ESTIMATION OF EMPLOYMENT MULTIPLIERS FOR PLANNING IN OZARKS NONMETROPOLITAN COUNTIES

Labor and Human Capital,

Highway impacts on Ozark incomes and employment

Includes vita.Introduction and problem review: Confronted by depressed economic and social conditions of extensive regions within the United States, the Federal Government through its various agencies is waging "war on poverty." Many plans and strategies emphasize public investments in physical overhead capital, especially highway construction, as a weapon for eradicating regional poverty. Such priority for highway expenditures has been seriously questioned in the professional literature. Consequently, this chapter presents the problem and objectives after first reviewing literature concerning regional growth theories, theoretical implications about highway impacts, development strategies, and hypothesized economic benefits resulting from highway investments.Includes bibliographical references

Analyzing the feasibility of domestic rural water supplies in Missouri with emphasis on the Ozarks region

Cover title."Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Missouri-Columbia, in cooperation with Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture."Includes bibliographical references

Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman behind the Making of On War, by Vanya Eftimova Bellinger

One is tempted to ask why naval officers should be interested in reading a biog- raphy of the wife of the famous Prussian philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz. In answer we might go to the words of Marie von Clausewitz herself, from her letter of dedication to Carl’s unfinished masterpiece On War: “Readers will be rightly surprised that a woman should dare to write a preface for such a work as this. My friends will need no explanation. . . . Those who knew of our happy marriage and knew that we shared every- thing, not only joy and pain but also every occupation, every concern of daily life, will realize that a task of this kind could not occupy my beloved husband without at the same time becoming thoroughly familiar to me” (preface to Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans

Beyond Air-Sea Battle: The Debate over US Military Strategy in Asia,by Aaron L. Friedberg

Normally, a recommendation regarding for which audience a book is best suited comes at the end of the review. In this case, it comes first because Professor Aaron Friedberg provides a tight mono- graph that illuminates areas of great misunderstanding to a large population in the policy and defense communities: the debate over the concept of Air-Sea Battle (ASB) and the vernacular of mod- ern maritime strategy