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Delegating Responsibility

Delegating Responsibility

Nicholas R. Micinski

The University of Michigan Press
2022
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Delegating Responsibility explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how the EU responded to the 2015–17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and Italy, Nicholas R. Micinski proposes a new theory of international cooperation on international migration. States approach migration policies in many ways—such as coordination, collaboration, subcontracting, and unilateralism—but which policy they choose is based on capacity and on credible partners on the ground. Micinski traces the fifty-year evolution of EU migration management, like border security and asylum policies, and shows how EU officials used “crises” as political leverage to further Europeanize migration governance. In two in-depth case studies, he explains how Italy and Greece responded to the most recent refugee crisis. He concludes with a discussion of policy recommendations regarding contemporary as well as long-term aspirations for migration management in the EU.
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The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro

The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro

Nicholas R. Jones

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
2025
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Five hundred years ago, working from hints in classical Greek and Latin poets, the young author Jacopo Sannazaro crafted the book called Arcadia, a narrative in richly descriptive Italian prose interwoven with elegant and passionate poems. A young man—transparently a stand-in for the author—leaves his home in Naples to join a community of shepherds in the remote Greek region of Arcadia. Yet he finds that this seemingly idyllic land is as fraught as the homeland he fled. Like the author’s humanist community in Naples, ravaged in the fifteenth century by invasion and regime change, the eloquent shepherd-poets of Arcadia are driven to distraction and depression by the frustrations of desire and the social unrest that threatens their pastoral lives. Amidst all that, they tell each other their personal histories and share their sorrows in song. Sannazaro’s Arcadia is widely recognized as a foundational text of pastoral poetry, humanism, and Italian literature. But the book itself has been largely inaccessible to English-language students and readers. This new translation uses contemporary American English to convey Arcadia’s youthful vigor, narrative energy, and poetic inventiveness. The extensive introduction and commentaries place Arcadia in the context of late fifteenth-century humanist thought and writing, as well as the complicated crisis of Naples in the years just before 1500. This translation is designed to facilitate the re-entry of Arcadia into scholarly discourse and general readership while outlining its lasting cultural influence on poetry, drama, art and music.
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Economic Growth and Distribution in China

Economic Growth and Distribution in China

Nicholas R. Lardy

Cambridge University Press
2006
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This study maintains that China's system of economic planning tends to mitigate the trade-off between economic growth and equity that has been found to prevail in the early stages of development in most less developed countries. The analysis focuses on the Chinese leadership's attempt to improve economic efficiency by decentralizing economic management without encouraging, as a consequence, increased economic inequality among different regions. By examining the budgetary and planning process, focusing in particular on the fiscal relations between the centre and the far-reaching degree of resource redistribution undertaken by the central government through its control of interprovincial and intersectoral resource transfers. Professor Lardy's analysis highlights the essential features of Chinese economic growth and relates these to the experience of both developing and Soviet-type economies.
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Economic Growth and Distribution in China

Economic Growth and Distribution in China

Nicholas R. Lardy

Cambridge University Press
1978
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This study maintains that China’s system of economic planning tends to mitigate the trade-off between economic growth and equity that has been found to prevail in the early stages of development in most less developed countries. The analysis focuses on the Chinese leadership’s attempt to improve economic efficiency by decentralizing economic management without encouraging, as a consequence, increased economic inequality among different regions. By examining the budgetary and planning process, focusing in particular on the fiscal relations between the centre and the far-reaching degree of resource redistribution undertaken by the central government through its control of interprovincial and intersectoral resource transfers. Professor Lardy’s analysis highlights the essential features of Chinese economic growth and relates these to the experience of both developing and Soviet-type economies. The study begins by exploring the implications of alternative systems of resource allocation in an economy marked by an unusually high degree of inequality in per capita output both across different regions as well as in different sectors. The adoption of a highly centralized system of economic planning in the early 1950s is shown to have stemmed not only from the influence of the Soviet model, but also from a desire to use relatively centralized economic policy instruments to accelerate the growth of less developed regions.
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Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China

Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China

Nicholas R. Lardy

Cambridge University Press
1991
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This study, first published in 1992, explores the relationship between China's foreign trade reforms and the domestic economic reforms that underlie China's policy of openness. It provided the first comprehensive analysis of how China emerged, since reform began in 1978, as one of the most dynamic trading nations in the world. It examines both the external policy changes, such as the decentralisation of trading authority and the devaluation of the domestic currency, and internal economic reforms such as the increased use of markets and prices. The volume concludes with an analysis of the sources of China's export growth and outlines further domestic economic reforms that the author believes will be required to sustain China's integration into the world economy.
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Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China

Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China

Nicholas R. Lardy

Cambridge University Press
1993
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This study explores the relationship between China’s foreign trade reforms and the domestic economic reforms that underlie China’s recent policy of openness. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of how China has emerged, since reform began in 1978, as one of the most dynamic trading nations in the world. It examines both the external policy changes, such as the decentralisation of trading authority and the devaluation of the domestic currency, and internal economic reforms such as the increased use of markets and prices. The volume concludes with an analysis of the sources of China’s export growth and outlines further domestic economic reforms that the author believes will be required to sustain China’s integration into the world economy.
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The Legend of Annapolis Grecco

The Legend of Annapolis Grecco

Nicholas R. Regan

Lulu.com
2010
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This is the second edition paperback print of Annapolis Grecco...When Annapolis Grecco's queen gets kidnapped, he and his companions are hurled into an action fueled plot to find her. He and his loyal friends are sent sailing around the Mediterranean to find his beloved queen. The epic adventure casts them into storm fueled seas, action packed battles, and several sea faring adventures. Will Annapolis find his queen? Will the great Greek king survive the quest? Find out in the Legend of Annapolis Grecco.
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Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary

Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary

Nicholas R. Werse

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
2024
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With astute attention to Zephaniah’s intertextual relationships with other biblical texts, Nicholas R. Werse explores the implications of Zephaniah as a book in perpetual conversation with other biblical cosmologies and conceptions of the human place in relationship with creation. Werse guides readers to critically examine Zephaniah’s ancient worldview and subsequent legacy in dialog with the world’s modern ecological crises. Werse argues that Zephaniah begins and ends with the land. It begins with the removal of all life from the land and ends with a proclamation returning the exiles to their ancestral home. Along this journey, all three chapters of Zephaniah systematically reverse language and imagery from Gen 1-11 and draw deeply from the language of earlier prophets to depict the 6th century BCE destruction of Jerusalem as nothing short of the unravelling of creation. While remaining suspicious of Zephaniah’s distinctively androcentric worldview, Werse traces Zephaniah’s rhetorical journey from the deconstruction of creation and the nations, to its proclamations of hope for the future.
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Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary

Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary

Nicholas R Werse

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
2026
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With astute attention to Zephaniah's intertextual relationships with other biblical texts, Nicholas R. Werse explores the implications of Zephaniah as a book in perpetual conversation with other biblical cosmologies and conceptions of the human place in relationship with creation. Werse guides readers to critically examine Zephaniah's ancient worldview and subsequent legacy in dialog with the world's modern ecological crises. Werse argues that Zephaniah begins and ends with the land. It begins with the removal of all life from the land and ends with a proclamation returning the exiles to their ancestral home. Along this journey, all three chapters of Zephaniah systematically reverse language and imagery from Gen 1-11 and draw deeply from the language of earlier prophets to depict the 6th century BCE destruction of Jerusalem as nothing short of the unravelling of creation. While remaining suspicious of Zephaniah's distinctively androcentric worldview, Werse traces Zephaniah's rhetorical journey from the deconstruction of creation and the nations, to its proclamations of hope for the future.
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Henry The Hedgehog Is In A Hurry

Henry The Hedgehog Is In A Hurry

Nicholas R Domingo

Happy Hive Studios and Productions
2022
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Henry The Hedgehog Is In A Hurry follows the journey of a young hedgehog who has a problem that is all too familiar to children in our society's current landscape: The energetic and ambitious Henry takes on too much in his day and has so much to do that he can't possibly juggle it all. Henry ultimately learns that when we don't take time to breathe and focus on one task at a time, we set ourselves up to fail instead of achieving more.The affable hedgehog creates a miles-long to-do list, adding more and more to his plate. As he attempts to complete multiple tasks at once, believing it will help him get through his many jobs, it only serves to create a hilarious pandemonium as all breaks loose and his master plan falls short. The rollicking and undulating text of the story mimics the speed and chaos with which Henry attempts to complete all of the many chores and assignments he has plotted out for his day. Families will delight in the exceptional read-aloud nature of this frenetic and silly story with a big lesson.
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China's Unfinished Economic Revolution

China's Unfinished Economic Revolution

Nicholas R. Lardy

Brookings Institution
1998
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"China's Unfinished Economic Revolution offers a fundamentally different interpretation of China's economic reform. The common view that China's gradualistic approach has served it well overlooks the fact that state-owned banks for the last two decades have channeled a large share of sharply rising household savings into what are mostly unreformed, money-losing companies. The result is that several of China's largest financial institutions now are insolvent. To avoid a major domestic banking crisis the book argues that China must recapitalize and restructure its domestic banking system and end the long-standing practice of making lending decisions based on political rather than economic criteria.Nicholas Lardy explains that this course will inevitably be costly in political terms, in part because it will lead for a time to a slower rate of economic growth. But the alternative is even less attractive—permanently slower growth, continued macroeconomic instability, an inability to meet the expectations of the international community for the opening of its domestic financial markets, and insufficient resources to deal with severe environmental deterioration, growing water shortages, and a rapidly aging population.This timely book also analyzes the new reform initiatives China has launched in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, suggests additional steps that must be taken, and evaluates the implications for U.S. policy."
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Integrating China into the Global Economy

Integrating China into the Global Economy

Nicholas R. Lardy

Brookings Institution
2001
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"China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been hailed as the biggest coming-out party in the history of capitalism. Its membership eventually will contribute to higher standards of living for its citizens and increased growth for its economy. But why would the Chinese communist regime voluntarily agree to comply with the many complex rules of the global trading system since it has already become the world's seventh largest trading country while avoiding these constraints by remaining outside the system?The answer to this question forms the basis for this new book. Nicholas Lardy explores the many pressures on the Chinese government, both external and internal, to comply with the standards of the rule-based international trading system. Lardy points out that, prior to entry into the WTO, China enjoyed high growth rates and more foreign direct investment than any other emerging economy. He draws on a wealth of scholarship and experience to explain how China's leadership expects to leverage the increased foreign competition inherent in its WTO commitments to accelerate its domestic economic reform program, leading to the shrinkage and transformation of inefficient, money-losing companies and hastening the development of a commercial credit culture in its banks. Lardy answers a number of other questions about China's new WTO membership, including its effects on bilateral trade with the United States; the possibility that China will use its power to reshape the WTO in the future; the degree to which the terms of China's entry were more or less demanding than those for other new members; the ability of China's economy to successfully open to new imports; and the prospects for new growth in various sectors of China's economy made possible by WTO accession. This book will become an important tool for those who wish to understand China's new role in the global trading system, to take advantage of the new opportunities for investment in China, or simply to gain a better understanding of what former President Clinton called a ""once in a generation event."""
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China's Entry into the World Economy

China's Entry into the World Economy

Nicholas R. Lardy

University Press of America
1987
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China's new trade and investment policies have led to increased regional economic integration in Northeast Asia and have contributed to the overall economic dynamism of the Pacific region. But whether this trend will continue will depend both on the ultimate success of China's domestic economic reforms and the ability of all of the countries in the region to mitigate remaining political frictions. Co-published with the Asia Society.
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Chaucer's Boccaccio

Chaucer's Boccaccio

Nicholas R. Havely

D.S. Brewer
1980
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The notes are a model of economy... The introduction is quite superb... The volume as a whole is a worthy addition to a series which has already begun to establish high expectations. TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT Chaucer made extensive use of Boccacio's romances as a basis for his major works, and any analysis of his handling of his sources must depend on a knowledge of the Italian poet's work.
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Chen Yun's Strategy for China's Development

Chen Yun's Strategy for China's Development

Nicholas R. Lardy; Kenneth Lieberthal; Dong Chen

M.E. Sharpe
1983
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Originally published in 1983. Since Mao Zedongfs death the Chinese have been debating the future character of the country’s political and economic system. The present collection of Chen Yun’s writings must be read against the backdrop of the ongoing policy discussion in the 1980s. Chen has been, and remains, an advocate of economic policies that are central to this debate, and since 1978 many of his views have become state policy. In this context the publication in China of this volume of Chen’s writings and speeches from 1956 to 1962 undoubtedly is designed in part to bolster Chen’s point of view in policy discussions. The author cites that the implicit message of this volume, translated here in full, is that had Chen's views been heeded earlier, China would have developed rapidly and successfully
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The Isle of Avalon

The Isle of Avalon

Nicholas R. Mann

Green Magic Publishing
2001
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Avalon, a site of great power, revered since ancient times as an entrance to, and exit from, the Otherworld. "The Isle of Avalon" illustrates and describes the physical and sacred topography of the Isle as well as its symbols, architecture and history. This is an updated and revised edition of the first book to provide a coherent context in which to understand Avalon's many mysteries. Nicholas Mann shows that the landscape features of the Isle and Tor, including the Glastonbury Zodiac, the Abbey, the Tor Labyrinth and the St Michael Ley Line are congruent expressions of Avalon's remarkable qualities as a focus for the magical and spiritual power of the English landscape.
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