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The reduction in the study of psychodynamics or interpersonal processes involved in mental & emotional difficulties in living is investigated to argue that there has been a transformation due to care being provided by the profit oriented corporate run industries, rather than independent providers & institutions. The rise of "managed care" over the past several decades by huge insurance companies now offers medication "therapy" that relieves symptoms, but does not treat the underlying causes of peoples problems in living. The fact that psychotherapy has always been repressed still suffers in the context of Medicare's help for the elderly and the very poor that provided nothing for the rest. The skyrocketing corporate profits of insurance companies are attributed to the triumph of health maintenance organizations (H.MO), & have been facilitated by friendly legislation beginning in 1980 the Bayh-Dole Act. The dominance of the drug industry in the mental health field is contextualized in the capitalist mode of production that focuses on technological innovation & scientific research, & commodification of care. Turning the tide of mental disorders as part of an industry dominated by corporate capitalists seeking profit is concluded to require organization of health care workers & unionization of physicians to eliminate capitalism's opposition to human needs. J. Harwell

Names such as Armor, Pettigrew, Glazer, Jencks, Herrnstein, Clark and Moynihan have not yet appeared in the pages of Ring magazine, but it seems only a matter of time. It is no secret, after all, that these men, all intellectual heavyweights, are engaged in an ongoing, fierce slugging match over a host of issues related to the "limits of social policy." Their verbal fisticuffs have been characterized by a good deal of fancy footwork, plenty of hard hitting, some low blows and inevitable cries of foul. For some time Public Interest was booking the best cards, but with more than 150 pages of its February, 1973, issue devoted to a detailed critique of Jencks's Inequality, it may be assumed that the Harvard Educational Review became, as it was during the Jensen brawl, the main arena of conflict. The bulk of recent attention was focused on the hard punching of Jencks's critics, but it would be a pity if the brilliant footwork of Kenneth Clark went unnoticed. His performance is simply remarkable.

This article argues that the international financial consequences of immigration exert a substantial influence on the choice of exchange rate regimes in the developing world. Over the past two decades, migrant remittances have emerged as a significant source of external finance for developing countries, often exceeding conventional sources of capital such as foreign direct investment and bank lending. Remittances are unlike nearly all other capital flows in that they are stable and move countercyclically relative to the recipient country's economy. As a result, they mitigate the costs of forgone domestic monetary policy autonomy and also serve as an international risk-sharing mechanism for developing countries. The observable implication of these arguments is that remittances increase the likelihood that policy makers adopt fixed exchange rates. An analysis of data onde factoexchange rate regimes and a newly available data set on remittances for up to 74 developing countries from 1982 to 2006 provides strong support for these arguments. The results are robust to instrumental variable analysis and the inclusion of multiple economic and political variables.