Peter Docherty

This book advances a design-based approach for the investigation and creation of sustainable organizations. The learning-by-design framework is utilized to examine learning in six successful companies in different industries and national settings and provides a roadmap for improving systematic learning in organizations. Investigates learning-by-design in successful companies. Focuses on the choices organizations make about the design of learning mechanisms. Built around six detailed case studies taken from different industries and national settings. Provides a framework for improving the conditions for systematic and sustainable learning in organizations. Offers a clear process model for action and change.

Money and Employment examines the analytical role of money within classical, neoclassical and Keynesian theories of output and employment. The book argues that an endogenously determined money supply is inconsistent with the essential structure of neoclassical economic theory but a necessary condition for a long run interpretation of Keynes's theory of unemployment. It carefully examines Nicholas Kaldor's theory of endogenous money, linking it with Kaldor's treatment of interest and employment. The structure of Kaldor's theory is then shown to overcome important problems with Keynes's 1936 theory of unemployment. A macro model incorporating insights from Kaldor's approach to monetary analysis as well as contributions from the work of Basil Moore is also developed, which may be used as a foundation for further research of long run monetary explanations of unemployment. Exploring the theoretical structure and implications of endogenous money, this book will be a fascinating read for a wide ranging audience, including: academics, students and researchers with an interest in the role of money and interest rates in economic systems, and more specifically, post Keynesian theorists, macroeconomists, central bankers, and historians of economic thought.

These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The ‘Blue Book’ is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein’s Cambridge students in 1933-1934: the ‘Brown Book’ was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination and growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Witgenstein’s later work. It is indispensable therefore to students of Witgenstein’s thought and to all those who wish to study at first-hand the mental processes of a thinker who fundamentally changed the course of modern philosophy.