http://abridge.me.uk/ 2013-05-23T14:16:24-06:00 http://abridge.me.uk/ http://abridge.me.uk/lib/tpl/default/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-12-22T05:37:09-06:00 dan http://abridge.me.uk/doku.php?id=the_elusive_quest_for_growth&rev=1356179829&do=diff The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly, 2001, Cambridge: MIT Press Aid for Investment: the Harrod-Domar Model The Harrod-Domar Model was inspired primarily by pre-war experience in the US and Soviet Union. In both cases, a strong link was perceived between physical investment and output: in the Soviet case, the ability of the government to mobilise high levels of gross saving and invest this in physical machinery was seen as a key reason for the extremely rapid rate of industrialisati… text/html 2012-06-14T18:51:36-06:00 dan http://abridge.me.uk/doku.php?id=a_century_of_war&rev=1339721496&do=diff William Engdahl, 2004 (revised edition), A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, London: Pluto The period in question began with the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna, during which Continental Europe was shuffled around in the wake of Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo. The Congress divided Europe sufficiently to prevent a significant threat to British power, whilst giving Britain “rights to dominate the seas.” text/html 2012-05-02T09:48:11-06:00 dan http://abridge.me.uk/doku.php?id=who_runs_this_place&rev=1335973691&do=diff Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century by Anthony Sampson, 2005, London: John Murray The following “Veracity Index” published by MORI is often referred to: Profession 1983 (per cent) 2003 (per cent) Doctors 82 91 Teachers 79 87 Judges 77 72 Clergymen/priests 85 … text/html 2012-03-17T15:43:03-06:00 will http://abridge.me.uk/doku.php?id=dumbing_us_down&rev=1332020583&do=diff ”Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, John Taylor Gatto, 2005 (first ed. 1992), New Society Publishers, ISBN 978-0-86571-448-9 Dumbing Us Down is a collection of five essays, often themselves based on lectures. The essays weren't written with a cohesive objective in mind, and as a result individual essays will tackle a point very concisely, but often repeat a statement that is made elsewhere. A better abridgement might restructure the entire work so as to avoid thi… text/html 2011-12-15T11:21:38-06:00 will http://abridge.me.uk/doku.php?id=home&rev=1323973298&do=diff Abridge Me is a collection of abridgements of non-fiction books, mostly concerned with politics, economics and international development. At the outset, it was established as an open wiki, but the fact is that due to a lack of outside interest, it has remained the work of a single author since its creation in 2008. Editorial policy hasn't undergone a radical change of philosophy, but it seemed somewhat dishonest to present this work as a wiki collaboration when that has never been the case. T… text/html 2011-12-14T08:10:18-06:00 will http://abridge.me.uk/doku.php?id=the_affluent_society&rev=1323875418&do=diff The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith, 1969 (2nd ed) The world is a newly affluent place. Economic growth has brought enormous changes to the ways in which the populations of the Western world live. Such change ought to be accompanied by a broad revolution in ideas associated with the management of a national economy and society. Running a rich country is entirely different to running an economy that is struggling to survive; and yet so many of the ancient ideas persist into the prese…