Catastrophe or Catharsis? keyword-big-pharma One of the signal features

One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the ‘sacred’ in all its different guises

Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy

Mandel was one of those few individuals who combined the roles of political leader with intellectual work that commands the respect of the academy

reduced Libya to anarchy and condemned Syria to a devastating proxy war now in its twelfth year

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Catastrophe or Catharsis? keyword-big-pharma One of the signal featuresCatastrophe or Catharsis? lays bare the reasons why the Soviet economic reform has plunged into crisis. In precise, vivid prose, Menshikov describes the exhaustion of the command system in the pre perestroika era. His book exposes the bureaucratic irresponsibility which, for example, allowed industrial ministries to strip enterprises of their re investment funds, ensuring that the simple maintenance of production would in time become impossible.