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Intro -- Praise for The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook -- Contents -- A Personal Note -- Introduction: The Creation of Social Wealth Out of Poverty -- Phase One--From Possible to Plausible: Pressure Test Your Start-Up Idea -- Chapter 1: Articulate Your Targeted Problem and Substantiate Your Proposed Solution -- Chapter 2: Specify Performance Criteria -- Chapter 3: Define and Segment Your Target Population -- Chapter 4: Understand the Beneficiary Experience -- Chapter 5: Analyze the Most Competitive Alternative -- Chapter 6: Identify Operations Realities -- Chapter 7: Address the Inevitable Sociopolitics -- Chapter 8: Develop a Concept Statement -- Phase Two--From Plausible to Probable: Plan Your Social Enterprise -- Chapter 9: Frame and Scope the Venture -- Chapter 10: Specify Deliverables -- Chapter 11: Establish Assumptions and Checkpoints -- Phase Three--From Probable to Plannable: Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise -- Chapter 12: Launch Your Enterprise -- Chapter 13: Manage the Upside and Downside -- Chapter 14: Scale Up Your Social Enterprise -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook Advisory Group -- Index -- About the Authors -- About Wharton Digital Press -- About The Wharton School

Higher educational practices in post-Soviet Central Asia remain predicated on an authoritarian conception of expertise rooted in an objective and universal science. While the substance of such education has changed since the Soviet era, the form of education remains rooted in Soviet-era discursive ideological practices, practices that encourage civic passivity outside the classroom. The liberal arts model of higher education represents a significant challenge to prevailing education norms, but it is a model that is honoured more in name than in implementation by domestic and international reformers. The inability to articulate the broader societal significance of the liberal arts suggests a broader act of forgetting the civic inspiration of liberal education in established as well as developing democracies.

A theory is proposed that explains the evolution of a market based on a quality variant as it goes from being a niche to the market norm. Organic commodities are described as such a quality variant and used to focus on the economic and policy issues that arise during a market's evolution. It is shown how organic products in general can become the norm in many American commodity markets. However, there is disagreement over whether it should and much uncertainty about whether it will. The current status of two organic markets is discussed to illustrate empirical issues. (JEL Q130, Q110, Q100)