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3 April 2009, 8:35 am
I’m pleased to have a guest post today from Frank Stricker, author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty — And How to Win It, which we published in 2007. That book focused on the second half of the twentieth century. In his current work, Stricker’s looking more closely at unemployment and job creation, [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Current Events, Economics, Guest Bloggers, Politics, Public Policy, The Book Biz.
Tagged ccc, civil works administration, civilian conservation corps, cwa, fdr, frank stricker, franklin roosevelt, green jobs, harry hopkins, jobs, low-income, new deal, poor, poverty line, stimulus package, underemployment, unemployment, wages, war on poverty, works progress administration, wpa
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31 March 2009, 12:07 pm
I’ve posted a couple of items recently (here and here) about the renewed relevance in these painful economic times of Robert McElvaine’s classic collection of letters written to FDR, Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man. On Friday, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer aired a wonderful segment featuring McElvaine [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Current Events, Economics, Interviews, Podcasts, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged conspicuous consumption, down and out, frank capra, james stewart, mr smith goes to washington, robert mcelvaine, the news hour
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2 March 2009, 6:09 pm
What does the Obama presidency mean for women, especially in a time of financial crisis? We’re pleased to have a guest post today from Lisa Levenstein, assistant professor of history at UNC-Greensboro and author of A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia, which we will publish May [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Current Events, Economics, Gender Studies, Guest Bloggers, Politics, Public Policy, Women's Studies.
Tagged barack obama, barbara bergmann, bill clinton, eileen boris, george w. bush, hillary clinton supporters, kim gandy, lilly ledbetter fair pay act, linda gordon, lisa levenstein, nancy folbre, national organization for women, national women's law center, Ronald Reagan, sonya michel, stimulus plan, susan feiner, women's equality, women's equality adds value to the economy
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23 February 2009, 5:11 pm
[ed. note: see updates from 2/24 and 2/25 at bottom of post] ABC reports that President Obama is reading ten letters a day from all kinds of people all across the country, “to help him get outside of the bubble,” says press secretary Robert Gibbs. Each day he is handed a purple envelope containing the [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Economics, UNC Press News.
Tagged barack obama, children's letters, eleanor roosevelt, fdr, franklin delano roosevelt, great depression, letters to the president
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20 February 2009, 4:24 pm
One of the great things about Citizen Journalism is that all of us can take what we think is a Good Idea and put it out into the blogosphere and see if it takes wings. One such idea was forwarded to me by my wonderful wife with the subject line “now this would be a [...] Read more »
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26 November 2008, 5:32 pm
Okay, Thanksgiving is tomorrow. Then comes Black Friday, traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year for retail sales, helping put retailers’ budgets “in the black” at year’s end. This year, however, with the economy in freefall, that post-Turkey Day orgy of consumer consumption is likely to be significantly more modest than in years past. [...] Read more »
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31 October 2008, 2:56 pm
I’ve added a few more press blogs to our university press blogroll recently, and I wanted to bring them to your attention and encourage you to go check them out. Island Press focuses on environmental issues. Their Eco-Compass blog features posts by authors discussing green development, conservation, wildlife, sustainability, population growth, and more. NYU Press, [...] Read more »
Filed under Art / Architecture, Economics, Environmental Studies, History, North Carolina.
Tagged blogging, eco-compass blog, from the square, ghost stories, halloween, island press, new york university press, nyu press, princeton university press blog
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13 October 2008, 1:59 pm
Well, on the news that European governments are jumping in to help their banks continue lending to each other, markets seem to be showing some signs of regaining confidence today. We’ll see how long it holds. For the past couple of weeks — and no doubt for some time still to come — we’ve seen [...] Read more »
Filed under Business, Current Events, Economics, The Book Biz.
Tagged AAUP, bank of america, finance, financial crisis, nationsbank, tools for understanding the credit crisis, university presses, Wall Street
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18 September 2008, 11:12 am
If the subject of economics isn’t your strong suit, welcome to the majority! That’s why North Carolina is lucky to have Mike Walden, a professor at NC State and economist with the NC Cooperative Extension Service. Walden is especially good at talking about economics in terms the rest of us can understand. His new book [...] Read more »
Filed under Economics, North Carolina, Podcasts, TSoT.
Tagged bank failure, Economics, finance, food processing, furniture production, manufacturing, NC economy, North Carolina economy, North Carolina jobs, offshore oil drilling, pharmaceuticals, technology, tobacco
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14 July 2008, 11:16 am
With the real-life dramas unfolding on Wall Street these days, it’s only a matter of time before we witness a bumper crop of novels and thrillers set in the high-stakes financial world. David Zimmerman has written about the connections between novels and markets in an earlier period of American history //
