Albion College

About: Albion College is a education organization based out in Albion, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 485 authors who have published 754 publications receiving 20907 citations.

Undoing and reconstructing African identities: a cultural approach

Abstract: This study analyses selected literary/cultural texts to show the difficulties in dealing with the questions of individual and collective identity. It examines some African texts' attempts to undo both the oral and written (colonial) traditions' conceptions of identity. The former views identity not so much as a fixed and an immutable essence, but as a construct shaped by various elements that are in constant flux and, therefore, always in the process of definition and redefinition. The latter presents identity as frozen in time and space as the written information and the picture in an ID. Having thus deconstructed both traditions' conceptions, it will be a question of showing how one of these texts reconceptualizes individual and, by extension, African identity as shaped by such abstract terms as liberation (name), Liberty (surname), Justice (father's name) and Dignity (mother's name).

Pigouvian Taxation with Costly Administration and Multiple Externalities

Abstract: This paper generalizes corrective taxation to settings with costly administration and many externalities. If administrative cost varies only with the pollution generating activity, the optimal tax is equal to the externality added to the marginal administrative cost, and the private market fully internalizes the externality and administrative cost. If, due to the nature of enforcement, administrative cost varies with tax rates, then optimal policy leaves some portion of externalities uncorrected. As a result, using taxes to modify complement and substitute activities will be welfare increasing. Optimal policy may include subsidizing some harmful activities in order to reduce levels of even more harmful substitutes. Similarly, if the optimal activity mix changes with the scale of production and if higher scales of production use less harmful activity mixes, subsidizing the output of a harmful production process may be optimal.

An urn model for recall order

Abstract: An urn model based on an associationistic scheme of response ordering in recall is described. The model produces sequences of binary events where each event is identified by membership in one of two verbal classes. Data show that this series of binary events tends to reflect recall sequences of items from two categories.

Grade Labeling for Canned Fruits and Vegetables

Abstract: THERE has been a great deal of controversy in recent years over the relative merits of grade labeling as an aid in the marketing of canned fruits and vegetables. Misunderstanding of the grade labeling problem has arisen from three principal sources: first, a misunderstanding of this particular program of the Agricultural Marketing Service; second, the lack of concrete evidence based on a thorough statistical investigation to prove or disprove a given hypothesis; and, third, opposition of groups to the entire idea of federal grades, based on a sincere belief that other methods of labeling are inherently superior to this method. In this article the author attempts to clarify certain of these misunderstandings.