Bøger af Eli Ginzberg

In the English-speaking world, Karl Renner is by far the best-known among the Austro-Marxists who were active in the Austrian socialist movement during the first few decades of the twentieth century. This title describes that aspect of Renner's life that occupied most of this time and energy: his involvement in Austrian social democratic politics.

This volume is divided into two parts. The first part being a reconstruction and interpretation of "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, while the second examines Smith as the patron saint/prophet of 19th-century capitalism.

In the early 1970s, the preeminence of psychoanalysis in the treatment of mental illness gave way to a number of other approaches. Yet, rather than practicing in cooperation, the different schools--existentialism, psychoanalysis, interpersonalism, behaviorism--each taught its own methods, convinced it was the true psychiatry. As a result, all too frequently, varieties of psychiatry have come and gone, wallowing in a battle of sects rather than progressing toward knowledge.In Psychiatric Movements, Leston Havens posits that psychiatry must adopt a pluralistic stance, for only an inclusive psychiatry can bridge the traditional scientific quest of medicine with a humanistic interest in whole lives, inner states, and relationships with others. If for no other reason, from an ethical standpoint, the patient should get the treatment he needs, not the one treatment the doctor dispenses. This edition includes a new introduction explaining changes in the field during the last thirty years.

There could not have been many students of Jewish law and legend of the era who did not at one time or another seek guidance from Louis Ginzberg - the remarkable man whose knowledge was vast and whose memory was phenomenal. This title presents his biography.

This classic study of the effect of unemployment and of the ways of relieving it upon actual, typical families of the 1930s and 1940s is a vivid, startling picture of the demoralizing influence and consequences of America's relief policies during the Depression years

This is a deeply personal memoir by the doyen of applied economics in the United States

This is study of social philosopher and political economist Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

In the English-speaking world, Karl Renner is by far the best-known among the Austro-Marxists who were active in the Austrian socialist movement during the first few decades of the twentieth century

In one of the foremost critiques of the widespread view that in market-based economics the fluctuations of the marketplace are essentially self-regulating, Eli Ginzberg argues the reverse

Deals with the changing position of American Jewry in the twentieth century. This work covers Jewish life from pre-Hitler Germany onwards, and discusses with intimate candor synagogue life. It also presents material about many leaders and events that helped transform the role of American Jews in their relationship with other Americans and Israel.

This study of the effect of unemployment and of the ways of relieving it upon actual, typical families of the 1930s and 1940s is a picture of the demoralizing influence and consequences of America's relief policies during the Depression years.