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Enlightening.
This was my text for an undergraduate sociology course.Handelman did an exceptional job in presenting the multiple inter-related facets that complicate the development of Third World nations.I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the plight of these countries.My only disappointment was his underlyng premise that democracy is the answer.I suspect that is the belief in most of Western society.However, I am not convinced.

to better the understand the third world
Handelman provides what the third world has to deal with to become industrialized democracies. He foucses on underdevelopment, democratic changes. religion and politics, ethnic conflict, women in development, agrarian reform, and rapid uranization among other topics. THe book was published recently so it even has some information about 9-11 and its impact. Great Textbook and Resource Tool
I had to read this book for an undergraduate course on the politics of the developing world.It can be difficult to read at times if the reader does not have some understanding of the developing world or the theories that surround their slow development into modernity.Overall it is an wonderful text for building a knowledge base and an excelllent reference tool. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Comparative Social Systems    3. Developing countries    4. Development - Economic Development    5. Economic conditions    6. Economic development    7. Economic policy    8. Economics - Comparative    9. General    10. Political Science    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Sociology - General    13. Development economics    14. Political Science / General   

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An essential instructional reference for professionals
Now in a fully updated and significantly expanded fourth edition, Richard Langedyk's Estimating & Bidding For Builders & Remodelers includes the National Home Estimator CD-Rom (which includes a 45-minute interactive multimedia tutorial). An essential instructional reference for professionals needing to accurate scope out and reliably estimate the cost of building new structures and/or remodeling existing structures, Richard Langedyk (Senior Instructor for Construction Estimating Institute of America, Sarasota, Florida) draws upon more than twenty-two years of professional experience to show how to avoid common estimating mistakes, determine both labor and material costs, and put in a bid that is expert in both quality and appearance. Estimating & Bidding For Builders & Remodelers is a practical, accessible, superbly organized, comprehensive, and "user friendly" workbook which should be on the personal reference shelf of every professional building contractor.
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Subjects:  1. Building    2. Buildings    3. Construction - Estimating    4. Estimates    5. Repair and reconstruction    6. Technology & Industrial Arts   

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Packed with Knowledge!
This book should certainly be on every businessperson's reading list, and every legislator's, and every student's. It is a lucid, well-organized and admirably logical presentation of the role of innovation in capitalism, and the role of capitalism in innovation. Author William J. Baumol accomplishes something rare indeed by spanning the chasm between quantitative and qualitative economic writing. He has the verbal skill to write clearly and accessibly, explaining his points in plain if elevated and austere language, and illustrating them with interesting historical examples. His rigorous mathematical demonstration would satisfy the most demanding academic economist. Baumol's insight that capitalism's great achievement is to make innovation routine distinguishes this book from others on innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity. Although the lone inventor matters, ancient Rome and China had lone inventors and yet those empires did not produce economic growth on the scale that capitalism has produced it. Capitalism is distinctly productive because it makes innovation a self-sustaining and indispensable phenomenon, driving and driven by competition. We find this intriguing thesis well worth serious consideration.

Good Book on Necessity of Institutional Rules
"The thesis of William J. Baumol's latest book is articulated clearly at the start.The free-market growth engine depends ultimately on institutional rules.People may have a natural entrepreuneurial instinct, but that instinct can find outlet in criminal, rent-seeking, or other destructive activities as easily as in productive venues.Economic growth depends, however, on more than just rules and norms that channel such inclinations in the "right" direction.It depends also on rules governing the appropriation of intellectual property and on the precise trade-off a society makes between pricing information at its marginal cost (making it free) and providing incentives for invention and innovation by creating rules to allow appropriobility for fixed periods of time.We call this body of rules patent, copyright, and, in general, intellectual property law (although, as Baumol argues, antitrust is also relevant).The dilemma is that in the absence of such protection there are few private incentives for producing new information or discoveries, but in the presence of such protection we impose monopoly pricing and, consequently, static efficiency losses."Read more

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Good service
The book was sent in an excellent condition as it was advertised.However, the shipment was not as fast as it was promised. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Development - Economic Development    5. Economic Conditions    6. Economic development    7. Economic policy    8. Economics - Comparative    9. Political aspects    10. Business & Economics / Economic Development    11. Development economics    12. Economics    13. Globalization    14. Political Science and International Relations   

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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Case studies    5. Economic aspects    6. Economics - Comparative    7. Economics - General    8. Industrial productivity    9. International - Economics    10. Technological innovations    11. Business & Economics / Economics / General    12. Economics    13. Finance    14. Industry & Industrial Studies    15. Social & Legal Aspects of Computing   

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The author should learn elementary arithmetic before writing
I am appalled at the author and the editorial board of the publisher. Ugh.
This book features the worst writing I have ever seen published on any subject, in any form, fiction or non-.It's so bad that one is distracted, in nearly every sentence, from the author's point, which, once you take the time to sort it all out, you usually will find doesn't exist anyway.The organization of the material is almost as disappointing as its presentation--facts are strewn together in a chaotic, non-sequitur fashion with virtually no attempt at synthesis or cohesion.I am genuinely astonished that this book has made it through eight editions.If you are a professor, you will be doing your students a huge disservice by adopting it. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Asia    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Cost and standard of living    6. Economic History    7. Economics - Comparative    8. Economics - Macroeconomics    9. Europe    10. History    11. Business & Economics / Economic History    12. Economics | History    13. Macroeconomics   

Subjects:  1. Bus lines    2. Case studies    3. Economics - Comparative    4. Express highways    5. Fiction - General    6. General    7. Manufacturing    8. Privatization    9. Reference    10. Urban transportation    11. Transport industries   

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Good in facts, sympathies are paradoxical
This is one of those books - you would expect in the thirties or fourties - that tell you how bad planning is but then suggest that a socialist society is probably great if you live there.The only really annoying part is when facts are down-played, which they are in certain descriptive paragraphs.Describing a centrally planned economy:
Superb book!
The book is incredibly well-written and extremely informative. Probably one of the best textbooks out there. ... Read more

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The Inequality Transition
Glenn Firebaugh is the first scholar to document an extraordinarily important pattern in modern economic history. Much of What You Thought You Knew Is Wrong
Much of what you thought you knew is wrong!If you are seriously interested in globabilization and recent trends in world income inequality, you need to read Glenn Firebaugh's The New Geography of Global Income Inequality (Harvard U. Press, 2003).In a straightforward and detailed presentation, Firebaugh explains the arithmetic of inequality -- how it divides into within-nation and between-nation components.He then charts each of these, both over-time and at the present time.You will learn where the U.S. fits in the world, and which countries and continents are at the top and the bottom in terms of income and inequality in income.Most important, you will see that, contrary to much current journalistic and even scholarly writing, world income inequality has actually been decreasing since the 1990s.This books complements and in important ways adds to recent books by Stiglitz, Easterly, Soros, Bhalla, Diamond, and Landes

Are the rich getting richer?
Are rich nations getting richer and poor nations getting poorer?Are the rich nations exploiting the poor nations, as critics of globalization in the trade protest movement suggest?The answer to both questions is no, according to Firebaugh, who shows that world inequality is on the decline.This book should become a classic among scholars, but it should also be of interest to the general public.Firebaugh writes well and uses plain talk and common sense along with plenty of supporting evidence. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Demography    3. Economic Conditions    4. Economics - Comparative    5. Globalization    6. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. International economics    10. Labour economics    11. Leisure    12. Macroeconomics    13. Social Science / Demography   

Subjects:  1. 1989-    2. Asia - Japan    3. Business & Economics    4. Business/Economics    5. Economic Conditions    6. Economic policy    7. Economics - Comparative    8. Japan    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Business & Economics / Economics / Comparative    11. Economic history    12. Economic systems    13. Economics | International    14. Macroeconomics   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business/Economics    3. Development - Economic Development    4. Economic development    5. Economics    6. Economics (General)    7. Economics - Comparative    8. Economics - General    9. International - General    10. Social Science    11. Social aspects    12. Sociological aspects    13. Sociology    14. Sociology (General)    15. Sociology - General    16. Development studies    17. Economic theory & philosophy