"Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership attempts to explore the core psychodynamics that appear to characterize Vladimir Putin's presidency. Its contributors examine the nature of the leader-follower relationship, the costs of malignant leadership, and the larger historical context in which Putin's presidency is unfolding. The sobering threat of nuclear war is considered. Finally, the viability and ethics of distance assessment are discussed. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to readers seeking to understand the complex dynamics of populist leadership"--
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review monetary policy options in countries assumed to be suffering from two common economic problems: deficient private demand and high and rising public debt.Design/methodology/approachThe analytical approach assumes that relevant authorities have decided that new money creation is necessary to address their economic problems. The paper asks the question: how should this new money creation best be deployed to create the required economic stimulus in the context of rising public debt?FindingsThe first finding is that the latest rounds of "quantitative easing" in the USA (QE2) and Japan are likely to be inefficient, largely ineffective and have adverse side‐effects, and that in periphery countries the risk of debt default is being increased by current defensive policy settings. The second finding is that the policy of financing budget deficits by printing new money is likely to be more effective (than "quantitative easing" and current Eurozone policy) in raising demand, output and employment without adding unnecessarily to already high levels of public debt.Practical implicationsThere are very substantial practical policy implications, involving a potential change of monetary policy strategies for two of the world's largest economies and for Eurozone periphery countries. Post‐earthquake reconstruction in Japan could be financed in the manner recommended in this paper.Originality/valueThe originality/value lies in demonstrating that current monetary policy orthodoxy is misplaced, and that an alternative policy strategy has been overlooked and is likely to be more effective.
Introduction: Rural America : our field of dreams -- Transition : the depopulation of rural America -- Prospects for a rural revival -- Kansas : the essence of rural America -- Rural communities at risk -- "Welcome home" and the "free land" movement -- Plainville and Rooks County : high plains, high style -- Atwood and Rawlins County : surviving in the great American desert -- Tipton : the town that refused to die -- Ottawa County : the challenges of becoming a rural bedroom community -- "The amazing 100 miles" : tourism in rural America -- Sedan : community building from the top down -- Selling rural America : Dave Rose and eBay -- The federal government's role -- Back to the future : sustainable agriculture and its effect on rural America -- Ethanol and alternative energy : rural America's saviors? -- Reinventing rural America : the buffalo commons and other regional metaphors
