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Falling behind
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Robert H. Frank |
Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry … |
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From equality to inequality
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Csilla Dallos |
"The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and … |
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Illusions of prosperity
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Joel Blau |
"In Illusions of Prosperity, Blau launches a far-reaching assault on the idea that "the market" knows best. Blau writes that while the share of the national income held by the bottom four-fifths of t… |
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La démocratisation de l'enseignement
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Pierre Merle |
Le débat sur l'instruction a une longue histoire. Il a divisé les élites économiques et politiques au temps des Lumières, agité les révolutionnaires, animé l'œuvre réformatrice de François Guizot sou… |
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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J. M. Coetzee |
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts… |
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