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During the 1980s, widespread dissatisfaction with America's schools gave rise to a powerful movement for educational change, and the nation's political institutions responded with aggressive reforms. Chubb and Moe argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem.

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Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austens novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austens novels and how Smiths and Austens perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.

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Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austens novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austens novels and how Smiths and Austens perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.

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The unprecedented shifts in the U.S. dollar's exhange rate that started during the late 1970s and continued through the 1980s provide an ideal opportunity to explore how the global economy works and the role that multinational enterprises (MNEs) play in the phenomenon of globalization.

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This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. Carol Graham examines the effects of market-based strategies on the performance of public institutions, the political sustainability of market reforms, and equity.

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Privatization and capital markets support and reinforce each other to promote economic growth around the world. This work discusses the links between privatization and capital markets, and provides insights for policy makers in developing countries and the international donor agencies.

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As import-substitution industrialization yields to increasing market liberalization in Latin America in the 1990s, privatization assigns new roles to both the public and private sectors. However, privatization represents a mhallenge for the private sector as much as it is an issue for the public sector.

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This is a guide to the privatization of industry, agriculture and services provided by governments in the developing world. The handbook intends to enable officials of these states to initiate privatization strategies and to develop their own plans with the help of local civil servants.

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Challenging the prevailing view of privatization, this book analyzes the state of privatization around the world and offers policy suggestions.

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Product standards, regulations, and conformity assessment procedures are important and necessary, but they also, at times, threaten the free flow of goods in international markets and the competitive positions of many exporters. In this book Alan O. Sykes illustrates how standards and regulations create trade barriers, explores the extent of the problem, and considers possible policy responses.

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One of the usual assumptions in economic theory is that an entity called a commodity can be measured or that the amount of it can be represented by any real number. The functions (or other types of mapping) with which the economist deals, such as production functions, demand curves, and cost functions are assumed to be defined for real number array

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Perkins argues that development theory can be improved by considering the causal effects of precapitalist structures in developing countries on their transition to capitalism.

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How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.

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The digital divide is one of the most pressing issues facing America todayand Ro Khanna, the widely respected Congressperson of Silicon Valley, is leading the charge to close it.

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Experts from inside and outside the USAID program evaluate the effectiveness of governmental intervention aimed at ensuring adequate agricultural production and food security in Third-World nations.

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Nine world-class experts on the African economy share their knowledge regarding the potential for real improvement and growth in food production and the development of grassroots economies that will benefit citizens as well as governments.

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The papers collected here represent the growing range of issues addressed by both economists and psychologists. The collection's main objectives are twofold: to broaden the behavioral basis of economic analysis at a social level and to expand the limits of economic theory's applicability.

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This book examines the issue of debt sustainability from an international perspective, with reference to European countries, emerging nations, and the United States.