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The course of the Church's history in Nicaragua had changedfrom an institution led by a martyred Bishop protecting Indianrights before Rome and the Spanish King to one largelyconcerned with protecting its own interests followingNicaragua's independence to one that had come to terms with itsmission to save souls and to serve its people. However, many ofthose who took the initiative to bring the Church toward a morehumanitarian orientation in modern times had allowedthemselves to become the tool of a revolutionary politicalmovement whose aim was to perpetuate its own power.Ironically, those who truly wished to serve God and His peoplefound themselves oppressed by those who claimed that theywere doing the same. After a long struggle, a free election in1990 brought to power a series of democratic governmentsallowing freedom of the Church to fulfil its mission.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: A New Pure Economics -- 1.1 The Beginnings of Paretian Pure Economics: Early References to the Theory of Choice -- 1.2 The Definitive Formulation of the Theory of Choice -- 1.3 The Manual of Political Economy: The Innovations in Relation to Pareto's Previous Economic Ideas -- Tastes (Preferences) -- The Obstacles -- Individual Equilibrium -- The General Equilibrium of Exchange -- The General Equilibrium of Production and of Exchange -- Maximum Ophelimity of a Collectivity -- 1.4 The Definitive Formulation of Pareto's Conception of General Economic Equilibrium -- 1.5 Reflections on the Past and the Present of Pure Economics -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Arguments in Applied Economics -- 2.1 A Non-free Trade Formulation of the Theory of International Commerce -- 2.2 Further Reflections on Wealth Distribution: Criticisms of Proposed Reforms and New Implications for the Income Distribution Curve -- 2.3 Economic Crises -- 2.4 New Thoughts on the Demographic Phenomenon -- 2.5 Progressive Taxation -- 2.6 State Social Security and Mutual Aid -- 2.7 The Maximum Ophelimity for a Collectivity in Sociology -- 2.8 A Note on the Sociological Conception of Savings -- 2.9 A Statistical Analysis of the Relations Between Economic and Social Phenomena -- 2.10 The Management of Public Debt -- 2.11 The Possible Cooperative Management of the Italian Railways -- 2.12 Strikes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Definitive Abandonment of Liberal Political Activism -- 3.1 Personal History -- 3.2 Final Empirical Observations on Liberalism -- 3.3 Theoretical Considerations on the Causes of the Liberalism's Defeat -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Advance of Socialism and the Obstacles Impeding It -- 4.1 Socialism: Definitions and Common Principles of the Various Theories -- 4.2 Religious and Metaphysical Systems.

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). This second volume follows Pareto from his time teaching at Lausanne to the juncture in his life where he first began to make theoretical contributions of his own. Mornati considers Pareto's work on pure economics, general equilibrium, welfare economics and the economic case for socialism, as well as his critical observations of Italian and Swiss public policy. Fiorenzo Mornati is Associate Professor in History of Economic Thought at the University of Turin, Italy.

The Cross‐Race Effect (CRE), whereby same‐race faces are recognized more accurately than cross‐race faces, is a well‐replicated psychological phenomenon with clear social consequences. The area in which its influence is most visible is that of eyewitness misidentification. Since the advent of DNA testing, it has been revealed that scores of people have been wrongly imprisoned for crimes that they did not commit, and cross‐race eyewitness misidentifications are a determining factor in a large percentage of these convictions. This article reviews existing perspectives on the causes of the CRE, including new work on the social cognitive underpinnings of the bias. Next, we make recommendations aimed at reducing the cross‐race effect in eyewitness identification, both at the point of witnessing the crime and during the witness lineup. The goal of this work is to encourage policymakers to implement suggestions based on the current understanding of the causes and moderators of the CRE.