The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics. By Ian Kumekawa. Pp. x, 332, Princeton/Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2017, $27.00This article has no associated abstract. ( fix it )doi:10.1111/heyj.13370Patrick Madigan...
The First Serious Optimist: A.C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics by Ian Kumekawa, by Ian Kumekawa, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2017, 352 p., Hardback £27.95, ISBN 978-0-691-16348-2Karen KnightCharles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia...
very serious. and from his pen we hear various human emotions of joy, happiness, worry and love.④On the whole, we get the impression that he played and sang through life and enjoyed it greatly, and when sadness came and unluckiness fell, he accepted them with a smile. That is the ...
Adj.1.chipper- having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" ...
To get a sense of the bleak and illusionless intelligence that animates Joshua Mehigan’s poetry, the best place to start is the title poem of his first collection, The Optimist.… continue reading...No comments This is the Life of the Mind By MJohnston July 8, 2006 Featured, Reviews...
So it's a welcome change, that people are studying instead the future of intelligence. We are aware of the potential dangers, but I am at heart an optimist, and believe that the potential benefits of creating intelligence are huge. Perhaps with the tools of this new...
that doesn’t have a large amount of sugar in it. This has come about because the prevailing scientific views of the 1960s and 1970s ignored the evidence about sugar, and instead saw fat as the really serious risk, both to the heart and other organs, as well as the cause of obesity....
“Don’t you think that, if I had not been the optimist I am, I could not have found in fifteen years some means to cut my throat? And, in the last instance, there were always the walls of my cell to dash my head against.” The shortness of breath took all fire, all animatio...
In particular, if we want to get serious abouttacklingthe world’s environmental problems, we need to be moreoptimistic. We need to believe that it is possible totacklethem. And if we do, we can be the first generation toachieveasustainableworld. ...
书名: The Rational Optimist 作者: Matt Ridley 副标题: How Prosperity Evolves 页数: 448 出版社: Harper 出版年: 2010-5-18 第1页 all But the vast majority of people are much better fed, much better sheltered, much better entertained, much better protected against disease and much ...