France in the Age of Organization

France in the Age of OrganizationIn interwar France, there was a growing sense that organization was the solution to the nations perceived social, economic and political ills. This book examines the roots of this idea in the industrial rationalization movement and its manifestations in areas as diverse as domestic organization and economic planning. In doing so, it shows how experts in fields ranging from engineering to the biological sciences shaped visions of a rational socio

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and how they succeeded in dealing with the interpersonal dynamics inherent in any form of human organization

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An authoritative introduction to one of the most perplexing issues of economic growth: the notion that developing countries rich in natural resources perform less well economically than countries with fewer natural resources

whether in academic reading or writing

the ideological conflation of socialism and global capitalism has generated enough cultural ambiguity to allow a space for the expression of personalized reminiscences of the past

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and the dialogical aspect of language

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securing it a special place in the history of world religious literature

and Apache boarding-school narratives that detail these students' experiences