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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Chapter One: Pavlova's Candle in the Wind -- Chapter Two: The Impresario and the Swan -- Chapter Three: The Last Ball and the Day of the Soviets -- Chapter Four: Their Greatest Days: 1910-1920 -- Chapter Five: 'Années Folles', "The Crazy Years" -- Chapter Six: The Devil -- Chapter Seven: Stalin's "Special" Weapons Are Born -- Chapter Eight: Strange Deaths at Home and Abroad -- Chapter Nine: Stalin, Music, and Ballet -- Chapter Ten: Into the Storm -- Chapter Eleven: Death of the Ballet Russes -- Chapter Twelve: Swan Song -- Chapter Thirteen: Stalin's Legacy -- Chapter Fourteen: The Murder of a Saint -- Chapter Fifteen: The Missing Man, Prisoner Number Seven-1947 -- Chapter Sixteen: The Poet-"A Former Person" -- Chapter Seventeen: Poison Makers, Stalin's Himmler, and Yasha's Gang -- Chapter Eighteen: Stalin's Last Day -- Chapter Nineteen: Stalin's Shadows -- Chapter Twenty: North Korea's Poison Labs -- Chapter Twenty-One: Big Daddy XI and the Wuhan Virus -- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Last Dance -- Appendix I: The Poisoning of Anna Pavlova -- Appendix II: Sample Suspicious Russian Poisonings and Deaths -- Appendix III: Lab One Timeline -- Appendix IV: Alleged People's Republic of China Biological Warfare Research Organizations -- Appendix V: U.S. State Department Report Fact Sheet -- Appendix VI: Anna Pavlova in Houston and India -- About the Authors -- Notes -- Copyright.

"International macro-finance is a new area of open economy macroeconomics that brings portfolio choice and asset pricing considerations into models of international macroeconomics. The importance of these considerations-typically relegated to Finance and largely overlooked in traditional macroeconomics-for the international macroeconomy have been underscored by a series of recent financial crises and by unprecedented global imbalances. In this paper, we survey recent developments in this area, primarily on the theoretical front. We also suggest several promising directions for future research"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Überwiegend am Privatleben orientierte Biografie Gagarins als Familienvater, Parlamentsabgeordneter, Offizier, Sportler sowie ein Bericht über seinen 1. Raumflug und die bis heute nicht endgültig geklärten Umstände seines Todes bei einem Übungsflug. (Rolf Becker-Friedrich)

The last decades have witnessed major progress in both monetary policy theory and practice, with broad academic consensus on the desirability of monetary policy rules and ongoing research on their exact specification. Typically, the analysis is carried out in a New Keynesian framework with nominal rigidities and constant capital stock. The latter represents a constraint that this study seeks to overcome by introducing a model with investment and capital adjustment costs. The work assesses different interest-rate rule specifications with respect to the target variables included, based on two criteria: determinacy of rational-expectations equilibrium and convergence to steady state after a shock. The study concludes that rules with both an inflation and an output gap target ensure a unique rational-expectations equilibrium and a less distressful adjustment of the economy after the occurrence of shocks.