America's Economic Supremacy

Economic Integration in the Americas: European Perspectives

Antitrust and the Supremacy Clause

In the course of damning the market giant Standard Oil, the Supreme Court declared that the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act is to prevent "monopoly and the acts which produce the same result as monopoly." The Constitution's Supremacy Clause, in turn, requires preemption-that is, non-enforcement-of state laws that conflict with a federal statute. Put together, these propositions suggest tha...

Economic Impact of Dengue Illness in the Americas

The growing burden of dengue in endemic countries and outbreaks in previously unaffected countries stress the need to assess the economic impact of this disease. This paper synthesizes existing studies to calculate the economic burden of dengue illness in the Americas from a societal perspective. Major data sources include national case reporting data from 2000 to 2007, prospective cost of illn...

The Americas: Chile's Left Covets the Fruits of Economic Success

Unemployment figures released last week, however, suggest that the economic recovery is running into trouble. Instead of declining, as the president promised, the rate of unemployment is increasing. This poses a serious challenge to Mr. Lagos, who promised during his 1999 campaign that 200,000 new jobs would be created this year. At 10.2%, up from 9.4%, the unemployment rate is an embarrassment...

Supremacy distribution in evolving networks.

We study a supremacy distribution in evolving Barabasi-Albert networks. The supremacy s(i) of a node i is defined as the total number of all nodes that are not older than i and can be linked to it by a directed path (including the node i ). The nodes form a basin connected to the node i as its in-component. For a network with a characteristic parameter m=1,2,3,... , the supremacy of an individu...