Richard The Brighter Side B. Freeman and James L. Medoff, in The of Unions Public Interest (Fall 1979), P.O. BOX 542,
Old Chelsea, New York, N.Y. 1001 1.
Organized labor has come in for increasing criticism in the United States~evenas the percentage of workers in private industry who are unionized declines. The attacks, particularly from management wor- ried about declining productivity and from minority groups calling for "affirmative action," are not entirely justified, according to...
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lems" that underlay contemporary means of producing and distribut- ing goods throughout society. Medieval economists, for example, were "largely preoccupied with the question of whether the pursuit of mar- ket objectives . . .would bring men into spiritual danger." The mercan- tilists explored the relationship "between the pursuit of private gain through foreign trade and the national security." And classical econo- mists (e.g.,...
BsAasAren't Enough "Through the Academic Gateway" by
Bernard C. Watson, in Change (Oct. 19791,
NBW Tower, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10807.
In 1976, 1 million black Americans were enrolled in colleges and uni- versities-more than double the number enrolled in 1970. But such gains, argues Watson, a Temple University vice president, are over- rated as signs of black progress toward equality with whites.
For one thing, blacks are still vastly "underrepresented" in certain academic...
Elizabeth Douvan, Joseph Veroff, Matters and Richard Kulka, in Economic Outlook
USA (Summer 1979), Survey Research
Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box
1248, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106.
Americans' attitudes toward marriage, parenthood, and work have changed considerably over the last 20 years but not nearly so much as alarmists fear. So concludes a University of Michigan research team that surveyed 2,400 American adults in 1976 and compared its findings with those of an identical survey conducted...
Elizabeth Douvan, Joseph Veroff, Matters and Richard Kulka, in Economic Outlook
USA (Summer 1979), Survey Research
Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box
1248, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106.
Americans' attitudes toward marriage, parenthood, and work have changed considerably over the last 20 years but not nearly so much as alarmists fear. So concludes a University of Michigan research team that surveyed 2,400 American adults in 1976 and compared its findings with those of an identical survey conducted...
career opportunities. "Forty percent of the men who moved between urban areas attained a higher academic rank in the process; the comparable figure for women was 23.3 percent." Once again, marriage is a determining factor-in 1973, 75 percent of single women academics held the rank of associate professor or above; only 52 percent of the married women surveyed did.
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the U.S. Small Business Ad- ministration (SBA) to award loans and loan guarantees to minority businessmen may actually discriminate against the black entrepre- neurs who have the best chances of success, argue Bates, an economist at the University of Vermont, and Osborne, professor of management at UCLA.
To promote inner-city business development, the SBA is willing to assume a greater risk on loans to blacks than to whites; i.e., a black firm with small net worth is eligible for a larger SBA loan...
the U.S. Small Business Ad- ministration (SBA) to award loans and loan guarantees to minority businessmen may actually discriminate against the black entrepre- neurs who have the best chances of success, argue Bates, an economist at the University of Vermont, and Osborne, professor of management at UCLA.
To promote inner-city business development, the SBA is willing to assume a greater risk on loans to blacks than to whites; i.e., a black firm with small net worth is eligible for a larger SBA loan...
the federal government, must create "new career options in education" outside the traditional public school. To this end, he proposes training programs in basic academic skills for the handi- capped, minorities, members of the armed forces, and women entering the labor force for the first time; vocational training in industry; and education programs in prisons, mental institutions, and old-age homes.
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Congress9 "Network News Coverage of Congress" Michael J....
the networks day to day." Indeed, the authors conclude, the "networks need the President, and generally they cultivate him."
Time "Time Magazine Revisited: Presidential
Stereotypes Persist" Fred Fedler, Mike
Marches On Meeske, and Joe Hall, in Journalism Quar- terly (Summer 1979), 431 Murphy Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455.
Does America's No. 1 news magazine give the facts-and nothing but the facts? Fedler, Meeske, and Hall, who teach journalism...