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Quality of life, balance of power and nuclear weapons
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ISBN: 0875869637 0875869653 9780875869650 9780875869643 9780875869636 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

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Who has the most nuclear assets in the Middle East? Whose power is waning, whose increasing? Updated annually, these tables of economic, demographic and military indicators establish the pecking order for 232 countries, with estimates of all nuclear arsenals including rarely published data on non-signatory nations. Members of the US Congress and others who care about the foundations of power politics in the nuclear age will find facts that speak for themselves in this novel yearbook.


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Two thousand years of economic statistics
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ISBN: 1628941359 1628941375 9781628941371 9781628941357 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York

Plato's dreams realized
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ISBN: 9786611398156 1281398152 0875864961 9780875864969 9780875864945 9780875864952 9780875865300 9780875865324 0875865321 1281398160 9781281398161 9786611398163 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

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Roger Huard invites readers to explore Plato s myth of the Cave, which is central to his magnum opus on political philosophy, The Republic. Using The Cave as a key, Huard debunks conventional interpretations of to Plato s political thought (conservative and progressive interpretations alike), and unfolds Plato's notions about the structure of the world, his ideas about justice and human well being, challenging many of our conceptions of the cosmos and political beliefs.The primary goal of this exploration is to arrive at an understanding of Plato s political ideas -- an understanding that is n


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ISBN: 1281398438 9786611398439 0875865968 9780875865966 9780875865942 0875865941 9780875865959 087586595X 9781281398437 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

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This statistical annual presents fundamental data in four sections: (1) Quality of Life, (2) Balance of Power, (3) Developed Market Economies since 1960, and (4) Economic History since 1500. It contains data that is generally not available elsewhere. Sections 1 and 2 give statistics for 230 countries. The World Bank and Encyclopedia Britannica provide statistical data for a maximum of about 160 countries. The actual number of countries in World Bank statistical tables is even smaller. The CIA World Factbook gives data for about 230 countries but that data is limited in scope and is imprecise. Other statistical publications are even less satisfactory. The author has managed to increase the number of countries tallied by writing proprietary software utilizing statistical regressions, selecting data which, first of all, is important and, second, which allows for high correlation coefficients for these regressions. Section 2 includes data about nuclear delivery systems and the number of nuclear warheads of all nuclear powers. This is based on information from reputable sources. Among others, it includes estimates of the Israeli nuclear arsenal which usually do not appear in the press. Official estimates of Russian military expenditures distributed by US and British intelligence communities are methodologically flawed. Such estimates claim to give a picture of military expenditures of the countries of the world at market exchange rates; at the same time, they apparently cite Russian military expense figures at purchasing power parities, thus inflating these numbers in comparison to those of other countries. Such deceptive practices of the Anglo-American intelligence services are counter-balanced by presenting two different tables, showing military expenditures estimates both at market exchange rates and by purchasing power parities. Section 3 gives data on the topic of health care. It seems that public health expenditures as a share of total health expenditures has a stronger correlation with the comparative level (and the rates of improvement) of the main health care indicators than the absolute level (measured as a percent of GDP) of total health expenditures. The data demonstrates that the US has the lowest public health expenditure of developed market economies and is increasingly lagging behind other countries by main health care indicators. The proposed introduction of national health insurance in the US would probably mean some sort of tax increase. The author therefore also seeks to shed light on modern ideological debates about the share of taxation in GDP and its influence on rates of growth. Surprisingly enough, the empirical data for the developed market economies do not seem to support the popular idea that low taxes are strongly correlated with higher rates of growth; depending on how the data are analyzed, the appropriate correlations are either low or even the reverse of what is commonly believed. Section 4 primarily uses data which has become available through the groundbreaking works of Angus Maddison. Using interpolation techniques explained in that section to slightly adjust Maddison s data, the author received numbers for population, GDP per capita, and total GDP for 48 countries for the period since year 1500, figures which seem to be credible and which are not readily available elsewhere. Members of the US Congress and others who care about the foundations of power politics in the nuclear age will find facts that speak for themselves in this novel yearbook."


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Two thousand years of economic statistics
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ISBN: 1628942487 9781628942484 9781628942460 1628942460 1628942479 9781628942477 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York


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Two thousand years of economic statistics
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ISBN: 1628942517 9781628942514 1628942495 9781628942491 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Algora Publishing


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Quality of life, balance of power, and nuclear weapons
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ISBN: 1628941855 9781628941852 9781628941845 1628941847 9781628941838 1628941839 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York

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"Whose power is waning, whose increasing? Who has the most nuclear assets in the Middle East? Updated annually, these tables of economic, demographic and military indicators establish the pecking order. This statistical annual presents fundamental data in three sections: (1) Quality of Life, (2) Balance of Power, and (3) Developed Market Economies since 1960. The author has managed to increase the number of countries tallied by writing proprietary software utilizing statistical regressions"--Provided by publisher.


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Quality of life, balance of power and nuclear weapons
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ISBN: 0875867766 9786612916069 1282916068 9780875867762 9780875867748 9780875867755 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

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The foundations of power politics in the nuclear age, fundamental forces that drive events in the international news, and seldom-discussed factors that can shift whole economies, or trigger wars, may be discerned from the statistical tables presented in this novel yearbook. This statistical annual presents fundamental data in three sections: (1) Quality of Life, (2) Balance of Power, and (3) Developed Market Economies since 1960.It contains data that is generally not available elsewhere. Sections 1 and 2 give statistics for 232 countries. The World Bank and Encyclopedia Britannica provides


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Two thousand years of economic statistics
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ISBN: 1282916025 9786612916021 0875867529 9780875867526 9780875867502 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

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Who's winning and who's losing? Going far beyond the major powers and the BRIC countries, this new economic statistical tome compares the nations of the world in six sections: 1. Population. 2. GDP Per Capita. 3. GDP. 4. Growth Rates of Population. 5. Growth Rates of GDP Per Capita. 6. Growth Rates of GDP.


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Two thousand years of economic statistics : world population, GDP, and PPP.
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ISBN: 9780875867502 9780875867519 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Algora

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