Great Men of the Great War

Nber Working Paper Series Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure (which we argue is superior on...

Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession*

Few measures of U.S. economic performance receive greater attention and scrutiny than the poverty rate. The official poverty rate in 2010 was more than 2 percentage points higher than the rate in 1970 despite a doubling of real GDP per capita and trillions of dollars spent on antipoverty programs. This paper considers the long run patterns of improved measures of poverty, examining the extent o...

Farsightedness in a coalitional Great Fish War

We explore the implications of the farsightedness assumption on the conjectures of players in a coalitional Great Fish War model with symmetric players, derived from the seminal model of Levhari and Mirman (1980). The farsightedness assumption for players in a coalitional game acknowledges the fact that a deviation from a single player will lead to the formation of a new coalition structure as ...

Unipolarity, StatUS Competition, and Great power war

The Great War of Enclosure: Securing the Skies

Swarms of police drones, fleets of overhead delivery bots, and flocks of private security drones are set to multiply the complex interfaces between state, capital, and sense. This paper explores the military and economic enclosure of the atmosphere by drones. For centuries, capitalist enclosure has privatized and secured common spaces: territorializing new power relations into the soil. Enclosu...