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Economics: From the Dismal Science to the Moral Science: The Moral Economics of Kendall P. Cochran (open access)

Economics: From the Dismal Science to the Moral Science: The Moral Economics of Kendall P. Cochran

Adam Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 and established the ethical foundation for The Wealth of Nations (1776) as well as the important role played by custom and fashion in shaping behaviors and outcomes. Kendall P. Cochran believed in Smith’s emphasis on value-driven analysis and seeking solutions to major problems of the day. Cochran believed that economists moved too far in the direction of analysis free of words like ought and should and devoted his career to establishing that economics is a moral science. A recent study by two Harvard professors, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, Growth in a Time of Debt (2010), asserted that healthy economic growth and high levels of government debt are incompatible. These conclusions are associated with the austerity movement, which calls for policymakers to reduce government spending in order to reduce the government’s debt and improve long-term growth prospects. The austerity movement has been used to justify the sharp decline in public sector employment that has restrained job growth since the recession of 2007. In 2013, a graduate student named Thomas Herndon discovered an error in the calculations of Reinhart and Rogoff, publishing his findings in a paper co-authored by his professors, …
Date: January 2015
Creator: Cochran, Kendall P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 14, 2015 (open access)

Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 14, 2015
Creator: Newman, Doris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 7, 2015 (open access)

Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 7, 2015
Creator: Newman, Doris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (open access)

Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 21, 2015
Creator: Newman, Doris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 28, 2015 (open access)

Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Newman, Doris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 2015 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 2015

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 1, 2015
Creator: Pate, Chad
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

UNT Scholarly Works Record Discoveries Dataset

Dataset containing four tab-delimited data files and associated code for analysis of data. Dataset represents record discoveries identified from Apache log files created by the UNT Digital Library platform. Record discoveries are for the UNT Scholarly Works Repository from May 2014 to January 2015.
Date: January 24, 2015
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
USDA’s “GIPSA Rule” on Livestock and Poultry Marketing Practices (open access)

USDA’s “GIPSA Rule” on Livestock and Poultry Marketing Practices

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Date: January 12, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insurance Agent Licensing: Overview and Background on Federal NARAB Legislation (open access)

Insurance Agent Licensing: Overview and Background on Federal NARAB Legislation

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Date: January 20, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recently Expired Community AssistanceRelated Tax Provisions (“Tax Extenders”): In Brief (open access)

Recently Expired Community AssistanceRelated Tax Provisions (“Tax Extenders”): In Brief

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Date: January 5, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Washington (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Washington

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security’s Effect on Child Poverty (open access)

Social Security’s Effect on Child Poverty

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Date: January 23, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wilderness: Legislation and Issues in the 114th Congress (open access)

Wilderness: Legislation and Issues in the 114th Congress

This report presents background information on wilderness protection and a discussion of issues in the wilderness debate--the pros and cons of wilderness designation generally; possible considerations for specific legislation; and a discussion of possible wilderness study area designation and protection. This report will also track the status of legislation introduced in the 114th Congress to designated new wilderness or release or release wilderness study areas.
Date: January 12, 2015
Creator: Hoover, Katie; Alexander, Kristina & Johnson, Sandra L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lower Oil Prices 2015 (open access)

Lower Oil Prices 2015

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Date: January 6, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: West Virginia (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: West Virginia

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Legal Analysis of Social Security Benefit Entitlement Issues (open access)

Social Security Reform: Legal Analysis of Social Security Benefit Entitlement Issues

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Date: January 15, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Wyoming (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Wyoming

This In Focus provides an overview of the assistance provided to Wyoming by the FEMA DRF (Disaster Relief Fund) from 2002-2013.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
P.L. 111-3: The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (open access)

P.L. 111-3: The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009

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Date: January 21, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Illinois (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Illinois

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Nebraska (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Nebraska

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Maryland (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Maryland

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: New Jersey (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: New Jersey

This report discusses the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) that is managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and is the primary source of funding used to provide assistance following a major disaster declaration.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: McCarthy, Francis X.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China as the World’s “Largest Economy” (open access)

China as the World’s “Largest Economy”

Various media have recently reported that China has overtaken the United States to become the world’s largest economy (a position the United States had held at least since 1913), based on estimates of purchasing power parity (PPP) measurements and projections made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This report examines the data and its policy implications.
Date: January 29, 2015
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Medical Device Excise Tax: Economic Analysis (open access)

The Medical Device Excise Tax: Economic Analysis

This report reviews the issues surrounding the medical devices tax within the framework of basic principles surrounding the choice of commodities to tax under excise taxes. The next section describes the tax and its legislative origins. After that, the report analyzes the arguments for retaining and repealing the tax.
Date: January 9, 2015
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G. & Lowry, Sean
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library