Imports, Exports, and Jobs. What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss?(Book Review) : An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations

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Imports, Exports, and Jobs. What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss?(Book Review) : An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Patricia M. Anderson
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2005-11-29

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Title: Imports, Exports, and Jobs. What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss?(Book Review)
Author: Patricia M. Anderson
Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 59 Issue: 2 Page: 423(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss?

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Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss?
Lori G. Kletzer
Manufacturer: W. E. Upjohn Institute
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0880992476

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Kletzer adds to our understanding of the magnitude of the costs and benefits of free trade. She presents a focused examination of the relationship between changes in international trade, employment, and job displacement for a sample of U.S. manufacturing industries. The link between international trade and domestic jobs is also explored through studies of both net and gross employment job change.

The book begins with a discussion of international trade theory and empirical measures of the intensity of foreign competition and then provides a useful review of the relevant literature. Next, Kletzer offers a descriptive analysis of the relevant data from the years 1979-1994, followed by an econometric analysis of employment change, job loss, and international trade. The descriptive data reveal that sharply declining exports are strongly associated with employment decline, particularly in industries accounting for the bulk of manufacturing sector employment loss. Rising imports are also strongly associated with employment decline, but typically in smaller industries that are traditionally import-competing.

Patterns found in the descriptive analysis are reexamined in the econometric analysis. With respect to changes in industry employment, the results are consistent with arguments that increasing imports reduce employment and that increasing exports (and domestic demand) enhance employment. Within an industry on a year-to-year basis, rising exports are more strongly associated with employment growth than are increases in domestic demand.

Rising import share is associated with a higher displacement rate, but the effect is small and imprecisely estimated. Looking within an industry, the effect of rising import share on the risk of job loss is notably smaller than the cross-industry effect. This finding suggests that there might be a strong relationship between rising import share and job loss for a subset of industries, but a much weaker one for all manufacturing industries.

The relatively small effects reported indicate that reducing import share will not significantly boost employment or reduce job displacement, and consumers will likely bear the cost through higher prices. For some industries, however, where the link between job loss and increasing imports is strong, displaced workers are likely to suffer. Kletzer feels that protecting these workers is an obligation of proponents of freer trade, and that this can be accomplished through a variety of domestic adjustment assistance policies, which she proposes.

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In this elegantly argued book, political economists Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison examine America's great surge of economic expansion in its historical context to demonstrate the causes for the vibrancy of our economy.
A Century Foundation Book

Customer Reviews:

A New Model for Economic Growth.......2002-12-04

We've all heard about the great economic miracle of the past twenty years. What we haven't heard, though, is that the rate of growth has significantly slowed from pre-1973 levels. This book explains why, and shows that we may be able to achieve high growth rates again. The authors criticize the "Wall Street Model" of growth, which stresses low inflation and enhanced savings. This model, they say, leads to increased inequality and slower growth. The authors present an alternative "Main Street Model" which instead stresses technological innovation as the main driver of growth. The keys to increasing technological innovation are public investments in R&D and infrastructure, as well as increasing demand through higher minimum wages and a stronger role for unions. This book coherently presents this new model of growth and explains why the Wall Street model is flawed. This book has an unashamedly left-wing bias and some people may be put off by the more opinionated parts of this book. I found myself wishing the authors would stick to facts instead of shoving ideas in your face that can't be backed up. In one part of the book the authors discuss the "neoclassical growth syllogism" and try to show how flawed it is. To do this, they examine each premise of the syllogism and assign a seemingly arbitrary percentage describing how true the premise is. You just can't do that. If you give me a number, you better be able to support it with facts or else you're wasting my time. These authors are probably well educated and they should know better than to whimsically pull numbers out of their [fundaments.]

Throwing light on technological long waves........2000-04-24

Using historical data on the rate of increase of productivity, these authors build a convincing case that the United States is near the beginning of an economic boom based on information technlogy. They go well beyond most economists in explaining the nature of economic long waves (also called Kondratieff waves). They then explain in depth how current government economic policies are misdirected in terms of maximizing this pattern of economic growth.

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Absolutely funny........2000-08-29

I found this book originally on a friend's attic, just as I was getting my own license. It's absolutly hilarious and will show you for sure, how not to get your license.

Sharing the Road with Idiots : A Hilarious Guide to a Wild Ride

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Sharing the Road with Idiots : A Hilarious Guide to a Wild Ride
Bob Glickman
Manufacturer: C C C Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JON70M

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Not the most in depth book

Extremely nonstandard book won't help you with other music

Mel Bay Autoharp Method - In Four Easy Steps Book/CD Set
Evo Bluestein
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Evo Bluestein's highly regarded autoharp method is finally available in this Mel Bay publication. Part One includes basic music theory and details Evo's easy 4-step method. Part Two includes rhythm strumming instructions, melody chord changes, and lyrics to 18 well-known American folk songs and southern fiddle tunes in the keys of G, F, C major, and A modal (keys that are provided on standard 12, 15 and 21 bar harps). Also included are instructions for transposing to other keys. All songs are included on a solo performance CD for the purpose of ear training and accompaniment.

Customer Reviews:

Not the most in depth book.......2007-05-19

I did not like this book at all. It was really hard to follow and was not very well explained or detailed enough in order to adequately play the instrument. This is especially true if the reader has had no previous experience with the autoharp. It gives the very basics to strumming and the barest basics to picking melodies. The author does not even include any musical notation. The CD that came with the book was not instructional, it was simply the author singing the songs. I would recommend "Beginning Autoharp Instruction Book" by Bonnie Phipps. This is a much clearer method to follow and I was much more successful with it.

Extremely nonstandard book won't help you with other music.......2005-09-26

This book has about two and a half pages about musical theory, just over two pages of the actual four easy steps, and then a bunch of music to practice. The music is written in completely nonstandard notation, which isn't well explained: about a paragraph of explanation is given about how to read the music, but otherwise you're left to figure it out for yourself. Learning to play from this notation, which is unlike any other published autoharp music I've seen, won't help you at all when you try to read and play anything else.

Overall, while this method may work, I recommend against it for its lack of correlation to available sheet music.

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Book Review.......2007-08-13

Is it possible for one man to change the world? Can one person with a simple but elegant message bring about peace in all nations? The answer is yes!

We believe that one man and one ground-breaking book can do exactly that. Noriaki Osada's Theory of International Physical Education and Sports Studies for the Achievement of Peace can save the people of the Earth, even today as we come ever-closer to our society's complete destruction.

Theory of International Physical Education is engagingly written and painstakingly researched. It is not a flight of fantasy, but rather a clearly marked path to harmony in all societies through physical education. This is a book that not only should, but must become required reading for any leader in any society.

The achievement of Peace with "three bold intentions" is the theme of this literary landmark. Noriaki Osada's clever solution is to awaken the physical education and sports scholars of the world and give them the knowledge they need to expand the international cooperation central to all sports.

Every four years the Olympic Games bring the World together with a unique spirit of cooperation. Why does the world only have this spirit special atmosphere for two weeks every fourth year? Noriaki Osada understands that "physical education and sports scholars of the world will, through physical education and sports research, create national theories that will lead to peaceful societies and peaceful nations."

Theory of International Physical Education and Sports Studies for the Achievement of Peace is quite possibly the most important book written in the twentieth century, updated for the new millennium. It is simply not to be missed.

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Build real-world, end-to-end network monitoring solutions with Nagios

This is the definitive guide to building low-cost, enterprise-strength monitoring infrastructures with Nagios, the world’s leading open source monitoring tool. Network monitoring specialist David Josephsen goes far beyond the basics, demonstrating how to use third-party tools and plug-ins to solve the specific problems in your unique environment. Josephsen introduces Nagios “from the ground up,” showing how to plan for success and leverage today’s most valuable monitoring best practices. Then, using practical examples, real directives, and working code, Josephsen presents detailed monitoring solutions for Windows, Unix, Linux, network equipment, and other platforms and devices. You’ll find thorough discussions of advanced topics, including the use of data visualization to solve complex monitoring problems. This is also the first Nagios book with comprehensive coverage of using Nagios Event Broker to transform and extend Nagios.

Understand how Nagios works, in depth: the host and service paradigm, plug-ins, scheduling, and notification
Configure Nagios successfully: config files, templates, timeperiods, contacts, hosts, services, escalations, dependencies, and more
Streamline deployment with scripting templates, automated discovery, and Nagios GUI tools
Use plug-ins and tools to systematically monitor the devices and platforms you need to monitor, the way you need to monitor them
Establish front-ends, visual dashboards, and management interfaces with MRTG and RRDTool
Build new C-based Nagios Event Broker (NEB) modules, one step at a time
Contains easy-to-understand code listings in Unix shell, C, and Perl

If you’re responsible for systems monitoring infrastructure in any organization, large or small, this book will help you achieve the results you want–right from the start.

David Josephsen is Senior Systems Engineer at DBG, Inc., where he maintains a collection of geographically dispersed server farms. He has more than a decade of hands-on experience with Unix systems, routers, firewalls, and load balancers in support of complex, high-volume networks. Josephsen’s certifications include CISSP, CCNA, CCDA, and MCSE. His co-authored work on Bayesian spam filtering earned a Best Paper award at USENIX LISA 2004. He has been published in both ;login and Sysadmin magazines on topics relating to security, systems monitoring, and spam mitigation.

Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Best Practices
CHAPTER 2 Theory of Operations
CHAPTER 3 Installing Nagios
CHAPTER 4 Configuring Nagios
CHAPTER 5 Bootstrapping the Configs
CHAPTER 6 Watching
CHAPTER 7 Visualization
CHAPTER 8 Nagios Event Broker Interface
APPENDIX A Configure Options
APPENDIX B nagios.cfg and cgi.cfg
APPENDIX C Command-Line Options
Index

Customer Reviews:

Not Much More Thorough Than Existing Documentation.......2007-09-25

It's well written, but it didn't provide much more insights and coverage than reading the existing documentation you can download for free. There are also some glaring gaps in its coverage. There's nothing about passive checks! And I don't think it was written before v3.0 came out.

If you like written docs for stuff you reference often, it will be worth the money. But don't go to it with any significant troubleshooting problem.

Fantastic Book for New Nagios Users.......2007-07-06

This book takes the fairly complicated matter of configuring Nagios for monitoring your network infrastructure and makes it straight forward. Kudos and many things to Mr. Josephsen.

Far and away the best book on Nagios.......2007-05-31

I use Nagios heavily at my company and as a result, I've purchased all of the available texts on the subject. This one is simply the best work on Nagios available right now. It's clear and succinct where even the online docs from the Nagios project can be confusing. It covers things that the No Starch volume barely touches on (WMI Scripting and Nagios) and honestly, the diagrams and code samples are clear and useful in real-world application.

Really, buy this one. If you need another one, I would be surprised.

Enjoyable to read - helpful - great reference.......2007-05-23

The author clearly likes the product on the products own merits. The books is not written by a hack who was filling a void. He writes clearly and methodically explaining in detail why, what, how and when of Nagios. The index is very good and has allowed me to effectively use it as a reference in learning Nagios. I like some humor in my technical books and David does not disappoint me when he explains how to "ssh into his power strip" to do a little environmental monitoring.

Nagios - in my opinion - is a killer-app with such flexibility as to be the "ultimate" monitoring tool. Learning it is a wise investment of anyone's time, and Josephesen's book is invaluable to understanding and exploiting all of Nagios's features... and yes, I am over the age of 13.

Spot on for a well structured book with many WOW-factors.......2007-05-17

--- DISCLAIMER: This is a requested review by PTR, however any opinions expressed within the review are my personal ones. ---

Introduction - 6p
CHAPTER 1 Best Practices - 12p
CHAPTER 2 Theory of Operations - 26p
CHAPTER 3 Installing Nagios - 11p
CHAPTER 4 Configuring Nagios - 23p
CHAPTER 5 Bootstrapping the Configs - 10p
CHAPTER 6 Watching - 46p
CHAPTER 7 Visualization - 42p
CHAPTER 8 Nagios Event Broker Interface - 19p
APPENDIX A Configure Options - 3p
APPENDIX B nagios.cfg and cgi.cfg - 9p
APPENDIX C Command-Line Options - 10p
Index - 14p

The book is with 190 pages (230p. when including appendix and index) very compact. It teaches you Nagios in a way I have never heard / read before. I must assume that the authors clear structured style - which runs through the book like a red line - must be responsible for the excellent outcome.

The book starts in the introduction with the title "Do it right the first time" and that hits it right on the spot. What make out the features of this little portable knowledgebase is the exceptional well thought through contents and its explanations by the author. David is not filling pages by explaining each and every parameter, but rather showing you the big picture, and explaining how to approach new issues or how one technical solution is better over another.

This is the book you should pass to your manager so (s)he understands why and how an open solution like Nagios is the better choice and can be used for achieving surpassing solutions.

The book itself basically is divided in two sections:

Background, setup and configuration - Chapters 1-5
Advanced Topics - Chapters 6-8

I did find any of the chapters to have a nice balance of the amount of information needed but some EXCEPTIONAL good parts of book where:

Chapter 1 Best practices
Chapter 2 - the part about scheduling
Chapters 6-8 as a whole

Chapter 6 has a thorough explanations on monitoring the different OS's (especially the Windows part !!) or other applications.

Chapter 7 for its overall thoroughness of how to visualize your data to reach the next level of a better understanding of the systems / network you are monitoring.

Chapter 8 is describing a filesystem based status interface. The NEB module will write a file with its current status code for each service. I have to admit that some technical details went over my head, but I thought that was pretty cool !!

The featured points above is what I found to be exceptionally good and most likely the strongest sales points for this little portable knowledgebase. That doesnt mean that the other not mentioned parts of the book are weak, mind you.

Funny enough the above mentioned points where EXACTLY the points which I havent seen explained this thorough anywhere before.

So David's book was exactly spot on for me.

Summary:

To sum it all up in very simple words: This is a hell of a book !!

Its the most compact, well structured book on Nagios that I have seen to date. It contains many WOW-factors. While reading each chapter you can virtually "feel" how Davids explanations and tips and tricks already helped you to avoid time consuming pitfalls.

So this book is not about "to buy or not to buy", this is an investment you dont want to miss !!

I was especially impressed by the thoroughness the book is written by from the first page. Also the contents of the first chapter wasnt new to me, the way it was explained already provided many of those A-ha moments.

The main asset of the book is not the description of the tools itself, but rather the tought and considerations the author put into it and the sharing of those thoughts in a way that the reader can actually visualize how and why one solution is better over another, without actually having to go to the "luxury to experience the pitfalls" in a live disaster scenario.

PS: AFTER I finished reading the book I re-read the "Editorial Review" Amazon gave above and found it pretty well describing the actual book and what you should expect.

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Best for Nagios admins who want specific details on plug-ins
A nice solid Nagios introduction a la No Starch Press

Nagios: System and Network Monitoring
Wolfgang Barth
Manufacturer: No Starch Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1593270704

Book Description

Nagios: System and Network Monitoring shows how to configure and use Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool. Nagios makes it possible to continuously monitor network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.), host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.), and environmental factors (such as temperature). When Nagios detects a problem, it communicates the information to the sys admin via email, pager, SMS, or other user-defined method; current status information, historical logs, and reports can also be accessed via a web browser. Nagios System and Network Monitoring covers the Nagios core, all standard Nagios plug-ins and selected third-party plug-ins, and shows readers how to write their own plug-ins. The book covers Nagios 2.0 and is backwards compatible with earlier versions.

Customer Reviews:

Best for Nagios admins who want specific details on plug-ins.......2006-09-04

I recently received review copies of Pro Nagios 2.0 (PN2) by James Turnbull and Nagios: System and Network Monitoring (NSANM) by Wolfgang Barth. I read PN2 first, then NSANM. Both are excellent books, but I expect potential readers want to know which is best for them. The following is a radical simplification, and I could honestly recommend readers buy either (or both) books. If you are completely new to Nagios and want a very well-organized introduction, I recommend PN2. If you are somewhat familiar with Nagios and want detailed descriptions of a wide variety of Nagios plug-ins, I recommend NSANM.

NSANM strengths lie in the depth of coverage of certain elements when compared to PN2. PN2 devotes 7 pages to host checks, while NSANM's Ch 7 offers 21 pages. PN2 supplies 8 pages on service checks, but NSANM's Ch 6 gives 46 pages. This level of detail can be very useful. For example, NSANM's explanation of check_squid also shows to to configure Sguid to allow access to its cache manager.

NSANM shares more information on certain background protocols like SNMP. PN2's SNMP section is about 7 pages, whereas NSANM's Ch 11 is 36 pages. NSANM demonstrates more aspects of Nagios' Web interface and the CGI programs generating pages. I thought author Wolfgang Barth made very effective use of diagrams, like the network topology explanation in Ch 4, the service checks in Ch 5, and notification in Ch 12.

NSANM includes some material not mentioned in PN2, like using Nagios with Cygwin. Sometimes the books are very complementary, as shown by PN2's discussion of NSClient++ and NSANM's overview of NSClient and NC_Net.

NSANM is lacking coverage of security, redundancy, and failover, however. PN2 does address these critical issues. Beware the some of the "chapters" in NSANM are very short -- like Ch 8 (2 pages!) and Ch 19 (barely 6 pages). I think short sections like those should have been integrated into longer chapters or moved into the appendices.

Overall, NSANM is a very good book. I believe new Nagios readers should read PN2, and strongly consider NSANM as a complementary reference volume.

A nice solid Nagios introduction a la No Starch Press.......2006-07-25

Bookspecs:
70+ plugins described !!
464 pages

The book (in a typical No Starch Press style) gives a clear, concise rundown about Nagios in general.
As such it is a well written and sound introduction to the Nagios topic.

After having read No Starch*s Nagios book you will know exactly how Nagios works inside.
The thorough explanations, flow charts and many tips and tricks leave no doubt that after you
finished the book you know your way around any Nagios installation.

What is remarkable is, that even though the Nagios topic is fairly young, the authors manage
to describe more than 70+ plugins. !!

One of the features of this book was for me basically a new level of "Usability" - or should I
say "reading quality" ? The text contains virtually "links" to related or refered to sections in
other chapters. That allows the reader to quickly jump back and forth to follow up on something.
A BIG time-saver and from my point of view much appreciated.

Beginners or junior system administrators will find No Starch's Nagios book an excellent choice.
It doesnt come with all the latest bells and whistles but it certainly covers more than 80% of
what the average joe sysadmin needs to know.

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