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An analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform pension coverage in light of this.The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer…
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Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine
The stability of the former Soviet states is threatened by their precarious geopolitical position within a turbulent economic and political environment. Swords and Sustenance explores the complex economic dimension of national security for two key post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Ukraine--that is, how they have dealt with the challenges posed by internal economic and political reform and thei…
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- 9780262278126
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages).
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Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security
In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives t…
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- 9780262271684
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 160 pages).
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Contagion and chaos :disease, ecology, and national security in the era of gl…
Sequel to: The health of nations / Andrew T. Price-Smith. c2002.An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255530
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- 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) :illustrations
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The political future of social security in aging societies
Doubts about the ability of industrialized countries to continue to provide a sufficient level of retirement benefits to a growing number of retirees has fueled much recent debate and inspired a variety of recommendations for reform. Few major reforms, however, have actually been implemented. In The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies, Vincenzo Galasso argues that the success…
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- 9780262273374
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages) :illustrations
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Engineering Safe and Secure Cyber-Physical Systems the Specification Pearl A…
This book introduces the concept of holistic design and development of cyber physical systems to achieve their safe and secure operation. It shows that by following the standards for embedded system’s safety and using appropriate hardware and software components inherently safe system’s architectures can be devised and certified. While the standards already enable testing and certification…
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- 978-3-319-28905-2
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Double jeopardy :combating nuclear terror and climate change
Making the case that we can use nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror. Humanity faces two existential threats: nuclear annihilation and catastrophic climate change. Both have human origins, and both are linked to the use of nuclear energy. Inherent in the use of atomic fission is the risk that the technology and materials can be diverted to terrori…
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- 9780262353687
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- 1 online resource (288 pages) :illustrations.
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The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341318
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- 1 online resource (xi, 287 pages).
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Why Cryptography Should Not Rely on Physical Attack Complexity
This book presents two practical physical attacks. It shows how attackers can reveal the secret key of symmetric as well as asymmetric cryptographic algorithms based on these attacks, and presents countermeasures on the software and the hardware level that can help to prevent them in the future. Though their theory has been known for several years now, since neither attack has yet been successf…
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- 978-981-287-787-1
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Energy Security and Development the Global Context and Indian Perspectives
This volume provides a systematic framework for energy suppliers, policy makers, academics, students, and all others interested in energy security, and analyzes key issues concerning energy, security and sustainability with the help of a wealth of data. While sustainability is the broadest objective, energy security is an important part of it, at the global, national and societal levels. The de…
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- 978-81-322-2065-7
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