The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences
Published on 1. July 2000
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-963-9241-09-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of essays is dedicated to George Soros in honor of his seventieth birthday. The authors come from the different but intersecting worlds of academia, politics and business. The editors have chosen the title The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences to encourage the contributors to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach and in reference to the example of Giordano Bruno, who was burnt at the stake 400 years ago for holding heretic views which were probably far more backward than the views of those condemning him. The idea behind this approach was that any complex social process or political attempt to change the lives of people will have unintended consequences, usually paradoxical ones. These consequences should force us to reconsider our original theory. The volume also contains a short biography of George Soros and a list of his published works and philanthropic initiatives
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-9241-09-1 (9789639241091)
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Persons
Istvan Rev is the Director of the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives and Professor at the Department of History.
Yehuda Elkana (1934-2012) was historian and philosopher of science, former President and Rector of Central European University (1999-2009).
Aryeh Neier is an American human rights activist. He was the president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch.
William Newton-Smith is Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College, University of Oxford; Chairman at the Higher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute, Budapest.
Yehuda Elkana (1934-2012) was historian and philosopher of science, former President and Rector of Central European University (1999-2009).
Aryeh Neier is an American human rights activist. He was the president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch.
William Newton-Smith is Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College, University of Oxford; Chairman at the Higher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute, Budapest.
Content
List of Tables Preface. Yehuda Elkana I The Political Dimension 1 Man of the Year. Bronis?av Geremek 2 Hungary and the Open Society. Goencz Arpad 3 Travel Notes of an Eastern European in America. Andrei Plesu II The Social-Intellectual Dimension 4 The Strange (Re)Discovery of Corruption. Ivan Krastev 5 Music and Freedom: A Polemical History. Leon Botstein 6 Democracy in a Non-Democratic Society. Edmund Mokrzycki 7 Boors and Angels. Adam Michnik 8 Moral Universalism and the Nation State. Kis Janos III The Legal Dimension 9 Human Rights and Sovereignty. Aryeh Neier 10 The Constitutional Honeymoon Is Over. The Paradoxes of Post-Communist Constitution Making. Wiktor Osiatynski 11 Affordable Shame. Andras Sajo IV The Economic Dimension 12 Hidden in an Envelope: Gratitude Payments to Medical Doctors in Hungary. Janos Kornai 13 What Could the West Have Done to Help the East? Anders Aslund 14 Financial Crises, Exchange Rate Arrangements, and the IMF. Rudiger Dornbusch V The Historical Dimension 15 Medieval Central Europe: An Invention or a Discovery. Gabor Klaniczay 16 The Marginality of Totalitarianism. Alfred J. Rieber 17 The-Self-Not-Fulfilling Prophecy. Istvan Rev 18 Exile and Emigration. The Strange Survival of "German Culture". Wolf Lepenies VI The Philosophical Dimension 19 Science and an Open Society: Is the Scientific Community a Genuinely Open One? W. H. Newton-Smith 20 Giordano Bruno Nolanus: Authoritarian Sage and Martyr for Free Speech. Rivka Feldhay 21 Art History at the Crossroads. Hans Belting 22 Pornography and the Repressive Function. Henry Krips 23 Unexpected Consequences: Porfolio Screening and the Ethics of Trading. Mark Johnston Biography of George Soros Works by George Soros Books Op-Eds and Essays George Soros's Philanthtropic Initiatives (including foundations and programs) List of Contributors