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Many American cities have rebounded from their nadir a decade or two ago with healthier downtowns, neighborhoods and local economies. However, other cities with rich historical heritages and valuable resources for this nation’s future are experiencing severe population loss. This American A...
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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, Media Piracy in Emerg...
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A wide-ranging, in-depth, and pragmatic volume published in 2010 discussing the persistently divisive issues surrounding race in America. With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now the largest minority, and steadily growing Asian and African-American populations, race is b...
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Nearly two years after the onset of the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker said of the "Governance of Financial Institutions" report, "This summary of the discussions is a kind of masterpiece in clarity and not many discussions of this arca...
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"Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America's Older Industrial Areas" investigated and reported on emerging economic development strategies for weak market cities such as Detroit, Milwaukee, Oakland, St. Louis, and Baltimore as they seek to find their place in the changin...
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"There is no greater responsibility than preparing the next generation of American and world leaders, and it is one the Next Generation Project has fully embraced." -- Lee Hamilton, President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and member of the NGP Senior A...
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Copy Culture in the US and Germany

Copy Culture in the US and Germany garnered wide international media coverage in 2012, becoming a common reference point in discussions about the role of Internet filtering.  The comparative study of U.S. and German media consumption, acquisition, and copyright enforcement revealed that half of the adults in the U.S. and Germany copy, share, and download music, movies, and TV shows and 70% of young adults do the same.