the 1850s, they had been superseded "literary societies," which provided single young men with social alternatives to the tavern and the theater. Society members were always interested in developing self- reliance, largely as a way to increase their chances of success in the busi- ness world. Emerson's interest in the nature of correct conduct and indi- vidual achievement thus paralleled, on a more philosophical level, the interests of much of his audience.
Although Emerson lectured on...
the Right or the Left. "In spite of their wide ideological and political differences," he argues, "all three of the last Chilean presidents have failed to produce the kind of economic result they promised."
After General Augusto Pinochet overthrew Socialist president Salva- dor Allende in 1973, Chile "became a great laboratory of neoconservative economics." Under the direction of University of Chicago-trained econo- mists such as Sergio de Castro (economy minister),...
diverting Afghan trade from free world markets to the Soviet Bloc, granting large credits at low interest rates, and by "insinuating" direct Soviet participation in Afghan economic planning. Second, to increase Afghan dependence on the Soviet economy through bilateral trade, expanded credit, and complex monetary or barter arrangements. By 1978 the USSR accounted for 37 percent of all Afghan exports and 34 percent of Afghan imports.
Since the 1979 invasion, Soviet control of the Afghan...
diverting Afghan trade from free world markets to the Soviet Bloc, granting large credits at low interest rates, and by "insinuating" direct Soviet participation in Afghan economic planning. Second, to increase Afghan dependence on the Soviet economy through bilateral trade, expanded credit, and complex monetary or barter arrangements. By 1978 the USSR accounted for 37 percent of all Afghan exports and 34 percent of Afghan imports.
Since the 1979 invasion, Soviet control of the Afghan...
the founding fathers of each nation.
Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, stressed the use of harambee (self-help) to build Kenya's economy. Communally owned tribal lands and some white settler-owned lands were acquired the government and transferred to small farmers, resulting in a total of 1.5 million households which owned an average of nearly 10 acres apiece by 1984. Most of Kenya's agriculture and industry remained in private hands, and even state owned institutions (such as marketing boards)...
Philip A. Daniels, in The World Today (Aug.-Sept. 19871, The Royal In-stitute of International Affairs, 10 St. James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE, United Kingdom.
When the Italian Communist Party (PCI) won 34.4 percent of the national vote in 1976, its highest percentage since the founding of the post-World War I1 republic in 1946, the Communists seemed on the verge of full participation in government. Since that peak, however, the party's trade union support has weakened, and fewer young people are...
The Vietnam War was a long time ago, a any kind over Vietnam is supposed to whole generation past. The veterans command our respect, whether it de- who haunt Washington D.C.'s Vietnam serves it or not. memorial in their plaintive fatigues are Behind all this lies the same promise getting middle-aged. The Marine landing that psychotherapy makes about an un- at Danang is now more distant in time happy childhood-once Vietnam is re- than Iwo Jima was for those Marines of membered properly, it will...
I'm writing a book which is a memoir- insofar as a memoir is any account, usu- ally in the first person, of incidents that happened a while ago.
It isn't an autobiography, and it isn't "memoirs." I wouldn't dream of writing my memoirs; I'm only 40 years old. Or my autobiography; any chronology of my days would make very dull reading-I've spent about 30 years behind either a book or a desk. The book that I'm writ- ing is an account of a childhood in Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, where...
public agencies and private institutions
"Dealing With Drugs: Consequences of Government Control."
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 177 Post St., San Francisco, Calif. 94108. 385 pp.
$40.00.
Editor: Ronald Hamowy
The continuing "war on drugs" is the most expensive prohibition effort in American history. In Fiscal Year 1983, for example, $836.3 million was budgeted for drug law enforcement; in contrast, enforcing the first 10 years of Prohibition cost U.S. t...
by Dusko Doder
Random, 1986
339 pp. $19.95