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Modernization Theory and Economic Development

Modernization Theory and Economic Development

Bret L. Billet

Praeger Publishers Inc
1993
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The debate between modernization theory and dependency theory has been waged for decades without either being fully accepted. Billet attempts to bridge the gap in that debate by evaluating the underlying causes of economic discontent in the developing world. The author's evaluation is based on a theoretical and empirical analysis of the interrelatedness of external forms of development capital and the implications of these patterns not only for modernization and dependency theorists but also for the least developed countries of the world. The purpose of this analysis is two-fold: (1) to evaluate the degree to which modernization and/or dependency theory is applicable to the experiences of developing countries; and (2) to evaluate why external capital flows have resulted in an overabundance of economically discontented developing countries.
Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability

Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability

Bret L. Billet

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
2023
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The Great Recession provided an opportunity to reconsider how to simultaneously enhance the well-being of individuals, corporations, countries, and the global environment. A half-century of vital environmental data demands examining several questions pertaining to the impact of a recession on sustainable environmental consumption. Does a recession provide an occasion for productive dialogue that might reconcile the ostensible incompatibility of economic and ecological rationales? Does it constitute an artificial “turning point” whereby appropriate incentives may induce productive change? Are post-recession environmental consumption patterns indicative of government encouragement, and corporate willingness, to pursue transformative environmental technologies? Alternatively, are the patterns illustrative of countries transferring their environmental consumption to other countries via international trade?Bret L. Billet argues that the simultaneous investigation of both the Ecological Modernization theory and the Ecological Unequal Exchange theory strengthens the present quantitative analysis, enhancing understanding of the recession, well-being, sustainable environment nexus. Each ecological theory is rooted in the politicized evolution of traditional theories of economic development. The introduction of an Aristotelean conception of development as well-being, an exceptionally large number of cases, and the analysis of multiple country subsets, results in a more robust inquiry as to the impact of the Great Recession on the global sustainable environment.
America's National Pastime

America's National Pastime

Bret L. Billet; Lance J. Formwalt

Praeger Publishers Inc
1995
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This examiniation of America's national pastime explores the dichotomous relationship between race and merit in professional baseball. It critically evaluates the role that race and performance play in determining the extent to which the sport is representative of a culture that continues to harbor racist attitudes. The authors look specifically at several interrelated variables as they pertain to baseball and players salaries: (1) merit-performance statistics, (2) experience/qualifications-number of years of experience in the major leagues, (3) environment-metropolitan size/economic support, (4) race-various categories of race, and (5) salary requirements-salaries during earlier years of players' careers. Significantly, the authors find that, based upon the statistical evidence from the late 1980s and early 1990s, merit plays a greater role in salary determination in professional baseball than does the issue of race, despite the continuing charges in the press of racism underlying professional sports.
The Shape of Difficulty

The Shape of Difficulty

Bret L. Rothstein

Pennsylvania State University Press
2019
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What is it about puzzles that drives us to figure them out? In this unique and innovative book, Bret L. Rothstein explores how mechanical problems delight and frustrate us, distracting our attention from recognizably “useful” activities and directing it toward something that may be even more important.All too often puzzles can seem like some kind of cruel test to be beaten or passed. But according to Rothstein, they really want nothing more than for us to drop what we are doing and play. In that way, they can actually enhance consciousness, as we are perhaps never more aware than when we grapple with an object that refuses to satisfy our expectations. The Shape of Difficulty is an ode to and exploration of these “unruly objects”—Rubik's cubes, geometric dissections, secret-opening boxes, string disentanglements, and so many more—that bring interpretive failure out of the shadows and allow it to take center stage in physical ways. While many puzzles may offer perceptible expressions of mathematical concepts, logical propositions, and logistical problems, this book urges readers to dwell for a while with objects that, built specifically to be misunderstood, demand that we reconsider our approaches to understanding—and, in the bargain, how we conceive of the interpretive self.Drawing on landmark theories of play, Rothstein’s richly illustrated meditation on our fascination with objects reveals the lasting allure of puzzles while underscoring the intellectual worth of doubt, failure, and idle time.
Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting

Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting

Bret L. Rothstein

Cambridge University Press
2005
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Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting examines the importance of vision as a narrative and thematic concern in works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Roger van der Weyden. Bret Rothstein argues that their paintings invited the viewer to demonstrate a variety of mental skills. Depicting religious visual experience, these works alluded to the imperceptibility of the divine and implicated the viewer's own experience as part of a larger spiritual and intellectual process. Rothstein demonstrates how and why the act of seeing became a highly valued skill, one to be refined and displayed, as well as a source of competition among both artists and patrons.
Description des royaulmes d'Angleterre et d'Escosse. Composè par Estienne Perlin. Par. 1558. Histoire de l'entree de la Reine Mere dans la Grande Bret
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T032337 Text in French with an introduction in English. London: re-printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for T. Payne and W. Brown, 1775. 2], xxiii, 1],42; 2], xii,3-58p., plates.; 4 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
L’Espace et la scène

L’Espace et la scène

Renaud Bret-Vitoz

Voltaire Foundation
2008
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Qui songerait aujourd’hui que la tragédie française, après l’apogée du XVIIe siècle, a été à l’origine d’innovations scéniques telles que la pantomime, le décor et le récit pittoresques? Qu’elle a préfiguré autant la suppression de l’unité de lieu que l’apparition de décors spectaculaires?A partir de cent pièces ayant connu le succès, Renaud Bret-Vitoz analyse ce tournant remarquable dans le théâtre du XVIIIe siècle où la tragédie, à l’instar de la poésie et du roman, accorde une fonction significative à l’espace. Il montre ainsi que le rapport des poètes à l’Histoire, source de l’invention, a modifié le choix du lieu de l’action. Puis il étudie l’écart entre espace imaginaire, où se déroule l’intrigue, et lieu matériel de la scène. Décoration, costumes et gestuelle accompagnent ce dépaysement de la tragédie, créant de saisissants paysages scéniques, comme lors des représentations de Sémiramis de Voltaire, où le spectacle l’emporte sur la beauté des vers.Dans cette étude riche en extraits de pièces, en analyses d’images et en anecdotes dramatiques, Bret-Vitoz offre la relecture d’une page méconnue de l’histoire du théâtre. Son livre intéressera à la fois les spécialistes de la tragédie du XVIIIe siècle et tous ceux qui s’intéressent à l’esthétique du théâtre.
L'amitié

L'amitié

Cyrille Bgorre-Bret

Editions d'Organisation
2012
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La collection "Petite philosophie des grandes id es" retrace, travers la pr sentation d'une dizaine de penseurs majeurs, le destin d'un concept-cl .Ainsi, ce livre raconte l'histoire de l'id e d'amiti , de l'Antiquit nos jours; chaque chapitre est consacr la pens e d'un philosophe dont l'auteur d gage les lignes de force.Illustr de citations de r f rence et d'exemples de la vie quotidienne, ce guide constitue une approche vivante et efficace de l'histoire de la pens e philosophique.Avec une pr face d'Andr Comte-Sponville.