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"Missile Guidance, Second Edition provides a timely survey of missile control and guidance theory, based on extensive work the author has done using the Lyapunov approach. This new edition also presents the Lyapunov-Bellman approach for choosing optimal parameters of the guidance laws, and direct and inverse optimal problems are considered. This material is important for readers working in the area of optimization and optimal theory. This edition also contains updated coverage of guidance and control system components, since the efficiency of guidance laws depends on their realization. The text concludes with information on the new generation of intercept systems now in development."--Provided by publisher

"Missile Guidance, Second Edition provides a timely survey of missile control and guidance theory, based on extensive work the author has done using the Lyapunov approach. This new edition also presents the Lyapunov-Bellman approach for choosing optimal parameters of the guidance laws, and direct and inverse optimal problems are considered. This material is important for readers working in the area of optimization and optimal theory. This edition also contains updated coverage of guidance and control system components, since the efficiency of guidance laws depends on their realization. The text concludes with information on the new generation of intercept systems now in development."--Provided by publisher.

US education is in crisis. This history and analysis of the education system is an essential primer for parents, teachers, and school administrators, as well as parent?teacher organizations, education majors, education administration majors, the media, politicians, and everyone who wants to see American schools do a better job

Front Cover -- APPLIED MACROECONOMICS FOR PUBLIC POLICY -- APPLIED MACROECONOMICS FOR PUBLIC POLICY -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- PREFACE -- One - Problems and Tools of Applied Macroeconomics -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 BASIC GOALS AND PARAMETERS OF MACROECONOMIC SYSTEMS -- 1.3 MACROECONOMIC TIME SERIES -- 1.4 THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF STIMULUS AND AUSTERITY POLICIES -- 1.5 FISCAL MULTIPLIERS -- 1.6 SPECIFICS OF MACROECONOMIC MODELS -- 1.7 THE DEBT TO GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT RATIO AS A COMPROMISED EFFICIENCY CRITERION -- REFERENCES -- Two - Fiscal Stimulus Policy -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 THE DEBT TO GDP RATIO DYNAMICS FOR FISCAL EXPENDITURE STIMULUS -- 2.3 THE DEBT TO GDP RATIO DYNAMICS FOR FISCAL STIMULUS POLICY -- 2.4 DISCRETE DEBT TO GDP RATIO DYNAMICS MODELS FOR FISCAL STIMULUS POLICY -- 2.5 GENERALIZED DEBT TO GDP RATIO DYNAMICS MODEL -- 2.6 THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIGH NATIONAL DEBT -- REFERENCES -- Three - How Dangerous Is National Debt -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 OPTIMAL APPROACH TO THE DEBT REDUCTION PROBLEM -- 3.3 SPECIFICS OF THE DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION MODEL -- 3.4 OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURE AND DEBT ESTIMATES -- REFERENCES -- Four - Realization of Established Goals -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 ANALYSIS OF PROPOSALS FOCUSED ON IMPROVING THE ECONOMY -- 4.3 POLITICS AND ECONOMY: PROBLEMS ECONOMISTS EVADE -- 4.4 DECISION-MAKING DURING PERIODS OF ECONOMIC DECLINE -- 4.5 HOW TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY -- 4.5.1 Entitlement Programs -- 4.5.2 Trade Deficit -- 4.5.3 The Size of Government -- 4.5.4 Other Useful Measures -- 4.5.5 Evaluating the 10-Year Balanced Budget Proposal -- 4.6 EXTENDING MACROECONOMIC TOOLS -- REFERENCES -- Five - Debt-Related Models Software -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 SOFTWARE FOR THE DEBT TO GDP RATIO MODELS -- 5.3 SOFTWARE FOR OPTIMAL PROBLEMS -- REFERENCES -- AFTERWORD -- A -- A1 PARAMETERS OF THE COBB-DOUGLAS FUNCTION.

The paper addresses a topical issue – how expansionary fiscal policy affects the debt to GDP ratio. It examines whether the projected future economic growth (stimulated by government spending) is sustained with the resulting national debt. It is discussedif government investment in infrastructure is an effective approach to boost the economy in times of economic downturn. The authors develop the debt to GDP ratio dynamics model and perform a series of simulations (based on US data) to forecast the evolution of the debt to GDP ratio over a 10-year horizon. It is shown that for the data characterizing the current state of the U.S. economy the government investment in infrastructure cannot decrease the debt to GDP ratio.

System approach to macrosociology -- Lessons of history -- Societal dynamics and ideology -- Pyramidal societal structures -- Democratic societal structures -- Globalization and politics -- Human nature and politics -- Urgent social problems -- Difficulties to keep being be the world's superpower.