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Nigel Taylor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • anglo american town planning theory since 1945 three significant developments but no paradigm shifts
    Planning Perspectives, 1999
    Co-Authors: Nigel Taylor
    Abstract:

    In recent times it has become fashionable to describe major changes in the History of Ideas as 'paradigm' shifts, and some have described changes in town planning thought since the end of the Second World War in these terms. In this article I offer an overview of the History of town planning thought since 1945, and suggest that there have been three outstanding changes in planning thought over this period. These are, first, the shift in the 1960s from the view of town planning as an exercise in physical planning and urban design to the systems and rational process views of planning; second, the shift from the view of town planning as an activity requiring some technical expertise to the view of planning as a political process of making value-judgements about environmental change in which the planner acts as a manager and facilitator of that process; and third, the shift from 'modernist' to 'postmodernist' planning theory. I argue that none of these changes represents a paradigm change in anything like the...

Jeromin Zettelmeyer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • bankruptcy procedures for sovereigns a History of Ideas 1976 2001
    Social Science Research Network, 2002
    Co-Authors: Kenneth Rogoff, Jeromin Zettelmeyer
    Abstract:

    This paper describes the evolution of Ideas to apply bankruptcy reorganization principles to sovereign debt crises. Our focus is on policy proposals between the late 1970s and Anne Krueger`s (2001) proposed Sovereign Debt-Restructuring Mechanism, with brief reference to the economics literature on sovereign debt. We describe the perceived inefficiencies that motivate proposals, and how proposals seek to change debtor and creditor incentives. We find that there has been a moving concensus on what constitutes the underlying problem, but not on how to fix it. The range of proposed approaches remains broad and only recently shows some signs of narrowing.

  • bankruptcy procedures for sovereigns a History of Ideas 1976 2001
    International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, 2002
    Co-Authors: Kenneth Rogoff, Jeromin Zettelmeyer
    Abstract:

    This paper describes the evolution of Ideas to apply bankruptcy reorganization principles to sovereign debt crises. Our focus is on policy proposals between the late 1970s and Anne Krueger's (2001) proposed 'Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism," with brief reference to the economics literature on sovereign debt. We describe the perceived inefficiencies that motivate proposals, and how proposals seek to change debtor and creditor incentives. We find that there has been a moving consensus on what constitutes the underlying problem, but not on how to fix it. The range of proposed approaches remains broad and only recently shows some signs of narrowing. . Copyright 2002, International Monetary Fund

Henry Hardy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the sense of reality studies in Ideas and their History
    1996
    Co-Authors: Berlin Isaiah Sir, Henry Hardy
    Abstract:

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "For anyone wanting to understand the twists and turns of the History of Ideas, this book will be indispensable." John Gray, New York Times Book Review The Sense of Reality was the last new collection of essays published by Isaiah Berlin in his lifetime. All informed by Berlin's lifelong fascination with the History of Ideas, these engaging studies range widely: the subjects explored include realism in History; judgment in politics; the History of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by the Romantics; Russian notions of artistic commitment; and the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, taking its cue from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, is a superb centerpiece. Now with a new foreword by Timothy Snyder and a new appendix comprising a previously unpublished essay on the great Russian critic Vissarion Belinksy and a previously uncollected lecture on utopianism, The Sense of Reality is a rich and illuminating collection from one of the most seductive writers and thinkers of the twentieth century.

  • the crooked timber of humanity chapters in the History of Ideas
    The Philosophical Quarterly, 1991
    Co-Authors: Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy
    Abstract:

    Isaiah Berlin is regarded by many as one of the greatest historians of Ideas of his time. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity, he argues passionately, eloquently, and subtly, that what he calls 'the Great Goods' of human aspiration - liberty, justice, equality - do not cohere and never can. Pluralism and variety of thought are not avoidable compromises, but the glory of civilisation. In an age of increasing ideological fundamentalism and intolerance we need to listen to Isaiah Berlin more carefully than ever before.

Haluk Soydan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • understanding social work in the History of Ideas
    Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
    Co-Authors: Haluk Soydan
    Abstract:

    Objectives:The purpose of this article is to present a theoretical frame of reference for the study and assessment of social work from the perspective of a History of Ideas.Method:The study employed an analysis of primary and secondary historical sources.Results:Social work as a practice and research field is embedded in the genesis of modern social science as developed by the Scottish School of thinking, and organized practice for the betterment of life conditions of individuals, groups, and communities.Conclusion:The History of Ideas of social work provides a theoretical frame of reference for identifying the historical roots of social work, defining its core as well as professional and research territory relative to other professions and disciplines, and placing evidence-based social work practice in a historical context.

John Agnew - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • by words alone shall we know is the History of Ideas enough to understand the world to which our concepts refer
    Dialogues in human geography, 2014
    Co-Authors: John Agnew
    Abstract:

    Some of the most important geographical concepts—geopolitics, region, and territory—are often decoded according to the norms of the History of Ideas, broadly construed. By this, I mean that their ‘genealogies’ as Ideas are regarded as providing the key to unlocking their current meaning in relation to how the world works. As such they are thought of as constituting the world as we know it. Practice is seen as deriving from the meaning ascribed to the concept. In certain circumstances, an empirical case can be made for this. But it cannot be presumed to be the case. This idealist epistemology is a rather inadequate basis for the spatial ontology that is more our focus as geographers. We are not primarily interested in the History of Ideas/concepts per se, only in how they help us understand real-world phenomena. After a brief review of the dilemma using Ian Hacking’s approach, I question thinking about the three geographical concepts mentioned at the outset to suggest some limitations to the infatuation wi...