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Adam Smith reconsidered: history, liberty, and the foundations of modern politics/ Paul Sagar.
No full textA radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him--and why he mattersAdam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral philosopher--one who was prepared to critique markets as well as to praise them. But Smith's contributions to political theory are still underappreciated and relatively neglected. In this bold, revisionary book, Paul Sagar argues that not only have the fundamentals of Smith's political thought been widely misunderstood, but that once we understand them correctly, our estimations of Smith as economist and as moral philosopher must radically change. Rather than seeing Smith as either the prophet of the free market, or as a moralist who thought the dangers of commerce lay primarily in the corrupting effects of trade, Sagar shows why Smith is more thoroughly a political thinker who made major contributions to the history of political thought. Smith, Sagar argues, saw war, not commerce, as the engine of political change and he was centrally concerned with the political, not moral, dimensions of--and threats to--commercial societies. In this light, the true contours and power of Smith's foundational contributions to western political thought emerge as never before. Offering major reinterpretations of Smith's political, moral, and economic ideas, Adam Smith Reconsidered seeks to revolutionize how he is understood. In doing so, it recovers Smith's original way of doing political theory, one rooted in the importance of history and the necessity of maintaining a realist sensibility, and from which we still have much to learn.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations to Adam Smith's Works -- Introduction -- 1 Commercial Society, History, and the Four Stages Theory -- 2 Domination, Liberty, and the Rule of Law -- 3 Smith and Rousseau, after Hume and Mandeville -- 4 Whose Corruption, Which Polity? -- 5 The Conspiracy of the Merchants -- Conclusion -- Index1 online resourc
O Verdadeiro Adam Smith - Paul Sagar
No full textNeste artigo, Paul Sagar tenta trazer uma nova perspectiva do filósofo inglês Adam Smith, trazendo à tona a sua filosofia moral e defendendo que o pensamento econômico atual distorce o que Smith realmente pensou. O professor de teoria política do departamento de economia política da King’s College London argumenta que desde o lançamento de A Riqueza das Nações em 1776 até os dias de hoje, a filosofia moral de Smith foi apartada de seu pensamento econômico e que muitas de suas principais formulações foram distorcidas pelos defensores do livre mercado. Sagar também diz que em tempos de polarização política, uma leitura mais cuidadosa tanto da filosofia moral quanto das ideias econômicas de Smith podem sugerir novas rotas para um postura mais ética na economia e na política
Review of “Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics” by Paul Sagar
No full textReview of “Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the
Foundations of Modern Politics” by Paul Sagar
Book review: Adam Smith reconsidered: history, liberty, and the foundations of modern politics by Paul Sagar
No full textIn Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics, Paul Sagar offers a new appraisal of the work of the influential economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith, retrieving Smith’s legacy from simplistic readings to show him as a complex thinker whose work matured, developed and shifted across his life. Anyone interested in Adam Smith or the history of political ideas should read this book, recommends Jake Scott. Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics. Paul Sagar. Princeton UP. 2022
Book review: Adam Smith reconsidered: history, liberty, and the foundations of modern politics by Paul Sagar
No full textIn Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics, Paul Sagar offers a new appraisal of the work of the influential economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith, retrieving Smith’s legacy from simplistic readings to show him as a complex thinker whose work matured, developed and shifted across his life. Anyone interested in Adam Smith or the history of political ideas should read this book, recommends Jake Scott. Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics. Paul Sagar. Princeton UP. 2022
Book review: Adam Smith reconsidered: history, liberty, and the foundations of modern politics by Paul Sagar
No full textIn Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics, Paul Sagar offers a new appraisal of the work of the influential economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith, retrieving Smith’s legacy from simplistic readings to show him as a complex thinker whose work matured, developed and shifted across his life. Anyone interested in Adam Smith or the history of political ideas should read this book, recommends Jake Scott. Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics. Paul Sagar. Princeton UP. 2022
Basic Equality
No full textWhat makes human beings one another’s equals? That we are “basic equals” has become a bedrock assumption in Western moral and political philosophy. And yet establishing why we ought to believe this claim has proved fiendishly difficult, floundering in the face of the many inequalities that characterise the human condition. In this provocative work, Paul Sagar offers a novel approach to explaining and justifying basic equality. Rather than attempting to find an independent foundation for basic equality, he argues, we should instead come to see our commitment to this idea as the result of the practice of treating others as equals. Moreover, he continues, it is not enough to grapple with the problem through philosophy alone—by just thinking very hard, in our armchairs; we must draw insights from history and psychology as well.Sagar writes that, as things stand, there appear to be no good arguments for believing in the truth of basic equality. Indeed, for much of Western intellectual history and social practice, basic inequality has been the default position. How is it then, Sagar asks, that in Western societies, in a period of less than a century, basic equality emerged as the dominant view? Sagar approaches this not as a mere philosophical puzzle, but as a dramatic historical development. In so doing, he shows us what is at stake when human beings treat one another as equals just because they are human beings
Development and Evaluation of Ternary Amorphous Solid Dispersion of Poorly Water-soluble Compounds
No full textPurpose: Ternary amorphous solid dispersion (TASD) containing an additional component compared to conventional binary ASD further enhances the effectiveness of this strategy. Recently, polyphenolic compounds such as curcumin (CUR) and resveratrol (RES) are shown to have synergistic antioxidant, chemo-preventive, chondroprotective, and anticancer activity. However, their poor aqueous solubility limits their oral application. The purpose of this study is to design, characterized, and evaluate a soluble and stable TASD containing CUR and RES with a hydrophilic polymer.
Methods: Choosing an optimum polymer can be considered as one of the most crucial activities during TASD development. We carried out commonly used polymer screening studies i.e. miscibility, crystallization tendency, Flory-Huggins interaction parameter, solubility parameter, as well as advanced studies (i.e., crystallization kinetics and molecular interaction). Upon selection of the optimum polymer, TASDs were prepared by rotary evaporation. Pure drugs, their physical mixtures (PM), binary, and ternary ASDs were characterized by XRD, DSC, TGA, FTIR, and Raman spectroscopy. A 2-step in-vitro dissolution was carried out, under non-sink condition using a USP-II apparatus. Centrifuged samples were analyzed by a UV-Vis method. Finally, the long-term stability of TASDs was evaluated at room temperature.
Results: The screening studies focused on the miscibility, crystallization inhibition, and interaction capability of polymer. From three different polymers (i.e., EPO, HPMCAS, and S100), the miscibility study indicated the best miscibility of CUR and RES with EPO. From the crystallization kinetics study, we inferred that EPO has a better crystallization inhibition effect than HPMCAS and S100. Finally, interaction studies confirmed that all three polymers have the potential for hydrogen bonding. Besides, EPO showed acid-base interaction with both CUR and RES. Thus, EPO was selected to formulate a stable TASD with enhanced solubility and stability. A high drug-loaded (50% w/w) TASD was prepared and characterized to be in amorphous form with a single Tg. Strong interaction was confirmed with both FTIR and Raman spectroscopy. From the in-vitro dissolution study, it was observed that the % dissolved concentration Of CUR and RES from 50% drug-loaded TASD was respectively ~197 times and ~4 times higher than the PM after 1 hour. These TASD formulations were stable at room temperature for 12 months.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Conversations with Paul Auster
No full textInterviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies.Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Translation -- Interview with Paul Auster -- An Interview with Paul Auster -- Memory's Escape-Inventing the Music of Chance: A Conversation with Paul Auster -- The Making of Smoke -- The Manuscript in the Book: A Conversation -- An Interview with Paul Auster -- The Futurist Radio Hour: An Interview with Paul Auster -- Paul Auster: Writer and Director -- Off the Page: Paul Auster -- Paul Auster: The Art of Fiction -- Jonathan Lethem Talks with Paul Auster -- A Conversation with Paul Auster -- The Making of The Inner Life of Martin Frost -- Interview: Paul Auster -- A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster -- Interview: Paul Auster on His New Novel, Invisible -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZInterviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Portrait of Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011 /
No full textTitle from nformation supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Podcast photograph of author Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
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