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Lynn Telecom Studio Report, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

This report was put together to assess current economic and demographic conditions of Lynn, Massachusetts, and identify Lynn’s telecommunications infrastructure. The report also surveyed business’s stock in Lynn, while proposing recommendations for using telecommunications for economic development. Finally, the report wraps up by using the city of Lynn as a case study for other communities.

Economic Development Of Erving, Massachusetts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

This report presents information on Erving, Massachusetts’ economy and main economic development issues. It begins with an analysis of demographic, labor, and employment statistics, then discusses some key issues that pose challenges to and provide opportunities for future development. It concludes with recommendations for taking action to address challenges and to seize opportunities.

Guide To Green Planning And Regulation Practices In Suasco Watershed, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

This report discusses six planning tools or techniques selected by the client that have been used in six different SuAsCo (Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers) communities. The six case studies highlighting these tools as they applied in the watershed and Eastern Massachusetts were assessed as to their strengths and weaknesses in light of current national practices.

Ontogenetic Shifts In The Costs Of Living In Groups: Focal Observations Of A Pholcid Spider (Holocnemus Pluchei), Elizabeth Jakob, Julie Blanchong, Mary Popson, Kristine Sedey, Michael Summerfield

Psychological and Brain Sciences Faculty Publication Series

Holocnemus pluchei spiders (Family Pholcidae) facultatively live in groups: sometimes they live alone and sometimes they share webs. In the field groups vary in size and composition and include spiders of all ages and either sex. Group membership is flexible and individuals move frequently among groups. To understand group formation and maintenance it is necessary to understand the costs of group membership. We used focal animal sampling to investigate the cost of group living for spiders of different ages across a range of group sizes. Both spider age and group size affected the costs incurred by group-living spiders. There was …

For Love Or Money - Or Both?, Julie A. Nelson, Nancy Folbre

Economics Department Faculty Publications Series

This paper explores the implications for economic analysis, societal well-being, and public policy of the movement of care services (such as child and elder care) from home to market. A broad empirical overview sets the stage for the argument that this process cannot be properly evaluated using only a priori judgments about the suitability of marketization. The context in which markets operate is crucial, and while the growth of market provision poses some risks, it also offers some potential benefits.

Introduction - Children And Family Policy: A Feminist Issue, Nancy Folbre, Susan Himmelweit

Economics Department Faculty Publications Series

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Harmonic Serialism And Parallelism, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

The most familiar architecture for Optimality Theory is a fully parallel one, meaning that "all possible ultimate outputs are contemplated at once" (Prince and Smolensky 1993: 79). But Prince and Smolensky also briefly entertain a serial architecture for OT, called Harmonic Serialism. The idea is that Gen Eval iterates, sending the output of Eval back into Gen as a new input. This loop continues until the derivation converges (i.e., until Eval returns the same form as the input to Gen). There are clear resemblances between this approach and theories based on notions like derivational economy (e.g., Chomsky 1995). There is …

Faithfulness And Prosodic Circumscription, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

Morphological processes are often sensitive to the prosodic structure of their inputs. Phenomena like these have been analyzed under the rubric of operational Prosodic Circumscription by McCarthy & Prince 1990.

This article re-examines certain of the principal cases supporting positive prosodic circumscription, arguing that they can be better explained as effects of prosodic faithfulness within Optimality Theory using Correspondence. Two main types of circumscription-as-faithfulness are discussed: (i) Circumscriptional effects emerging from faithfulness to the edges or heads of prosodic constituents (Yidiny, Rotuman, Cupeño, Berber). (ii) Circumscriptional effects emerging from faithfulness to moras and mora-segment associations (Arabic broken plural).

Circumscription-as-faithfulness complements …

The Prosody Of Phrase In Rotuman, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

The "phase" alternation in Rotuman is remarkable (and has attracted a good deal of previous attention) for two reasons. First, the shape differences between phases are quite diverse, involving resyllabification, deletion, umlaut, and metathesis. Second, the phase alternation produces prosodic structures that are otherwise unattested in this language, replacing simple (C)V syllables with closed and diphthongal ones. In this article, I argue that Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) helps to make sense of both these observations. I also go on to use these results to support some claims about the nature of templates and prosodic circumscription in the theory …

Structural Contradictions Of The Global Neoliberal Regime, James Crotty

James Crotty

No abstract provided.

Trading State-Led Prosperity For Market-Led Stagnation: From The Golden Age To Global Neoliberalism, James Crotty

James Crotty

No abstract provided.

Can The Global Neoliberal Regime Survive Victory In Asia? The Political Economy Of The Asian Crisis, James Crotty

James Crotty

No abstract provided.

The Providence Dominican Community, Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Qualitative Methods In Sociolinguistics", Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

School And Classroom Contexts For Middle Childhood Development In Providence And East Providence, Rt, Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

Language And Negotiation Of Ethnic/Racial Identity Among Dominican Americans, Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

History And Description Of Portuguese Immigration And The East Providence/Se New England Portuguese Community, Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

Communicative Behavior And Conflict Between African-American Customers And Immigrant Korean Retailers In Los Angeles, Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

Social/Interactional Functions Of Code Switching Among Dominican Americans, Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

The Language Of Multiple Identities Among Dominican Americans, Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

Historic Preservation In Waterfront Communities In Portugal And The Usa, John Mullin, Zenia Kotval, Carlos Balsas

John R. Mullin

Portugal's seaport communities are undergoing substantial change. Once protected by the nation's closed economy and restrictions to cultural adaptation, they are now required to face increased competition, shifting markets, the need for increased efficiency and for new infrastructural systems. In addition to all this, the uses of those seaports need to be examined: will they be centers for fishing, freight activities or have mainly tourist functions? Clearly, the Portuguese seaports of tomorrow will not be the same as they are today. While seaport planners struggle with these issues, it is essential that they identify, protect and enhance those elements of …

Description/Background Of Cambodian Community Refugee Pathways And Selectiono Processes And The Providence Community, Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey

No abstract provided.

Constructing The Information Society: Women, Information Technology, And Design, Jane E. Fountain

Jane E. Fountain

For the first time in history, women have the opportunity to play a major and visible role in a social transformation of potentially monumental proportions. The extensive reach and penetration of information technology into virtually every area of society creates enormous opportunities for women. But women’s lack of representation in IT design roles may prevent them from capitalizing on these opportunities. Most current discussion and analysis focuses on the increasing numbers of women as users of information technology with great emphasis on their use of the Internet and World Wide Web. Comparatively little attention has been given to the potential …

The Case For Capital Controls, James Crotty

James Crotty

No abstract provided.

Demand Policy In The Long Run, Peter Skott, Rajiv Sethi

Peter Skott

This paper analyses the use of aggregate demand policies to ensure full- employment growth in the long run. The results support Victoria Chick's warning in Macroeconomics after Keynes against the misapplication of short-run Keynesian policy prescriptions to long-run problems.

Risk Aversion, Insurance, And The Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Economics Department Working Paper Series

Under conditions of informational asymmetry, redistributing the property rights may improve work incentives but lead to an inefficient choice of entrepreneurial risk. We present a model in which reassignment of property rights does not affect factor prices and we show that there exist egalitarian asset redistributions that enhance allocative efficiency. The scope for such redistributions can be broadened by offering fair insurance protecting the independent entrepreneur against risk unassociated with the production process and against production uncertainties that are unrelated to the quality of their individual decisions. The market will generally supply insurance of this type suboptimally.

Optimal Parochialism: The Dynamics Of Trust And Exclusion In Networks, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Economics Department Working Paper Series

Networks such as ethnic credit associations, close-knit residential neighborhoods, ‘old boy’networks, and ethnically linked businesses play an important role in economic life but have been little studied by economists. These networks are often supported by cultural distinctions between insiders and outsiders and engage in exclusionary practices which we call parochialism. We provide an economic analysis of parochial networks in which the losses incurred by not trading with outsiders are offset by an enhanced ability to enforce informal contracts by fostering trust among insiders. We first model one-shot social interactions among self-regarding agents, demonstrating that trust (i.e., cooperating without using information …

Is Africa A Net Creditor? New Estimates Of Capital Flight From Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-1996, James K. Boyce, Léonce Ndikumana

Economics Department Working Paper Series

This paper presents estimates of capital flight from 25 low-income sub-Saharan African countries in the period 1970 to 1996. Capital flight totaled more than $193 billion (in 1996 dollars); with imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock of flight capital amounts to $285 billion. The combined external debt of these countries stood at $178 billion in 1996. Taking capital flight as a measure of private external assets, and calculating net external assets as private external assets minus public external debts, sub-Saharan Africa thus appears to be a net creditor vis-à-vis the rest of the world.

Walrasian Economics In Retrospect, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Economics Department Working Paper Series

Two basic tenets of theWalrasian model, behavior based on self-interested exogenous preferences and complete and costless contracting have recently come under critical scrutiny. First, social norms and psychological dispositions extending beyond the selfish motives of Homo economicus may have an important bearing on outcomes, even in competitive markets. Second, market outcomes depend on strategic interactions in which power in the political sense is exercised. It follows that economics must become more behavioral and more institutional. We can return to these themes of the classical tradition, now equipped with more the powerful mathematical tools developed over the past century.

Strong Reciprocity And Human Sociality, Herbert Gintis

Economics Department Working Paper Series

Human groups maintain a high level of sociality despite a low level of relatedness among group members. The behavioral basis of this sociality remains in doubt. This paper reviews the evidence for an empirically identifiable form of prosocial behavior in humans, which we call ‘strong reciprocity,’ that may in part explain human sociality. A strong reciprocator is predisposed to cooperate with others and punish non-cooperators, even when this behavior cannot be justified in terms of extended kinship or reciprocal altruism. We present a simple model, stylized but plausible, of the evolutionary emergence of strong reciprocity.