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Stuart Chase (1888–1985)

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Verk av Stuart Chase

The Tyranny of Words (1938) 168 exemplar
The proper study of mankind (1948) 45 exemplar
Power of Words (1954) 24 exemplar
Men and Machines (1929) 22 exemplar
The Most Probable World (1968) 18 exemplar
The Tragedy of Waste (1925) 9 exemplar
A New Deal (1932) 9 exemplar
The economy of abundance (1934) 9 exemplar
Roads to Agreement (1951) 9 exemplar

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The mind in the making : the relation of intelligence to social reform (1921) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor65 exemplar
Whither Mankind (1928) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar
Writer to Writer: Readings on the Craft of Writing (1966) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar

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Published only 2 years after Men & Machines, Chase takes a tour of Mexico in late 1920's. This volume studies many aspects of Mexican culture and economy in relation to the United States. Great reading, insightful. Has special line drawings by Diego Rivera that add value to this must have your economics or world history collection.
 
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atufft | 1 annan recension | Jul 8, 2019 |
Really cool read, published same year as stock market crash of 1929. Must have in your economics library. The black & white woodblock art of WT Murch are really good too. The question of whether or not machines are enslaving man and many other such machine/man issues are discussed from remarkable perspective than anticipates much of the world today, but also holds quaint perspective of yesterday. Very well written and entertaining.
 
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atufft | Jul 8, 2019 |
Always some humor in reading mid-twentieth century predictions of the year 2000. Chase has a kind of charming naive faith that certain scientific advances will solve humanity's problems. E.g., fusion will not only solve the energy crisis, it will enable cheap desalinization of seawater thereby also solving any food or water crises. He thinks that moving to electronic money only would eliminate theft. I'm still trying to see how that follows.

The final chapter gives a snapshot of the life of a professor in the year 2000. The world he presents is peaceful but also creepily frightening, kind of like the Ned Flanders Big Brother world from the Treehouse of Horror.

The writing is painfully normative. Everything is through the lens of an entitled upper class white male. I wonder if the systems organization guys that were in the Kennedy administration were fans.
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encephalical | Mar 29, 2014 |
Ik heb het gekocht vanwege de illustraties van Diego Rivera, waarvan 1 gekleurd (voor de titelpagina) en de overige zwart-wit tekeningen.
 
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emtie | 1 annan recension | Aug 24, 2013 |

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36
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Medlemmar
536
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#46,472
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
7
ISBN
30

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