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Economics At The Fcc, 2008-2009: Broadband And Merger Review, James Prieger, Michelle Connolly
Economics At The Fcc, 2008-2009: Broadband And Merger Review, James Prieger, Michelle Connolly
School of Public Policy Working Papers
Many issues have come before the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) in the last year. Some actions were taken (as with particular mergers), some actions were postponed (as with Universal Service Fund reform), and some issues are currently being tackled (the National Broadband Strategic Plan). In this paper, we focus on the topic of the National Broadband Plan, which the FCC is mandated to provide to Congress February 17, 2010, the FCC Merger Review process, and the determination of optimal penalties for violations of FCC rules or orders.
America’S Vital Interests, Ted Mcallister
America’S Vital Interests, Ted Mcallister
School of Public Policy Working Papers
Near mid-century the most influential journalist of the age, Walter Lippmann, appealed for a foreign policy rooted in American "vital interests" rather than a "fundamentalist" idealism. Even as he crafted a more realistic, less moralistic foreign policy, Lippmann was famously developing his controversial public philosophy grounded on a universal Natural Law. At this intersection between a nation oriented around self-evident Truth and an international order ruled by naked power and interests, Walter Lippmann produced a hard-headed via media lamentably rare in an ideological age. We have much to learn from this great American stoic whose life's work was to educate …
The Microeconomic Impacts Of E-Business On The Economy, James Prieger, Daniel Heil
The Microeconomic Impacts Of E-Business On The Economy, James Prieger, Daniel Heil
School of Public Policy Working Papers
The adoption of e-business at the microeconomic level of retail, wholesale, and labor market transactions has an enormous impact on the performance of firms and the economic welfare of consumers and workers. This article reviews, in broad outlines, the economics of e-business, focusing on empirical research. The fundamental notion that e-business and adoption of ICT lowers the cost of transferring, storing, and processing in-formation is used to organize the examination. E-business spheres of impact covered include B2C and B2B e-commerce, the labor market, and the productivity of firms. This article covers both the predicted impacts of e-business on the economy …
The Macroeconomic Impacts Of E-Business On The Economy, James Prieger, Daniel Heil
The Macroeconomic Impacts Of E-Business On The Economy, James Prieger, Daniel Heil
School of Public Policy Working Papers
The growing use of information and communications technology (ICT) by business—e-business—profoundly affects the economy. This article covers some of the macroeconomic impacts of e-business. Evidence from empirical studies examining the impact that greater use of ICT by business has on productivity and national economic growth is presented, along with discussion of how e-business changes the volatility and complicates measurement of growth. E-business can bring down inflation, but also exacerbates some monetary and fiscal policy challenges, and raises new ones. While e-payments and e-money can complicate monetary policy and may alter its goals, little effect has been seen to date. Sales …
Life Is Unfair In Latin America, But Does It Matter For Growth?, Luisa Blanco
Life Is Unfair In Latin America, But Does It Matter For Growth?, Luisa Blanco
School of Public Policy Working Papers
I analyze the effect of inequality on economic growth in Latin America, where inequality is measured as the area of family farms as a percentage of the total area of agricultural holdings. Using data from 18 Latin American countries between 1960 and 2004, I find that inequality has a nonlinear effect on economic growth. Overall, for the countries included in this analysis, the share of family farms has a positive significant effect on economic growth. These findings are robust to controlling for several factors, using a different indicator of inequality (land Gini), and addressing for endogeneity.
The Finance–Growth Link In Latin America, Luisa Blanco
The Finance–Growth Link In Latin America, Luisa Blanco
School of Public Policy Working Papers
This paper analyzes the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Latin America with a Granger causality test and impulse response functions in a panel vector autoregression model. Using annual observations from a sample of 18 countries from 1962 to 2005, it is shown that while economic growth causes financial development, financial development does not cause economic growth. This finding is robust to different model specifications and different financial indicators. Interestingly, when the sample is divided according to different income levels and institutional quality, there is two way causality between financial development and economic growth only for the middle …
Long Live Democracy: The Determinants Of Political Instability In Latin America, Luisa Blanco, Robin Grier
Long Live Democracy: The Determinants Of Political Instability In Latin America, Luisa Blanco, Robin Grier
School of Public Policy Working Papers
In this paper, we investigate the determinants of political instability in Latin America. In a panel of 18 Latin American countries from 1971 to 2000, we find that democratic countries experience less average instability in the region, indicating that the move to increased democracy in the last couple decades may alleviate the persistent problem of instability in the area. We also find that income inequality and ethnic fractionalization are important determinants of instability. Countries with low levels of inequality also suffer less instability on average, while ethnic diversity has a non-linear effect on instability. Many macroeconomic variables commonly thought to …
The Domestic Causes And International Consequences Of The U.S. Government’S Sugar Price Support Programs, Shannon Anderson
The Domestic Causes And International Consequences Of The U.S. Government’S Sugar Price Support Programs, Shannon Anderson
Pepperdine Policy Review
Life-long farmer Thomas Jefferson prioritized agriculture in his presidential administration because he envisioned a nation of yeoman farmers laboring upon the fertile New World soil, nourishing the nascent American society with the food they produced. Today, nearly two hundred years removed from the lifetime of Thomas Jefferson, the goal of supporting this noble profession has spawned several agricultural price support programs. However, these numerous programs seem to have a convoluted rationale and, at best, questionable justifications in today‘s neo-liberal trade climate. In fact, they seem to fly in the face of both classical Liberal economic theories and the American tradition …
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed By Jared Diamond (New York: Penguin Group, 2005), Kathleen Florita
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed By Jared Diamond (New York: Penguin Group, 2005), Kathleen Florita
Global Tides
Book review of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005).
Banana Peels, Ferris Wheels, And A Cup Of Joe, Katherine Petersen
Banana Peels, Ferris Wheels, And A Cup Of Joe, Katherine Petersen
Global Tides
The "Journeyer's Journal" consists of short narratives describing international experiences. Here, Katherine Petersen describes Heidelberg, Germany.
The Justice Of Saving Our World: Rawlsian Theory Applied To Environmentalism And Alternative Energy, Devon Bryson
The Justice Of Saving Our World: Rawlsian Theory Applied To Environmentalism And Alternative Energy, Devon Bryson
Global Tides
While respect for nature pervades contemporary thought, issues of environmentalism and alternative energy largely lack a place in modern global conceptions of social justice. A theoretical or philosophical defense of these issues is therefore necessary to reinforce intuitions about nature, and ground them upon some substantive justification. One can find this justification in the Rawlsian theory of justice, which already informs many modern liberal notions. Rawlsian justice relies upon the Kantian notion that humans are autonomous beings— beings that are “ends” in themselves (that have inherent value). Rawls’ theory of justice attempts to respect each of these “ends.” However, traditional …
31 Cents, Robbieana Leung
31 Cents, Robbieana Leung
Global Tides
The "Journeyer's Journal" consists of short narratives describing international experiences by Pepperdine University undergraduate students. Here, Robbieana Leung describes her experiences in Vietnam.
Identifying The Postmodern/Cold War Interlock— Soliciting A Security Studies Pedagogy Au Courant, Michael R. Mcrill
Identifying The Postmodern/Cold War Interlock— Soliciting A Security Studies Pedagogy Au Courant, Michael R. Mcrill
Global Tides
One scholarly faction contends that the arenas of security studies and international politics have remained essentially the same post-World War II. The other sees the 1960s as illuminating a fundamental paradigm shift concerning security studies. The latter group asserts that the majority of security concerns has either been dropped or sharply shifted post-Cold War. Since then, studies have expanded to encompass a scholarly plea for broader definitions of national security. The advent and increase of nonmilitary threats has led many to argue that these threats must be considered within the arena of national security concerns, and other scholars assert that …
Thoughts From An Italian Park Bench, Kathleen Stjernholm
Thoughts From An Italian Park Bench, Kathleen Stjernholm
Global Tides
The "Journeyer's Journal" consists of short narratives describing international experiences. Here, Kathleen Stjernholm describes Florence, Italy.
The Ephemeral Bloom, Robbieana Leung
The Ephemeral Bloom, Robbieana Leung
Global Tides
The "Journeyer's Journal" consists of short narratives describing international experiences by Pepperdine University undergraduate students. Here, Robbieana Leung describes Cadiz, Spain.
The Orphan As Mirror: Postmodern Alienation And Societal Crisis In Japanese Film, Leann Wolley
The Orphan As Mirror: Postmodern Alienation And Societal Crisis In Japanese Film, Leann Wolley
Global Tides
This paper discusses the cultural significance of orphans in the post-modern media, using as a case study two Japanese films: Grave of the Fireflies and Nobody Knows. Through comparing the films and examining their approach to the orphan storytelling this paper attempts to gain insight into post-modern Japanese attitudes about social issues. By analyzing the appeal of the films to Japanese and international audiences, it also attempts to explain their popularity by drawing parallels between the main characters of each motion picture and the average postmodern citizen.
Mudskipper, Robbieana Leung
Mudskipper, Robbieana Leung
Global Tides
The "Journeyer's Journal" consists of short narratives describing international experiences by Pepperdine University undergraduate students. Here, Robbieana Leung shares her poem about Chinese heritage.
Pals For Pals: The U.S. And Pakistan, Anna Mcdermott
Pals For Pals: The U.S. And Pakistan, Anna Mcdermott
Global Tides
Of all the nuclear arsenals in the world, Pakistan’s faces the most risk. With over forty terrorist organizations active within the country, frequent power fluxes between the military, government and intelligence agencies, and a history of security breaches plaguing its nuclear program, Pakistan makes North Korea seem secure and stable. With all the challenges that face the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, it still lacks one basic security technology, Permissive Action Links (PALs), which are use control devices that make it virtually impossible for any unauthorized person to detonate a nuclear weapon. Over the years, there have been barriers that …
Republican Agonistes, Troy Senik
Republican Agonistes, Troy Senik
Pepperdine Policy Review
The psychology of the Republican party in the early days of 2009 reveals a coalition humiliated by defeat, insecure in its principles, and fearful of a new president who may prove to have Ronald Reagan‘s gifts for charming his way into the support of people with whom he is ideologically incompatible. This hyperventilation – though characteristically American – is both over-stated and premature. The GOP has had its fair share of false death knells over the past half-century – and each time it has quickly come roaring back.
Message From The Editor, Nicolas Valbuena
Message From The Editor, Nicolas Valbuena
Pepperdine Policy Review
An introduction to this issue by the editor-in-chief.
Beyond Greenspan, Rich Danker
Beyond Greenspan, Rich Danker
Pepperdine Policy Review
With the economy dominating today’s headlines and conversations it is hard to remember that we were preoccupied with economic events during the last decade, too. The 1990s were mostly a time of tremendous growth and innovation, but they were not without their own trials and crises. In fact, the conventional wisdom was that only one man truly understood what was happening, and he was leading the economy to prosperity amidst the perils of capitalism. Alan Greenspan was a rock star to the political and financial establishments of his time.
Why Does The U.S. Military Have Chaplains?, Hans Zieger
Why Does The U.S. Military Have Chaplains?, Hans Zieger
Pepperdine Policy Review
No office in America is so delicately balanced between church and state as that of the military chaplain. On one hand, the chaplain wears the uniform of his service. He is answerable to his commander in war and peace. As a defender of the U.S. Constitution, he is a partisan for a particular City of Man. On the other hand, he is the designated spokesman for the City of God in the nation‘s Armed Forces. He is the ordained representative of a religious tradition, accountable above all to the Almighty. How could such a phenomenon have gotten past the Founding …
“Peace At Home, Peace In The World”: The Rise And Role Of Nationalism In Turkish Political Life, Morgan Beach
“Peace At Home, Peace In The World”: The Rise And Role Of Nationalism In Turkish Political Life, Morgan Beach
Pepperdine Policy Review
There have been many arguments over recent years regarding the role of nationalism in an ever-globalizing world. Is nationalism becoming irrelevant? Will the nation become a political entity of the past? Or has increased global cohesion caused an in-creased affinity to a local identity? While the specifics are still debated, most observers point to one fact: nationalism and its political harbingers are stronger than ever. These ethnic nationalisms are generally thought to provide and maintain a solid identity for groups who otherwise see their cultural distinctiveness slipping away into what is, in many cases, a homogenous Westernization. Many scholars see …
Does Microcredit Facilitate Socioeconomic Development?, Arundhati Pal
Does Microcredit Facilitate Socioeconomic Development?, Arundhati Pal
Pepperdine Policy Review
In order to assess the effectiveness of microcredit on socioeconomic development, one must evaluate current microcredit loans and practices. The question that must be asked is to what extent are socioeconomic opportunities expanded through supplemental income from microcredit loans? To answer this question, measurable indicators that display characteristics of socioeconomic development need to be utilized. The following indicators are often used in impact assessments as representative of such development: investment in higher education, socioeconomic empowerment of women, access and utilization of health services, and prioritization of savings and investment. This paper will identify the observed deficiencies of the aforementioned indicators …