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Public Choice Economics And The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
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Book Synopsis Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria by : Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.
Download or read book Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria written by Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria provides an economics perspective on the witchcraft episode, and adds to the growing body of work analyzing prominent historical events using the tools of economics.
Book Synopsis A Terrible Efficiency by : Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.
Download or read book A Terrible Efficiency written by Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust. More specifically, the book argues, as do Breton and Wintrobe (1986), that the subordinates in the Nazi bureaucracy were not “following orders” as they claimed during the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere, but were instead exhibiting an entrepreneurial spirit in competing with one another in order to find the most efficient way of exacting the Final Solution. This involved engaging in a process of exchange with their superiors, wherein the subordinates offered the kinds of informal services that are not codified in formal contracts. In doing so, they were competing for the rewards, or informal payments not codified in formal contracts, that were conferred by those at the top of the bureaucracy. These came in the form of rapid promotion, perquisites (pecuniary and in-kind), and other awards. The types of exchanges described above are based on “trust,” not formal institutions.
Book Synopsis Reading the Salem Witch Child by : Kristina West
Download or read book Reading the Salem Witch Child written by Kristina West and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to explore both what we might understand as a child in 1692 New England and to consider our adult investment in reading the child, Kristina West explores narratives of the afflicted girls and the many accused children whom are often absent or overlooked in histories, and considers how the trial structure is continually repeated in attempts to establish the respective guilt and innocence of these and other groups. This book also analyses later manuscripts and fictional rewritings of the trials to question the basis on which assumptions about the child in history are made, and to consider why such narratives of Salem’s children are still relevant now.
Book Synopsis Dark Days in Salem by : Deborah Ann Kent
Download or read book Dark Days in Salem written by Deborah Ann Kent and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1692, a group of girls in Salem Village set off a witchcraft panic that engulfed eastern Massachusetts. As a result, nineteen people were hanged as witches and an old man was killed under torture. Through an engaging recounting of historical events enhanced by memorable photographs and illustrations, readers will examine witchcraft beliefs in Europe and colonial New England. They will examine the factors that influenced the panic in Salem, including why the town and the surrounding communities fell prey to such unbridled terror and why, instead of calling for calm and reason, the authorities also became swept up in the hysteria.
Book Synopsis War Movies and Economics by : Laura J. Ahlstrom
Download or read book War Movies and Economics written by Laura J. Ahlstrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Movies and Economics: Lessons from Hollywood’s Adaptations of Military Conflict applies ongoing research in the relatively new genre of economics in popular media to Hollywood’s war movies. Whether inadvertently or purposefully, these movies provide numerous examples of how economic principles often play an important role in military conflict. The authors of the chapters included in this edited collection work to illustrate economics lessons portrayed in adaptations such as Band of Brothers, Conspiracy, The Dirty Dozen, Dunkirk, Memphis Belle, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Spartacus, Stalag 17, and Valkyrie. Aspects of these stories show how key economic principles of scarcity, limited resources, and incentives play important roles in military conflict. The movies also provide an avenue for discussion of the economics of public goods provision, the modern economic theory of bureaucracy, and various game-theoretic concepts such as strategic moves and commitment devices. Where applicable, lessons from closely related fields such as management are also provided. This book is ideal reading for students of economics looking for an approachable route to understanding basic principles of economics and game theory. It is also accessible to amateur and professional historians, and any reader interested in popular culture as it relates to television, movies, and military history.
Book Synopsis Paying Bribes for Public Services by : R. Rose
Download or read book Paying Bribes for Public Services written by R. Rose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents what happens when people encounter public officials. It draws on multi-national Barometer surveys asking questions about corruption and bribery in 119 countries. Clear prose, tables and figures report the answers given by more than 250,000 people and the conclusion sets out six principles for reducing bribery.
Book Synopsis Economic Inequality and Policy Control in the United States by : M. Stelzner
Download or read book Economic Inequality and Policy Control in the United States written by M. Stelzner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The income share of the top one percent of the population in the United States has increased from a little over nine percent of national income in the 1970s to 22.46 percent in 2012 a 144 percent increase. What is driving this astronomic growth in incomes for some? Is it possibly the result of non-meritorious forces? If so, how has this incredibly unequal development coexisted, and indeed worsened, in a political system based on equality? In Economic Inequality and Policy Control in the United States, Stelzner tackles each of these questions, and, in order to further develop understanding, Stelzner looks to the past and analyzes our experience with income inequality and the orientation of laws and institutions from the Gilded Age through the New and Fair Deal. He concludes that we have the tools to tackle inequality at present the same policies we used during the New and Fair Deal. However, in order to make change durable, we have to eliminate the undemocratic elements of our political system.
Download or read book The Gove Legacy written by M. Finn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Gove was, unquestionably, a pivotal figure in British educational reform during his time as the coalition's Secretary of State for Education. This team of experts, drawn from academia, think-tanks and trade unions, offer an unrivalled early assessment of the impact of Gove, and his reforms, on the British educational landscape.
Book Synopsis Motion Capture in Performance by : M. Delbridge
Download or read book Motion Capture in Performance written by M. Delbridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motion Capture in Performance explores the historical origins, properties and implications of Motion Capture. It introduces a new mode of performance for the commercial film, animation, and console gaming industries - 'Performance Capture', a distinct interdisciplinary discourse in the fields of theatre, animation, performance studies and film.
Book Synopsis The Times They Are A Changin' by : D. Savage
Download or read book The Times They Are A Changin' written by D. Savage and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die. The authors examine over 60 years of Himalayan climbing data and stories in order to test the changes in cooperation in this extreme life and death environment.
Book Synopsis Soft Power and Freedom under the Coalition by : E. Bell
Download or read book Soft Power and Freedom under the Coalition written by E. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of five key policy areas, from welfare reform to foreign policy, demonstrates that the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition failed to fulfil its promise to reverse the rising power of the State. It exercised more subtle forms of 'soft power', often in partnership with the private sector, and to the detriment of ordinary citizens.
Book Synopsis Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements by : A. Yalcintas
Download or read book Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements written by A. Yalcintas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film-makers, social scientists and other creative individuals, out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power.
Book Synopsis The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University by : C. Sá
Download or read book The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University written by C. Sá and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship is widely embraced today in political discourse, popular culture, and economic policy prescriptions. Several groups actively promote entrepreneurial thinking and practices in higher education. This book examines how this 'Entrepreneurship Movement' impacts higher education in Canada and the United States.
Book Synopsis Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’ by : C. Hughes
Download or read book Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’ written by C. Hughes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is shifting onto a new trajectory for a more muscular national security policy, US-Japan alliance ties functioning for regional and global security, and the encirclement of China's influence in East Asia. The author explores how PM Abe Shinz?'s doctrine may prove contradictory and counter-productive to Japanese national interests.
Book Synopsis Video Game Narrative and Criticism by : T. Thabet
Download or read book Video Game Narrative and Criticism written by T. Thabet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a comprehensive application of narrative theory to video games, and presents the player-response paradigm of game criticism. Video Game Narrative and Criticism explains the nature of gameplay - a psychological experience and a meaning-making process in the fictional world of video games.
Book Synopsis The Salem Witch Crisis by : Larry D. Gragg
Download or read book The Salem Witch Crisis written by Larry D. Gragg and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-06-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salem Witch Crisis offers a readable narrative of events surrounding the Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. Studies of early American witchcraft in the past two decades have been specialized ones. They demonstrated the possibility that economic conflict, gender and generational hostility, religious divisions, fears of witch cults, and challenges to the legal system sometimes were involved in witchcraft accusations. Collectively, these numerous scholarly monographs and journal articles have both broadened and deepened our understanding of the role of witchcraft beliefs in early America. Unfortunately, there is no single volume that draws upon this impressive body of research and incorporates it into an account of what happened at Salem. Second, the scholarship of the last twenty years has not usually been directed to the general reader; most authors either assume readers are familiar with the events of 1692 or obscure their efforts by resorting to the occasionally impenetrable vocabulary of the social sciences. Gragg provides a synthesis of modern scholarship on the Salem witch trials in a style accessible to the general reader. The inclination of recent scholars has been to portray the people of seventeenth-century Massachusetts as helpless victims of powerful economic, social, and psychological forces. Many recent accounts depict individuals as being unable to have an impact on events, because of entrenched sexual hostility, chronic generational conflicts, or the clash of capitalist and peasant cultures. Gragg asserts a more traditional interpretation. Rather than seeing the people of Salem Village and the surrounding communities as being swept along by the forces of historical change, he makes a very strong case that the people involved (whether they were clergymen, judges, accusers, or the accused) were active participants, who made decisions that shaped the outcome of events in 1692.
Book Synopsis The Wonders of the Invisible World by : Cotton Mather
Download or read book The Wonders of the Invisible World written by Cotton Mather and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
