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2002
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"Tyler Cowen’s Creative Destruction is one of the most interesting books ever written on globalization and is genuinely thought-provoking in all sorts of ways...With books like Creative Destruction and his earlier In Praise of Commercial Culture, Cowen has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of our day."
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2002
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Scientific evaluations have to start off where the public debate over political leanings in the elite media ends. This is also the purpose of Jim A. Kuypers’ book. The pivotal problem at hand is two-fold: it delivers both a democratic dilemma as well as a predicament of journalist ethics. The very foundation for deliberative democratic processes – the mass media – pose an imminent threat to the way in which politics is being played out.
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2002
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A good book is often hard to find. This is especially true when searching for a good book written by an economist. William Easterly’s The Elusive Quest for Growth (MIT Press, 2001) stands out as a remarkable exception to this general rule.
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2002
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"Why," asks Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz at the beginning of his latest book, Globalization and Its Discontents, "has globalization- a force that has brought so much good- become so controversial?"
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2002
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Finally, there is a justification for all of us who spent years in graduate school while our college buddies were making money on the stock market. A PhD might not only get you a tenure-track position at a university, but a job in the White House and the ear of a president.
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2001
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In Planning and the Political Market, Mark Pennington examines land use/urban planning in Britain from the public choice perspective. The result is a thoroughly documented demonstration of how (and why) well-intentioned efforts to achieve social objectives through government action often go astray.
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