Defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume identifies three major types of power: threat power; economic power; and, integrative power. It argues that threat power should not be seen as fundamental since it is not effective unless reinforced by economic and integrative power.
Defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume identifies three major types of power: threat power; economic power; and, integrative p...
This book is a study of the American economy from 1929 to 1989 through the analysis of national income statistics and other data. It reaches important conclusions regarding the causes of unemployment, the relation of inflation to the stock of liquid assets and the budget deficit, the proportion of the population in poverty, the gap between interest and profit rates, the relation of productivity to income. These conclusions are discussed using graphs and diagrams extensively.
This book is a study of the American economy from 1929 to 1989 through the analysis of national income statistics and other data. It reaches important...
More and more people are demanding an end to violence as a means of arbitrating international demands and resolving problems between nations. This collection of essays brings social scientific evidence to bear on the question of the -inevitability- of war, and evaluates the potential for managing the international system in the interest of peace instead of war. The contributors discuss methods of lowering distrust among DEGREESnations; they consider whether war persists because it has become an economic necessity built into a -military-industrial complex.-' They deal with implications of...
More and more people are demanding an end to violence as a means of arbitrating international demands and resolving problems between nations. This...
Useful for early and intermediate level college economics classes, this book introduces those with some knowledge of economics to the larger scientific background of the subject. Specifically, it focuses on economics as a behavioral science, as a political science, a mathematical science, a moral science and finally it looks at the successes and failures of economics and what it portends for the future.
Useful for early and intermediate level college economics classes, this book introduces those with some knowledge of economics to the larger scientifi...
The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like?
A policy for peace aims to speed up the historically slow, painful, but persistent transition from a state of continual...
The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps...
Evolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cutting edge of current thinking which challenges the natural/social dichotomy thesis by showing how the application of ideas which derive from biology can be applied and offer insight into the social realm. This is done by introducing the general system theory to the methodological debate on the relation of human and natural sciences.
Evolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cuttin...
One of the important sources for the increase of human knowledge is the keeping of careful records of a system over time, the study of which may reveal patterns and relationships that otherwise would not be perceived. Despite the existence of more than 60 years of national income statistics and their various components and supplements, such as unemployment and labor force figures, price levels, relative prices, etc, there has been a dismaying lag in the use of this data to detect previously unrecognized relationships among economic variables.
One of the reasons for this disturbing...
One of the important sources for the increase of human knowledge is the keeping of careful records of a system over time, the study of which may re...
