Economic Persuasions

Economic PersuasionsAs the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the transitionthe deepening problems of development, persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistancethe discipline of economics is no longer seen as a mirror of reality

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while reflecting also on how these are contemporary with the modern day

This book looks beyond the trendier manifestations of Buddhism in America to look at distinctly American Buddhist ways of life-ways of perceiving and understanding

and evaluation measures involved in interdisciplinary palliative care

The focus is on two elementary schools: Rougemont

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water consumption increased with ‘modernization’ of irrigation

in economic development and in the expansion of the Chinese state

making it difficult to quantify the contribution of individual processes

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This edition of James Branch Cabell’s Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances is a classic of fantasy and romance reimagined for modern readers

in the construction and transformation of diasporic religious identities and affective attachments to India