This is a model of the U.S economy as a complicated figure-8 inextricably linking the public sector and private sector into a whole. Designed in 1934 by Lewis Baxter of Economic Security Analysts for Harry Hopkins’ brain trust at the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, this was an early powerpoint – the black boxes are holes that allowed you to move a spreadsheet of numbers up and down simulating changes in Federal spending, showing you different values for various economic variables as you went.
Baxter’s conclusion was that the Federal government could essentially decide what unemployment rate the U.S would have, and could hit 0% if it committed to “universal useful employment based on assured jobs in public service to all potential producers otherwise unemployed,” because “government activities constitute, in effect, an auxiliary industry, might might always utilize advantageously the entire current labor surplus; and that such “industry” differs from the others only with reference to the nature of its “products” and the method of marketing them.”
As long as you did that, the only difference between the Federal government spending $4 billion ($70 billion in 2014) and spending $34 billion ($593 billion in 2014) was that “the average producer is buyieng less individually and more co-operatively.”
This is the most sweepingly radical document the U.S government has ever produced, and it was written in 1934 at a time when the Federal government was tiny, ludicrously weak in its capacity to change the lives of the ordinary citizen. And yet this document is so ambitious, so confident and optimistic of the ability of a democracy to master economic forces, that it makes everything that’s come since seem conservative by comparison.
This is how Americans used to dream.
Let’s make t-shirts.
Actually first things first but take a version of this that we can use as a Facebook meme
I’ll give it a try, but fair warning it’s a photocopy to begin with, so there’s a limit to how good we can make it.
as long as the text is readable it can be remade – the figures themselves seem fairly simple
I’m sure it is, I just have no skills at all in graphic design or photoshop or the like.
@racefortheironthrone, I just wanted to say that 1) I love the fact that THIS is your favorite historical document, something that nobody knows about yet clearly makes a radical statement and 2) that you carry it around with you. I would love to know … is it in your wallet? In the glove box of your car? Where did you get it? Can I copy you and carry my favorite historical document around with me too?
Thanks!
I keep it in my leather portfolio that I carry my legal pads and rough drafts in.
I found this document as part of my dissertation research. Specifically, it can be found in the Staff Subject Files: Miscellaneous of the Staff Subject Files of the Records of the Committee on Economic Security, which is Record Group 69 in National Archives II, College Park, Maryland, USA.
Feel free to copy me and carry a copy of your favorite historical document with you.
This is a model of the U.S economy as a complicated figure-8 inextricably linking the public sector and private sector into a whole. Designed in 1934 by Lewis Baxter of Economic Security Analysts for Harry Hopkins’ brain trust at the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, this was an early powerpoint – the black boxes are holes that allowed you to move a spreadsheet of numbers up and down simulating changes in Federal spending, showing you different values for various economic variables as you went.
Baxter’s conclusion was that the Federal government could essentially decide what unemployment rate the U.S would have, and could hit 0% if it committed to “universal useful employment based on assured jobs in public service to all potential producers otherwise unemployed,” because “government activities constitute, in effect, an auxiliary industry, might might always utilize advantageously the entire current labor surplus; and that such “industry” differs from the others only with reference to the nature of its “products” and the method of marketing them.”
As long as you did that, the only difference between the Federal government spending $4 billion ($70 billion in 2014) and spending $34 billion ($593 billion in 2014) was that “the average producer is buyieng less individually and more co-operatively.”
This is the most sweepingly radical document the U.S government has ever produced, and it was written in 1934 at a time when the Federal government was tiny, ludicrously weak in its capacity to change the lives of the ordinary citizen. And yet this document is so ambitious, so confident and optimistic of the ability of a democracy to master economic forces, that it makes everything that’s come since seem conservative by comparison.
This is how Americans used to dream.
Let’s make t-shirts.
Actually first things first but take a version of this that we can use as a Facebook meme
I’ll give it a try, but fair warning it’s a photocopy to begin with, so there’s a limit to how good we can make it.
as long as the text is readable it can be remade – the figures themselves seem fairly simple
I’m sure it is, I just have no skills at all in graphic design or photoshop or the like.
This is a model of the U.S economy as a complicated figure-8 inextricably linking the public sector and private sector into a whole. Designed in 1934 by Lewis Baxter of Economic Security Analysts for Harry Hopkins’ brain trust at the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, this was an early powerpoint – the black boxes are holes that allowed you to move a spreadsheet of numbers up and down simulating changes in Federal spending, showing you different values for various economic variables as you went.
Baxter’s conclusion was that the Federal government could essentially decide what unemployment rate the U.S would have, and could hit 0% if it committed to “universal useful employment based on assured jobs in public service to all potential producers otherwise unemployed,” because “government activities constitute, in effect, an auxiliary industry, might might always utilize advantageously the entire current labor surplus; and that such “industry” differs from the others only with reference to the nature of its “products” and the method of marketing them.”
As long as you did that, the only difference between the Federal government spending $4 billion ($70 billion in 2014) and spending $34 billion ($593 billion in 2014) was that “the average producer is buyieng less individually and more co-operatively.”
This is the most sweepingly radical document the U.S government has ever produced, and it was written in 1934 at a time when the Federal government was tiny, ludicrously weak in its capacity to change the lives of the ordinary citizen. And yet this document is so ambitious, so confident and optimistic of the ability of a democracy to master economic forces, that it makes everything that’s come since seem conservative by comparison.
This is how Americans used to dream.
Let’s make t-shirts.
Actually first things first but take a version of this that we can use as a Facebook meme
I’ll give it a try, but fair warning it’s a photocopy to begin with, so there’s a limit to how good we can make it.
The basic problem is that Stannis would be outnumbered when he got there, because the overwhelming majority of Renly’s army were Reachermen. Even with the Florents and the Fossoways behind him, it would have been a bloody affair with Randyll Tarly in a take-no-prisoners mood.
And it would mean leaving Storm’s End untaken behind him and giving King’s Landing a lot more time to prepare.
This is a model of the U.S economy as a complicated figure-8 inextricably linking the public sector and private sector into a whole. Designed in 1934 by Lewis Baxter of Economic Security Analysts for Harry Hopkins’ brain trust at the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, this was an early powerpoint – the black boxes are holes that allowed you to move a spreadsheet of numbers up and down simulating changes in Federal spending, showing you different values for various economic variables as you went.
Baxter’s conclusion was that the Federal government could essentially decide what unemployment rate the U.S would have, and could hit 0% if it committed to “universal useful employment based on assured jobs in public service to all potential producers otherwise unemployed,” because “government activities constitute, in effect, an auxiliary industry, might might always utilize advantageously the entire current labor surplus; and that such “industry” differs from the others only with reference to the nature of its “products” and the method of marketing them.”
As long as you did that, the only difference between the Federal government spending $4 billion ($70 billion in 2014) and spending $34 billion ($593 billion in 2014) was that “the average producer is buying less individually and more co-operatively.”
This is the most sweepingly radical document the U.S government has ever produced, and it was written in 1934 at a time when the Federal government was tiny, ludicrously weak in its capacity to change the lives of the ordinary citizen. And yet this document is so ambitious, so confident and optimistic of the ability of a democracy to master economic forces, that it makes everything that’s come since seem conservative by comparison.
Well, that was technically part of the whole liberate Harrenhal thing, so he might skate that way. But I doubt the Faceless Men are forbidden from self-defense, rather from supernumerary assassinations.
I think Edric Dayne will probably show up at Starfall for the resolution of the whole Darkstar/Areo Hotah/Obara/Balon Swann thing. And I don’t think it’ll be a red herring exactly – I think when the whole group comes together that Ned and Ashara had been lovers before Ned was married, that she was pregnant and miscarried, **that she let Ned know where his sister was**, and that she killed herself when he showed up with his infant nephew and Arthur’s sword.
Definitely after. The civil war that split the Triarchy started in 130 AC, and during this period the WOIAF says that, during the Rogare “caught up as they were in the Lyseni Spring. This was a time when the Rogare Bank waxed greater than the Iron Bank.” In this period, we’re told that “Lysandro assumed the style of First Magister for Life, and men spoke of him as Lysandro the Magnificent..”
This suggests to me that the Lyseni Spring was a period where Lys broke from the Triarchy and experienced great success under the leadership of the Rogare family, which would explain why the Rogare Bank was more powerful than the Iron Bank.
And then completely coincidentally and having absolutely nothing to do with the Iron Bank and Braavos’ anti-Three Daughters alliance, Lysandro and his brother died, cutting Lys off from support in Westeros and Dorne and Lysaro bankrupted himself trying to hold on to the family’s position, ruining both the family and their Bank.
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