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Regulation For Revenue - The Political Economy Of Land Use Exactions

by Alan A. Altshuler e Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez

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 Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.
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Public Use Of Private Interest

by Charles L. Schultze

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 "Hess brings not only first-rate credentials, but a cool, dispassionate perspective, an incisive analytical approach, and a willingness to stick his neck out in making judgments..." - American Political Science Review
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Liberal Arts Colleges - Thriving, Surviving, Or Endangered?

by David W. Breneman

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 Private liberal arts colleges provide high-quality undergraduate education, but their survival is in doubt. David Breneman, an economist and former college president, explores educational and economic issues in this book, a detailed analysis of more than 200 liberal arts colleges.
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Austerity And Working-Class Resistance - Survival, Disruption And Creation In Hard Times

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 A guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of protest and resistance.
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Austerity And Working-Class Resistance - Survival, Disruption And Creation In Hard Times

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 A guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of protest and resistance.
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Austerity And Working-Class Resistance - Survival, Disruption And Creation In Hard Times

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 A guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of protest and resistance.
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Exploring The Political Economy And Social Philosophy Of James M. Buchanan

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 Each chapter in this volume seeks to explore, critique, and emphasize the continuing relevance of the vast contributions of Buchanan to our understanding of political economy and social philosophy.
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Exploring The Political Economy And Social Philosophy Of James M. Buchanan

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 Each chapter in this volume seeks to explore, critique, and emphasize the continuing relevance of the vast contributions of Buchanan to our understanding of political economy and social philosophy.
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Reflections On Progress - Essays On The Global Political Economy

by Kemal Dervis

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 Is the world giving up on the promise of ever greater prosperity for all, on functioning democratic institutions, and on long term peace? Is the special set of circumstances that led to the recent rapid growth in emerging markets unlikely to be present in the future? Will the second decade of the twenty first century end with "secular stagnation"? Kemal Dervis addresses these and similar questions in this thought provoking series of essays.
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Empathy

by Derek Matravers

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 How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions.
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Political Economy Of Sugar Production In Colonial Kenya - The Asian Initiative In Central Nyanza

by Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo

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 This study of Asian agency in colonial Nyanza provides a blueprint to understand the persistent insufficiency in sugar production in post-independence Kenya. This book brings to light issues in broader Kenyan economic history, such as the undercapitalization of peasant farmers and lack of political will to spur agricultural economic development due to the politics of special interest groups.
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Empathy

by Derek Matravers

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 How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions.
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The Political Economy Of Sugar Production In Colonial Kenya - The Asian Initiative In Central Nyanza

by Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo

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 This study of Asian agency in colonial Nyanza provides a blueprint to understand the persistent insufficiency in sugar production in post-independence Kenya. This book brings to light issues in broader Kenyan economic history, such as the undercapitalization of peasant farmers and lack of political will to spur agricultural economic development due to the politics of special interest groups.
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Working Longer - The Solution To The Retirement Income Challenge

by Alicia H. Munnell e Steven A. Sass

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 Shows that an effective response to the retirement income challenge lies in remaining in the workforce longer. This book investigates the prospects for moving the retirement age from 63 to 66. It also asks whether future generations of workers will be healthy enough to work beyond the retirement age, as well as whether people are willing to do so.
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Labour Of Subjectivity - Foucault On Biopolitics, Economy, Critique

by Andrea Rossi

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 This book offers a reassessment of Foucaultâ€™s critical work in the context of the modern economy of subjectivation.
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Moral Responsibility - An Introduction

by Matthew Talbert

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 * An insightful framing of basic issues and developments in the field of moral responsibility * Clearly and engagingly overs a staggering amount of material in a short amount of space * Includes some of the author's genuinely original ideas and insights * An up-to-the-minute snapshot of what issues are exercising theorists today.
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Moral Responsibility - An Introduction

by Matthew Talbert

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 * An insightful framing of basic issues and developments in the field of moral responsibility * Clearly and engagingly overs a staggering amount of material in a short amount of space * Includes some of the author's genuinely original ideas and insights * An up-to-the-minute snapshot of what issues are exercising theorists today.
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Probability

by Darrell P. Rowbottom

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 When a doctor tells you there's a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important, if we are to make good theoretical and practical choices.
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Probability

by Darrell P. Rowbottom

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 When a doctor tells you there's a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important, if we are to make good theoretical and practical choices.
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Persons And Personal Identity

by Amy Kind

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 As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe.
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Free Market And The Human Condition - Essays On Economics And Culture

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 The Free Market and the Human Condition explores the human condition as situated in the free market from a variety of academic disciplines. By relying upon contributors who approach the topic from their respective disciplines, the book provides an accumulated picture of the free market, the human condition, and the relationship between them.
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Emotion

by Carolyn Price

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 Emotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and structure our relationships with others.
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Groups As Agents

by Deborah Perron Tollefsen

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 In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example that "Google intends to develop an automated car", "the U.S.
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Groups As Agents

by Deborah Perron Tollefsen

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 In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example that "Google intends to develop an automated car", "the U.S.
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