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Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism: The ...

Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism: The ...

Associate Professor of Political Science Emanuele Saccarelli

The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition Associate Professor of Political Science Emanuele Saccarelli, Emanuele Saccarelli. First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the ...
Imperialism Past and Present

Imperialism Past and Present

Emanuele Saccarelli

As Emanuele Saccarelli and Latha Varadarajan argue in this provocative book, imperialism is hardly a political artifact. Rather it remains the mainspring of global instability and conflict today.
Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right

Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right

Timothy Brennan

See Emanuele Saccarelli's well-researched account of the critique of Stalinism in Gramsci's work, “The Mummy, the Professor, and the Cannibal: The Contemporary Uses and Marxist Reclamation of Antonio Gramsci,” unpublished essay, San ...
The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto

The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto

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Emanuele Saccarelli On the eve of the revolutionary events of 1848–1849, the Communist Manifesto issued a series of staggering and broadranging pronouncements. By the turn of the next century, fifty years of tumultuous historical ...
Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing ...

Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing ...

Mr. Emanuele Baldacci

Implications for Achieving the Mdgs Mr. Emanuele Baldacci, Qiang Cui, Mr. Benedict J. Clements, Mr. Sanjeev Gupta ... Gupta, Sanjeev, Marijn Verhoeven, and Erwin Tiongson, 2002b, “The Effectiveness of Government Spending on Education ...
Seeking Chances: From Biased Rationality to Distributed ...

Seeking Chances: From Biased Rationality to Distributed ...

Emanuele Bardone

That is what characterizes humans as chance seekers. A poor pattern of reasoning and even our ignorance may help us make a decision, and eventually solve a problem. This is the rationale of biased rationality.
Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive ...

Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive ...

Lorenzo Magnani

For valuable comments and discussions on a previous draft and about abduction I am particularly grateful to the two anonymous referees and to John Woods, Paul Thagard, Michael Leyton, Dov Gabbay, Claudio Pizzi, Emanuele Bar- done, ...
Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Western & Eastern Studies

Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Western & Eastern Studies

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Emanuele Bardone Abstract. In this paper I will focus on luck in abductive cognition and its relationship with chance-seeking and silent knowledge. By definition luck can be neither predicted nor planned, but I will try to show how it can be ...
Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of ...

Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of ...

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... Property in Virtual Worlds” (Marcus Schulzke), Chapter 4, “Perverting Activism: Cyberactivism and its Potential Failures in Enhancing Democratic Institutions” ( Tommaso Bertolotti, Emanuele Bardone, and Lorenzo Magnani), and Chapter 5,  ...
ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial ...

ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial ...

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Robotics/Perception On Packing 2D Irregular Shapes Alexandras Bouganis and Murray Shanahan Aliasing Maps for Robot Global Localization Emanuele Frontoni and Primo Zingaretti On Interfacing with an Ubiquitous Robotic System ...
Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, ...

Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, ...

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Emanuele Bardone Abstract. In this paper we aim to explain how the notion of abduction may be relevant in describing some crucial aspects related to the notion of affordance, which was originally introduced by the ecological psychologist ...
Communications and Discoveries from Multidisciplinary Data

Communications and Discoveries from Multidisciplinary Data

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Shuichi Iwata, Yukio Ohsawa, Shusaku Tsumoto, Ning Zhong, Yong Shi, Lorenzo Magnani ... The Role of Affordances and Abduction Lorenzo Magnani and Emanuele Bardone .............................. 3 2 Discovering and Communicating through ...
The Cup of Song: Studies on Poetry and the Symposion

The Cup of Song: Studies on Poetry and the Symposion

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Studies on Poetry and the Symposion Vanessa Cazzato, Dirk Obbink, Enrico Emanuele Prodi. in situations that seem implausibly scandalous. It even appears to attempt pictorial caricature in the portrait of the longlashed Leagros, who Eva ...
Building Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa's Fragile States

Building Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa's Fragile States

Mr. E. Gelbard

Mr. E. Gelbard, Corinne Deléchat, Ms. Ejona Fuli, Mr. Mumtaz Hussain, Mr. Ulrich Jacoby, Mrs. Dafina Mulaj, Marco Pani, Gustavo Ramirez, Rui Xu ... Gupta, Sanjeev, Emanuele Baldacci, Benedict J. Clements, and Erwin Tiongson. 2003.
Current Topics in Management: Organizational Behavior, ...

Current Topics in Management: Organizational Behavior, ...

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Chapter 8: Distributed Cognition: A Research Agenda for Management by Emanuele Bardone and Davide Secchi This chapter discusses how the distributed cognition approach (DCA) has potentials to help management scholars and ...
The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: ...

The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: ...

Andrew D. Berns

... David Berns; Joan Berns; Sarah Berns; Christopher Boicos; Gregory Borenstein; Deborah Broadnax; Mitchell Charap; Carol Feinberg Cohen; Emanuele Colorni; Antonella Faeda; Jill Feldstein; Flora Filannino; Jeremy Galen ; Karen Gilmore; ...
Seeking Chances: From Biased Rationality to Distributed ...

Seeking Chances: From Biased Rationality to Distributed ...

Emanuele Bardone

Some sections have been written in collaboration with Lorenzo Magnani and Davide Secchi: sections 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 with Lorenzo Magnani, sections 2.1 and 2.2 with Davide Secchi. In conclusion, I recognize that this research ...
What Sustains Fiscal Consolidations in Emerging Market ...

What Sustains Fiscal Consolidations in Emerging Market ...

Mr. Benedict J. Clements

Mr. Benedict J. Clements, Mr. Sanjeev Gupta, Mr. Erwin Tiongson, Mr. Emanuele Baldacci. © 2003 International Monetary Fund WP/O3/224 IMF Working Paper Fiscal Affairs Department What Sustains Fiscal Consolidations in Emerging Market ...

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