Author: Marcus Nadler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: A. Trevor Thrall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135969027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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This edited volume addresses the issue of threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics. The Bush administration's aggressive campaign to build public support for an invasion of Iraq reheated fears about the president's ability to manipulate the public, and many charged the administration with 'threat inflation', duping the news media and misleading the public into supporting the war under false pretences. Presenting the latest research, these essays seek to answer the question of why threat inflation occurs and when it will be successful. Simply defined, it is the effort by elites to create concern for a threat that goes beyond the scope and urgency that disinterested analysis would justify. More broadly, the process concerns how elites view threats, the political uses of threat inflation, the politics of threat framing among competing elites, and how the public interprets and perceives threats via the news media. The war with Iraq gets special attention in this volume, along with the 'War on Terror'. Although many believe that the Bush administration successfully inflated the Iraq threat, there is not a neat consensus about why this was successful. Through both theoretical contributions and case studies, this book showcases the four major explanations of threat inflation -- realism, domestic politics, psychology, and constructivism -- and makes them confront one another directly. The result is a richer appreciation of this important dynamic in US politics and foreign policy, present and future. This book will be of much interests to students of US foreign and national security policy, international security, strategic studies and IR in general. Trevor Thrall is Assistant Professor of Political Science and directs the Master of Public Policy program at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. Jane Kellett Cramer is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon.

Author: Claude L. Benner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Gary North
Publisher: Christian Liberty Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Author: Sammo Kang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788932240268
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Author: Lea Pfefferle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783656361206
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 46

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Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 65, London School of Economics, course: International Political Economy, language: English, abstract: This paper investigates whether Germans are more inflation averse than other countries (i.e. GB, FRA, IT), especially due to the high inflation in the 1920s. The paper uses a time series of Eurobarometer surveys (the question being question "What do you think are the two most important issues facing (OUR COUNTRY) at the moment?") to compare the different countries. Additionally, literature on inflation aversion will be presented and put in perspective with the different countries.

Author: Dana M. Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Author: Sam-mo Kang
Publisher: 대외경제정책연구원
ISBN:
Category : Anti-inflationary policies
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Peter J. N. Sinclair
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135179778
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Inflation is regarded by the many as a menace that damages business and can only make life worse for households. Keeping it low depends critically on ensuring that firms and workers expect it to be low. So expectations of inflation are a key influence on national economic welfare. This collection pulls together a galaxy of world experts (including Roy Batchelor, Richard Curtin and Staffan Linden) on inflation expectations to debate different aspects of the issues involved. The main focus of the volume is on likely inflation developments. A number of factors have led practitioners and academic observers of monetary policy to place increasing emphasis recently on inflation expectations. One is the spread of inflation targeting, invented in New Zealand over 15 years ago, but now encompassing many important economies including Brazil, Canada, Israel and Great Britain. Even more significantly, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the United States Federal Bank are the leading members of another group of monetary institutions all considering or implementing moves in the same direction. A second is the large reduction in actual inflation that has been observed in most countries over the past decade or so. These considerations underscore the critical – and largely underrecognized - importance of inflation expectations. They emphasize the importance of the issues, and the great need for a volume that offers a clear, systematic treatment of them. This book, under the steely editorship of Peter Sinclair, should prove very important for policy makers and monetary economists alike.

Author: Michael Hiltzik
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 054477034X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titans In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes that upended the relationship between management and labor; transformed the nation’s geography; and culminated in a ferocious two-man battle that shook the nation’s financial markets to their foundations and produced dramatic, lasting changes in the interplay of business and government. Spanning four decades and featuring some of the most iconic figures of the Gilded Age, Iron Empires reveals how the robber barons drove the country into the twentieth century—and almost sent it off the rails.