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Is politics the problem and markets the answer? An essay review of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools
(Elsevier, 1992-12)
Politics, Markets, and America's Schools is an ambitious book that draws eclectically on concepts from political science, the sociology of organizations and educational learning theory. Chubb and Moe employ an extensive ...
Which Public Goods are Endangered?: How Evolving Communication Technologies Affect The Logic of Collective Action
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-12)
The theory in Mancur Olson's The Logicof Collective Action is built fromhistorically uncontroversial assumptionsabout interpersonal communication. Today,evolving technologies are changingcommunication dynamics in ways ...
Joint Liability Lending and the Rise and Fall of China's Township and Village Enterprises
(2001-07-01)
Using data from a recent survey of bank and enterprise managers and government officials in southern China, we present a new explanation for the rise and fall of collectively-owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) ...
Fluidity and Performance in Intercultural Workplace Interactions: The Role of Behavioral Mirroring and Relational Attunement
(2006-09)
This article examines the perceptual and behavioral dynamics underlying intercultural interactions at work. Specifically, this paper studies how culture-based differences in relational attunement differentially affect how ...
On the measurement of benefits in an urban context: Some general equilibrium issues
(Elsevier, 1978-07)
The validity of using local market data to measure the benefits associated with policies adopted in an urban area is investigated. It is shown that the rest of the world is affected by taxing decisions undertaken in a ...
Dynamic determinacy and the existence of sunspot equilibria
(Elsevier, 1989-02)
This paper relates the existence of stationary sunspot equilibria in the vicinity of a conventional stationary state to the phase diagram surrounding the latter. We find that the local condition required for a unique ...
Economic Transition and Elections in Poland
(2001-06-01)
Poland's economic and political transition, one of the most successful transitions, has depended very heavily on the job creation in new firms to replace the jobs lost in the formerly state-owned enterprises. This uses ...
Work–family conflicts of women in the Air Force: their influence on mental health and functioning
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-11)
This paper examined the effects of work and family stressors and conflicts on Air Force women's mental health and functioning. We analyzed data from a 1993 survey of representative stratified samples of 525 Air Force women ...