Data can be adduced, for example, to answer the question of whether immigration tends to suppress wages. Economics can be put to use in figuring out these big-issue questions.
It’s no secret, write Banerjee and Duflo (co-authors: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way To Fight Global Poverty, 2011), that “we seem to have fallen on hard times.” Immigration, trade, inequality, and taxation problems present themselves daily, and they seem to be intractable. “Quality of life means more than just consumption”: Two MIT economists urge that a smarter, more politically aware economics be brought to bear on social issues. The CIA may value this deferential piece of institutional history, but civilian readers will learn little of interest from it. The author is also loath to criticize any of the book's first customers, even when their overextensive circulation of the book jeopardized its integrity or when they scorned it altogether. Readers hoping to gain insight into how CIA briefings have affected specific national security decisions will be disappointed the president's book retains its secrets. As a result, while he lays out in considerable detail how the book has been assembled, who saw it, whether the president preferred an accompanying briefing or read it alone, and so forth, Priess is not permitted to explain how or why the PDB ever made any difference to anyone. Because the contents of the PDB are classified, he can't discuss any of them. Despite his extensive research and clear prose, Priess is disadvantaged by a serious limitation. Barack Obama gets his on an iPad, a change in format that permits near real-time updates and hyperlinks to more thorough analysis. Bush, a former director of Central Intelligence, devoured it every morning in the company of at least one agency briefer. Presidents have responded to the PDB with varying degrees of enthusiasm Richard Nixon distrusted the CIA and often ignored it, while George H.W. policymakers and intelligence officials to produce this history of the PDB, describing its formats, production process, distribution, and daily presentation to the president over the course of half a century. Former CIA intelligence officer Priess interviewed more than 100 former senior U.S.
The President's Daily Brief, known colloquially as “the book,” is classified top secret and contains nearly up-to-the-minute intelligence from human agents, electronic intercepts, and other sources. Kennedy administration, the CIA has produced a daily summary of news and analysis for review by the president and a handful of senior officials. A history of the president's secret daily national security summary.
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