Agricultural Growth in Indonesia: Productivity Change and Policy Inpact Since 1880 (Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia)

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Considering the examples of Australia and the Pacific Rim, Growth and Productivity in East Asia offers a contemporary explanation for national productivity that measures contributions not only from capital and labor, but also from economic activities and relevant changes in policy, education, and technology.

Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose have organized a group of collaborators from several Asian countries, the United States, and other parts of the globe who ably balance both macroeconomic and microeconomic study with theoretical and empirical approaches. Growth and Productivity in East Asia gives special attention to the causes for the unusual success of Australia, one of the few nations to maintain unprecedented economic growth despite the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2001 global downturn. A new database comprising eighty-four Japanese sectors reveals new findings for the last thirty years of sectoral productivity and growth in Japan. Studies focusing on Indonesia, Taiwan, and Korea also consider productivity and its relationship to research and development, foreign ownership, and policy reform in such industries as manufacturing, automobile production, and information technology.

The Growth Process In East Asian Manufacturing Industries: A Re-examination

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The Growth Process In East Asian Manufacturing Industries: A Re-examination
Chia-Hung Sun
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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Although it has been previously accepted that Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan have achieved the `economic miracle' of maintaining high economic growth for several decades prior to the Asian financial crisis, recent literature has now cast doubt upon this economic supposed success. Attempting to overcome methodological limitations and underlying assumptions of other studies, The Growth Process in East Asian Manufacturing Industries re-examines the role of total factor productivity (TFP) growth and identifies the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia-Hung Sun explains how TFP growth differs from technological progress, and demonstrates why this study favors the use of the varying coefficients frontier model rather than the conventional scholastic frontier approach. He goes on to statistically test whether manufacturing industries in East Asia homogeneously applied the best practice production technology, and investigates the TFP growth slowdown in East Asian manufacturing sectors. Potential links between technological progress (or technological efficiency change) and structural transformation are considered, and the growth in high-tech and low-tech industries are compared. Using sensitivity tests to consolidate the findings of this study and a comparison with earlier TFP studies for each of the five economies analyzed, this book will be a valuable point of reference for economists, researchers and policymakers specializing in Asian economies. Advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students in economic development and economic growth will also find the book of great interest.

Why Europe Was First: Social Change and Economic Growth in Europe and East Asia, 1500-2050 (Anthem Studies in Development and Globalization)

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"It's the institutions, stupid!"

Why Europe Was First: Social Change and Economic Growth in Europe and East Asia, 1500-2050 (Anthem Studies in Development and Globalization)
Erik Ringmar
Manufacturer: Anthem Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1843312417

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"It's the institutions, stupid!".......2007-04-29

One of the most controversial issues nowadays on long-term and comparative history is why Western countries have dominated the world during the last few centuries. Basically, there are two different approaches dealing with the European understanding of the world: i) that stressing European exceptionalism (see e.g., David Landes's "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations"); and ii) another current insisting that contingency and structural constraints are the key variables (see, e.g. Kenneth Pomeranz's "The Great Divergence").

I have read several books on the matter so when I found this book I decided it to give it a chance, in despite of not finding previous comments on it (even though the book was already published in 2005 under the title "The Mechanics Of Modernity In Europe And East Asia: the institutional origins of social change and stagnation")

I think that Ringmar's book contributes to strengthen the second approach. Pursuant to him, it is possible to think of social change as taking place in three analytically separable steps.

The first step is that of reflection: this is where the potentialities that exist in the world first are discovered and explored. Everything else equal, the more the world is reflected on, the more potentiality will be discovered.

The second step is that of entrepreneurial activity: this is where reflection ends and action begins, people embarking on new projects and on more or less well-conceived attempts to make a difference.

The third step is pluralism: nothing accomplished by reflection and entrepreneurship will last unless society is tolerant to pluralism, i.e., the co-existence of different, perhaps contradictory projects, entities, beliefs and ways of life.

And he concludes that, for sustained development to be possible, change must be institutionalized: what makes modern societies modern is the fact that institutions are in charge of the three steps that make change possible: change which in previous societies was down to individuals and good luck is in modern societies pursued by institutional means.

All that (and much more that I do not mention in this summary) is developed in 338 pages (footnotes excluded), the book being divided in the following parts and chapters: The logic: 1.- The Nature & Origin of Modern Society. 2.- The Failure & Success of East Asia. 3.- The Self-Transforming Machine. //Reflection: 4.- The Discovery of Distance. 5.- The Face in the Mirror. 6.- Institution that Reflect.//Entrepreneurship: 7.- Origins of the entrepreneurial Outlook. 8.- The Age of the demiurge. 9.- Institutions that Get Things done.//Pluralism: 10.- A Word in Pieces. 11.- The Polite Alternative. 12.- Institutions that Deal with Conflicts.//European paths to modernity: 13.- Institutions & Revolutions.//China: 14.- Reflection. 15.- Entrepreneurship. 16.- Pluralism. 17.- Europe & China Compared. //Reform & revolution in Japan & China: 18.- Foreign Challenges, Japanese Responses. 19.- Japan & China in a Modern World.//The future of modern society: 20.- The New Politics of Modernization.

Besides, the book is not a difficult reading: I think that can be savoured by the professional historian, and by the educated layperson too (content: 5 starts; pleasure of reading: 4 to 3).

Other books I would recommend to read are the "The world economy. A millennial perspective" by Angus Maddison and "The Eastern Origins of Western Civilization" by John Hobson.

Book Review: Growth and Productivity in East Asia [A book review from: Journal of Asian Economics]

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Book Review: Growth and Productivity in East Asia [A book review from: Journal of Asian Economics]
K.J. Bowman , and S.M. Khan
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Asian Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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District memoir / Malaya. Geological Survey Dept

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District memoir / Malaya. Geological Survey Dept
James I Nakamura
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East Asian growth before and after the crisis (IMF working paper)

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East Asian growth before and after the crisis (IMF working paper)
N. F. R Crafts
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Growth and Productivity in East Asia
T Ito
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: B000OP6442

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Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing federal officials come forward to describe the frightening reality inside these INS facilities. Journalist Mark Dow's on-the-ground reporting brings to light documented cases of illegal beatings and psychological torment, prolonged detention, racism, and inhumane conditions. Intelligent, impassioned, and unlike anything that has been written on the topic, this gripping work of investigative journalism should be read by all Americans. It is a book that will change the way we see our country.
American Gulag takes us inside prisons such as the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami, the Corrections Corporation of America's Houston Processing Center, and county jails around the country that profit from contracts to hold INS prisoners. It contains disturbing in-depth profiles of detainees, including Emmy Kutesa, a defector from the Ugandan army who was tortured and then escaped to the United States, where he was imprisoned in Queens, and then undertook a hunger strike in protest. To provide a framework for understanding stories like these, Dow gives a brief history of immigration laws and practices in the United States--including the repercussions of September 11 and present-day policies. His book reveals that current immigration detentions are best understood not as a well-intentioned response to terrorism but rather as part of the larger context of INS secrecy and excessive authority.
American Gulag exposes the full story of a cruel prison system that is operating today with an astonishing lack of accountability.

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Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing federal officials come forward to describe the frightening reality inside these INS facilities. Journalist Mark Dow's on-the-ground reporting brings to light documented cases of illegal beatings and psychological torment, prolonged detention, racism, and inhumane conditions. Intelligent, impassioned, and unlike anything that has been written on the topic, this gripping work of investigative journalism should be read by all Americans. It is a book that will change the way we see our country. American Gulag takes us inside prisons such as the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami, the Corrections Corporation of America's Houston Processing Center, and county jails around the country that profit from contracts to hold INS prisoners. It contains disturbing in-depth profiles of detainees, including Emmy Kutesa, a defector from the Ugandan army who was tortured and then escaped to the United States, where he was imprisoned in Queens, and then undertook a hunger strike in protest. To provide a framework for understanding stories like these, Dow gives a brief history of immigration laws and practices in the United States--including the repercussions of September 11 and present-day policies. His book reveals that current immigration detentions are best understood not as a well-intentioned response to terrorism but rather as part of the larger context of INS secrecy and excessive authority. American Gulag exposes the full story of a cruel prison system that is operating today with an astonishing lack of accountability.

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Systemic Abuse.......2004-06-27

Given the current focus on the mistreatment and torture of detainees in Iraq, Guantanamo and elsewhere and the debate over the origins of this abhorrent behavior, this is a very timely book. As well as describing the Kafkaesque intricacies of recent Immigration law, Dow documents the mistreatment of non-criminal detainees, showing that the abuse of human beings in detention has a long and institutionalized history within the United States. This book is further argument against the Bush Administration's insistence that the recent prisoner abuses in Iraq are isolated incidents, perpertrated by a few low-level prison guards. In fact, it is a reflection of common practice in a penal system that is as much out of control as the Iraq war situation. Dow writes with remarkable clarity, while treating both the incarcerated and their guards with humanity and respect. It is long past time that this secret world of incarceration has been brought into the light. Congratulations to Mr. Dow!

learn the way it really is.......2004-05-31

immigration practice and policy is america's deep, dark secret. people are detained indefinitely for reasons that are often trivial and sometimes non-existent. this book shines a light into immigration policy and the detention facilities where noncitizens are held. everybody interested in how our justice system treats noncitizens should read this book. democrat or republican, conservative or liberal, this book will outrage you.

American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons.(Book Review) : An article from: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal

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American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons.(Book Review) : An article from: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Julie Wilensky
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1272 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This book is a basic account of the life cycles and life history strategies of the major groups of desert arthropods. It covers a wide variety of topics including an overview of major adaptations in desert arthropods, characteristic features of deserts, a comprehensive review of life history theory, and a detailed description of embryonic and postembryonic development. The book also provides an in-depth discussion of the life history traits in these animals including development time, growth rates and patterns, age and size at maturity, size and number of offspring, sex ratios, costs associated with reproduction and longevity, and explains how these traits are inextricably connected by various trade-offs including those between current reproduction and survival, current and future reproduction, and between number, size and sex of offspring. Finally, the relationship between behavioral ecology and life history traits is discussed.

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Highly readable paperback reprint of one of the great time-tested classics in the field of signal processing
Together with the reprint of Part III and the new Part IV, this will be the most complete treatment of the subject available
As imperative today as it was when it originally published
Has important applications in radar, sonar, communications, seismology, biomedical engineering, and astronomy
Includes section summaries, examples, and a large number of problems

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* Well-known authority, Dr. Van Trees updates array signal processing for today's technology
* This is the most up-to-date and thorough treatment of the subject available
* Written in the same accessible style as Van Tree's earlier classics, this completely new work covers all modern applications of array signal processing, from biomedicine to wireless communications

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A must-have.......2007-05-19

If you are looking for a well-organized, comprehensive, detailed book in the subject of detection and estimation, this is the book you must have. The author explains every subject very clearly, elaborates on important points, and, most importantly, supports the theoretical basis with many useful examples. It seems that Prof. Van Trees used his experience as a professor teaching this subject very effectively. In the book, there is nothing unclear, nothing too complicated to understand.

Old is GOLD! Remarkable collection of topics and problems..........2006-04-05

Van Trees, Part I (together with Wozencraft/Jacobs' Principles of Communication Engineering, and Gallager's Information Theory) is a must read to establish a solid background in detection/estimation theory and form connections to applications such as communications engineering and information theory.

Although most recent graduate education uses Kay's book (which is also a remarkable book), there are still a lot of details in which Van Trees, Part I excels. Especially, the exercise problems are actually lectures by themselves, and first time reader is encouraged at least to look at selected problems listed at the end of the book. Note that there is a solution manual floating around for these selected problems.

A good comparison between Kay and Van Trees, and their complementary nature, can be established how they treat the description of the Cramer-Rao bound, Kay emphasizes the recent developments and derivations (mostly of arithmetic and bookkeeping nature, results from post 1968 papers), whereas Van Trees goes leaps and bounds and discusses other bounds which apply when Cramer-Rao does not. I appreciate having both books as a result.

It is interesting to note that after almost 20 years using Van Trees in a couple of courses, I can still navigate my way through the book with ease since it well organized and methodical.

RECOMMENDATION: BEST BUY.
But dont stop here, and buy Wozencraft/Jacobs and Gallager as well.

A Classic Text.......2002-05-23

I have just taken this course from Dr. Van Trees at GMU. Est&Det organized many concepts taught in other graduate engineering courses into a coherent philosophy. The result is not only a rich understanding of estimation and detection, but also random processes, Wiener filtering, Kalman filtering, radar and communications theory etc.

The course was taught directly from the text with little outside material. Very little has become obsolete in the 30+ years since it was written.

The strong positives of this book are the philosophical organization, clear concise writing, and incredibly well conceived homework problems.

The only negative of the book is that there are many proofs done in great detail. This provides the necessary foundation for the material, but also makes it easy for the student to lose track of the bigger picture.

Dr. Van Trees tends to try to drive home the higher level concepts while glossing over many of the details when he is lecturing. The exercise problems then force the student to give the necessary attention to pertinent details. In my opinion, this is an excellent approach to teaching the material.

Overall, this course was as good as any I've every taken. The text is as important and useful as any other I have.

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Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory. Part I: Detection, Estimation, and Linear Modulation Theory

Manufacturer: Wiley & Sons
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Detection, Estimation and Modern Theory, Part I: Detection, Estimation and Linear Modulation Theory

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Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory - Part I

Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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The original edition of the classic.

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'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples' Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastor and The Unrest Cure. 'We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'

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Hopelessly modern wit, hopelessly feudal outlooks.......2007-04-28

What else can be said about Saki? A man caught between the death of the old way and the birthpangs of modernity - in both politics and literature - has much to satire. Saki's humor is near-pathological, glorifying the absurd and savaging the serious. Any (and all) collections of his too-brief work are to be appreciated, cherished, and most importantly, shared. If one can read "The Unrest-Cure" and not laugh out loud I fear for the future of humanity!

Classics and Understanding.......2000-03-24

H.H. Munro takes us on a journey unmatched by his predecessors, and brings us back to our reality with an understanding of a true artist.

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