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Norman Angell and Alfred Thayer Mahan were two of the leading thinkers on pre–World War I "interdependence," offering competing lessons on the changes in technology, economics, and security. At different times during the twentieth century, each one's ideas seemed to best explain global politics and strategy. This essay reconsiders their ideas in the current era of globalization and global threats.

La idea de construir una democracia en Irak para transformar el Oriente Medio es notable. Algunos analistas creen que la idea es absurda y predestinada al fracaso. Otros, a pesar de las reservaciones que tengan, ofrecen recetas para lo que Irak, los Estados Unidos y la comunidad internacional tienen que hacer para conseguir cualquiera oportunidad para tener éxito en Irak. (Ningún esfuerzo principal, que haya descubierto el autor, presenta ninguna estrategia detallada para la democratización entera de la región.) Este trabajo pretende analizar varios de los planes propuestos, que se basan en esfuerzos anteriores a la democratización coactiva – pos-Segunda Guerra Mundial, Bosnia, Haití, Kosovo, etc. Por fin, la investigación del autor sobre Alemania, Japón y, únicamente, la Rusia de los 1990, se considera. Más allá de la variedad de tareas militares, políticas y económicas ("factors") propuestas en la mayoría de los planes, el autor propone que ciertas fundaciones y desarrollos ("dynamics") más amplios son necesarios. Estos incluyen, entre otras cosas: líderes con talento cometidos en la patria y entre los poderes internacionales y, también de ambos lados, los beneficios de "aprender." El autor busca discurso sobre cuales elementos de estos planes aplican al Irak actual. ; Mesa 1: El futuro de Irak: después de la guerra. ; Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales (IRI)

Main description: The authors, leading researchers in the fields of mathematical economics and methodology, present the first comprehensive synthesis of literature on qualitative and other nonparametric techniques, which are important elements of comparative statics and stability analysis in economic theory. The topics covered show how to assess the comparative statics and stability of economic models without a precise quantitative knowledge of all model components. Applications of the analysis range from determining refutable hypotheses from theory to auditing the solutions of large, computer-based systems.This book discusses in depth the methodology involved in a nonparametric analysis of many neoclassical economic models. Constituting a virtually self-contained manual on such analysis, it provides detailed derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of restrictive comparative statics and stability results for a range of specified models. Further, algorithms for applying certain of these conditions are given, with examples, as well as the underlying mathematical approach taken.A large body of research is unified covering issues that have been dealt with piecemeal in scattered but important journal articles by the authors and others. The book will prove invaluable to mathematical economists, mathematicians specializing in matrix or graph theory, applied economists working with large-scale economic models, and advanced students of economics.Originally published in 1999.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

ABSTRACTWe put a new set of shoes on that old workhorse, the competitive talent market (CTM) model in sports economics. There exist unique rational expectations equilibria for both national football league (NFL‐type leagues) and major league baseball (MLB‐type leagues) under the CTM model. A cursory statistical test fails to reject the empirical implications for the NFL‐type league. The model also suggests empirical tests of whether or not talent demand (marginal revenues from talent), including induced effects, actually slopes down. But like all models, the competitive talent model should be applied in its context. It describes highly cooperative North American sports leagues that have a wealth of common information. But it may not do the same for other leagues if they lack this common information.

We put a new set of shoes on that old workhorse, the competitive talent market (CTM) model in sports economics. There exist unique rational expectations equilibria for both national football league (NFL-type leagues) and major league baseball (MLB-type leagues) under the CTM model. A cursory statistical test fails to reject the empirical implications for the NFL-type league. The model also suggests empirical tests of whether or not talent demand (marginal revenues from talent), including induced effects, actually slopes down. But like all models, the competitive talent model should be applied in its context. It describes highly cooperative North American sports leagues that have a wealth of common information. But it may not do the same for other leagues if they lack this common information.