James Livingston

Their Great Depression and Ours

It is broad conventional wisdom that a financial collapse in the early 1930s was the principal cause of the Great Depression. And those lessons are being applied in solving todays economic crisis. This historian argues that the causes were more fundamental and can be found in the poor wage performance before the Depression, leading to large profits in search of few investment opportunities.

Visual display in the multipurpose laboratory: The benefits of video scan-conversion

A visual display system, based upon the PEP-400 video scan-converter, is described. For a cost of about

Toward a model of interpersonal motivation in experimental games

5,600, including nine video monitors, a laboratory can provide flexible, computer-generated, alpha-meric, and graphic displays simultaneously to eight subjects. Some performance results are given, as is discussion of interfacing and software required for a DEC lab system.