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Regulation Of Government Agencies Through Limitation Riders, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

Congress often attaches limitation riders to appropriations bills to establish its policy directives. Professor Devins argues that the appropriations process is not the proper vehicle for substantive policymaking. In this article, he analyzes institutional characteristics that prevent the full consideration or articulation of policy in appropriations bills. Professor Devins also considers the extent to which Congress's use of limitation riders inhibits the effectiveness of the other branches of the federal government. Professor Devins concludes that, while Congress's use of limitation riders is sometimes necessary, Congress should be aware of the significant risks associated with policymaking through the appropriations process.

Feeding Behaviour Of Live Sheep During Export, C L. Mcdonald

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Live sheep exporters in Western Australia often hold as many as 00 000 sheep in assembly feedlots while the consignment is being purchased and assembled before shipment. During the assembly phase the sheep ane introduced to the pelleted rations used on board.

Industry reports have highlighted the wide variability in condidtions, facilities and procedures used, and showed that there was little evidence from which to make recommendations to the live sheep shipping indudtry. This article discusses ten experiments by the Department of Agriculture from 1981 to 1985 designed to investigate what influences the feeding behaviour of Merino wethers under conditions …

Puerto Rico: Colonialism Revisited, Sherrie Baver

Publications and Research

Because Puerto Rico is not systematically consulted on issues central to its development and because this situation has become so obvious to all island officials during the last decade, elites across the entire Puerto Rican political spectrum felt pressured to ""come out of the colonial closet," tentatively in August 1977 and forthrightly in 1978.3 Every summer since, spokespersons from all political parties have gone before the UN Decolonization Committee to protest the status quo in Puerto Rico. Before 1977, only Puerto Rican Independentistas (who win only a small percentage in island elections), Cuba, and the Soviet Union had labeled Puerto …

Social Security, Savings, And Labor Supply Of The Elderly In Japan, Tetsuji Yamada

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The study examines the controversial, inconsistent empirical results of the effect of social security on personal savings and analyzes the interdependency in the context of social security between the personal savings and labor supply behavior of elderly workers.

Very few studies in this field have been done, and it has not theoretically and empirically been accomplished yet in Japan. Time-series data are used for 1946-1982, and the methods of technique are ordinary least squares and a simultaneous-equation model in the life cycle framework.

The study finds that social security affects personal savings and that the benefit effect dominates the retirement …

Saving Plants And Jobs: Union-Management Negotiations In The Context Of Threatened Plant Closing, Paul F. Gerhart

Upjohn Press

Gerhart uses a case study approach to examine why plants become economically inviable as well as how to prevent this from happening prematurely.

Permanent Disability Benefits In Workers' Compensation, Monroe Berkowitz, John F. Burton

Upjohn Press

Berkowitz and Burton provide a detailed examination of the adequacy and equity of permanent partial disability benefits, and the efficiency of the system delivering those benefits. A ten-state study is presented that examines states' criteria for awarding scheduled and nonscheduled benefits. Three of those states are then used for a wage-loss study illustrating the relationship among workers' disability ratings, the workers' WC benefits, and losses of earnings caused by work-related injuries.

The Tragedy Of Black Lung: Federal Compensation For Occupational Disease, Peter S. Barth

Upjohn Press

This study details the development of the federal government's Black Lung program and evaluates its policy components.

Mature Industrial Communities: The Realities Of Reindustrialization, Jeanne H. Armstrong, John R. Mullin

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article analyzes the reindustrialization problems facing mature-industry communities in Massachusetts. The findings are based upon our planning consulting work and research projects involving forty cities and towns. The range of these communities includes those which have recovered, are on their way to recovery, and are stable; those which are declining; and those whose status is indeterminate. A variety of factors are reviewed, including unionization; work-force characteristics; the relationship between small and large plants; the characteristics of local companies; location; financing; the availability of land; and the role of local planning. Finally, we present recommendations concerning local action and possible …

Wandering Around The Warranted Path Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• A 1987 draft of the paper later published as Shaikh, A. (1991). Wandering around the warranted path: Dynamic nonlinear solutions to the Harrodian knife-edge. In E. J. Nell & W. Semmler (Eds.), Nicholas Kaldor and mainstream economics: Confrontation or convergence? (pp. 320–334). New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press / London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Choice Of Technique And The Falling Rate Of Profit, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• A comparison of crisis scenarios [Handwritten diagram and notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD, discussing phases of a hypothetical cycle, underconsumption, falling rate of profit, and profit squeeze]. Shaikh, A. (1978, November). Unpublished manuscript.

• Dynamics of the falling rate of profit [Typed notes for Economics 205 discussing the rising ratio of dead-to-living labor and its connection to the actual rate of profit]. Shaikh, A. (1987, March 4). Unpublished manuscript.

• “Choice of technique” and the falling rate of profit [Typed notes discussing the Okishio theorem, neoclassical versus Marxian conceptions of competition, and price-cutting behavior]. Shaikh, A. …

New Short-Run Model, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Anwar Shaikh. (1987, June 15). PER dynamics around simple reproduction (Handwritten notes). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

• Anwar Shaikh. (1986, August 13). New short-run model (Handwritten notes). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

• Anwar Shaikh. (1986, April 2). Liquidity, accumulation, and finance (Handwritten notes). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

• Anwar Shaikh. (1986, July 21). Results: PER7K 5–7 (Handwritten notes). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

• Anwar …

On The Social Wage, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• On the “social wage”: Critiquing Bowles and Gintis and providing alternative measures of social welfare expenditures and taxes [Paper]. Shaikh, A. (1984, May). Unpublished manuscript.

• Figure 5.5—Social wage comparisons: Showing the social wage as a percentage of total wages for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia [Chart for Economics 205]. Shaikh, A. (1987, April). Unpublished manuscript.

Harrodian Limit Cycle, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Miodrag Jarsulic. (1986, October 22). Endogenous credit and endogenous business cycles (Unpublished manuscript; annotated by A. Shaikh, handwritten annotations).

• Anwar Shaikh. (n.d.). Equations (Handwritten notes). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

• Anwar Shaikh. (1987, May 23). Harrodian dynamics (Handwritten notes). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

• Anwar Shaikh. (n.d.). Equations (includes reference to the van der Pol equation) (Handwritten notes). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

• Anwar Shaikh. (1987, May 15). Note on fixed …

New School Bulletins From The 1950s + Urpe Newsletters From The 1980s, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes,

• The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. (1955, December 26). Courses of study: Spring 1956 [New School bulletin]. The New School for Social Research.

• The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. (1950, January 9). Announcement for the spring term, 1950 [New School bulletin]. The New School for Social Research.

• Union for Radical Political Economics. (1983, January–February). URPE newsletter (Vol. 14, No. 6) [Special issue: Staying the course; report on the war against Black higher education]. Union for Radical Political Economics.

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An Incentives Approach To Improving The Unemployment Compensation System, Paul L. Burgess, Jerry L. Kingston

Upjohn Press

Overpayments may account for up to 15 percent of all payments made under the unemployment compensation system. Burgess and Kingston propose that this overpayment serves as a clue to the more serious problems residing in the system. The authors focus on the lack of incentives (or the existence of disincentives) for improvement within the UC program structure for all participants - claimants, employers, and state UC agencies. Other issues they explore include the excessive complexity of the system and the difficulty of effectively monitoring claimant compliance with eligibility criteria.

Metropolitan Report - January 1987, Division Of Business And Economic Research, College Of Business Administration, University Of New Orleans

UNO Metropolitan Report (1986-2017)

No abstract provided.

Crisis Theories, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1982, December 13). A note on profit-squeeze theories [Handwritten notes for EE 204]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1987, March). Comparative phenomena of Marxist crisis theories [Handwritten notes with graph]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). FROP [Handwritten notes with graph]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Devine, J. N. (n.d.). Underconsumption, over-investment, and the origins of the Great Depression. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1987, May 15). Crisis theories note on theory & data [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (Ceteris Paribus), Spencer J. Pack

Economics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Eco 208s Fall 1987 Growth + Cycle Models, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection contains:

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2001, June 6). Structure of NIPA accounts [Handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Programming in EViews [Handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A., & Semmler, W. (1986, Spring). Selected topics in advanced political economy: Growth, cycles, and crisis [Course outline and reading list for ECO 208].

• Semmler, W. (1986). Competition, nonlinear cycles, and growth [Manuscript].

Assorted Handouts & Printouts, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Correspondence to Karl Marx discussing absolute ground rent and Ricardo’s theory. (1862, November). [Printed correspondence excerpts]. Unpublished manuscript. (Friedrich Engels, author).

• Differential rent I, differential rent II, and absolute rent in general. (1978, May 15/1980, May 15). [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript. (Anwar Shaikh, PhD, author).

• Correspondence discussing the law of rent and the fertility of agriculture. (1851, January 7/1851, July 17). [Printed correspondence excerpts]. Unpublished manuscript. (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, authors).

• Correspondence regarding ground rent, the theory of rent, and the law of value. (1862, June–1862, November). [Printed …

An Empirical Comparison Of Dept I And Dept Ii Fr The U.S. - Ge204+Ge205, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• An empirical comparison of Dept. I and Dept. II for the U.S. [Paper for Economics 204 and 205 including sections on industrial product composition, departmental growth, and materials requirements per unit output, with tables and charts on value added, employment, productivity, and investment]. Shaikh, A. (1987, Fall). Unpublished manuscript.

Profit Rate Differentials Within An Industry - Ge204, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Profit rate differentials within an industry [Typescript for GE 204 discussing the Okishio theorem, transitional rates of profit, and regulating capitals]. Shaikh, A. (1987, March). Unpublished manuscript.

Devaluation, Short-Run Supply Response, And The J-Curve, Alexander L. Brown

Honors Papers

This paper will attempt to empirically illustrate the contribution of short-run supply adjustment to the U.S. J-curve. I plan to study, on the major industry division level (2 digit SIC), 15 manufacturing sectors of the united states. Their supply movements will be calculated in terms of total short-run adjustment. These statistics will then be compared to the trade balance (J-curve) for the U.S. to see if the supply movements of U.S. manufacturers can explain the continued drop in U.S. international trade. If the theory is supported few industries will adjust quickly in the short-run, reflecting the slow adjustment of aggregate …

An Analysis Of The Effect Of Airline Deregulation Upon The Demand For Intercity Bus Service, Daniel G. Greenberg

Honors Papers

This brief excerpt, although not particularly fascinating in its revelation, is exemplary of a far more complex aspect of modern American economic policy. During the 1930's, American regulatory fervor was at its peak. Fear of a repeated economic upheaval, like that of 1929, compounded with the exorbitant profits earned by the robber barons spawned government intervention. Consequently, regulation was imposed upon numerous industries, including air and bus transport.

Four decades later restrictions have been lifted not only in the airline industry but in the intercity bus industry as well. These changes are part of the new laissez faire govermnent of …

The Sensitivity Of Brazil's Balance Of Payments And Foreign Debt To Future Changes In World Economic Conditions: 1987-1991, David Rostov

Honors Papers

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the sensitivity of Brazil's balance of payments (including its foreign debt) to future changes in world economic conditions. To accomplish this, the determinants of the country's balance of payments will be isolated and then empirically studied. Based upon these results,forecasts will be made under three different economic scenarios. The intent will be to determine the affect that different sets of world conditions have upon Brazil's foreign debt and trade balance from 1987 to 1991.

The hypothesis of this study is that continued industrial country growth, coupled with low world interest rates, will …

Conditional And Unconditional Statistical Independence, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Conditional independence almost everywhere in the space of the conditioning variates does not imply unconditional independence, although it may well imply unconditional independence of certain functions of the variables. An example that is important in linear regression theory is discussed in detail. This involves orthogonal projections on random linear manifolds, which are conditionally independent but not unconditionally independent under normality. Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained under which conditional independence does imply unconditional independence.

The Preferential Option For The Poor: An Economist's Perspective, Stephen T. Worland

Clemens Lecture Series

No abstract provided.

Review Of Advances In Monetary Economics By David Currie, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Dick Pope, Sr. Institute For Tourism Studies: Research, Education, Public Awareness, Dick Pope Sr. Institute For Tourism Studies

Dick Pope Sr. Institute Publications

No abstract provided.

Phelps Dodge Impact On New Mexico _1987, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

The report examines the economic significance of Phelps Dodge Corporation's mining, smelting, and mineral processing operations within New Mexico. Prepared by the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research, the report profiles Phelps Dodge as the nation's largest domestic copper producer and evaluates the company's role as one of New Mexico's largest private employers following its acquisition of a controlling interest in Chino Mines. The study documents the corporation's operations in Grant and Hidalgo Counties, including the Tyrone Mine, Chino Mines, and Hidalgo smelter, and discusses investments in new technologies such as solvent extraction/electrowinning (SX/EW) facilities that …