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Toward Normalizing U.S.--Korea Relations

In Due Course?

By: Edward A. Olsen

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Toward Normalizing U.S.--Korea Relations

In Due Course?

By: Edward A. Olsen

Considering the future of U.S.-Korea relations, Edward Olsen first provides a rich assessment of the political, economic, and strategic factors that have shaped - and flawed - U.S. policy toward the Korean peninsula since World War II. Olsen suggests that the prospect of permanent separation has become integral to U.S. policy toward both Korean states. Offering counterintuitive recommendations for reinvigorating the in due course paradigm, his analysis is firmly grounded in the current debate about the course of U.S. foreign policy in general, and in particular, its role in the East Asian context.

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164

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1588261093

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9781588261090

The Armed Forces In Contemporary Asian Societies

By: Edward A Olsen,Stephen Jurika

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The Armed Forces In Contemporary Asian Societies

By: Edward A Olsen,Stephen Jurika

First published in 1986. This book integrates current knowledge about the military, political, economic, and cultural roles of the armed forces in sixteen Asian countries, examining the interplay of these factors and their bearing on each society's civil-military relations. The authors explore the history, current status, and potential future course of each country. Analyzing all key Asian armed forces, they provide a comprehensive view of the military's domestic role-a crucial factor in assessing the foreign and defense policy options facing Asia as a whole.

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313

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Routledge

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1000314731

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9781000314731

US National Defense for the Twenty-first Century

Grand Exit Strategy

By: Edward A. Olsen

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US National Defense for the Twenty-first Century

Grand Exit Strategy

By: Edward A. Olsen

This provocative critique of Washington's current security policies, draws on the arguments made by an array of non-interventionist and conservative-nationalist scholars. It provides a blueprint for a more restrained and unilateral US role in global affairs.

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225

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Routledge

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1135308705

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9781135308704

A Man for All Markets

From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

By: Edward O. Thorp

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A Man for All Markets

From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

By: Edward O. Thorp

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the blackjack table. As a result he launched a gambling renaissance. His remarkable success—and mathematically unassailable method—caused such an uproar that casinos altered the rules of the game to thwart him and the legions he inspired. They barred him from their premises, even put his life in jeopardy. Nonetheless, gambling was forever changed. Thereafter, Thorp shifted his sights to “the biggest casino in the world”: Wall Street. Devising and then deploying mathematical formulas to beat the market, Thorp ushered in the era of quantitative finance we live in today. Along the way, the so-called godfather of the quants played bridge with Warren Buffett, crossed swords with a young Rudy Giuliani, detected the Bernie Madoff scheme, and, to beat the game of roulette, invented, with Claude Shannon, the world’s first wearable computer. Here, for the first time, Thorp tells the story of what he did, how he did it, his passions and motivations, and the curiosity that has always driven him to disregard conventional wisdom and devise game-changing solutions to seemingly insoluble problems. An intellectual thrill ride, replete with practical wisdom that can guide us all in uncertain financial waters, A Man for All Markets is an instant classic—a book that challenges its readers to think logically about a seemingly irrational world. Praise for A Man for All Markets “In A Man for All Markets, [Thorp] delightfully recounts his progress (if that is the word) from college teacher to gambler to hedge-fund manager. Along the way we learn important lessons about the functioning of markets and the logic of investment.”—The Wall Street Journal “[Thorp] gives a biological summation (think Richard Feynman’s Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!) of his quest to prove the aphorism ‘the house always wins’ is flawed. . . . Illuminating for the mathematically inclined, and cautionary for would-be gamblers and day traders”— Library Journal

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418

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812979907

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9780812979909

Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance

A General Scientific Theory

By: W. Edward McMullan,Thomas P. Kenworthy

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Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance

A General Scientific Theory

By: W. Edward McMullan,Thomas P. Kenworthy

The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity. The field of entrepreneurship has a long tradition of expecting entrepreneurial performance to be influenced by creativity, tracing back even before the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1883 to 1950), who defined entrepreneurship as creative-destruction—creating the new by supplanting or destroying the old. Subsequently, psychologist Robert Sternberg defined creativity as broadly encompassing creative aspects of personality, motivation, intellect, thinking style and relevant knowledge. Using Sternberg’s definition of creativity, the authors reviewed the evidence directly linking entrepreneurial creativity and entrepreneurial performance, concluding that the linkage is both statistically and practically significant. In order to scientifically tie entrepreneurship to creativity the book pursues a number of major objectives: In parts one and two, the authors remind us of our scientific challenge in the light of the depressing levels of performance typically to be found in the real world of entrepreneurship and explores the limitations of the dominant paradigms driving research in the field of entrepreneurship today. In part three, they bring together existing evidence to demonstrate the predictive and explanatory powers of creativity in relation to entrepreneurship. In part four, they further explore correlations between creativity and entrepreneurial performance at the individual and macro or society, levels. In summary, the book offers a bold predictive theory linking entrepreneurial creativity to entrepreneurial performance, however neither as boldly as a definitional linkage nor as timidly as one in a hundred or so factors potentially explaining entrepreneurial performance. This result is a general scientific theory that offers a serious challenge to entrepreneurial scholars who are pursuing other means for understanding the causality of entrepreneurial performance.

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214

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Springer

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3319047264

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9783319047263

Japan: Economic Growth, Resource Scarcity, And Environmental Constraints

By: Edward A. Olsen

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Japan: Economic Growth, Resource Scarcity, And Environmental Constraints

By: Edward A. Olsen

This study evaluates, from a neo-Malthusian perspective, Japan's current status and its prognosis in the context of the country's economic vulnerabilities. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Malthus, N. Georgescu-Roegen, H. and M. Sprout, and assorted environmental-ecological doomsayers, the author reaches pessimistic conclusions about Japan's very long term prospects, but holds out some slim hope for Japan if international cooperation of nearly Utopian dimensions can be achieved.

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126

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Routledge

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0429726120

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9780429726125

Book's by Edward A. Olsen

Toward Normalizing U.S.--Korea Relations

Toward Normalizing U.S.--Korea Relations

The Armed Forces In Contemporary Asian Societies

The Armed Forces In Contemporary Asian Societies

US National Defense for the Twenty-first Century

US National Defense for the Twenty-first Century

A Man for All Markets

A Man for All Markets

Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance

Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance

Japan: Economic Growth, Resource Scarcity, And Environmental Constraints

Japan: Economic Growth, Resource Scarcity, And Environmental Constraints

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