The Limits of Corporate Responsibility. By Neil W. Chamberlain. New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1973. Pp. 236. $10.00.

This book is a chronicle of past and a prediction of future corporate survival through the furtherance of the consumerist philosophy. Professor Chamberlain discusses (although all too briefly) how corporations have inculcated in American society the materialism that is its principal motivating force and how that value, feeding on itself and thereby forging an alliance of mutual need between the corporate structure and the American people, has created the situation described in the above quotation. He also analyzes the impact of this philosophy on various aspects of corporate and noncorporate life, from the corporation\u27s relationship with its employees to that with its shareholders, from the physical environment to education, from community decisions to national policy and international relations

Discrete component S-band power amplifier

A spacecraft S-band power amplifier for Nimbus satellite is reported that achieves stability by use of moderate Q input and output circuits. The discrete component amplifier uses distributed inductance and small piston capacitors for resonance and impedance matching of the transistor to 50 ohm input and output

Protective coatings for chromium alloys Final summary report, Nov. 1, 1965 - Jul. 13, 1967

Aluminum protective coatings for chromium alloy

The High Energy Behavior of the Forward Scattering Parameters---An Amplitude Analysis Update

Utilizing the most recent experimental data, we reanalyze high energy \pbar p and pp data, using the asymptotic amplitude analysis, under the assumption that we have reached `asymptopia'. This analysis gives strong evidence for a $\log \,(s/s_0)$ dependence at {\em current} energies and {\em not} $\log^2 (s/s_0)$, and also demonstrates that odderons are {\em not} necessary to explain the experimental data.Comment: 7 pages in LaTeX, 4 figures and 5 files, uuencoded in file "sigall.uu

Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments?: A Bayesian Analysis

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity on the estimated relationship between education and income is sizeable. We do so using family background variables and show that relaxing the strict validity assumption of these instruments does not lead to strongly different results. This is an important finding because family background variables are generally strongly correlated with education and are available in most datasets. Our approach is applicable beyond the field of returns to education for income. It applies wherever endogeneity suspicion arises and the three questions become relevant.Education, income, entrepreneurship, self-employment, endogeneity, instrumental variables, Bayesian analysis, family background variables