...Terry Caesar Terry Caesar On Teaching at a Second-Rate University But if you are forbidden to say second-rate, why then you must leave behind you all good sense nothing can be discussed at all if you can t say second-rate! Wyndham Lewis, Tarr while ago the chairman of the English department...

...Robert W. Winston, Esquire Copyright © 1907 by Duke University Press 1907 The Passenger Rate War in North Carolina By Robert W. Winston, Esquire Of Durham. N. C. By an Act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, passed during the present year, severe penalties are prescribed for rail­...

...Allan Peskin Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 President Garfield and the Rating Game: An Evaluation of a Brief Administration Allan Peskin Among the games political historians delight to play, a perennial favorite is one which might be called Rate the President. From time...

...Calvin B. Hoover Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 NATIONAL POLICY AND RATES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH: The United States, Soviet Russia, and Western Europe Calvin B. Hoover When we compare the long-run determinants of the national income differences of the countries of the world...

...Duncan K. Foley While the depression of the 1890s and the stagflation of the 1970s appear to be manifestations of Karl Marx's contention that the rate of profit tends to fall over time, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of the 2000s appear to be rooted in rising rates...

...Heather Gautney Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is part of an ongoing series of pro-democracy protests throughout the United States against alarming trends in social inequality, high rates of home foreclosure and unemployment, and the excessive influence of corporate and financial interests on government...

... to both. The authors take up one of those features in particular: the use of tip-based or piece-rate methods of wage payment. They explore the history of this insecure and informalized wage form not only to track the systematization of hyperexploitation in the service sector, but also to unearth a history...

... necessary for survival. A focus on how Black transwomen live, despite continued physical, spiritual, socioeconomic, political, and cultural annihilation, remains critically important given the myriad indicators (low average life expectancy, low annual income, disproportionally high murder rate, etc...

... one of the highest rates of extreme poverty, inequality, and violence on the continent; (3) being both Black and poor is not exactly a coincidence. Although there are many reasons behind the protests in Colombia, this article focuses on the structural and everyday expressions of racism that lead...

...; and interest charges on all support debt, which most states charge at rates of up to 10 percent. Both state practices hit incarcerated parents especially hard, since they are usually unable to keep up with their support orders while in prison—and often unaware of how and why their debt is accruing. By becoming...

..., and thereby higher electricity rates for everyone else with no choice but to remain on the grid. In response to such growing inequality, decision-makers searched for innovative business models, appealing to green loans as ways of expanding this class of solar consumers. As a result, while a select few have...

... government control. More than this, railroads and people have come to a further agreement. In the past railroads have often sold similar services to different people at widely varying rates of compensation, thus bringing prosperity to one man s business and failure to that of his competitor. In doing...

...David G. Davies Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Tax Policy, Economic Growth, and the Ideas of the New Supply-Side Economists David G. Davies The negligible rate of growth of most developed and developing economies has led to a growing disenchantment with the long-reigning...

...William H. Glasson The Crusade Against the Railroads By William H. Glasson, Professor of Economics in Trinity College The remarkable movement for rate reduction and restrictive railway legislation which has swept over the country during the past year and especially during the past three months...

... of certain alternative and comparative reasonable rates of growth in per capita income. We may then better see what is involved in maintaining or in closing the international income gap. And the mathematics of income growth are not very comforting. For the sake of illustrative calculations, take per capita...

..., for, as the Secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Health has said: Real public health work can be recognized only by its effect in re­ ducing a high death rate, a death rate over 16 per thousand, or in main­ taining a low death rate, a death rate under is per thousand. Health work that does not have the above...

... but satisfying. Improvement in diet, hygiene, medical science, and sanitation are also usually assumed to be responsible for the constantly dropping death rates characteristic of modern times, but thirty years ago Ray­ mond J. Pearl in his Biology of Population Growth questioned this. He was puzzled by the fact...

... and that we do pay the bill. Further­ more, we are fully aware that we shall have to continue to do so. The most sensitive points of contact between us and our railroads are in the matter of investment and rates. Where do our railroads stand as regards the investment situation? I Railroads must compete...

... rate. Another bachelor member arose to say, I learn with amazement and horror that even in the House there are nearly two hundred bachelors, upon which the Commons cried, Shame, shame. The Members of Parliament who received these figures with such levity might also have been entertained...

... the problem of unemployment.1 Despite the New Deal programs, in 1939 on the eve of World War II there were still 9.5 million workers in the United States unemployed. The unemployment rate, while lower than in the deep depression years, was greater than 17 percent. In contrast, the rate averaged only 4.6...