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Challenges to Social Security: An International Exploration
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Social security systems throughout the world are faced with unprecedented challenges in response to growing criticisms about unacceptable expenditures for government programs and questions about the appropriate role of government in providing social protection through social insurance and social assistance programs. The challenges are also a result of dramatic demographic, social, and cultural changes around the world. A variety of radical and modest reform measures are currently being discussed which have the potential of significantly impacting the means of income and health care for the elderly, children, and families. This book examines these challenges from the perspective of local analysts in both industrial and economically developing nations. The purpose of the analysis is to promote a better understanding of the integral role that social security plays in the social and economic development of diverse societies. The chapters examine the wide range of challenges to social security in Britain, Egypt and Turkey, the Netherlands, Poland, the United States, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe. An overview of the most prevalent issues are discussed, including fiscal viability, economic development, equity, administration, public confidence, and the role of social security as the primary government instrument for social protection against the loss of income and health. Essential reading for students and researchers in social policy, gerontology, and comparative social welfare.
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City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer (Studies in Fiscal Federalism and Stateðlocal Finance Series)
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Again and again, Latin America has seen the populist scenario played to an unfortunate end. Upon gaining power, populist governments attempt to revive the economy through massive spending. After an initial recovery, inflation reemerges and the government responds with wage an price controls. Shortages, overvaluation, burgeoning deficits, and capital flight soon precipitate economic crisis, with a subsequent collapse of the populist regime. The lessons of this experience are especially valuable for countries in Eastern Europe, as they face major political and economic decisions.
Economists and political scientists from the United States and Latin America detail in this volume how and why such programs go wrong and what leads policymakers to repeatedly adopt these policies despite a history of failure. Authors examine this pattern in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru—and show how Colombia managed to avoid it. Despite differences in how each country implemented its policies, the macroeconomic consequences were remarkably similar.
Scholars of Latin America will find this work a valuable resource, offering a distinctive macroeconomic perspective on the continuing controversy over the dynamics of populism.
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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on April 1, 1993. The length of the article is 928 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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Title: The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America. (book reviews)
Author: Jane-Yu Ho Li
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Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1993
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Volume: v59
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From the corporate halls of some of the nation's greatest financial institutions, the legendary bon vivant and financial genius Bucky Einstein stoops to deliver the secrets and wisdom of the mortgage biz --- to YOU!
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Join Spike, Party Cat and friends on an adventure-filled camping trip as they complete activities that help them learn keyboard geography and finger numbers, identify steps and skips, and read and write notes on the treble and bass staffs. Corresponds to Piano Lessons Book 1.
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meant for very young.......2007-05-22
This is pretty good for making a game out of piano theory (which I remember as being horribly boring in my childhood). The characters and games would only appeal to a young audience, probably no more than 8 years old or so.
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Notespelling takes on a whole new look in this delightful book! Students identify the notes, each with a specified color, and then color in the designated area, creating a pretty picture. Notes are added in a logical sequence, with continuous reinforcement of reading in both clefs.
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good product, wrong author.......2006-11-02
it is a good book for kids to practice their music notes. But, it is NOT by Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Worse than the Disease: Pitfalls of Medical Progress
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This book examines four medical innovations that epitomize the pitfalls of progress: DES, a synthetic estrogen prescribed to millions of women to prevent miscarriages, which produced devastating side effects; the artificial heart; the 1976 swine flu immunization program; and genetic engineering. Dutton and the contributors trace the human choices that govern medical and scientific innovation and explore the political, economic, and social factors that influence those choices. In the process, they reveal a deep gulf between the priorities of medical innovation and the concerns of the general public. They then propose concrete policy changes to help bridge that gulf.
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The PBS Companion : A History of Public Television
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PBS originataed with good intentions: Making the world better through education. But according to media analyst Laurence Jarvik, America's only taxpayer-supported public broadcasting network has gone astray.
" ... must reading for anyone who is interested in how the public broadcasting system was created, what it achieved, and where it has gone wrong."
— David Horowitz
In his new book, PBS: Behind the Screen, Jarvik provides the first independent, historical account of our nation's television network. Based on years of research and scores of interviews, he tours readers through PBS's evolution, from the early days, when the network was a shining vision in the minds of educators and philanthropists, to later years, when it became the focal point of a never-ending, sometimes ugly tug-of-war between opposing political camps.
PBS: Behind the Screen answers the following questions:
• Does Sesame Street really educate?
• What political agenda underlies PBS's hard-hitting documentary programs?
• Is the real Bill Moyers the carefully crafted image viewers see on the screen?
• What challenges did William F. Buckley Jr. have to overcome before Firing Line could be broadcast?
• Just how much did America's favorite chef, Julia Child, really know about cooking when she started out?
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Information the public should know .......2006-10-26
Tightly written, well researched and chock full of surprising anecodtes--some amusing, some which make you wonder why the country puts up with this.
Bill Moyers refused to be interviewed for the book. That typifies the mindset at the top of PBS (others did agree to an interview. Kudos to them).
This book is not a hit piece on liberalism. It is not all negative. It is the history, a rather detailed history, of the ups and downs of public broadcasting in America.
The chapter on fundraising alone is worth the purchase price.
Thorough Research in Exposing People Taking Advantage of the System.......2006-05-26
This book adds to the growing body of evidence that seeing is not believing when it comes to the media. PBS is not what it seems to be. In graduate school, it's odd that none of the information Dr. Jarvik presents in his book was in any of the readings or class discussions. The tone of the book is not alarmist, rather it is analytical. He simply presents factual data. Even the foreword by Van Gordon Sauter (former president of CBS news) is written in the same objective, journalistic style.
Just to illustrate the point, consider this tidbit early on. Fred Friendly, well-known "scholar, thinker, media fixture, et cetera," was both a mover and shaker in academe and broadcasting. However, I did not know until reading Jarvik's book that "Professor Friendly" . . . "never graduated from college yet ended up a professor at Columbia University." Jarvik shows how the convoluted system of public broadcast created a level of bureaucrats who wound up being accountable to no one, all the while taking taxpayer dollars to accumlate large streams of personal income. A significant amount of the people receiving the greatest benefit are from England!
Jarvik quotes former PBS president Larry Grossman as saying it was "a system no one in the outside world understands or can penetrate." Filled with contradictions, lack of accountability, and competing agendas, a select few grew very wealthy in that system. The band plays on, the "pledge drives" keep airing, and new suckers are born every minute. P. T. Barnum is validated again.
A Laughably Bad Book Written by a Failed Neocon.......2006-03-13
Laurence Jarvik is that rare creature, a failed neo-con living in a neo-con city under a right wing president. While every half-wit right winger has managed to get a job in the administration or at least a TV spot as a pundit, all he has managed to achieve is a book attacking such evils as Big Bird and Masterpiece Theater. PBS is pompous, boring and corporate but to dismiss it as an evil outpost of left wing propaganda is just ignorant and laughable. Jarvik knows nothing about the media having never worked in it and knows nothing about writing -- he appears to be almost functionally illiterate. Jarvik is a failure as an academic, a failure as a writer, a failure as a thinker and a failure as a critic. This has to be one of the dullest, most pointless books ever written.
The only thing bad about this book is it's not longer........2005-01-07
For those interested in truth, this book is a page-turner. For those who cringe when brought up short by truths that spoils their pet lies, this book is a "groaner" (as I noticed in some of the reviews on this site). Desperate to discredit this book, and resorting to lies, one reviewer wrote that the author of this book bashes Julia Child. Nothing could be further from the truth.
This book begins with a fascinating in-depth look at the origins of PBS, dating all the way back to 1919. Therein we learn that the child called "PBS" seems to not have a single politcally conservative ancestor. She is the offspring of leftists, who used a Trojan Horse called "education" to lure the federal govenment into authorizing and funding public broadcasting. Then once inside the gate of the American home, she pulled out her weapon of leftist leaning "public policy" programming on everything from FDR's "New Deal", to the HIV virus.
She also brandished her weapon of money-making machines such as "Sesame Street". Offered up ostensibly to help disadvantaged inner-city children, after 30 years of production the "Sesame Street" producers cannot point to a single academic study which proves she has succeeded. But that show makes money (billions of dollars over the years) for it's producers, though not one penny for the federal government. And it was the federal government that bankrolled it's creation.
Learn how many of the shows you've seen and HAVE enjoyed on PBS were opposed by PBS executives and only got on the air because of intense pressure, or because certain producers bypassed PBS and went direct to the local PBS affiliates. (Virtually every comedy you've ever seen on PBS, to this day, is purchased locally without official PBS sanction or approval. Leftist don't want us enjoying ourselves. Instead we're supposed to submit to their brainwashing on social issues.)
This, and much more. Read this book. You owe it to yourself to know the truth.
Shows us all how PBS betrays its trust to the taxpayers.......2004-11-06
As Americans, we support PBS with our tax dollars. Are we getting our money's worth?
Well, the first issue is political bias. Jarvik shows that there's plenty of that. William Buckley has been the token conservative: we've always known that. There are enough clearly political shows so that a little more equal representation, given that the public is paying for it, would be in order.
Still, there is one truly frightening example of bad journalism that I think casts even more doubt on PBS, namely its treatment of the Arab war on Israel. Jarvik shows that PBS is indeed guilty as charged of prevarications, outright falsehoods, and contempt for journalistic ethics. It simply churns out anti-Israeli propaganda. And if is willing to do all this just to hurt a few Jews, we can only wonder what other lies it's telling us. I think this book is doing us all a service by showing that PBS can't be trusted, and that it is in need of reform.
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In today’s increasingly decentralized and insecure business arena, effective database management has taken on a whole new urgency. Database Management Systems, Third Edition, introduces and explains core concepts of database design, development, and administration. Special sections demonstrate how to first evaluate security threats and then design vital security components and integrate them into each application. Applied exercises and cases bring facts and data into the real world.
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In todays increasingly decentralized and insecure business arena, effective database management has taken on a whole new urgency. Database Management Systems, Third Edition, introduces and explains core concepts of database design, development, and administration. Special sections demonstrate how to first evaluate security threats and then design vital security components and integrate them into each application. Applied exercises and cases bring facts and data into the real world.
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Post takes a hands-on, applications-oriented--not a theory oriented--approach to DBMS focusing on teaching students how to evaluate a business situation and apply a solution by building a database application. The text contains in-depth coverage of two crucial topics for building databases: database design (normalization) and Structured Query Language-SQL (queries). Post includes many examples, exercises, and 2 sample databases to give students plenty of hands-on practice.
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Excellent introduction to DBMS development.......2002-01-07
In my opinion, this book is one of the most well-written introductions to database applications development currently available for classroom use. In addition to its clear and concise text, this book is comes with a comprehensive package of support materials, including a number of excellent examples of realistic database projects.
excellent.......2000-08-06
This book serves as a complete guideline for designing business applications. The best part is that it explains the basics of each and every step involved in application development. Every step is made complete by giving relevant examples, which makes it the ultimate reference for DBMS. I would recommend this book to everybody who is putting his/her foot in DB world. Students taking DBMS course should read this book, which would make their life a lot easier!!! It covers extensily the application development in Access which turns out to be much more helpful/explanatory than those Access books. I couldn't wait to finish reading the whole book.
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