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Although providing an example of the life experience relevant to some convicts, Miles' experience was not typical for the majority of convict women. Comprehensive administration records from the Van Diemen's Land penal system have enabled the creation of histories and life stories of convicts with a high level of detail and attention to their time within the system, particularly for those convicts who continued to misbehave. Building on her own extensive body of work and specialisation in historical population health, McCalman has reconstructed the lives of about 30,000 convicts. [Extracted from the article]

Concerning the reception of Harrod's economic dynamics by Robert Solow and others-with the ensuing dominant textbook focus on growth paths-Pérez Caldentey endorses the view that Harrod himself was partly responsible for that alleged misrepresentation. Pérez Caldentey based that assessment on the paper Harrod contributed to a conference on development and trade in the early 1960s (section 7.4), although Harrod did elaborate on that in other publications around that period. Esteban Pérez Caldentey's broad account of Roy Harrod's various contributions to economic theory and policy is an important addition to the I Great Thinkers in Economics i series edited by A.P. Thirlwall. [Extracted from the article]

Finn Murphy's book, "Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West," provides an engaging and insightful look into the world of business and life in Colorado's hemp industry. The book explores the legalization of industrial hemp in 2018 and the subsequent influx of farmers and entrepreneurs into the market. Murphy, a serial entrepreneur, shares his experiences and lessons learned as he navigates the challenges of growing and processing hemp. The book offers valuable insights into market dynamics, regulatory issues, and the human side of business. [Extracted from the article]

The cycles are brought about by fluctuations in investment, which is determined by the expected rate of profit (net of interest). The book employs an integrated theoretical framework based on the writings of classical political economists, mainly Smith, Ricardo, and especially Marx, to study the growth- and crisis-prone, turbulent nature of capitalist economies. Marx's law of value is detailed as the main tool to understand capitalist economies. [Extracted from the article]

Frank Stricker's I American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future i puts America's exceptional unemployment policies in a longer-term historical context. Stricker provides a detailed account of FDR's work programs, which Stricker says proved the government could eradicate unemployment. Despite these paths not taken, Stricker's I American Unemployment i remains a commendable and necessary contribution both to the historiography of American unemployment and to policy debates around how to respond to unemployment today. [Extracted from the article]