Robert J Myers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 699436 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert J Myers |
| PRENOMES | Robert J |
| SOBRENOME | Myers |
| ASSINATURA | MYERS R J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1929 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Spatial equilibrium and price transmission between Southern African maize markets connected by informal trade
Evaluating the effectiveness of inter-regional trade and storage in Malawi’s private sector maize markets
Exchange rates, soybean supply response, and deforestation in South America
A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis
On the costs of food price fluctuations in low-income countries
Managing food price risks and instability in a liberalizing market environment
Social Capital and the Terms of Trade for Farmland
Social capital is a person or group's sympathy for or sense of obligation to another person or group. This article introduces social capital into a neoclassical model of farmland exchange and shows how relationships alter the terms of trade. Empirical evidence from a survey of farmers shows that the type of relationship farmland sellers have with farmland buyers has a statistically significant and economically important effect on the minimum-sell…
Prospects for Social Security Reform
Preface PART I. WHAT IS THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROBLEM? 1. An Overview of the Issues 2. Measuring Solvency in the Social Security System 3. Criteria for Evaluating Social Security Reform 4. New Opportunities for the Social Security System PART II. ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SOCIAL SECURITY 5. Social Security Money's Worth 6. Simulating Benefit Levels Under Alternative Social Security Reforms 7. Stochastic Simulation of Economic Growth Effects …
Hans Morgenthau's Realism and American Foreign Policy
As the father of the realist theory of international relations, Hans Morgenthau consistently argued that international politics is governed by the competitive and conflictual nature of humankind. Myers discusses the history of U.S. foreign policy and the ongoing debate over the continued relevance of realist thought in the post-Cold War era. He argues that despite vast changes in the international system, realism remains relevant as an accurate d…
Notes on the Just War Theory
Dr. Myers challenges the legitimacy of the traditional concept of the “just war,” revived during the Vietnam War and with the publication of Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars in 1977. The doctrine's major flaw, says Myers, is that it allows self-interested interpretation in a world of sovereign states - “Whose justice are we talking about?” he asks. Myers nonetheless validates the theory's intention and its utility in coping with war
Socialist crisis of power
Moral choice and dialectic failure
More about the Funding Basis of the United States Social Security Program in Its Early Days
Research Article| September 01 1993 More about the Funding Basis of the United States Social Security Program in Its Early Days Robert J. Myers Robert J. Myers 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (3): 531–536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-3-531 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Social Security's Looming Surpluses
The good society redux
Rethinking human rights
Books in review
After the cold war
The Carnegie Poll on Values in American Foreign Policy
In a brief summary of a poll conducted by the Carnegie Council, Myers outlines the American public's views on issues ranging from foreign policy/peace issues to economic security, defense, and human rights. The underlying perception of the United States as the “moral nation” raises a fundamental question: How deeply imbedded is the distinction between words and deeds in American foreign policy? Some results of the survey defied explanation. “Why …
The End of the Hermit Kingdom
Korea became known as the Hermit Kingdom at the end of the nineteenth century when it had withdrawn into itself under the threats of its neighbors-China, Russia, and Japan. This characterization has endured through this century even despite Korea's internal war and the involvement of the international community in that conflict. The election of Roh Tae Woo marked the beginning of a new stage in Korean politics: “the period of Korean-style democra…
The Virtue of Moral Restraint
With arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union in progress and the elections in the United States in the autumn, this is a particularly good time to review the challenging subject of ethics and international relations. Challenging, because there is no easy solution at hand. Immediate events are often the reason for an apparent surge of interest in the topic, such as the Iran-Contra hearings in the United States, the…
Introducing Ethics and International Affairs
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Forecasting the Number of Social Security Retirees
The Political Morality of the International Monetary Fund
Questions of international debt, world economic growth rates, and demands by the Third World nations for a new international economic order have thrust two relatively unknown international institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, into public prominence.Controversy over the IMF--which helps debtor countries balance current accounts and meet debt payments--enters on the conditions that the lending institution places on rece…
An Unwarranted Attack on the Integrity of Actuarial Estimates for Social Security
Exchange rates, soybean supply response, and deforestation in South America
Managing food price risks and instability in a liberalizing market environment
Social Capital and the Terms of Trade for Farmland
Social capital is a person or group's sympathy for or sense of obligation to another person or group. This article introduces social capital into a neoclassical model of farmland exchange and shows how relationships alter the terms of trade. Empirical evidence from a survey of farmers shows that the type of relationship farmland sellers have with farmland buyers has a statistically significant and economically important effect on the minimum-sell…
An instance of reverse heaping of ages
This note reports on an interesting example of reverse heaping of ages for data from the Saudi Arabian social insurance system. Peaks occur for the number of workers at ages corresponding to years of birth ending in zeroes and fives, while there are troughs at such ages for the average monthly wages. Such troughs almost certainly are the result of workers with less education using a rounded year of birth, and, correspondingly, such workers would …
A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis
On the costs of food price fluctuations in low-income countries
Notes on the Just War Theory
Dr. Myers challenges the legitimacy of the traditional concept of the “just war,” revived during the Vietnam War and with the publication of Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars in 1977. The doctrine's major flaw, says Myers, is that it allows self-interested interpretation in a world of sovereign states - “Whose justice are we talking about?” he asks. Myers nonetheless validates the theory's intention and its utility in coping with war
Validity of centenarian data in the 1960 Census
This paper examines the question of how many genuine centenarians there actually are in the United States as compared with those reported in the census. It is concluded that the numbers of centenarians shown in various United States censuses are definite overstatements of the number of true centenarians. It seems likely that instead of the 10,326 centenarians reported in the 1960 census there were at most only about 3,700. Overstatement of ages s…
Hans Morgenthau's Realism and American Foreign Policy
As the father of the realist theory of international relations, Hans Morgenthau consistently argued that international politics is governed by the competitive and conflictual nature of humankind. Myers discusses the history of U.S. foreign policy and the ongoing debate over the continued relevance of realist thought in the post-Cold War era. He argues that despite vast changes in the international system, realism remains relevant as an accurate d…
More about the Funding Basis of the United States Social Security Program in Its Early Days
Research Article| September 01 1993 More about the Funding Basis of the United States Social Security Program in Its Early Days Robert J. Myers Robert J. Myers 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (3): 531–536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-3-531 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
The Political Morality of the International Monetary Fund
Questions of international debt, world economic growth rates, and demands by the Third World nations for a new international economic order have thrust two relatively unknown international institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, into public prominence.Controversy over the IMF--which helps debtor countries balance current accounts and meet debt payments--enters on the conditions that the lending institution places on rece…
An investigation of the age of an alleged centenarian
At times, persons have been reported as living to extremely advanced ages such as 130, or even higher (McWhirter and McWhirter, 1977, p. 26; Medvedev, 1974; Merrill, 1976). However, controlled studies of closed groups like Civil War veterans (Myers and Shudde, 1955) have not shown any persons surviving beyond age 110, when age has been reasonably verified. It seems, therefore, highly plausible that reports of extremely advanced ages at death refl…
Occupational Readjustment of Displaced Skilled Workmen
Spatial equilibrium and price transmission between Southern African maize markets connected by informal trade
Rethinking human rights
The Virtue of Moral Restraint
With arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union in progress and the elections in the United States in the autumn, this is a particularly good time to review the challenging subject of ethics and international relations. Challenging, because there is no easy solution at hand. Immediate events are often the reason for an apparent surge of interest in the topic, such as the Iran-Contra hearings in the United States, the…
Underenumeration in the Census as Indicated by Selective Service Data
IN A PAPER by Daniel 0. Price in the American Sociological Review, February 1947, there is contained an analysis indicating that on the basis of Selective Service data there was underenumeration in the I940 Census for the age group 2 1-35 amounting to about 3% for total males and I5% for negro males. The analysis was made on the basis of projecting the I940 Census for the 612 months to the date of the First Selective Service Registration (see Tab…
Occupational Readjustment of Displaced Skilled Workmen
Union-Management Cooperation
Underenumeration in the Census as Indicated by Selective Service Data
IN A PAPER by Daniel 0. Price in the American Sociological Review, February 1947, there is contained an analysis indicating that on the basis of Selective Service data there was underenumeration in the I940 Census for the age group 2 1-35 amounting to about 3% for total males and I5% for negro males. The analysis was made on the basis of projecting the I940 Census for the 612 months to the date of the First Selective Service Registration (see Tab…
Length of Life
Experience of the Umwa Welfare and Retirement Fund
The welfare and retirement fund negotiated in 1946 by the UMWA for bituminous coal miners was the first large program of its type to be set up by collective bargaining after the war. Based upon principles differing from those followed in other industries, the fund aroused much speculation in regard to the high benefits which it afforded and the soundness of its financing. In this article, the operating experience of the fund, primarily with respe…
Further Experience of the Umwa Welfare and Retirement Fund
This article brings up to date an analysis of the financial experience of the welfare and retirement fund for organized workers in the bituminous coal industry. The experience illustrates some of the difficulties that may be encountered in maintaining the solvency of a benefit program which is not actuarially funded, as well as showing the interrelationship of welfare financing and the economics of the coal industry. (Author's abstract courtesy E…
Financing and Coverage under Social Insurance in Soviet Russia
Each year a little more information on Russian social security programs becomes available. Material on numbers of beneficiaries, expenditures, and other items enabling us to evaluate program performance better, however, still is not easy to compile. Readers doubtless will disagree with some of the statements and judgments in the accompanying article. Nevertheless, it sheds more light on programs about which little information (in English) is avai…
Social Insurance and Allied Government Programs
The impact of Medicare on demography
The so-called Medicare program enacted by the 1965 Amendments to the Social Security Act will have a significant impact on demographic studies, in view of the vast amount of previously unobtainable data that will be made available. Not only will there be extensive information in regard to hospitalization and other medical-care costs for persons aged 65 and over (with adequate subdivisions by age and sex) but also reliable data in regard to the tr…
Validity of centenarian data in the 1960 Census
This paper examines the question of how many genuine centenarians there actually are in the United States as compared with those reported in the census. It is concluded that the numbers of centenarians shown in various United States censuses are definite overstatements of the number of true centenarians. It seems likely that instead of the 10,326 centenarians reported in the 1960 census there were at most only about 3,700. Overstatement of ages s…
Actuarial Hypotheses Used for Long‐range Cost Estimates for Old‐age and Survivors’insurance
The Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund
Analyzes the operating experience of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund in the United States from 1961 to 1965. Information on the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund; Methods of financing; Details of the provisions for pension and survivor benefits on July 1, 1960; Cost of the royalties in 1961. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
An instance of reverse heaping of ages
This note reports on an interesting example of reverse heaping of ages for data from the Saudi Arabian social insurance system. Peaks occur for the number of workers at ages corresponding to years of birth ending in zeroes and fives, while there are troughs at such ages for the average monthly wages. Such troughs almost certainly are the result of workers with less education using a rounded year of birth, and, correspondingly, such workers would …
An investigation of the age of an alleged centenarian
At times, persons have been reported as living to extremely advanced ages such as 130, or even higher (McWhirter and McWhirter, 1977, p. 26; Medvedev, 1974; Merrill, 1976). However, controlled studies of closed groups like Civil War veterans (Myers and Shudde, 1955) have not shown any persons surviving beyond age 110, when age has been reasonably verified. It seems, therefore, highly plausible that reports of extremely advanced ages at death refl…
Expansion or Contraction of Social Security
During its first three decades of operation, the Social Security program was almost unanimously approved of by the populace and the press. The benefits were many times as large as actuarially purchasable from the contribu tions paid. The administration was efficient and prompt. How ever, in the 1970s, the situation considerably changed: finan cial problems arose—both over the short range and the long range—and the administration deteriorated. The…
An Unwarranted Attack on the Integrity of Actuarial Estimates for Social Security
Introducing Ethics and International Affairs
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Forecasting the Number of Social Security Retirees
The Political Morality of the International Monetary Fund
Questions of international debt, world economic growth rates, and demands by the Third World nations for a new international economic order have thrust two relatively unknown international institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, into public prominence.Controversy over the IMF--which helps debtor countries balance current accounts and meet debt payments--enters on the conditions that the lending institution places on rece…
The End of the Hermit Kingdom
Korea became known as the Hermit Kingdom at the end of the nineteenth century when it had withdrawn into itself under the threats of its neighbors-China, Russia, and Japan. This characterization has endured through this century even despite Korea's internal war and the involvement of the international community in that conflict. The election of Roh Tae Woo marked the beginning of a new stage in Korean politics: “the period of Korean-style democra…
The Virtue of Moral Restraint
With arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union in progress and the elections in the United States in the autumn, this is a particularly good time to review the challenging subject of ethics and international relations. Challenging, because there is no easy solution at hand. Immediate events are often the reason for an apparent surge of interest in the topic, such as the Iran-Contra hearings in the United States, the…
The Carnegie Poll on Values in American Foreign Policy
In a brief summary of a poll conducted by the Carnegie Council, Myers outlines the American public's views on issues ranging from foreign policy/peace issues to economic security, defense, and human rights. The underlying perception of the United States as the “moral nation” raises a fundamental question: How deeply imbedded is the distinction between words and deeds in American foreign policy? Some results of the survey defied explanation. “Why …
Books in review
After the cold war
Social Security's Looming Surpluses
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