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The Profitability of Racial Diversity and Gender Balance in Modern Hollywood
No full textThis paper investigates the effects of racial and gender diversity in modern Hollywood. The primary objective is to determine if an objectively measurable increase in diverse casting over the last two decades has had a positive or negative impact on profits, and a secondary objective to measure diversity’s impact on critic scores. The study utilizes data focusing on the fifty most expensive films from 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, and 2023. The findings indicate that profit is neither positively nor negatively affected by diversity, whether in ethnicity or gender. However, movie critic ratings are negatively affected by ethnic diversity when using audience scores. No measured impact on ratings was found when considering professional critics scores
How the Labor Movement and Labor Strife in Northwest Ohio in the 1930s shaped the Structure of American Labor
No full textThe labor disputes of the 1930s involved more than just the traditional relationship between management and labor. In a way, these disputes were more about long-term gains and the realization of industrial labor achieving real power and influence versus gaining short-term outcomes such as wage increases and better working conditions. For over a century, craft unionism dominated the American system regarding representation, influence, and immense control over the economy, society, and the political system. At about the same time, many industrial-type unions were forming and evolving. Many of the monumental struggles of industrial and agricultural unions took place within the context of the Great Depression. Two such struggles took place within 75 miles of each other in Northwest Ohio. One significant outcome was the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations(CIO) as a labor representative to balance the older and more established American Federation of Labor (AFL). This paper is an account of two cases and how each brought about a significant paradigm shift in the American labor structure to better recognize the needs of industrial workers
The concept of reason in economics: Smith and Sen versus neo-classicism
No full textEconomics, for the most part, has adopted and promoted an instrumental and internalist view of reasons, grounding reasons in preferences. Exceptions have been few and far between, but they include, significantly, Adam Smith and Amartya Sen. Sen\u27s idea of counter-preferential choice, adumbrated in his brilliant article, Rational Fools, has had almost zero influence in the profession, alas. Smith\u27s differences with Hume on practical reason have been ignored (by economists at any rate). The idea that one can have an external reason, a reason to act counter to one\u27s preferences, has had no purchase in our discipline
Unshackling the Coffee Supply Chain: An “Ethics Project” for Catholic Colleges and Universities
No full textAgainst the background of a growing and increasingly sophisticated body of theological literature on economic ethics, this article proposes a project to change for the better, morally, how coffee is supplied on the campuses of Catholic colleges and universities. We argue that this project is squarely in service of a Catholic college or university’s core educational goal of humane development of its students. The article then proceeds in three steps. First, we explain how the coffee supply chain works and how it is entangled in what Pope Francis called “the economy that kills.” Second, we discuss obstacles to our proposed project and a number of strategies for overcoming them. Third and finally, we reflect further on why our project is worth undertaking. Its impetus is resistance to the exploitation of the vulnerable and affirmation of the basic human dignity of the poor. It thereby presents an opportunity to show students Catholic social thought in practice
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Futures of the West by Alexander Karp & Nicholas Zamiska (2025). Crown Currency. 220 pp. ($15.01 Hard Cover), ISBN 9780593798690
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Case Studies in Forensic Physics
No full textThis book applies basic principles of physics to conduct forensics-style re-examinations of several historical events. The authors familarize readers with introductory-level physics while demonstrating how physics concepts can be utilized to resolve historical debates about unsolved mysteries and controversial events. Each chapter introduces a new physics concept, then applies that concept to case studies in detail. The authors also identify the advantages of using case studies as a pedagogical approach to understanding physics. This second edition expands the number of physics principles and case studies covered. The book provides readers with the tools of a good forensic physicist and the ability to utilize them for real-world applications