Group Rationality in Scientific Research or Global Change Regional Response

Group Rationality in Scientific Research

Author: Husain Sarkar

Under what conditions is a group of scientists rational? How would rational scientists collectively agree to make their group more effective? What sorts of negotiations would occur among them and under what conditions? What effect would their final agreement have on science and society? These questions have been central to the philosophy of science for the last two decades. In this book, Husain Sarkar proposes answers to them by building on classical solutions - the skeptical view, two versions of the subjectivist view, the objectivist view, and the view of Hilary Putnam.

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Global Change, Regional Response: The New International Context of Development

Author: Barbara Stallings

This book offers a new perspective in studying contemporary development.

Part I explores how the ending of the cold war, shifting relations among capitalist powers, changing patterns of finance, and new ideological currents have altered development in four major third-world regions.

Part II suggests how development options were molded by the dominant international power in each region: the United States in Latin America, Japan in East and Southeast Asia, and Europe with the international financial institutions in Africa.

Part III provides a conceptual framework for analyzing regional performance.

Table of Contents:

	List of tables and figures
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction: global change, regional response	1
2	The third world and the end of the cold war	33
3	Capitalisms in conflict? The United States, Europe, and Japan in the post-cold war world	67
4	Global production systems and third world development	100
5	New global financial trends: implications for development	143
6	The "triumph" of liberal economic ideas in the developing world	174
7	The East Asian NICs: a state-led path to the developed world	199
8	Southeast Asia: success through international openness	238
9	Latin America: toward a new reliance on the market	272
10	Sub-Saharan Africa: underdevelopment's last stand	309
11	The new international context of development	349
	Index	389