عنوان

Quality of life, balance of power and nuclear weapons :

شابک

0875865941

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087586595X

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0875865968

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1281398438

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9780875865942

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9780875865959

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9780875865966

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9781281398437

شماره

b707725

عنوان اصلي

Quality of life, balance of power and nuclear weapons :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a statistical yearbook for statesmen and citizens, 2008 /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Alexander V. Avakov.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Algora Pub.,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2008.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (1 volume)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

This statistical annual presents fundamental data in four sections: (1) Quality of Life, (2) Balance of Power, (3) Developed Market Economies since 1960, and (4) Economic History since 1500. It contains data that is generally not available elsewhere. Sections 1 and 2 give statistics for 230 countries. The World Bank and Encyclopedia Britannica provide statistical data for a maximum of about 160 countries. The actual number of countries in World Bank statistical tables is even smaller. The CIA World Factbook gives data for about 230 countries but that data is limited in scope and is imprecise. Other statistical publications are even less satisfactory. The author has managed to increase the number of countries tallied by writing proprietary software utilizing statistical regressions, selecting data which, first of all, is important and, second, which allows for high correlation coefficients for these regressions. Section 2 includes data about nuclear delivery systems and the number of nuclear warheads of all nuclear powers. This is based on information from reputable sources. Among others, it includes estimates of the Israeli nuclear arsenal which usually do not appear in the press. Official estimates of Russian military expenditures distributed by US and British intelligence communities are methodologically flawed. Such estimates claim to give a picture of military expenditures of the countries of the world at market exchange rates; at the same time, they apparently cite Russian military expense figures at purchasing power parities, thus inflating these numbers in comparison to those of other countries. Such deceptive practices of the Anglo-American intelligence services are counter-balanced by presenting two different tables, showing military expenditures estimates both at market exchange rates and by purchasing power parities. Section 3 gives data on the topic of health care. It seems that public health expenditures as a share of total health expenditures has a stronger correlation with the comparative level (and the rates of improvement) of the main health care indicators than the absolute level (measured as a percent of GDP) of total health expenditures. The data demonstrates that the US has the lowest public health expenditure of developed market economies and is increasingly lagging behind other countries by main health care indicators. The proposed introduction of national health insurance in the US would probably mean some sort of tax increase. The author therefore also seeks to shed light on modern ideological debates about the share of taxation in GDP and its influence on rates of growth. Surprisingly enough, the empirical data for the developed market economies do not seem to support the popular idea that low taxes are strongly correlated with higher rates of growth; depending on how the data are analyzed, the appropriate correlations are either low or even the reverse of what is commonly believed. Section 4 primarily uses data which has become available through the groundbreaking works of Angus Maddison. Using interpolation techniques explained in that section to slightly adjust Maddison's data, the author received numbers for population, GDP per capita, and total GDP for 48 countries for the period since year 1500, figures which seem to be credible and which are not readily available elsewhere. Members of the US Congress and others who care about the foundations of power politics in the nuclear age will find facts that speak for themselves in this novel yearbook.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

MIL

شماره انبار

139843

عنوان

Quality of life, balance of power and nuclear weapons.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0875865941

موضوع مستند نشده

Armed Forces-- Appropriations and expenditures, Statistics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Economic indicators.

موضوع مستند نشده

Health status indicators.

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Nuclear weapons, Statistics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Quality of life, Statistics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Social indicators.

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Armed Forces-- Appropriations and expenditures.

موضوع مستند نشده

Armed Forces-- Appropriations and expenditures.

موضوع مستند نشده

Economic indicators.

موضوع مستند نشده

Economic indicators.

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Health status indicators.

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Health status indicators.

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Nuclear weapons.

موضوع مستند نشده

Nuclear weapons.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.

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Quality of life.

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Quality of life.

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Social indicators.

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Social indicators.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

موضوع مستند نشده

JBKC

موضوع مستند نشده

POL-- 038000

موضوع مستند نشده

SOC-- 002010

موضوع مستند نشده

SOC-- 022000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Avakov, Aleksandr V., (Aleksandr Vladimirovich),1954-

تاريخ عمليات

20201207224913.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y