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Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Controversy and the Clinical Mentality: Some Methodological Problems and Their Effects on the Research Design -- Part I: Criteria for Decision-Making -- 3. Decisions to Treat Critically Ill Patients: Social Versus Medical Considerations -- 4. The Terminal Patient: Treatment of the Dying and the Dead -- 5. Decision-Making Viewed Through Hospital Records -- Part II: Sources of Variation Among Physicians: Some Organizational, Social, and Cultural Variables -- 6. Context for Decision-Making: The Hospital Setting

Do the Math: On Growth, Greed, and Strategic Thinking is a fresh look at the numbers of daily living, particularly in light of current economic troubles, where modern economic practices, mathematical concepts, and everyday moral dilemmas are discussed. The book is original because it tackles numbers directly to take aim at various unsubstantiated claims and popular misconceptions. The book is made up of a number of topic sections, introducing the reader to everyday mathematical concepts and more reasoned arguments on the value of cooperation.

section 1. Overall macroeconomic policy regime and its linkages with fiscal policy -- section 2. Pressing concerns relating to fiscal federalism in India -- section 3. Public policies and institutions towards addressing the development deficits

Development concepts : old and new -- Globalization -- Growth versus development -- Development communication : some practical considerations -- Recent international development efforts -- Development news in seven newspapers of India -- Results, conclusions, and recommendations

Reinterpreting within-country inequality -- High and low inequality as historical equilibria -- High inequality, low inequality and creative destruction -- The distribution of income between nations as a high inequality equilibrium (HIE) -- Global stratification and the three paths of social mobility