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Full-Text Articles in Political Economy
Dope Is Death, Amilcar Shabazz
Dope Is Death, Amilcar Shabazz
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
"Dope is Death" started as a study document for revolutionary nationalist cadres in the 1980s at the height of the Crack Wars and Reaganomics. It was later published in the September/October 1987 issue of "By Any Means Necessary!" newspaper published by the New Afrikan People's Organization. The version seen here is the 1988 pamphlet edition.
Government Financial Policy And Capital, Dean D. Croushore
Government Financial Policy And Capital, Dean D. Croushore
Economics Faculty Publications
Economists have long been concerned about the best way to finance government deficits. Finding the proper fiscal policy and monetary policy mix is a crucial decision. When government debt grows too fast, interest rates rise and capital is crowded out. If the money growth rate is excessive, inflation occurs.
The study of this issue at the theoretical level requires a model which incorporates the following features: (1) modeling money and bonds as endogenous financial assets, whose rates of return are determined in general equilibrium, (2) examination of the utility maxi mization decisions of individuals, so that welfare analysis of alternative …
Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (Ceteris Paribus), Spencer J. Pack
Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (Ceteris Paribus), Spencer J. Pack
Economics Faculty Publications
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Puerto Rico: Colonialism Revisited, Sherrie Baver
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 …