Scott Nearing
Biographic Data
| ID | 85453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Nearing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Nearing |
| SIGNATURE | NEARING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 219 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 219 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1907 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
World Events
The Far East was a power vacuum after 1945. Japan, come-lately Asian competitor for supremacy in the area, had grabbed Chinese territory in 1895, defeated Tsarist Russia ten years later, taken over Manchuria, gained naval parity in 1922, invaded China and inaugurated its co-prosperity sphere in 1932, thrown out the Western powers in 1941-43, and in 1945 had surrendered unconditionally, accepting dismemberment of its empire, a drastic change in it…
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Surveying the economic outlook for 1972 the editors of U.S. News (January 10, 1972) printed two columns of hopes, anticipations, and predictions for the New Year. The list is formally correct, with percentages and decimal points in the right places. With one exception (unemployment, down 15.3 percent) all of the figures for 1972 will be up from those of 1971. From the predictions I have culled certain items bearing on incomes, listing them in ter…
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All war is wicked and wasteful. It is wicked because it is designed to advance the interests of the war-maker by imposing hardship, suffering, and death upon opponents. It is wasteful because it relies upon destruction and murder to achieve its objectives.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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Four hundred years, from 1500 to 1900, were devoted by Western nations to empire building. The chief actors in the international drama were half a dozen "great European powers," headed by the governments of Spain and Portugal, with Holland, France, Great Britain, and, later, Russia and Germany following suit.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF …
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President Nixon's China visit, in February 1972, put the U.S. seal of approval on several matters which were still open to question: (1) It recognized the existence of China as an Asian nation. While legal fictionist John Foster Dulles was still alive he was able to assert that Taiwan was China, and as such was entitled to top status as the most populous nation on the planet, and that there was no such nation as mainland China, but merely an aggr…
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Twice during the lifetime of senior citizens, random local wars have boiled up and boiled over into continent-wide military struggles. There was one general war from 1914 until 1918, another from 1936 to 1945. Is the same thing about to happen again? Does mankind face another period of planned, organized, wholesale destruction and mass murder?This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in…
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Major wars, such as the one that swept over Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia from 1939 to 1945 upset the apple cart of history, and defy foresight and prediction. One of their effects, however, is taken for granted: they drain the public treasury, which must be refilled largely by borrowing and taxation.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF…
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The Ministerial Conference for the Economic Development of Southeast Asia, meeting in 1969, asked the Asian Development Bank for a report on the economic outlook for the 1970s. The resulting study on Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was published early in 1971. At the same time the Commission for Social Development of the United Nations' Economic and Social Council conducted an economic survey of th…
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The American people are face to face with a momentous question: Can a private enterprise economy work beneficially and satisfactorily under the conditions presently existing in the United States? On August 15, 1971, the President of the United States in a brief broadcast suggested that private enterprise was so badly messed up that a ninety-day economic holiday was necessary to revive the ailing economy. During that three-month respite, the Presi…
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Economists still take sides on the question: Is the U.S. economy in a depression? Some say "Yes"; some say "No"; others hedge. Answers to the question depend, in the first instance, on definitions. They also depend on the interpretation of current facts and trends. On one point all agree: the economy is no longer expanding. Some facts are plain enough: the volume of unemployment, idle machines, the increase in welfare payments, decline in profits…
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Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly for March 15, 1971, printed a front page story under the caption: "Another Day, Another Dollar?" Back in prewar days unskilled wages were at or below the dollar-a-day level. At the end of a nine- or ten-hour day in a six-day week workers often parted with the salutation: "Another day, another dollar!"This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are publish…
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Soviet Russians have launched their latest five-year plan: 1971-1975. This is plan number nine. The first plan was begun in 1928. An overall national economic plan in 1928 caused a sensation among economists and was met with scepticism by the United States general public. A general economic plan for an entire nation as big and complex as the Soviet Union? Ridiculous! Impossible! More Bolshevik propaganda!This article can also be found at the Mont…
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In last month's World Events I quoted the Wall Street Journal (September 30, 1971) headline "Down With Dollars." The slogan was prophetic. Dollars are down, in three respects: (1) Inflation continues. In the American market the dollar buys less each month. (2) The dollar is no longer accepted as a universal reserve carrency, equal to gold in planet-wide financial transactions. (3) The dollar is no longer the arbiter of world politics, as shown in…
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Washington's present administration, elected in November 1968, promised to reduce unemployment, liquidate inflation, end poverty, balance the budget, stabilize the dollar, and stop the war in Southeast Asia. It proposed to achieve these results under the leadership of the industrial-military complex, with the active support of the American middle class, and the backing of organized labor.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review websit…
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During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, England was a small country with a young, ambitious business class, searching for wealth and reaching for power. Through the next three centuries British business spread its power-network across the planet. The British pound sterling became the international medium of exchange. The British merchant fleet and the British Navy carried the Union Jack across every sea, to all the continents. British colonies and…
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Taiwan (Formosa) has been under U.S. military control since 1950. Historically, Taiwan was part of China until it was grabbed off militarily by Japan and incorporated into the Japanese Empire. Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945 and the outbreak of war in Korea, five years later, provided an excuse for converting the island into a U.S. protectorate and announcing a blockade of the People's Republic of China which has remained in effect for tw…
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President Nixon's administration took over nearly two years ago. It began its tour of duty in a divided, leaderless country whose oligarchy talked of playing a leading role on a divided, leaderless planet. Results of the new administration thus far have been inconsequential. Both the United States and the planet continue to be divided and leaderless.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are publi…
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Eighteen seventy was an eventful year. A brief war took from France and gave to Germany the mantle of leadership among Europe's continental powers. Only a year later a shortlived social revolution—the Paris Commune—gave a foretaste of the coming mass struggles to wrest power from business and vest it in the masses of an industrial community. Eighteen seventy also marked the beginning of the century-long competition between the chief industrial em…
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During my recent trip to Israel, in November 1969, I was invited to dine with a prominent political figure. After dinner our host rose, and in a grave voice told his assembled guests that he would like to say a few words about the forces making for Zionism. He opened a Bible to the story of the giant Goliath and the stripling David.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click…
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Powerful nations and empires compete: for territory, resources, productivity, prestige, allies, leadership. This competition is called power politics. Spokesmen for each powerful nation seek to defend and promote national interests at home and abroad, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty-five days in the year. If possible they proceed peacefully, through diplomatic give-and-take. When diplomacy fails to gain their objectives, diplomats fi…
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President Nixon and his predecessors, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, have been consistently wrong in their basic economic assumptions. They have assumed that a government can go on indefinitely spending beyond its income and chalking up the deficits as "debts." They have assumed that military spending, like any other spending, is a beneficial economic stimulant. They have assumed that inflation can be controlled by graduated govern…
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Young people all over the planet are asked to accept a world designed and built by previous generations. Many of the ideas and institutions of present-day society are outmoded. Certainly the young people had no part in their production. In any case, impatient youth is asked to take its cue from crabbed age and agree that "whatever is, is right."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published …
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"Oil prices have doubled in the past few weeks for Braintree's local power company, which serves this Boston suburb of forty thousand people. But even at twice the price, Braintree cannot find anyone to guarantee delivery in the cold months ahead."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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Uncle Sam's Statistical Abstract for 1968 prints a summary chapter 32 dealing with "Comparative International Statistics." Much of the information in this chapter is taken from the United Nations Statistical Year Book and other U.N. publications. Among the subjects included are three tables covering personnel in the armed forces, number of military ships, and national defense expenditures. Since a "big" power gains its position by its ability to …
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After years of factional controversy, furious denunciation, savage recrimination, the virtual severance of diplomatic relations, the mobilization of massive armed forces along mutual frontiers and repeated border raids and counter-raids involving loss of life on both sides, representatives of the two largest "sister socialist republics"—the Soviet Union and People's China—are meeting in Peking.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review …
Caste in India--Its Nature, Function, and Origins
Labor Problems in Southeast Asia
The Indian Working Class
World Events
Foreign ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS) met in San José, Costa Rica, in late August. They were called together because of the imperative demand of the United States government that Latin American states take concerted action against the government headed by Fidel Castro of Cuba.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version …
Men Who Control Our Universities
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Journal Article Black and White Get access Guy B. Johnson Guy B. Johnson University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 10, Issue 1, October 1931, Pages 122–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/10.1.122 Published: 01 October 1931
Report of the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee
The problem of girls between fourteen and sixteen, who are employed in stores and factories, is one which gives more and more anxiety to Wis- consin students of social problems.We hope that the hours of work for girls up to twenty-one may be shortened at the next session of the legislature, so that at the least some undesirable employments will be closed to them and that compelling their dismissal from work at an early hour may avoid some of the …
Elementary Economics for College Freshmen
Elements of Economics, with Special Reference to American Conditions
Wages in the United States
Race Improvement.LaReine Helen Baker
The Recent Increase in Land Values
The 'Why' of Income
Recent Books Bearing on the History of Thought and Culture
Brochures
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Journal Article Black and White Get access Guy B. Johnson Guy B. Johnson University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 10, Issue 1, October 1931, Pages 122–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/10.1.122 Published: 01 October 1931
The Outlawry of War
And So to War.Hubert Herring
The Profits of War Through the Ages.Richard Lewinsohn
The Age of Enterprise
Great Teachers: Portrayed by those who studied under them
Caste in India--Its Nature, Function, and Origins
Men Who Control Our Universities
The Indian Working Class
Labor Problems in Southeast Asia
Cloud By Day
Why I Believe in Socialism
I became a convinced believer in socialism as the best way out for America and the world almost twenty years ago, about 1931 or 1932. Since that time the rise of fascism, the undoubted economic success of socialism in the Soviet Union, the coming of the Second World War, the defeat of international fascism and the post-war developments of 1945-49 in America, Europe, and Asia have all deepened and strengthened my socialist convictions.This article…
The Maple Sugar Book
Tasks of the Left in the U.S.A
Left, "Center," and "Right" are terms which have a particular application to the US. They also have a general connotation for the western world. Their general connotation relates to the passing of capitalism as the dominant culture pattern of the West. Their particular application to the United States relates to the struggle to preserve capitalism as the accepted social pattern of this country and of the other nonsocialist areas of the world.This…
The American Resistance: A Communication
You began the November 1951 issue of Monthly Review with a statement captioned "Toward an American Resistance Movement." When this article appeared, I was on a speaking trip which covered more than 15,000 miles and took me to small towns and big cities all over North America. On most of the trip I was talking about war and peace, because at the moment I believe that war is the most terrible enemy confronting mankind.This article can also be found…
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