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Preface and acknowledgments / Carol Johnson, Vera Mackie and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the social sciences / Vera Mackie, Carol Johnson and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Part I. Engaging diversity in the social sciences -- Australia in the global dynamic of social science : de-centering Europe and de-mythologising the 'Asian century' / Raewyn Connell -- Beyond divisions and towards internationalism : social sciences in the twenty-first century / Sujata Patel -- Part II. Regional issues in the social sciences -- Inter-Asia referencing and shifting frames of comparison / Chua Beng Huat -- Beyond the culturalist problematic : towards a global social science in the Asian century? / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Voices and choices in reproductive rights : scholarship and activism / Sylvia Estrada-Claudio -- Beyond Consumasia : the neglected challenges / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Rethinking economics in the Asian century : the market and state in China / Leong H. Liew -- Part III. Australian social sciences in the Asian century and beyond -- Australia's future in the Asian century / Ken Henry -- Asia literacy : a deeply problematic metaphor / Ariel Heryanto -- Challenges for Australian higher education in the Asian century / Simon Marginson.

University has still been a fundamental institution for the formation of the citizenship and the construction of the public in democratic societies. Focused on the production and reproduction of knowledge, University educates a new generation of citizens, not only on technical-instrumental aspects, but also on ethical-political ones. Although among institutions there is now a current tendency to draw more attention to the first aspect than to the later one. Such ethics-political formation takes place in the particular areas of the academia, where free discussion is encouraged. University, likewise, taking general issues as a subject matter, particularly, the ones related to the organization and development of the society it belongs to. The above provides arguments to enrich citizen discussion on common topics, and even, to propose and carry out actions for the consolidation of the Public in the society. ; Peer Reviewed

University has still been a fundamental institution for the formation of the citizenship and the construction of the public in democratic societies. Focused on the production and reproduction of knowledge, University educates a new generation of citizens, not only on technical-instrumental aspects, but also on ethical-political ones. Although among institutions there is now a current tendency to draw more attention to the first aspect than to the later one. Such ethics-political formation takes place in the particular areas of the academia, where free discussion is encouraged. University, likewise, taking general issues as a subject matter, particularly, the ones related to the organization and development of the society it belongs to. The above provides arguments to enrich citizen discussion on common topics, and even, to propose and carry out actions for the consolidation of the Public in the society. ; Peer Reviewed

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed on the economic role of government. The essays further show how Smith was silent as to his intended meaning, using the term to set minds at rest; how the claim that the invisible hand is the foundational concept of economics is repudiated by numerous leading economic theorists; that several dozen identities given the invisible hand renders the term ambiguous and inconclusive; that no such thing as an invisible hand exists; and that calling something an invisible hand adds nothing to knowledge. Finally, the essays show that the leading doctrines purporting to claim an invisible hand for the case for capitalism cannot invoke the term but that other nonnormative invisible hand processes are still useful tools.

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Lynn reviews 'Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and their hinterland c.1600-c.1960' by Ralph A. Austen and Jonathan Derrick.