Economists VoicePub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/1553-3832.1911
Kevin W. Caves
{"title":"The Bottle and The Border: What Can America's Failed Experiment With Alcohol Prohibition in The 1920s Teach us About The Likely Effects of Anti-Immigration Legislation Today?","authors":"Kevin W. Caves","doi":"10.1515/1553-3832.1911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/1553-3832.1911","url":null,"abstract":"Alcohol prohibition is now distant memory, although it’s direct descendant—the War on Drugs, first declared by Richard Nixon in the early 1970s—appears to have inherited many of the ugly features of its predecessor. Economists, policymakers, and others (filmmakers, journalists, etc.) have taken note of the obvious parallels and called for reform. Yet there exists another clear historical parallel that seems to have been overlooked in the public imagination: Our political system remains fixated on what amounts to a de facto prohibition on economically realistic levels of immigration.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/1553-3832.1911","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66787378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/1553-3832.1908
Dennis L. Weisman, G. Robinson
{"title":"Eiminating Racial Preferences in College Admissions","authors":"Dennis L. Weisman, G. Robinson","doi":"10.1515/1553-3832.1908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/1553-3832.1908","url":null,"abstract":"Critics of affirmative action policies contend that the elimination of racial preferences in college admissions would lead to a “more-able” student body. In a system in which other non-meritocratic elements other than race play an important role there is no reason to think that the slot filled by the race-preferred candidate will be filled by another candidate of higher “quality.”","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66787742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/1553-3832.1900
Maliha Safri
{"title":"The Economics of Occupation","authors":"Maliha Safri","doi":"10.1515/1553-3832.1900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/1553-3832.1900","url":null,"abstract":"Maliha Safri examines the internal organization of sustained political protests such as OWS, and finds a substantial amoung of economic activity.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/1553-3832.1900","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66787560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/1553-3832.1904
S. Naidu
{"title":"Introduction: Economics and Occupy Wall Street","authors":"S. Naidu","doi":"10.1515/1553-3832.1904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/1553-3832.1904","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of the The Economists’ Voice is showcasing views around the issues Occupy Wall Street has raised.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/1553-3832.1904","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66787583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/1553-3832.1895
Tim J. Kane
{"title":"Debt and Democracy","authors":"Tim J. Kane","doi":"10.1515/1553-3832.1895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/1553-3832.1895","url":null,"abstract":"Tim Kane says that the patient suffers from economic symptoms but that the biological origins of the economic health problems are genetically based in the DNA of the U.S. Constitution. He suggests that fiscal policy be treated like monetary policy with a Super Committee like the Federal Reserve which is removed from short term electoral influences.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/1553-3832.1895","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66786442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/1553-3832.1896
D. Baker
{"title":"The Broken Health Care System: The Real Long-Term Deficit Problem","authors":"D. Baker","doi":"10.1515/1553-3832.1896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/1553-3832.1896","url":null,"abstract":"Tackling health care costs is critical – Dean Baker suggests we unleash the forces brought foreign trade in health care services and personnel. The benefits are obvious but the impediments are great.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"566 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/1553-3832.1896","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66786799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/1553-3832.1923
E. Cohen, R. Mcgowan
{"title":"Grass is Always Greener When It's Legal: Policies for State Regulated Marijuana","authors":"E. Cohen, R. Mcgowan","doi":"10.1515/1553-3832.1923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/1553-3832.1923","url":null,"abstract":"T he year 2012 is shaping up to be a banner year for proponents of marijuana legalization. Voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington will consider legalization ballot measures on Election Day. Federal prohibition notwithstanding, these measures would begin the ending of prohibitions of not just medical marijuana, but also marijuana for recreational consumption. However, as California showed with an illplanned Proposition 19 in 2010, merely proposing to legalize marijuana is not enough to win over the electorate; voters should only consider proposals with a properly planned tax and regulatory policy. This paper lays out a potential regulatory framework of a legalized marijuana market. The proposed framework is founded on the goals in transitioning from a prohibition to a regulated market, and utilizes lessons learned from the taxation and regulation of other “sin” industries.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/1553-3832.1923","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66787816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/1553-3832.1901
Michael Beggs
{"title":"Occupy Economics","authors":"Michael Beggs","doi":"10.1515/1553-3832.1901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/1553-3832.1901","url":null,"abstract":"We are walking out today to join a Boston-wide march protesting the corporatization of higher education as part of the global Occupy movement. Since the biased nature of Economics 10 contributes to and symbolizes the increasing economic inequality in America, we are walking out of your class today both to protest your inadequate discussion of basic economic theory and to lend our support to a movement that is changing American discourse on economic injustice.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/1553-3832.1901","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66787309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2011-09-07DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1870
Lonnie K. Stevans
{"title":"Comment on DeLong: Why is Economics in Crisis?","authors":"Lonnie K. Stevans","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1870","url":null,"abstract":"Why is economics in crisis? Just look at the curriculum or the obscure articles we publish, says Lonnie Stevans of Hofstra University.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1870","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68650997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2011-06-01DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1839
J. Aizenman, G. Pasricha
{"title":"The Net Fiscal Expenditure Stimulus in the US, 2008-9: Less than What You Might Think, and Less than the Fiscal Stimuli of Most OECD Countries","authors":"J. Aizenman, G. Pasricha","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1839","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how the economy reacted to fiscal stimulus in the aftermath of the deepest recession of the last fifty years is essential. Joshua Aizenman of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Gurnain Kaur Pasricha of the Santa Cruz Institute for International Economics and the Bank of Canada show that aggregate fiscal expenditure stimulus in the United States, properly adjusted for the declining fiscal expenditure of the fifty states, was close to zero in 2009. Furthermore, the USA is ranked at the bottom third in terms of the rate of expansion of the consolidated government consumption and investment of the 28 OECD countries they studied recently.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1839","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68650430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}