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Planning With A Political Face., Derek Shearer

Derek Shearer

Comments on the 1984 Presidential campaign in the United States. People who are in support of President Ronald Reagan's policies; Response of Democrats to Reagan's ideological attack on the social programs that originated with the New Deal; Drawbacks of the industrial policy that the Democrats may endorse as their alternatives to Reagan's policies.

Independence Of Allocative Efficiency From Distribution In The Theory Of Public Goods, Ted Bergstrom, Richard Cornes

Ted C Bergstrom

When is the Pareto optimal amount of public goods independent of income distribution? Subject to some regularity conditions, the answer is when preferences of every individual i can be represented by a utility function of the form U(X_i,Y)=A(Y)X_i+B_i(Y) where X_i is i's consumption of private goods and Y is the amount of public goods.

Review Of "Work And Equality In Soviet Society: The Division Of Labor By Age, Gender, And Nationality" By Michael Paul Sacks, Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Marilyn Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

End User Search Services: A Comparison, Carol Tenopir

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Reagan Through Soviet Eyes, Larry Caldwell, Robert Legvold

Larry Caldwell

No abstract provided.

The Changing Climate Of Foster Care, Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben

No abstract provided.

The Regional Welfare Effects Of Tariff Reductions On Textile Products, Joseph Pelzman, Randolph C. Martin

Joseph Pelzman

No abstract provided.

Philosophy For Children In A Public Library, Michael Pritchard

Michael Pritchard

Can Courtship Be Cheatproof?, Ted Bergstrom, Richard Manning

Ted C Bergstrom

In 1983, I told Richard Manning about Gale and Shapley's beautiful 1962 paper on matching. He asked whether in the Gale-Shapley it was in the interest of all participants to tell the truth. We rather quickly showed that in general it is not in the interest of the recipients of offers to be truthful. In fact we were able to show that no mechanism can guarantee efficient assignments and be cheatproof. We were very pleased. We sent it to a journal, only to learn that Al Roth had beat us to it in a paper that was to appear in …

Forever Young: Upon Reading Growing Young By Ashley Montagu, Raymond Coppinger, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

We argue that the evolutionary process of neoteny -- the natural selection of regulatory gene mutations that retain a youthful ontogenetic system of physiological and behavioral characteristics, and thus never activates the full species-specific features of the ancestors’ adulthood. The resulting new behavio-morph retains infant/young features throughout ontogeny and never displays the adult behavior or physiology of the adult ancestor. This kind of neotenic adulthood defines the human character. We not only inherit our ancestors’ youthful anatomy and physiology but the ancestors’ youthful motivations and proclivities such as docility and social dependency, curiosity and learning as well. We retain our …

The Sealed Records Controversy, Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben

No abstract provided.

Salt Shakers Inc Newsletter, Steven Alan Samson

Steven Alan Samson

Volume III, No. 5-6.

La Renovación Urbana En Quito, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La conciencia de la incidencia de determinantes: sociales, económicos, culturales y políticos en la estructuración del entorno urbano, caduca la vigencia del concepto, RENOVACION URBANA como una simple intervención técnica. Así, la problemática especifica de la renovación urbana en América Latina debemos comprenderla como una particularidad de la problemática urbana de todos los países subdesarrollados y dependientes, evidenciándose lógicamente matices diferentes según el nivel de desarrollo de cada pueblo, pero las raíces son las mismas y son incuestionablemente el producto de la agresión del imperialismo, el colonialismo y el neocolonialismo que se materializa trágicamente en la dura realidad latinoamericana.

El …

The Dream Of Babel, Steven Alan Samson

Steven Alan Samson

“The literature of humanism ranges over such superficially distinct ideologies as socialism, anarchism, evolutionism, vitalism, eugenics, behaviorism, progressive education, legal positivism, historicism, the human potential movement, globalism, religious syncretism, and occultism. The themes and variations of this literature are linked by a few leitmotifs, or “leading ideas.” In one way or another they parody Scripture and God’s promises.

Stakes And Risks In Economic Sanctions, Joseph Pelzman, Tom Bayard, Jorge Perez-Lopez

Joseph Pelzman

No abstract provided.

Review Of Feiga Blekhe's "The Soviet Woman In The Family And In Society: A Sociological Study", Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Marilyn Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

The Social Ecology Of Bomb Threats: Dallas, Texas, Daniel Georges-Abeyie

Daniel E Georges-Abeyie

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage" By Andrew J. Cherlin, Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Marilyn Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Counting Groves-Ledyard Equilibria Via Degree Theory, Ted Bergstrom, Carl Simon, Charles Titus

Ted C Bergstrom

A Nash equilibria of the Groves-Ledyard mechanism is Pareto optimal. But this may not be much use if there are many distinct Nash equilibria, since it is not clear that the mechanism would converge on any one of them. This paper shows that if preferences are quasi-linear, the Groves-Ledyard mechanism has a unique Nash equilibrium, but even in the simplest class of preferences in which demands for public goods are affected by incomes, the number of equilibria increases exponentially with the number of consumers. The paper makes use of some pretty mathematics and even sports a drawing of Whitney's umbrella.

Fnma Auction Results As A Forecaster Of Residential Mortgage Yields, Thomas Berry, Adam Gehr

Thomas D Berry

No abstract provided.

Transition Losses Of Partially Mobile Industry-Specific Capital, Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton

No abstract provided.

Replacing The U.S. Income Tax With A Progressive Consumption Tax : A Sequenced General Equilibrium Approach, Don Fullerton, John B. Shoven, John Whalley

Don Fullerton

This paper examines the welfare consequences of changing the current U.S. income tax system to a progressive consumption tax. We compute a sequence of single period equilibria in which savings decisions depend on the expected future return to capital. In the presence of existing income taxes, the U.S. economy is assumed to lie on a balanced growth path. With the change to a consumption tax, individuals save more and initially consume less. As the capital stock grows, consumption eventually overtakes that of the original path, and the economy approaches the new balanced growth path with higher consumption and a greater …

Effects On Academic Learning Of Manipulating Emotional States And Motivational Dynamics, Gregory J. Boyle

Gregory J. Boyle

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of emotionally disturbing stimuli on the learning process. A five-minute film segment depicting horrific scenes of automobile accident victims, and part of a pathologist's post-mortem of a victim, was shown to an experimental group of 69 student teachers, while a non-treatment group of 66 student teachers served as controls. The two groups were well matched on several independent variables covering the four domains of ability, personality, motivation, and mood states. The emotionally disturbing treatment produced a decrement in learning performance, but resulted in a massive 36 per cent increase in …

Adoption: A Circle Of Love, Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben

No abstract provided.

Periodical Use In A University Music Library: A Citation Study Of Theses And Dissertations Submitted To The Indiana University School Of Music From 1975-1980, Richard Griscom

Richard Griscom

In an effort to measure in-house use of music periodicals, a citation study based on bibliographies in theses and dissertations was conducted at the Indiana University Music Library. A total of 256 titles were cited, but only 30% were cited more than once. While the periodical literature cited by musicologists has a low rate of obsolescence, the periodicals cited by theorists and educators becomes obsolete at a rapid rate, making the rate of obsolescence for the field as a whole, fairly high, unlike other subject areas in the humanities.

Union Bargaining Power In The Coal Industry, 1945-1981, Peter Navarro

PETER NAVARRO

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Heresy, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.

Professional Autonomy And The Social Control Of Expertise, Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

The Benefits And Costs Of The Deferral Of U.S. Taxes On Retained Earnings Of Controlled Foreign Corporations, Joseph Pelzman, Don Rousslang

Joseph Pelzman

No abstract provided.

Economic Costs Of Tariffs And Quotas On Textile And Apparel Products Imported Into The United States: A Survey Of The Literature And Implications For Policies, Joseph Pelzman

Joseph Pelzman

No abstract provided.