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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Chapter One: The Barre -- Chapter Two: On the Mag -- Chapter Three: Pas de Hell Nah -- Chapter Four: Magic -- Chapter Five: Deal -- Chapter Six: Hail of Genie -- Chapter Seven: Accidents Happen -- Chapter Eight: Stuck -- Chapter Nine: More Than Dance -- Chapter Ten: Lucky Me -- Chapter Eleven: Daddy -- Chapter Twelve: I Feel -- Chapter Thirteen: Jesus, Genie -- Chapter Fourteen: The Floor -- Chapter Fifteen: Banana Splits -- Chapter Sixteen: As You Wish -- Chapter Seventeen: Protecting -- Chapter Eighteen: The Other Genie -- Chapter Nineteen: Tricks -- Chapter Twenty: Back to the Barre -- Chapter Twenty-One: Everyone's Magic -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Gentle Genie -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Selfish -- Chapter Twenty-Four: Magic Wanted -- Chapter Twenty-Five: Cygnets -- Chapter Twenty-Six: I'm So Sorry -- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Music Box -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Black Swan -- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Nightmares Sleep -- Chapter Thirty: I, Genie Davis -- Chapter Thirty-One: Finale -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright.

"Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens explores the history of grazing rights on the West's lucrative public lands and the battles between the Bureau of Land Management and ranchers for their use. The April 2014 armed standoff between Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and armed militia allies against federal officers serves as the backdrop to the story of a conservative political movement and the resurgence of the radical right in the American West"--

"The Westside Slugger tells the story of Joe Neal, who rose from the sharecropped fields of Madison Parish, Louisiana during the Great Depression to become a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada, once known derisively as "the Mississippi of the West." Neal was part of a group that worked courageously to register the first black voters in Madison Parish history, and he battled for equal rights against long odds on the floor of the Nevada Legislature for more than three decades."--Provided by publisher

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. From Louisiana Soil -- 2. Welcome to "the Mississippi of the West" -- 3. Full Service, Full Citizenship -- 4. From Photo Opportunities to Real Opportunities -- 5. Meet the New Boss -- 6. Breaking Into the System -- 7. Interrupting the Party -- 8. Poetry, Prose, and Pay Toilets -- 9. Showdowns, Putdowns, and Letdowns -- 10. The Measure of the Law, Tested by Fire -- Photo Gallery -- 11. Fighting Apartheid in the Silver State -- 12. Death and Life in the '80s -- 13. Causes, Crotchets and Column Inches -- 14. A Day for Dr. King, Years in the Making -- 15. Standing on Shaky Ground -- 16. Open Doors and Open Books -- 17. Radioactive Politics -- 18. The Death of Charles Bush -- 19. Smoke, and Fire, and Rodney King -- 20. Battling Artful Tax-Dodgers, and Raising the Stakes -- 21. A Fly in the 'Anointment' -- 22. In the Good Fight, Until the Final Bell -- Epilogue: Wins and Losses, and a Legacy -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Cover -- Epigraph -- 1. Why Cities? -- 2. City Life, Past and Present -- 3. How to Dig an Ancient City -- 4. Before Cities, There Was . . . -- 5. Urban Building Blocks -- 6. Infrastructure Holds Things Up -- 7. The Harmony of Consumption -- 8. The Mojo of The Middle Class -- 9. Anxiety, Risk, and Middle-Class Life -- 10. A World of Cities -- 11. The Next 6,000 Years -- Acknowledgments -- About Monica L. Smith -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume II -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part III East, Southwest, East Again -- 13 Yankee Land -- 14 West with the Night -- 15 Arizona and E-Commerce in the Laboratory -- Some Early Intellectual History -- 16 My Friends Were Finally Right -- 17 Wives, Daughters, and Sons -- Part IV Rethinking Recessions, Markets, Adam Smith and Religion -- 18 Home Again: Chapman University -- 19 Economic Collapse 2007-2008: Would 1929 Be Reborn in Anemic Growth? -- Proposition 1: Severe Economic Recessions Have Their Origin in Household and Bank Balance Sheet Crises -- Proposition 2: Standard Economic Models Do Not Contain Balance Sheets -- Proposition 3: The Great Recession-A Balance Sheet Crisis -- Proposition 4: The Depression-A Balance Sheet Crisis? -- Proposition 5: Policy Experts, Economists, Consumers, and Businesses Were Blindsided by the Great Recession -- Proposition 6: Bernanke's 14 Months of "Liquidity Enhancement"-A Test of the Friedman-Schwartz Hypothesis that Liquidity Expansion Can Prevent Depression-Like Episodes? -- Proposition 7: Monetary Policy Is Ineffective in a Balance Sheet Crisis -- Proposition 8: When Monetary Policy Is an Ineffective Economic Stimulant, So Is Government Deficit Spending, and for the Same Reason -- Proposition 9: Housing Expenditures Are a Leading Indicator of Most Economic Recessions -- in Only the Depression and Great Recession Was the End of the Recession Not Accompanied by a Housing Recovery -- Instead, We Remained Stuck in Low Growth -- Proposition 10: Stock Market Crashes Do Not Impact Household and Bank Balance Sheets the Way Housing-Mortgage Market Crashes Do -- Consequently, Loss in Stock Market Value Is Not a Good Indicator of Potential Damage to the Economy from Losses in Housing Val.

This book provides an intimate history of Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith's early life, combining elements of biography, history, economics and philosophy to show how crucial incidents early in his life provided the necessary framework for his research into experimental economics. Smith takes the reader from his family roots on the railroads and oil fields of Middle America to his early life on a farm in Depression-wracked Kansas. A mediocre student in high school, Smith attended Friends University, on Wichita's west side, where an intense study of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy enabled him to pass the examinations to enter Caltech and study under luminary scientists like Linus Pauling. Eventually Smith discovered economics and pursued graduate study in the field at University of Kansas and Harvard. This volume ends with his Camelot years at Purdue, where he began his famous work in experimental economics, nurturing his research into an unlikely new field of economics.

This book provides an intimate history of Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith's early life, combining elements of biography, history, economics and philosophy to show how crucial incidents early in his life provided the necessary framework for his research into experimental economics. Smith takes the reader from his family roots on the railroads and oil fields of Middle America to his early life on a farm in Depression-wracked Kansas. A mediocre student in high school, Smith attended Friends University, on Wichita's west side, where an intense study of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy enabled him to pass the examinations to enter Caltech and study under luminary scientists like Linus Pauling. Eventually Smith discovered economics and pursued graduate study in the field at University of Kansas and Harvard. This volume ends with his Camelot years at Purdue, where he began his famous work in experimental economics, nurturing his research into an unlikely new field of economics.

This sequel to A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I, continues the intimate history of Vernon Smith's personal and professional maturation after a dozen years at Purdue. The scene now shifts to twenty-six transformative years at the University of Arizona, then to George Mason University, and his recognition by the Nobel Prize Committee in 2002. The book ends with his most recent decade at Chapman University. At Arizona Vernon and his students studied asset trading markets and learned how wrong it had been to suppose that price bubbles could not occur where markets were full-information transparent. Their work in computerization of the lab facilitated very complex supply and demand experiments in natural gas pipeline, communication and electricity markets that paved the way for implementing, through decentralized market processes, the liberalization of industries traditionally believed to be "natural" monopolies. The "Smart Computer Assisted Market" was born. Smith's move to George Mason University greatly facilitated government and industry work in tandem with various public and private entities, whereas his relocation to Chapman University coincided with the Great Recession, whose similarity with the Depression was evident in his research. There he integrated two fundamental kinds of markets with laboratory experiments: Consumer non-durables, the supply and demand for which was stable in the lab and in the economy, and durable assets whose bubble tendencies made them unstable in the lab as well as in the economy--witness the great housing-mortgage market bubble run-up of 1997-2007. This book's conversational style and emphasis on the backstory of research accomplishments allows readers an exclusive peak into how and why economists pursue their work. It's a must-read for those interested in experimental economics, the housing crisis, and economic history.--

Slavery/neo-feudalism -- The basics of America's social order -- The Civil War -- The American caste -- The post Civil War -- The social and political economy of caste -- The paradigm shifts -- The Civil Rights Movement -- The southern strategy -- The politics of commensality -- The age of Obama -- The brown Americans & the racial contract -- The sociopolitical effects of the racial contract.