Power Plays

This chapter examines a decree issued by the Roman proconsul in Ephesos, Paullus Fabius Persicus, which mandates specific changes in the Artemis cult. It also studies the ways in which two locations of the Persicus decree, the theater and the southern Market Gate, reinforce the sociopolitical stratifications argued for in the decree. Through Persicus’s instructions for awarding priesthoods and for limiting the roles of public slaves, one sees that this inscription advocates for “suitable” social stratifications in the city and works to limit the roles of enslaved persons in Ephesian religious practices. The chapter presents three historical possibilities for the occasion of such a power contestation: that public slaves had the money with which to purchase babies in the market to dedicate to Artemis, that some free persons did the same jobs as enslaved persons, and that unsuitable people such as slaves had purchased priesthoods.

Regional Integration and Third-Country Inward Investment

The paper focuses on how the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which will include both high-income developed and developing countries, will affect the options and investment strategies of multinational firms outside the region. Preliminary sections discuss the strategies open to both insider firms (headquartered with the Americas) and outsider firms, and the characteristics of technologies and countries that determine equilibrium location choices. Then I turn more explicitly to the question at hand, and suggest that a free-trade area of the Americas can be conceptually decomposed into (a) integration among the southern developing countries and (b) integration between the south and NAFTA. The first will give third-country multinationals horizontal investment opportunities to serve the effectively larger southern market with local production to serve the local southern market. The second gives third-country multinationals the opportunity to exploit low labor costs in the south to produce for export to North America (export-platform FDI). While this all sounds attractive for third-country firms, the theory emphasizes that the same advantages of integration are conferred upon U.S. and Canadian firms who have the additional advantage of supplying services and intermediate goods to southern affiliates at lower cost than the third country firms. This competitive effect from insider firms leads the theory to suggest weaker benefits to third-country firms than a simpler approach might predict.

Eskimo commercial fisheries

Arctic char, long a favourite food with the Eskimos, has recently been finding a ready market throughout Canada and the United States. With the increasing concentration of Eskimo populations in settlements, and with their increasing dependence on “white man's” food and equipment, it has become essential to stimulate means of increasing cash income. It was with this in mind that the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources carried out an experimental project to introduce Arctic char to the southern market in 1958. During the season, about 1,500 lb. were shipped on ice to Montreal and Toronto by air, and were distributed to a number of the best restaurants. Its reception by customers was so enthusiastic that a repeat order for more than the original 1,500 lb. was received in a matter of days.