In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil , Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of the complete conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was above all intended to bring to Russia Marx's promised bright future of socialism. In the process, however, it caused widespread peasant unrest, massive relocations, and ultimately led to millions dying in the famine of 1932--33. Drawing on scholarly studies and primary-source collections published since the opening of the Soviet archives three decades ago, now, for the first time, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters from the period that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the revolution in Soviet agriculture under Stalin. In chilling detail the author describes how the havoc and destruction wrought in the countryside sowed the seeds of destruction of the entire Soviet experiment.
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• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Overview; Introduction
• Diagnosing the Situation Today
• Policy and Regulatory Options: State Regulators-Compensating Nuclear Plant Benefits
• State Regulators-Internalizing Other Costs
• State Legislators-Compensating Nuclear Plant Benefits
• State Legislators-Internalizing Other Costs
• Regional Grid Operators
• Federal Agencies
• Congress
• Improving Nuclear's Value: Owners & Operators
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: US Civilian Nuclear Power Reactors
• Appendix B: Recent Nuclear Plant Closures.

In Keeping the Lights On at America's Nuclear Power Plants, Jeremy Carl and David Fedor discuss the decline of American nuclear power in light of major economic, technological and political challenges. They show how high costs, low public support, and popular clean energy trends threaten America's near- and long-term nuclear viability. American nuclear power plants are closing at a historically unprecedented pace, and there's little evidence of public or political will to stop the bleeding. Recognizing the nuclear industry's flaws, the authors argue that nuclear energy is widely misunderstood. They discuss the nuclear industry's failure to capture the public's attention and imagination, and survey the new national conversation about America's renewable energy future -- a conversation that does not include nuclear. For all these challenges, the authors argue that permanently opting out of the nuclear enterprise would be a mistake. Making the case for continued nuclear investment, they show how ""keeping the lights on"" at America's nuclear plants can bolster American technology leadership, security, and commitment to curbing carbon emissions. They offer a menu of policy options designed to spur meaningful action at state and federal levels, to change the industry's status quo, and to reintroduce nuclear to America's energy conversation.
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"The exhibition shows the everyday lives of the men, women and children carted off to work -- at the camp, duirng work, and in dealing with Germans. It illustrated the extent to which the forced labourers' lives were dominated by the strict racist hierarchy of the Nazi regime. This catalogue records key content from the permanent exhibition with many, in some cases unknown photographs, documents and objects on the history of Nazi Forced Labour and its consequences. It also includes numerous biographies of forced labourers and of Germans -- perperators, profiteers, onlookers and helpers"-- p.4 of cover.

• The policy context for energy efficiency
• Energy efficiency is all around us
• Energy efficiency and aggregate energy intensity in the United States : 1950 through 2014
• Energy efficiency benefits : environment and security
• Amplifying energy efficiency
• Policy lessons from the past forty years.

The entire world, especially the United States, is in the midst of an energy revolution. Since the oil embargo of 1973, individuals, corporations, and other organizations have found ways to economically reduce energy use. In this book, Jim Sweeney examines the energy policies and practices of the past forty years and their impact on three crucial systems: the economy, the environment, and national security. He shows how energy-efficiency contributions to the country's overall energy situation have been more powerful than all the increases in the domestic production of oil, gas, coal, geothermal energy, nuclear power, solar power, wind power, and biofuels. The author details the impact of new and improved energy-efficient technologies, the environmental and national security benefits of energy efficiency, ways to amplify energy efficiency, and more. Energy Efficiency: Building a Clean, Secure Economy reveals how the careful nurturing of private- and public-sector energy efficiency-along with public awareness, appropriate pricing, appropriate policies--and increased research and development, the trends of decreasing energy intensity and increasing energy efficiency can be beneficially accelerated.
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• Forward / Esther L. George, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Introduction / Troy Davig, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• The moderators / Peter Blair Henry, Dean, Stern School of Business, New York University and Christina D. Romer, Professor, University of California-Berkeley
• Opening remarks / Janet L. Yellen, Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Labor market fluidity and economic performance / Steven J. Davis, Professor, University of Chicago, John Haltiwantger, Professor, University of Maryland ; Commentary / Richard Rogerson, Professor, Princeton University
• Polanyi's paradox and the shape of employment growth / David H. Autor, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Commentary / Lisa M. Lynch, Professor, Brandeis University
• China's demographic change in comparative perspective: implications for labor markets and sustainable development / Karen Eggleston, Professor, Stanford University
• The demography of the labor force in emerging markets / David Lam, Professor, University of Michigan.

• How population aging affects the macroeconomy / Ronald Lee, Professor, University of California-Berkeley
• Luncheon address: Unemployment in the Euro area / Mario Draghi, President European Central Bank
• Long-term nonemployment and job displacement / Till Von Wachter, Associate Professor, University of California-Los Angeles ; Commentary / Antonella Trigari, Associate Professor, Bocconi University
• What is natural about unemployment?: Policy sources and implications of labor market rigidities / Giuseppe Bertola, Professor EDHEC Business School ; Commentary / Mark Bils, Professor, University of Rochester
• Unemployment and the conduct of monetary policy in the U. K. / Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy, Bank of England
• Deflation, the labor market and QQE / Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor, Bank of Japan
• Labor markets and monetary policy : some comments in light of the Brazilian experience / Alexandre Antonio Tombini, Governor, Central Bank of Brazil.

In this in-depth, fact-based evaluation, Ken G. Glozer provides a detailed political history of how the United States ended up with current federal corn ethanol policy. Part I relates the significant external events that have driven the politics that in turn has driven the policy since 1977. He answers important questions about when the policy started, how it evolved, what were the major political and market forces that drove it, and, most important, who were the key officials that formed and shaped the policy. Part II of the book contains an in-depth objective evaluation of the major claims made by those who have advocated the ethanol policies during the past thirty years. Glozer uses his analytic, policy evaluation skills, honed during his twenty-six years with the White House Office of Management and Budget, to probe how well the ethanol policy has worked compared to the claims made by two presidents, three federal agencies, ethanol producers, and the corn and soybean growers. The author presents the results of an evaluation of the Renewal Fuels Standard, which was first enacted in 1975 then doubled, to a mandatory 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol blended into the nation's gasoline supplies. His surprising finding--that federal ethanol policy has little to do with energy and everything to do with wealth transfer--is particularly compelling because, after three decades of federal subsidies, trade protection, and, most recently, mandated ethanol blending, ethanol remains uneconomical. Also, according to the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, ethanol never has and never will have a significant impact on petroleum imports compared to what could be achieved under a competitive market policy. Glozer's sobering conclusion is that the taxpayers and consumers are the victims of the current policy in that they have no choice but to pay and pay.
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Charles Blahous, one of the nation's foremost retirement security experts, explains the origins and dangers of current underfunding in our single-employer defined-benefit pension system and outlines the options for solving the problem and preventing the next taxpayer-financed bailout. He provides a tutorial on the basic workings of pension law, reviews the recent history that led to the worsening condition of the pension insurance system, and suggests a range of reforms to improve the system's operation and to resolve the projected shortfall.
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• Presidential address / Michel G. Picher
• Labor law, economics recovery, and shared prosperity / Thomas A. Kochan
• How much are you due? : balancing due process and access to justice / moderator, Rosemary A. Townley ; panelists, Violet M. Clark, Alexia M. Kulweic, Susan T. Mackenzie, Margo R. Newman
• Improving due process in employment arbitration / Sharon Henderson Ellis
• The ghosts of arbitration past, present, and yet to come : insights about the Arbitration Fairness Act : a management perspective / Philip A. Miscimarra and John R. Richards
• Mandatory arbitration : why it's better than it looks / Theodore J. St. Antoine
• Religious conflict in the workplace : the problem of the proselytizing employee / Michael Wolf
• Interest arbitration in Pennsylvania / Matthew M. Franckiewicz
• Public sector interest arbitration in Wisconsin : winner takes all / Edward B. Krinsky
• The interest arbitration voluntary settlement success story in the Iowa public sector and its applicability to the Employee Free Choice Act / Ronald Hoh
• Impact of delay in determining back pay / Richard Mittenthal
• Awarding damages in lieu of reinstatement : valuing the benefit of the collective agreement and other factors / Emily Burke
• Grievance mediation : if it's so great, why isn't everyone doing it? / Stephen B. Goldberg
• The development and use of mediation/arbitration in Ontario / Kevin Whitaker
• Mediation of complex grievances / Mei L. Bickner
• Grievance mediation : a good tool, not a panacea / Marilyn A. Pearson
• Grievance mediation : why some use it and others don't / James Hayes
• Due process in railway hearings and appeals / John B. LaRocco
• Due process in the railroad industry / John Moreau
• Airlines : the industry's future : it's up in the air / moderator, Steven M. Bierig ; panelists, Cathy McCann, Brian Sweep, Peter Rutter, Maria I. Torre
• Paid time off for religious holidays in Canada : exploring the limits of the duty to accommodate / Steven Barrett
• The accommodation of disability that is a contributing cause in the commission of disciplinary misconduct in Canadian arbitration law / Brian Etherington
• Public employee speech, protected? / Sherwood Malamud
• Individual rights v. collective interests : can a public employer and a union collectively bargain a valid waiver of public employees' constitutional rights? / James Q. Brennwald
• Constitutional implications of disciplining public employee off-duty conduct and the role of the Internet / Paul R. Klenck
• Help wanted : detecting the rationale in significant contract interpretation disputes / Richard Mittenthal
• Help wanted : detecting the rationale in significant contract interpretation disputes / Arthur B. Smith, Jr.
• Ethical issues and due process / moderator, Robert W. Landau ; panelists, Marica L. Greenbaum, James C. Oakley, Luella E. Nelson
• Mediation guidelines based on a bargaining strength model of negotiations / Alvin Goldman and Jacques Rojot
• Employee conduct after imposition of discharge but before the arbitration hearing : facts in search of a theory / Marvin Hill, Jr.
• The decision-making of labor arbitrators in discipline and discharge cases where a grievant offers and apology : a policy-capturing study / Michele M. Hoyman, Lamont Stallworth, and David Kershaw
• The role of the arbitrator, if any, prior to the hearing / moderator, Sharon Henderson Ellis ; arbitrators, Jane H. Devlin and Elliott H. Goldstein ; union advocate, W. Daniel Boone ; management advocate, John M. Phelan
• Fireside chat with J.F.W. (Ted) Weatherill / interviewed by John Kagel.

The chapters of this book explore, from different disciplinary perspectives, the relationship between transitional justice, distributive justice, and economic efficiency in the settlement of internal armed conflicts. They specifically discuss the role of land reform as an instrument of these goals, and examine how the balance between different perspectives has been attempted (or not) in selected cases of internal armed conflicts, and how it should be attempted in principle. Although most chapters closely examine the Colombian case, some provide a comparative perspective that includes countries in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe, while others examine some of the more general, theoretical issues involved.

• A memorandum to the President and Congress
• 1983 : a temporary rescue
• The warning bell tolls...and tolls
• Decision spectrum no.
• 1: slowing benefit growth versus raising taxes
• Decision spectrum no. 2 : pay-as-you-go versus advance funding
• Decision spectrum no. 3 : how much should social security redistribute income?
• Decision spectrum no.
• 4: work incentives
• Decision spectrum no. 5 : is there a role for personal accounts?
• Putting it all together : balancing value judgments in a comprehensive plan
• President Bush's reform initiative : a chronology
• The certainty and severity of the social security shortfall
• President Bush's reform initiative : the policy controversies
• Seizing the common ground
• We must do better.

Drawing on more than fifteen years of work on Social Security policy, first in the U.S. Senate and later in the White House, Chuck Blahous argues that our national Social Security debate is more polarized than it needs to be, even given the depth of legitimate differences over the program's appropriate future direction. Unless we identify and understand our respective initial assumptions, he explains, we will not be able to fathom the conflicting policy initiatives that they drive. In Social Security: The Unfinished Work he presents some often misunderstood, basic factual background about Social Security. He discusses how it affects program participants and explains the true demographic, economic, and political factors that threaten its future efficacy. Beginning with a review of the events of 1983, focusing on the substance, intent, and scorekeeping of that year's Social Security reforms, Blahous explains what happened then, why, and how it led to sharply divergent views of program finances during the Bush administration's reform initiative and on through today. He dissects competing positions in the current debate and concludes that, unless and until there is broader understanding of how these analytic differences drive opposing policy conclusions, we will continue to talk past and over each other, with little room for negotiation and compromise.
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