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POPULATION THEORIES AND THEIR APPLICATION with Special Reference to Japan
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This study is primarily concerned with theories of population that have a general application, with a considerable range of illustrative material and fairly numerous references to support the theories. It’s impracticable to attempt to apply the theories here developed to all regions of the earth or even of eastern and southeastern Asia in detail in one book, so the study area is concentrated on Japan.
Part I, deals with the general principles dealing with the advances in technology in banishing the inevitability of poverty and extreme scarcity that have enabled May to conquer Nature. So much has been written on the Malthusian theory that it was the author’s intention to adopt it here in a most suitable manner for the purpose of this study.
If there is not shortage of land and of natural resources in the world as a whole, and if there is an ever increasing supply of inventions and technical improvements, it does not follow that problems of population have ceased to be important. The problem of the distribution of population remains. Hence, the theoretical structure of Part III is based on the fact that a disparity exists, and must always exist, between the distribution of population and the distribution of natural resources. It is this disparity which gives rise to the most important problem of population at the present time…
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Title: Population Theories and Their Application
Author: E.F. Penrose
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1934
ISBN: 080473469X
STANFORD HORIZONS
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Good fortune has kept me in the midst of a heady stream of youth for most of my life. Eager, enthusiastic, and light-hearted, but fundamentally ambitious, courageous, and confident of their control of the future, they have passed through the portals of Stanford into the horizon. To give some suggestions while they were on the way, or to offer them a final word, has been my privilege. Some of them have asked that they might read what they have heard me say.
The nation and the University have lived through a number of trying periods in the twenty years of my responsibility as President of Stanford. Some of these talks, while perhaps appropriate chiefly to the occasions on which they were delivered, seem worth recording, since crises and the need for individual decision will inevitably recur.
Once in a while one finds that some phrase or idea sticks in the mind of a boy and girl and is of use. To give an address is to broadcast into the blue. It becomes helpful only when someone is on the receiving end. If that someone is ear-minded, as most university students are, some effect may be produced; but since all of those who have been exposed to education have become likewise eye-minded, the present little volume is offered in the hope that even some students grown older will put on their lenses and hark back to those college days of exuberance,
romance, ambitions, and ideals.
RAY LYMAN WILBUR
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
MAY 22, 1936
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Title Stanford horizons: "Where the red roofs rim the blue", selected addresses, 1916-1936
Author Ray Lyman Wilbur
Publisher Stanford university press, 1936
THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST, 1945-1951
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Europe-or Asia? This was the crux of the great debate on American foreign policy precipitated by General MacArthur's return to the United States in April 1951.
MacArthur raised the issue: should we sacrifice the European coalition and go it alone in the Far East?
In The United States and the Far East, 1945-1951, Harold M. Vinacke tells how this country became involved in the affairs of postwar Asia. He describes, too, the dilemma of American policy-makers in that area. Abroad, our Administration was suspected of seeking to overthrow the Communist regime in China and restore the Nationalist regime; at home, the Administration was charged with seeking to overthrow the Nationalists and deal with the Communists.
In this careful, balanced account Dr. Vinacke tells how the containment policy has been developed and applied in China, Japan, southeast Asia, India, and Korea. He shows the difficulties of fostering independence and economic betterment in Asian countries without courting the charge of imperialism.
He explains how Japan, rather than China, has become an anchor of our defense system, and discusses the risks of bringing into play the Sino-Russian alliance by attacking the Chinese Communists from bases in Japan.
This book was originally prepared as a data paper for the Eleventh International Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, held in India in October, 1950. It has since been revised and a chapter has been added carrying the story through the summer of 1951 and discussing the issues raised by Communist China's intervention in the Korean war.
Neither a defense of the Administration's record nor an attack upon it, Dr. Vinacke's book is at once a concise account and a penetrating analysis of the main events and issues in our recent Far Eastern policy. It is published to help thoughtful citizens appraise grave issues which confront this country in its position of world leadership.
At the time of publication in 1951, Harold M. Vinacke, was Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, and one of America's leading authorities on the Far East and its relations with the United States. He taught at Nankai University, Tientsin, and during World War II he was a specialist on Japan for the Office of War Information. He is the author of A History of the Far East in Modern Times and other books.
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Title: THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST, 1945-1951
Author: Harold M. Vinacke
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1951
ISBN 080473528X
Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955
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Great changes have taken place in America during the years since 1950.Her influence overseas has swelled; she has participated in the Korean War;she has a new leadership. To Herbert Hoover, who has known what it is to guide the affairs of the nation, these changes have special significance. With great wealth of experience, he sees them in the light of history. In this book are his speeches, press statements, articles, letters, and miscellaneous short publications during this strongly marked period of American history.
Foreign policy is a major topic: from the proposals of January 27, 1952, that America's might be turned to air and sea power rather than ground forces, to the speeches in Germany during the winter of 1954. There are many statements on internal affairs; of special interest are the reports on the Second Reorganization Commission and the statement recommending liquidation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
But there are also many non-political utterances, and in these the breadth of Hoover's character is displayed. For here is a man who can discuss Agricola's De Re Metallica, a man of deep religious conviction, a man of wry humor and immense humanity. Witness his remarks on "The City Boy": "He is a part-time incarnation of destruction, yet he radiates sunlight to all the world. He gives evidence of being the child of iniquity, yet he makes a great nation.
. . . Every one of his body cells contains an interrogation point. Yet he is the most entertaining animal in existence."
THE AUTHOR
Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States, has unsurpassed firsthand knowledge of world-wide economic and political problems. His many years of professional engineering service before the Presidency, his distinguished record as United States food administrator after World War I, and his extensive food surveys following World War I1 form a solid foundation of experience and service. A unique contribution has been his chairmanship of the First and Second Commissions on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government. He has received honorary degrees from eighty-one institutions in the United States and abroad. He is the founder of the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace at his alma mater, Stanford University.
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Title Addresses upon the American Road, 1950-1955
Authors Herbert Hoover
Publisher Stanford University Press 19955
ISBN 0804761884, 9780804761888
Contents
OUR NATIONAL POLICIES IN THIS CRISIS 3
WE SHOULD REVISE OUR FOREIGN POLICIES 11
ON DEFENSE OF EUROPE 23
ON BEHALF OF CRUSADE FOR AMERICA 33
ADDRESS AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION 53
ON THE OCCASION OF THE RETURN OF FREE 66
the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame Chicago Illinois 70
SOME HOPES FOR PEACE 85
THE SERVICE OF UNIVERSITIES TO FREEDOM 92
CAN WE EVER HAVE PEACE WITH 101
ON THE SITUATION IN THE MINERAL AGENCIES 107
THE INFLATION THREAT 119
MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION 136
YOUR INHERITANCE 153
AMERICAN GOOD GOVERNMENT SOCIETY 159
SOME NATIONAL PROBLEMS 171
A DISCUSSION OF DE RE METALLIC A 179
ADDRESS AT DINNER HONORING DR 188
ON ENGINEERS 196
THE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS PROMISE 202
ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION 209
THE REORGANIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE 215
THE ELECTION OF FEDERAL OFFICIALS 224
REORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT 230
ORGANIZATION OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 237
ON REORGANIZATION PROPOSALS 243
TRUE 250
ON REORGANIZATION OF THE SOIL CONSERVA 256
ON LEGAL SERVICES AND PROCEDURES OF 262
FARM CITY CONFERENCE ECONOMY AWARD 270
THE CITY VERSUS BOYS 277
ON MEDICAL EDUCATION 284
MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 291
ON FEEDING PEOPLE WITH THE AMERICAN 297
THE AMERICAN DREAM 303
Master Quaker by David Hinshaw The Free 305
DEDICATION OF THE HERBERT HOOVER SCHOOL 312
ADDRESS TO YOUTH 318
ON A MEMORIAL TO THE HONORABLE JAMES 328
HOW TO BECOME PRESIDENT 337
THE IMPORTANCE OF VOTING 343
ADDRESS AT THE WEST TOWN SCHOOL 349
HOW TO STAY YOUNG 356
Social Aims in a Changing World
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This book is a carefully considered attempt to picture the changing social life and to reveal and to emphasize the basic purposes or aims which should guide community and social action. The author holds that the recreation of oneness of community life in spirit and in essence involves a change of emphasis from individual privilege to personal obligation -- that the issue is ultimately moral. It is in part the nature of this obligation that he seeks here to establish.
Professor Beach has given us an indictment of the machine age as it has thus far developed, and of the so-called "triumph of the individual." No critic of the machine per se, he flays the purely selfish ends to which our machine-released energies have been directed. No idol smashing destructionist, he makes cogent suggestions for the building of a modern social order, based on mutual understanding and helpfulness, and making use of our present superlative existing and potential resources of knowledge. According to Beach, today's world has lost the excuse of ignorance with respect to such problems as sickness, immigrant maladjustment, child labor, and war. The tools are at hand with which to eliminate almost every social ill to which the world is heir. The ends of living, both individual and community, must be made to conform to a larger and more intelligently pattern ideal.
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Title Beach
Author Social Aims in a Changing World
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804701512, 9780804701518
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Paradoxes of Modernity: Culture and Conduct in the Theory of Max Weber
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One of the world’s preeminent Max Weber scholars here presents a comprehensive analysis of Weber’s ambiguous stance toward modernity considered from a normative, theoretical, and historical point of view.
The book is in two parts. Part One scrutinizes Weber’s worldview. On the basis of his thinking about the meaning and interrelationships of science, politics, and ethics in the modern era, Weber is seen as the embodiment of a social scientist and political thinker who exposes himself to intellectual risks and existential tensions while resisting final solutions. His unceasing dedication to social science and to the politics of responsibility went hand in hand with his conviction that even living for these concepts could never be completely fulfilling. This becomes especially apparent in the author’s masterly analysis of Weber’s two famous speeches “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation.” The author explores the historical context of these influential but widely misunderstood addresses and describes in detail how they enunciated Weber’s distinction between an ethics of conviction and an ethics of responsibility.
Part Two considers Weber’s unfinished project on the sociology of religion. His planned but only partially achieved works on Islam and Western Christianity have challenged the author to attempt to piece them together and to locate them in the history and theory of Weber’s overall work. This reconstruction of Weber’s work on religion emphasizes its interplay between religion, economy, politics, and law. It also is the clearest and most detailed exposition of Weber’s view of the constellation of factors that were responsible for modern Western economic development.
Wolfgang Schluchter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Heidelberg.
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Title Paradoxes of modernity: culture and conduct in the theory of Max Weber
Authors Wolfgang Schluchter, Neil Solomon
Editor Neil Solomon
Translated by Neil Solomon
Edition illustrated, annotated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1996
ISBN 0804724555, 9780804724555
Length 389 pages
Subjects:
Biography & Autobiography / General
Political sociology
Politics and culture
Religion and sociology
Social Science / Sociology / General
Sociology
Weber, Max
The State and Freedom of Contract
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The relationship of law to economic freedom has been a vital element in the history of all modern democratic societies. "Freedom of contract" is both a technical term in law, referring to private agreements and promises, and a metaphor often deployed to describe economic liberty. This volume of new essays by eminent legal historians offers fresh perspectives on freedom of contract in both senses of the term, and considers how economic freedom relates to such classic political freedoms as free speech and other Anglo-American constitutional norms. The principal focus of the essays is on broad issues of policy and law, rather than on narrow considerations of legal doctrine.
All the contributors reject stereotypes that pervade the existing literature about the allegedly unalloyed individualism of the common law, and show how active state interventions of various kinds have shaped contract law in relation to social change throughout our legal history. Equally, however, they reject shibboleths regarding "bringing the state back in, " and take a hard look at the claims of statist ideology regarding the norms and rules that have established the legal boundaries of liberty in the modern industrial and post-industrial eras.
The topics covered are Blackstone's claim that property was the "despotic dominion of the private owner" (A. W. B. Simpson), labor and contract (John V. Orth), the influence of philosophical trends on legal innovations (James Gordley), contract and individualism (David Lieberman), the tradition of public rights (Harry N. Scheiber), the formal concept of "liberty of contract" in American law (Charles McCurdy), the interwoven history of labor law and contract law (ArthurMcEvoy), public policy in relation to natural resources (Donald Pisani), and globalization of freedom of contract (Martin Shapiro).
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Title The state and freedom of contract
Author Harry N. Scheiber
Editor Harry N. Scheiber
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1998
ISBN 0804733708, 9780804733700
Length 378 pages
Contents
Introduction 1
Land Ownership and Economic Freedom 13
Contract and the Common Law 44
Contract Property and the WillThe Civil Law 66
Contract Before Freedom of Contract 89
Economic Liberty and the Modern State 122
The Liberty of Contract Regime in American Law 161
Freedom of Contract Labor and the Administrative State 198
Natural Resources and Economic Liberty in American 236
Globalization of Freedom of Contract 269
Notes 301
Index 365
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Schooling and Work in the Democratic State
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A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue thegoals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the Marxian perspective views schools as serving the role of producing wage-labor for capitalistic exploitation.
The authors suggest that the shortcomings of both views are rooted in the fact that they do not recognize the true functions of the democratic, capitalist state. This state is seen as an arena for struggle between forces pushing for egalitarian, democratic, reforms and those seeking to use the resources of the state for private capital accumulation. Depending on which side has primacy at the moment, schools will reflect one set of goals over the other. However, victory is never complete, and the tide of battle has shifted back and forth historically.
The authors develop this theory through interpreting the dynamic relation between U.S. schools and the workplace. Based on this approach, they predict changes in both schooling and work as well as the forms that future conflicts between the contending forces are likely to take.
Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics, and Henry M. Levin is Professor of Eduction and Affiliated Professor of Economics, at Stanford University.
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Schooling and work in the democratic state
By Martin Carnoy, Henry M. Levin
Published by Stanford University Press, 1985
ISBN 0804712425, 9780804712422
307 pages
Contents
Introduction 1
functionalist , capitalist , social relations
Historical Traditions and a New Approach 7
relations of production , functionalist , U.S. Supreme Court
Education and Theories of the State 26
social-conflict theory , relations of production , capital accumulation
Education and the Changing American Workplace 52
capital accumulation , labor market , Proposition 13
Social Conflict and the Structure of Education 76
vocational education , social mobility , herent
Reproduction and the Practices of Schooling 110
ability group , Huntington School , percentile ranking
Contradiction in Education 144
social equality , profes , school discipline
Reforms in the Workplace 177
trade unions , autonomous work groups , job enrichment
Predicting Educational Reforms 215
mastery learning , flexible modular scheduling , educational vouchers
The Potential and Limits of School Struggles 247
Reaganomics , Educational vouchers , Reagan Administration
References Cited 271
American Economic Review , Althusser , Chicago
Index 299
Levin , Schooling
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