Measuring employment effects in the regulatory process : recommendations and background study (SuDoc Y 3.EM 7/3:9/34)

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An increasing amount of attention has been focused on the employment effect of governmental regulation. Controversy over the implementation and impacts of governmental rules are now central to current public policy debates relating to employment and labor markets. A new policy framework for regulation is needed to make the regulatory decision-making process more responsive to the requirements for economic growth and to the employment effects of regulation. The President and Congress need to provide effective oversight of the process, from the perspective of both a single regulation and a government-wide approach to regulatory planning. Regulatory agencies need to use state-of-the-art analytical tools so that they can better determine the employment effects of their regulatory actions. This book presents a common-sense, albeit highly sophisticated and technical, approach to improving the technical soundness, credibility, and transparency of the regulatory decision-making process.

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Whether already experienced with hedge funds or just thinking about investing in them, readers need a firm understanding of this unique investment vehicle in order to achieve maximum success. Hedge Funds unites over thirty of the top practitioners and academics in the hedge fund industry to provide readers with the latest findings in this field. Their analysis deals with a variety of topics, from new methods of performance evaluation to portfolio allocation and risk/return matters. Although some of the information is technical in nature, an understanding and applicability of the results as well as theoretical developments are stressed. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Hedge Funds helps readers make the most of this flexible investment vehicle.

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Brian Wayne Wells, Esquire, reviews Robert Owen.......1998-01-20

Most of the great Utopian socialists were French, i.e. St. Simon, Fourier etc. One exception was Robert Owen who was born in England in 1771. He developed a reformist philosophy which sought to persuade all people to rearrange society so that the means of production were owned in common by all members of the society. He tried to establish these ideas in practice by experimentation in his home town of New Lanarck, England and in the United States.

In 1825 he purchased 30.000 acres in Indiana near the present town of New Harmony, Indiana. He established a self-contained community on that location which lasted just three years. He then returned to England and tried other experiments their and did extensive writing on his ideas.

This book contains a short survey of Robert Owen's life and a sample of his ideas taken for his writings. It is a worthy addition to any history library.

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The life & ideas of Robert Owen

Manufacturer: Lawrence & Wishart London
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THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF ROBERT OWEN.

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THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF ROBERT OWEN.
A. L. Morton
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The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen
A. L Morton
Manufacturer: International Publishers
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This book provides architects, engineers, builders, foresters, members of the pest control and timber industries, and the general public with a ready source of reference to the more important wood borers and termites encountered in Australia. Many species of timber can be attacked by wood-destroying insects such as wood borers and termites.

With some species of wood borer or termite, an infestation can result in serious economic damage necessitating treatment and repair or replacement of the affected timber. With other species, remedial action is unnecessary. In many situations, preventive measures can significantly reduce the damage caused by these wood-destroying insects.

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A fresh look at the phenomenon of mode conversion with tunneling.

This volume provides a thorough analysis of plasma wave resonance absorption--a mode conversion process used in wave heating and diagnostics worldwide. The only book to incorporate mode conversion into a general treatment of plasma physics and plasma waves, it describes a broad range of applications and develops methods of mode conversion that are more advanced and precise than others in use today. This monograph presents the complete theory underlying the diagnostic implications of the process, combining estimates of tunneling, reflection, conversion, and absorption with emission. It surveys two decades' worth of developments in the field and:
* Brings together a wealth of information previously scattered in the professional literature
* Details numerous analytical and numerical results, many of which are published here for the first time
* Proves the surprising result that the phenomena of tunneling and absorption are independent
* Shows the link between the absorption and emission processes associated with resonances
* Features dozens of illustrations, as well as an extensive bibliography and references
* Appends a collection of mathematical formulas useful in plasma physics
* Offers via e-mail a variety of Fortran codes covering the examples in the book.

Theory of Mode Conversion and Tunneling in Inhomogeneous Plasmas is an essential reference for researchers working in plasma physics, space plasma physics, and fusion energy fields, and for anyone developing codes in plasma wave heating modeling. Its tutorial approach makes it invaluable for graduate students taking courses in plasma waves--whether in physics, electrical engineering, or nuclear engineering.

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A MIND OPENING COLLECTION.......2002-01-02

Erskine Caldwell's sharp prose has captured the brutal culture of the south during the stark days of the depression. Readers were brutally shocked as they confronted the spiritual and psychological poverty of Caldwell's characters. In this collection of short stories Caldwell tackles the the complex relationships of Blacks and Whites in segregated America.

This collection was selected by Ray McIver, a Black man, who as a student became captivated by Caldwell's stories. Caldwell's honesty as a white southerner in dealing with racial relationships lead to both men becoming friends and working together to present these stories from varied magazines in which Caldwell was published.

The Black and White Stories of Erskine Caldwell shows the brutality of white men against Blacks in the rural south. The book is divided into four sections dealing with the themes of lynching, sexual exploitation, sadism and flim flamming. Caldwell's characters will shock you with their hate, cowardice and ignorance. You will come across characters who have to walk a thin line in the racial divide in order to survive. You are hit home with the raw emotions of Blacks and Whites who are locked in a never ending battle of wills.

This book is not a social commentary. It presents the stories in a straight forward manner that doesn't call for any apologies. Some of the stories will make you laugh and others will make you cry. Some will make you feel sick to your stomach and still others will fill you with riotous laughter. Caldwell hits his readers will a wide pallet of emotions as you attempt to make sense out of a chaotic world now gone.

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One of the 200 Most Important Confederate Books

On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures During the War
Joel Chandler Harris , and Erskine Caldwell
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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ASIN: 082032373X

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One of the 200 Most Important Confederate Books.......1997-09-21

One of the 200 Most Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher and Collector. Richard Barksdale Harwell Author of In Tall Cotton As listed in In Tall Cotton: [This is] a fictional treatment of Harris' early teen-age years as printer's devil for The Countryman, a remarkable country paper roughly modeled after The Spectator that was published during the war years by Joseph Addison Turner at Turnwold Plantation near Eatonton, Georgia. Harris dedicated On the Plantation to Turner and says in an "Introductory Note": "Some of my friends who have read in serial form the chronicles that follow profess to find in them something more than an autobiographical touch. Be it so. It would indeed be difficult to invest the commonplace character of Joe Maxwell [i.e., Harris] with the vitality that belongs to fiction. Nevertheless, the lad himself, and the events which are herein described, seem to have been born of a dream. That which is fiction pure and simple in these pages bears to me a stamp of truth, and that which is true reads like a clumsy invention. In this matter it is not for me to prompt the reader. He must sift the fact from the fiction and label it to suit himself.&quot

The Complete Stories of Erskine Caldwell

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The Complete Stories of Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Caldwell
Manufacturer: Duell, Sloan & Pearce
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ASIN: B000GKRPSO

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"Falling Out Over A Little Thing Like Kinship"
Should have been either funnier or more dramatic
Typical Caldwell

Georgia Boy
Erskine Caldwell , and Roy, Jr. Blount
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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ASIN: 0820317365

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"Falling Out Over A Little Thing Like Kinship".......2003-05-21

Equal parts burlesque, farce, and tall tale, Erskine Caldwell's interrelated short story collection Georgia Boy (1943) finds its author near the peak of his writing talent. The fourteen stories are narrated by young William Stroup, the observant only child of a poor Georgia family. While the endless string of shenanigans William reports clearly demonstrate his father Morris' stupidity, sloth, and immorality, objective William never offers an opinion on his father's behavior. As the stories progress, it becomes clear that while he mildly sympathizes with his hardworking, frustrated, and put - upon mother, William actually admires his father's outrageous breaches of acceptable behavior.

Like Jeeter Lester of Tobacco Road (1931) and Ty Ty Walden of God's Little Acre (1933) before him, Morris Stroup is a daydreamer constantly on the lookout for pie in the sky and any shortcut to prosperity, no matter how absurd, outlandish, or illegal. In fact, the Stroups stand somewhere between the Lesters and the Waldens in terms of socialization; while they are not as backward, uneducated, and dispossessed as the poorest - of - the - poor - Lesters, the Stroups lack the Walden's daring - do, ingenuity, marginal prosperity, and relatively strong interrelationships. Like the Lesters, the Stroups live in a house divided: since the extraverted Morris is constantly misbehaving on a grand scale, William's mother ("Ma") finds it necessary to constantly be on her guard against her husband's latest transgression. One of the book's hilarious running jokes is Ma telling William to "go in the house right this instant and shut the doors and pull down the window shades" so she can confront Morris alone with his latest deception, chase him with a broom, or throw any object available in his general direction. Like most men and teenage boys in Caldwell's fiction, Morris thinks with his reproductive organs first and his stomach second, his mind a distant third.

When Ma is not suffering due to Morris's behavior, Handsome Brown, the black "yard boy," is. Handsome lives in a shed on the Morris property and receives only food and occasional secondhand clothing for his work. The much - harassed Handsome, however, shows far more common and moral sense than any other character in the book. Handsome, who has a slight lazy streak of his own, also does most of the work around the house, while Morris "hasn't done an honest day's work in ten years." While Morris is clearly a fool in every sense, Handsome is only a fool in Morris's ignorant opinion: Morris unquestioningly considers Handsome a lesser being strictly on the basis of his race.

But Morris is an archetypal fool extraordinaire, ridiculously bringing one avoidable disaster after another upon his head. A pure fool, Morris is incapable of learning from his mistakes or perceiving his own culpability, lacks foresight entirely, and regardless of the outcome of his actions, still manages to have a high opinion of himself as a hail - fellow - what - met, kind, light - hearted individual. The stories of Georgia Boy abound with loaded, riotous situations, most of which, though not all, have been precipitated by Morris.

As in his other fiction, Caldwell excels at characterization, even while his men, women, and children tend to run to type. Caldwell had a genius for comedy that stretches the boundaries of probability without ever going too far. Like a fourteen - story illustration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's statement that "there's no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind," Georgia Boy is a warm, touching, and uproarious examination of the large and small foibles of man.

Should have been either funnier or more dramatic.......2003-01-09

Readers who were struck by the bleakness and power of Caldwell's Tobacco Road will find something very different in these almost homey, amusing reminiscences of a seriously dysfunctional Southern family. The book is structured as a series of self-sufficient vignettes, detailing separate incidents in the everyday lives of these very everyday people in the early 20th century. The father, Morris Stroup, is lazy, thoughtless, possibly a womanizer (only the Grass Widow knows for sure), certainly a thief, frequently a drunk, and willing to turn his hand to anything except honest work. The mother, Martha, is appropriately harried, cantankerous, demanding, and dictatorial. She takes in wash to help make ends meet, but she bitterly resents the fact that she has to do so much hard work (that she considers beneath her) just to make up for her husband's shortcomings. So what's a boy to do, but just try to stay out of the way?

The stories are told from the viewpoint of young William, but he is rarely more than an observer. Handsome Brown, the `Negro yardboy', gets stuck doing the really dirty work, and gets pretty short shrift from both grownups, although he and William are great pals. He bears the brunt of most of the book's physical humor, and some enterprising student could probably write a good paper about racism (or just plain southern stereotypes) using this book. Despite the nostalgic, Wonder Years viewpoint, there's an undercurrent of pain and frustration that makes us sympathize with these characters even when we see them behaving pretty badly, as when Pa comes home drunk and starts breaking the furniture, or Ma's endlessly distressing over what the neighbors will think. Caldwell's picturesque prose paints some hilarious pictures - the goats on the roof, and the attack of the shirt-tail woodpeckers stick in the mind - but the actual belly-laughs are few and far between, and too often the characters come off as more pathetic than lovable. As a result, the pleasure one might derive from these slapstick antics is tempered by the misery and poverty that these luckless people seem doomed to live in. Fans of southern literature will find this book fairly light reading, however, since many American authors (Faulkner, Twain, Harper Lee, etc...) have dealt with the foibles, follies, pain and pathos of these kinds of characters far more effectively.

Typical Caldwell.......1999-09-14

This book is a novel / short story collection. The book involves a poor Georgia family: an ignorant but pleasure seeking husband, his nagging, hard-working wife, their young teen-age son, and their black workman ( who is treated as a thankless slave ).

Each chapter in the book, is not related to the previous, but are simply episodes of humor in ignorance. Their father's money making schemes are a stitch. Their are also some sobering stories as well, but mostly it is a funny book. I found myself really attached to the family at the end and enjoyed the book quite a bit. It is typical Caldwell writing here.

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Men and Women
Erskine Caldwell , and Carvel Collins
Manufacturer: McIntosh & Otis Books
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In Search of Bisco (Brown Thrasher Books)

ASIN: 1892323761

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A collection of Caldwell's finest short stories moves deftly from youth to old age. Caldwell shows great perception of adolescent awakening to awareness of physical love and the often humorous tribulations of youthful courtship. Marriage and aspects of love and life in later years are the subjects of further stories, as well as an astute glance at old age and death before finishing with the fantastic story of the fly in the coffin.

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sharp and concise

The Stories of Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Caldwell
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sharp and concise.......2001-02-01

Caldwell's stories are very sharp, concise and pointed. No word is wasted in his deceptively simple way of adressing Southern life in America. This anthology of short stories makes it pretty obvious that Caldwell ought to be read for years to come. Far more than a vulgar comedian; he is one of the very few writers that really manage to satirize the crudest, meanest, lowliest people you ever saw, and still come across as a story-teller who loves his characters.

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Complete Stories of Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Caldwell
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Caldwell: Complete Stories
Erskine Caldwell
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22 Great Modern Short Stories from Jackpot

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22 Great Modern Short Stories from Jackpot
Erskine Caldwell
Manufacturer: Avon Book Co.
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22 Great Modern Stories
Erskine Caldwell
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