Front Matter
- Ved Gandhi
- Published Date:
- July 1998

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Acknowledgments
The author wishes to thank David Cheney and Laura Wallace for their initial encouragement and much advice during the preparation of the pamphlet. The author is also grateful to Vito Tanzi, Peter Heller, Ke-young Chu, and Harald Hirschhofer for sparing time to read the draft manuscript and offer useful comments and suggestions. Finally, much gratitude is owed to Jeff Hay den for his expert editorial assistance and for seeing the manuscript through publication.