Managingnonprofits.org: Dynamic Management for the Digital Age

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Nonprofit managers have been slow to embrace the digital age. Although technology has transformed the face of the for-profit sector and how it operates, nonprofit use of technology to improve internal functioning and to change the way services are delivered is almost nonexistent. These limitations actually have opened the door for for-profits to "compete" successfully for traditional nonprofit business, such as moving people from welfare to work.

ManagingNonprofits.org is both a call to action and a roadmap for change. Each chapter defines an element of Dynamic Management and identifies "digital hotspots" or places within that element, and the nonprofit's implementation of that element, where digital issues will most likely arise and need to be addressed. In addition, at the end of each chapter, Maxims of Dynamic Management or core truths that the authors have found helpful to follow in their day-to-day experience as nonprofit leaders in bringing Dynamic Management to their organization are provided. Finally, the authors highlight the experience of various nonprofit and for-profit organizations that have successfully made elements of Dynamic Management a reality in their organizations.

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very impressed.......2003-04-10

I have been involved with non profit work for as long as most people can remember, and I have to say that Ben Hecht and Rey Ramsey have done the unthinkable. I gave this book to my law school class to read, and they sucked it up like a sponge. I simply could not believe what these two have done.

Mr. Hecht and Mr. Ramsey are extremely credible, and have written numerous books in the past. Overall, I would say that this book has been one of the most helpful that I have read, in this genre.

Management and Technology Made Alive and Personal.......2002-04-07

The is not another book about management. This is not a book just about technology. This is a book about management and technology and much more. I will hit some of the highlights of what the "much more" is.

What I have to say up front is that the book has excitement! It is alive with real people doing real things. It is more than I expected because it inspires and moves me. I came away with an experience and not only a lesson. The authors talk about people and activities that matter to me and I appreciate that. The book lives on into the present and the future because the thrust of the story is now in real time and not ended. I will have more on that later.

The authors set the tone of the book in the first 25 pages. They offer a map for dynamic managers and leaders of nonprofit organizations to pursue. The map is an inverted pyramid, standing on its point. This outline can only give a hint at the concepts, but the top of the pyramid, the widest portion, works down to a pointed base -

- Organizational Context - What's going on? Look in the mirror.
- Corporate Culture, Vision, Values and People - Who are we?
- The Business Model - Customers and Content - Who do we serve and what do we do?
- Infrastructure - Operations - Are we supporting our culture and business model?
- Alignment - Are our resources being properly aligned?

These match the chapter headings. In my view they make their case. I found words and concepts dear to my heart and life's work illustrating the theory - staff people, vision, values, low-income people, dreaming, change, corporate culture, diversity, partnerships, training, literacy. They show their theory in a clear, logical and personal fashion. This is not a professional dissertation or beta testing schematic. They illustrate each point and feature nonprofits that have changed with technology having a role, from the National Center for Victims of Crime to the Pet Shelter Network to Netwellness and Calvary Bilingual Multicultural Learning Center (the URL in the book for Calvary is incorrect .... They have real stories about real people trying new methods and new beginnings from mergers to reconciliation of competition in what they call "Digital Spotlights". Each account indicates how and why technology is a part of the changes that occur and how that was managed. They show the work being done, the failed steps and the work still to be accomplished.

Ultimately Hecht and Ramsey talk about their own dream, passion and their pursuit living the map of the inverted pyramid. The vision includes residents of low-to moderate-income housing, tenants and owners alike. They took the nonprofit route and partnered with other nonprofits and for profits. They created One Economy Corporation ... around a mission that "grows out of our vision of an all inclusive economy in which all people have an equal opportunity to meet their full potential". Page 197. They are honest. They did not do everything in order. Not everyone thought the dream achievable. They were told to get real. They kept going.

They established a role for technology. The One Economy Corporation is aimed at helping the customer, tenants and landlords, have hardware and software, access to the Internet and training to use it all. A second corporation, the Beehive ... was established as a suite of web-based products and services for customers - jobs, health care, finances and so on in English and Spanish. They used the map to manage the developing action steps. The book is fascinaing in part because it is moving in real time with action and web sites that continue the story and which remain subject to review and revision. The book is a prologue to action that is underway.

There is discussioin about technology and its place in nonprofits. There is discussion about on-line fundraising and other means to secure funds for a dream. Each chapter ends with a useful outline of issues to reflect and to reposition thought and an outline of guiding principles. It is a book to read and it causes the reader to pause, to think and to dream.

I recommend this book. Read and let it challenge you. It has given me a change in thinking. And the pages are still turning in peoples' lives.

A simplistic primer for nonprofits past their prime.......2002-03-04

If you have to read one book on nonprofit technology and management, don't read this one.

This book has all the hallmarks of having been rushed to press. There are innumerable spelling, grammatical and other errors that make reading the text painful. These live side-by-side with painfully mixed metaphors (repeated ad nauseam) like "you have to take the pulse of the organization by holding a mirror up to it."

The glossary reads like a litany of misunderstood and outdated concepts. Even though the book was published in 2002, and regardless of my profound gratitude to the developers of early protocols, Gopher is listed as a cutting-edge technology which is only possibly being superseded by the Web for document retrieval. You'd think that Hecht and Ramseywould have at least given the glossary to someone reasonably competent in information technology to look over. Alas, the whole of the book displays this sort of shoddy research and shallow thinking.

The body of the book reads like a warmed-over review of insights that Drucker had in the 1970s, mixed in with some watered-down ideas from Tom Peters. The authors try to come up with a cool name for their hodgepodge mixture of leftover management fads. They come up with "Dyanmic Management", which is irregularly capitalized. Next to a powerful Tom Peters phrase like "Liberation Management", Dymanic Management strikes one as a poor attempt at creating a powerful phrase. On top of all this, the book uses Hecht's own company as its primary case study in a startling display of corporate narcissism.

In short, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, in this book that could not be more satisfyingly obtained from reading Drucker or Peters. There is no thesis in "ManagingNonprofits.Org". The book exists as proof that better thought needs to be applied to the question of nonprofit technology management. The book's good reviews from nontechnical nonprofit folks (I'm a CTO of a nonprofit myself), merely indicates the narrow reading habits of the reviewers as pertains to management literature. If anything, this book serves as a wakeup call to thoughtful people to write better books of their own.

In my case, I have been moved by this book's remarkable dullness and ineptitude to write one of my own. I may not be a good writer, but apparently, based on the existence of "ManagingNonprofits.Org" (what the hell is with the lack of spaces, anyways?). you don't have to be a good writer anymore to get a book published.

Hey ! This Really Works !!!.......2001-12-20

The world of managing nonprofit organizations has often been described as 'soft', 'unbusinesslike', unfocused and....above almost all other things....bureaucratic. Those who choose to sink their professional roots into such organizations, too, are sometimes branded with the same adjectives.

At last....at long last...comes a 'how-to' book that elevates and dignifies the practice of nonprofit management....and tells us in the most up-to-date, practical ways how to get the job done most effectively.

Hecht and Ramsey are credible, readable and experienced. They've drawn on real-life experience, refined and distilled it, and organized it into a guide to doing the job right.

Whether you're running a nonprofit, sitting on the board of one, funding or contributing to one, or thinking about going to work for one...this is the one book you should read.

For boomers who want to give back.......2001-12-11

If you're a boomer who, like me, wants to "give back" by joining a non-profit, this book will outline what you need to look for in candidate organizations. The messages here are highly consistent with the best practices I've seen in the world's top for-profit companies. This is a quick and entertaining overview of what "works" to achieve success, no matter which sector.

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Don't waste your time

Well Documented, And Worthwhile.

Some good points, but others very hackneyed

Politically Hyped, Rationally Lame

Remember Alexis de Tocqueville's Intentions

The Case Against Lawyers: How the Lawyers, Politicians, and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny--and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It
Catherine Crier
Manufacturer: Broadway
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THE EMMY AWARD-WINNING HOST OF COURT TV’S "CATHERINE CRIER LIVE" DESCRIBES AN AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM DANGEROUSLY OUT OF CONTROL – AND FINDS THE LAWYERS GUILTY AS CHARGED.

As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch. As a district attorney, private lawyer, and judge herself, she saw firsthand how the U.S. justice system worked – and didn’t. One of the most respected legal journalists and commentators today, she now confronts a profoundly unfair legal system that produces results and profits for the few – and paralysis, frustration, and injustice for the many. Alexis de Tocqueville’s dire prediction in Democracy in America has come true: We Americans have ceded our responsibility as citizens to resolve the problems of society to "legal authorities" – and with it our democratic freedoms.

The Case Against Lawyers is both an angry indictment and an eloquent plea for a return to common sense. It decries a system of laws so complex even the enforcers – such as the IRS – cannot understand them. It unmasks a litigation-crazed society where billion-dollar judgments mostly line the pockets of personal injury lawyers. It deplores the stupidity of a system of liability that leads to such results as a label on a stroller that warns, “Remove child before folding.” It indicts a criminal justice system that puts minor drug offenders away for life yet allows celebrity murderers to walk free. And it excoriates the sheer corruption of the iron triangle of lawyers, bureaucrats, and politicians who profit mightily from all this inefficiency, injustice, and abuse.

The Case Against Lawyers will make readers hopping mad. And it will make them realize that the only response can be to demand change. Now.

From the Hardcover edition.

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The Emmy Award-winning host of Court TV's Catherine Crier Live describes an American legal system dangerously out of control -- and finds the lawyers guilty as charged.

As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch. As a district attorney, private lawyer, and judge herself, she saw firsthand how the U.S. justice system worked -- and didn't. One of the most respected legal journalists and commentators today, she now confronts a profoundly unfair legal system that produces results and profits for the few -- and paralysis, frustration, and injustice for the many. Alexis de Tocqueville's dire prediction in Democracy in America has come true: We Americans have ceded our responsibility as citizens to resolve the problems of society to "legal authorities" -- and with it our democratic freedoms.

The Case Against Lawyers is both an angry indictment and an eloquent plea for a return to common sense. It decries a system of laws so complex even the enforcers -- such as the IRS -- cannot understand them. It unmasks a litigation-crazed society where billion-dollar judgments mostly line the pockets of personal injury lawyers. It deplores the stupidity of a system of liability that leads to such results as a label on a stroller that warns, "Remove child before folding." It indicts a criminal justice system that puts minor drug offenders away for life yet allows celebrity murderers to walk free. And it excoriates the sheer corruption of the iron triangle of lawyers, bureaucrats, and politicians who profit mightily from all this inefficiency, injustice, and abuse.

The Case Against Lawyers will make readers hopping mad. And it will make them realize that the only response can be to demand change. Now.

"Catherine Crier blows the top off of the courthouse. Her very readable critique on how lawyers and judges have created chaos and injustice within our justice system is a must read!"
   BILL O'REILLY

"The Case Against Lawyers puts the law back where it belongs -- in the hearts, minds and hands of the American people -- while revealing the tactics and ruses that took it away from them in the first place. Part judge, part sleuth, and all sage, Catherine Crier manages to make the ultimate case for a return to democratic justice."
   ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

"Passionate and hard-hitting, The Case Against Lawyers makes an overwhelming case for broad legal overhaul. By applying her own strong moral code to America's problems, Catherine Crier demonstrates the critical missing element in American law."
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"Catherine Crier knows where the bodies are buried in the legal world, and in this book, she unearths a graveyard of misdeeds by lawyers and makes a case for protecting the public from the self-serving way of the legal profession. As a former lawyer, judge, and now television anchor, Crier knows the sly and subtle way of lawyerly self-interest, and she has the journalistic skills to make non-lawyers take notice and seethe. Her book is a testament to all of us who revere the legal system but regret its correctible shortcomings."
   FRED GRAHAM, CHIEF ANCHOR, COURT TV

"Catherine Crier lambastes the Democrats, the Republicans, the businessmen and the bureaucrats in this inspiring call to redemocratize America."
   ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.

Customer Reviews:

Don't waste your time.......2006-07-05

There is nothing in this book worth your time. The book is obviously the result of a publisher offering a book deal to Crier based on her television exposure, hopeful that a familiar face on the cover will sell some books. Add a sensational title and hope for the best. I guess it works because I read it.

Now, for those of you who haven't wasted your time on the book yet, here's what inside: nothing. Crier stretches to fill a few hundered pages with newspaper accounts of some large jury awards. I kept waiting for her solutions to the problems she identified but I never found anything. I started the book with a basic agreement that there are some (I don't know exactly how many) unjustifiable jury verdicts out there, but I also think our legal system does a good job a lot of the time. I was interested to see how Crier proposed we rein in the bad decisions without doing more harm than good. Unfortunately for anyone who spends their time trying to find such analysis, she never got around to such critical thinking.

I am tempted to add a few more points, all negative, but I think I have wasted enough time on this book and need to move on with life. If you already have some negative feelings about the legal system and want to read some empty words supporting your views, go ahead. But if you were hoping for thoughtful analysis or new views on a central institution of our form of government, be forewarned that you will not find any.

Well Documented, And Worthwhile........2006-05-31

Since the author was both a District Attorney and Judge I'll take her experiences in our mediocre legal system as true. Her premise that the American people should take back our socalled legal system and return it to a "democratic justice system is both logical and doable. This book covers everything from absurd jury awards, light sentences for violent offenders, draconian ones for milder crimes, corporate tax evasion, government collusion with both corporations and lobbyists, etc. The following pages were the most significant. 7-8,21,41-5,79-80,89,102-5,108-9,121-6,134-5,153-5,159-162,193,206-7,and 222-5. The introduction and chapters 1-We Love Our Laws, and 5-A Nation Of Victims were the most disturbing. The former details how more rules-laws, do not guarantee our security. They only make our society more litigious, and increases the level of government intrusion in our lives. The latter focuses on the new American mantra. "Yeah I did it, but it's not my fault." The reader can peruse any newspaper at any time and see our excuse culture in full bloom. In conclusion, the recent conviction of corporate leaders like Skellig and Lay have hopefully turned the tide and reduced the fears the author expressed on page 121? Hopefully, our society will reverse the negative trends that have grown over the past 40 years?

Some good points, but others very hackneyed.......2006-01-06

Although it's always good to have someone from the profession give the legal field a much needed reality check, this book started out strong, but by the second half it should have been much better. Legal students and professionals will this book more than most, being familiar with many of the cases she mentioned regarding various legal issues, if only from law school. Her bias and overall perspective, though, needs focus.

While she probably thought she did her noble best to be even handed in her analysis, Ms. Crier's conections to the limousine-liberalism crowd reared their ugly head too often. Ms. Crier cites from sources as left-leaning Mother Jones and the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker and sometimes downright untrustworthy ones as the New York Times (I haven't forgotten about Jayson Blair or his utter lack of supervision by Times editors for too long), though she did include Bernard Goldman in her Bibliography as well as a few snippets from the WSJ. Why not also a few from National Review or Reason magazine? If there were some, my apologies for missing them.

Ms. Crier also gives some politicians too much credit, as suggesting Bill Clinton was any more interested in the environment than anybody else on P.171. What she sees as last-minute concern for the environment by the outgoing Clinton should have been easily recognizible as kickbacks to unions and political pals (labor regulations, mining regulations, logging road bans), but apparently she really has a soft spot for Clinton as some sort of good guy gone awry, and thought these acts emerged for his genuine concern for mankind - make that person-kind.

Moreover, some parts of the book are flat out laughable - declaring that psychological addiction to marijuana is almost unheard of - HA! She knows better. Having been to college and graduate school, she probably met her share of stoners there and sentenced enough repeat offenders later on as a judge to know that psychological addiction is very real with pot.

That, and "serious criminal conduct is almost never associated with the use of marijuana." Eh? I guess nobody ever stole for pot money. (I have been burglarized - I consider that serious enough). The fact that the perpetrators might not of been high when they commit crimes really misses the point; pot use can definitely be assoiated with serious crimes, like it or not - ask any experienced restaurant manager how many times he's had to fire drug using employees for stealing. Not serious enough? Check any prison population and draw your own conclusions about their motivations, then.

She also says that there has never been a death associated with the use of pot. Now admittedly, it isn't nearly as dangerous as other drugs or alcohol, and it may be impossible to overdose on pot (I don't know for certain) but is she for real? So, driving under the influence of pot has never resulted in a traffic fatality? And she used to be a judge? Whatever side of the fence one might be on in the legalization of pot debate, I can't believe she'd say such ridiculous things.

Towards the end, in another understandable post 911-based rant, she cited the FDA holding up the approval of Anthrax vaccine as an example of how regulations can threaten national security. Here, unfortunately, she's woefully uninformed about the history behind that vaccine, as it was (probably still is) FAR from "perfectly fine". I was one of the unfortunate people in the military before 9-11 and was forced to take that crap. It wasn't even designed to prevent the type of anthrax exposure that could happen in a terrorist attack, but politically, it was a tactic to present the US military as "anthrax proof" to our enemies. The vaccine had its problems, though, and the FDA got that one right.

As I mentioned, the second half of the book somewhat descends into a wholesale comdemnation of the current political process, which, though it may be true in general, really isn't anything more than a bemoaning of the obvious with occasional hyperbole and "conventional wisdom" (rich are getting richer, they pay no taxes, blah blah blah...) thrown in. It's not unlike what I had to sit through in political science class back when I was 19, when I thought I could change the world too.

She gets some traction again near the end, when she finally gets back to identifying what she thinks is wrong with the profession and what could be done about it. She also points out, in several places, that we are turning into a society where there is no right and wrong, coming down on one side or the other is considered extremism and judging itself is becoming a lost art. Sadly, I kept getting the feeling that every time she wrote a verse like this, she'd follow it with something her Madison Avenue friends would find acceptable, as if she were grandstanding a bit.

So, though I enjoyed the book, I think the focus could have been more on the lawyers and the law profession itself instead of social commentary and repetition of favorite mantras of the useful idiots (e.g., environmentalist claims served to the reader as uncontestible conventional wisdom). Where she did comment on things outside her area of expertise, she probably could have done a little more research.

Politically Hyped, Rationally Lame.......2005-09-02

"This is the best book I've ever read!" "Personal injury lawyers will turn our country into a third world nation." These are the responses of people interested in this book, which I find very telling. Obviously the former reviewer has never read another book besides the one he's reviewing and the latter has never visited a continent outside of our own. Nevertheless there are outrageous lawsuits that occur and there is often excessive delay involved in bringing about and resolving a lawsuit, but no one has designed a system that offers consistently more justice than that of the United States legal system.

Maybe if simplicity is what you want, you can remind the judge of that the next time you are wrongly convicted of a crime or become paralyzed after being hit by a drunk driver. That way, the judge can quickly dismiss your case or your appeal in order to save the system some time, energy, and money. Who else will hear your complaint if not the court?

The bottom line is that blame needs to be laid where it belongs. If citizens are irritated by excessive penalties being imposed on business and individuals, juries (who are composed of just those same citizens in case you were not aware) will refuse to offer verdicts for plaintiffs as often. If there are fewer verdicts, fewer suits will be brought because the costs will outweigh the possibility of judgment in plaintiff's favor, and the system therefore stays balanced with social values. My further advice to you, the lover of this book (who in fact is complaining about people complaining - in case you hadn't recognized the irony of your argument for reform),is the next time you get a letter form the Clerk of Courts calling you to jury selection, don't skip out but make an impression on the legal system as you see fit.

If you don't like doctors being sued for malpractice, call your legislators and ask them to limit the hours a surgeon can work in a work week or in one stretch w/o a break. (Medical mistakes most usually happen in the end of a doctors 48 hours of constant work, when he/she has had little or no rest) Don't blame the victim and attorney for holding the doctor responsible for their mistakes.

If you want law to be more simplistic, call your legislators and tell them to simplify the tax code which is so filled with loopholes, deductions, and sliding scales for special interest groups, I can balely lift [all at once] the volumes added by our beloved Congress in 2004 alone. (It's not your lawyer, accountant, or the IRS's fault that it takes months to complete tax returns.)

Of course, lawyers make everyone's complaints public - that's their job - and as such the lawyer is likely to feel the brunt of the public's distress and blame. Just look deeper and more carefully at who is responsible for what you consider too complicated or costly - contrary to popular conception, it's not always the lawyer's fault

Remember Alexis de Tocqueville's Intentions.......2005-08-26

This small book contains many examples of how our society is being controlled by politicians, attorneys and bureaucrats, rather than by our own autonomy.

There are too many people who leave their community, business or personal challenges up to their perception of how much power politicians, attorneys and bureaucrats have over all of us.

And this is at a heavy price, because the more citizens look externally for answers, the more they give up their right to the freedom that this country's was built upon.

Yet, having read this book, I'm still asking "What would happen if we didn't have political correctness?"

Would Anita Hill's contribution to the women in the American workforce be for not?

Would there be a "payback" uproar in the workplace?

Would less minorities have a chance at the American Dream?

Though honesty is important, and judging people based upon their character, in the present moment is also important.

Would that happen without laws to encourage opportunities for all?

Though there are many points in which I agree with Catherine, throughout this book, I must say that this book also inspired unanswered questions in my mind, on political correctness - and that's a good thing.

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Miracles of Charismatic Prayer
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this booklet the effect of prayer, principles of scientific prayer, different types of prayers, and topic related to prayers.

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Insanity Found!

Prosperity Lost
Philip Mattera
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Insanity Found!.......1998-05-16

Philip Mattera's anecdotal and statistical analysis of the "loss" of prosperity amounts to nothing more than an intellectually and economically incoherent rehashing of Marxist principles. Fortunately, he is so good at showing the absurd and evil roots of his "thinking" that even the most dense reader will see right through the ideas presented. In this sense, Mr. Mattera has performed an invaluable service for freedom---the equivalent of an antidote for the very ideas he claims to promote.

A specific example: He proposes (since we are "humane" enough to have a minimum wage even though it has been shown unequivocably to destroy jobs and harm the workers at the bottom of the employment ladder), we should also have MAXIMUM wage law, so that entrepreneurs, the people who CREATE all those jobs, will have no further incentive to do so. The idea is simple enough: Mr. Mattera obviously recognizes that the minimum wage law has too subtle an impact, and harms too few people. He proposes to undo decades of development in one fell swoop, preventing millions of jobs from being created and eliminating millions of already-existing jobs. He is ambitious! Of course, this law would have one effect which Mr. Mattera does not openly consider--it would make many more people dependent on the government, which is, of course, the final goal of this Marxist screed. Read it for laughs, and to learn what the enemy calls "thinking."

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Prosperity Lost
Philip Mattera
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Prosperity Lost
Philip Mattera
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Most studies of Southeast Asian economic change focus on the phenomenal growth experienced by a few large cities, such as Jakarta, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore. Big business has been viewed as the economic engine fueling the region's growth and prosperity. Studies of the rural areas have concerned themselves with the social and environmental impact of metropolitan growthvillages emptied by migration to the big cities, cultures crushed by tourist development, and agribusiness and lush landscapes destroyed by the devastation of natural resources.

The literature reveals that few analysts have examined the middle distance between metropolis and countryside. The contributors to this book have addressed the issue by concentrating on the intermediate level of economic, political, and social life the world of Thailand's provincial cities and market towns.

In the past decade the rise of frequently violent competition for business and political leadership in the Thai provinces, and the growing importance of provincial support for national powerholders, has drawn attention to the way in which these town and village centers are being transformed by capitalist development. This volume brings together some of the research inspired by this, drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, national backgrounds, and sites of study.

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Money and Power in Provincial Thailand. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Pacific Affairs
Josef Silverstein
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Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 617 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Money and Power in Provincial Thailand. (Book Reviews).
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Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
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