds that austerity has failed intellectually and in economic terms every time it has been attempted. He examines thinkers who have influenced our ideas about abstinence from Aristotle through such modern economic thinkers as Smith, Marx, Veblen, Weber, Hayek, and Keynes, as well as the motives behind specific twentieth-century austerity efforts. The persistence of the concept cannot be explained from an economic perspective, Schui concludes, but only from the persuasive appeal of the moral and political ideas linked to it.
Consumption (Economics) -- History. --- Economic policy -- History. --- Saving and investment -- History. --- Thriftiness -- History. --- Consumption (Economics) --- Thriftiness --- Saving and investment --- Economic policy --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- History --- History. --- Accumulation, Capital --- Capital accumulation --- Capital formation --- Investment and saving --- Saving and thrift --- Frugality --- Capital --- Supply-side economics --- Wealth --- Investments --- Finance, Personal --- E-books
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Consumption (Economics) --- Saving and investment. --- Thriftiness. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Frugality --- Finance, Personal --- Accumulation, Capital --- Capital accumulation --- Capital formation --- Investment and saving --- Saving and thrift --- Capital --- Supply-side economics --- Wealth --- Investments --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Social aspects. --- E-books --- Political and Economic Anthropology, Sociology.
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Given the huge impact of the 2008 financial crash and post-crash austerity on so many people's lives, there is a need for a concise, accessible guide to the crash and its longer-term significance. Written by an expert in political science and straddling finance, economics and political science, this entry-level summary demystifies global finance and puts the financial crisis in its historical context.
Thriftiness. --- Saving and investment. --- Economic policy. --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- Economic policy --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Accumulation, Capital --- Capital accumulation --- Capital formation --- Investment and saving --- Saving and thrift --- Capital --- Supply-side economics --- Wealth --- Investments --- Frugality --- Finance, Personal --- Political aspects --- Debts, Public. --- Budget deficits. --- Fiscal policy. --- Income.
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If the financial crisis has taught us anything, it is that Americans save too little, spend too much, and borrow excessively. What can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? Beyond Our Means tells for the first time how other nations aggressively encouraged their citizens to save by means of special savings institutions and savings campaigns. The U.S. government, meanwhile, promoted mass consumption and reliance on credit, culminating in the global financial meltdown. Many economists believe people save according to universally rational calculations, saving the most in their middle years as they plan for retirement, and saving the least in welfare states. In reality, Europeans save at high rates despite generous welfare programs and aging populations. Americans save little, despite weaker social safety nets and a younger population. Tracing the development of such behaviors across three continents from the nineteenth century to today, this book highlights the role of institutions and moral suasion in shaping habits of saving and spending. It shows how the encouragement of thrift was not a relic of indigenous traditions but a modern movement to confront rising consumption. Around the world, messages to save and spend wisely confronted citizens everywhere--in schools, magazines, and novels. At the same time, in America, businesses and government normalized practices of living beyond one's means. Transnational history at its most compelling, Beyond Our Means reveals why some nations save so much and others so little.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
AA / International- internationaal --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 339.311.1 --- 339.320 --- 331.162.24 --- Spaarneiging. --- Consumptie: algemeenheden. Wet van de vraag in verband met de consumptie. Consumptiebehoefte. Behoeftetheorie. --- Geschiedenis van de spaarinstellingen. --- Thriftiness --- Frugality --- Capital movements. --- Saving and investment. --- Capital flight --- Capital flows --- Capital inflow --- Capital outflow --- Flight of capital --- Flow of capital --- Movements of capital --- Balance of payments --- Foreign exchange --- International finance --- Finance, Personal --- Accumulation, Capital --- Capital accumulation --- Capital formation --- Investment and saving --- Saving and thrift --- Capital --- Supply-side economics --- Wealth --- Investments --- Saving and investment --- Capital movements --- E-books --- Spaarneiging --- Consumptie: algemeenheden. Wet van de vraag in verband met de consumptie. Consumptiebehoefte. Behoeftetheorie --- Geschiedenis van de spaarinstellingen
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Popular virtue is the first in-depth study of the changing nature of moral politics within working-class Radicalism between 1820 and 1870. Through study of the lives, activism and intellectual influences of a number of key leaders of working-class Radicalism, this book highlights how Radicalism's attitudes to morality and everyday life shifted from a festive and libertarian culture that advocated sexual liberty and gender equality in the 1820s-30s to a more austere and ascetic politics that emphasized moral improvement, temperance and frugality after the 1840s. Despite the fracturing of this culture with the decline of Chartism in the 1850s, Popular virtue highlights how the moral politics of the 1840s possessed important legacies in not only the politics of Popular Liberalism and the Reform League but also in heterodox medicine and self-help.
Working class --- Radicalism. --- Radicalism --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Political activity. --- Political activity --- History --- Employment --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Chartism. --- Chartist activists. --- Chartist political culture. --- Henry Vincent. --- London Radicals. --- William Lovett. --- ascetic politics. --- education. --- electoral interventions. --- ethical radicalism. --- festive ethos. --- frugality LWMA. --- intellectual influences. --- libertarian culture. --- moral improvement. --- populist ethos. --- teetotalism. --- temperance. --- working-class moral politics. --- working-class people.
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The concept of self-motion is not only fundamental in Aristotle's argument for the Prime Mover and in ancient and medieval theories of nature, but it is also central to many theories of human agency and moral responsibility. In this collection of mostly new essays, scholars of classical, Hellenistic, medieval, and early modern philosophy and science explore the question of whether or not there are such things as self-movers, and if so, what their self-motion consists in. They trace the development of the concept of self-motion from its formulation in Aristotle's metaphysics, cosmology, and philosophy of nature through two millennia of philosophical, religious, and scientific thought. This volume contains "Self-Movers" (David Furley), "Aristotle on Self-Motion" (Mary Louise Gill), "Aristotle on Perception, Appetition, and Self-Motion" (Cynthia Freeland), "Self-Movement and External Causation" (Susan Sauvé Meyer), "Aristotle on the Mind's Self-Motion" (Michael Wedin), "Mind and Motion in Aristotle" (Christopher Shields), "Aristotle's Prime Mover" (Aryeh Kosman), "The Transcendence of the Prime Mover" (Lindsay Judson), "Self-Motion in Stoic Philosophy" (David Hahm), "Duns Scotus on the Reality of Self-Change" (Peter King), "Ockham, Self-Motion, and the Will" (Calvin Normore), and "Natural Motion and Its Causes: Newton on the 'Vis Insita' of Bodies" (J. E. McGuire).Originally published in 1994.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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.
Movement (Philosophy) --- Aristotle. --- Abstract and concrete. --- Ad hominem. --- Agency (philosophy). --- Akrasia. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Apprehension (understanding). --- Aristotelianism. --- Asymmetry. --- Averroes. --- Begging the question. --- Causal chain. --- Causal model. --- Causality. --- Concept. --- Conflation. --- Consciousness. --- Contradiction. --- Counterfactual conditional. --- Determinism. --- Direct evidence. --- Disposition. --- Dualism (philosophy of mind). --- Duns Scotus. --- Ex nihilo. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- Explanatory power. --- Extrapolation. --- First principle. --- Formal distinction. --- Four causes. --- Free will. --- Frugality. --- Good and evil. --- Great chain of being. --- Haecceity. --- Immanence. --- Individuation. --- Inference. --- Instant. --- Intentionality. --- Ipso facto. --- Lightness (philosophy). --- Logical possibility. --- Materialism. --- Mechanics. --- Moral responsibility. --- Naturalness (physics). --- Neoplatonism. --- Nous. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- On Generation and Corruption. --- On the Soul. --- Ontology. --- Original meaning. --- Parallelogram of force. --- Perpetual motion. --- Peter Olivi. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical theory. --- Philosophy of language. --- Philosophy. --- Physics (Aristotle). --- Physics. --- Posterior Analytics. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Propositional function. --- Proximate cause. --- Rational animal. --- Rationality. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Received view. --- Reductionism. --- Regress argument. --- Scholasticism. --- Sophistication. --- Square of opposition. --- Stoic physics. --- Stoicism. --- Substantial form. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supervenience. --- Syllogism. --- Teleology. --- The Freedom of the Will. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory of justification. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Tu quoque. --- Unmoved mover. --- Vital heat. --- W. D. Ross. --- Wickedness.
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