BOOK OF ISMS OTHER ECONOMIST BOOKS Guide to Analysing Companies Guide to Business Modelling Guide to Business Planning Guide to Economic Indicators Guide to the European Union Guide to Financial Management Guide to Financial Markets Guide to Hedge Funds Guide to Investment Strategy Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus Guide to Organisation Design Guide to Project Management Guide to Supply Chain Management Numbers Guide Style Guide Book of Obituaries Brands and Branding Business Consulting Buying Professional Services The City Coaching and Mentoring Dealing with Financial Risk Doing Business in China Economics Emerging Markets The Future of Technology Headhunters and How to Use Them Mapping the Markets Marketing Organisation Culture 4/228 Successful Strategy Execution The World of Business Directors: an A–Z Guide Economics: an A–Z Guide Investment: an A–Z Guide Negotiation: an A–Z Guide Pocket World in Figures Book of isms from Abolitionism to Zoroastrianism John Andrews THE ECONOMIST IN ASSOCIATION WITH PROFILE BOOKS LTD First published in Great Britain in 2010 by PROFILE BOOKS LTD 3A Exmouth House Pine Street London EC1R 0JH www.profilebooks.com This eBook edition published in 2010 Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Ltd, 2010 Text copyright © John Andrews, 2010 The moral right of the author has been asserted. The greatest care has been taken in compiling this book. However, no responsibility can be accepted by the publishers or compilers for the accuracy of the information presented. Where opinion is expressed it is that of the author and does not necessarily coincide with editorial views of The Economist Newspaper. Typeset in EcoType by MacGuru Ltd This eBook is copyright material and must not be copied, repro- duced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly per- formed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writ- ing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applic- able copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly. 7/228 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. eISBN 978 184765 179 2 To my son, Tom, a true wordsmith Contents Preface Abolitionism to autism Ba’athism to Butskellism Calvinism to cynicism Dadaism to dystopianism Eclecticism to extremism Fabianism to futurism Gallicanism to gradualism Hasidism to hypopituitarism Idealism to isomorphism Jacksonianism to Judaism Kabbalism to know-nothingism Lacanianism to Lysenkoism Machiavellianism to mysticism Narcissism to nudism Objectivism to ostracism Pacifism to Puritanism Quakerism to quixotism Racialism to Rosicrucianism Sabbatarianism to syndicalism 10/228 Tantrism to Trotskyism Ultramontanism to utopianism Valetudinarianism to vulgarism Wahhabism to witticism Zeism to Zoroastrianism List of isms
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