Part Two introduces the reader to the many distinguished thought-leaders and practitioners who have gradually matured the discipline of economics to embrace humanity, community, and sustainability as non-negotiable realities that cannot be ignored.
Fetter was a distinguished historian of economic thought and the father of another distinguished economic historian, Frank Whitson Fetter.
Summarising Thompson's achievement, the distinguished professor of political thought Michael Kenny has said that The Making of the English Working Class is one of the most influential and widely read works of English history published after 1945.
In its final versions (on which I will focus), the discipline has roughly the following character: Its concern is with what Schleiermacher calls "pure thought," as distinguished from the thought of everday affairs or art -- i.e. with thought which aims at truth, rather than merely at achieving practical ends or inventing fictions.
In 1912, a distinguished British psychiatrist apparently thought it quite uncontroversial that there is a "predominance of verbal thought in civilised man, and of concrete imagery in more primitive races" (Mapother, 1912 p. 73).
Diderot was considered the anchor of this distinguished salon, and his precociously modern thought is championed by Blom in a book that explores, compellingly, both the man and his philosophy.
Pioneers in social and economic reforms as well as distinguished historians, the Webbs deeply affected social thought and institutions in England.
For Gore, anyone named Kerry or Kerrey would be fun... Then again, Gore — who changed his position in the Elian Gonzalez affair for the love of Florida — might give serious thought to that state's distinguished senator, Bob Graham.
There were heartening echoes of the words and thoughts of several of our most distinguished presidents in President Obama's Inaugural address today.
The persuasiveness of seeing the universe as mind-like isn't new, and skeptics find themselves scoffing at the thoughts of some of the most distinguished physicists of the modern era.
Don't make the mistake of assuming that these are just the thoughts of Blair and few of his distinguished friends.
