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Davis, Angela Kay. Beyond the numbers: An analysis of optimistic and pessimistic language in earnings press releases. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2006.

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Hasselaar, Jan Jorrit. Climate Change, Radical Uncertainty and Hope. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048558476.

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Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and explores a third way, one of hope. A debate within economics on risk and uncertainty brings him to theological questions and the concept of hope in the work of the late Jonathan Sacks—and to a renewed way of doing theology as an account of the good life. What follows is an equal conversation between theology and economics as has hardly been undertaken in recent times. It emerges that hope is not contrary to economic insights, but remarkably compatible with them. Communication bet

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Wilkinson, Angela, and Betty Sue Flowers, eds. Realistic Hope. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462987241.

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We are running out of water, robots will take our jobs, we are eating ourselves to an early death, old age pension and health systems are bankrupting governments, and an immigration crisis is unravelling the European integration project. A growing number of nightmares, perfect storms, and global catastrophes create fear of the future. One response is technocratic optimism — we’ll invent our way out of these impending crises. Or we’ll simply ignore them as politically too hot to handle, too uncomfortable for experts — denied until crisis hits. History is littered with late lessons from early wa

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Schäfer, Mirko Tobias, and Karin Es, eds. The Datafied Society. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462987173.

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As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and skills, but also a new way of thinking about best research practices. This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what such information can reveal, introducing practices and methods for its analysis and visualisation, and raising important political and ethical questions re

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Rosenberg, Alex. Lessons for Cognitive Science from Neurogenomics. Edited by John Bickle. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195304787.003.0007.

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This article discusses the lessons from neurogenomics that are applicable to cognitive science. It argues that the work of some leading cognitive scientists who employed the resources of neurogenomics has already provided strong grounds to be pessimistic about the representations to which a computational theory of mind is committed, and to be optimistic about the syntactic character of processes of thinking and reasoning in the brain. It also discusses research findings concerning how the brain recalls memories and the storage of explicit memories.

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Davis, Justin Christopher. A Pessimistic View of an Optimistic Love Story. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.

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Ivarsson, Magnus. The Virtues of Pessimistic Thinking. Washington House, 2006.

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Harlov, Alicia, Allyssa Stratton, and Alexandra Warden. Navigating Navicular Disease: An Optimistic Guide for a Pessimistic Diagnosis. Humble Hoof, The, 2024.

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Analysis of Optimistic and Pessimistic Language in Earnings Press Releases. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2013.

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McCarter, Rob. Optimistic Thinking: The Key to Success. Life Enhancements, 1994.

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Amit, Raut. Academic Aspiration Confidence and Optimistic Pessimistic Attitudes among Vocational and Non-Professional Students. Phoebus Publishing Company, 2022.

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Tesón, Fernando R. Appendix The Iraq War. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190202903.003.0007.

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RECENT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH HAS CONFIRMED what most of us suspected: some humanitarian interventions succeed, others fail.1 Neither optimistic liberal interventionism nor pessimistic realist noninterventionism have carried the day. Taylor Seybolt lists as reasonably successful interventions the protection of Kurds in northern Iraq in 1992,...

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Rozenberg, Julie, and Stéphane Hallegatte. Poor People on the Front Line: The Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2030. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813248.003.0002.

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The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on socio-economic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development shows that the drivers of poverty eradication differ across countries. In this chapter, two representative scenarios are selected from these hundreds, one optimistic and one pessimistic regarding poverty. Results from sector analyses of climate change impacts—in agriculture, health, and natural disasters—are introduced in the two scenarios. By 2030, climate change is found to have a significant impac

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Westendorf, Coleman. Positive Thinking : the Power to Change Your Life: Being Optimistic at Difficult Times. Independently Published, 2021.

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Wiland, Eric. Moral Testimony. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805076.003.0003.

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Is there anything peculiarly bad about accepting moral testimony? According to pessimists, trusting moral testimony is an inadequate substitute for working out your moral views on your own. Enlightenment requires thinking for oneself, at least where morality is concerned. Optimists, by contrast, aim to show that trusting moral testimony isn’t bad largely by arguing that it’s no worse than trusting testimony generally. Essentially, they play defense. However, this chapter goes on the offensive. It explores two reasons for thinking that trusting another person’s moral testimony is especially goo

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Buckingham, Dwayne. Resilient Thinking: The Power of Embracing Realistic and Optimistic Thoughts about Life, Love and Relationships. Buckingham Consulting Group, LLC, 2014.

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Flores, Shella J. Life Changing Effects of Thinking Positive: Techniques to Relieve Yourself of Negative Thoughts, Imbibing the Act of Thinking Positive and Staying Optimistic. Independently Published, 2022.

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Jenson, Debra. Way to Optimistic Thinking: Understanding the Power of Positive Thought to Overcome Obstacles and Reach Goals. Independently Published, 2022.

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Kornbau, Arnold. Balancing Yourself : How to Stop Overthinking and Be Optimistic Towards Everything in Life: Positive Thinking Everyday. Independently Published, 2021.

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Positive Thinking: 10 Secrets to Eliminate Stress, Achieve Goals, Be Optimistic, Increase Self-Esteem and Live Happily. Independently Published, 2020.

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Sfatcu, Lyndsay. Realistic and Optimistic Thoughtss : How to Build up Your Confidence and Positive Thinking: Stop Negative Thought Patterns. Independently Published, 2021.

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Power of Positive Self Talk ( Stay Optimistic, Motivated, Inspired and Find Happiness Using Positive Thinking with Self Talk Affirmations ): How to stop negative thinking. Joel Richfields, 2016.

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Richardson, Seth. Messaging and the Gods in Mesopotamia. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195386844.003.0010.

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This chapter addresses worshippers’ messages to Mesopotamian gods and explores the duality of this kind of communication. Richardson classifies “genres” of communication according to the roles assigned to worshippers and gods and according to the places of these genres in an elaborate communications infrastructure of formulae, personnel, and locales. Richardson also discusses the problem of failure of communication, and describes the protocols with which to account for failures. He identifies a characteristic Mesopotamian style for religious communications: it is at once elaborate and pessimis

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Fill Your Fill Your Cup Press. Positive Thinking : a Daily Reflection Journal: To-Do List with Motivational Quotes to Stay Positive, Optimistic Thoughts Journal Notebook. Independently Published, 2020.

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Desai, Anjali, and Andrew S. Epstein. Doctors’ Prognostic Accuracy in Terminally Ill Patients (DRAFT). Edited by Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190658618.003.0031.

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“Doctors’ Prognostic Accuracy in Terminally Ill Patients” reviews one of Christakis and Lamont’s landmark articles, which investigated the factors associated with prognostic accuracy (and prognostic error) in doctors’ prognoses for terminally ill patients. The article explored the extent and determinants of optimistic errors, pessimistic errors, and correct predictions among doctors who were estimating prognoses for their terminally ill patients. This chapter offers a concise breakdown of the study’s design and salient study results while also pointing out study limitations. The chapter summar

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Olson, James S., ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1960s. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400663970.

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Few eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. When JFK became president in 1960, the U.S. was the hope of the world. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home cast doubt on whether the U.S. was really the land of the free and the home of the brave. This book takes an encyclopedic look at the decade—at the individuals who shaped the era, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's movement, and the youth rebellion. It covers the political, military

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Back, Kerry E. Heterogeneous Beliefs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190241148.003.0021.

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There is a representative investor in a complete single‐period market if all investors have log utility or if all investors have CARA utility, even if investors have different beliefs. This extends to dynamic markets for log utility but not for CARA utility. With CARA and other LRT utility, the concept of a representative investor can be extended to include a random discounting factor that is either a supermartingale or a submartingale. If there are short sales constraints, then assets may be overpriced relative to average beliefs, because pessimistic investors are constrained from trading on

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Fill Your Fill Your Cup Press. Positive Thinking : a Weekly Planner with Optimistic Quotes: Weekly Organizer, Positive Thoughts Journal, to-Do List, Motivational Notebook for Work, Personal. Independently Published, 2020.

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Almeida, Joseph A. Solon’s Reception of Hesiod’s Works and Days. Edited by Alexander C. Loney and Stephen Scully. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190209032.013.41.

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This chapter presents observations about the relationship between the poetry of Hesiod and of Solon (Works and Days 213–326 and Solon frr. 4 and 13). In the first half of fr. 4 Solon, through a series of allusions, incorporates into his poem Hesiod’s authority on dikē to validate condemnation of injustice in his own city, and in the second half of the poem he turns the Hesiodic pessimism of this injustice into an optimistic hope for his city’s just future. In fr. 13 Solon expands Hesiod’s notion of Zeus as the punisher of injustice to create a pessimistic view of human life darker than Hesiod’

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Kast, Christina, ed. Pessimistischer Liberalismus. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748903208.

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Arthur Schopenhauer's influence on philosophy, art and psychology is indisputable. His political thinking, on the other hand, has remained almost completely unnoticed and insignificant up to the present day. Yet, the ‘thinker against the tide’ (Hübscher) creates a remarkable connection between pessimistic philosophy and liberal thinking in the field of politics. Schopenhauer's sceptical account of humanity and existence leads him to a political philosophy that highlights the limits of politics and statehood, taking into account the unalterable depths of life and thereby providing a realistic v

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JOURNAL, Fciand. Positive Journal Notebook - Be Optimistic. - : (150 Pages, Motivational Notebooks and Journals, Gifts for Happy People, Journal for Positive Thinking , Motivational Journal for College). Independently Published, 2020.

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Segev, Mor. The Value of the World and of Oneself. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197634073.001.0001.

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This book examines the long-standing debate between philosophical optimism and pessimism in the history of philosophy, focusing on Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Camus. Philosophical optimists maintain that the world is optimally arranged and is accordingly valuable, and that the existence of human beings is preferable over their nonexistence. Philosophical pessimists, by contrast, hold that the world is in a woeful condition and ultimately valueless, and that human nonexistence would have been preferable over human existence. Schopenhauer criticizes the optimism

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Annas, Julia. Citizen Virtue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755746.003.0006.

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In the Laws citizens’ virtue will prominently feature sōphrosunē, which is typically associated with self-control and discipline, but here linked more with moderation in a variety of contexts. Citizens’ virtues will be more focussed on cooperation and less on self-assertion than typical Greek virtues. It is now apparent that life in Magnesia, the city of the Laws, will be much less exciting and adventurous than life in Athens, and tamer than life in the military societies of Sparta and Crete—another way in which a life focussed on virtue as a whole differs from life centred only on military vi

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Cave, Peter. How to Think Like a Philosopher. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781399405935.

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In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought – and what they thought about – the popular philosopher Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness of touch, he addresses questions such as: Is there anything ‘out there’ that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance – and how can we tell the difference? This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Av

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Fill Your Fill Your Cup Press. Getting to Good : a Daily Positive Thinking Journal, Bring Happiness and Positivity into Your Day: Positive Thoughts Journal for Women, Daily Reflection Diary, Motivational Notebook for Stay Optimistic. Independently Published, 2020.

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Almeida, Martha de. Schopenhauer e Nietzsche: Vida, Arte e Tragédia. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-401-2.

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This book is about tragedy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche aesthetics thinking. Schopenhauer, like a pessimistic philosopher, presents the tragedy as the summit of poetic art and like "representation" of the infortunes and sufferings of life.The philosopher understands the tragedy as a great work. Nietzsche based his tragedy aesthetic thinking and cited Schopenhauer aesthetic, but the tragic phenomenon has in Nietzsche a big revolution.This book is about this revolution.

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PUBLISHER, Cherraqom. Accomplish Excellence Wisdom Courage Trust Value Honesty Patience... the Optimistic Man Notebook: Motivational Words Notebook Journal Gift to Cultivate an Attitude of Positive Thinking,inspirational Quote in All 120 Lined Pages, 6 X9 Journal,SILVER Cover. Independently Published, 2021.

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PUBLISHER, Cherraqom. Accomplish Excellence Wisdom Courage Trust Value Honesty Patience... the Optimistic Man Notebook: Motivational Words Notebook Journal Gift to Cultivate an Attitude of Positive Thinking,inspirational Quote in All 120 Lined Pages, 6 X9 Journal,YELLOW Cover. Independently Published, 2021.

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Machery, Edouard. Postscript. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807520.003.0009.

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Debates about the limits of philosophical knowledge go way back, and philosophers fall roughly into two distinct traditions. Some, like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Leibniz, are optimistic about the reach of philosophizing; others, like Hume, Dewey, and James, incline toward thinking that philosophical knowledge is limited and emphasize the critical role of philosophy: On their view, philosophy corrects erroneous, empty, or misleading ideas. Each tradition is of course quite diverse, but each is also unified by its optimism or pessimism about philosophical knowledge. ...

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Schäfer, Mirko Tobias, and Karin Es. The Datafied Society. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048531011.

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As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and skills, but also a new way of thinking about best research practices. This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what such information can reveal, introducing practices and methods for its analysis and visualisation, and raising important political and ethical questions re

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Westfahl, Gary. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037801.003.0009.

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This conclusion reflects on the reputation that William Gibson will likely enjoy in the future, based on his publications to date. Gibson has earned a permanent place in the history of science fiction, and he will always be remembered for his seminal contributions in the 1980s. Despite the stylishly cynical attitude said to characterize cyberpunk, Gibson has shown himself to be unfashionably optimistic fiction tropes of space travel and alien life. But he even more assiduously avoids creating apocalyptic futures such as Alas, Babylon and similar science fiction visions that terrified him as a

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Nathanson, Mitchell. “Wait ’Til Next Year” and the Denial of History. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036804.003.0005.

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This chapter explores how the collective ethos represented by groups such as the Players Association was threatened by another American ethos, one that had more deeply entrenched roots dating back to the nineteenth century, that itself felt threatened by the collective movement. This ethos—the individualistic, “positive thinking” movement—rejected the critical, often grim portrait of America drawn by the collectivists, and chose instead to embrace an optimistic worldview that depended upon the willful ignorance of the types of inconvenient facts often highlighted by the collectivists in their

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Clasen, Mathias. Haunted Houses, Haunted Minds. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190666507.003.0011.

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Stephen King’s The Shining (1977) is one of the most popular horror novels of all time. It tells the story of a family snowed in at a haunted hotel. The father, Jack Torrance, dreams of literary success and succumbs to the evil ghosts and supernatural forces of the hotel, eventually attacking his own family. This chapter argues that the central conflicts of the novel have their roots in human nature, reflecting evolutionarily recurrent adaptive problems of balancing conflicting evolved motives, most crucially motives for dominance versus motives for prosociality, and of surviving the hostile f

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Kertz-Welzel, Alexandra. Rethinking Music Education and Social Change. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197566275.001.0001.

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The arts and particularly music are well-known agents for social change. They can empower, transform, or question. They can be a mirror of society’s current state and a means of transformation. They are often the last refuge when all attempts at social change have failed. But are the arts able to live up to these expectations? Can music education cause social change? This book offers timely answers to these questions. It presents an imaginative, yet critical approach. It is optimistic and realistic. It rethinks music education’s relation to social change and offers a new vision in terms of mus

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Kroenig, Matthew. The Return of Great Power Rivalry. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190080242.001.0001.

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The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for the past seventy years, but will Washington’s reign as the world’s leading superpower continue? The U.S. National Security Strategy declares that the return of great power competition with Russia and China is the greatest threat to U.S. national security and economic well-being. Perhaps surprisingly, international relations scholarship does not have much to say about who wins great power rivalries, and many contemporary analysts argue that America’s autocratic rivals will succeed in disrupting or displacing U.S. g

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Mindell, David A. The New Lunar Society. The MIT Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15509.001.0001.

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How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution. Climate change, global disruption, and labor scarcity are forcing us to rethink the underlying principles of industrial society. In The New Lunar Society, David Mindell envisions this new industrialism from the fundamentals, drawing on the eighteenth century when first principles were formed at the founding of the Industrial Revolution. While outlining the new industrialism, he tells the story of the Lunar Society, a group of engineers, scientists, and industrialists who came tog

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