Our Best Hope in a World Filled With Emergencies? Education

When we die, the knowledge stored in our brains disappears. But through education, each generation of people can pass their knowledge to the next via spoken language, books and other media, and this knowledge can accumulate through the ages

Moving forward with complexity and diversity

The chief meaningful characteristic of Futures Studies is ontological and epistemological insecurity, not confidence from chaos. Our experienced world is continuously being reconstructed through flows of information and actions. There are more worlds than we could ever know. The best we can hope for is awareness from flows

Constraints on income distribution and production efficiency in economies with Ramsey Taxation

We study the link between second-best production efficiency and the constraints on income distribution imposed by private ownership of firms in economies with Ramsey taxation. We review the result of Dasgupta and Stiglitz [1972], Mirrlees [1972], Hahn [1973], and Sadka [1977] about firm-specific profit taxation leading to second-best production efficiency. Problems in the proofs of this result in these papers have been identified by Reinhorn [2005]. We provide an alternative, and with some hope a more intuitive, proof of this result. The mechanism employed in our proof is also used to show second-best production efficiency under some configuarations of private ownership without any (or at best, uniform) profit taxation. The results obtained raise questions about the genericity of the phenomenon of second-best production inefficiency and about recovering social shadow prices in such economies

Holiday Classic 1967 Nevada Southern Rebels Arizona State University University of Pacific Loyola University

Dear NSU Sports Fan: Welcome to another, and we hope for all of us a successful, Nevada Southern University Intercollegiate Athletics sporting event. We sincerely hope you enjoy this major sports activity, as your attendance has indicated your continued enjoyment of games in past seasons. You are watching the NSU Rebels, one of the best teams in the country - a team ranked in the Top 10 in the nation in their division last year. We of the University are justly proud of our fine athletics, and the excellent job of coaching and program directing being done by Coach Rolland Todd and Athletic Director Michael Drakulich. We feel certain your support of all our teams, present and future, will by their showing of skill and sportsmanship in this game, be justified. We thank all our loyal fans for their support. A special Thank You must go to members of the Century Club, a part of the University Rebel Club, for their unequalled contributions to the NSU Athletic Program. Again, welcome - and thank you for coming. DR. DONALD C. MOYER Chancellor A Rebel Booste

Nevada Southern University Rebels vs. Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff)

Dear NSU Sports Fan: Welcome to another, and we hope for all of us a successful, Nevada Southern University Intercollegiate Athletics sporting event. We sincerely hope you enjoy this major sports activity, as your attendance has indicated your continued enjoyment of games in past seasons. You are watching the NSU Rebels, one of the best teams in the country - a team ranked in the Top 10 in the nation in their division last year. We of the University are justly proud of our fine athletics, and the excellent job of coaching and program directing being done by Coach Rolland Todd and Athletic Director Michael Drakulich. We feel certain your support of all our teams, present and future, will by their showing of skill and sportsmanship in this game, be justified. We thank all our loyal fans for their support. A special Thank You must go to members of the Century Club, a part of the University Rebel Club, for their unequalled contributions to the NSU Athletic Program. Again, welcome- and thank you for coming. DR. DONALD C. MOYER Chancellor A Rebel Booste

Presidential Candidates on K-12 Education

Every four years, our presidential candidates work hard to convince us that they have the best plan to keep us safe, prosperous, and well-educated. While economic challenges have recently taken center stage in the presidential election, education is still a critically important issue to OEP and its constituents. Here, we provide a summary of the views of each candidate on key issues and hope that this information is useful to our readers. In this brief, the OEP does not endorse one candidate over the other. Indeed, there is much to like in each candidate’s platform

Defending Activists at Risk: Protecting Human Rights Defenders from Threats and Violence

This paper seeks to identify protection and security strategies that can be utilized to support human rights defenders. With the intention of making this paper useful to both human rights practitioners and grantmakers, we discuss important legislation, highlight case studies and conclude with a series of best practices drawn from our experience and the recommendations of experts in the field. We hope this work stimulates needed dialogue, enhancing the safety of human rights defenders and making them more effective in their tireless efforts on behalf of others