"In this book, Eric J. Heikkila explores a truly important question that has not been adequately analyzed to date: how the rise of China alters the context in which the broad spectrum of policies in the United States should be assessed. Here, the policy domain of the United States government is...

The Japanese economic policy experience in the 1990s was the worst observed in the country for manydecades. The government withheld critically important economic information from the public, such as thesize of non-performing loans held by financial institutions, while policy-makers were waiting...

This paper outlines a method for using the mathematics of fuzzy sets that is well suited tomeasure and characterize peri-urbanizing ("desakota") systems typical of China, Southeast Asia,and other areas experiencing rapid urbanization. Drawing on Kosko's "fuzzy hypercube", threedistinct but...