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Études internationales
Economic Integration and Development. Has Regionalism Delivered for Developing Countries ? Kreinin, Mordechai et Michael G. Plummer. Cheltenham, uk, Edward Elgar, 2002, 192 p2004 •
Études internationales
Yves Bourdet, Joakim Gullstrand et Karin Olofsdotter (dir.), The European Union and Developing Countries. Trade, Aid and Growth in an Integrating World. 2007, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 223 p2009 •
Revue de l'OFCE
Fonds structurels, effets de débordement géographique et croissance régionale en Europe2008 •
2017 •
The European economic and monetary integration of Portugal should be analyzed from a historical perspective, taking into account not only economic but also political aspects. Despite its colonial heritage, Portugal is a country of emigrants in which Europe holds a very important part. Portuguese people have a European feeling they do not forget a dictatorship that has lasted almost half a century. The incomes of Portuguese are nowadays much higher as also the level of fixed capital - especially in infrastructure - and human capital than before European integration. The recent economic problems of the Portuguese economy are the result of imbalances that developed during the years after the Democratic Revolution. The absence of more appropriate policies for a monetary zone with a fixed exchange rate and with financial shocks caused by the reduction of interest rates and the massive entry of structural funds is responsible for the poor performance of the Portuguese economy after 2002 A...
Revue Internationale et Strategique
La politique étrangère du portugal: Européanisme, atlantisme, ou les deux? | Portuguese foreign policy: Europeanism, atlanticism or both?2006 •
Études internationales
The European Union and Interregionalism, Mathew Doidge, 2011, Farnham, uk, Ashgate, 217 p2013 •
2024 •
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. - Voltaire Mannheim and Historical Synergy: Mannheim's argument was pretty much common sense - that the economic - political reality would be a profound influence on worldviews and the social sciences - philosophy, psychology, political science - and even spiritual and religious views. Common sense would seem to dictate that peoples' worldviews and orientations would necessarily adopt and adjust to the economic-political “reality” and “the physical world” they live in. Historically that has proved to be a good rule of thumb - though not perfect pattern as it were. Mannheim's worldview was in line with many other philosophers of his time - Nietzsche, Gasset, etc. And as Voltaire observed, “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.” Unfortunately, even with scholars and scientists today that is too true. For perspective, there is a big difference between reason and rational analysis. Rational analysis is viewed by some as inherently good. Rational analysis is a tool – used by the Nazi’s to improve the efficiency of their death camps or by scientists to improve food production. Similarly, there is a huge difference between the Age of Reason and this new Age of Materialism. The widespread view of truth as conditional and in part a product of social convention (Nietzsche or circumstances (Gasset), materialist thinking and methodology is intolerant and absolute because of the emphasis on quantification Esther, the administrator for a "neuroscience" FB group, sent me a message stating, “Esther ************ Charles Peck Jr "there are theorists from years ago who were not as scientific as more modern theorists. That is because we follow the scientific method and therefore our theories are raised from scientific deduction through the empirical method. Our practices today are not just cooked up in simple observations or hearsay. Practices and approaches are not philosophies but scientifically repeatable theories and laws (not just hunches and hypothesis).” From discussions, I would say that view of science in terms of an absolute is common and widespread. Nietzsche, Gasset and Mannheim were discarded by the new materialists. They also ignore modern neuroscientists like Damasio. Antonio Damasio, the famous neuroscientist states, in Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (2005), “I am skeptical of science’s presumption of objectivity and definitiveness. I have difficulty in seeing scientific results, especially in neurobiology, as anything but provisional approximations.” Materialist Methodology “severely restricts and limits the analyses that can be performed The bottom line is materialists ‘came into power’ and became the dominant force in the academic institution – and brought with them the argument that quantification makes science infallible. From a purely scientific view – it is the opposite as McGilChrist points out. As Claudia Nielsen pointed out, the psychiatrist McGilChrist observes that “The scope of inquiry and understanding of the Materialist Doctrine with its rigid adherence to the actually arbitrary principle of quantification and over-emphasis on physiological characteristics is severely restricted and limited in the analyses that can be performed.” Half of human conscious is not quantifiable: hope, art, dreams, music, poetry, true love, awe-wonder, freedom, ideals, justice, - not to mention death. I would briefly question that how a methodology – described by McGilChrist as a “rigid adherence to quantification” – which is appropriate to physics or chemistry got applied to human consciousness is mindboggling. I would add that – if you take a close look at the social sciences, the materialist methodology has generated a rather serious from of researcher bias – no viable form of social consciousness, no spiritual and religious beliefs as a drive and motivation, no “community” in the “universally accepted definition of religion”, no readily apparent prosocial norms inherent in psychology theories (i.e social cognitive theory – weak on motivation)
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Measuring by weight in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: The people behind the measuring tools2010 •
Записи. Годишњак Историјског архива Пожаревац
"О једном плану Пожаревца из 1718. године", Записи. Годишњак Историјског архива Пожаревац 12, Пожаревац 2023, 15-26.2023 •
Urgency in Leadership
Movement Leadership: Embracing Chaord in the Missio Ecclesiae2022 •
Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris
Biological sex estimation using ancient DNA in Classic Maya contexts: some findings from Naachtun (Guatemala)2024 •
Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering
A New Constructive Heuristic for the Fm|block|ΣT2014 •
Mecánica Computacional
Experimental and Numerical Study of the Aerodynamic Behaviour of a Simplified Road Vehicle2010 •
International Journal of Research in Advent Technology
Identification and Validation of CRM Factors on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in the Mid-Market Segments of the Hotel Industry2019 •
IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
The Social Informatics of the Internet: An Ecology of Games2020 •