Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Dismal Science: How Thinking like an Economist Undermines Community.\u3c/em\u3e Stephen A. Margin. Reviewed by Christopher R. Larrison.

Book review of Stephen A. Marglin, The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2008. $35.00, hardcover

Review of \u3cem\u3eA Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers\u27 Compensation.\u3c/em\u3e Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor. Review by Christopher R. Larrison

Book review of Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor, A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers\u27 Compensation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. $37.50 hardcove

Review of \u3cem\u3eBeyond Segregation: Multiracial and Multiethnic Neighborhoods in the United States.\u3c/em\u3e Michael T. Maly. Reviewed by Christopher R. Larrison.

Book review of Michael T. Maly, Beyond Segregation: Multiracial and Multiethnic Neighborhoods in the United States. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2005. $68.50 hardcover,$22.95 papercover

An Uncertain Stability

Installation of 16 mixed media found object sculptures

Examining the Relationship between Community Residents\u27 Economic Status and the Outcomes of Community Development Programs

In designing and implementing community development interventions the economic status of targeted participants is a demographic characteristic worth considering. The findings from this research indicate that even within the limited economies of rural Mexican villages there are variations in economic status that affect the ways in which the outcomes of community development programs are perceived. The poorest of the poor are likely to be less satisfied with development projects than those with average or better-off economic status. This is true whether a development project uses a bottomup approach or a top-down approach. The more participatory approach does not attenuate the relationship between economic status and satisfaction with development programs. On the contrary, it may exacerbate it

Reports Of Conferences, Institutes, And Seminars

This quarter\u27s column offers coverage of multiple sessions from the 2016 Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference, held April 3–6, 2016, in Austin, Texas. Topics in serials acquisitions dominate the column, including reports on altmetrics, cost per use, demand-driven acquisitions, and scholarly communications and the use of subscriptions agents; ERMS, access, and knowledgebases are also featured

A New Perspective on Families that Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Medicaid), but in this paper it refers specifically to Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or its contemporary Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). In an attempt to calibrate the accuracy of this long held stereotype, the authors surveyed a representative stratified random sample of individuals who received TANF in the state of Georgia. The resulting profile led to the identification of four distinctive groups on the welfare rolls. These groups or groupings, as they are referred to in the paper, show that only some families fit the traditional stereotype while others are accessing the welfare system because of health problems, child abandonment, limited retirement assets, poor education, and fluctuating labor markets

Finding Meaningful Opportunities During the COVID-19 Crisis: Developing an International Radiology Elective in Cameroon

Teleradiology and remote video conferences can provide radiology residents the opportunity to participate in global radiology outreach. We reflect on how social distancing measures and remote education resources developed to address COVID-19 were applied to developing an international radiology elective

Capturing the Space-in-between: Understanding the Relevance of Professional "Use of Self" for Social Work Education and Practice through Hermeneutic Phenomenology

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Session 6. Presenter: Tara Earls Larrison, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009) - "Capturing the Space-in-between: Understanding the Relevance of Professional "Use of Self" for Social Work Education and Practice through Hermeneutic Phenomenology".The Ohio State University College of Social Wor