The Unintended Consequences of Social Action
Author: Raymond Boudon
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1349043818
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Unintended Consequences of Human Actions
Author: Elena Ermolaeva
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2012-07-10
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0761854460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using a mixed-method approach, Unintended Consequences of Human Actions documents a wide range of unintended and unanticipated consequences of human actions. The major message is the urgent need to review a range of possible outcomes of human actions. During these fragile times 'looking down the road' has become imperative.
Unintended Consequences
Author: Edward Conard
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-04-30
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1591846307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Was our country’s economic success before the Crash of ‘08 built on false pretenses? Did we simply borrow and spend too much, or was something else really going on? The conventional wisdom now accuses Wall Street and the mortgage industry of using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners. Meanwhile, average Americans are blamed for increasing consumption to unsustainable levels by borrowing recklessly. And the tax policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations are blamed for encouraging reckless risk-taking. Edward Conard disagrees. In an attempt to set the record straight he presents a fascinating new case for how the economy really works, why the U.S. has outperformed other countries, what caused the financial crisis, and what improvements might better protect our economy without damaging growth.
Targeted Sanctions
Author: Thomas J. Biersteker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-17
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1107134218
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Sociology as Analysis of the Unintended
Author: Adriana Mica
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-27
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1351850237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions of social actors because of factors such as ignorance, error and complexity. This conventional approach, however, is now undergoing change under the influence of more encompassing shifts in framing in social sciences. Indeed, in the last few years, the study of the unintended has evidently moved from the question "What are the sources of the unintended?" to the inquiry "What is it that makes the unintended possible?" or "What risks, but also opportunities, do the unintended entail?" Explaining this puzzle in relation to the internal dynamics of sociology of unintended consequences, Adriana Mica makes an erudite journey in relation to its three main analytical frameworks, their semantic shifts, setbacks and theoretical revivals. Certainly, through the examination of the use of protective headgear in boxing, this volume renders explicitly the possibilistic turn not only in the specific research of the unintended, but in sociology more generally. Presenting the contributions of leading sociology theorists in a new light, Sociology as Analysis of the Unintended will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in fields such as theoretical sociology, sociology of substantive issues and sociology of sport.
Unintended Consequences of EU External Action
Author: Olga Burlyuk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1000596702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a conceptualisation of unintended consequences and addresses a set of common research questions, highlighting the nature (what), the causes (why), and the modes of management (how) of unintended consequences of the European Union’s (EU) external action. The chapters in the book engage with conceptual and empirical dimensions of the topic, as well as scholarly and policy implications thereof. They do so by looking at EU external action across various policy domains (including trade, migration, development, state-building, democracy promotion, and rule of law reform) and geographic areas (including the USA, Russia, the Western Balkans, the southern and eastern European neighbourhood, and Africa). The book contributes to the study of the EU as an international actor by broadening the notion of its impact abroad to include the unintended consequences of its (in)actions and by shedding new light on the conceptual paradigms that explain EU external action. This book fills the gap in IR and EU scholarship concerning unintended consequences in an international context and will be of interest to anyone studying this important phenomenon. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Spectator (Italian Journal of International Affairs). Chapters 1, 3, 7, 8 and 9 are available Open Access at https://www.routledge.com/products/9780367346492.
Unintended Consequences
Author: Marianne Dickie
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1925022455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book arose from an inaugural conference on Migration Law and Policy at the ANU College of Law. The conference brought together academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines and practice. The book is based on a selection of the papers and presentations given during that conference. Each explores the unexpected, unwanted and sometimes tragic outcomes of migration law and policy, identifying ambiguities, uncertainties, and omissions affecting both temporary and permanent migrants. Together, the papers present a myriad of perspectives, providing a sense of urgency that focuses on the immediate and political consequences of an Australian migration milieu created without due consideration and exposing the daily reality under the migration program for individuals and for society as a whole.
Unintended Consequences
Author: Deepak Lal
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780262621540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, based on the 1995 Ohlin Lectures, Deepak Lal provides an accessible, interdisciplinary account of the role of culture in shaping economic performance. Topics addressed include a possible future "clash of civilizations," the role of Asian values in the East Asian economic miracle, the cultural versus economic causes of social decay in the West, and whether modernization leads to Westernization. Lal makes an important distinction between material and cosmological beliefs, showing how both were initially shaped by factor endowments and how they have evolved in response to changing historical pressures in different civilizations. Lal's first major theme is the interaction of factor endowments, culture, and politics in explaining modern intensive growth in the West. The other major theme is the role of individualism--an inadvertent legacy of the medieval Catholic Church--in promoting this growth, and the strange metamorphoses this has caused in both the West's cosmological beliefs and the interaction between "the West and the rest." Lal takes account of the relevant literature in history, anthropology, social psychology, evolutionary biology, neurology, and sociology, and the economic history of the regions and cultures that form Eurasia. An appendix shows how the stories Lal tells can be described by four formal economic models.
The Invisible Hand in Economics
Author: N. Emrah Aydinonat
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2009-11-23
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0415569540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Addressing the controversial concept of the invisible hand, this book questions, examines and explicates the strengths and weaknesses of the concept by analyzing its paradigmatic examples such as Carl Menger's Origin of Money and Thomas Schelling's famous checkerboard model of residential segregation.
Sociological Ambivalence and Other Essays
Author: Robert King Merton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0029211204
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