Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (Routledgecurzon/City University of Hong Kong South East Asian Studies, 3.)

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Reorganizing Power in Indonesia is the first deep and broad-ranging assessment of Indonesian political economy since the fall of the new order.

The authors suggest that the volatile and political upheavals that have racked Indonesia over the past two decades can be understood essentially in terms of the rise of a complex politico-business oligarchy and the reorganization of its power through successive crises, and the colonizing and expropriating of new political and market institutions. The book challenges neo-liberal economic assumptions that change is driven by rational utility-maximizing individuals and instead of emphasizes that policies and institutions are forges in bitter social conflicts over power and its distribution.

Encompassing the most important political economic and political developments in Indonesia over the last 40 years, Robison and Hadiz shed new light on the Soeharto regime and the transition to a post-Soeharto era. The book traces the forging of oligarchy throughto its triumph in the 1980s and 1990 and then explains how, weakened by crisis, it reorganized its economic position and largely passed its debt on to the state. With the collapse of centralized rule and old alliances, the authors suggest that the way was left open for the oligarchy to reconstitute its power via new accommodations with the state and populist and predatory interest within broader society.

This book will be invaluable for anyone studying Southeast Asian politics and will have strong appeal to readers interested in political economy, political sociology and development studies.

Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim (Routledgecurzon Studies in the Modern History of Asia, 19)

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Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim (Routledgecurzon Studies in the Modern History of Asia, 19)
Ravi Palat
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ASIN: 0415130743

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This book situates the evolution of the high growth economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts the growth of capitalist economies in the region throughout periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the world economy to shifts in the domestic political economies of East and Southeast Asia. It suggests that the financial crisis of 1997-98 laid the basis for a new phase of regional economic integration in Pacific-Asia.

Key issues examined include:
* comparison of patterns of state intervention and industrial organization in individual countries
* history of US power in the region
* analysis of class and state-society relations
* how shifts in regional dynamics can effect changes in the world economy

Through this detailed analysis of regional economic growth and integration since 1945, Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim concludes that the continued accumulation of capital in East and Southeast Asia is undermining the material foundations of US power.

This comprehensive survey of the emergence of Asia's Pacific Rim will intrigue and inform scholars of Asian Studies, Sociology and Development Studies alike.

East Asia in Transition: Economic and Security Challenges (HSBC Bank Canada Papers on Asia)

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East Asia in Transition: Economic and Security Challenges (HSBC Bank Canada Papers on Asia)

Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
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The HSBC Bank Canada Papers on Asia series was begun in 1995 to examine Canada's relationship with the East Asian economies and to reduce the information barriers resulting from distance and unfamiliarity in these markets. Six years on from the inception of the series, much has changed in the international environment. The Asian economies suffered a significant crash, a rapid rebound, only to slow again in 2000-2001. This, the sixth and last volume in the series, looks to the future. This new volume focuses on key issues facing the region that corporations and governments should understand, including East Asian regionalization initiatives, obstacles to continued rapid growth in China, aging and pension reform, and the changing security environment. In addition, the Canadian business performance six years on is re-evaluated.

With contributions from leading scholars intimately familiar with both Canadian and East Asian business practices, these volumes are an indispensable resource for corporations and governments looking to expand their business into East Asia, or for anyone who wants to better understand Canada's complex relationship with the Asian countries.

Financial Deregulation and Integration in East Asia (National Bureau of Economic Research-East Asia Seminar on Economics)

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Financial Deregulation and Integration in East Asia (National Bureau of Economic Research-East Asia Seminar on Economics)

Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226386716

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The increased mobility and volume of international capital flows is a striking trend in international finance. While countries worldwide have engaged in financial deregulation, nowhere is this pattern more pronounced than in East Asia, where it has affected in unanticipated ways the behavior of exchange rates, interest rates, and capital flows.

In these thirteen essays, American and Asian scholars analyze the effects of financial deregulation and integration on East Asian markets. Topics covered include the roles of the United States and Japan in trading with Asian countries, macroeconomic policy implications of export-led growth in Korea and Taiwan, the effects of foreign direct investment in China, and the impact of financial liberalization in Japan, Korea, and Singapore.

Demonstrating the complexity of financial deregulation and the challenges it poses for policy makers, this volume provides an excellent picture of the overall status of East Asian financial markets for scholars in international finance and Asian economic development.

Financial Markets and Policies in East Asia (Routledge Studies in Growth Economies Ofasia)

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Financial Markets and Policies in East Asia (Routledge Studies in Growth Economies Ofasia)
Gord de Brouwer
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Library Binding

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While the financial crisis in East Asia could be said to be on the wane in some countries, the reconstruction process in the aftermath and the debate about the financial policies best suited to the region still rages on. This book examines both of these processes in authoritative detail.
It includes critical assessment of:
* the post-crisis state of financial markets
* the banking and corporate restructuring process, with special focus on Indonesia
* the policy debates currently going on in East Asia, including monetary policy; exchange rate systems and the scope for financial cooperation
* East Asia's debt and equity markets
The well-respected contributors including Claudio Borio, Hae Wang Chung, Guy Debelle, Reuven Glick, Robert McCauley and Eisuke Sakakibara, have produced a book that will be influential around the world.

A New Financial Market Structure for East Asia: Process And Outcomes in Infrastructure Industries

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A New Financial Market Structure for East Asia: Process And Outcomes in Infrastructure Industries

Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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ASIN: 1843769433

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This book contends that the East Asian financial constitution lacks an appropriate infrastructure, resulting in inefficient allocation of high savings and an over-inflated short-term debt market. It goes on to point out that despite high savings, East Asia's dependency on financial centers outside the region is also relatively high, and that there is no strong region-wide network to connect various financial centers in East Asia.

Against this economic background, the contributors make recommendations for the establishment of effective and stable capital recycling in East Asia. The financial intermediary function of the regional financial centers - Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo - is evaluated. Discussion focuses on the issues of building an organic network between the financial markets of major economies in the region and enhancing the future role and function of those regional financial centers. The policy implications of the future development of regional financial markets - based on regional financial networks - that could potentially act as intermediaries between the high savings and productive sectors in East Asia are also examined.

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This important book provides a cogent critique of the nature of Southeast Asian capitalism. It argues powerfully that the crises in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines as well as South Korea are due not to excessive market regulation, but to too much financial liberalization and a consequent undermining of effective monetary and fiscal governance. While recognizing some macro-economic problems and abuses of state intervention in the region, the authors also highlight the nature and implications of current IMF and domestic policy responses which are exacerbating the crises. The first section introduces the crisis; highlights the inadequacies and failure of international financial governance; shows how different these crises are from the earlier Mexican collapse; and investigates the policies on which the IMF is now insisting. The book goes on to present the situation in each country in terms of the historical background, the course of the crisis so far, and the reactions of the various governments.

Globalisation, economic crisis and labour market policy: Lessons from East Asia (East-West Center working papers)

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Globalisation, economic crisis and labour market policy: Lessons from East Asia (East-West Center working papers)
Chris Manning
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ASIN: B0006RNNU6

Latin America and East Asia in the context of an insurance model of currency crises (NBER working paper series)

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Latin America and East Asia in the context of an insurance model of currency crises (NBER working paper series)
Menzie David Chinn
Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research
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151 Quick Ideas to Inspire Your Staff (151 Quick Ideas)
Jerry R. Wilson
Manufacturer: Career Press
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For most businesses, attracting new employees and getting your existing employees to succeed is a never-ending task. It's often rooted in inefficient hiring practices, misunderstood motivational techniques, inadequate training, and high employee turnover. The results: low productivity and poor performance leading to lower revenue, unhappy customers, and endless management headaches. Jerry Wilson's 151 Quick Ideas to Inspire Your Staff takes the mystery out of motivating employees to achieve personal and business success.

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Jerry Wilson has spent more than 25 years researching what his clients - businesses large and small - need to do to be successful in today's marketplace by hiring and motivating the right employees. These powerful ideas work! Each is presented in a bite-sized package that allows instant execution. No long chapters with endless justifications, pontifications, philosophy, or personal stories. Just 151 great, practical ideas any business manager and owner can use to make an immediate difference in his or her business success.

Jerry Wilson is a successful businessperson, entrepreneur, professional business and marketing consultant, and accomplished public speaker. He is also the author of Word of Mouth Marketing. Initially published in 1991, it was the first book focused on what is now called buzz marketing and viral marketing. It has also been published in four other languages— Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian. Wilson has been published in Entrepreneur magazine, Success Magazine, Master Salesmanship and Personal Selling Power, among others. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Insipid........2007-04-01

I bought this book thinking it will be worth the effort and the investment even if one of the ideas in the book can lead to something useful. I read through a few random pages of the book and sifted through about 10 of the "ideas" (unfortunately after having bought the book). There's wasn't a single interesting idea out of the 10 (for a sample see idea no 151). Written in a rather simplistic manner (phrases like "ship without a rudder", "study after study has found that"), the book is really uninspiring. I am already getting the feeling that I am wasting my time writing a review for this book. I feel the need to save the possible buyer some dough.

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151 QUICK IDEAS TO INSPIRE YOUR STAFF
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This timely volume presents specially written articles by world experts at an international conference at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The goal of the meeting was to assemble physicists and astronomers working on all aspects of dark matter and theories of gravity. Topics covered include Nucleosynthesis, Hot Gas in Clusters, MACHOs, WIMPs, Rotation Curves, Gravitational Lensing Neutrinos, Large Scale Flows, Dwarf Spheroidals, Cosmological Parameters from Supernovae, the Cosmic Microwave Background, the Cosmological Constant, and Theories of Gravity.

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The Transformist Illusion........2007-02-01

_The Transformist Illusion_, first published in 1957 and republished by Sophia Perennis et Universalis, by Douglas Dewar is a fascinating debunking of the Darwinian account of evolution from the perspective of a noted creationist. In recent times, the debate between evolutionists and creationists (as well as those who advocate "Intelligent Design") has become particularly pronounced and politicized. Public denial of evolution often leads to the permanent branding of noted scientists. However, the proponents of one school of thought, the Traditionalists, followers of thinkers such as Rene Guenon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, have long maintained that evolution conflicts with traditional metaphysics and involves an acceptance of the fallacy of progress. In particular, thinkers sympathetic to the Traditionalist school such as Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Marco Pallis, S. H. Nasr, Lord Northbourne, Huston Smith, and Wolfgang Smith have argued against evolution and have often cited this work of Dewar to support their case. Douglas Dewar (1875 - 1957) was a British biologist and ornithologist. He studied under Sedgewick at Cambridge. In his youth he believed in the theory of evolution; however, later he came to doubt this theory. He was a founder of the Evolution Protest Movement in London in 1932. He also debated leading evolutionists including H. S. Shelton, J. B. S. Haldane, and Joseph McCabe. However, as a scientist opposing the Darwinian account, he was relegated to the sidelines and thus this book (which assembles a vast amount of palaeontological and biological evidence against the theory of evolution) had to be published in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and has been relegated to obscurity. Nevertheless, the points made in this book are important and should not be naively rejected out of hand.

First, it should be noted that Dewar regards transformism as "The doctrine that all organisms are derived from a common ancestor, or two or three ancestors." (from his Glossary). To begin with Dewar considers biology in light of the physical sciences. From the very beginning, two immediate difficulties arise for the theory of evolution. To this date these difficulties have not been resolved (despite various experimental attempts, including the "Miller experiments"). The first is the problem of the origin of life (a difficulty so great that evolutionist J. B. S. Haldane refused to debate the topic of evolution unless it was not part of the debate) and the second is the issue of entropy (evolution appears to fly in the face of entropy and the evolutionist must maintain that while the universe is like a "clock running down" the living world is like a "tiny clock running up" within that "clock running down"). Following these obvious objections, Dewar turns to the evidence from the fossils, noting that the fossils remain "hostile witnesses" to the theory of evolution. Dewar states "Not a single fossil of vital importance for support of the theory has come to light." This is the issue of the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record. Indeed, Darwinism rests largely on the following three alleged evidences: 1. structural, 2. physiological, and 3. historical, and Darwin himself largely dismissed the evidence of the fossils. For example, Dewar brings up the issue of the lack of pre-Cambrian fossils (in the Cambrian period a great marine fauna appears abruptly). Darwinists have searched for such fossils in vain and have variously tried to explain this lack of fossils all to no avail as Dewar shows. Dewar next considers the succession of the faunas, showing the fossil evidence from each of the respective geological periods. Following this, Dewar discusses the origins of the families and evolution of the families, discussing for example the cases of the sea-cow and the horse. After this discussion, Dewar turns to the alleged fossil links between man and non-human ancestors, showing each of these alleged links to be problematic. Dewar also discusses transformism versus the geological record, showing the absurdity of such ideas as "clandestine evolution". Following this, Dewar brings up evidence from experiments (showing the failure of breeders to prove the transformist correct) as well as evidence of the geological distribution of animals. Dewar also considers the case of nascent and vestigial structures (such as the appendix in man) showing that while these structures are often assumed to be vestigial that they are often not so. Next, Dewar considers the case of blood-precipitation tests which were used as evidence for evolution in the Scopes trial; however, he shows such evidence to be faulty. Dewar also considers the development of the animal embroyo, fully refuting Haeckel's claim that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" (now not accepted by many evolutionists) and shows Haeckel to have been a confabulator in other cases. Dewar also considers the cases of metamorphosis and parasitism and the alleged evidence they offer for evolution. Dewar also considers some transformations posited by the theory of evolution, mentioning the alleged transformation from fish to amphibian to reptile. However, as he shows this alleged transformation is problematic, despite cases of lung-fish and pteradactls (or archaeopteryx). Dewar also considers some characters incompatible with evolution and the role of instincts (which also offers evidence against the theory of evolution). Dewar ends by concluding that the transformist hypothesis is discredited as an illusion and that while the theory of evolution claims to do away with miracles, it in fact involves more miracles than the creationist account (which only involves one miracle). From this Dewar concludes, that the creationist account of the origins of life makes more sense. Dewar includes several appendices and a glossary of useful terms. The first appendix deals with the issue of classification, the second appendix deals with the dating of geological deposits (something which Dewar also calls into question), the third appendix deals with some characteristics of birds that are apparently incompatible with the theory of evolution, and the last appendix deals with some discoveries concerning early man (including the case of the Piltdown man, which ironically, for the evolutionist, turned out to be a forgery!).

For anyone trying to understand the debate of the origins of life, this book remains an important one. Today, evolution reigns supreme among most scientists; however, many of us secretly harbor doubts. Too often evolution is accepted as simply fact merely because noted scientists say so. However, as Dewar's book shows, the theory itself (the transformist hypothesis) has a lot to account for, which it cannot. This is essential reading for those trying to grapple with this issue and is highly recommended.

A masterpiece against Darwin & co........2003-09-25

I'd like to tell Amazon and people who reads our rewiews about traditional books that I am the author of the review you can read about this great Dewar's book since some years.
My old e-mail was irget@zip.net and now my e-mail is lpontual@terra.com.br.
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How can an important book like this disappear?.......1998-06-29

There are very few books that defend a "non-evolutionist" position and this one is, among them, without doubts, the most important and decisive. Dewar exposes, scientifically, all the maneuvers undertaken by those that intended to make of a thesis scientifically unviable, an unassailable law for the world. The truth is that nobody ever demonstrated scientific evidences that a species "developed" for another.Countless neologisms,incomprehensibles for the lay ones, reveal themeselves entirely insignificants and often nonsenses when examined by Douglas Dewar. What is more astonishing to us is that a book so important is inacassible since so many years.Other titles of the same author, especially the ones that denounce the fake "evolutionism", are equally almost impossible to be obtained. - Why ???

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The Transformist Illusion

Manufacturer: Dehoff Publications
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The Transformist Illusion
Douglas Dewar
Manufacturer: Dehoff Publications
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ASIN: B000VEYNNA

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The personalities of the people that guide and misguide the academic world from its periphery both amuse and astonish. Yet their behavior is no less bizarre than that of the academics themselves.

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Sideshow The North Shore Trilogy
Poe Iannie
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