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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Second-Parent Adoption
Not all lesbian couples in Massachusetts do a second parent adoption. We know couples who have opted against it because of the substantial expense, deciding to rely on their status as a married couple for protection. We know of one couple who did the adoption but were very angry that they had to. Lyn and I haven't ever felt angry about jumping through the legal hoops (although I wouldn't mind it if the lawyer gave us back that fat stack of cash). So I wanted to say something about why we have chosen this route.
It comes down to something the judge said just before she signed our papers. "This adoption is a permanent decree. When this paper is signed and registered with the court it is permanent and irrevocable." Those words struck me very deeply, and I turned them over and over in my head for the rest of the day. At the end of the day I found that the word "irrevocable" had really impacted Lyn as well. It is the revocability of the relationship between a child and his non-biological mother that gets at the heart of the difficulty in establishing and maintaining a lesbian-headed family with two moms.
Without legal protections, a bio-mom can revoke the parenthood of a non-bio-mom any time she chooses. Non-biological mothers in most states don't have legal protections which leads to mothers losing their children and children losing their mothers. If I knew that Lyn could take Ira away from me it would change our whole relationship. It would change my relationship with Ira, setting up Lyn as the mediator of our relationship, even if neither of us intended that to be the case. That's what makes that word, irrevocable, mean so much. It normalizes my relationship with both Lyn and Ira. It means that my community cares enough about my family to invest each of our relationships with Ira with equal importance.
Too often, we don't take lesbian parenting relationships seriously enough. In most places lesbians are not allowed to marry; our relationships are not taken seriously by the larger community. In our hearts, too many of us believe that our relationships really are second rate and that the bio-mom is really is the "real" mom. I feel so blessed that the state has imbued my marriage with legal backing and my parenthood with serious and irrevocable status. It makes my marriage and my family stronger.
14 comments:
- martha said...
Congratulations on your legal recognition - We were doing the same thing on Wednesday.
I also love the way you've written about the ways that it does change your relationship because that's all been in my head but I haven't been able to get it out into words as well as you have.
- January 15, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- Bionic Baby Mama said...
Thank you for this post. I just had a somewhat frustrating conversation with a friend about all this -- they've done everything their state allows, as far as I know, but bio-mom seems fundamentally unworried in a way that upset me for reasons I had trouble expressing. Her attitude seemed to be roughly that they weren't going to do anything horrible to each other, so why fret, but the symbolism of that unconcern seems to me too rooted in the notion that the non-gestational parent's parenthood is an act of grace on the part of the gestational parent.
I do think the difference in attitude (between my friend and me) is inflected by the fact that I live in a state where I can be kind-of-legally married and she does not. I'm surprised but grateful to find that getting even the pseudo-recognition our state grants has lessened the "us against the world!" feeling of living with an entirely unrecognized relationship. I suppose it's paradoxical that such a change should lead to what could be seen as decisions to trust ourselves (versus laws) less...but maybe I should stop filling up this leeetle comment box and write my own blog post about it!
- January 15, 2010 at 8:25 AM
- N said...
Congrats, and yes a million times. A beautifully written post on what it means to have these privileges.
- January 15, 2010 at 8:37 AM
- nutella said...
Congrats on the irrevocability. But it makes me angry that it's even an issue. I feel lucky that we had the option to do it in our state and very glad that we took advantage of it right away. But it's infuriating all the same.
- January 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Lex said...
I, too, believe in the importance of doing a second-parent adoption, even for families (like ours as well) that live in MA where both parents names are on the birth certificate from the start.
We had our twins before marriage was legal and thus my wife's name was not originally on the twins' birth certificates since I had gestated and birthed the babies. We knew that adoption was important, but lacked funds (of any kind) with which to hire a lawyer, and were wary of doing the adoption ourselves (wrongly so, I might add, since we have now learned how simple the process is, having been through it). We figured that the adoption could wait until we were in a better place financially, feeling lucky to live in a place where no one--not teachers or doctors or hospital workers-- questioned my wife's status as our boys' mother.
While waiting for "financial stability," our marriage went through an extremely rocky period, coming to a crisis point when our twins were about 18 months old (while I'm sure that both my wife and I were at fault in our failure to attend to our marriage, I should note that it was my wife who questioned whether or not she wanted to stay in the marriage). It is somewhat horrifying for me to admit it now, but at the time I certainly thought, "well at least she has no legal rights to the kids." I was absolutely prepared to keep her from them. In that moment, I felt they were mine, and I was so glad that we had not yet done the adoption.
We worked hard on our marriage and within a year had gotten ourselves to a place of true healing and felt like we were better for having struggled so intensely. We went forward with trying for a third baby, and conceived again when our twins were newly three. It wasn't until we were about half-way through that pregnancy that we began the process of second-parent adoption. So our twins were close to four by the time it was completed. At that point, after all we had been through, I would have guessed that the event would feel insignificant. But I was totally wrong. It still felt pretty huge--especially for my wife. She didn't expect to feel differently post-adoption, but she did. It made me wonder if perhaps things would have gone differently with our marriage early on if she had adopted the babies right off the bat (in re: to her commitment to our family).
The benefit to having waited so long to go through with it is that both of our twins clearly remember the day of the adoption. Driving by the courthouse the other day, one of our six-year-olds said, "hey, that's where I was adopted!" (When they were younger, they used to say, "that's where we adopted Mama!"). Knowing more about adoption now than they used to, he followed this up with a question, "WHY was I adopted anyway? I mean, if you and Mama HAD me, why did you have to also adopt me?" It proved to be a great starting point to a conversation about lesbian families and the government and sperm donors . . . issues we've always talked to our kids about, but that they've only recently began to understand or act interested in.
As much as I believe in second-parent adoption, we have yet to do it for our three-year-old (I gestated) or our six-month-old (my wife gestated). Perhaps we do feel some extra protection in the fact that at least in MA, we are both recognized as legal parents. But it's more that we are just busy parents who haven't gotten around to it yet. This conversation has motivated me, though. I think I will stop by the Family Court and pick up the paperwork today (we are planning to do the adoptions sans lawyer this time around).
Thank you for bringing this up, and congratulations on having completed the process with Ira!
- January 15, 2010 at 10:32 AM
A) Mazel tov to all four of you! Your family is even more protected now, and I'm glad of it.
B) Thanks for writing about this, and for reminding all of us that even if we live in a priveleged area, we have a responsiblity to seek all of the rights and protections available to us. If people in progressive areas get complacent, that will set everyone back.
C) As we prepare for our second round of second-parent adoption, I'm saddened that folks are already starting to tell us "Oh, you don't need to do THAT anymore." Not parents, mind you, but people who incorrectly think that our state's domestic partnership law could somehow cover us in the case of interstate travel. No, it won't. (Please please please educate yourselves about the Langbehn case in Florida before you tell me that nobody will attempt to keep me from my "adopted" child during an emergency situation.)
- January 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM
I, too, appreciate this post. Where I live (UT), we aren't allowed to do adoptions of any kind and, as a result, I lost my 5yo daughter almost three years ago. And to add to it, because of my case, Utah now has a ruling that supports a biological parent to make this awful choice.
If you live where it's possible, it seems ungrateful not to take advantage of it.
Congratulations to you & your family. - gives me another reason to move to MA. :)
- January 15, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- Lyn said...
piecesofgray -- I've followed your story (found you by way of An Accident of Hope when it was around) and it is so sad. Thank you so much for commenting here. I can't imagine how hard it must be to move on after such a loss. Congrats on your new (well, I guess not so new!) daughter. (and yes, MA is fabulous. Drop us a line if you are at all serious about a move and we'll give you the scoop or show you around. really.)
- January 16, 2010 at 6:11 PM
I've followed your awesome blog on and off since last winter when my wife and I welcomed our son and scoured the Internet to find stories from families like ours. We especially appreciated your posts about nursing with all of the related feelings and dilemmas involved.
This post surprised me, though, and I thought I'd leave a comment. First, congratulations on the second-parent adoption! We also live in MA, are married, and completed a second-parent adoption (SPA) last summer. Of course we want all the peace of mind we can legally secure for our family.
But I was surprised by the rationale you used-- I don't think taking/losing a child even crossed our minds when we pursued the SPA. We were not concerned that either of us would invalidated the other as our son's mother; we were/are concerned that many states (those that passively or actively don't recognize equal marriage) and the Federal government invalidate us. If we end up in an ER in an unfriendly state, we want to secure our rights to access each other and our child. A SPA is the only way to make certain of that. I have a feeling those slights (to use a very mild word!) occur far more often than the horrific stories of taking/losing children.
Heck, tonight we went shopping at our local Trader Joe's and were asked by both the clerk and the manager if we were "all one order." Um, yes, two moms, a baby, and one shopping cart is "one order." I can't even buy groceries with my family without being invalidated. And the stakes are pretty low when it's just buying groceries. Infuriating and all too common for our families.
But whatever the reason for securing the protection, I am grateful that we have the right to do so. Congratulations again!
- January 17, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- GIsen said...
"We were not concerned that either of us would invalidated the other as our son's mother"
@Ashley...i'm sure none of the lesbian couples battling it out in court thought the other would try to terminate the others parental rights either,but they have and are doing just that.
- January 19, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- Heather T said...
This was a wonderful read in the vein of validating both members of queer couples as equal in parenting. I have a question which may be naive. You say in this post and in the past that even though MA recognizes your marriage, you and Lyn have gone through the process of second adoption twice now to ensure that no matter what, you both are legal parents to your two children. But isn't it possible that another state might reject this court action as easily by saying that a child can't have two mothers? I hope not, but it seems like if they have the right to say two women (or two men) can't get married that they could state that a child could have no more than one mother (or father). I'm just wondering about this; if you know anything about it, I would like to hear.
(maybe this is answered by piecesofgray's experience in Utah?)
- January 19, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Lyn said...
HeatherT -- Our understanding of the law (based on what we know from our lawyer, other couples, and asking the internet, so please, speak up if you have more authority than that) is that second parent adoption (at least here in MA) uses exactly the same law that applies for straight families for things like step-parent adoptions. This body of law is well respected across state lines, and according to our lawyer, we are good in all 50 US states (there used to be some doubt about Oklahoma). Internationally there is a bit more question but I don't know details there. If, however, our adoption were based on a separate body of law for same-sex couples only, we'd be on much shakier ground.
Ashley -- Thanks for reading and thanks for the well-thought comment. I love it when people finally speak up around here! While protections like the ones you describe were part of our motivation (and are also part of the reason we always travel with our legal papers), I really think there's just no way around the fact that for families like ours, the primary reason for an adoption is to protect a child and non-bio-mom in case of family dissolution, either due to divorce or death. It's not nice to think about, and dear g-d I hope we never end up there. Gail talked about this a bit in her post, and I think it's true that this matters even on a day-to-day basis, even in a healthy marriage. Discrepancies in power dynamics that emerge without equal parental rights can and do undermine the foundation of any marriage (Lex alludes to this).
Lex -- Your story is really powerful. I doubt your reaction to marital strife was at all unique, but isn't it horrifying to think that Lena could have been separated from your boys, and by your own hand? Thank goodness you worked through it.
Thanks all for the smart comments. You guys are awesome.
- January 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- meridith said...
"permanent and irrevocable". An absolutely lovely state. Congratulations.
- January 20, 2010 at 9:28 PM
- amy said...
i couldn't agree with you more. and though my partner and i both counter adopted our children (obviously the one we didn't give birth to), and felt like a real mom to said child before the legal status was secured, there was definitely something about the "irrevocability" that solidified our family's safety status, no doubt about it.
- January 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM


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Here is a quick energizer that allows the workshop participants to affirm and strengthen their learning. It is an "up-out-of-your-seat" exercise. And it is fun.
I call it the snowball toss, and I usually conduct it as a morning exercise to launch a second or third day of a workshop session.
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- Ask the participants to reflect back on the prior day and to write down one "aha," one significant learning.
- It is best if you ask them to:
- jot down their thought on an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of paper
- write legibly - so that you would be able to read their writing
- When sufficient time has elapsed for everyone to write down their thought, invite the participants to get out of their seats and form in a circle (okay, something approximating a circle). Often times, I will have them form the circle outside of the workshop room, if I can find a nearby open space. (A brief "field trip" of sorts).
- I ask them to crumple up the sheet of paper in their hands into paper snowballs.
- With the circle formed, I interject a comment about winter or snow, and invite them to "have at it" with their snowballs. Here is an example from a recent workshop in Phoenix, where the temperature was 78°: "Last week, New England and New York experienced some of the heaviest snowfall on record. For those of you who are envious and missed the fun of the snowfall, I thought we'd create some of our own winter fun. So, let me ask you to crumple up your papers into paper snowballs, and have you own snowball fight." The snowballs flew.
- I encourage the participants to pick up the paper balls and continue to throw them at one another for a few rounds (say 30 seconds). Finally, I ask everyone to pick up one the paper snowballs.
- Reforming the circle, I ask everyone, in turn, to read ALOUD the thought that one of their colleagues wrote down.
The Benefits
Each participant strengthens one learning from the prior day. I trust that the learning that is written down is an element of leadership that will serve them and their direct reports well. This is an opportunity to solidify the learning and not allow it to melt away!
The participant and the facilitator hear some key thoughts from all of the workshop participants, creating an opportunity to learn from one another.
The snowball toss safeguards the anonymity and privacy of the participant. (I do not tell the participants that they will need to personally share their thoughts with the group. Therefore, I trust that what they write down is authentic).
Experience from the Field
The snowball toss is fun!
I, as the facilitator, become aware of the "ah-ha" moments that are important for the group, and can refer back to them during the course of the current day.
More recently, I have kept the individual paper snowballs after the exercise and recorded the comments in order to email them to the participants in the few days after the completion of the workshop.
So, let's look at a live example from a recent seminar. On day one, we talked about Values, Credibility, and Inspiring a Shared Vision. Here are the "ah-has" that the seminar participants recorded in those paper snowballs on the morning of the second day:
Values and Credibility
- I found out how much my personal values help/hinder building relationships with certain direct reports. (Values don't have to be so black and white, there can be common ground).
- The values I've been living out lately are not my stated core values - not against them, just not the same.
- You have to know who you are and what your values are before you can create a true vision for your team.
- Credibility and values must stay in alignment to make them true. Sanity check this!
- Credibility's root is "credo" requiring consistent performance.
Inspiring a Shared Vision
- Sharing thoughts and using group brainstorming is much more efficient than coming up with ideas on my own.
- Using the group to help me form images/metaphors is very powerful. It is also more inclusive.
- The metaphor/imagery must not only fit the situation, it must fit the group of people to whom the vision will be described. It must connect with them.
- I have a wealth of stories that apply to my job, and that excite me about my job when I tell them.
- I know now that I need to paint the picture of my factory into my work group vision so it becomes more clear and shows alignment from my team to the factory.
Have fun in the snow. "Ah-ha" is always in season!

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SC Logistics was launched last year to develop and strengthen the state's logistics industry and is partially funded by a federal grant from the Economic Development Administration. Centrally located in the Southeastern United States and a manufacturing stronghold, South Carolina has long been a hub for the transportation and distribution of freight. According to the South Carolina Department of Transportation's Multimodal Plan, over 375 million tons of freight, valued at nearly $600 billion, moved across South Carolina's freight network in 2011. That tonnage is expected to grow by 81 percent from 2011 to 2040.
"The logistics industry is critically important to all business in South Carolina and is an embedded operation within the State's advanced manufacturing economy," said Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt. "From ensuring that goods and services are transported efficiently to employees traveling safely to and from work, the state's logistics network is important for economic growth and industry success in South Carolina."
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The Chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago, some of whom have constructed and popularized its principles.
In the context of macroeconomics, it is connected to the freshwater school of macroeconomics, in contrast to the saltwater school based in coastal universities (notably Harvard, MIT, and Berkeley). Chicago macroeconomic theory rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism until the mid-1970s, when it turned to new classical macroeconomics heavily based on the concept of rational expectations. The freshwater-saltwater distinction is largely antiquated today, as the two traditions have heavily incorporated ideas from each other. Specifically, New Keynesian economics was developed as a response to new classical economics, electing to incorporate the insight of rational expectations without giving up the traditional Keynesian focus on imperfect competition and sticky wages.
Chicago economists have also left their intellectual influence in other fields, notably in pioneering public choice theory and law and economics, which have led to revolutionary changes in the study of political science and law. Other economists affiliated with Chicago have made their impact in fields as diverse as social economics and economic history. Thus, there is not a clear delineation of the Chicago school of economics, a term that is more commonly used in the popular media than in academic circles. Nonetheless, Kaufman (2010) says that the School can be generally characterized by:[1]
A deep commitment to rigorous scholarship and open academic debate, an uncompromising belief in the usefulness and insight of neoclassical price theory, and a normative position that favors and promotes economic liberalism and free markets.
The University of Chicago Economics department, considered one of the world's foremost economics departments, has fielded more Nobel Prizes laureates and John Bates Clark medalists in economics than any other university.
- Terminology 1
Scholars 2
- Gary Becker 2.1
- Ronald Coase 2.2
- Eugene Fama 2.3
- Robert Fogel 2.4
- Milton Friedman 2.5
- Lars Peter Hansen 2.6
- Frank Knight 2.7
- Robert E. Lucas 2.8
- Richard Posner 2.9
- George Stigler 2.10
- Discussion 3
- Criticisms 4
- See also 5
- References 6
- Further reading 7
- External links 8
The term was coined in the 1950s to refer to economists teaching in the Economics Department at the University of Chicago, and closely related academic areas at the University such as the Booth School of Business and the Law School. They met together in frequent intense discussions that helped set a group outlook on economic issues, based on price theory. The 1950s saw the height of popularity of the Keynesian school of economics, so the members of the University of Chicago were considered outside the mainstream.
Besides what is popularly known as the "Chicago school", there is also an "Old Chicago" school of economics, consisting of an earlier generation of economists such as price theory and transaction cost economics. However, their relationship to the modern macroeconomists (the third wave of Chicago economics), led by Robert Lucas, Jr. and Eugene Fama, is more blurred.
Gary Becker
Gary Becker (1930–2014) was a Nobel Prize-winner from 1992 and was known in his work for applying economic methods of thinking to other fields, such as crime, sexual relationships, slavery and drugs, assuming that people act rationally. His work was originally focused in labor economics. His work partly inspired the popular economics book Freakonomics.
Ronald Coase
Ronald Coase (1910–2013) was the most prominent economic analyst of law and the 1991 Nobel Prize-winner. His first major article, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937), argued that the reason for the existence of firms (companies, partnerships, etc.) is the existence of transaction costs. Rational individuals trade through bilateral contracts on open markets until the costs of transactions mean that using corporations to produce things is more cost-effective.[2]
His second major article, "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960), argued that if we lived in a world without transaction costs, people would bargain with one another to create the same allocation of resources, regardless of the way a court might rule in property disputes. Coase used the example of an 1879 London legal case about nuisance named Sturges v Bridgman, in which a noisy sweetmaker and a quiet doctor were neighbours; the doctor went to court seeking an injunction against the noise produced by the sweetmaker.[2] Coase said that regardless of whether the judge ruled that the sweetmaker had to stop using his machinery, or that the doctor had to put up with it, they could strike a mutually beneficial bargain that reaches the same outcome of resource distribution. Only the existence of transaction costs may prevent this.[3]
So, the law ought to pre-empt what would happen, and be guided by the most efficient solution. The idea is that law and regulation are not as important or effective at helping people as lawyers and government planners believe.[4] Coase and others like him wanted a change of approach, to put the burden of proof for positive effects on a government that was intervening in the market, by analysing the costs of action.[5]
Eugene Fama
Eugene Fama (born 1939) is an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013 with Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller for their work on asset pricing. He has spent all of his teaching career at the University of Chicago and is well known as the father of the efficient-market hypothesis. Starting with his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, "The Behavior of Stock Market Prices", Fama concluded that stock prices are unpredictable and follow a random walk pattern of movement. He solidified this idea in his 1970 article, "Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work", which brought the idea of efficient markets into the forefront of modern economic theory.
Robert Fogel
Robert Fogel (1926–2013), a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in 1993, is well known for his historical analysis and his introduction of New economic history,[6] and invention of cliometrics, a notation system for quantitative data. In his tract, Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History, Fogel set out to rebut comprehensively the idea that railroads contributed to economic growth in the 19th century. Later, in Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, he argued that slaves in the Southern states of America had a higher standard of living than the industrial proletariat of the Northern states before the American civil war. Fogel believes that slavery was morally wrong, but argues that it was not necessarily less efficient than wage-labour.
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) stands as one of the most influential economists of the late twentieth century. A student of Frank Knight, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976 for, among other things, A Monetary History of the United States (1963). Friedman argued that the Great Depression had been caused by the Federal Reserve's policies through the 1920s, and worsened in the 1930s. Friedman argued that laissez-faire government policy is more desirable than government intervention in the economy.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.—Milton Friedman Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
Governments should aim for a neutral monetary policy oriented toward long-run economic growth, by gradual expansion of the money supply. He advocated the quantity theory of money, that general prices are determined by money. Therefore active monetary (e.g. easy credit) or fiscal (e.g. tax and spend) policy can have unintended negative effects. In Capitalism and Freedom (1967) Friedman wrote:[7]
There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effects.
The slogan that "money matters" has come to be associated with Friedman, but Friedman had also leveled harsh criticism of his ideological opponents. Referring to Thorstein Veblen's assertion that economics unrealistically models people as "lightning calculator[s] of pleasure and pain", Friedman wrote:[8]
Criticism of this type is largely beside the point unless supplemented by evidence that a hypothesis differing in one or another of these respects from the theory being criticized yields better predictions for as wide a range of phenomena.
Lars Peter Hansen
Lars Peter Hansen (born 1952) is an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013 with Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller for their work on asset pricing. Hansen began teaching at the University of Chicago in 1981 and is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Although best known for his work on the Generalized Method of Moments, he is also a distinguished macroeconomist, focusing on the linkages between the financial and real sectors of the economy.
Frank Knight
Frank Knight (1885–1972) was an early member of the University of Chicago department. His most influential work was Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (1921) from which the term Knightian uncertainty was coined. Knight's perspective was iconoclastic, and markedly different from later Chicago school thinkers. He believed that while the free market could be inefficient, government programs were even less efficient. He drew from other economic schools of thought such as institutional economics to form his own nuanced perspective.
Robert E. Lucas
Robert Lucas (born 1937), who won the Nobel Prize in 1995, has dedicated his life to unwinding Keynesianism. His major contribution is the argument that macroeconomics should not be seen as a separate mode of thought from microeconomics, and that analysis in both should be built on the same foundations. Lucas's works cover several topics in macroeconomics, included economic growth, asset pricing, and monetary Economics.
Richard Posner
Richard Posner (born 1939) is known primarily for his work in law and economics, though Robert Solow describes Posner's grasp of certain economic ideas as "in some respects,... precarious".[9] A federal appellate judge rather than an economist, Posner's main work, Economic Analysis of Law attempts to apply rational choice models to areas of law. He has chapters on tort, contract, corporations, labor law, but also criminal law, discrimination and family law. Posner goes so far as to say that:[10]
[the central] meaning of justice, perhaps the most common is – efficiency… [because] in a world of scarce resources waste should be regarded as immoral.
George Stigler
George Stigler (1911–1991) was tutored for his thesis by Frank Knight and won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982. He is best known for developing the Economic Theory of Regulation,[11] also known as regulatory capture, which says that interest groups and other political participants will use the regulatory and coercive powers of government to shape laws and regulations in a way that is beneficial to them. This theory is an important component of the Public Choice field of economics. He also carried out extensive research into the history of economic thought. His 1962 article "Information in the Labor Market"[12] developed the theory of search unemployment.
Some claim that Chicago School economists are associated with Washington Consensus,[13][14] which John Williamson says is "disappointing".[15] A significant body of economists and policy-makers argues that what was wrong with the Washington Consensus as originally formulated by Williamson had less to do with what was included than with what was missing.[16]
Economists overwhelmingly agree that the Washington Consensus was incomplete, and that countries in Latin America and elsewhere need to move beyond "first generation" macroeconomic and trade reforms to a stronger focus on productivity-boosting reforms and direct programs to support the poor.[17]
Paul Douglas, who returned to teach economics at the University of Chicago after his military service in WW II, and in 1947 was elected president of the American Economic Association, was uncomfortable with the environment he found at the university. He stated that," . . . I was disconcerted to find that the economic and political conservatives had acquired almost complete dominance over my department and taught that market decisions were always right and profit values the supreme ones . . . The opinions of my colleagues would have confined government to the eighteenth-century functions of justice, police, and arms, which I thought had been insufficient even for that time and were certainly so for ours. These men would neither use statistical data to develop economic theory nor accept critical analysis of the economic system . . . (Frank) Knight was now openly hostile, and his disciples seemed to be everywhere. If I stayed, it would be in an unfriendly environment."[18]
The Chicago school's methodology has historically produced conclusions that favor free market policies and little government intervention (albeit within a strict, government-defined monetary regime). These policies came under attack in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–2010.[19] The school has been blamed for growing income inequality in the United States.[20]
Economist [21] Critics have also charged that the school's belief in human rationality contributed to bubbles such as the recent financial crisis, and that the school's trust in markets to self-regulate has offered no aid to the economy in the wake of the crisis.[22]
In response, Chicago economists such as James Heckman have conceded that there were excesses in the use of Chicago school theory by politicians and public commentators, but that this represented a small fraction of the contributions of Chicago school economics. In particular, Heckman points out that the alleged failures or misapplications of efficient-market hypothesis is a fault of Chicago's contributions to financial economics, which are conceptually distinct from its widely praised contributions to microeconomics and macroeconomics.[23]
See also
- ^ Bruce Kaufman in Ross B. Emmett, ed. The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics (2010) p. 133
- ^ a b Sturges v. Bridgman (1879) 11 Ch D 852
- ^ Coase (1960) IV, 7
- ^ Coase (1960) V, 9
- ^ Coase (1960) VIII, 23
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- ^ Friedman (1967) p.
- ^ Friedman (1953) I,V,30
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- ^ Richard Posner, Economic Analysis of Law (1998) p. 30
- ^ "The Theory of Economic Regulation." (1971) Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, no. 3, pp. 3–18.
- ^ See also, "The Economics of Information," (1961) Journal of Political Economy, June. (JSTOR)
- ^ Sivalingam, G. (2005). Competition Policy in the ASEAN Countries. Cengage Learning Asia. p. 6.
- ^ Palley T. (2008). Breaking the Neoclassical Monopoly in Economics. Project Syndicate.
- ^ Williamson J. (2002). Did the Washington Consensus Fail?
- ^ See, as examples representative of a much more extensive literature, e.g., Birdsall and de la Torre. "Washington Contentious" (2003); Kuczynski and Williamson (eds.), "After the Washington Consensus" (2003).
- ^ See, e.g., Birdsall and de la Torre, "Washington Contentious" (2003); de Ferranti and Ody, "Key Economic and Social Challenges for Latin America" (2006): http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/20060803.pdf
- ^ Paul H. Douglas, In the Fulness of Time, 1972, p. 127-128
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/11/100111fa_fact_cassidy
- ^ http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/28/downfall_of_the_chicago_school/
- ^ "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?". The New York Times. 2009-09-06. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
- ^ "The other-worldly philosophers". The Economist. 2009-07-16.
- ^ http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_display.cfm?id=3278
Further reading
- Emmett, Ross B., ed. The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics (Edward Elgar, 2010), 350 pp.; ISBN 978-1-84064-874-4
- Emmett, Ross B. (2008). "Chicago School (new perspectives)," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Abstract.
- Friedman, Milton; Friedman, Rose (1998). Two Lucky People: Memoirs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Hammond, J. Daniel; Hammond, Claire H. (2006). Making Chicago Price Theory: Friedman-Stigler Correspondence, 1945–1957. London: Routledge.
- Hovenkamp, Herbert (1985). "Antitrust Policy after Chicago".
- Kasper, Sherryl (2002). The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of Its Pioneers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Miller, H. Laurence, Jr. (1962). "On the 'Chicago School of Economics'". The Journal of Political Economy 70 (1): 64–69.
- Nelson, Robert H. (2001). Economics As Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press.
- Reder, Melvin W. (1982). "Chicago Economics: Permanence and Change". Journal of Economic Literature 20 (1): 1–38. Reprinted in John Cunningham Wood & R.N. Woods (1990), Milton Friedman: Critical Assessments, pp. 343–393.
- Stigler, George J. (1988). Chicago Studies in Political Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Stigler, George J. (1988). Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist. New York: Basic Books. Description & preview.
- Valdes, Juan Gabriel (2008): Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School of Economics in Chile (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-06440-6
- Wahid, Abu N. M. (2002). Frontiers of Economics: Nobel Laureates of the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
External links
- Thomas Sowell
- The University of Chicago Department of Economics
- Commanding Heights, PBS Documentary, Chicago Against the Tide
- Essay on the Chicago School, the financial crisis, and wishful thinking
- All articles with unsourced statements
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Use Trust Center settings to guard against external threats like those sometimes posed by add-ins, VBA macros, ActiveX controls and other content from sources you haven't granted trusted status to.
You can find the trust center settings in Office applications by going to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings.
The articles that are listed in the following table contain information that will help you plan and implement the Trust Center settings you want in Office 2013.
Office 2013 security articles on TechNet
Plan and configure Trusted Publishers settings for Office 2013
Explains how to use the Trusted Publishers list in Office 2013 to designate content publishers that you trust.
Plan and configure Trusted Locations settings for Office 2013
Explains how to use the Trusted Locations feature in Office 2013 to differentiate safe files from potentially harmful files.
Explains how to control the way that add-ins behave in Office 2013, and how to prevent users from running add-ins.
Explains how to change settings to make Microsoft ActiveX controls safer in Office 2013 and how to Use Office 2013 Telemetry Dashboard to investigate ActiveX control warnings.
Explains how VBA and VBA macros settings control the way Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and VBA macros behave in Office 2013.
Explains how to configure Protected View settings in Office 2013.
Provides information about the settings to block specific file format types for Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013, and Word 2013 users.
Explains how Office 2013 privacy settings let you control the disclosure of private information.


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Q: Are there any techniques that could help me brainstorm? — Kai Prout
A: When I took part in attempts to set speed records for hot air ballooning across the oceans in the '80s and '90s, we got into some sticky situations. For me, the term "brainstorm" always brings back memories of flying a hot air balloon 30,000 feet above the earth into the eye of a very different kind of storm. In those terrifying, exhilarating moments, our team desperately racked our brains, trying to work out how to survive. Luckily, we were always able to come up with ideas and made it through.
While not every brainstorming session involves making life-and-death choices, the principle is the same. When you face a problem and are groping for answers, brainstorming is a great way to harness your staff's collective knowledge and come up with solutions. Here are eight tips on how to get the most from your brainstorming sessions.
1. To think outside the box, avoid getting into one. Many management consultants suggest scheduling regular brainstorming sessions so that you and your team can "think outside the box" or do some "blue-sky thinking." I hate those terms – being creative shouldn't be confined to specific times in your day. You and your staff should try to be innovative in every aspect of your work, every day. But brainstorming is great for when you get stuck and can't find a solution.
Related: 3 Ways to Think Outside the Box
2. Choose a creative environment.
I find that I often come up with my best ideas when I'm on the move – either traveling or exercising or just taking a walk. When you run into a problem and decide to hold a brainstorming session, get everyone out of that stuffy, cramped office, which isn't going to be conducive to creative thinking.
Enjoy a change of scenery for at least for half an hour before you start working, and remember to take breaks. Diversions like playing a game, exercising or listening to music might help everyone to relax and then go back to work refreshed.
3. Define the Problem, not the Solution.
While everyone gets an opportunity to think creatively during a brainstorming session, there should be a practical purpose for your gathering, or else you may end up going nowhere. When the conversation strays, remind everyone about the problem you're trying to solve, and keep working toward that objective.
Related: The Biggest Mistake Small Businesses Make in Brainstorming
4. Keep the ideas fresh. Rather than surrounding yourself with the same people at every session, invite employees from other parts of your company to join in. You just might find that employees elsewhere in your business have great ideas – someone on your accounts team might have a suggestion that leads to an unusual and creative marketing strategy, or one of your administrators might point out a recent change that helps the team to come up with a new sales pitch.
5. Make sure everyone is heard. The quiet guy sitting in the corner may have excellent suggestions, but unless you give everyone the chance to speak, he won't be heard over the person shouting at the top of his voice. Encourage listening as much as talking.
6. Write it all down. Any ideas that may come up during your session should be recorded. Those great suggestions aren't going to be any help to you if you forget them. I carry a notebook so I can write down every useful idea I come across, no matter what the context, and then follow up later.
7. Make the best ideas a reality. Remember to say yes to potentially good ideas that come out of brainstorming sessions. Sure, you might make an occasional mistake, but if you take a risk, you're more likely to find success. Before your group disperses, plan out how you're all going to follow up.
8. Listen and follow through– then lead. In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carre, the protagonist George Smiley succinctly explains how group decisions are delayed by disagreements and discussions: "A committee is an animal with four back legs." The same often applies in business, where it can be important to make timely judgments.
While I have discussed here the importance of brainstorming and listening to and learning from others, I often also act on impulse. Over the years, some of my decisions to go ahead with what turned out to be among Virgin's best ideas have been made off the cuff. (I didn't get the nickname "Dr. Yes" for nothing.) In business, as in life, you sometimes have to have trust your ability to lead your company to achieve things that others may think are impossible.
Related: Richard Branson on Inspiring Employees
This does involve risk: I decided to go ahead with a few of our less successful ventures in the same way. But on the whole, you should pay close attention to your gut reaction about how to solve a problem and forge ahead.
Ultimately, you need to find a balance between brainstorming your way out of a great idea and acting as lone ranger. Use brainstorm sessions to obtain your team's perspective, listen to and follow up their best ideas, but in the end you need to make a choice and then take responsibility for that decision.
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by Tad Barton
In spite of shooting over 50 percent from the field and 45 percent from beyond the three-point line San Juan found itself on the wrong end of an 86-68 final score versus Emery last Friday night in Blanding.
The Broncos struggled to get shots off in the first quarter as they managed a meager six points in the opening quarter of play.
On the other hand the Spartans not only shot well, but also got more looks to at the basket knocking down 15 points of their own to get off to a solid start. After one San Juan trailed 15-6.
Both teams kept the gas pedal down to the floor combining to score 50 points in the second period. The nets were on fire with shot after shot falling on both ends of the court as each team scored 25 points in the quarter. When the smoke finally settled at the half San Juan trailed 40-31.
In the third quarter the Spartans remained red hot scoring 31 points while the Broncos cooled off a bit.
San Juan continued to shoot a high percentage, but too many turnovers limited their shot attempts resulting in a 15 point quarter for the home team. The game looked just about out of reach as the Broncos headed into the final quarter down 25 points, 71-46.
San Juan never gave up and took better care of the ball in the fourth quarter. They also stepped their defense up as they mounted an attempted comeback.
The Broncos scored 22 points while hold the Spartans to 15, but it was too little too late as San Juan dropped their Region 15 opener to Emery 86-68.
DiQuan Lopez led the Broncos with 22 points on the night, including 15 from three point range. Right on his heals was Tyrell Pemberton with 20 who also had a great night from behind the arc knocking down four threes of his own.
Matthew Castiano came off the bench to add nine points for the Broncos. Max Morley had 6 points, Javen Ivins added five and Terrance Tate and Eli Beck rounded out the scoring for the San Juan with four and two points respectively.
In the second game of the week San Juan hosted 2A powerhouse Wasatch Academy. The Tigers came into the game fresh off a win against Grand and continued to roll as they built a 57-26 lead at the half.
The Tigers didn't slow down in the second half as they continued to build on their lead throughout the remainder of the game resulting in a 101-58 final.
The Bronco loss pushed their record to 0-2 in Region 15 while the Tigers improved to 2-0.
The first quarter of action saw Wasatch come out and take a commanding lead as they quickly scored 24 points to start the game. San Juan managed to toss in nine points and found themselves in an early hole 24-9.
The Broncos picked up the pace a little in the second quarter, unfortunately so did the Tigers. San Juan added 17 points to their total in the period while Wasatch Academy notched 33 pushing their 15 point lead to 31 points at the intermission, 57-26.
After an 18-point third quarter the Broncos would have been right in the game or leading for that matter in most contests.
This game however wasn't like most as the Tigers added another 27 points to their total, to lead 84-44 heading into the fourth.
The final eight minutes of play saw the closest scoring margin of the night. Wasatch Academy again outscored San Juan in the quarter, but this time just by three points 17-14, capping off an impressive win 101-58.
Lopez again led the Broncos in with 16 points and once again he was hot from the behind the three point line making 4 of 9.
Tate also got his shot going in the game scoring 11 points including three of four from long range. Morley was also in double digits scoring 10 points, while Ivins chipped in six points. Jonathon Lewis and Caleb Pugh each had five points on the night. Beck and Castiano rounded out the scoring for San Juan with three and two points respectively.
The Broncos hit the road next week for another Region 15 matchup against the Grand County Red Devils. The action starts at 4 p.m. with the C-Team, followed by the JV at 5:30 p.m. and the Varsity game at 7 p.m.


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Cameron University and the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum in Hobart will present the Inspired Leadership Challenge (ILC) for outstanding Oklahoma high school students on Saturday, March 29 in Cynthia S. Ross Hall and CETES Conference Center. ILC is a one-day competitive leadership challenge during which participants will gain vital leadership skills, take part in team-building exercises, receive policy briefings and instruction, and compete in a speech competition. The competition will include scholarship awards and a chance to attend the national Four Star Leadership Program in July. High school students can apply online at www.tommyfranksmuseum.org. There is no charge to attend. Registration deadline is March 19. For more information, call (580) 726-5900.
"Cameron University is pleased to partner with the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum to present the Inspired Leadership Challenge," says Jennifer Holland, Vice President for Student Services. "The event is an outstanding opportunity for high school students to discover their leadership potential throughout a day filled with engaging and interactive activities."
ILC, built around the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum's Inspired Leadership Experience, is inspired by the life and leadership principles of General (Ret.) Tommy Franks. The event is built on the foundation of the Four Stars of Leadership (Character, Communication, Common Vision, and Caring). The event is sponsored in part by Arvest Bank.
Following a series of brief workshops, informational sessions and exercises, participants will take part in a persuasive speaking competition that offers $6,000 in scholarships. Students will receive a policy briefing about a relevant political topic as well as a public speaking workshop to assist in the development of a 3-5 minute speech. The speeches will be delivered before an expert panel of judges.
Students will also compete for a chance to attend the Four Star Leadership Program this summer. The annual national camp provides comprehensive leadership training to 50 of the top high school students in the nation.
In conjunction with ILC, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs is sponsoring additional Opinion Editorial and Video contests, which must be completed online by March 10 and which offer scholarship awards.
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However, the President offered little in the way of policy specifics.
"Four years ago, other countries dominated the clean energy market and the jobs that came with it. We've begun to change that. Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So let's generate even more," Obama said.
"Solar energy gets cheaper by the year – so let's drive costs down even further. As long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we."
The lack of specific policy proposals to accomplish this goal stands in contrast to last year. The president used his 2012 address to call on Congress to pass the expiring $0.022/kWh federal production tax credit and implement a clean energy standard. He also promised to open public lands to renewable energy development.
Obama did launch an expected second-term push on climate change in the speech, encouraging Congress to enact a market-based cap and trade plan and serving notice he will use his executive powers to act if lawmakers don't.
Obama said: "I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy."


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The Summer Book is pure loveliness. The movements of tides and winds and boats and insects loom larger for our narrator than the currents of history, and the profound quiet of the setting—I'm reminded of Akhil Sharma's description of a prose like "white light"—allows us to hear Jansson's unsparing and ironic tenderness, a tone that remains purely her own, even in translation.
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Picture: Gordon Ramsay autograph session for his latest cookbook 'Gordon Ramsay's World Kitchen' at Indigo Manulife Centre. Toronto, Canada - 14.11.10
Gordon Ramsay has explained away rumours he recently underwent a hair transplant, putting his swollen face and scalp down to an infection and an allergic reaction.
The British chef was recently photographed wearing a medical-looking cap on his head and pictures of him with a puffy face, a common side effect of a hair transplant, fuelled rumours he had undergone the procedure.
Ramsay has now opened up about the shocking images, revealing a recent encounter with robbers in Costa Rica, who poured gas all over him, led to a nasty scalp infection.
He told reporters at a press conference, "I had petrol doused, gasoline poured all over my hair and I had a horrific infection. It certainly didn't cause my hair to be falling out."
And he admits a Christmas (10) holiday with his family in California made his medical problems worse, adding, "I was in Napa for Christmas literally two weeks after the shoot and went horseback riding with the kids and had a horrendous allergic reaction to the horses, combined with the problems I had with my scalp, so it was just a hair nightmare..."
But the TV star is now on the road to recovery: "That all got sorted out. I can now say that I am almost 60-70 per cent recovered."
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Unwrapping Auditape. The corner office shimmers under klieg lights, the stripboard claps, the camera whirs, and on signal from the film director the two partners begin their unrehearsed act. John Queen an and Ken Stringer are talking about Auditape. There is nodded agreement, a pause for thought, a light comment, "Cut," barks the director, and an-other sequence in the new film on Auditape is done. Film making, a novel experience for Haskins & Sells, has been part of the process of making the H&S Auditape System more broadly available once the initial needs of our offices and clients had been served. The 20-minute color film is designed to intro-duce a discussion of Auditape at pro-fessional meetings and with clients and students. Entitled "Masterminding the Com-puter," the film had its first public showings as an introduction to Audi-tape demonstrations at the annual meetings of the American Institute of CPAs in Portland, Oregon, and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Ac- We Scene countants in Toronto, both on the same date, September 28. The two institutes had asked for demonstrations after the Firm's expe-rience had shown how useful Auditape can be to other accountants, and after earlier announcement that we would make it available to the profession. We have also been asked to adapt our H&S training material for use by American Institute members and to conduct courses for them through the organ-ization's professional development program. Cooperation of this kind with the profession is a tradition with H&S. An earlier example was the Firm's dona-tion to the AICPA of survey findings on the financial reporting methods used by major American corporations, a project now conducted annually and published by the Institute as "Account-ing Trends and Techniques." The modest licensing arrangements for Auditape provide for a $25 charge for each application, with minimum total annual charge of $100 and maxi-mum of $1,200. The film was produced by MPO Productions, Inc. It contains live se-quences and animation to show how Auditape works and what it can do. Jimmie Dunn and Joe Wesselkamper, both of whom have had much to do with developing Auditape, appear to-gether in the film. Others making their debuts on the screen are five people who were in the Executive Office last summer adapting Auditape to other computer makes or designing new rou-tines: Tom Commes and Don Johnson of Minneapolis, Alice Martel of EO, Herb Eldridge of Toronto and Bill Meister of Atlanta. The film also shows Ed Darcey, Bill Hopkins and Rose-marie Odierno of the Executive Office, and a group of New York Office part-ners: Messrs. Schumann, Englert, Heir-hammer, Petrillo and Pinkerton. Alice Martel, Auditape programmer, prepares to place reel on tape unit of our Honeywell 200 as camera records a sequence (or H&S film.


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Ashley Exendine earned her B.S. in Wildlife Biology and an M.S. in Biology with an emphasis in conservation education at Missouri State University. Her graduate work involved the critiquing and testing of a rangeland curriculum in elementary schools throughout the South Texas area. Her graduate work was supported by a fellowship through The Rob & Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation located in Sinton, Texas. Prior to joining Emmanuel College in 2013, she worked with the Welder Wildlife Foundation as a Conservation Educator for all age groups. She enjoys sharing her passion for science with students through the Christ-centered atmosphere at Emmanuel College.
Ashley Exendine and her husband, Mike, attend Faith Baptist Church in Missouri where they are active in leading the youth group. They have one little girl by the name of River.
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From my Phone - January 2020
This is a collection of pictures taken, and them uploaded, with my smart phone. It's kind of like Twitter but with pictures.
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