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This volume contains chapters on a range of topics which include economic methodology in macroeconomics, central bank independence, policy signalling, public policy as second best analysis, the determinants of economic growth, a continuum approach to unemployment policy, and pensions. The volume dispels the notion that these are largely unrelated issues and illustrates the merger process which is taking place between hitherto rather separate economic sub-disciplines. They move the focus of attention and challenge received wisdom.

The founder of the nonprofit, nongovernmental organization Terra Segura International describes the group's efforts to eliminate landmines throughout the world, focusing on enlisting the involvement of local communities in the context of an organizational approach modeled on public health programs. The group's strategies for obtaining financial backing are reviewed, highlighting its promotion of a reliable, low-cost, low-tech mine-clearing machine, the recruitment of local teams, & promotion of decentralization & worker ownership in the creation of de-mining markets. The successes of extant efforts in several countries are described. K. Hyatt Stewart

Enneagrams used in personality typological studies are only one of numerous types of diagrams that model actual and potential interrelationships based on nine factors, parameters or variables (=FPVs). However, the psychological-sociological discipline – like any field of investigation
(whether non scientific or scientific) – has to deal with so many FPVs that the over-simplistic enneagrams and similar conceptual figures do not reveal all possible interconnections. When all known FPVs are integrated, many hundreds of additional complexities become obvious. Several
linkage or concatenation diagrams useful in handling more than just nine (=ennea-), or multiple of nine, FPVs are offered here; psychological-sociological "systems" are as complex as any of the earth science-based complexes, like the world wide ecological systems (e.g. Gaia-type)
which are controlled by "innumerable" FPVs. Investigations should go far beyond the simplistic enneagrams.