The JOURNAL

USA v Canada: Economics, Politics, Culture

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(# 8, August 2001)

PRESIDENT G.W.Bush, Jr.
and PARADOXES of "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM"
Whether the first Hundred days of G.W. Bush, Jr. Presidency allow to give a preliminary estimation of his administration?

What is the most typical tag of the new administration activity?

Does G.W. Bush, Jr. possess essentially important qualities necessary for the national leader?

What role does R. Cheney play in the formation of President's views on major strategic problems?

What philosophy was incorporated in the new federal budget policy offered by the new president?

What factors in the sphere of financial policy are considered to be the keys to success of G.W. Bush, Jr. Presidency?

How far do the attitudes of the G.W. Bush, Jr. and his father differ in relation to "supply side economics"?

Whether G.W. Bush, Jr. has already succeeded in establishing a new climate of bipartisan cooperation in Washington?

What common ground might be found between G.W. Bush, Jr. and R. Reagan?

How are working days of the new U.S. president organized?

Whether G.W. Bush, Jr. becomes the next reformer or only "a new Reagan"?

How will the new administration defend in practice the U.S. interests abroad?

What moments have been already demonstrated in foreign politics of new administration?

How does American society react to the politics of the new administration?

Whether G.W. Bush, Jr. has succeeded in achieving any serious results during his first three months of staying in the White house?

This theme is highlighted by GARBUZOV Valery N., Doctor of historical sciences, Head of Department, ISCRAN, and BOGDANOV Dmitry Yu., Laboratory researcher, ISCRAN.

ANTITRUST POLICY and INNOVATIONS (U.S. Experience).
Joseph Schumpeter's hypothesis: pro and con. Theoretical aspect.
What new hypothesis did J. Schumpeter put forward in his book "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy", published for the first time in 1942?

Who among the leading American economists has supported this hypothesis?

What according to Schumpeter is the key factor of the intensive innovation?

What is the intercoupling between the competitiveness of a given corporation and the intensity of its activity in the sphere of innovations?

What initial principle dominated in the antitrust regulation in the United States in the end of XIX - the beginning of XX centuries?

How has this approach been changed during the last decades in connection with the rapid pace of technological progress?

What role in the antitrust regulation during 1990's did the considerations of dynamic efficiency in the spirit of the Schumpeter's concept?

Why the Federal Trade Commission has approved the junction of the two largest American companies of commercial aircraft construction namely Boeing Co. and McDonnell Douglas Corp., while the U.S. Department of Justice has not admitted the junction of Lockheed Martin Corp. with Northrop Grumman Corp.?

What features distinguish the network markets and network goods?

What network market has been functioning already for more than 100 years?

What became the basis of success of Microsoft Corp. on the market of applied software? What violations of antitrust laws were incriminated to Microsoft Corp. in the law suit which has been pending since 1997?

Why in 1979, during the law-suit about the integration of memory blocks with central processing unit the court decision was passed to the benefit of IBM Corp.?

Why in 1984, by the decree of Federal government, AT&T was structurally dismembered into a monopoly of telecommunications and seven regional telephone companies?

What has the U.S. Department of Justice demanded as the condition of merging of MCI Communications Corp. and WorldCom, Inc.?


CANADIAN SOCIETY on the THRESHOLD of the XXI CENTURY
(Materials of Partial Census)
Where do 75 % of all Canadians live?

What is a level of urbanization in Canada?

Is Canada getting "older" or "younger"?

What influence does the immigration render on Canadian society?

What is the educational level of "recent immigrants" in comparison with "native born" Canadians of the same age groups?

What is a share of immigrants among the technical engineers in the aerospace branches, among the chemists, among the computer engineers?

How has the race-ethnic structure of immigrants been changed during the two last decades?

What tendencies dominate in the evolution of traditional family in Canada?

In what sphere of the economy do the most Canadians work?

What trade do Canadian males prefer to select?

And what professions prefer Canadian women?

What is the main occupation of Canadian youth?

In what sphere do the interests of majority of students in universities fall?

What is the mean joint income of a Canadian citizen, of a family without children and of marital partners having one and more children?

What criteria determine a "low level of incomes"?

These data are provided by AKIMOV Yury G., Candidate of historical sciences, Senior lecturer of the St.-Petersburg University
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