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Machine generated contents note: 1 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / 23 -- Jay Nelson -- 2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849-78: Care, Cure, or Confinement? / 63 -- Gerry Ferguson -- 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871-1927 / 97 -- Mimi Ajzenstadt -- 4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re)Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia, 1890-1940 / 120 -- Dorothy E. Chunn -- 5 'Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia / 145 -- Robert Adamoski -- 6 Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-35 / 170 -- Renisa Mawani -- 7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935 / 196 -- Robert Menzies -- 8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939-45 / 231 -- Michaela Freund -- 9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950-60 / 259 -- John McLaren -- Postlude / 294 -- John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn -- Contributors / 309 -- Index / 311

Abstract
This note seeks the socio-economic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using monthly county-level mortality, economic, and demographic data from 3140 counties through December 2020. The county-level approach shows a sharp disparity affecting all minority groups in the sample, peaking in spring or summer 2020 and then dissipating by the end of autumn. The effect disappears for Asian Americans when occupation and other controls are added, but not for other minorities; for them, the racial disparity, as long as it lasts, does not seem to be due to differences in income, poverty rates, education, occupational mix, or even access to healthcare insurance, although in April public transit use explains a large part of it. This is a puzzle, but the rapid change in the disparities over the year show that they are not immutable – an important message for future pandemics.

This paper analyzes the effects of international openness on vertical integration. Vertical integration can confer a negative externality, by thinning the market for inputs and thus worsening opportunism problems; this induces strategic complementarity and multiple equilibria in the integration decision, thus providing a theory of different "industrial systems" or "industrial cultures" in ex ante identical countries. International openness thickens the market, facilitating leaner, less integrated firms, thus providing gains from international openness quite different from those that are familiar from trade theory. This may be taken as one theory of "outsourcing," "downsizing," and "Japanization" as consequences of "globalization." (JEL D23, F15, L22)

Contains a discussion on the irreversible nature of globalisation and the consequent challenging issues of societies opening to the world. The problem with the present debate over nationalism, globalisation and multiculturalism, and the local issues of racism and land rights, is that most of the participants are presenting as alternatives what in fact are complementary imperatives. Many years ago, Lewis Mumford wrote that the urgent tasks of governments everywhere were that they must become simultaneously larger and smaller. This anticipated the green slogan, "Think globally, act locally." Both respond to the fact that as the world is becomes more closely knit together, we need authorities strong enough to deal with the resulting national, regional and global problems, and at the same time we want the means to control what is happening, often as a result of globalisation, in our own neighbourhoods.