This book covers the vocabulary needed for the PET Exam and provides students with practice of exam tasks from each paper. It includes common learner error warnings and exam tips to help students improve their exam performance.
In unstable developing countries, he concluded, concentrated corporate interests operating at the political centre are likely to wield undue influence and secure protective tariffs. This in turn breeds corrupt customs officials with an interest in preventing trade liberalization. Other interest groups located in the capital are also likely to drag down the economy by their dis- tributional demands. Such groups include public sector unions insisting that foreign aid be used to finance inefficient overstaffing of public enter- prises, and university students who march in the streets for an inefficient tilting of education budgets toward themselves and away from elementary and secondary schools. To keep them quiet, even the urban poor are likely to garner subsidies and services unavail- able to the rural poor. Twenty years after he described it, this syndrome still can be observed in a distressingly large number of Third World capitals.
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Luhmann argues that modern soci- ety can best be characterized as a functionally differentiated society, not as a stratified one. This means that any reading of how things work in terms of domination, oppression and alien- ation that is confined to a zero-sum contest between top and bottom, cen- ter and periphery, haves and have- nots, is an outmoded description that best fits pre-modern societies. Society is not going anywhere except, perhaps, to assure its own reproduction. History is an outgrowth of chance and good decision-making, but we only know that after the fact. An internally differ- entiated society can only be grasped in terms of its internal differences, which means that every social system is insu- lated from every other, able to observe the other but unable to penetrate it unless it succeeds in translating its demands into the communication media which circulate within the social system it seeks to penetrate. Social systems refer to autonomous spheres of social activity that are bounded by particular symbolic media of exchange and particular codes that govern their circulation. For the econ- omy, for example, money is the medi- um that circulates according to the binary code of solvent/insolvent. In intimate life, love circulates. In poli- tics, power. Modern societies are there- fore inherently pluralist and diverse, and inherently democratic, because more and more people have access to more and more symbolic media of exchange in more and more spheres. This, of course, creates problems, and problems call forth policy.
And write he did. If Hazlitt was skilled with language, he had a good deal of practice. In his lifetime, he managed to write more than 10,000 pages worth of articles, essays and books. To put that in perspective, a weekly columnist will produce roughly 100 pages in a good year. 2ff7e9595c
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