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The Poverty of Communism

By: Nicholas Eberstadt,Nick Eberstadt

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One third of the world's population today lives under governments that consider themselves to be Marxist-Leninist. In many of these places, severe poverty was endemic in the years before Communist authorities came to power. Communist governments claim to have a special understanding into and effectiveness in dealing with problems of poverty. Marxist-Leninist rulers have been in power for nearly thirty years in Cuba, nearly forty years in China, and over sixty-five years in the Soviet Union. How do the poor fare in such places today? Western intellectuals often assume there is an inevitable tradeoff between bread and freedom under communism. What populations lose in the way of civil and political rights, they gain in social guarantees that protect them against material hardship. In "The Poverty of Communism, "Nick Eberstadt challenges this assumption and shatters it. He shows that Communist governments in a wide variety of settings have been no more successful in attending to the material needs of the most vulnerable segments of the populations they govern than non-Communist governments against which they might most readily be compared. Indeed, measured by the health, literacy, and nutrition of their people, Communist governments may today be less effective in dealing with poverty than are non-Communist governments. "The Poverty of Communism "is a pathbreaking investigation. In a series of separate studies, Eberstadt analyzes the performance of Communist governments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and Cuba. This is the first scholarly effort to assess the record of Communist governments with respect to poverty in a detailed and comprehensive fashion. Well written, carefully argued, and reflecting a sweeping range of knowledge, "The Poverty of Communism "will be of interest to specialists in the countries investigated as well as those concerned with comparative economic and political development. Above all, it gives testimony to the plight of voiceless populations about which all too little has been written from an objective standpoint.

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The End of North Korea

By: Nick Eberstadt

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The End of North Korea

By: Nick Eberstadt

Prolonging North Korea's life may actually increase the costs and the dangers of its inevitable demise.

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American Enterprise Institute

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Korea Approaches Reunification

By: Nick Eberstadt

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Korea Approaches Reunification

By: Nick Eberstadt

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Economic Development and Government Policy in Divided Korea: 1945-1990 -- 2. Military Buildup in the DPRK: Some Indications from North Korean Data -- 3. North Korean Society Today: A Statistical Glimpse -- 4. Policy Issues in a Peaceful Korean Reunification -- 5. U.S. Policy Toward Korea: The Impending Challenges -- Index

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1563245566

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Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis

A Doctrine in Search of Data

By: Nick Eberstadt

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Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis

A Doctrine in Search of Data

By: Nick Eberstadt

Few would take exception to the proposition that an improvement in the material well-being of the poor would enhance not only their living standards but their health as well. A number of influential recent studies, however, purport to show that inequality in income -- not poverty per se -- is bad for people's health. This "inequality hypothesis" is meant to apply to everyone, regardless of wealth or social standing, and predicts that the risk of illness depends upon whether one lives in a society that is stratified or egalitarian. Thus, according to this hypothesis, while the poor may suffer the most from inequality, the better off and even the rich suffer as well. The enthusiasm many researchers and observers feel for this theory goes well beyond what might be justified by the evidence. The inequality hypothesis too often relies upon limited or unrepresentative data, hazily expounded causality, elementary econometric fallacies, and results that cannot be replicated. A very persuasive (although less publicly heralded) body of scholarship that challenges the inequality hypothesis is currently emerging. For example, by controlling for relevant variables -- such as household income, maternal characteristics, education, and race -- the relationship between income inequality and the health of infants and adults diminishes or disappears completely. This strongly suggests that income distribution is far less powerful a determinant of population health than the inequality hypothesis holds. Book jacket.

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The Tyranny of Numbers

Mismeasurement and Misrule

By: Nick Eberstadt

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The Tyranny of Numbers

Mismeasurement and Misrule

By: Nick Eberstadt

This book examines the facts and figures that have led to government measures that have been unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries.

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Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems

By: Nick Eberstadt

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Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems

By: Nick Eberstadt

In this wide-ranging and carefully reasoned book, renowned demographer and social scientist Nicholas Eberstadt challenges these ideas and exposes their glaring intellectual shortcomings.".

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Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind

Suspicious Deaths, Mysterious Murders, and Bizarre Disappearances in UFO History

By: Nick Redfern

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Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind

Suspicious Deaths, Mysterious Murders, and Bizarre Disappearances in UFO History

By: Nick Redfern

From a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, an examination of mysterious deaths and missing persons related to sightings of UFO phenomena. Everyone has heard of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But what about close encounters of the fatal kind? The field of UFOs is rife with unsettling examples of suspicious deaths. Accounts of accidents that might not have been accidents after all, abound. Researchers and witnesses have vanished, never to be seen again. Conveniently timed heart attacks are reported. Out-of-the-blue suicides that, upon investigation, bear the distinct hallmarks of murder, are all too common. And grisly deaths at the hands of both extraterrestrials and government agents have occurred. Highlights of Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind include: The strange saga of the incredible melting man The UFO-related death of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal The mysterious disappearances of military pilots and their connection to UFOs The connections between national security and the sudden deaths of UFO investigators Getting too close to the cosmic truth about alien abductions Roswell, and what the government really knows about UFOs can—clearly—be a deadly business The government’s latest admission of the existence of Area 51 is barely the tip of a very big iceberg.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601634730

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Screening the East

Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989

By: Nick Hodgin

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Screening the East

Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989

By: Nick Hodgin

Screening the East considers German filmmakers’ responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity. The book identifies and analyses a large number of films, from internationally successful box-office hits, to lesser-known productions, many of which are discussed here for the first time. Providing an insight into the films’ historical and political context, it considers related issues such as stereotyping, racism, regional particularism and the Germans’ confrontation with the past.

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Berghahn Books

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The Hungry World

America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia

By: Nick Cullather

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The Hungry World

America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia

By: Nick Cullather

Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.

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Harvard University Press

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0674058828

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Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During the Cold War Era

1945-91

By: Nick Eberstadt

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Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During the Cold War Era

1945-91

By: Nick Eberstadt

Nicholas Eberstadt presents an impressive compilation of hard-to-find comparative data on economic performance for North Korea and South Korea over two critical generations.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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The Tyranny of Numbers

Mismeasurement and Misrule

By: Nick Eberstadt

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The Tyranny of Numbers

Mismeasurement and Misrule

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This book examines the facts and figures that have led to government measures that have been unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries.

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The Poverty of Communism

By: Nicholas Eberstadt,Nick Eberstadt

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The End of North Korea

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Prolonging North Korea's life may actually increase the costs and the dangers of its inevitable demise.

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A Nation of Takers

America’s Entitlement Epidemic

By: Nicholas Eberstadt

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A Nation of Takers

America’s Entitlement Epidemic

By: Nicholas Eberstadt

In A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy-to-read, four-color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, everything from Medicare to disability payments. But Eberstadt does not just chart the astonishing growth of entitlement spending, he also details the enormous economic and cultural costs of this epidemic. He powerfully argues that while this spending certainly drains our federal coffers, it also has a very real, long-lasting, negative impact on the character of our citizens. Also included in the book is a response from one of our leading political theorists, William Galston. In his incisive response, he questions Eberstadt’s conclusions about the corrosive effect of entitlements on character and offers his own analysis of the impact of American entitlement growth.

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Templeton Foundation Press

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1599474352

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Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis

A Doctrine in Search of Data

By: Nick Eberstadt

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Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems

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Korea Approaches Reunification

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Men Without Work

America's Invisible Crisis

By: Nick Eberstadt

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Men Without Work

America's Invisible Crisis

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This book examines the decreasement in work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four.

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Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During the Cold War Era

1945-91

By: Nick Eberstadt

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Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During the Cold War Era

1945-91

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Nicholas Eberstadt presents an impressive compilation of hard-to-find comparative data on economic performance for North Korea and South Korea over two critical generations.

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