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Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale Of A Band Of Booksellers, Fasicle 7: Life After Reed College, Richard Abel Sep 2008

Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale Of A Band Of Booksellers, Fasicle 7: Life After Reed College, Richard Abel

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Future Tense -- Weeding: The Time Is Now, Rick Lugg, Ruth Fischer Sep 2008

Future Tense -- Weeding: The Time Is Now, Rick Lugg, Ruth Fischer

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Issues In Vendor/Library Relations -- Buying Ebooks: Does Workflow Work? Part I, Carolyn Morris Sep 2008

Issues In Vendor/Library Relations -- Buying Ebooks: Does Workflow Work? Part I, Carolyn Morris

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


I Hear The Train A Comin' -- A Tale Of Two Cities, Greg Tananbaum Sep 2008

I Hear The Train A Comin' -- A Tale Of Two Cities, Greg Tananbaum

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Adventures In Librarianship -- Heroes, Ned Kraft Sep 2008

Adventures In Librarianship -- Heroes, Ned Kraft

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Sep 2008

Table Of Contents

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Back Talk -- In The X Movie, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson Sep 2008

Back Talk -- In The X Movie, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Spoilt For Choice -- A Comparative Study Of E-Journal Archiving Solutions, Maggie Jones Sep 2008

Spoilt For Choice -- A Comparative Study Of E-Journal Archiving Solutions, Maggie Jones

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


People Profile: Nancy Maron, Editor Sep 2008

People Profile: Nancy Maron, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Full Page Ads, Editor Sep 2008

Full Page Ads, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


And They Were There -- Reports Of Meetings -- Electronic Resources In Libraries Conference, Salalm Annual Conference, Digin -- Digital Preservation Conference, Editor Sep 2008

And They Were There -- Reports Of Meetings -- Electronic Resources In Libraries Conference, Salalm Annual Conference, Digin -- Digital Preservation Conference, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


As I See It! -- Thinking About The System Of Balances In Copyright Law, John Cox Sep 2008

As I See It! -- Thinking About The System Of Balances In Copyright Law, John Cox

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Media Minder -- Interview With Ursula Schwarz, Executive Director Of The National Media Market, Philip Hallman Sep 2008

Media Minder -- Interview With Ursula Schwarz, Executive Director Of The National Media Market, Philip Hallman

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Standards Column -- Culture Shock: International Standardization Projects Effecting Publishers And Libraries -- A Report Of Iso Tc 46 Activities, Todd Carpenter Sep 2008

Standards Column -- Culture Shock: International Standardization Projects Effecting Publishers And Libraries -- A Report Of Iso Tc 46 Activities, Todd Carpenter

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Cosmopolitanism And Rationalizing Tendencies, James Pattison Sep 2008

Cosmopolitanism And Rationalizing Tendencies, James Pattison

Human Rights & Human Welfare

When phone-in talk shows, the press, and undergraduates debate the case for cosmopolitan accounts of global distributive justice, there are a number of standard rationalizations given for why we don’t have a duty to help. These include: “we have duties only to our fellow countrymen”; “poverty is caused by corrupt leaders, so not our fault, and therefore not our responsibility“; and “humanitarian aid is counter-productive.” Unlike the other two sorts of rationalization, the latter claim does not necessarily deny the moral cosmopolitanism premise that we have extensive duties to relieve the suffering of those beyond our borders. Rather, it follows …


In With The Old, Out With The New, Brent J. Steele Sep 2008

In With The Old, Out With The New, Brent J. Steele

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Michael Cohen, Maria Figueroa Küpçü and Parag Khanna make some compelling arguments about the inherent drawbacks regarding the role diverse networks of NGOs play in keeping at-risk populations alive throughout the world. We are informed that these groups are “the new colonialists,” agencies much like the old European empires. These new colonialists are apparently enforcing a cycle of dependency which prevents the development of state structures, structures that apparently sustain these populations more effectively. The problem with this thesis is that the authors do not seem to entertain the possibility that the nation-state is itself an (old) colonial construct, and …


Deconstructing The Reflection In The Mirror:, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Aaron Kindsvatter, C J. Priddy Sep 2008

Deconstructing The Reflection In The Mirror:, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Aaron Kindsvatter, C J. Priddy

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

Women facing middle age and beyond are pressured by a cultural ideal of slimness. Literature pertaining to the factors affecting the societal perceptions of body image will be reviewed. Authors also will address relevant counseling interventions aimed at this population, specifically group therapy based in Narrative theory.


Eighth National Garrett Morgan Symposium On Sustainable Transportation, Report Mti 08-03, Mineta Transportation Institute Sep 2008

Eighth National Garrett Morgan Symposium On Sustainable Transportation, Report Mti 08-03, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute

On April 1, 2008, the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University hosted a videoconference that brought together experts in surface transportation and students from middle and high schools across the nation to discuss the importance of sustainable transportation. The goal was to introduce students to future career opportunities in transportation and to inspire them to take the high school and college courses that will prepare them for professional careers. Students from California, Maryland and Virginia participated in the 2008 symposium, during which they heard opening remarks from Vice Admiral Thomas J. Barrett, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department …


Inspire, Fall/Winter 2008: Take Flight, Cedarville College Sep 2008

Inspire, Fall/Winter 2008: Take Flight, Cedarville College

Inspire

No abstract provided.


Silly Season Miscellany, Richard C. Crepeau Sep 2008

Silly Season Miscellany, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Ohio State Football Inc. announced that Jim Tressel will be getting a raise of over $1M to $3.5M next year. That was before he went out and hammered the formidable Youngstown State Football Inc. on Saturday, 43-0. Certainly this drubbing will require another raise this week or next.


Stages Of The Ongoing Global Financial Crisis: Is There A Wandering Asset Bubble?, Lucjan Orlowski Sep 2008

Stages Of The Ongoing Global Financial Crisis: Is There A Wandering Asset Bubble?, Lucjan Orlowski

WCBT Faculty Publications

This study argues that the severity of the current global financial crisis is strongly influenced by changeable allocations of the global savings. This process is named a “wandering asset bubble”. Since its original outbreak induced by the demise of the subprime mortgage market and the mortgage-backed securities in the U.S., this crisis has reverberated across other credit areas, structured financial products and global financial institutions. Four distinctive stages of the crisis are identified: the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market, spillovers into broader credit market, the liquidity crisis epitomized by the fallout of Bear Sterns with some contagion effects on …


Interest Groups And Morality In The Public Square, Jack Van Der Slik Sep 2008

Interest Groups And Morality In The Public Square, Jack Van Der Slik

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Innovation And Equilibrium?, Martin Shubik Sep 2008

Innovation And Equilibrium?, Martin Shubik

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

A discussion is given of the problems involved in the formal modeling of the innovation process. The link between innovation and finance is stressed. The nature of how the circular flow of funds is broken and the role of finance in evaluation and control is discussed.


Sufficiency Of An Outside Bank And A Default Penalty To Support The Value Of Fiat Money: Experimental Evidence, Juergen Huber, Martin Shubik, Shyam Sunder Sep 2008

Sufficiency Of An Outside Bank And A Default Penalty To Support The Value Of Fiat Money: Experimental Evidence, Juergen Huber, Martin Shubik, Shyam Sunder

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We present a model in which an outside bank and a default penalty support the value of fiat money, and experimental evidence that the theoretical predictions about the behavior of such economies, based on the Fisher-condition, work reasonably well in a laboratory setting. The import of this finding for the theory of money is to show that the presence of a societal bank and default laws provide sufficient structure to support the use of fiat money and use of the bank rate to influence inflation or deflation, although other institutions could provide alternatives.


Inference For Parameters Defined By Moment Inequalities: A Recommended Moment Selection Procedure, Donald W.K. Andrews, Panle Jai Barwick Sep 2008

Inference For Parameters Defined By Moment Inequalities: A Recommended Moment Selection Procedure, Donald W.K. Andrews, Panle Jai Barwick

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper is concerned with tests and confidence intervals for partially-identified parameters that are defined by moment inequalities and equalities. In the literature, different test statistics, critical value methods, and implementation methods (i.e., asymptotic distribution versus the bootstrap) have been proposed. In this paper, we compare a wide variety of these methods. We provide a recommended test statistic, moment selection critical value method, and implementation method. In addition, we provide a data-dependent procedure for choosing the key moment selection tuning parameter and a data-dependent size-correction factor.


Financial Control Of A Competitive Economy Without Randomness, Ioannis Karatzas, Martin Shubik, William D. Sudderth Sep 2008

Financial Control Of A Competitive Economy Without Randomness, Ioannis Karatzas, Martin Shubik, William D. Sudderth

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The monetary and fiscal control of a simple economy without outside randomness is studied here from the micro-economic basis of a strategic market game. The government’s bureaucracy is treated as a public good that provides services at a cost. A conventional public good is also considered.


The Human Face Of Economic Globalization: Mexican Migrants And Their Support For Free Trade, John Aldrich, Victoria Defrencesco Soto, Gregory A. Petrow Sep 2008

The Human Face Of Economic Globalization: Mexican Migrants And Their Support For Free Trade, John Aldrich, Victoria Defrencesco Soto, Gregory A. Petrow

Political Science Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results from a focus group and an experiment conducted with Mexican immigrant farm workers as participants. The idea is to investigate free trade attitudes among a group little studied in the debate over immigration and its role in globalization. We can readily illustrate, as we do via our focus group participants, that many of these migrants understand their political situation. Our focus then turns to the political psychology of these workers: how does this understanding manifest itself in their political attitudes? The experiment exposes them to a standard set of arguments for and against economic globalization …


Responding Destructively In Leadership Situations: The Role Of Personal Values And Problem Construction, Jody J. Illies, Roni Reiter-Palmon Sep 2008

Responding Destructively In Leadership Situations: The Role Of Personal Values And Problem Construction, Jody J. Illies, Roni Reiter-Palmon

Psychology Faculty Publications

This study explored the influence of personal values on destructive leader behavior. Student participants completed a managerial assessment center that presented them with ambiguous leadership decisions and problems. Destructive behavior was defined as harming organizational members or striving for short-term gains over long-term organizational goals. Results revealed that individuals with self-enhancement values were more destructive than individuals with self-transcendence values were, with the core values of power (self-enhancement) and universalism (self-transcendence) being most influential. Results also showed that individuals defined and structured leadership problems in a manner that reflected their value systems, which in turn affected the problem solutions they …


Saving Lives: A First Step Toward Freedom Not Dependence, William F. Felice Sep 2008

Saving Lives: A First Step Toward Freedom Not Dependence, William F. Felice

Human Rights & Human Welfare

During the nineteenth century, European powers extended and deepened their brutal domination of the so-called “uncivilized” (sic) nations and peoples around the world. These efforts were named “colonialist” and were based on the uprooting of indigenous peoples, the export and pillage of natural resources, cultural displacement, direct political control, and economic exploitation and the creation of dependency by the Europeans. While the European states gained colossal economic benefits from these arrangements, the colonized peoples were left with failed states and bad governments. Advocates of these colonialist policies often justified these actions on the basis of a deep-felt ideological belief in …


Nothing "Colonial" About It: Service Delivery And Accountability, Todd Landman Sep 2008

Nothing "Colonial" About It: Service Delivery And Accountability, Todd Landman

Human Rights & Human Welfare

At one level, there is little in “The New Colonialists” with which I disagree. The necessary state capacity in developing societies for basic service delivery is in many cases absent, significantly weak, or has been corrupted in ways that produce tremendous inequality of access and disproportionate social outcomes that are related to race, ethnicity, poverty, gender, and other categories of social identity. It is true that in the presence of weak state institutions, widespread corruption, and underdeveloped infrastructure, a large number of national and international non-governmental agencies and organizations have sought to redress such imbalances through their work in providing …