SCS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Informal Sector, Totalitarianism, Rationality
13 Apr 2016
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In some ways we are better off than we were, the class activity is to see if we can help the ongoing problems. Magic wand o o o o o o. End armed conflicts stop refugee crisis & terrorism. Stop terrorism reduce armed conflicts & environmental threats. Remove the informal economy/ criminal economy/ stimulate formal economy. Thinkers who have worked in the 60s, 70s. Instrumental rationality: represents a shift in priorities from ends to means, from the meaning and purpose behind our goals, to how effectively these (any) goals are attained o o o o. The activity of the markets (who are often invested with human qualities) is another prominent. The totalitarian systems of the twentieth century came up with industrialized forms of killing, where the suppression of perceived enemies was convinced of, and performed as a purely mechanical process.
