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The texts gathered in this section were originally written in English. They are either the result of the participation of the authors in the activities of the Institute, such as conferences and projects of the research teams, or they have been yielded to publication by researchers that are not linked to IEA.

CHINA

What the Sars Panic Can Teach
Us about Financial Crises
Michael Pettis

China's Last Option: Let the Yuan Soar
Michael Pettis

Buying into China's Volatility
Michael Pettis

GLOBAL CHANGE

A Contribution to Understanding the Regional Impacts of Global Change in South America
Pedro Leite da Silva Dias, Wagner Costa Ribeiro and Luci Hidalgo Nunes

HIGHER EDUCATION

Brazilian Academic Profession:
Some Recent Trends
Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Simon Schwartzman, Nathalia Novaes Alves,
Dante Filipe Felgueiras dos Santos Tiago Silva Birkholz Duarte

The Brazilian Research Universities
João E. Steiner

World University Rankings
— A Principal Component Analysis
João E. Steiner

An Exactly Soluble Model Relating
Undergraduate Performance Indicators
Roberto Leal Lobo e Silva Filho

HISTORY

The Revolutionary Character of the French Revolution
Robert Darnton

The New Global History: a Sociological Assessment
Roland Robertson

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Ferocious Morality of Niccolo Macchiavelli
Robert Chisholm

The Lost Literature of Socialism
George Watson

Catholic Ethics and that the Spirit of Capitalism
Michael Löwy

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Expensive Oil: For Least Developed Countries a Quiproquo of Curse and Blessing in Disguise
Ignacy Sachs

New Opportunities for Community Driven Rural Development
Ignacy Sachs