Kumpulan tulisan yang dipilih sebagai upaya Jeffrey A Winters untuk menganalisis berbagai masalah politik dan ekonomi Indonesia serta menyampaikan - terutama pada pembaca asing di luar Indonesia - interpretasi maupun kajian atas berbagai peristiwa di Indonesia. Tulisan ini dihimpun secara kronologis sejak akhir era kekuasaan rejim Suharto sampai era reformasi setelah jatuhnya Suharto, agar dapa…
Konflik sosial adalah persemaian yang subur bagi terjadinya perubahan sosial. Orang yang menganggap situasi yang dihadapinya tidak adil atau menganggap bahwa kebijakan yang berlaku saat ini salah, biasanya mengalami pertentangan, tatanan aturan yang berlaku sebelumnya. Konflik sosial juga memfasilitasi tercapainya rekonsiliasi atas berbagai kepentingan. Kebanyakan konflik tidak berakhir deng…
Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest n…
What has become of liberalism in the 20th century? What happens to American individuals confronted by the corporation and its forms of social organization? Why does liberalism look less flexible and more rigid, less capable of experimentation than was originally expected? The surprising answers to these and other troubling questions are traced in this major reinterpretation of contemporary A…
For five years I have been witness to your struggles to grow up without a father. As a family friend, I can't make that up to you. What I can do is stand by you, and teach you how to be the kind of man you wish your father had been ... So begins the correspondence of two unlikely friends, Patrick Buckley, a sixteen-year-old New York City high schooler, and Jeffrey M. Schwartz, internationall…