THIS ARTICLE MAINTAINS THAT THE CHALLENGE to the American public library is not information technology but the ideology of information technology. This ideology is a coalescence of technological determinism, free market values, and neo-conservative politics that advocates radical government deregulation and the withdrawal of support for public services. In the face of this challenge, the articl...

With a new president in the USA it seems now more than the ever is the importance, in a gathering recession, to build optimism but also to do this with some pragmatism and realism. The expression, Yes we can, applies to the academic publishing world and we must all learn better how to “accentuate the positive”, as the famous song describes it. Innovation is the positive that needs to be accentu...

To now, New Zealand has been spared arboviral diseases, except for the odd imported infection. However, two exotic vector mosquitoes (Ochlerotatus camptorhynchus and Ochlerotatus notoscriptus) have become established in New Zealand and the routine arrival of infected people from overseas may soon lead to local arboviral transmission. Large populations of wild wallabies and Brushtail possums cou...

The Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies is pleased to publish this 15th volume of the Cato Supreme Court Review, an annual critique of the Court’s most important decisions from the term just ended plus a look at the term ahead—all from a classical liberal, Madisonian perspective, grounded in the nation’s first principles, liberty through limited government. We release this volume...

Nations, in short, need an Urban Agenda themselves, given the economy-environment and people shaping power of cities. The New Deal is a national project for our time. We know our nation's future depends on enlightened urban statecraft.

In the UK, the introduction of the New Deal on junior doctors' hours has placed constraints on permissible senior house officer (SHO) rosters. This makes it difficult to construct a rota that satisfies SHOs' annual leave and study leave requirements, yet remains compliant with the New Deal. A solution is the use of a computer. A computer program is described that generates compliant, full shift...

Modern Monetary Theory emerges as a plausible alternative to solve Turkey’s staggering unemployment problem. This proposed solution here is the introduction of job guarantee program, which produces non-discretionary automatic stabilizer that fosters both price stability and full employment. As monetary sovereign, Turkey has capacity use deficit spending bring growth provide employment millions ...