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Publisher: Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group (312) 337-0747
Pub. date: June 2023
ISBN: 978-1936192755
Format: Trade paperback
Retail price: $16.95
Dimensions: 7"x10"
No. of pages: 140The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities at Bard College
Volume 11: Rage & Reason
Edited by Roger Berkowitz
& Jana Schmidt
The question of whether rage can lead to justice matters today because rage is so prevalent in our politics. We live, as Pankaj Mishra argues, in an age of anger. Instead of experts, journalists, and civil servants who rationally produce an authoritative version of reality we all agree upon, social media and algorithms designed to induce rage have elevated feeling, emotion, anger, and rage. Democracies are being transformed by the onslaught of viral memes that replace rational consensus with the power of feeling. For this reason, we must take feelings like rage seriously as political issues. Should we embrace rage in the struggle for justice? Or should we worry that the algorithmically enhanced rage on social media is tearing us apart? And is there a way through technology, politics, or education to preserve our culture of reason against the onslaught of rage?
Contributors include:
Anna Argiro, Alexander R. Bazelow, Roger Berkowitz, Myisha Cherry, Yizhen Dai, William Davies, Antonia Grunenberg, Frances Haugen, Wolfgang Heuer, Catherine Holland, Marie Luise Knott, Jerome Kohn, Catherine Liu, Patchen Markell, Colin Megill, Pankaj Mishra, Ingeborg Nordmann, Jana Schmidt and Thomas Wild
Publisher: Henry George School of Social Science, New York, NY
Pub. date: 2018
Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 5"x7"
No. of pages: 190Progress and Poverty In Economics:
Henry George and How Growth in Real Estate Contributes to Inequality and Financial Instability
by Edward Nell, PhD.
A Project of Henry George School of Social Science
Henry George began his career as an author and public personality with Progress and Poverty, arguing that progress brought poverty in its wake and that poverty might even outpace progress—an important, original point of view that has not lost any of its relevance since George's time. In fact, in our age of burgeoning inequality it may be more relevant today than ever. The grounds for this paradoxical interlinking of progress and poverty lay in the effects of rising rents. For George, rents were payment—not for the use of land in the usual sense, but for pure access to specific spaces and locations. But why should some people have the right to limit others' access to the use of the earth; surely it belongs to all of us? Progress and Poverty In Economics plumbs this proposition, among others, as Nell drives to the crux of fair taxation and the economic foundation for a progressive and just establishment of the best means to the common good.
Edward Nell was born in 1935 in Riverside, Illinois, graduated from Princeton and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of East Anglia and the New School For Social Research in Manhattan, where he was the Malcolm B Smith Professor and served as Department Chair of economics in the graduate faculty. In the 1980s he joined his friend and colleague Bertell Ollman in designing, producing and marketing the political board game, Class Struggle. He has held teaching appointments in many countries (including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, the UK, Spain, and others) and has served as an advisor to many governments and non-profits, focusing on monetary policy, fiscal issues, and development.
His interests include issues of methodology and philosophy: Rational Economic Man with Martin Hollis (1976); and Rational Econometric Man with Karim Errouaki (2013). His main work concerns growth—with special attention to money and finance as the causes of instability and cycles: Transformational Growth and Effective Demand (1992); General Theory of Transformational Growth (1998).
Complementing this approach to growth is attention to public goods and the public sector: Prosperity and Public Spending (1988). Nell has retired from teaching and is now Chief Economist for the ECO Capacity Exchange (formerly Recipco) in London, which presents a specially created credit-currency. He is Vice-President of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York.