Ok, I am the editor. Here, however, are some advance comments on Entrepreneurial Economics from Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and distinguished economists William Baumol and Armen Alchian.

P.S. Steven Landsburg wrote the foreword, so if you like his books (The Armchair Economist, Fair Play etc.) you will probably like this book also.

"The essays in Entrepreneurial Economics display economic ingenuity at its best, devoted to inventing market solutions for a remarkably wide range of public issues. The analysis is subtle and tends to be comprehensive; though the subjects are challenging, the exposition is lucid."
-MILTON FRIEDMAN

"I thoroughly enjoyed Entrepreneurial Economics. . . . A very stimulating collection of ingenious ideas that can be characterized as market cures for market failure. A substantial number are promising as practical measures that can contribute to economic welfare, and all of them stimulate the imagination, promising to elicit new ideas from the reader."
-WILLIAM J. BAUMOL, Director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of Economics, New York University

"Entrepreneurial Economics offers you lively, eye-opening, mind stretching applications of economic principles and analysis. Students who read it will confound teachers who haven't."
-ARMEN A. ALCHIAN, Professor of Economics, UCLA

Starting in my country with callosotomies in epilepsy surgery, this book offers a guide for a scientific approach in indication and goal for futher studies.

I recieved this book when I was 3 1/2 and I loved it. (I am now 21 and I still like it!) Ernie gets lost while shopping at PC Nickels for Bert's birthday gift. He remembers what Maria had told him earlier about getting lost and does not panic! All turns out well. A great book with a useful message!

This little gem is focuses upon the theme of desire, or Eros, in the spiritual life. Far from seeing eros as something sinful to be supressed, the author reveals that the longing of sexual love is only one aspect of erotic love. Eors for God is that yearning which takes the lover beyond ethics. "The saints possessing divine eros have also been deified. All the saints live by the saying of Saint Ignatius the God bearer: 'My eros has been crucified.' The relation of the saints to God is erotic, i.e., desiring or yearning, not simply ethical. The grace of the deification shines in their faces, and is revealed in their bodies which smell sweetly, give forth myrrh, remain uncorrupted, and work miracles. The Orthodox Church is the place and fellowship of deification"

The Eros of Repentance is a tiny book with a needed message. Other books of interest may include: A Different Christianity, by Robin Amis; The Roots of Christian Mysticism, by Olivier Clement; The Mysitcal Theology of the Eastern Church, by Vladimir Lossky; The Inner Kingdom, by Bishop KALLISTOS Ware; Exploring the Inner Universe, by Roman Braga. Enjoy!

When someone is hurt during medical treatment it is an understandable reaction to blame the doctor for the harm. However, the great majority of errors which occur in medicine are a simple consequence of conscientious doctors being fallible human beings just like the rest of us. Hospital systems are generally full of design faults which pre-dispose doctors to make mistakes. Blaming doctors for simply being human directs attention away from these design faults, reduces the chance that system improvements will be made, and makes it likely that the same error will repeat itself in the future - thus perpetuating patient harm. Human error cannot be avoided, but patient harm can, through better systems and procedures. Genuinely negligent acts do occur in medicine, but it is important that these are distinguished from the inevitable human errors of clinicians doing their best. This is a distinction which is also required in law to ensure fairness in both the prosecution of negligent doctors and the compensation of harmed patients. This book goes several steps beyond the Institute of Medicine Report ("To Err is Human") in identifying the mechanisms and nature of error within health care and in its detailed discussion of the intricacies of culpability, blame, violation, error, legal fairness, and patient safety.

Pope's defining masterworks, "Essay on Man" and "The Rape of the Lock", are crystalizations of the 18th Century's defining impulses. The "Essay on Man" proselytizes on behalf of the deistic belief in an ordered, rational universe where humankind is no divine favorite but can understand its place on the Great Chain of Being and find happiness through knowledge and acceptance. Most will join with Voltaire in his hearty rejection of the doctrine "Whatever is, is right," yet it is impossible to deny the ennobling quality of Pope's optimism:
"Grasp the whole worlds of reason, life, and sense,
In one close system of benevolence:
Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree,
And height of bliss but height of charity."
Where "Essay on Man" expresses the rational principles of the Enlightenment, "The Rape of the Lock" exemplifies the love of the frivolous, the fashionable, and the feminine which gave such light and warmth to an era famed for its elevation of the intellect. The poem exemplifies the Rococo, that most playful of styles in literature; nowhere else in English lit does so much of the spirit of Boucher come through. Pope's verse swirls and sparkles in melodic luxuriance, his creamy couplets smooth and shapely as a woman's legs.
This compact edition also includes the "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady", one of the most beautifully severe (and overlooked) poems in the language-- a rare triumph of Neo-Classical lyric. Here also are the famous "Essay on Criticism", the galloping satire of the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot", Epistle IV of the "Moral Essays", the "Ode on Solitude" and "The Dying Christian to His Soul", and the famed little epigram from a dog's collar-- all magnificent, all of them compact and gracious in expression, articulate and penetrating in thought. The serious devotee of Pope will want to go on to the treasures (and scholarly annotations) of the Twickenham edition, but this is a terrific anthology of some indispensable works from this controversial and indispensable genius.

I read this book at the very beginning of my adoption research and it was an enormous help. It covers domestic, open and int'l adoption and has a great reference section. By the time I finished reading it, it looked like an old phone book, full of highlighted paragraphs, underlines and notes in the margins! It is an excellent book if you are just beginning the process, and have no idea of where to begin. I was clueless when I bought it, and now I have a beautiful daughter from Russia and this book really helped me get there.

Me. DeWaal has written a superb volume describing the gross violations of human rights and the consequences of willy-nilly, no-strings-attached Western aid during the Ethiopian wars for national liberation and the devastating famines of the mid 80s. He rightly points out, as has Shawcross in his "Quality of Mercy," that in their eagerness to placate oppressive governments in order to provide the starving with aid, Western charitable organizations risk prolonging conflicts and exacerbating civil unrest. He points out that historically Ethiopia has suffered localized famines that have been alleviated by regional surpluses, and that Mengistu's Dergue intentionally deprived rebellious areas of this surplus by bombing villages, drastically curtailing travel, incentives to trade, etc. So, while there was no explicit effort to starve the rebel populace, the Dergue was able to manipulate the situation to its advantage. How many in the West even heard of the TPLF or EPLF during the Famine of '84 and '85? The Western press was blind to the conflict, probably because the right-wing Reaganauts didn't see the independent and left-sounding Tigrayans and Eritreans as "white enough" to be African contras. His book terminates right after the fall of the Mengistu regime, and he makes good recommendations for ensuring peace in the region. Alas, the subsequent events have shown that these ideas were, for the most part, not implemented, and today we have as much animosity as during the depths of the Marxist and royalist regimes. His book serves as a reminder to the guilt-ridden West that good intentions are not enough when tackling famine, and that the political as well as social dimensions must be considered. Am I suggesting that the West should have ignored the plight of the starving Ethiopians and Eritreans? Of course not. But if the West had been more insistent on full access to all sides in the conflict there might have been a quicker end to the civil war. As it was, Mengistu probably bought himself at least three more years of bloody, fratricidal rule.

I am director of secondary student teachers at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. I teach courses in Middle School Philosophy, Educational Psychology, and Teaching and Classroom Management. I have found this book to be very helpful in presenting information about the basics of the middle school philosophy. It encourages educators to seek excellence in the education of youth during this critical time in their development.