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- Chapter 1: general assessment of the macroeconomic situation
- OVERVIEW Financial turmoil, housing weakness and oil prices are forefront ... 2007 is set to become the fourth year of above-trend growth in the OECD area (Table 1.1), but activity is now moderating. One cause of this moderation is the cooling of housing markets, which will act to...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- A Geologic Time Scale 2004
- A Geologic Time Scale 2004 Edited by Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg and Alan G. Smith Cambridge University Press 2005 ISBN-10 0 521 78673 8 Paperback US$70.00. 610 pages. Ebook format US$56.00. There are many elements of science that invoke wonderment: as...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- The Curious CEO: Four Keys to Becoming a Great Leader
- In my interviews and meetings with hundreds of CEOs over the years, I've noticed that the best ones have a burning sense of curiosity. I think it's one of the most important differentiators. Here are the ways they manifest that curiosity: Reading Outside Their Industry. It's easy...
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- The changing meaning of patent claim terms.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS I. PRINCIPLES OF CLAIM CONSTRUCTION A. Situating the Meaning of Claim Terms in Time 1. Novelty and Nonobviousness ...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Crisis, what crisis? Charlemagne.(Europeans could learn to live quite happily with less of the vision thing)
- In praise of the prosaic IN THE run-up to the French and Dutch referendums, supporters of the European Union constitution avoided the subtle approach. One commissioner went to a Holocaust memorial to hint at what might happen if the constitution were rejected; other "yes"...
- Research articles 2005-09-10
- The effects of world society on environmental protection outcomes.
- The world environmental regime has encouraged nations to adopt new environmental policies and laws worldwide. But, scholars question the impact on the environment, suggesting that national policies may be 'decoupled' from outcomes. We fill a gap in neo-institutional theory by specifying the circumstances in which institutions will affect outcomes--namely, when...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Campaign design for winning the war … and the peace
- It had started so well. The most battle-worthy, best-trained, best-equipped, and best-led army in the world had made a stunning advance in enemy country. It had defeated the enemy army and captured its national capital. By all rules of classical warfare, this should have been the end of it. But...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- Conniff a voice of reason
- Ruth Conniff's "Reasons for Hope" December issue is the first sober piece from the left I have read since Election Day. It is refreshing to hear a voice of reason in the sea of lunacy that has washed over the Democratic Party. If the sloganeers of the left put one...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Research is losing all its credibility with the public: from the MMR controversy to the declining sparrow population, contradictory research makes it hard to know what to believe
- As Victor Meldrew would say: "I don't believe it!" Research, that is. Almost any research, in fact. Examine any statistic quoted in the media at the moment and it's as likely to be wrong as it is to be right. Sometimes by factors of a hundred, a thousand or more....
- Research articles 2004-02-26
- Why do presidents fail?
- As part of the future research agenda for presidency scholars, this article deals with two distinct but related issues: the first involves failed presidential decision making, particularly in the employment of prerogative power; the second involves the failure of interbranch collaborative decision making. Such study of failed presidential decision making...
- Research articles 2002-12-01
- Intra-industry and intra-firm trade and the internationalisation of production
- Introduction and summary Internationalisation of production has important effects on world trade The growing "internationalisation" of production systems, which increasingly involve vertical trading chains spanning a number of countries, each specialising in a particular stage of production, is an important feature behind the changing nature and increasing scale...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Options Bear and Guru.
- Bernie Schaeffer, the major domo at Cincinnati-based Schaeffer's Investment Research, is an options guru, a market technician, a natural-born contrarian, a gentleman and a scholar. He has also, since last March, been a bear, quite a transition for a market analyst who'd stayed doughtily bullish through...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- "Inspired efforts, directed at the future"
- Interview with H. Lee Buchanan III, Assistant Secretary of the Navy RDA As the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, and acquisition, Dr. Buchanan is the Department of the Navy's senior acquisition executive responsible for all research, development, and procurement of defense systems, for the Navy and Marine...
- Research articles 2000-04-01
- The Unthinkable.(nuclear arms control)
- When the Republican majority in the Senate voted down the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on October 13, President Clinton called their act "partisanship at its worst." The Washington Post agreed, charging that the vote was "the product of short-term domestic political calculation." The New York Times,...
- Research articles 1999-11-08
- From the Outside In: World War II and the American State.(Review)
- From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 354. $45.00.) Bartholomew H. Sparrow is a political scientist, not a historian. The difference shows. Instead of drawing generalizations from the ...
- Research articles 1999-03-22
- Peso bear market rally?(Mexico)
- The Mexican peso is expected to appreciate in value as a result of the Federal Reserve Board's decision to cut interest rates. It has been observed that peso devaluations for the past 30 years were consequences of tight US monetary policy. Its low domestic savings rate and current account deficit...
- Research articles 1998-11-01
- Forum
- Fusion: Pro and con The two articles in the Summer 1997 Issues on the future of the proposed International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER program-"The ITER Decision and U.S. Fusion R&D," by Weston M. Stacey, and "Fusion Research with a Future," by Robert L. Hirsch, Gerald Kulcinski, and Ramy Shanny-reflect the...
- Research articles 1997-10-01
- The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy. (book reviews)
- Gambhir Bhatta and Joaquin L. Gonzalez, III Much has been written about the phenomenal growth experienced by selected East Asian nations in the last three decades (see, for instance: Amsden, 1989; Balassa, 1988; Haggard, 1990; Johnson, 1987; Krueger, 1985; Vogel, 1991; Wade, 1990; Woronoff, 1992). These...
- Research articles 1997-06-22
- Control versus firm value: the impact of restrictions on foreign share ownership
- Various developed economies such as Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and Norway have imposed foreign-ownership restrictions on the stocks of companies based there. The developing Asian economies such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and China have imposed similar restrictions on their stocks. While some of these restrictions are...
- Research articles 1997-03-22
- So what if there's hype? The I-way is no byway, but the road to the future
- A promise made almost two decades ago is finally about to be kept. On September 22, 1977, in the first issue of The Gray Sheet to be devoted exclusively to the personal computer, we opined:The introduction of sub-$600 computer systems . . . has suddenly made personal computers attractive as...
- Research articles 1994-10-28
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