Monthly Archives: January 2012
Proposed Paper for ASA 2012
Update 3/19/12 — this proposed paper did not make the cut for the conference in November — 166 of 350 papers submitted were accepted, according to the notification. That’s too bad, but I will continue working on this, nonetheless, beginning … Continue reading
Play the Class Struggle Game…
From the back of a Carl Sandburg pamphlet, You and Your Job (Charles Kerr, 19??), which is available from the Eugene Debs collection at Indiana State U http://debs.indstate.edu/s2133y6_1900.pdf. I would love to have this game and, for good measure, to … Continue reading
Little Change in Public’s Response to ‘Capitalism,’ ‘Socialism’ | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Little Change in Public’s Response to ‘Capitalism,’ ‘Socialism’ | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Overview The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have focused public attention on what organizers see as the excesses of America’s free market … Continue reading
I love inscriptions and marginalia
A wonderful inscription appears on the inside cover of a book I am reading for my sabbatical research, Ken Roemer’s The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900 (Kent State UP, 1998). This is a copy from the shelves of … Continue reading
List of recessions in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of recessions in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the course of my current research, I frequently encounter information about the boom and bust cycles of the American economy at the end of the 19th century, … Continue reading