Le capital et la science se servent l'un de l'autre dans la poursuite de leurs buts respectifs qui, quoique différents, ont beaucoup en commun. L'un et l'autre poursuivent la pure puissance au sens aristotélicien sans autre but qu'elle-même. L'un et l'autre sont indifférents à toute fin, à tout besoin déterminés, car rien ne vaut la puissance indéterminée de l'argent, d'une part, de la connaissance théorétique, d'autre part, capables de toutes les déterminations puisqu'elles les refusent toutes. L'un et l'autre se verrouillent par les techniques désubjectivantes du calcul contre la possibilité du retour réflexif sur soi. …

Provides a comprehensive and detailed understanding and analysis of banking businesses and their worldwide operations. Banks have become 'too big to fail', and too complex-to-manage in their inbound and outbound operations. This book gives the relevant details, approaches, and answers to these complex financial issues.

The essential guide to Havana's vibrant, resurgent dining scene

From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation's leading producer of bootleg liquor. Over the years, written accounts, popular songs, and Hollywood movies have turned the state's moonshiners, fast cars, and frustrated Feds into legends. But in Tar Heel Lightnin', Daniel S. Pierce tells the real history of moonshine in North Carolina as never before.

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana.