1. Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress. 2. Drawing the Color Line. 3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition. 4. Tyranny is Tyranny. 5. A Kind of Revolution. 6. The Intimately Oppressed. 7. As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs. 8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God. 9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom. 10. The Other Civil War. 11. Robber Barons and Rebels. 12. The Empire and the People. 13. The Socialist Challenge. 14. War is the Health of the State. 15. Self-help in Hard Times. 16. A People's War? 17. "Or Does It Explode?" 18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam. 19.Surprises. 20.The Seventies: Under Control? 21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus. 22. The Unreported Resistance. 23.The Coming Revolt of the Guards. 24. The Clinton Presidency. Afterword. Bibliography. Index.

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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

There are two striking aspects of the recovery from the Great Depression in the United States: the recovery was very weak, and real wages in several sectors rose significantly above trend. These data contrast sharply with neoclassical theory, which predicts a strong recovery with low real wages. We evaluate the contribution to the persistence of the Depression of New Deal cartelization policies designed to limit competition and increase labor bargaining power. We develop a model of the bargaining process between labor and firms that occurred with these policies and embed that model within a multisector dynamic general equilibrium model. We find that New Deal cartelization policies are an important factor in accounting for the failure of the economy to recover back to trend.

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New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis

The theory of plate tectonics provides a basic framework for evaluating the potential for future great earthquakes to occur along major plate boundaries. Along most of the transform and convergent plate boundaries considered in this paper, the majority of seismic slip occurs during large earthquakes, i.e., those of magnitude 7 or greater. The concepts that rupture zones, as delineated by aftershocks, tend to abut rather than overlap, and large events occur in regions with histories of both long- and short-term seismic quiescence are used in this paper to delineate major seismic gaps.

Seismic gaps and plate tectonics: Seismic potential for major boundaries

Recent studies of the theory of representative bureaucracy have focused on active representation, whereby administrators in public organizations work to advance the interests of particular groups, achieving policy outcomes that directly address the needs of those groups. The concept of administrative discretion is central to these studies, as an administrator must have the discretion to produce results that reflect the values and beliefs of these groups. While the presence of discretion is often implied in these studies, few have examined it explicitly. Using data from the Farmer’s Home Administration, we explore whether administrators who perceive themselves as having more discretion enact policy outcomes that are more representative of minority interests. The results strongly support the conclusion that administrators who perceive themselves as possessing significant discretion and who assume the role of minority representative in their agencies are more likely to enact policy outcomes that favor minority interests. In the evolution of public administration theory and practice, a general consensus has been reached that the investment of discretionary power in administrative agencies is a fact of life. While public administration theorists once believed that a public administrator’s actions could be dictated clearly by legislative mandate, numerous studies have demonstrated it is often impossible for legislators to anticipate all of the circumstances that may influence admin

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Administrative Discretion and Active Representation: An Expansion of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy

The debate over the source and propagation of economic fluctuations rages as fiercely today as it did 50 years ago in the aftermath of Keynes’s The General Theory and in the midst of the Great Depression. Today, as then, there are two schools of thought. The classical school emphasizes the optimization of private economic actors, the adjustment of relative prices to equate supply and demand, and the efficiency of unfettered markets. The Keynesian school believes that understanding economic fluctuations requires not just studying the intricacies of general equilibrium, but also appreciating the possibility of market failure on a grand scale.

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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Seismic gaps and plate tectonics: Seismic potential for major boundaries

Administrative Discretion and Active Representation: An Expansion of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy

Real Business Cycles: A New Keynesian Perspective

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