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An out-of-work American writer, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna that has been divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market. He has come to join his old friend Harry Lime, who has offered him a job. On arrival he discovers that Lime has recently dies in a traffic accident. In talking to Lime's friends and associates, Martins notices that their stories are inconsistent,...

"In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything -- drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons -- free of the government's watchful eye. It wasn't long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone -- not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and...

Journalist Alex Harney shows how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen toll in human misery and environmental damage. Despite a decade of monitoring, foreign businessmen all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods they buy are...

Must reading for those social scientists who would understand the role of West Indians in Panamerican politics and society. Michael Coniff is to be commended for an excellent study.

"Is the United States justified in seeing itself as a meritocracy, where stark inequalities in pay and employment reflect differences in skills, education, and effort? Or does racial discrimination still permeate the labor market, resulting in the systematic underhiring and underpaying of racial minorities, regardless of merit? Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s African Americans have lost ground to whites in the labor market, but this widening...

Study of political development and foreign policy in South Africa R and the broader implications for Southern Africa and international relations - examines the evolution of Apartheid and national level and international pressures for Constitutional and government reform, the labour market for Black Africans and social policy; presents the relationships between South Africa R and Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland; considers trade relations,...

The number of temporary workers residing legally in the United States has grown dramatically over the last 30 years, yet little is known about their effects on the U.S. labor market. It is clear, however, that the many highly skilled workers among these migrants are causing friction within the firms and institutions that employ them - and it is equally clear that they are also providing significant benefits. Dr. Lowell and the contributors to this...