Stuart Chase (1888–1985)
Autor/a de The Tyranny of Words
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection (Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-23667) (cropped)
Obres de Stuart Chase
Where's the money coming from? Problems of postwar finance; guide lines to America's future as reported to… (1943) 8 exemplars
Democracy under pressure; special interests vs the public welfare; guide lines to America's future as reported to… (1945) 5 exemplars
Language in Thought and Action 2 exemplars
Live and let live; a program for Americans 2 exemplars
A generation of industrial peace; thirty years of labor relations at Standard Oil Company (N. J.) 2 exemplars
When the War Ends 2 exemplars
Zoning comes to town 1 exemplars
The Satires of Juvenal 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The mind in the making : the relation of intelligence to social reform (1921) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 65 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1888-03-08
- Data de defunció
- 1985-11
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Educació
- Harvard University
- Professions
- accountant
- Organitzacions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1938)
Membres
Ressenyes
Mexico: A Study of Two Americas de Stuart Chase
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.
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.
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.… (més)
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.… (més)
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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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 37
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 540
- Popularitat
- #46,139
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 7
- ISBN
- 31