“We are deathly afraid of Hoover,” the New York broker Charles Chambers told Carter Glass. “The big men in the street do not know just what piece of economic quackery he is going to propose next. It is plain that he is a desperate man ...
1 (February 2011): 157–87; Sheri J. Caplan, Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013); and more generally, Joseph Fichtelberg, Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American ...
How can the literary imagination bring us closer to a better world? The world is always changing. But there are also inflection points in history when the world feels changed. Art has the prophetic power to imagine where we are going.
kind, results in exchanges that, when directed by the intellect with one, certain purpose, are defined as speculation. This may seem, for a moment, to be hair-splitting, but it is nothing of the sort. Later on I shall - show that ...
How can the literary imagination bring us closer to a better world? The world is always changing. But there are also inflection points in history when the world feels changed. Art has the prophetic power to imagine where we are going.
In Speculation, Peter Achinstein develops the basic idea that speculating involves introducing assumptions, under certain "theorizing" conditions, without knowing that there is evidence for those assumptions.