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Fisher And Phillips, Robert Leeson

Business Papers and Journal Articles

Just before the start of the Monetarist decade, the Journal of Political Economy (1973, 496-502) republished Irving Fisher's 1926 article on "A Statistical Relation Between Unemployment and Price Changes", under the title "I Discovered the Phillips Curve". Immediately, Milton Friedman (1976 [1974], 215, 232) used this archaeological discovery to assault his somewhat dazed Keynesian opponents: "The discussion of the Phillips curve started with truth in 1926, proceeded through error some thirty years later, and by now has returned back to 1926 and to the original truth. That is about fifty years for a complete circuit. You can see how technological …

Silence: The Experiences Of Sebastian Rodrigues, Sj, Glenn J. Morrison

Theology Papers and Journal Articles

The poem, Silence: The Experience of Sebastian Rodrigues, ST, is written as a reflection and meditation on the book Silence, by End6 Shtisaku. The poem describes emotively the life in Japan of the missionary priest, Fr. Sebastian Rodrigues, SJ. He had left Portugal with two other priests, Francisco Garrpe and Juan de Santa Marta, to investigate the truth of whether Fr. Christovao Ferreira, their former teacher, had apostatized or experienced glorious martyrdom. It was impossible for these three young Jesuits to believe that Ferreira had apostatized; in their belief they represented the clergy of Portugal (Endo, 1976,19-32).

The poem is …