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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumphant celebrations of the West, a new chapter of history has opened featuring the rising powers of Asia, led by China. Though embracing free markets, China has looked to its Confucian traditions instead of liberal democracy as the best route to good governance.Will China manage to achieve high growth and a harmonious society through a strong state and long‐range planning that puts messy Western democracy and its short‐term mindset to shame? Or, in the end, will the weak rule of law and absence of political accountability in a one‐party state undermine its promise?Francis Fukuyama and Kishore Mahbubani, the Singaporean thinker who has become the apostle of non‐Western modernity, debate these issues.In this section we also republish a collective memoir by George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand, recalling their fears and hopes two decades ago as they brought the Cold War to an end.

Going through a protracted period of transition since the end of the Cold War, the world order in the making is neither what was nor what it is yet to become. It is in "the middle of the future."To get our bearings in this uncertain transition, we explore the two grand post‐Cold War narratives—"The End of History" as posited by Francis Fukuyama and "The Clash of Civilizations" posited by the late Samuel Huntington. Mikhail Gorbachev looks back at his policies that brought the old order to collapse. The British philosopher John Gray critiques the supposed "universality" of liberalism and, with Homi Bhabha, sees a world of hybrid identities and localized cultures. The Singaporean theorist Kishore Mahbubani peels away the "veneer" of Western dominance. Amartya Sen, the economist and Nobel laureate, assesses whether democratic India or autocratic China is better at building "human capacity" in their societies.

Zur ZDF-Serie von Oktober 2002 bis Februar 2003 Sonntags nach dem heute-journal. Hat Marlene Dietrich im Auftrag des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes spioniert? Wurde Ché Guevara von einem Mann aus den eigenen Reihen verraten? Unzählige Geheimnisse ranken sich um Ereignisse und Personen der Zeitgeschichte. Knopp enthüllt die Wahrheit hinter den Mythen und stellt dabei Menschen und Emotionen in den Mittelpunkt. (Verlagstext)

This book provides a concise history of economic thought for readers of all ages. While some basic economics knowledge would be helpful, it is not required. The book sets out to achieve three aims: to be interesting, entertaining, and thought-provoking. While the authors may appear opinionated in certain instances, this is intentionally done in order to alert readers to form their own views. History of ideas does not make the us smarter nor richer, but it can reduce our ignorance and the "banality of evil", a term Hannah Arendt referred to people who lack self-reflection, "He did his duty...; he not only obeyed orders, he also obeyed the law."

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- To Readers -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Part I Fun and Useful -- 1 Welcome! -- 2 Dead Men's Wrong Ideas? -- Part II Pioneers and Contenders -- 3 Wealth and Power: Mercantilism -- 4 The Physiocrats and Law of Nature -- Part III Classical School -- 5 Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of the Market Mechanism -- 6 Thomas Malthus and Effectual Demand -- 7 David Ricardo and Differential Rent -- 8 John Stuart Mill and the Peak Time of the Classic School -- Part IV The Rise of Socialism -- 9 Antagonists to the Classic School -- 10 Karl Marx and the Collapse of Capitalism -- Part V Marginal Analysis -- 11 The Marginal School in France -- 12 The Marginal School in Germany, Austria, and the U.K. -- 13 Application and Extension of the Marginal School -- 14 Alfred Marshall and the Foundation of the Neoclassical School -- 15 Theories of Imperfect Competition -- Part VI Contemporary Trends -- 16 The Boom of Mathematical Economics -- 17 The Institutional School -- 18 Keynes and Keynesian Economics -- 19 Early Austrian School -- 20 The Rise of the Chicago School -- Epilogue -- Economic Ideas in Retrospect -- Further Readings -- Popular -- Textbooks -- Journals -- Websites.

1/20/1953: President Eisenhower takes the inaugural oath on January 20. He would make five appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Justices John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, and Potter Stewart.

12/20/1976: Craig v. Boren decided.

7/20/1990: Justice William Brennan resigns.

4/20/2010: United States v. Stevens decided.