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East Asia s Paths to Industrialisation and Prosperity : Lessons for India and Other Latecomers in South Asia

New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xx + 295, ₹ 895. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xxiv + 577, price not indicated. Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years by Asian Development Bank,  Manila: ADB, 2020 (ebook), http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS190290.   The transformation of Asia from its status as the most impoverished region to the growth locomotive of the world economy within five decades is unprecedented and nothing short of a miracle. The achievement seems all the more profound when juxtaposed with a very pessimistic outlook of Asia’s deve­lopment prospects made by Gunnar Myrdal in his three-volume tome  Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968.

We need honest debate and rigorous research on gun control

rigorous research on gun control ©GettyImages By DRGO. December 17, 2020 [Ed: The manufactured “controversy” over John Lott’s recent move to the federal Department of Justice as a research advisor is easily understood as anti-gun academics fearing that his advice will reduce federal funding of their typically poorly designed and interpreted studies. They needn’t worry–Michael Bloomberg has their backs, viz. Northwell Health’s 2nd annual “Gun Violence Prevention Forum” on December 10. Pollack just became president of the Crime Prevention Research Center upon Lott’s (temporary?) departure, and puts the matter fairly, though too gently. Republished here unedited recognizing The Hill s copyright.]

Why the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is important in Islamic history

Why the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is important in Islamic history Why the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is important in Islamic history The conjunction was believed to mark the arrival of a divinely guided universal ruler On December 21, 2020, the day of the winter solstice, the world will witness a planetary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Though a conjunction of these two planets happens every twenty years or so, rarely do both of them come quite so close to each other or are so clearly visible in the sky. In fact, the last time these two planets appeared in such close proximity was on July 16, 1623; and the last time such a conjunction occurred at night (when it could actually be observed by the naked eye) was March 4, 1226.

Project MUSE - The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960

Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 (2003) 62-88 The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960 San Diego State University Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering scholarly publications, and mass-media portrayals. These early postwar attempts to comprehend the Jewish tragedy within prevailing cultural paradigms provided the foundation for subsequent understandings of that event.   Between the end of the war and the 1960s, as anyone who has lived

Insane Medicine, Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 2)

Insane Medicine, Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 2)
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