Time to Eliminate the Penny from the U.S. Coinage System: New Evidence

I argue that the U.S. Mint should stop producing pennies. The Mint is losing money on penny production and new evidence from a multi-state convenience store chain shows that eliminating the penny will not impose a “rounding tax” on consumers. Eliminating the penny will have a negligible impact on inflation and on convenience store costs and profits, but it will save time for customers and clerks, which may be worth about $730 million per year.

The Online Presence of Theological Libraries: A Benchmark Study

This paper examines the online presence of theological libraries. The sample of libraries was selected from schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. A content analysis of the library websites was done measuring the presence of many elements including OPACs, databases, reference services, and social media. It was found that while certain elements are near universal, others are still used by only a minority of theological libraries. However, in comparison to the past, the online presence of theological libraries has clearly developed. It is likely that it will continue to do so in the future.Master of Science in Information Scienc

What Should Lawyers Know About Economics

To find out what law-and-economics scholars and economists think lawyers should know about economics, we conducted surveys of random samples of members of the American Law and Economics Association and the American Economic Association. We posed two questions to both groups: What do you think are the five most important economic concepts law students ought to learn in a law-and-economics course? Law-and-economics courses sometimes include economics articles in their reading lists. If you could choose up to five articles for such a course, what would they be

Law and Economics and Tort Law: A Survey of Scholarly Opinion

Recent litigation brought against cigarette manufacturers, software companies over potential year 2000 computer problems, and a fast food restaurant for serving coffee that was allegedly too hot reminds us of the importance and dynamic nature of tort law in the United States. Judging from ongoing coverage by newspapers and television, tort law is newsworthy. Yet, as with other legal issues, it is within the covers of law reviews and specialty journals in economics that much of the debate over the social utility of various tort rules and their reform takes place. In that debate law and economics exercises great influence. Ever since the 1970s, the modem movement in economic analysis has been in full swing. That analysis has highlighted the deterrence function of tort law. Indeed, even in the works of mainstream scholars, deterrence has now assumed the role of a primary rationale for tort liability rules. One example of this influence is the impact of economic analysis of tort law on the revision of the Restatement of Torts (Second) sections on products liability. In spite of the significance of tort law and the economic analysis of it, the general public, practicing attorneys, and legislators often know little about the findings and informed opinions of those scholars specializing in law and economics. The purpose of this Article is neither to review contemporary issues surrounding tort law, nor to gauge the extent of the influence of specialists in law and economics; our purpose is to address whether a consensus exists among these scholars about a few fundamental doctrines of tort law. Because efficiency is a major concern in the field of law and economics, each proposition raises an issue of efficiency about a tort rule. We thus framed ten propositions about how efficiently tort rules achieve their purposes. In the following section we present our results as a whole. Next we discuss the results individually, offering brief resumes of the debates that inspired the particular questions. Finally, we offer some general conclusions based on the results taken together

What Should Lawyers Know About Economics

To find out what law-and-economics scholars and economists think lawyers should know about economics, we conducted surveys of random samples of members of the American Law and Economics Association and the American Economic Association. We posed two questions to both groups: What do you think are the five most important economic concepts law students ought to learn in a law-and-economics course? Law-and-economics courses sometimes include economics articles in their reading lists. If you could choose up to five articles for such a course, what would they be

The role of the county club agent in Kansas

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1965 W553Master of Scienc

Medication Assisted Treatment Programs to Reduce Recidivism in Montana

Despite spending more than any other county on incarceration and reentry programs, the United States continues to have some of the highest rates of reincarceration. Programs designed to teach inmates job skills, GED programs, and new Medicaid measures have proved moderately successful for reducing recidivism among certain offenders, but one class continues to suffer high recidivism rates. People imprisoned for opioid drug use are more likely to reoffend than any other group, but very few governments in different countries around the world have allotted the resources to establish effective treatment facilities, creating a cycle very few can escape. This project aims to secure funding from the Montana state government to implement Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for opioid drug use in Montana prisons. MAT is a treatment plan that would reduce recidivism rates in Montana in an effective way. With this treatment plan, hopefully opioid users will be able to effectively help reduce recidivism and drug rates by using medical assisted treatment. During the 2021 legislative session, our group lobbied members of the Montana state government through phone calls, emails, and social media to secure support for a bill that provides funding for MAT treatment in prisons. We are a student group from the University of Montana that is a part of the Global Initiative program on campus. We are hoping to accomplish action on the issue of opioid use in the state and help reduce recidivism with this medical assisted treatment plan

Infinite towers of Galois defect extensions of Kaplansky fields

We give conditions for Kaplansky fields to admit infinite towers of Galois defect extensions of prime degree. As proofs of the presented facts are constructive, this provides examples of constructions of infinite towers of Galois defect extensions of prime degree. We also give a constructive proof of the fact that a henselian Kaplansky field cannot be defectless-by-finite

On the behaviour of Brauer pp-dimensions under finitely-generated field extensions

The present paper shows that if $q \in \mathbb P$ or $q = 0$, where $\mathbb P$ is the set of prime numbers, then there exist characteristic $q$ fields $E _{q,k}\colon \ k \in \mathbb N$, of Brauer dimension Brd$(E _{q,k}) = k$ and infinite absolute Brauer $p$-dimensions abrd$_{p}(E _{q,k})$, for all $p \in \mathbb P$ not dividing $q ^{2} - q$. This ensures that Brd$_{p}(F _{q,k}) = \infty$, $p \dagger q ^{2} - q$, for every finitely-generated transcendental extension $F _{q,k}/E _{q,k}$. We also prove that each sequence $a _{p}, b _{p}$, $p \in \mathbb P$, satisfying the conditions $a _{2} = b _{2}$ and $0 \le b _{p} \le a _{p} \le \infty$, equals the sequence abrd$_{p}(E), {\rm Brd}_{p}(E)$, $p \in \mathbb P$, for a field $E$ of characteristic zero.Comment: LaTeX, 14 pages: published in Journal of Algebra {\bf 428} (2015), 190-204; the abstract in the Metadata updated to fit the one of the pape