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Textual precis from scholarly journals and famous essays.
- Incorporating considerations of health impacts into land use development approval processes
Development of a health background study framework
Original Article By: Brent W. Moloughney and Gayle E. Bursey and Jana Neumann
Canadian journal of Public Health, supplement 1 (2015) eS33
- Does Affordable Housing Detrimentally Affect Property Values?
A Review of the Literature
Original Article By: Mai Thi Nguyen
Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 20, No. 1 (August 2005)
Affordable housing often has bad connotations, it is often argued that it reduces property values however this is not necessarily true. - Paging Inspector Sands:
The Costs of Public Information
Original Article By: Sacha Kapoor and Arvind Magesan
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2014, 6(1): 92-113
This paper studies the effects of providing more public information in the form of pedestrian countdown signals (which also alert drivers to the time remaining on a green light) on the behaviour and safety of all road users. - Suburban Sprawl
Exposing Hidden Costs, Identifying Innovations
Original Article By: David Thompson
Sustainable Prosperity; Sustainable communities Oct. 2013
This report deals with the problems of suburban sprawl and how to solve their root cause and primary driver: prices - Incorporating considerations of health impacts into land use development approval processes:
Development of a health background study framework
Original Article By: Brent W. Moloughney and Gayle E. Bursey and Jana Neumann
Canadian Journal of Public Health null
null - Casinos, Crime, And Community Costs
Original Article By: Earl L. Grinols and David B. Mustard
The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol 88 No 1 (Feb., 2006)
Casinos may decrease crime in the first two years after their opening but they will always increase crime rates in all major categories within five years after opening. - The Terrorism Delusion
America's Overwrought Response to September 11
Original Article By: John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart
International Security Summer 2012 vol 37 no 1
al-Qaida got lucky, then terrorism experts when blind and finally politicians fanned the anxiety - China's Century?
Why America's Edge Will Endure
Original Article By: Michael Beckley
International Security Winter 2011/12 vol 36 no 3
America is not in decline relative to China; China is failing to catch up in the most important indicators - Who Suffers During Recessions?
Original Article By: Hilary Hoynes and Douglas L. Miller and Jessamyn Schaller
The Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 2012) vol 26 no 3
The usual suspects, men, ethnic minorities, the youth and low educated workers suffer most during economic downturns. - Status Seekers:
Chinese and Russian Responses to U.S. Primacy
Original Article By: Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko
International Security Spring 2010 vol 34 no 4
When a nation's image is less than desired relative to another, it may respond in one of three ways: accommodatingly, competitively or creatively. - Long Time Going:
Religion and the Duration of Crusading
Original Article By: Michael C. Horowitz
International Security Fall 2009 vol 34 no 2
With globalization, which reduces the individual's attachment to a geographical area, an increase in the role of religion relative to the nation state in forming identities may increase the roll of religion in warfare. - Bad Debts:
Assessing China's Financial Influence in Great Power Politics
Original Article By: Daniel W. Drezner
International Security Fall 2009 vol 34 no 2
Financial power over a powerful debtor state is very difficult to convert into political power; a great power can sometimes convert its financial power into political power over a small power. - China's Naval Nationalism:
Sources, Prospects, and the U.S. Response
Original Article By: Robert S. Ross
International Security Fall 2009 vol 34 no 2
It is nationalism not security that is fueling China's Navy, China is not and will never be in a position to devote enough resources to become a maritime power and China's naval nationalism will likely be interpenetrated as a challenge by the U.S. - A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas
Original Article By: Robert A. Mundell
The American Economic Review (Sept., 1961) vol 51, no 4
What is the appropriate domain of a currency area? - An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Original Article By: Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. - The Social Market Roots of Democratic Peace
Original Article By: Michael Mousseau
International Security Spring 2009 vol 33 no 4
Contract-intensive economic development explains the democratic peace better than democracy alone. - The Pursuit of The Ideal
Original Article By: Isaiah Berlin
The Proper Study of Mankind An Anthology of Essays
Pluralism holds that different values can be understood and one can benefit from the attempt to understand them. - Nationalism:
Past Neglect and Present Power
Original Article By: Isaiah Berlin
The Proper Study of Mankind An Anthology of Essays
Why did people not see the possible paths of nationalism. - Money, Prices, and Capital:
An Austrian Approach to Macroeconomics
Original Article By: William N. Butos
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Winter 2006 vol 9 no 4
The author elucidates five problems he sees commonly in Keynesian economic textbooks. - Explaining Malinvestment and Overinvestment
Original Article By: Larry J. Sechrest
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Winter 2006 vol 9 no 4
Austrian Business Cycle Theory explains the business cycle by calling attention to the bad effects on business decisions of a central bank's monetary policy. - A Geriatric Peace?
The Future of U.S. Power in a World of Aging Populations
Original Article By: Mark L. Hass
International Security Summer 2008 vol 32 no 1
All major countries are getting older but America is in the best position. - The Counter-Enlightenment
Original Article By: Isaiah Berlin
The Proper Study of Mankind An Anthology of Essays
There were ideas that morality, institutions and laws were based on fluctuating human customs and practice. - Illicit Activity and Proliferation:
North Korean Smuggling Networks
Original Article By: Sheena Chestnut
International Security Summer 2007 vol 32 no 1
There has been a history of overlooking the efforts of state sponsored illicit smuggling networks and there has been an expansion of criminal gangs into international smuggling. - The Originality of Machiavelli
Original Article By: Isaiah Berlin
The Proper Study of Mankind An Anthology of Essays
Machiavelli is original because he wreaked enduring harm on a foundational supposition of a whole civilization. - What Terrorists Really Want:
Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy
Original Article By: Max Abrahms
International Security Fall 2008 vol 32 no 4
Terrorists join terrorist groups for social solidarity, not for their political return. - How American Treaty Behavior Threatens National Security
Original Article By: Antonia Chayes
International Security Fall 2008 vol 33 no 1
America has been inconsistent and undependable in its formal international relations. - Closing Time:
Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz
Original Article By: Caitlin Talmadge
International Security Fall 2008 vol 33 no 1
By preventing oil transport through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran could keep one quarter of the world's oil production from reaching the market. A full closure or even the threat of conflict would cause a massive price and supply shock. - Assessing the Dangers of Illicit Networks:
Why al-Qaida May Be Less Dangerous Than Many Think
Original Article By: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Calvert Jones
International Security Fall 2008 vol 33 no 2
The prevailing pessimism about the ability of states to combat illicit networks is premature. - Making the World Safe for Partial Democracy?
Questioning the Premises of Democracy Promotion
Original Article By: Arthur A. Goldsmith
International Security Fall 2008 vol 33 no 2
Not every advance in democracy generates a safer and better world and data from historical attempts to promote democracy are mixed at best. - Why Resistance Works:
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Original Article By: Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth
International Security Summer 2008 vol 33 no 1
This article compares the struggles of 323 non-violent and violent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 against states by non-state entities. - The Rise of Afghanistan's Insurgency:
State Failure and Jihad
Original Article By: Seth G. Jones
International Security Fall 2008 vol 32 no 4
The insurgency developed because when the relatively strong Taliban government was over thrown it was replaced by a weak government that could not provide security for the people.