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Review from Branddenotes.blogspot.com
Put in general terms, the point of the book boils down to this:
1. "Expecting people to be motivated to act to meet other people's needs by a desire for economic gain or profit is only a partial answer to the problem of motivation, not the whole answer."
2. "Expecting the price-signals generated by supply and demand in markets to tell people how to act to meet other people's needs is only a partial answer to the problem of guidance, not the whole answer."

So far, it sounds like the authors are in the mainstream Unitedstatesian liberal/European social democrat stream of thought. Let's stick with liberal economics, capitalism, but put some soft stockings on the market's invisible foot so it's stomping doesn't hurt so much. But then...

3. "To the extent that a society depends for meeting people's needs on profit motives and price-signals, measures designed to alleviate poverty, which weaken profit motives and/or distort price-signals, are likely to backfire."

This sounds like the same thing that conservatives will say, that the good intentions of the liberals/social democrats are actually counterproductive, and do the opposite of what is intended, thanks to the counterintuitive but immutable laws of economics.

The authors wouldn't disagree, except they would note that "economics" should not be reified and turned into universal laws like the laws of physics. On those (vanishingly rare) occasions when neoliberal economics is correct about the real world, it is only so because the governing customs are those of neoliberal economics.

What the authors' argument boils down to is similar to that of the early communists who viewed European social democrats as deluded traitors whose concessions to capitalism would never work, because the intrinsic nature of capitalism - namely, that high profits are essential to ensure investment hence employment and high wages down the road - would not allow the ideals of social democrats to be implemented for long. Without wealthy foreign markets that demand a social democratic country's products, the country will be without the high level of profits necessary to ensure both high wages and high levels of investment at the same time. When once-backward countries caught up and began to produce high quality products using highly exploited laborers - hence at a lower cost of production - social democratic countries simply couldn't compete as well, and their incredibly successful economies finally experienced problems in funding their redistributive policies, much to the relief of neoliberal economists, who previously had been reduced to arguing that these wealthy, egalitarian societies would be even better if only they ditched the policies that made them what they were.

The bottom line is: the underlying constitutive rules of the modern worldwide economy must be changed to allow for motives other than self-enrichment (for a few) and self-preservation (for the many) to operate. Kind of like... socialism. ... Read more

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It *was* good as an intro to ASP.NET
I enjoyed getting this book so early on in the .NET beta. Obviously superceded now, and full of repetitive sections, but with no competition it was a winner! ;-)

Save your money for full blown release
There will be several more changes to the .NET framework.Notice how I said .NET and not ASP+....It is no longer called that.The examples are okay but the explanations are not that great and lacks the typical reader involvement that I have grown to love from the WROX family.This is my first disappointing review for WROX and hope it's my last.Save your money for BizTalk or Commerce Server books until this is a fully baked language and framework.

session variables
According to Ch. 9 all session variables are there for, is to write debug pages. Whoa! that's VERY interesting, however I would have thought that, just maybe, there is more to that than what this book offers, not. A very disappointing manual as a whole, and particurlarly annoying when one realises than the only reason this book is as thick as it is, is due not to content, but use of large fonts and continual repetitions. Not to be recommended.

Great book to get started
This is a great book (as to be expected from Alex Homer) for beginning to understand .Net and ASP+. It doesn't go into the .Net framework in too much detail but explains how ASP has progressed to ASP+ and ADO to ADO+.A must read for any ASP devloper who wants to move to .Net

Decent preview
Although I am a little late I'd like to add my review for those of you who are planning to purchase this book. I think it is a nice pioneering review for ASP+. (ASP.NET). A lot has been said about .NET, the only thing I'd like to add that this book was probably the first one to be published about the .NET platform even before the name was .NET. So the info in the book is still relevant but the names have changed a little bit. If you are interested in learning the .NET platform get a more recent source other wise to learn ASP.NET I believe it is a good choice. I'll give it 5 points mainly because the examples are written in c# which is a nice change. If you'd prefer VB there are still enough examples. ... Read more

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sintesis informativa de las diferentes formas de gobierno
Una síntesis las formas de gobierno existentes en Europa y Norteamérica desde la época feudal hasta bien entrado el siglo xx. Un libro que merece ser estudiado por todos aquellos interesados en la historia política mundial, estudiantes de relaciones exteriores y todos aquellos con algún interés de comprender como funciona nuestra forma de gobierno. Después de que las cosas que generan grandes cambios pasan, podemos, después de un tiempo, ver que no son hechos aislados sino una cadena de hechos que generan una sucesión de cambios pequeños que usualmente desencadenan los grandes acontecimientos. Los libros de historia de la educación media se quedan en una explicación de los hechos históricos de una manera acartonada. Pasa esto y después pasa aquello, sin llegar al fondo. Es bueno que al alumno se le inste a investigar sobre las cosas que generan los grandes cambios y no solo presentarle de manera insulsa una serie de situaciones para que sean memorizadas.
El libro comienza con la economía y el gobierno en la era medieval. La sociedad feudal consistía en ese entonces en feudos que eran administrados por señores feudales. Esta economía era autosuficiente ya que no se pensaba en producir riquezas ni en exportación de productos. El cambio que dio al traste con esta sociedad fue lento y tuvo resistencia de varias partes, incluyendo la iglesia católica, que el transcurso vio la merma en su poder y privilegios.
La sociedad mercantilista, los pensadores cuyas ideas fueron usadas y mal interpretadas, la transición lenta y tortuosa hacia la democracia, las revoluciones que dieron al traste con la burguesía están detalladas en este libro de una manera muy interesante y sin la jerga correspondiente, de manera que es fácil de leer por cualquiera que no tenga experiencia en estos avatares de la política

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