Blacks Who Stole Themselves

Smith, Billy G.; Wojtowicz, Richard

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“…From the very beginning, these home mortgages were loaded "with poisonous features that made them virtually impossible to repay" (Smith 2012). When those home buyers began to default on their mortgages in the early 2000s, they lost most or all of the investments they had made in their homes.…”

Section: Stealth Government Actions In the 1980smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By 1994, 70 percent were receiving options. By 2000, mega-option grants of millions of shares or more had become the norm (Smith 2012).…”

Section: Stealth Government Action In the 1990smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 1993 the quasi-regulatory Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) announced that it intended (1) to rule that stock options were illegal because "failing to charge options as a business expense was deceptive accounting" (Smith 2012). Congress quickly came to the rescue of corporate America the following year (1994), when the Senate voted 88-9 in favor of a resolution that condemned the FASB's proposed actions as reckless.…”

Section: Stealth Government Action In the 1990smentioning

confidence: 99%

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The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy

Benton,

Stasch

2024

Journal of Macromarketing

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It is important that macromarketers understand how income and wealth inequality affect the way people think, live, and die. It is also important that they understand the source(s) of that inequality. This paper discusses how the power elite and the rich used the law to strategically withhold from the bottom 99 percent of the population the wealth generated in the post-World War II economy. This included more than a dozen specific stealth activities the U.S. government enacted from 1970 to 2010, although only a few are highlighted in this commentary. These activities created a Program of Welfare for the Wealthy that worked against the general welfare of the American people. We refer to these as stealth activities because much of what happens in government occurs behind the scenes, in the dark.

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“…By 1994, 70 percent were receiving options. By 2000, mega-option grants of millions of shares or more had become the norm (Smith 2012).…”

Section: Stealth Government Action In the 1990smentioning

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Section: Stealth Government Action In the 1990smentioning

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The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy

Benton,

Stasch

2024

Journal of Macromarketing

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“…However, 7 What we have called the Kaldor criterion is often referred to in the economics literature as Kaldor-Hicks efficiency after Kaldor and John Hicks (1939), who added the provision that those potentially harmed by an action could (in theory) pay the potential actor not to proceed with the action. 8 Some commentators (e.g., Hartman, 2006;Smith, 2012) believe that this process is already well underway.…”

Section: Kaldor Improvementsmentioning

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Management Theory and Social Welfare: Contributions and Challenges

Jones

Donaldson

Freeman

et al. 2016

AMR

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Co-Editors, Special Topic Forum on Management Theory and Social Welfare]1 Some of Professor Jones's contribution to this essay was derived from unpublished work done jointly with Professor Will Felps (University of New South Wales) whose efforts are gratefully acknowledged. 2 Lynn Stout, originally a co-editor, also made contributions to this Special Topic Forum. Judith Edwards contributed several editorial refinements.

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“…The main source on the attempts of unfree labourers to escape their bondage is the many runaway advertisements in the newspapers of Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland. Such escapes were endemic to slave society and the world of the indentured labourers 18 . The advertisements give descriptions of a wide range of personal characteristics of the servants and slaves who ran away.…”

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Running away and returning home: the fate of English convicts in the American colonies

Rushton¹,

Morgan²

2003

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Transportation of criminals to America was one of the distinctive features of English penal policy in the eighteenth century. While other countries experimented with the practice, only Britain undertook large-scale convict transportation after 1700, a policy which Pieter Spierenburg regards as a departure from the European norm 2. Eighteenth century Continental critics certainly regarded it as a curiosity: «Banishment seems to be an assault on international rights», Denis Diderot wrote in reaction to equivalent measures in the Russian law code. «To send a malefactor to do wrong not at home but somewhere else is to introduce him into the house of your neighbour» 3. Many Americans would have agreed with him. «We want people, 'tis true», wrote William Smith of New York, «but not villains, ready, at any time, encouraged by impunity, and habituated, upon the slightest occasion, to cut a man's throat, for a small part of his property» 4. Exactly how many people were transported from Britain and Ireland remains a matter of some speculation. Estimates range up to 50,000, suggesting that between the 1718 Transportation Act and the American Revolution three out of every seven migrants from England were convicts 5. This legislation, allowing transportation both for those reprieved from the death sentence and for those who had committed very minor offences such as petty and grand larceny, is often regarded as having led to transportation dominating all other secondary (non-capital) punishments after 1718. John Beattie, for example, concludes that a growing use of imprisonment in the early eighteenth century was halted as the Transportation Act was implemented, though this was not the case in parts of northern England which adopted the prison at the same time as transportation 6. Whatever its impact on other punishments, however, there is no doubt that the numbers of convicts transported rose throughout the period, and reached a peak in most areas of England in the twenty-five years before the American Revolution 7. Running away and returning home: the fate of English convicts in the American...

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Blacks Who Stole Themselves

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The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy

The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy

Management Theory and Social Welfare: Contributions and Challenges

Running away and returning home: the fate of English convicts in the American colonies

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