Author: Patricio Abinales
Publisher: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications
Keywords: asia, program, series, southeast, politics, falters, philippine, revolution
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0877271321
ISBN-13: 9780877271321

A close investigation of the contemporary Philippine Left, focusing on the political challenges and dilemmas which confronted activists following the disintegration of the Marcos regime and the reestablishment of electoral democracy under Corazon Aquino.A collection of essays by Kathleen Weekley, Rosanne Rutten, Benedict J. Tria Kekvliet and many others, this is the first attempt to bring together scholars whose focus is the Philippine Left. The authors focus on such varied topics as peasant politics, urban social movements, purges and executions, and Marxist theory. Despite the martial law de

Author: Robert D. Atkinson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: economics, falters, innovation, liberal, fails, conservative, supply, follies
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2006-10-24
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0742551067
ISBN-13: 9780742551060

The 21st century knowledge economy requires a fundamentally different approach to boosting growth than simply cutting taxes on the richest investors. The alternative is not, however, to resurrect old Keynesian, populist economics as too many Democrats hope to do. Rather, as Rob Atkinson makes clear, our long-term national welfare and prosperity depends on a new economic strategy that fits the realities of the 21st century global, knowledge-based economy: innovation-based growth economics.