The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences
Edited by Lord Dahrendorf, KBE
FBA, Director, Bank Gesellschaft Berlin (UK) PLC, London,
Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector, Central
European University, Budapest, Aryeh Neier, President,
Open Society Institute, New York, William Newton-Smith,
Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College, University
of Oxford; Chairman, Higher Education Support Program,
Open Society Institute, Budapest, István Rév,
Director, Open Society Archives, Central European University,
Budapest
This volume of essays is dedicated to George Soros
in honor of his seventieth birthday. The authors come
from the different but intersecting worlds of academia,
politics and business.
The editors have chosen the title The Paradoxes of
Unintended Consequences to encourage the contributors
to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach and in reference
to the example of Giordano Bruno, who was burnt at the
stake 400 years ago for holding heretic views which
were probably far more backward than the views of those
condemning him.
The idea behind this approach was that any complex
social process or political attempt to change the lives
of people will have unintended consequences, usually
paradoxical ones. These consequences should force us
to reconsider our original theory.
The volume also contains a short biography of George
Soros and a list of his published works and philanthropic
initiatives.
Contributors:
Ĺslund, Anders - Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, Washington, D.C. Belting,
Hans - Professor of the History of Art, Staatliche
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe Botstein, Leon
- President, Bard College, New York Dornbusch, Rudiger
- Ford Professor of Economics and International
Management, MIT Department of Economics, Cambridge,
Massachusetts Feldhay, Rivka - Director, Institute
of the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas,
School of History, Tel Aviv University Geremek, Bronislaw
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Göncz, Árpád - Past President of the Republic
of Hungary Johnston, Mark - Chairman, Department
of Philosophy, Princeton University, New Jersey Kis,
János - Chairman, Department of Political Science,
Central European University, Budapest Klaniczay,
Gábor - Rector, Collegium Budapest Kornai, János
- Professor of Economics, Harvard University and Collegium
Budapest Krastev, Ivan - Program Director, Center
for Liberal Strategies, Sofia Krips, Henry -
Professor of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
Lepenies, Wolf - Rector, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Michnik, Adam - Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza,
Poland Mokrzycki, Edmund - Professor of Sociology,
Central European University, Warsaw Neier, Aryeh
- President, Open Society Institute, New York Newton-Smith,
William - Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol
College, University of Oxford; Chairman, Higher Education
Support Program, OSI, Budapest Osiatyski, Wiktor
- Professor of Law, Central European University, Budapest
Plesu, Andrei - Rector, Collegium Nuova Europa,
Bucharest Rév, István - Director, Open Society
Archives, Central European University, Budapest Rieber,
Alfred - Professor of History, Central European
University, Budapest Sajó, András - Professor
of Law, Chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law
Program, Central European University, Budapest
2001
420 pages
ISBN 978-963-9241-09-1 cloth $55.00 / €46.95 / Ł34.95
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