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Glimpse into tribal life in Brazil's Amazon jungle........1999-04-03
Photographs in black and white, as well as color, document the life of some tribes found in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Tribes such as the Yanomami and Kampa are shown at work and at play in this endangered rain forest. The reader is furnished with images and words that give a glimpse into tribal life in this most important part of the world.
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Why is the Brazilian rainforest vanishing so fast? And why is it essential not only to the people and animals within it but to the whole world? This story, told through a child called Remaema, describes how the Yanomami tribe is battling against potential developers. Can a solution be found that will protect the forest and allow the tribe to continue living as it always has, while benefiting from limited development? Richard Platt's dramatic story and Rupert van Wyk's evocative art, accompanied by an information spread, offer an exciting perspective on a controversial and topical subject.
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The gold rush taking place in the Amazon, writes documentary filmmaker Geoffrey O'Connor, already promises to yield more ore than the Klondike gold rush that took place a century ago. Yet it has been little reported, and the quest for gold has already cost thousands of lives as the Indian nations of the Amazonian rainforest are overrun. O'Connor brings us grim news, to be sure, but with flair and sometimes even pointed humor, such as when he describes rock star Sting's descent into the jungle to deliver pious sermons about the sanctity of the unbroken forest; Sting can always jet out, O'Connor notes, whereas the Indians, and most of the gold miners, have no where else to go. Anyone with an interest in the area will want to read this well-crafted and sometimes alarming book.
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A work of literary nonfiction blending reportage, history, anthropology, and personal memoir, Amazon Journal is a unique and critical look at how cultural differences in the Amazon have resulted in incidents ranging from comic misunderstandings to blatant exploitation, environmental disaster, and even genocide. Beginning by revisiting the period in the late 80's when the "save the rainforest" campaign, the indigenous rights movement, and the assassination of Chico Mendes became the focus of a media storm, O'Connor stuck with his story long enough to tell us what happened when the world turned its attention elsewhere. Peopled by a colorful cast of real-life characters, O'Connor's startling narrative is a journey into a contemporary heart of darkness, a compelling and compassionate look at a vanishing people, and a blistering account of the forces of destruction, both human and environmental, at work within the greatest forest on earth.
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What happened to the rainforests in brazil?.......2004-02-01
I picked this book up on Granville Island in Vancouver on a clearance/remainders table out of interest. For people who wonder what has happended to the rainforests in Brazil after much international coverage during the late eighties and early nineties would find this of interest. Kind of sad.
The author hits the nail on the head with no exaggeration........1999-04-09
As an American living in the southern Amazon basin, near the Xingu Indian Reserve, I unfortunately can attest to the truth in Mr. O'Conner's writings. He manages to give one a glimpse of what it is like to exist in this lawless, confusing frontier. To capture the flavor of this land of anarchy truly is difficult but the author does a superb job in transforming the vagueness of this bizarre and mystical frontier into words.
Mr. O'Conner, thank you for putting my thoughts into print. The grand Amazon is under serious attack and ,in my region especially, is being leveled at an exponential rate. Someone please do something.
What a great book!.......1998-01-14
O'Connor's brilliance is that he combines a writing style that simply engages the reader with a the knowledge that he can't and doesn't know all that there is to know about his topic. He brings together several issues and introduces many intriguing characters (Rauni, Kenny Good, Davi, just to name a few). The combination of the political ineptitude of the Indian organizations and the skewed perception of the Religious affiliates in the Amazon create an overwhelming amount of obsticals for objective journalism. O'Connor reports what happens from the viewpoint of a jounalist that knows he is part of the problem. I have come into contact with Venezuelan Yanomama and have seen first hand the impact that contact has made. O'Connor's unbias journalism is a releif from all of the news specials, and talk-show trash that seems to abound with the "Save the Rainforest" campaign. Read this book if you want a true report of what is happening to the last remaining independent people in the world. The truth is that contact with "white" people has braught innumerable destruction to this once self-sufficient society and Geoffrey O'Connor is not affraid to tell that side of the story.
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English artist's Brazilian Amazon adventures!.......1999-04-09
Beautiful botanical paintings created by Margaret Mee embellish her wonderful account of life in Brazil's Amazon. Photographs and text add to the reader's enjoyment of this endangered area of our world. Her scientific, yet sensitive paintings of Amazonian flora are truly remarkable. Her artwork is breathtaking and helps the reader learn about the beauty to be found in this jungle. Her work documents more reasons to save the endangered Amazon for now and for future generations.
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This photo-essay by internationally acclaimed photographer Jan Reynolds offers a rare glimpse into the life of the Yanomama of the Amazon Basin.
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What is the score card for economics at the start of the new millennium? While there are many different schools of economic thought, it is the neo-classical school, with its alleged understanding and simplistic advocacy of the market, that has become equated in the public mind with economics. This book shows that virtually every aspect of conventional neo-classical economics' thinking is intellectually unsound. Steve Keen draws on an impressive array of advanced critical thinking. He constitutes a profound critique of the principle concepts, theories, and methodologies of the mainstream discipline. Keen raises grave doubts about economics' pretensions to established scientific status and its reliability as a guide to understanding the real world of economic life and its policy-making.
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Real content .......2006-06-30
The headings of the book are strange but the real content deals with: aggregate demand, aggregate supply, perfect competition versus monopolies, labour market, role of capital, how time should be included in economics, Keynes is relevant, stock market instability, importance of mathematics and alternative approaches to economics.
Book takes at least three days to read because the topics are explained in new fashion and intellectually challenging way.
Economists are lousy mathematicians.......2006-03-23
Ever suspected that economists are full of it? Ever had an argument with an economist friend and been frustrated by the combination of condescension and cluelessness?
If so, this book is for you. Keen, an economist himself, argues that economists are lousy mathematicians. Try that argument on your economists friends and watch their faces turn red. Keen maintains that most economists (adherents of the neo-classical school) have not kept up with the latest developments in non-linear mathematics. Keen then goes right to the heart of neo-classical economics by taking aim at supply and demand curves and the whole concept of equilibrium in economics.
Keen's attack on neo-classical economics is more than an academic exercise. The world has been run by neo-classicists for the past generation. Keen shows how their central tenet, that free markets unhindered by regulation provide the greatest good for the greatest number, is simply wrong.
I do wish Keen had spent more time in analyzing what neo-liberalism is good for: concentrating great wealth in the hands of the few. But that has been done well by others.
The book is surprisingly easy to read for non-specialists (like myself). For specialists, Keen points to his website where there are many more charts and formulae.
A crucial work for understanding the failures of neoclassical economics.......2006-03-05
For people, like me, who had almost given up entirely on the academic field of Economics because of ridiculous theories and poor teaching, there is fortunately still Steve Keen. In this book, the Australian Keen shows the errors of the standard views of neoclassical (orthodox) economics.
Not just some side aspects of the theory, but the actual core views of economics as it is taught in universities everywhere unravels before your eyes. Keen masterfully applies both economic models and historical analysis to show that orthodox economists not only do not know what theories exist in their own field, but they also have no inkling of the history of economics and what this means for their approach. This, combined with a possibly even poorer understanding of the philosophy of science (Keen uses Milton Friedman as the main example, but more could have been named), leads to a series of ridiculous assumptions and even more ridiculous results. That the economists consistently ignore the way industrial managers and market analysts etc. do NOT apply their pet theories is just the icing on the cake.
The book is heavy reading for those with no knowledge of economics or maths, but certainly not impossible. A basic understanding of economics and mathematics as taught at high school level (at least in The Netherlands) goes a long way, and Keen fortunately writes well and attempts to avoid long mathematical proofs as much as possible.
The only downside to the book is that his treatment of alternative theories, especially the quite closely linked Austrian school of economics, is very short and vague. This leads to the impression that Keen knows what's wrong with neoclassics, but not what is to be done instead. Therefore, start by reading this book, but don't end there.
Debunking "Debunking Economics".......2005-08-03
Below are my comments about the book some of which I have presented at the online Steve Keen seminar on Hayek-List. If you want to see what other Economists say about the book just check out the following link: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A1=ind0203&L=hayek-l&D=0#31
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What is the argument? In order of importance Keen's major arguments are as follows:
(1) ECONOMICS has MATHEMATICAL FLAWS.
(2) Standard economic models are unrealistic.
(3) Undergraduate economics education is usually uncritical and one sided: only standard economic theory is discussed.
The third argument is well taken. I agree with Keen that the undergraduate economics education is usually uncritical and one sided. Yet Keen fails to convince us that the first two arguments are correct.
My major criticism about the book is that Keen is totally confused about the mathematical flaw argument. He does not understand that the "realisticness of the assumptions" issue is completely different from the claim that "economic theory contains mathematical flaws". There are many critiques of neoclassical economic theory on the grounds that it contains unrealistic assumptions and that it is not applicable to real world situations. And I would not consider this as a novel claim about conventional economics. Moreover, these issues
are very much discussed in the literature on scientific models and explanations in general.
However, the claim that "economic theory contains mathematical flaws" is a novel claim. And it is, I believe, an interesting claim for every economist. It should be possible to publish it without any problem in a highly ranking journal. (Yet as far as I know Keen's argument concerning mathematical flaws was not published in a highly ranked journal. This tells us a lot!) In fact, Keen's claims about mathematic flaws boil down to argument that the "assumptions" employed by economic models are unrealistic. For example he says:
"Now on the issue of my mathematics, some of mathematical disputes with neoclassical economics are of that nature--pointing out that some neoclassical concept requires a clearly absurd condition such as the output of the individual firm being zero."
The argument that "there is a mathematical flaw" does not follow from the claim that "assumption makes no sense". These are separate issues. To repeat his argument is only about the "realisticness" of assumptions employed by economic models, not about mathematical
flaws. So he fails to convince us.
As I have mentioned above the unrealisticness argument is not a novel one. Yet, since it is not a novel argument the reader expects a good exposition of this argument. Yet Keen is far from presenting a good argument because his arguments about economic models are applicable to any scientific model. He does not present a case that debunks economics, if his arguments were correct all serious science would get debunked. Keen's criticism of "unrealisticness" of economic models and "ceteris paribus" clauses in those models leaves us with no alternatives. Because in science we can do nothing but work with idealized, abstract models (even when we do experiments we isolate our environment from disturbing causes). Since Keen criticism applies to all scientific models, it seems that --according to Keen -- we cannot understand anything about the way the world works. Of course, this is not true. Keen's mistake is to start criticizing economics before reading some serious philosophy of science.
What is Keen's alternative. Apparently he likes the complexity approach and evolutionary models. However, the complexity approach employs notions that are similar to the notion of
"spontaneous order", such as "order at the edge of chaos", "self-organizing systems" etc.. Yet since criticizes the idea of spontaneous order (in Austrian Economics) one cannot see how he could favor the complexity approach. Moreover, evolutionary models widely employ notions of equilibrium, and provide "equilibrium explanations" (as nicely described by Elliot Sober). Yet again Keen criticizes "equilibrium thinking" in economics. Moreover, evolutionary models also use "ceteris paribus" conditionals. Again, we cannot see why Keen would favor abstract and unrealistic evolutionary models that suffer from equilibrium thinking and "ceteris paribus illusion".
You may be interested in this book because you think that there is something wrong about economics. Yet I can assure you that this is not the book to read. There are many good journal articles by Heterodox (Austrian, Marxist, Evolutionary etc.) Economists. You should invest your time in reading them, if you are interested in alternative ways of thinking about economics. Moreover, this is not a good undergraduate economics course companion (as one of the readers suggest). I am almost sure that this book will create unrecoverable confusion in the class: You cannot expect students to learn economics if you suggest that it has been already debunked by Steve Keen.
I am not usually such harsh about critical books on economics. I welcome them open heartedly. Yet if someone argues that he is debunking economics and does nothing about that, then one is forced to utter bold arguments about this type of endeavor.
JRZ and CLT.......2005-02-23
I must confess I am mystified by JRZ's critique of Keen's book. I was under the impression that the Central Limit Theorem stated that, as the sample size increases, EVERY random distribution converges to a normal distribution. In other words, if it is truly just random factors that affect stock price movements, we should expect them to be normally distributed, whatever the underlying distribution. The fact that they are not strongly implies (if not out-and-out proves) that the movements are not, in fact, completly random.
This makes intuitive sense: a coin, or a die, has no memory - the result of the last flip does not affect any future flips. But people do have memories - people buy and sell financial instruments because of their own judgements about what ithers are doing, and based on such emotions as hope and fear. This can set up the feedback loops that are the essense of nonlinear dynamical systems - the "chaos theory" that most economist's don;t understand and thus dismiss as irrelevant.
Read the book. If there was any justice, Keen would have a regular column in the New York Times instead of that fool Krugman...
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