DEFENDING ALL-MALE EDUCATION: A NEW CULTURAL MOMENT FOR A RENEWED DEBATE

Although all-female schools still prosper and are defended by members of the academic elite, an all-male college has become a near-extinct species. Many people are surprised such a creature still exists. All-male colleges strike many as vestiges of male privilege. They evoke the traditional bastions of power that precluded women from advancing in public life. Single-sex education is not for everyone, but if our educational system is to be truly pluralistic, such an education should be an option. Single-sex education for both genders can be a constructive way to address problems plaguing not only education but the culture as a whole. Educators are now more willing to reevaluate all-male education. While research on single-sex education focuses on women, its conclusions often show significant gains for both genders. Indeed, those who experience an all-male education are usually eager to talk of its empowering effect. In our society, sex is used and exploited as the primary means of self-expression and ultimate fulfillment. It is possible that the single-sex atmosphere might help put such distorted claims into a better perspective. It is time for a new debate about all-male education

Wage-price restraint and macroeconomic disequilibrium

An abstract for this article is not availableWage-price policy

Combinatorics of tight geodesics and stable lengths

We give an algorithm to compute the stable lengths of pseudo-Anosovs on the curve graph, answering a question of Bowditch. We also give a procedure to compute all invariant tight geodesic axes of pseudo-Anosovs. Along the way we show that there are constants $1<a_1<a_2$ such that the minimal upper bound on `slices' of tight geodesics is bounded below and above by $a_1^{\xi(S)}$ and $a_2^{\xi(S)}$, where $\xi(S)$ is the complexity of the surface. As a consequence, we give the first computable bounds on the asymptotic dimension of curve graphs and mapping class groups. Our techniques involve a generalization of Masur--Minsky's tight geodesics and a new class of paths on which their tightening procedure works.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figure

Forecasts 1985

An abstract for this article is not availableForecasting

Which price index should a central bank employ?

Banks and banking, Central ; Inflation (Finance)

Two approaches to macroeconomic forecasting

Macroeconomics ; Vector autoregression ; Forecasting

Forecasts 1982

An abstract for this article is not available.Forecasting