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Quality Of The Business Environment Versus Quality Of Life In A Dynamic Model Of Urban Composition And Growth Do Firms And Households Like The Same Cities?, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Stuart A. Gabriel

Economics - All Scholarship

Appropriately constructed measures of the quality of life and the quality of the business environment should be important determinants of the growth and composition of population across urban areas. This paper examines that question by extending theoretical measures of household quality of life to construct the first ever measure of the quality of the business environment? the value that firms place on the basket of amenities in a metropolitan area. An annual panel of quality of life and quality of business environment values for 37 cities in the United States is then constructed for the 1977 to 1995 period.

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Title And Contents- Fall 2000

Great Plains Quarterly

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 20/ Number 4 / Fall 2000

CONTENTS

THE PICTURE CHANGES: STYLISTIC VARIATION IN SITTING BULL'S BIOGRAPHIES Barbara Risch

CONTESTING TRADITION AND COMBATING INTOLERANCE: A HISTORY OF FREETHOUGHT IN KANSAS Aaron K. Ketchell

"drainage, drainage, DRAINAGE": CREATING NATURAL DISASTERS IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA William Keith Guthrie

GREAT PLAINS PRAGMATIST: AARON DOUGLAS AND THE ART OF SOCIAL PROTEST Audrey Thompson

Book Reviews

John M. Coward The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press By BARBARA CLOUD

Paul Reddin Wild West Shows By ANDREW GULLIFORD

Douglas Waitley William Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier By PETER BACON HALES

John Warfield …

Review Of Displays Of Power: Memory And Amnesia In The American Museum By Steven C. Dubin, Willard L. Boyd

Great Plains Quarterly

Displays of Power describes the movement of museums from mausoleums to centers of controversy during the period from 1969 to 1999. In his prologue and epilogue, Steven Dubin gives his general observations about the nature of this paradigm shift and the reasons for it, in essence attributing the transformation to the coming of the culture wars to museum exhibits. The younger culture warriors of the 1960s are now the older curators, educators, and exhibit designers in museums. Claiming expertness, they are the anonymous voice of power behind the museum oracle. Nowadays, however, oracles are questioned. In an increasingly democratic society, …

Review Of No More Free Markets Or Free Beer: The Progressive Era In Nebraska, 1900-1924 By Burton W. Folsom Jr., Harl A. Dalstrom

Great Plains Quarterly

In 1920 German Catholic voters in Saint Helena, Cedar County, cast seventy percent of their ballots for Marie Weekes, the Nonpartisan League candidate for Congress and a supporter of prohibition. What had driven beer-loving, anti-woman suffrage German-Americans to vote for the female candidate of an agrarian radical organization? Such major changes in Nebraska's political life are the subject of this book.

As its title suggests, Burton Folsom emphasizes the triumph of governmental socio-economic intervention over the principles of laissez faire. In a well-balanced, highly readable narrative, he analyzes the values of]. Sterling Morton, William Jennings Bryan, and George W. Norris-the …

Review Of A National Crime: The Canadian Government And The Residential School System, 1879-1986 By John S. Milloy, Agnes Grant

Great Plains Quarterly

The recent proliferation of commentary on residential schools leaves one question unanswered: Did no one know what was happening? The assumption is that if someone had known, it would have been prevented.

Milloy's book answers this question, clearly and unequivocally. Federal bureaucrats knew what was happening. They knew that children were being mistreated; they knew that no real education was taking place, and they understood the impact this system was having on its survivors. The daily horrors the children experienced can justly be laid at the door of the churches, but the ultimate responsibility lies with the federal government which …

Review Of William Henry Jackson: Framing The Frontier By Douglas Waitley, Peter Bacon Hales

Great Plains Quarterly

Certain markers have traditionally distinguished the professional from the amateur historian, prominent among them a quality of skepticism about the nature of sources and the facts they might reveal. In the National Archives reading rooms, one will still see women and men opening boxes with an air of anticipation restrained by severity of manner; they may remove the yellowed diary-book from the archival case with shaking hands, but they will almost immediately subject its paper, its vellum cover, and even the handwriting within, to a certain suspicious inspection before turning to the content. At the largest and most critical level …

Review Of Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women On Texas Cotton Farms, 1900 - 1940 By Rebecca Sharpless, Barbara Handy-Marchello

Great Plains Quarterly

The examination of farm women's experiences offers new perspectives on American agricultural communities. Rebecca Sharpless adds to our knowledge with this book on the women who worked the cotton fields of the east Texas Blackland Prairies in the first four decades of the twentieth century. The six chapters about family relations, housekeeping, food production, field work, communities, and the decline of the rural population spare no detail of poverty, racial discrimination, or the hopeful but constant and unrewarding migration of tenant families. Written with warmth, Sharpless's account is not at all romantic or sentimental. The organization suggests patterns that framed …

Review Of Crazy Horse By Larry Mcmurtry, Joseph C. Porter

Great Plains Quarterly

Our finest living novelist of the American West, Larry McMurtry, portrays one of the West's most notable historic figures in Crazy Horse. Two commemorations frame this readable survey biography: one, the Korczak Ziolkowski mountain sculpture of Crazy Horse; the other, a medallion struck by the government rewarding Little Big Man's apparent complicity in killing him. Who was this "American Sphinx, the loner who inspired the largest sculpture on Planet Earth?" McMurtry further asks what Crazy Horse meant "to his people in his lifetime, and also what he has come to mean to generations of Sioux in our own century …

Review Of Winnipeg: A Prairie Portrait By Martin Cash, Geoffrey C. Smith

Great Plains Quarterly

The purpose of this attractively produced book, a 125th anniversary project of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, is to celebrate the city at the threshold of the new millennium. Its author, a business writer for a local newspaper, is supported by a collaborative team that includes two writer-reporters and two photographers. The text, snappy and essentially journalistic in character, is organized into two main parts. The first ten chapters offer brief overviews of Winnipeg's history and contemporary aspects of the city's business activities, financial services, communications, arts, educational resources, healthcare facilities, recreational opportunities, and wider social fabric. The second part …

Review Of Visions Of Paradise: Glimpses Of Our Landscape's Legacy By John Warfield Simpson, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly

In this book's first pages, Simpson dissects its title and says his use of "glimpses" there "indicates that this is not the complete story of the landscape. Instead, it is a set of snapshots of formative forces over the past two hundred years that ... most shaped our contemporary setting." Readily conceding that "other academics provide the original scholarship" he offers here, Simpson holds nonetheless that his "snapshots synthesize that scholarship across many disciplinary boundaries to clarify and find general meaning in the landscape story .... " Simpson is as good as his word. Visions of Paradise is a lucid …

Message From The Director- Fall 2000, James Stubbendieck

Great Plains Quarterly

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

The Center for Great Plains Studies recently completed moving into its new building located between the south edge of the University of Nebraska campus and downtown Lincoln. For the first time in many years, all of the faculty, staff, and programs of the Center are in the same physical structure. The galleries of our Great Plains Art Collection are expanded in size and in a much more accessible location. Center office and work space are more than tripled providing many opportunities for new programs. Plains Song Review, an interdisciplinary undergraduate literary journal, will be published …

Index- Fall 2000

Great Plains Quarterly

Index

Great Plains Quarterly Fall 2000

A-Z (8 pages)

Contesting Tradition And Combating Intolerance A History Of Free Thought In Kansas, Aaron K. Ketchell

Great Plains Quarterly

Diversity is the hallmark of freethought in Kansas, for freethinkers were never a homogeneous body. The movement was not only religious, or for that matter, anti-religious, although the majority of social and political issues that it addressed had religious grounding. No one specific organized group dominated historical Kansas freethinking. Instead, individuals in the form of editors of various newspapers, journals, and book series became the landmarks by which the course of the movement's history may be most easily traced. Although the attitudes of freethinkers toward religion are the primary concern of this essay, it must be remembered that freethinkers had …

Great Plains Pragmatist Aaron Douglas And The Art Of Social Protest, Audrey Thompson

Great Plains Quarterly

Like most of the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, its leading visual artist, Aaron Douglas, was not himself a product of Harlem.¹ Although Winold Reiss and Alain Locke were to guide Douglas in the development of his artistic vision once he arrived in Harlem, his early years in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska gave rise to both the communal values and the artistic sense of isolation that were to lead him to Harlem. It was in the black church and in Topeka's "cohesive and politically active" African-American community that Douglas first experienced black solidarity and embraced "the values of education …

The Picture Changes Stylistic Variation In Sitting Bull's Biographies, Barbara Risch

Great Plains Quarterly

Until the 1800s Indian warriors of the Plains recorded significant heroic events from their adventures and pursuits in pictographs, on hide. Then, during the nineteenth century, these pictographs began to be produced on paper as well. About the same time that paper was coming into use, canvas and muslin became available, and the drawings that had formerly been composed on hide began to appear on these new materials. Typically, Indian men made use of discarded or captured ledgers, memorandum books, or rosters to render their exploit narratives; the representation of such events on these materials is referred to as ledger …

Health Care Utilization And The Status Of Latinos In Rural Meat Processing Communities, Joe Blankenau, Joni Boye-Beaman

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Using interviews conducted in two Nebraska communities, we illustrate health-care challenges for Latinos in meat-processing communities. Two hundred twenty-one Latinos (48% male), primarily of Mexican descent, were interviewed face-to-face by bilingual interviewers. Fifteen percent of the respondents are between the ages of 20 and 24, 75% are between 25 and 44, and 10% are between 45 and 64. Nearly half have lived in the United States for five or fewer years. Aday's (1993) framework for predicting populations at risk is used to identify factors affecting health status and utilization. These factors include measures of human capital, social status, and social …

Great Plains Pragmatist: Aaron Douglas And The Art Of Social Protest, Audrey Thompson

Great Plains Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 42 Number 2, Fall 2000, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

10 - I WANT MY IPO! By Susan Vogel. With so much venture capital available out there, why do women have to sprint to catch up with men in the race for funding?

14 - ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW ERA By George F. Giacomini, Jr. A long-time SCU professor offers his opinion of the most pivotal moments in the University's 150-year history, from wars to the admission of women.

18 - OF HEADHUNTERS AND SOLDIERS By Renato Rosaldo. Living with a headhunting Filipino tribe taught this author to be open to the possibility that other cultures have valid, …

Understanding Medicaid Home And Community Services: A Primer, Gary Smith, Janet O'Keeffe, Letty Carpenter, Pamela Doty, Brian Burnwell, Robert Mollica, Loretta Williams, George Washington University, Center For Health Policy Research

Center for Health Policy Research

No abstract provided.

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 61, No. 2, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• Editor’s Note (Shirley Blancke)
• An Historic Perspective on Contemporary Classification Systems: The Case of the Ground Stone Ulu (Mary Lynne Rainey)
• Archaeologists, Narragansetts, and Cemeteries: Investigations at an Unmarked Narragansett Cemetery in Charlestown, Rhode Island (Joseph N. Waller, Jr.)
• The Margaret Angell Site, Kingston, Massachusetts (Bernard A. Otto)
• What are these Artifacts? (Jic Davis)
• Index to Volumes 54-60, 1993-1999

The Ouachita Circle Fall 2000, Ouachita Baptist University

The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University

Tiger Network: Randy Garner, assistant to the president for enrollment management and director of alumni, reviews a Tiger Network Scholarship application with Bettie Duke, assistant director of Tiger Network

December Commencement: Eighty-three graduates honored

Homecoming 2000: "Everything Old is New Again"

Development News

Faculty/Staff News

Campus News

Sports News

Alumni News

Memorials

Class Notes (marriages, births, deaths)

The Financial Adviser

Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, And The Second-Best In Health Care Markets, Martin Gaynor, Deborah Haas-Wilson, William B. Vogt

Economics: Faculty Publications

The nature and normative properties of competition in health care markets have long been the subject of much debate. In this paper we consider what the optimal benchmark is in the presence of moral hazard effects on consumption due to health insurance. Intuitively, it seems that imperfect competition in the health care market may constrain this moral hazard by increasing prices. We show that this intuition cannot be correct if insurance markets are competitive. A competitive insurance market will always produce a contract that leaves consumers at least as well off under lower prices as under higher prices.

Gatherings No. 25 Fall 2000, Friends Of The University Libraries

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

Complete issue of Gatherings no. 25. Edited by Laurel Grotzinger.

Sounds Of Music, Greg Fitzgerald

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Preservation—At Risk, Tom Amos

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - October 2000, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Social Change, Ecology And Climate In 20th-Century Greenland, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Per Lyster, Oddmund Otterstad

Sociology

Two great transitions, from seal hunting to cod fishing, then from cod fishing to shrimp, affected population centers of southwest Greenland during the20th century. These economic transitions reflected large-scale shifts in the underlying marine ecosystems, driven by interactions between climate and human resource use. The combination of climatic variation and fishing pressure, for example, proved fatal to west Greenland's cod fishery. We examine the history of these transitions, using data down to the level of individual municipalities. At this level,the uneven social consequences of environmental change show clearly: some places gained, while others lost. Developments in 20th-century Greenland resemble patterns …

Ingathering 2000 Pamphlet, Cedarville University

WCDR Assorted Documents

No abstract provided.

A Descriptive Study Of The Kentucky Correctional Industries Program, Irina R. Soderstrom, Thomas C. Castellano, Heather Figaro

Kentucky Justice and Safety Research Bulletin

This bulletin addresses the topic of correctional industry programs. These programs are common across the United States and Europe, and research suggests that they may hold promise for helping accomplish correctional goals. However, correctional industry programs have not been adequately evaluated in the literature.

Nbc Peacock North Fall 2000, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

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