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Why We Consume More Than We Need: Duesenberry’s Theory of Consumption and Saving
Why do people continue spending even when their income falls? Why do some households feel poor despite earning relatively high salaries? And why does consumption seem to spread through society like a social contagion?…
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Critique to sociology and related disciplines by Bastos
But the idea is that there is a kind of determinism, that there is a series of statistical data from the past that can be used to predict the future, and from those statistics,…
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Beyond Borders: Aristotle, Leonardo and Leibniz as Models of Universal Knowledge
Aristotle represents the first great systematic mind: he tried to organize almost every field of knowledge, from logic and ethics to politics, biology, metaphysics and rhetoric. His importance is not only that he knew…
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What is the mission of the university?
José Ortega y Gasset, in his magnificent work “Mission of the University,” launches a devastating critique: the hyper-specialized professional, incapable of understanding the world beyond their discipline, is the new barbarian of the 20th…
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Capitalism as a “Mental Technology”: From Bastos to Hartmut Rosa and the social capital theories
One of the most intensive defenses of capitalism I have recently heard comes from Miguel Anxo Bastos. In several conferences and interviews, he presents capitalism not merely as an economic system, but as a…
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Max Weber, Hidden Behind the Clichés
A Spanish-German colloquium on the contemporary relevance of the thinker held in Madrid Reyes Mate4 DEC 1989 – 00:00 CET Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on TwitterExpand Social NetworksAdd EL PAÍS on Google Max…
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