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  • The Saving Lie

    Truth and Method in the Social Sciences

    by F. G. Bailey ...
    This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in economics and holistic models in social anthropology) is a source of confusion. This is so, F. G. ... Read more

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  • The Saving Lie

    Truth and Method in the Social Sciences

    by F. G. Bailey ...
    This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in economics and holistic models in social anthropology) is a source of confusion. This is so, F. G. ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Stratagems And Spoils

    A Social Anthropology Of Politics

    by F.g. Bailey ...
    F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in ?exotic? and ?developed? societies. In Bailey's ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Mothers in Poverty

    A Study of Fatherless Families

    by F.G. Bailey ...
    Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages themselves, that the poor seek out public housing and public assistance because they prefer such ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Morality and Expediency

    The Folklore of Academic Politics

    by F.G. Bailey ...
    This book is about micro-politics: that kind of manoevre to control or avoid being controlled, to claim friendship or proclaim enmity, which takes place between people who know one another, and who must temper and adjust their actions towards one another because they share other activities. They are members of the one community and of the same organization, and this not only moderates their ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Treasons, Stratagems, And Spoils

    How Leaders Make Practical Use Of Beliefs And Values

    by F. G. Bailey ...
    Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils is a sequel to the author's highly regarded Stratagems and Spoils.Treason, the new word in the title, indicates a heightened attention to morality?to ideas of duty and conscience?as a foil to rational calculations of advantage. By providing sets of propositions and questions that illuminate narratives of political events, this book helps anyone interested in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Individualized Society

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  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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  • The Sociological Imagination

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  • How to be a conservative

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in the presence of our 'canonized forefathers' at a time when their cultural, religious and political bequest is so routinely rejected? With soft left-liberalism as the dominant force in Western politics, what can conservatives now contribute to public debate that will not be dismissed as pure nostalgia? ... Read more

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  • Justice for Hedgehogs

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
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