St. Patrick\u27s Day

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. \u27MOM! Why do I have to wear green today? I\u27m black!\u27 Sam yelled down the stair

Brown and Reich Announce Worker-Management Commission

Includes Mission Statement and Committee Membership.Press_Release_DOL_032493.pdf: 131 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Fact Finding Report on the Future of Worker-Management Relations Released Today

Includes summary sheet and letter from the National Planning Association.Press_Release_DOL_060294.pdf: 316 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Tangled Web of Associational Life: Urban Governance and the Politics of Popular Livelihoods in Nigeria

Drawing on case studies of informal enterprise associations in Christian and Muslim parts of Nigeria, this paper explores the differing ways in which networks of ethnicity, class and religion are used to forge links between dynamic informal organizational systems and formal institutions of government

The Tangled Web of Associational Life

This paper examines how decentralization and informalization are reshaping urban governance in contemporary Africa. By exploring the interface between urban institutional failures and popular organizational solutions, the paper considers how informal goveinformal economy, urban governance, Nigeria, enterprise clusters, civil society

Optimal Product Variety in a Hotelling Model

In Hotelling style duopoly location games the product variety (or firm locations) is typically not socially optimal. This occurs because the competitive outcome is driven by the density of consumers at the margin while the socially optimal outcome depends on the whole distribution of consumer locations/tastes. We consider a natural extension of the standard model in which firms are imperfectly informed about the distribution of consumers, in particular firms are uncertain about the consumer mean. In the uniform case, as the aggregate uncertainty about the mean becomes large relative to the dispersion of consumers about the mean, competitive locations become socially optimal. A limit result on prices for discontinuous, log-concave densities shows the result will hold in a range of cases.