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49 Данные о потреблении сигарет получены из электронной базы данных департамента сельского хозяйства США (USDA), Production, Supply and Distribution – см.: www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, материал обновлен 31 августа 2006 г.; и публикаций: Tom Capehart, Tobacco Outlook (Washington, DC: USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS), 24 April 2007); American Cancer Society, “Guide to Quitting Smoking: Tobacco and Cancer” – cм.: www.cancer.org, материал обновлен 21 мая 2009 г.

50 Duff Wilson, “Congress Passes Measure on Tobacco Regulation”, New York Times , 13 June 2009); USDA, ERS, “Cigarette Price Increase Follows Tobacco Pact”, Agricultural Outlook , January–February 1999.

51 DOE, EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2009 with Projections for 2030 (Washington, DC: March 2009);BP, BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009 (London: British Petroleum, June 2009); Sharon Silke Carty, “This Year’s Auto Sales Forecasts Falls to 10 Million”, данные о количестве автомобилей, отправленных в утиль, взяты из работы: R. L. Polk & Co., “U.S. Vehicle Median Age Increased in 2008, According to Polk”, press release (Southfield, MI: 3 March 2009).

52 U. S. Department of Transportation, Summary of Fuel Economy Performance (Washington, DC: 30 May 2009).

53 DOE, EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2007 with Projections for 2030 (Washington, DC: February 2006); DOE, op. cit. note 51.

54 Сведения о мобилизации см. в книге: Francis Walton, Miracle of World War II: How American Industry Made Victory Possible (New York: Macmillan, 1956).

55 Franklin Roosevelt, “State of the Union Address”, 6 January 1942, – см.: www.ibiblio.org/pha/7–2-188/188–35.html.

56 Harold G. Vatter, The US Economy in World War II (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), p. 13; Alan L. Groopman, Mobilizing U. S. Industry in World War II (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, August 1996).

57 Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time – Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 316; “Point Rationing Comes of Age”, Business Week , 19 February 1944.

58 “War Production – The Job ‘That Couldn’t Be Done”, Business Week , 5 May 1945; Donald M. Nelsen, Arsenal of Democracy: The Story of American War Production (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946), p. 243.

59 Goodwin, op. cit. note 57, p. 316.

60 Слова Грея приведены в: Walton, op. cit. Note 54.

61 Jeffrey Sachs, “One Tenth of 1 Percent to Make the World Safer”, Washington Post , 21 November 2001.

62 Данные о всеобщем начальном образовании взяты из публикации: U. K. Treasury, From Commitment to Action: Education (London: Department for International Development, September 2005); данные о расходах на кампанию по ликвидации неграмотности среди взрослого населения – оценка автора; данные о расходах на всеобщее удовлетворение элементарных потребностей в здравоохранении взяты из публикации: Jeffrey D. Saschs and the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2001); расходы на программы репродуктивного здоровья и планирования семьи взяты из публикации: J. Joseph Speidel et al., Family Planning and Reproduction Health: The Link to Environmental Preservation (San Francisco: Bixby Center for Reproductive Health and Research Policy, University of California, 2007), p. 10, и дискуссии, состоявшейся 16 октября 2007 г. между Дж. Джозефом Спейделем и Дж. Мэттью Коуни из Earth Policy Institute.

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