Larry Moss and the Struggle Against Racism by the Whately Professors of Political Economy

In this note, we highlight an important consideration of Larry Moss's life's work, the continual struggle within economics against racism. Larry initiated and supported the symposium on eugenics published by the American Journal of Economics and Sociology in July 2005. He edited the volume Social Inequality, Analytical Egalitarianism and the March Toward Eugenic Explanations in the Social Sciences in August 2008. These constitute obvious signs of Larry's concern.
He conjectured that the Trinity College Dublin political economists who held the Whately professorship should be thought of as a school. Such a school was in fact identified in 1850 by an outsider who pointed to their shared opposition to racial explanations within an institutional setting. That shared opposition allowed them to speak against the narrow interests of the rulers of the country. Of course, other political economists of the time, Mill in particular, were also emphatic in their anti-racism. Thus, not only do we need to take up Larry's challenge to describe the Trinity College school but we must also seek its connections with the Scottish-English group of anti-racists.     

In Memory of the Father: Laurence S. Moss

A personal reflection on the life and philosophy of the late Laurence S. Moss (former editor of the AJES) by his son, Joshua Louis Moss. Mixing personal anecdote with a general academic analysis, Moss informally examines his father's intellectual beginnings in the 1960s drawn from the lectures of Ludwig Von Mises, and traces this through his father's development of innovative teaching techniques like the incorporation of stage magic. Moss examines his father's intellectual contrarianism and canonical skepticism as key developmental foundations used to build his father's academic and pedagogical approach. Moss examines his father's interest in expanding economics through a cross‐disciplinary approach utilizing philosophy, history, sociology, and performance studies through his father's innovative examination of points of contact between the principles of stage magic and the principles of economic theory.     

人民币名义升值是否"人民币升值"

以开放的宏观经济为框架,以厂商利润最大化为微观经济基础,本文提出并构建了两国货币政策的粘性均衡汇率效应模型。应用此模型,本文对1992~2000年人民币汇率进行了定价,对2001年的定价进行了预测。本文提出并建立了基于定价汇率的本币升值新度量。以此为基础,本文度量了1993~2000年人民币汇率升贬值过程,并预测了2001年人民币升贬值度量。本文对人民币粘性均衡定价汇率及基于这一定价汇率的人民币升贬值度量进行了弹性分析。最后,本文获得了名义汇率升值并不意味着汇率升值等重要结论。     

Make giving meaningful: key to development success. Interview by Larry Kofsky

Starting virtually from scratch in 1975, Berkshire Medical Center has built a fund raising success story. Its multi-faceted development program centers around the philosophy that donors must feel their gifts have purpose and are appreciated.     

Make giving meaningful: key to development success. Interview by Larry Kofsky

Starting virtually from scratch in 1975, Berkshire Medical Center has built a fund raising success story. In this, the second part of a two-part interview, Mr. Davis discusses the hospital's employee giving program, planned gifts, foundation and corporate grants and special events.