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Looking Backward and Forward

Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century

By: Charles Wolf Jr.

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Looking Backward and Forward

Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century

By: Charles Wolf Jr.

This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worldwide economic, political, security, and diplomatic issues. Wolf looks at the challenges facing the United States at home and around the globe including critical issues regarding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Iraq, and other key locales. Throughout the book, the author offers his often-controversial viewpoints, such as his assertion that "unilateralism" in U.S. national security policy may sometimes be preferable to multilateralism or that the erroneous expectation that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons does not imply that the intelligence leading to this expectation was flawed. Wolf reexamines each essay in the light of later developments with a "postaudit" comment to address whether the original argument is still valid and relevant compared with when it was first written.

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0817948732

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9780817948733

Puzzles, Paradoxes, Controversies, and the Global Economy

By: Charles Wolf Jr.

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Puzzles, Paradoxes, Controversies, and the Global Economy

By: Charles Wolf Jr.

In this wide-ranging collection of essays first published between 2007 and 2014, Charles Wolf Jr. shares his insights on the world's economies, including those of China, the United States, Japan, Korea, India, and others. First appearing in such periodicals as in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard, among others, these chapters take on a range of questions about the global economy. Wolf discusses the paradoxes and puzzles within China's political economy and in its interactions with the United States. He analyzes the shortcomings of Keynesian economics as a response to the 2008 recession, as well as the weaknesses of policies and actions inferred from the theory, and compares those weaknesses with those of austerity policies intended to limit government spending and indebtedness. He also offers his views on economic inequality and where its principal sources may truly lay, China's currency and the continuing controversy about whether and when it may become a major international reserve currency, and many more insights on key economic issues affecting the global economy. Bringing these essays together for the first time in a single volume, including two essays not yet published elsewhere, this book enables the reader to absorb the author's expert perspective during the years in a collection in which the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts. Each chapter includes a brief "postaudit" in which the author attempts to grade how well or ill the essay seems in retrospect.

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0817918566

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9780817918569

Puzzles, Paradoxes, Controversies, and the Global Economy

By: Charles Wolf Jr.

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Linking Economic Policy and Foreign Policy

By: Charles Wolf

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Linking Economic Policy and Foreign Policy

By: Charles Wolf

An eminent economist and policy adviser offers his prescriptive analysis of the accelerating economic and political transformations of the past decade in seminal articles and essays from the period, updated to reflect current events. An unusual feature of this book is that each of the forty-seven essays, originally published over eight years, is followed by a brief "Post-audit" to "score" the author's accuracy and relevance. Readers are invited to test and compare their own views with those of the author.

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1412827620

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Roads from Past to Future

By: Charles Tilly,Arthur L. Stinchcombe

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Roads from Past to Future

By: Charles Tilly,Arthur L. Stinchcombe

Over the years Charles Tilly has had an indelible influence on a remarkable number of key questions in social science and history. In the fields of social change, states and institutions, urbanization, and historical sociology, his seminal work has spawned whole new lines of inquiry and research. In one volume, this book offers the best and most influential of Tilly's important work, with a new introduction by the author that relates his analyses to a wide body of scholarship. The book includes a review and critique by Arthur Stinchcombe.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847684105

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9780847684106

Fault Lines in China's Economic Terrain

By: Charles Jr. Wolf,K. C. Yeh,Benjamin Zycher,Nicholas Eberstadt,Sungho Lee

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Fault Lines in China's Economic Terrain

By: Charles Jr. Wolf,K. C. Yeh,Benjamin Zycher,Nicholas Eberstadt,Sungho Lee

The authors consider how and by how much China's stellar economic performance might be impaired by eight potential adversities that China may face in the next decade: unemployment, poverty, and social unrest; corruption; HIV/AIDS and epidemic diseases; water resource problems and pollution; energy consumption and prices; the fragile financial system and state-owned enterprises; curtailed foreign direct investment; and serious military conflicts.

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Rand Corporation

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0833036041

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9780833036049

Russia's Economy

Signs of Progress and Retreat on the Transitional Road

By: Charles Jr. Wolf,Thomas Lang,Charles Wolf,Jr.

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Russia's Economy

Signs of Progress and Retreat on the Transitional Road

By: Charles Jr. Wolf,Thomas Lang,Charles Wolf,Jr.

Sixteen years after the Soviet Union's demise, the Russian economy can still be appropriately characterized as transitional. The authors shed light on ambiguities surrounding this status through an exploration of four questions related to issues of interest to government decisionmakers.

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0833042556

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9780833042552

Understanding Iran

By: Jerrold D. Green,Frederic Wehrey,Charles Jr. Wolf

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Understanding Iran

By: Jerrold D. Green,Frederic Wehrey,Charles Jr. Wolf

A compact, user-friendly handbook for U.S. policymakers interested in understanding the Islamic Republic of Iran. It synthesizes existing analyses on Iran and draws from non-American experts with a different interpretive lens for viewing the seemingly opaque Iranian system. It provides short analytic observations about the processes, institutions, networks, and actors that define Iran's politics, strategy, economic policy, and diplomacy.

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0833046772

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Looking Backward and Forward

Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century

By: Charles Wolf Jr.

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Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century

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0817948732

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The Economic Pivot in a Political Context

By: Charles Wolf

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The Economic Pivot in a Political Context

By: Charles Wolf

The Economic Pivot in a Political Context, by Charles Wolf, Jr., explains how iron curtains have been replaced by porous ones in the post-cold war era. New countries, multilateral organizations, regional and subregional groups, multinational corporations, international business alliances, and financial networks have made the global arena ever more complex. As seen in the cases of Haiti, Iraq, and Chechnya, rapid change and a less predictable atmosphere generate an ever-present threat of volatility. Openness to global, continuous flows of information, trade, capital, technology, and people continues to blur our borders. Simultaneously, a postmodern preoccupation with domestic, social, political, and economic affairs is taking shape

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1412836646

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Modernizing the North Korean System

Objectives, Method, and Application

By: Charles Wolf,Norman D. Levin

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Modernizing the North Korean System

Objectives, Method, and Application

By: Charles Wolf,Norman D. Levin

Six institutions in five countries that have key interests in North Korea's future undertook a collaborative effort to determine ways in which the North Korean system could move toward modernization. The effort produced illustrative plans, a consensus plan, and a tool kit for constructing alternative plans for stimulating the modernization of the North Korean system.

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Rand Corporation

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0833044060

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9780833044068

Foreign Aid

Theory and Practice in Southern Asia

By: Charles Wolf

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Foreign Aid

Theory and Practice in Southern Asia

By: Charles Wolf

Most available literature on foreign aid lacks precise terminology, reliable data, and a theory that; permits profiting from experience. This book tries to meet some of these difficulties by analyzing the foreign aid record of the US in a specific region. It points the way toward improving allocation of aid in an area when the total to be allocated has been set. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400876516

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9781400876518

U.S. Combat Commands' Participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative

A Training Manual

By: Charles Wolf,Brian G. Chow,Gregory S. Jones

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U.S. Combat Commands' Participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative

A Training Manual

By: Charles Wolf,Brian G. Chow,Gregory S. Jones

This training manual--which consists of nine lecture and seminar sessions that can be used together or alone, in full or in part--is intended for use by the U.S. Geographic Combat Commands in training personnel assigned to them for participation in PSI activities. Its purpose is to help the Commands deal with normal issues arising from staff turnover and with any insufficiencies in the Commands1 institutional memory.

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0833046969

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9780833046963

Snyder County [Pennsylvania] Pioneers

By: Charles A. Fisher

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Snyder County [Pennsylvania] Pioneers

By: Charles A. Fisher

Here is an essential guide to the formation and historical highlights of 100 Tennessee counties in existence at the time of the work's original publication in 1923. Each essay gives the county's date of formation, the names of all parent counties, the names of some of its earliest pioneers and landowners, the dates its courts were organized, locations of county seats, and additional information on each county's topography and economy.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806350601

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9780806350608

Protecting the Elderly

How Culture Shapes Social Policy

By: Charles Lockhart

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Protecting the Elderly

How Culture Shapes Social Policy

By: Charles Lockhart

Building on the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, this book develops and applies "grid-group" theory to show how political culture can be used to explain decisions about social policy and how, as an interpretive approach, this theory complements the now more dominant "rational choice" and "institutionalist" models. In Part One, Lockhart elaborates on the basic ideas involved in grid-group theory, using examples to help illuminate how the theory can address areas of explanation left out of rational-choice and institutionalist models, such as preference formation and institutional design. According to grid-group theory, different societies have varying proportions of their members who adhere to one or another of three ubiquitous, socially interactive cultures: hierarchy, individualism, and egalitarianism. The adherents of these disparate cultures adopt culturally constrained rationalities (based on rival sets of values) and strive to construct distinctive institutional designs. In Part Two, this theory is used to help make better sense of social policy decision making. A society whose political elite is predominantly hierarchical, for instance, will develop social programs sharply distinct from those of societies whose leaders are adherents of individualism or egalitarianism. The empirical focus of this part of the book is on the decisions about policy affecting the elderly in the United States, the former Soviet Union, Germany, and Japan during the economically difficult 1980s. Important aspects of these decisions, Lockhart shows, reflect the relative influence of rival cultural purposes among relevant societal elites.

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Penn State Press

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0271041358

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9780271041353

Markets or Governments, second edition

Choosing between Imperfect Alternatives

By: Charles Wolf, Jr.

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Markets or Governments, second edition

Choosing between Imperfect Alternatives

By: Charles Wolf, Jr.

Provides a formal theory of nonmarket failure, analyzing such problems as redundant costs, monopoly, frequency of unanticipated externalities, and bureaucracy in such nonmarket institutions as foundations, universities, and government. A theory of market failures is well established in economics, but the same has not been true for the study of nonmarket failures. Markets or Governments remedies this situation by providing a formal theory of nonmarket failure, analyzing such problems as redundant costs, monopoly, frequency of unanticipated externalities, and bureaucracy in such nonmarket institutions as foundations, universities, and government. This new edition updates the data and results contained in the first edition and includes references and applications of the theory to the ongoing process of system transformation in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. The discussion of earlier literature that is relevant to the theory of nonmarket failure has been expanded.

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MIT Press

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0262731045

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9780262731041

The Survival Nexus

Science, Technology, and World Affairs

By: Charles Weiss

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The Survival Nexus

Science, Technology, and World Affairs

By: Charles Weiss

The impact of science and technology on world affairs is shaped by politics, economics, business, ethics, law, psychology, and culture. This nexus is a neglected aspect of international affairs. It cuts across and unites diverse issues critical to human survival: climate change, global health, nuclear weapons, Internet governance, cybersecurity, jobs, competitiveness, poverty, hunger, and the management of new technologies like autonomous weapons, hypersonic missiles, geoengineering, and gene drivers. Advances in science and technology promise both great benefits and critical threats. Appropriate policies can stimulate and guide scientific and technological advance to create new ways to achieve a healthy environment, sustainable energy systems, equitable growth, full employment, and reduced poverty. But we are allowing technology to push ourselves into uncharted and dangerous territory. Long-standing modes of international cooperation are under increasing pressure, and we are making too little effort to strengthen and update them. Nor are we building the strong global norms that we need to manage new technologies. Underlying all of the global problems discussed in this book are considerations of basic ethics: our willingness to respect scientific facts, to act today to forestall long-run dangers, and to ensure equitable sharing of the benefits, costs, and risks from advances in science and technology"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190946261

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9780190946265

Intellectual Property Regime Evolution in China and India

Technological, Political and Social Drivers of Change

By: Paul Charles Irwin Crookes

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Intellectual Property Regime Evolution in China and India

Technological, Political and Social Drivers of Change

By: Paul Charles Irwin Crookes

What is behind the changing attitudes towards intellectual property in India and China? This exploration of empirically-based research comparisons on the character of intellectual property systems found in these two countries, offers answers to three key questions: what are the drivers that have moved them towards a closer embrace of IP norms, how have domestic and systemic influences shaped the character of this embrace, and how have state and non-state actors interacted within the international system to promote this transformation? Focusing on the software and IT services industries, it illuminates the policy drivers that have influenced IP regime adoption, and helps our understanding the process by providing a clear framework of distinctive phases of technological, political and social development.

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BRILL

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9004179755

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9789004179752

Hidden Fields

Book 2

By: Charles Ford

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Hidden Fields

Book 2

By: Charles Ford

In Hidden Fields, choices are further examined with respect to various themes. Charles Ford introduces another concept about choices; there are internal choices, and external ones. Now, in the general sense choices are seen as external state-of-affairs and are associated with our bodies, such as an individual act or behavior, so one sees the manifested action. The internal choices stem from our various selves, choices that are made by our souls and spirits, and our feeling and reasoning, respectively. The individual has to think or feel before he/she acts. Charles believes ultimately both internal and external choices need to be in harmony with each other, so better choices can be seen in an individual life. Charles continues to write and strives for excellence in all his poems. He invites the readers into his presence to share and exchange of thoughts and views about life experiences. All readers can be at home with him from simple to complex truths and philosophies about life. Charles wants the readers to discover something about their selves as they read his poems for as human beings we are more similar than difference in our choices. It does not matter what race, culture, or sex differences we have. We are still human being; for we all think, sleep, and dream. And can truly make better choices. Charles hopes all readers can clearly see this in his poems.

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iUniverse

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1440108617

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9781440108617

Straddling Economics and Politics

Cross-Cutting Issues in Asia, the United States, and the Global Economy

By: Charles Jr. Wolf

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Straddling Economics and Politics

Cross-Cutting Issues in Asia, the United States, and the Global Economy

By: Charles Jr. Wolf

This collection of essays examines the case for and against globalization, the effects of U.S. economic and foreign policy, and numerous issues related to Asian economics and politics. Published in prominent journals and news media between 1996 and 2001, these cross-cutting essays are as relevant today as when they were first written. The author provides remarkable insight into the economic and military directions in which particular countries or regions are moving, and what these movements portend for the future.

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0833034014

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9780833034014

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