This is not a complaint, but an awesome thing. My sister is now blog famous. Here is her Ph.D. Job Market Paper:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~millermc/Job_Market_Paper.pdf
Her web-site:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~millermc/ (ps - she is at U.Mich. but she is a native Clevelander, so don't give Michigan the credit)
It is being discussed all over the web. She basically determines that if slaves had been given land they would have been better off through a lot of math and extensive research (namely comparison to slaves living on Indian reservations who did get land). The funny thing is that the paper has turned to a discussion on reparations and the paper's support for reparations in blog world. This is funny for primarily two reasons: (1)the paper does not discuss monetary reparation in any way but instead the initial grant of land and (2)my sister believes (this is not really in her paper, but was mentioned to me when I asked about how this affects the concept of reparations) it is likely that in today's society neither land nor money would do anything to improve the status of former slaves. Instead, inner city primary and secondary schools need to be improved to provide african-americans with a better educational base as education is todays land and mule. If only people read what the paper discussed.
Also, aren't you impressed by the level of intelligence in my family? If only the elder sibling hadn't taken all the brain power, I might have had a chance at awesomeness. Oh, well.
All these really important blogs are discussing it:
the one that started it:
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/12/would-it-have-h.html
the ones that followed:
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/40_acres_and_a_mule.php
http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2007/12/revolution-but-half-accomplished.html
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/45543.html
http://greenespace.blogspot.com/http://www.strategicboard.com/index.php?s=%22Civil++War%22
http://www.prometheus6.org/node/19044
http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=7324#commentaire356906 (this one is funny because it features a picture of shirley temple - my sister looks nothing like shirley temple).
PS - Schools you should really hire her at the New Orleans Economics job fair
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Interesting. How did she come up with her results?
data collection. she collected census data through generations and created calculations based on that data to determine the impact. She traced former slave famililes of former southern slaves and former cherokee slaves. She read articles from cherokee nation newspapers and everything under the sun to figure out what was going on.
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