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ECONOMICS OF NATIONAL SECURITY

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This is a revision of the 1950 edition. Considering security at the personal level is natural, and important. But security, both physical and financial, at the personal level is intertwined with security and stability at the national and international level as well. This book, in spite of its age, gives clear explanation of how the international economy affects personal security, even today. Favorite quotes:
--Perhaps the hardest thing to keep in mind is that one's own people has its ideology just as other peoples have theirs, for everyone is inclined to think that his own way of looking at things if just the "natural" way, or the way of right -thinking people.
--One of these is that it would somehow be dishonorable to use what we know about their social or psychological characteristics of people in friendly powers in order to influence their behavior.
--"Is it proper, in the course of our international relations, to show consideration for the feelings and the national pride of friendly peoples?"

This series of books was continually updated and expanded throughout the 1960s and gives rich insight into local-global integration as it was seen by the foremost scholars of the US think tanks in the pre-computer, pre-internet age.