Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system, in an office that was devoted to analysis of arms control and defense matters in the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and later in an interdepartmental working group. Vitaly Katayev was a skilled designer and an acute observer. His recollections in this book, along with documents he deposited at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, offer an extraordinary window into Soviet decisions and calculations. This monograph shows how Soviet leaders were often hobbled by a poor understanding of what was happening in the United States, but it also demonstrates that Americans, too, had a weak grasp of what was happening in Moscow, before and after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. The misunderstandings on both sides were a symptom of the deepest chasm of the Cold War and A Memoir of the Missile Age provides a valuable key with which to open the Soviet black box.
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• Preface / Kenneth E. Scott, George P. Shultz, John B. Taylor
• Make failure tolerable / George P. Shultz
• Financial reforms to end government bailouts as we know them / Paul Volcker
• Fifty years in the business : from Wall Street to the Treasury and beyond / Nicholas F. Brady
• Defining systemic risk operationally / John B. Taylor
• Lessons learned from the Lehman bankruptcy / Kimberly Anne Summe
• A contractual approach to restructuring financial institutions / Darrell Duffie
• Wind-down plans as an alternative to bailouts: the cross-border challenges / Richard J. Herring
• Wind-down plans, incomplete contracting, and renegotiation risk : lessons from Tiger Woods / Joseph A. Grundfest
• Expanding FDIC-style resolution authority / William F. Kroener III
• The Kansas City plan / Thomas M. Hoenig, Charles S. Morris, and Kenneth Spong
• Chapter 11F : a proposal for the use of bankruptcy to resolve financial institutions / Thomas H. Jackson
• Evaluating failure resolution plans / Kenneth E. Scott
• A summary of the commentary / Johannes Stroebel
• A conversation about key conclusions / George P. Schultz and John B. Taylor
• Appendix : The financial crisis : causes and lessons / Kenneth E. Scott.

This book examines the dangers of continuing government bailouts and offers alternative strategies designed to produce growth based on the vigor of the private sector with inflation under control. The expert authors show that it is indeed possible to explain the causes of the crisis in understandable terms and clarify why resolving the bailout problem is essential to preventing future crises.
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• Toward strategic foreign assistance
• Economic development
• Empowering women
• Citizens as partners in the search for peace
• Roles of civil society during and after conflicts
• Strategies for reform
• Appendix A: Outline of strategic country plan for Pakistan.

• China divides into two rival regimes
• Toward détente
• Détente and its collapse
• The challenge of Taiwan independence
• Economic slow-down and growing integration with mainland China
• The watershed elections of 2004 and aftermath
• Conclusion: divided China's continuing struggle.

• Justice, luck, liberty / Anthony de Jasay
• The exercise of liberty and the moral psychology of justice / Jonathan Jacobs
• Liberty, gender, and the family / Jennifer McKitrick
• Libertarian justice : a natural rights approach / Tibor R. Machan.

• Anticompetitive behavior by SOES : incentives and capabilities / David E.M. Sappington, J. Gregory Sidak
• Case studies of anticompetitve behavior / R. Richard Geddes
• Applying the Microsoft decision to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Peter J. Wallison
• Anticompetitive behavior in postal services / R. Richard Geddes.

• Anticompetitive behavior by SOES : incentives and capabilities / David E.M. Sappington, J. Gregory Sidak
• Case studies of anticompetitve behavior / R. Richard Geddes
• Applying the Microsoft decision to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Peter J. Wallison
• Anticompetitive behavior in postal services / R. Richard Geddes.

• Introduction : property rights and sustainable development / Terry L. Anderson
• The skeptical environmentalist / Bjørn Lomborg
• Economic growth, technological change, and human well-being / Indur M. Goklany
• Income and the race to the top / Bruce Yandle, Maya Vijayaraghavan, Madhusudan Bhattarai
• Globalization, free trade, and environmental quality / B. Delworth Gardner
• Population growth, economic freedom, and the rule of law / Seth W. Norton
• The relation between net carbon emissions and income / Robert E. McCormick.

School Figures presents statistics, along with historical trends and cross-sectional comparisons, to provide a clear, factual picture of today's K-12 education landscape, including information on school demographics, cost and finance, testing and achievement, public school reform, and other key areas.
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With a reporter's keen eye for detail, award-winning journalist Zelnick conveys every emotion of the key players in this battle, presenting a rich, colorful tale that reads more like a fictional political thriller than the bizarre real-life drama it was-from election night through the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision.
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