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Revitalizing America is less than a revelation. Muller's solutions ultimately fail, because they do not present a new intellectual vision to the economics of poverty and prosperity. Instead, he rehashes and mixes mostly traditional ideas into a political soup so that they might have some effect. Perhaps the task ahead is too difficult for the economists. None were needed for the Western world's first industrialization. Considering the social and political problems of development both here and abroad, it is hard to imagine what solutions they provide...
...then, could it fail as agitprop? Or succeed...
Long-term political change, he believes, will be difficult to implement. "Any reform will hurt the vested interest," Zhao contends. "Bureaucracy abhors change and present policies are running into a stiff resistance." If Deng's policies fail, Zhao warns, the nation will either revert to following the Soviet Union or become "something like Iran, neither pro-Western nor pro-Eastern, but internally confused and chaotic...
Current energy policies, emphasizing gradual reductions of oil imports, fail to protect the U.S. from sudden economic and political disruptions following an oil supply cut-off, the study, entitled "Energy and Security," charges...
Currently, students must make this change by the fifth Monday of the term. The time allotted for a change from a graded to pass-fail, however, would remain the same...