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Michael Blim

Threatening Anthropology: Mccarthyism And The Fbi’s Surveillance Of Activist Anthropologists, By David H. Price

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Don’t dare be a liberal – never mind, a leftist. That was the message of McCarthyism and its ideological cousins through the Seventies in anthropology. If you tried it, the FBI and CIA would see to it that you paid dearly. This is the major finding of David Price’s Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s…

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Ending World Poverty: Jeffrey Sachs’ Millenarian Vision

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Material Reviewed: Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, (New York: Penguin, 2005) Jeffrey Sachs, et.al., “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals,” (New York: UN Millennium Project, 2005), www.unmillenniumproject.org Jeffrey Sachs, et.al., “Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1 (2004), 117-240, www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/about/director/publicat.html…

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