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The Demands of Consequentialism
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Tim Mulgan
According to consequentialism, we should always put our resources where they will do the most good. A small contribution to a reputable aid agency can save a child from a crippling illness. We should thus devote all our energies to charity work, as well as all our money, till we reach the point where our own basic needs, or ability to keep earning ...
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Politics in an Antipolitical Age
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Geoff Mulgan
In the last years of the twentieth century, many of our established political institutions seem to be in crisis. Parties are declining and falling apart. Governments appear unable to lead or to resolve outstanding problems. Radicals feel that old routes to change are blocked.In this important new book, Geoffrey Mulgan offers a wide-ranging and ...
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Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of Our Obligations to Future Generations
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Tim Mulgan
What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He argues that the resulting theory accounts for a wide range of independently plausible intuitions - ...
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Connexity: Howo to Live in a Connected World
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Geoff Mulgan
Analyzes the increasing interdependence of the world's markets, politics, and technology, showing how the progress of global connectedness depends on the advance of individual freedom across the world.
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The Renaissance Monarchies: 1469-1558
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Catherine Mulgan, Richard Brown (Editor), David Smith, Rev. (Editor)
This book traces the history of Ferdinand and Isabella in laying the foundations of a single Spanish state. An account is then given of their grandson Charle V's rule of Spain. The author also charts how Charles bore the increasingly heavy burden of the Holy Roman empire. The final chapters concentrate on Francis 1: ruler, warrior, and patron of ...
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Politics in New Zealand
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Richard Mulgan
This excellent textbook, an introduction to the study of New Zealand politics by a well-known and respected political scientist, has been reprinted and revised repeatedly since 1994. This updated edition is designed to incorporate the major changes that have occurred to the New Zealand political system between 1997 and 2003, including the ...
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Aristotle's Political Theory: An Introduction for Students of Political Theory
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R G Mulgan
This book provides a critical examination of the major doctrines in Aristotle's Politics, as well as other works, such as the Nicomachean Ethics, that are relevant to political thought.
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The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good
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Geoff Mulgan
The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of ...
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Living and Community
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Geoff Mulgan
Living and Community investigates shifts in the social fabric of our communities that will be necessitated by environmental change.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature
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Harvey, Dorothy Eagle
An abridgement of Sir Paul Harvey's Oxford Companion to English Literature'.
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Holding Power to Account: Accountability in Modern Democracies
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Richard Mulgan
This text provides a general overview of accountability, a key concept in modern democratic governance. Richard Mulgan draws on examples and analyses from the United States and the United Kingdom as well as other "Westminster" countries. Major topics discussed include the contrast between accountability in the public and private sectors, the ...
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Man alone.
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John Mulgan
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Japan's Interventionist State: The Role of the MAFF
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Aurelia George Mulgan
"Japan's Interventionist State" gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional explanation for why Japan continues to provide high ...
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Good and Bad Power: the Ideals and Betrayals of Government
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Geoff Mulgan
How can we make the governments on which we depend for our welfare and survival behave like servants rather than masters? This is the oldest question in politics. It has been grappled with, but never satisfactorily answered, for thousands of years. In much of the world states remain oppressive, secretive and violent. It is no surprise that so much ...
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Life after politics : new thinking for the twenty-first century
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Geoff Mulgan, Demos (Organisation)
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Japan's Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform
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Aurelia George Mulgan
Japan's deepening economic crisis is fundamentally a political crisis. Economic reform is crucial to the recovery of the Japanese economy, but the political system is not delivering the necessary reforms. All eyes are on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his program of "structural reform." The Koizumi Administration has enjoyed most of the ...
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Communication and Control: Networks and the New Economies of Communication
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Geoff Mulgan
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Maori, Pakeha and Democracy
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Geoff Mulgan, Richard Mulgan
For a long time New Zealand was seen as a country without racial problems, but in recent years Maori claims have been the subject of increasing argument and tension, and the issues threaten to polarize the country. This volume explores the extent of this currently sensitive political subject.
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The Politics of Agriculture in Japan
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Aurelia George, Aurelia George Mulgan, Mulgan Aurelia
Agriculture is one of the most politically powerful sectors in Japanese national politics. This book provides the first, comprehensive account of the political power of Japanese farmers. This definitive text analyses the organisational and electoral basis of farmer's political power, including the role of agricultural interest groups, the ...
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Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime
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Aurelia George Mulgan
Written by the world's leading expert in the field, this book examines the evolution of Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period, focusing particularly from the 1970s onwards when both domestic and external pressures for reform began to intensify. The author explains how the MAFF has safeguarded their institutional capacity to intervene ...
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Democracy and Power in New Zealand
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Richard Mulgan
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Understanding Utilitarianism
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Tim Mulgan
Utilitarianism - a philosophy based on the principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people - has been hugely influential over the past two centuries. Beyond ethics or morality, utilitarian assumptions and arguments abound in modern economic and political life, especially in public policy. An understanding of utilitarianism is ...
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Politics in an Anti-Political Age
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Geoff Mulgan
In this book, Geoffrey Mulgan offers an analysis of the crisis of contemporary politics. He suggests that what was once thought to be a problem peculiar to the Left has now spread to affect the whole of the political system, calling into question the future role of parties, politicians and national governments. Mulgan argues that an entire era of ...
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Democracy and Power in New Zealand: A Study of New Zealand Politics
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Richard Mulgan
This is the second edition of Mulgan's textbook for students of New Zealand politics, and it has been extensively revised and updated. In recognition of the growing awareness of the importance of biculturalism, a new section on democracy and Maori values has been added, and the material on Maori seats in Parliament has been expanded into a ...
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The Question of Quality
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David Berry, Geoff Mulgan
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