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This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean can have different ranks. Conditional on cardinal measures of achievement, being ranked highly during primary school has large effects on secondary school achievement, with the impact of rank being more important for boys than girls. Using additional survey data we find that the development of confidence is the most likely mechanisms for this effect on task-specific productivity.

This book argues that R.G. Collingwood's philosophy is best understood as a diagnosis of and response to a crisis of Western civilisation. The various and complementary aspects of the crisis of civilisation are explored and Collingwood is demonstrated to be working in the traditions of Romanticism and 'historicism'. On these subjects, the theories of Collingwood and Ortega y Gasset are contrasted with those of Nietzsche and Weber

Richard Murphy examines the recent increase in the rate of tax for high income earners in the UK and argues that this should be the beginning of a journey whose destination is a wholly progressive taxation system.

Modem day western society has only recently begun to pay attention to the plight of the innocent victims of crime. Statutes have been enacted to provide financial compensation to a victim, his dependents or someone responsible for his maintenance, for the suffering and losses that invariably follow from acts of violence. The two basic aims of compensation have been identified as the need to sustain public trust (in that societies core values should be protected) and the desire to demonstrate a concern for individual rights and well being.1 In this paper I shall examine the historical outlook on these compensation programs, the anti-victim prejudices that existed then and now, and how compensation has developed in light of these factors. An examination of the justifications behind compensation will reveal why society is no longer directing all of its attention to the criminal and his rehabilitation, and diverting some of the public purse towards the victims. Along with this comes an examination of the costs of the programs and the arguments against compensation. Nova Scotia's possible motives for enacting this legislation are also examined.