Government Productivity

The lottery is a great example of public / private partnership with government productivity increases. What can we do the smae wit hstop and frisk ?

The WE Upjohn Institue for Employment Research

Dr. William E Upjohn was a medical doctor and founder of the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dr. Upjohn was concerned about unemployed workers during the depression and used some of his fortune to endow a research institute looking into the problems of the unemployed.

The Upjohn institute focuses on unemployment and the effect on workers.

Upjohn Institute

Mission and History of the Upjohn Institute are here.

Black / White happiness gap measures level of discrimination

Black / White Happiness Gap as a general proxy for discrimination in Society

Small Island Economies

Are there economic models of small island economies that would help with budgeting and resource allocation ?? What types of taxes are best ?? What tax levels ?? What level of government spending is appropriate ?? How efficient should the government workers be ?? How much for education ??

What is the optimum level of tourist taxes ??

Should small island economies resemble Scandinavian countries. Do they offer a model of operation that can be exported and copied ?

Black and Minority Unemployment rates

What is the Black unemployment or minority unemployment rate in other countries ?

Some countries deliberately do not collect statistics on minorities like france. The UK collects some general statistics. Mot sure what Germany and the Scandanavian countries collect.

Only Six Million Acres: the Decline of Black Owned Land in the Rural South

Someone needs to track black owned land in south. Black own farm land is regularly disappearing.

The BERC took the initiative in fundraising for a southern land bank, and secured a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers to do an exploratory study. The crisis motivating the interest in a land bank was the sharp recent decline in Black-owned land in the South from 12 million acres in 1950 to less than 6 million in 1970. The BERC’s study, Only Six Million Acres: the Decline of Black Owned Land in the Rural South published in 1973

Are Blacks overly materialistic ?

What it says.

Do we equate goods with happiness.

Status marketing; life style marketing

Do Black people, Hispanic or Poor people have self esteem issues that marketers take advantage of ?

Black women sex strike.

Black women sex strike to make men make better choices. Some one must have written about this or at least proposed. Economics of find a mate.

Follow up on "Sharks and Sardines ?"

Follow up on "Sharks and Sardines ?"

Black / Indian intermarriage in the Carribean

Guyanne, Suriname, Trididad, and to a lesser extent Jamaica have Indian populations. There is considerable pressure in the Indian community not to intermarry. What are the current inter marriage rates.

What about the race based political parties

Follow up on "Sharks and Sardines ?"

Black Republicans are Crazy

All they ever say is "I did it, so why can't you."

Compare native born Blacks in US, UK, France with immigrants

Black immigrants from Dominican Republic, Brazil, Haiti, Carribean and Africa might give us a picture of how much lack of success is due to racism, education, personal initiave, ambition.

Black Intellectual Capital

Huge drop in Black Professionals

Over the past 10 or 20 years there has been a huge drop in Black professionals in the united states. We looked at the categories of Lawyers, Doctors, Dentists and Accountants

1) Reason is the increasing cost of education for professions
2) Is the lower return from those professions
3) In creased competition from highly educated immigrants

The statistics are stark.

What happened to Madam C. J. Walker fortune ?

What happened to Madam C. J. Walker fortune ?

Where is bob johnson ? Who wrote his bio ?

Jay-Z money management

Behind the scenes of the Black Rich ?

There is a book in here somewhere ?

Hiring patterns of Black Entertainers

Hiring patterns of Black Entertainers

Entertainers consume huge amounts of service professionals. What is the profile of their hiring pattern ?

What does Black Employment in the Entertainment industry look like ?

What does Black Employment in the Entertainment industry look like ?

Court records for Shaq's suit/divorce

How much inside financial information can you get from court records from famous people.

What were the economic beliefs of MLK

All I can remember is the quote "All labor had dignity"

Money Management by Famous Blacks

How did many famous blacks though out history manage their money ??
Paul Robeson
Jack Johnson
James Baldwin
MLK
Al Sharpton
Jesse Jackson
Bob Johnson
Magic Johnson
Mike Epps
cedric the entertainer

What happen to the rights to there work after they died.