National Defense requires adequately trained, prepared and equipped armed forces to perform in guaranteeing national interests and protect sovereignty. Regarding the issue of equipping - which is the main focus of the three forces' (Navy, Army, and Air Force) strategic programs - it is not...

Employing a measurement known as the “Hurst exponent,” I show that the U.S. War and Navy Departments displayed a strong trend towards “persistence”: that is, a tendency for each year’s budget to replicate the previous year’s over the period 1792-1957. Such a tendency, however, may...

This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...

This essay examines the ethical dilemmas that emerge from the intersection of morality and our professional obligations as attorneys. It argues that moral decision-making is difficult for similar reasons across professions: (1) We have imperfect knowledge about probabilities; (2) it is...

This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...

Brazil is a country with a maritime vocation, whose development is intrinsically associated with the sea. The Brazilian coast and jurisdictional waters' extension constitute a challenge on themselves to the national defense. The presence of fundamental potentialities for the country, such as...

The United States Navy’s most recent strategy document, A Design for Maritime Superiority 2.0, calls for the modernization of its own personnel management system to help maintain America’s competitive advantage over near peer adversaries in an increasingly complex global security...

A fundamental problem in the field of the technological studies is to explain the source and nature of general purpose technologies (GPTs) that can support the patterns of long waves and socio-economic progress of nations. The study here confronts this problem by applying the theoretical...

While most employers remain unaware, personal financial management problems of workers cost American employers millions of dollars in lost productivity every year. One employer who was interested in studying the cost was the United States Navy. This research found that the U.S. Navy experienced...

This paper examines the potential costs a country faces when it fails to develop domestic arms manufacturing. I examine these costs using the historical example of Canada's decision to not develop domestic naval shipbuilding capacity prior to World War II. Canada's primary naval responsibility...

Brazil is a country with a maritime vocation, whose development is intrinsically associated with the sea. The Brazilian coast and jurisdictional waters' extension constitute a challenge on themselves to the national defense. The presence of fundamental potentialities for the country, such as...

"This book brings the state-of-the-science together for Distributed Cognition (DCOG) in complex socio-technical systems. It introduces the latest thinking on the Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork (EAST) method, together with practical guidance and applications in domains as diverse as: air...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures, Tables and Graphs -- Figures -- Tables -- Graph -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Primitive Positions-the Oikos Debate -- 1. The Defining Quartet-Marx, Weber, Polanyi and Finley -- 2. The Ancient Economy Post-Finley -- Chapter 2. New...

In 2007 it was six years since NMCI had been launched as the largest intranet system ever with more than 650,000 users. This update provides a summary of the problems and issues raised by GAO in its December 2006 report, DOD Needs to Ensure That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is Meeting...

В статье рассматривается история становления и падения экономического могущества государств Средиземноморья в контексте теории экономических столиц. Автор...