Carlo M. Cipolla Knihy

The perfect gift to get you through the work Christmas party, family board game blow ups and dinner with the in-laws. 'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times 'This is brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be Right The five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world. Since time immemorial, a powerful dark force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local pub. This is the immensely powerful force of human stupidity. Seeing the shambolic state of human affairs, and sensing the dark force at work behind it, Carlo M. Cipolla, the late, noted professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley, created a vitally important economic model that would allow us to detect, know and neutralise this threat: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. If you've ever found yourself despairing at the ubiquity of stupidity among even the most 'intellectual' of people, then this hilarious, timely and slightly alarming little book is for you. Arm yourself in the face of baffling political realities, unreasonable colleagues or the unbridled misery of Christmas day with the in-laws with the first and only economic model for stupidity.

How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological advances in timekeeping and the rise of a time- aware culture. In his introduction, Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, puts this classic book in perspective. schovat popis

From back cover: 'This book presents a global view of the demographic and economic development of mankind. Professor Cipolla has deliberately adopted a new point of view and has tried to trace the history of the great trends in population and wealth which have affected mankind as a while. For it would have been inadequate to regard such a global history as being merely the sum total of national economic histories in abridged form. Among the massive problems that face the human race the author emphasizes the demographic explosion, the economic backwardness of vast areas, the spread of industrial revolution and of technical knowledge,. Whilst hte theoretical approach can help our analysis of these problems, Professor Cipolla believes that they can only wholly grasped and solved when they are studied in their full historical perspective.

This book examines the methodological problems that have arisen from the clash of these two cultures, and aims to provide an account of the nature and substance of economic history.

Literacy and Development in the West( Pelican Original)

Cipolla untersucht die Geschichte der Uhr vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Seine kulturgeschichtliche Betrachtung ist in zwei große Abschnitte geteilt: die handwerkliche Entstehung der mechanischen Uhr in Europa und, zweitens, ihre Rolle im Tauschhandel mit Asien.

Eine höchst amüsante Satire auf bedeutungsschweres wissenschaftliches Schreiben Im ersten Teil weist in einem ausgefeilten Argumentationssystem nach, daß der Pfeffer die treibende Kraft in der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung des Mittelalters gewesen sei, also das, was Marx den Motor der Geschichte nennt. Angesichts dieser unglaublichen Entwicklung, in die erstaunlicherweise Gott der Herr, goldene Münzen, Eremiten, Feudalherren und sarazenische Frauen verwickelt waren, verloren als einzige die Italiener nicht ihren Kopf: Deshalb beendeten sie das Mittelalter durch die Erfindung der Renaissance. Im zweiten Traktat erläutert er die fünf Prinzipien der menschlichen Dummheit.

Sono tre storie curiose, fuori dal comune, ma tutte rigorosamente vere. La prima storia è ambientata nel '300 e riguarda una famiglia fiorentina potentissima dall'intensa attività finanaziaria. Andati a picco per insolvenza della corona inglese cui avevano prestato somme ingentissime, ne combinano di tutti i colori: si danno a intrighi politici, al brigantaggio, agli omicidi, all'attività di falsari. La seconda storia riguarda una truffa clamorosa che, intorno alla metà del '600, ebbe come protagonisti alcuni nobili liguri. Nell'ultima storia Cipolla si sofferma su un'opera apparsa nella seconda metà del '600 in Francia, Le parfait négociant, una sorta di Bibbia del commercio e delle frodi relativa ai vari paesi d'Europa.