Tirole, Jean
Summary: When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 TIRHankins, James
Summary: "Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. "Men, not walls, make a city," as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 HANDaly, Herman E.
Contents: Economics as an academic discipline -- The fallacy of misplaced concreteness in economics and other disciplines -- Misplaced concreteness: the market -- Misplaced concreteness: measuring economic success -- Misplaced concreteness: homo economicus -- Misplaced concreteness: land -- New beginnings -- From academic discipline to thought in service of community -- From chrematistics to Oikonomia --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.9 DALReich, Robert B
Summary: "...Clear-eyed manifesto for re-centering our economics and politics on the idea of the common good. Robert B. Reich...demonstrates that a common good not only exists but in fact constitutes the very essence of any society or nation...We must weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how we as a country should relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 REISacks, Jonathan
Summary: "In Morality, the distinguished religious leader and philosopher Rabbi Jonathan Sacks diagnoses our troubled times as a period of 'cultural climate change.' Delivering an insightful critique of our modern condition, and assessing its roots and causes fromthe ancient Greeks through the Reformation and Enlightenment to the present day, Sacks argues that there is no liberty without morality, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Surowiecki, James
Summary: In this book, New Yorker columnist Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant--better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With seemingly boundless erudition and in clear, entertaining prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 SURSummary: "What price conscience? Abigail Disney's directorial debut, THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. The film tracks Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, who breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ARMDeVotchKa (Musical group)
Contents: The alley -- All the sand in all the sea -- 100 other lovers -- The common good -- The man from San Sebastian -- Exhaustible -- Bad luck heels -- Ruthless -- Contrabanda -- Sunshine.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anti 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEVContents: Satin Bowerbird -- American Alligator -- Jaguar -- Superb Lyrebird -- Three-humped Treehopper -- Yellow Buffalo Threehopper -- Capercaillie -- Franquet's Epauletted Bat -- Bowhead Whale -- Humpback Whale -- Knudsen's Frog -- Tungara Frog -- Smoky Jungle Frog -- Club-winged Manakin -- Black-and-gold Cotinga -- Red-ruffed Fruitcrow -- Capuchinbird -- Screaming Piha -- Bearded Manakin -- Greater...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology/Library of Natural Sounds 2001