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The Bonus March and the Cold War
Get PDFIn 1932, veterans marched to the capitol to try force congress to pay their bonuses early. In 1948, this was reinterpreted as an attempted communist revolution. This is due to the way that the Second Red Scare shifted the acceptable range of political thought to an extreme that the idea of anti-capitalist/anti-US dissent that was not manufactured by the Soviet Union was impossible
Understanding Without Explanation? A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Explanation Paradox of Economic Models
Get PDFConventional economic modeling is frequently criticized for being “unrealistic” due to the variety of unrealistic assumptions that underpin many models. Critics frequently wonder how models that are unrealistic or false can accurately explain economic phenomena. This criticism and the problem it presents for economics is captured by Julian Reiss’s “explanation paradox.” This paper aims to evaluate Reiss’s paradox and assess the problems it poses for economics as a positive science. To address this problem, I survey a variety of competing strategies offered by philosophers and economists before critically evaluating the validity of the paradox. I conclude that while economic models cannot be considered explanatory because they do not completely and accurately identify the causes of economic phenomena, they still offer understanding that is valuable for informing economic policy
Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound (ASUPS) Senate Minutes 2020-2021
Get PDFMeeting minutes of the Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound from 09/2020 - 05/2021. Topics include budgets, ASUPS clubs, ASUPS committees, ASUPS elections, and Puget Sound athletics
The Trail, 2020-11-18
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Analyzing Threat: Organized Extremist Groups vs. Lone Wolf Terrorists in the Context of Islamist Extremism
Get PDFLone wolf terrorism lends itself to the execution of large numbers of people and the spread of extremist ideology, but they pose less of a threat to Western nations than organized extremist groups. Lone attacks require less strategy and funding, fewer resources, are more difficult to target with state counterterrorism campaigns, and can penetrate ‘high security’ states more effectively than groups, so the attacks are more likely to succeed. Additionally, lone actors are highly susceptible to propaganda and messaging from extremist groups, and they are often radicalized online, making them difficult to track. Conversely, when organized extremist groups do manage a successful attack on Western soil, their strategies--such as attrition and provocation--are more effective in imposing costs on a state in order to make change, so therefore they pose a larger threat to Western states than lone wolf terrorists. Lone wolf attacks may kill more people in the US than organized terror groups, but they do not pose a threat to the state itself in the way attacks by organized extremist groups do
Choice Sets for Andean Mothers\u27 Discounting
Get PDFDiscount rates are used in cost-benefit analysis by private and public actors in Perú, yet the methodology of computing for this economic measure hasn’t been updates in decades. This research suggests using household-level choice sets to compute for Andean discounting. Andean mothers are a population of interest as following “La ley de reforma agraria” passed in 1969, Indigenous communities in the Andes were relabeled as the campesino community in an attempt to erase Indigeneity. The purpose of this research was to provide a review and consideration of context, culture, and condition in the design of choice sets that can capture the long-term decision making of Andean mothers’ in regard to their children and diminishing natural resource base
A Historiography of Nationalism: And the Case for Scandinavia
Get PDFThis project surveys the historiography of nationalism and its theoretical shortcomings. It builds upon the work of emerging theorists and revisionists across a wide variety of disciplines and this project then contextualizes nationalism and its related theories in the 19th and 20th centuries. After establishing a firm history, the project ends with a quick survey of Medieval Scandinavian History and suggest that this region developed a proto-nationalism during the period. Moreover, this project looks to insert the developments of the Middle Ages into the scholarly discourse surrounding nationalism. In opposition to modernist theories of nationalism—who point to the French and Industrial Revolutions as the beginning of nationalism—this paper situates the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the “Discovery of the New World” to demonstrate how nationalism emerged more slowly in Europe. Lastly, this paper concludes that nations/nation-state formation and nationalism are examples of the combination of social, political, economic, religious, and ethnic movements that include periods of flux and trans-regionally vary
Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy, volume 26, issue 1
Get PDFContents include: Editors\u27 Note; When Fierceness and Kindness Collide: The Dramaturgy of a Drag Storytime; Trauma-Informed Approaches to Dramaturgy and Rehearsal: An Exploration of Daphne’s Dive in the Time of COVID-19; Reframing Shakespeare\u27s Taming to Rally for Political Change; Relational Audience Engagement in Guarded Girls: A Critical Reflection.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1055/thumbnail.jp
LMDA New and Noteworthy, December 2020
Get PDFContents include: Cutting and Adapting Text for the Virtual Performing Landscape; Freelancing the Pandemic; Shakespeare Webcomic Dramaturgy; Without Borders: Dramaturgy in the New Decade; Region Facebook Groups.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1060/thumbnail.jp