Author: Jerry S. Cohen
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category : Big business
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
america, inc. who owns and operates the united states
Author: Jerry S. Cohen
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category : Big business
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category : Big business
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
National Forest Guide
Author: Len Hilts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
America Inc.?
Author: Linda Weiss
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471125
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy. In America Inc.? she examines how that complex emerged and how it has evolved in response to changing geopolitical threats and domestic political constraints, from the Cold War period to the post-9/11 era. Weiss focuses on state-funded venture capital funds, new forms of technology procurement by defense and security-related agencies, and innovation in robotics, nanotechnology, and renewable energy since the 1980s. Weiss argues that the national security state has been the crucible for breakthrough innovations, a catalyst for entrepreneurship and the formation of new firms, and a collaborative network coordinator for private-sector initiatives. Her book appraises persistent myths about the military-commercial relationship at the core of the National Security State. Weiss also discusses the implications for understanding U.S. capitalism, the American state, and the future of American primacy as financialized corporations curtail investment in manufacturing and innovation.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471125
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy. In America Inc.? she examines how that complex emerged and how it has evolved in response to changing geopolitical threats and domestic political constraints, from the Cold War period to the post-9/11 era. Weiss focuses on state-funded venture capital funds, new forms of technology procurement by defense and security-related agencies, and innovation in robotics, nanotechnology, and renewable energy since the 1980s. Weiss argues that the national security state has been the crucible for breakthrough innovations, a catalyst for entrepreneurship and the formation of new firms, and a collaborative network coordinator for private-sector initiatives. Her book appraises persistent myths about the military-commercial relationship at the core of the National Security State. Weiss also discusses the implications for understanding U.S. capitalism, the American state, and the future of American primacy as financialized corporations curtail investment in manufacturing and innovation.
America, Inc
Author: Morton Mintz
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440504320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440504320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Beneath the United States
Author: Lars Schoultz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256042
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were "lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs." In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was "as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes." Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a "civilizing mission"--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was "to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace," while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that "the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children." Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256042
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were "lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs." In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was "as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes." Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a "civilizing mission"--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was "to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace," while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that "the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children." Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.
The United States of America, Complainant, V. the Union Pacific Railroad Company
Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers 2006: The Only Complete Guide to the Hottest, Fastest-Growing Mid-Sized Employers
Author: Plunkett Research Ltd
Publisher: Plunkett Research, Ltd.
ISBN: 1593920474
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
This new volume contains profiles of nearly 500 of the best, rapidly-growing mid-size employers of 100 to 2,500 employees. These are highly-successful companies, located nationwide, that are of vital importance to job-seekers of all types.
Publisher: Plunkett Research, Ltd.
ISBN: 1593920474
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
This new volume contains profiles of nearly 500 of the best, rapidly-growing mid-size employers of 100 to 2,500 employees. These are highly-successful companies, located nationwide, that are of vital importance to job-seekers of all types.
Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States
Author: United States. Court of Claims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the ... with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court
Author: United States. Court of Claims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
United States of America: A State-By-State Guide
Author: M. Miller
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417757732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Presents information about the people, places, birds, insects, flowers, and endangered species associated with each of the fifty states and the nation's capital.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417757732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Presents information about the people, places, birds, insects, flowers, and endangered species associated with each of the fifty states and the nation's capital.