"Through this authoritative account of the historical record and important new findings, Abramitzky and Boustan will help shape our thinking and policies about the fraught topic of immigration with findings such as: ·Where you come from doesn't matter. The children of immigrants from El...

"Decades of rapid economic growth in East Asia mask diverse national paths. Analyzing ten countries over forty years, the book identifies three major regime types and their discrete economic paradigms, some vastly successful, others mired in failure. In closing, the book shows how shifting...

During his successful campaign to become Conservative Party leader in the spring of 2004, Stephen Harper said of the Maritime provinces, "We will see the day when the region is not the place where you visit your grandparents, but instead more often than not the place where you visit your...