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Chapter 1. Financial Inclusion and the Middle of the Pyramid, a New Public Revenue Strategy for the 21st Century -- Chapter 2. Public Revenue, Financial Inclusion and Value Added Tax in Argentina -- Chapter 3. Financial Inclusion and Value-Added Taxes in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Albert Jay Nock: Pessimism about Education by State or Market -- Chapter 3: Frank Chodorov: Consumer Sovereignty, Markets in Education, and "A School on Every Corner" -- Chapter 4: Ayn Rand: Isabel Paterson, Private Education for a Free Society, and Education for Galt's Gulch -- Chapter 5: Murray Rothbard: Separating Education and the State Beyond Left and Right -- Chapter 6: Milton (and Rose) Friedman: Education Vouchers and State Financing of Private Education -- Chapter 7: Myron Lieberman: Education without Romance, Public Choice Economics, and Markets in Education -- Chapter 8: "Other Conceptions, Both Powerful and Exotic": School Choice Visions from Voices from the Political Left -- Chapter 9: Conclusion

A new perspective on United States software development, seen through the patent battles that shaped our technological landscape This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software. He shows that securing patent protection for computer programs has been a central concern among computer developers since the 1950s and traces how patents and copyrights became inseparable from software development in the Internet age. Software patents, he argues, facilitated the emergence of software as a product and a technology, enabled firms to challenge each other's place in the computing industry, and expanded the range of creations for which American intellectual property law provides protection. Powerful market forces, aggressive litigation strategies, and new cultures of computing usage and development transformed software into one of the most controversial technologies ever to encounter the American patent system

Trust in government dropped to a near-record low during the 1992 election as Ross Perot's startling campaign illustrated all too graphically. Stephen Craig shows the trajectory of this popular discontent over the years and predicts that the confidence gap is not likely to close until citizens adjust their perceptions and expectations of government--a shift that would represent a major change in our political culture. Blending survey data and interviews with both elites and nonelites, Craig gives us a nuanced view of how people assess their leaders, how leaders see themselves, and how opinions converge and diverge on the issues that matter most: the economy, the environment, and, above all, the quality of our democracy.

"American society is often described as one that celebrates self-reliance and personal responsibility. However, abolitionists, progressive reformers, civil rights activists, and numerous others often held their fellow citizens responsible for shared problems such as economic exploitation and white supremacy. Moreover, they viewed recognizing and responding to shared problems as essential to achieving democratic ideals. In Democratic Responsibility, Nora Hanagan examines American thinkers and activists who offered an alternative to individualistic conceptions of responsibility and puts them in dialogue with contemporary philosophers who write about shared responsibility. Drawing on the political theory and practice of Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr., and Audre Lorde, Hanagan develops a distinctly democratic approach to shared responsibility. Cooperative democracy is especially relevant in an age of globalization and hyperconnectivity, where societies are continually threatened with harms--such as climate change, global sweatshop labor, and structural racism--that result from the combined interactions of multiple individuals and institutions, and which therefore cannot be resolved without collective action. Democratic Responsibility offers insight into how political actors might confront seemingly intractable problems, and challenges conventional understandings of what commitment to democratic ideals entails. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, especially those who look to the history of political thought for resources that might promote social justice in the present"--

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- How Did We Get Here? -- Chapter 2: Eric's Story -- The Escalation -- Admitting I Had a Problem -- My Dad's Stroke -- Same Old Routine -- The Methadone Farce -- A Spark of Hope -- A New Beginning -- Chapter 3: Piers's Story -- Moving to Maine -- College Days -- Trying to Kick the Habit -- Rebuked -- A New Beginning -- Chapter 4: Eric and Piers -- Being Understood -- Reconnecting -- Granite Recovery Centers -- Together Again -- Chapter 5: The 12 Steps Revisited -- Chapter 6: RID and the 12 Steps -- Step 1 -- Step 2 -- Step 3 -- Step 4 -- Step 5 -- Steps 6 and 7 -- Steps 8 and 9 -- Steps 10, 11, and 12 -- Chapter 7: Spiritual, Not Religious -- The Oxford Group -- William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience -- Spirituality, Not Religion -- The Jungian Perspective -- Moral Psychology -- Hardwired for Spiritual Experience -- Chapter 8: Dates and Trends -- Timeline -- Summary -- Chapter 9: The Dislocation Theory of Addiction -- Loss of Community -- Digital Dangers -- Stress and Alienation -- Understanding Dislocation Theory -- Individual Selfishness Versus Societal Sin -- Chapter 10: Big Pharma -- The Medicalization of Human Suffering -- Pseudoaddiction and Other Tall Tales -- Pill Mills -- Summary -- Chapter 11: The War on Drug Addicts -- Identification -- Ostracism -- Confiscation -- Concentration -- Annihilation -- Chapter 12: Perils and Pitfalls -- Healing the Brain -- Digital Addiction -- Recovery and Initiation -- Chapter 13: What Is Success? -- Only a Small Percentage Seek or Receive Help -- Lack of Quality Treatment Facilities -- Defining Success -- Innovation and Activism -- A Call to Arms -- Chapter 14: How to Choose a Treatment Center -- The Appropriate Staff -- Community -- Family Support.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: The Foreign Policy of the EU and of Its Member States -- EU Foreign and Defense Policies and Transatlantic Relations: Friends and Foes -- The Foreign Policy of France: Continuity and Change -- The Foreign Policy of Germany: Economic Giant, Foreign Policy Dwarf? -- Italy: The Middle Country -- Great Britain's Foreign Policy Dilemmas -- Spain: Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy -- From Soviet Satellite to Regional Power: Poland after 1989 -- Danish Foreign Policy: From Pastry to Blood Denmark? -- The Foreign Policy of the Czech Republic: Domestic Politics Back with a Vengeance -- Part II: The Cold War Superpowers in a Hot World -- Russia's Staunch Foreign Policy in a Wavering Landscape -- The Foreign Policy of the United States: Indispensavle No More? -- Conclusion: The Unbearable Weight of History and the End of Transatlantic Relations? -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction: The Sovereignty Wars -- There's No Place Like Home: Sovereignty, American Style -- Power and Interdependence: U.S. Sovereignty in the American Century -- Do as I Say, Not as I Do: American Sovereignty and International Law -- Don't Fence Me In: The Use of Force, Arms Control, and U.S. National Security -- Stop the World, I Want to Get Off: Globalization and American Sovereignty -- Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Immigration and Border Security -- Don't Tread on Me: The United States and International Organizations -- Conclusion -- American Sovereignty and International Cooperation -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.