The Elusive Quest for Growth and Enterprise Integration Patterns

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

Author: William Easterly

Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these solutions has delivered as promised. The problem is not the failure of economics, William Easterly argues, but the failure to apply economic principles to practical policy work.

In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people--private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors--respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem. W ritten in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Prologue: The Quest
I	Why Growth Matters	1
1	To Help the Poor	5
	Intermezzo: In Search of a River	16
II	Panaceas That Failed	21
2	Aid for Investment	25
	Intermezzo: Parmila	45
3	Solow's Surprise: Investment Is Not the Key to Growth	47< /TD>
	Intermezzo: Dry Cornstalks	70
4	Educated for What?	71
	Intermezzo: Without a Refuge	85
5	Cash for Condoms?	87
	Intermezzo: Tomb Paintings	99
6	The Loans That Were, the Growth That Wasn't	101
	Intermezzo: Leila's Story	121
7	Forgive Us Our Debts	123
	Intermezzo: Cardboard House	138
III	People Respond to Incentives	141
8	Tales of Increasing Returns: Leaks, Matches, and Traps	145
	Intermezzo: War and Memory	170
9	Creative Destruction: The Power of Technology	171
	Intermezzo: Accident in Jamaica	193
10	Under an Evil Star	195
	Intermezzo: Favela Life	215
11	Governments Can Kill Growth	217
	Intermezzo: Flo rence and Veronica	240
12	Corruption and Growth	241
	Intermezzo: Discrimination in Palanpur	253
13	Polarized Peoples	255
	Intermezzo: Violent for Centuries	282
14	Conclusion: The View from Lahore	285
	Notes	293
	References and Further Reading	313
	Index	335

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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

Author: Gregor Hohp

Would you like to use a consistent visual notation for drawing integration solutions? Look inside the front cover.

Do you want to harness the power of asynchronous systems without getting caught in the pitfalls? See "Thinking Asynchronously" in the Introduction.

Do you want to know which style of application integration is best for your purposes? See Chapter 2, Integration Styles.

Do you want to learn techniques for processing messages concurrently? See Chapter 10, Competing Consumers and Message Dispatcher.

Do you want to learn how you can track asynchronous messages as they flow across distributed systems? See Chapter 11, Message History and Message Store.

Do you want to understand how a system designed using integration patterns can be implemented using Java Web services, .NET message queuing, and a TIBCO-based publish-subscribe architecture? See Chapter 9, Interlu de: Composed Messaging.

Utilizing years of practical experience, seasoned experts Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf show how asynchronous messaging has proven to be the best strategy for enterprise integration success. However, building and deploying messaging solutions presents a number of problems for developers. Enterprise Integration Patterns provides an invaluable catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable of messaging and help you to design effective messaging solutions for your enterprise.

The authors also include examples covering a variety of different integration technologies, such as JMS, MSMQ, TIBCO ActiveEnterprise, MicrosoftBizTalk, SOAP, and XSL. A case study describing a bond trading system illustrates the patterns in practice, and the book offers a look at emerging standards, as well as insights into what the future of enterprise integration might hold.

This book provides a consistent vocabulary and visual notation framework to describe large-scale integration solutions across many technologies. It also explores in detail the advantages and limitations of asynchronous messaging architectures. The authors present practical advice on designing code that connects an application to a messaging system, and provide extensive information to help you determine when to send a message, how to route it to the proper destination, and how to monitor the health of a messaging system. If you want to know how to manage, monitor, and maintain a messaging system once it is in use, get this book.
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Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Solving Integration Problems Using Patterns	1
Ch. 2	Integration Styles	39
Ch. 3	Messaging Systems	57
Ch. 4	Messaging Channels	99
Ch. 5	Messa ge Construction	143
Ch. 6	Interlude: Simple Messaging	183
Ch. 7	Message Routing	225
Ch. 8	Message Transformation	327
Ch. 9	Interlude: Composed Messaging	361
Ch. 10	Messaging Endpoints	463
Ch. 11	System Management	537
Ch. 12	Interlude: System Management Example	577
Ch. 13	Integration Patterns in Practice	603
Ch. 14	Concluding Remarks	625
	Bibliography	649
	Index	659