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Alvin Weinberg and the promotion of the technological fix [PDF]

, 2018
The term “technological fix”, coined by technologist/administrator Alvin Weinberg in 1965, vaunted engineering innovation as a generic tool for circumventing problems commonly conceived as social, political or cultural.
Johnston, Sean F.
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From Revolutionary Nationalism to Orthodox Neoliberalism : How Nafta Contributed to Push Mexico into the Right-Wing Stranglehold

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2017
A century ago, Mexico experienced a revolution blending liberal institutions with quasi-socialist principles. However, this country is today one of the bastions of neoliberalism and the political right in the world. How was this radical change possible?I
Julián Castro-Rea
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Bioethical Quality of Life Concept Through the Eyes of Critics

Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2021
Bioethics is an interdisciplinary science that deals with the moral aspects of medicine, biotechnology and the value of life in general. Quality of life concept is the basis for one of the models of bioethics. Its supporters understand the value of human
Kateryna Rassudina
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La paradoja de la innovación inmóvil : reflexiones críticas sobre la mitología educativa de la agenda de Lisboa

Revista Española de Educación Comparada, 2010
Este artículo plantea un análisis deconstructivo de las retóricas sobre las que se fundamenta la «Estrategia de Lisboa», con la intención de desvelar su ideología implícita e identificar «la estructura del discurso» que la sostiene y la condiciona.
Anita Gramigna
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The Crisis of Technocracy

Amsterdam Law Forum, 2009
The European Union tries to be a responsible, technocratic, scientific regulator. As national governments struggle with populist calls for protectionism and state aid it preaches a co-ordinated, economically defensible recovery policy. Yet the paradox is that it was the experts who created the crisis, with complex systems and models that are now ...
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The technocratic reason in the government of emergency. A theoretical analysis on the management of the Covid-19 epidemic

Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2023
The assumption on which this contribution is based that in liberal democracies the "political space" represents the confrontational space of coexistence in which lives are governed by "legitimate" power of politics.
Emilio Gardini
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The International Politics of Ireland's EU/IMF Bailout [PDF]

, 2012
In 2010, Ireland’s financial crisis threatened the stability of the global financial system, precipitating an international rescue package of 85 billion euro.
Breen, Michael
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Industrialization management challenges during the second Pahlavi era [PDF]

تحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران
Extended abstract IntroductionEfforts to industrialize Iran before the era of Pahlavi II (Mohammad Reza Shah) were conducted outside of any coherent, structured plan and often executed in a directive manner.
najme sajjadi, Ali Bigdeli
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Unredeemed Marxism:political commitment in Bourdieu and MacIntyre [PDF]

, 2009
In different ways, Alasdair MacIntyre and Pierre Bourdieu owe an intellectual and political debt to Marxism. They belong to the same generation of critical scholars formed by an engagement with Marxism in the course of Cold War working class militancy ...
Law, Alex
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Expertocracy as thin-centered ideology: theoretical concepts and empirical illustrations

Political Research Exchange
The Covid-19 pandemic and looming prospect of climate change have brought a debate on the role of expertise and scientific knowledge in policymaking to the fore.
Veith Selk
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