The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences / / ed. by Ralf Dahrendorf, Yehuda Elkana, Aryeh Neier, William Newton-Smith, István Rév.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• MitwirkendeR: Aslund, Anders,; Belting, Hans,; Botstein, Leon,; Dornbusch, Rudiger,; Elkana, Yehuda,; Feldhay, Rivka,; Geremek, Bronislav,; Johnston, Mark,; Jónos, Kis,; Klarticzay, Gabor,; Komai, Janos,; Krastev, Ivan,; Krips, Henry,; Lepenies, Wolf,; Michnik, Adam,; Mokrzycki, Edmund,; Neier, Aryeh,; Newton-Smith, W. H.,; Osiatyñski, Wiktor,; Plesu, Andrei,; Rev, Istvan,; Rieber, Alfred J.,; Sajó, András,; Árpád, Göncz,
• HerausgeberIn: Dahrendorf, Ralf,; Elkana, Yehuda,; Neier, Aryeh,; Newton-Smith, William,; Rév, István,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (436 p.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- I The Political Dimension -- 1 Man of the Year -- 2 Hungary and the Open Society -- 3 Travel Notes of an Eastern European in America -- II The Social-Intellectual Dimension -- 4 The Strange (Re)Discovery of Corruption -- 5 Music and Freedom: A Polemical History -- 6 Democracy in a Non-Democratic Society -- 7 Boors and Angels -- 8 The Unity of Mankind and the Plurality of States -- III The Legal Dimension -- 9 Human Rights and Soverignty -- 10 The Constitutional Honeymoon Is Over. The Paradoxes of Post- Communist Constitution Making -- 11 Affordable Shame -- IV The Economic Dimension -- 12 Hidden in an Envelope: Gratitude Payments to Medical Doctors in Hungary -- 13 What Could the West Have Done to Help the East? -- 14 Financial Crises, Exchange Rate Arrangements, and the IMF. -- V The Historical Dimension -- 15 Medieval Central Europe: An Invention or a Discovery? -- 16 The Marginality of Totalitarianism -- 17 The-Self-Not-Fulfilling Prophecy -- 18 Exile and Emigration. The Strange Survival of "German Culture" -- 19 Giordano Bruno Nolanus: Authoritarian Sage and Martyr for Free Speech -- VI The Philosophical Dimension -- 20 Science and an Open Society: Is the Scientific Community a Genuinely Open One? -- 21 Art History at the Crossroads -- 22 Pornography and the Repressive Function -- 23 Unexpected Consequences: Porfolio Screening and the Ethics of Trading -- Biography of George Soros -- Works of George Soros -- George Soros' Philanthtropic Initiatives (including foundations and programs) -- List of Contributors