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For 30 years after the Second World War learning disability research and practice radically changed the ways in which people were understood and treated. An immense body of work and new and progressive agencies supported people with learning disabilities towards liberation and social inclusion. However, over the last 30 years, these gains have been rolled back. This article explains why and how this happened. Using a broadly Marxist analysis, it examines how the introduction of a social care market has impacted upon the quantity and quality of services and support available. It offers a comparison between the radical thinking and publicly funded support structures of the past and the independent service provision of the 21st century in order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each. It concludes with a consideration of possible futures.

Jack Tizard (1919–79) pioneered the scientific analysis of learning disabilities in the decades following the end of the Second World War. This article provides an overview of his work and critically assesses his contribution, identifying key elements of his analysis. It looks at the Tizard methodology and, in particular, the philosophy of science he utilised in light of more recent approaches. The article sets the historical context for the study of subsequent developments in learning disabilities.

This book analyzes the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Law, compares it ot other federal education policies of the last fifty years, and shows that No Child Left Behind is an idicator of how and why conservative and liberal ideologies are gradually transforming. This is a fascinating story about the changing direction of politics today, and it will intrigue anyone interested in the history and politics of education reform

"Free market environmentalism is an optimistic paradigm for linking dynamic environments with dynamic economies using property rights and markets to provide incentives for good resource stewardship. This book provides a new paradigm for environmentalism, offering examples of how free market environmentalism is working and confronting the limits of markets."--Provided by publisher

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: The Flow of Water -- 2: From the Ashes Came a Mill -- 3: Meredith Divides -- 4: Mechanical Genius -- 5: The Mill Next Door -- 6: Against the Odds -- 7: J.P. Morin: A French-Canadian Success Story -- 8: Power, Religion and Education -- 9: Morin's Mill -- 10: That's Men's Work -- 11: Relying on the Girls -- 12: Their Words, Their Stories -- 13: When One Door Closes Forever -- 14: Save the Mills -- 15: Another Door Opens -- 16: We Had a Good Life -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using governmental management, regulation, taxation, and subsidization with a market-based property rights approach. This approach is applied to land, water, wildlife, fisheries, and air and is compared to governmental solutions. The book concludes by discussing tougher environmental problems such as ocean fisheries and the global atmosphere, emphasizing that neither governmental nor market solutions are a panacea

"We show that grandfathering fishing rights to local users or recognizing first possessions is more dynamically efficient than auctions of such rights. It is often argued that auctions allocate rights to the highest-valued users and thereby maximize resource rents. We counter that rents are not fixed in situ, but rather depend additionally upon the innovation, investment, and collective actions of fishers, who discover and enhance stocks and convert them into valuable goods and services. Our analysis shows how grandfathering increases rents by raising expected rates of return for investment, lowering the cost of capital, and providing incentives for collective action"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site