Author: Russell Hardin
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: series, foundation, sage, russell, distrust
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2009-05
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0871543648
ISBN-13: 9780871543646

If trust is sometimes the rational response in interpersonal relations, then it can also be rational to distrust. Indeed, distrust is the preferred response when it protects against harm—as when parents do not entrust the safety of their child to a disreputable caretaker. Liberal political theory was largely founded on distrust of government, and the assumption that government cannot and should not be trusted led the framers of the U.S. constitution to establish a set of institutions explicitly designed to limit government power. With contributions from political science, anthropology,

Author: Russell Hardin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: theorist, political, moral, hume, david
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-10-18
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199232563
ISBN-13: 9780199232567

Russell Hardin presents a new explication of David Hume’s moral and political theory. With Hume, he holds that our normative views can be scientifically explained but they cannot be justified as true. Hume argued for the psychological basis of such views. In particular, he argued for sympathy as the mirroring of the psychological sensations and emotions of others. By placing Hume in the developing tradition of social science, as a strong forerunner of his younger friend Adam Smith, Hardin demonstrates Hume’s strong strategic sense, his nascent utilitarianism, his powerful theory of

Author: Russell Hardin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: society, indeterminacy
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-08-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691091765
ISBN-13: 9780691091761

In simple action theory, when people choose between courses of action, they know what the outcome will be. When an individual is making a choice "against nature," such as switching on a light, that assumption may hold true. But in strategic interaction outcomes, indeterminacy is pervasive and often intractable. Whether one is choosing for oneself or making a choice about a policy matter, it is usually possible only to make a guess about the outcome, one based on anticipating what other actors will do. In this book Russell Hardin asserts, in his characteristically clear and uncompromising prose

Author: Professor Russell Hardin
Publisher: RFF Press
Keywords: press, rff, action, collective
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1982-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0801828198
ISBN-13: 9780801828195

Small firms - including ’microenterprises’ and ’small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) - play a vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all jobs. In addition, they foster entrepreneurship and help key sectors adapt to changing market conditions. In light of these benefits, programs promoting small firms have become a cornerstone of economic development policy. Increasingly, however, scholars and policymakers are also exploring the link between small firms and the environment. The first compendium of research and policy analysis on this

Authors:Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin, Margaret Levi,
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: series, numbered, foundation, sage, russell, cooperation
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2007-05
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0871541653
ISBN-13: 9780871541659

Some social theorists claim that trust is necessary for the smooth functioning of a democratic society. Yet many recent surveys suggest that trust is on the wane in the United States. Does this foreshadow trouble for the nation? In "Cooperation Without Trust?" Karen Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi argue that a society can function well in the absence of trust. Though trust is a useful element in many kinds of relationships, they contend that mutually beneficial cooperative relationships can take place without it. "Cooperation Without Trust?" employs a wide range of examples illustra

Author: C. L. Hardin
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Keywords: rainbow, unweaving, philosophers, color
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 1988-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0872200396
ISBN-13: 9780872200395

This book is awarded the 1986 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. This expanded edition of C. L. Hardin’s ground-breaking work on colour features a new chapter, ’Further Thoughts: 1993’, in which the author revisits the dispute between colour objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of colour vision, and brings to bear new data on individual variability in colour perception.

Author: Garrett Hardin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: population, taboos, economics, ecology, limits, living
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-04-06
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0195093852
ISBN-13: 9780195093858

"We fail to mandate economic sanity," writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth’s resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses