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Why Does College Cost So Much?

By: Robert B. Archibald,David Henry Feldman

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Why Does College Cost So Much?

By: Robert B. Archibald,David Henry Feldman

College tuition has risen more rapidly than the overall inflation rate for much of the past century. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States.

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Oxford University Press

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0190214104

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The Strategic Constitution

By: Robert D. Cooter

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The Strategic Constitution

By: Robert D. Cooter

Making, amending, and interpreting constitutions is a political game that can yield widespread suffering or secure a nation's liberty and prosperity. Given these high stakes, Robert Cooter argues that constitutional theory should trouble itself less with literary analysis and arguments over founders' intentions and focus much more on the real-world consequences of various constitutional provisions and choices. Pooling the best available theories from economics and political science, particularly those developed from game theory, Cooter's economic analysis of constitutions fundamentally recasts a field of growing interest and dramatic international importance. By uncovering the constitutional incentives that influence citizens, politicians, administrators, and judges, Cooter exposes fault lines in alternative forms of democracy: unitary versus federal states, deep administration versus many elections, parliamentary versus presidential systems, unicameral versus bicameral legislatures, common versus civil law, and liberty versus equality rights. Cooter applies an efficiency test to these alternatives, asking how far they satisfy the preferences of citizens for laws and public goods. To answer Cooter contrasts two types of democracy, which he defines as competitive government. The center of the political spectrum defeats the extremes in "median democracy," whereas representatives of all the citizens bargain over laws and public goods in "bargain democracy." Bargaining can realize all the gains from political trades, or bargaining can collapse into an unstable contest of redistribution. States plagued by instability and contests over redistribution should move towards median democracy by increasing transaction costs and reducing the power of the extremes. Specifically, promoting median versus bargain democracy involves promoting winner-take-all elections versus proportional representation, two parties versus multiple parties, referenda versus representative democracy, and special governments versus comprehensive governments. This innovative theory will have ramifications felt across national and disciplinary borders, and will be debated by a large audience, including the growing pool of economists interested in how law and politics shape economic policy, political scientists using game theory or specializing in constitutional law, and academic lawyers. The approach will also garner attention from students of political science, law, and economics, as well as policy makers working in and with new democracies where constitutions are being written and refined.

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Princeton University Press

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0691214506

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9780691214504

Financing the New Federalism

Revenue Sharing, Conditional Grants and Taxation

By: Robert P. Inman,Martin McGuire,Wallace E. Oates,Jeffrey L. Pressman,Robert D. Reischauer

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Financing the New Federalism

Revenue Sharing, Conditional Grants and Taxation

By: Robert P. Inman,Martin McGuire,Wallace E. Oates,Jeffrey L. Pressman,Robert D. Reischauer

Financing the New Federalism is the fifth in a series on the governance of metropolitan areas which aimed to improve the political organisation of metropolitan regions in America. Originally published in 1975, this particular study focusses on federal revenue sharing exploring its effects and implications with the purpose of providing a breadth of views on the subject for policy-makers. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies.

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Routledge

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131730750X

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9781317307501

Ulysses S. Grant

A Biography

By: Robert P. Broadwater

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Ulysses S. Grant

A Biography

By: Robert P. Broadwater

Ulysses S. Grant was responsible for orchestrating the activities of all the Union armies into a single strategy, providing the leadership that eventually doomed the Confederacy and brought about the end of the Civil War. This book documents Grant's contributions to the Civil War as well as his early life and presidency. Ulysses S. Grant: A Biography takes an in-depth look at one of the most well-known figures to emerge from the American Civil War, the famed Union commander and 18th President of the United States who has become an iconic part of our nation's history. The book provides a balanced overview that encompasses all the major events of Grant's life as well as his ancestry, portraying him as a common man who endured defeats and setbacks instead of a flawless noble hero. It accurately chronicles his life as it took place and tells a story of perseverance that illuminates Grant's successes as a testimony to determination and pluck rather than the result of luck or raw talent. This work will be especially helpful to high school and college-age audiences, and can be enjoyed by anyone interested in the Civil War period.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313392560

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9780313392566

Tower of Babel

The Evidence against the New Creationism

By: Robert T. Pennock

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Tower of Babel

The Evidence against the New Creationism

By: Robert T. Pennock

Creationists have acquired a more sophisticated intellectual arsenal. This book reveals the insubstantiality of their arguments. Creationism is no longer the simple notion it once was taken to be. Its new advocates have become more sophisticated in how they present their views, speaking of "intelligent design" rather than "creation science" and aiming their arguments against the naturalistic philosophical method that underlies science, proposing to replace it with a "theistic science." The creationism controversy is not just about the status of Darwinian evolution—it is a clash of religious and philosophical worldviews, for a common underlying fear among Creationists is that evolution undermines both the basis of morality as they understand it and the possibility of purpose in life. In Tower of Babel, philosopher Robert T. Pennock compares the views of the new creationists with those of the old and reveals the insubstantiality of their arguments. One of Pennock's major innovations is to turn from biological evolution to the less charged subject of linguistic evolution, which has strong theoretical parallels with biological evolution, both in content and in the sort of evidence scientists use to draw conclusions about origins. Of course, an evolutionary view of language does conflict with the Bible, which says that God created the variety of languages at one time as punishment for the Tower of Babel. Several chapters deal with the work of Phillip Johnson, a highly influential leader of the new Creationists. Against his and other views, Pennock explains how science uses naturalism and discusses the relationship between factual and moral issues in the creationism-evolution controversy. The book also includes a discussion of Darwin's own shift from creationist to evolutionist and an extended argument for keeping private religious beliefs separate from public scientific knowledge.

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MIT Press

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0262264056

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9780262264051

Too Much Is Not Enough

Incentives in Executive Compensation

By: Robert W. Kolb

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Too Much Is Not Enough

Incentives in Executive Compensation

By: Robert W. Kolb

The scholarly literature on executive compensation is vast. As such, this literature provides an unparalleled resource for studying the interaction between the setting of incentives (or the attempted setting of incentives) and the behavior that is actually adduced. From this literature, there are several reasons for believing that one can set incentives in executive compensation with a high rate of success in guiding CEO behavior, and one might expect CEO compensation to be a textbook example of the successful use of incentives. Also, as executive compensation has been studied intensively in the academic literature, we might also expect the success of incentive compensation to be well-documented. Historically, however, this has been very far from the case. In Too Much Is Not Enough, Robert W. Kolb studies the performance of incentives in executive compensation across many dimensions of CEO performance. The book begins with an overview of incentives and unintended consequences. Then it focuses on the theory of incentives as applied to compensation generally, and as applied to executive compensation particularly. Subsequent chapters explore different facets of executive compensation and assess the evidence on how well incentive compensation performs in each arena. The book concludes with a final chapter that provides an overall assessment of the value of incentives in guiding executive behavior. In it, Kolb argues that incentive compensation for executives is so problematic and so prone to error that the social value of giving huge incentive compensation packages is likely to be negative on balance. In focusing on incentives, the book provides a much sought-after resource, for while there are a number of books on executive compensation, none focuses specifically on incentives. Given the recent fervor over executive compensation, this unique but logical perspective will garner much interest. And while the literature being considered and evaluated is technical, the book is written in a non-mathematical way accessible to any college-educated reader.

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Oxford University Press

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0199829586

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9780199829583

ESOP

The Ultimate Instrument in Succession Planning

By: Robert A. Frisch

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ESOP

The Ultimate Instrument in Succession Planning

By: Robert A. Frisch

What if there were a way an owner of a private company could: * Sell stock of the company, pay no tax on the proceeds, and still keep control? * Increase the company's working capital and cash flow with no cash expenditure? * Provide employees with equity at no cash outlay on anyone's part? * Make life insurance premiums tax deductible? * Increase productivity, profitability, and company value with no cash outlay? * Allow the corporation to operate in a totally tax-free environment? An ESOP-- Employee Stock Ownership Plan-- does all that and it does it with the sanction and encouragement of the United States Congress. ESOP: The Ultimate Instrument in Succession Planning, Second Edition is a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand guide emphasizing the corporate financial benefits that an employee stock ownership plan can offer as a business financing instrument. Written by noted expert Robert Frisch and updated to include the latest developments, this book explains in clear language ESOPs work and how owners of private corporations can use them as versatile financial tools to achieve their succession planning objectives.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471223352

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9780471223351

Modern Labor Economics

By: Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg,Robert Stewart Smith

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Modern Labor Economics

By: Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg,Robert Stewart Smith

This edition of the introductory text in labor economics develops the modern theory of labor market behavior, summarizes empirical evidence that supports or contradicts each hypothesis, and illustrates the usefulness of the theory for public policy analysis. It presents an overview of demand and supply in labor markets, and deals with labor supply issues, compensation, unionism, public sector labor markets, discrimination, and the macroceonomic issues of inflation and unemployment. The edition provides new discussions of implicit contracting and asymmetric information; selectivity bias in rates of return to education; sex differences in the choice of college majors; firm size and gender effects on quit rates; the effects of union on profitability; and determinants of retirement age. It also includes analyses of state fair employment practice laws and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. ISBN 0-673-18105-7 : $26.95.

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Pearson Scott Foresman

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0673181057

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9780673181053

The Modern Land-Grant University

By: Robert J. Sternberg

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The Modern Land-Grant University

By: Robert J. Sternberg

In an increasingly competitive higher education environment, Americas public universities are seeking ways to differentiate themselves. This book suggests that a hopeful vision of what a university should be lies in a reexamination of the land-grant mission, the common system of values originally set forth in the Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890, which established a new system of practically oriented higher learning across the United States. While hard to define, these values are often expressed by the one hundred or so institutions that currently define themselves as land grants under the three pillars of research, teaching, and engagement/extension. In order to understand the unique character of a modern land-grant institution, this book focuses especially but not exclusively on the multiple components of a single organization, Oklahoma State University, founded in 1890 and currently enrolling 35,000 students across five campuses. Contributors from across the university focus on what the land-grant mission means to them in their daily endeavors, whether that be crafting the undergraduate academic experience, stimulating research, or engaging with the community through extension activities. The twenty contributions are divided into four parts, exploring in turn the core mission of the modern land-grant university, the university environment, the universitys public value, and its accountability. The volume ends with an epilogue by the editor, which summarizes the values underlying the activities of land-grant institutions. In a time of uncertainty in higher education, this volume provides a helpful overview of the many different types of value public universities bring to American society. It also offers a powerful vision of a future founded on land-grant ideas that will be inspiring to university administrators and trustees, other educational policymakers, and faculty and staff, especially those fortunate enough to be part of land-grant institutions.

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Purdue University Press

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161249336X

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The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities

By: Robert B. Archibald,David Henry Feldman

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The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities

By: Robert B. Archibald,David Henry Feldman

Archibald and Feldman, leading observers of the scene, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their training future generations.

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Oxford University Press

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0190251913

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9780190251918

The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (Vol. Three-Volume Set)

By: Robert Alter

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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (Vol. Three-Volume Set)

By: Robert Alter

A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of Genesis and King David’s flawed humanity to the serene wisdom of Psalms and Job’s incendiary questioning of God’s ways, these magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling immediacy. Featuring Alter’s generous commentary, which quietly alerts readers to the literary and historical dimensions of the text, this is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393292509

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9780393292503

Making Millions For Dummies

By: Robert Doyen,Meg Schneider

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Making Millions For Dummies

By: Robert Doyen,Meg Schneider

The must-have guide to achieving great wealth Making Millions For Dummies lays out in simple, easy-to-understand steps the best ways to achieve wealth. Through a proven methodology of saving, building a successful business, smart investing, and carefully managing assets, this up-front, reliable guide shows readers how to achieve millionaire or multimillionaire status. It provides the lowdown on making wise financial decisions, with guidance on managing investments and inheritances, minimizing taxes, making money grow, and, most important, how to avoid common and costly financial mistakes. Millionaire wannabes will see how to maintain financial security throughout their life with this easy-to-follow road map to financial independence. For individuals who yearn to make millions but don't want to be restricted to owning or running a business, the book features other options, such as inventing and patenting the next big thing, consulting, selling high-value collectibles, and flipping or owning real estate.

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0470464550

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9780470464557

The Economics of Collusion

Cartels and Bidding Rings

By: Robert C. Marshall,Leslie M. Marx

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The Economics of Collusion

Cartels and Bidding Rings

By: Robert C. Marshall,Leslie M. Marx

An examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profitable, how it is implemented, and how it might be detected. Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many cartels and bidding rings function for years in a stable and peaceful manner despite the illegality of their agreements and incentives for deviation by their members. In The Economics of Collusion, Robert Marshall and Leslie Marx offer an examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profitable, how it is implemented, and how it might be detected. Marshall and Marx, who have studied collusion extensively for two decades, begin with three narratives: the organization and implementation of a cartel, the organization and implementation of a bidding ring, and a parent company's efforts to detect collusion by its divisions. These accounts—fictitious, but rooted in the inner workings and details from actual cases—offer a novel and engaging way for the reader to understand the basics of collusive behavior. The narratives are followed by detailed economic analyses of cartels, bidding rings, and detection. The narratives offer an engaging entrée to the more rigorous economic discussion that follows. The book is accessible to any reader who understands basic economic reasoning. Mathematical material is flagged with asterisks.

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MIT Press

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0262525941

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9780262525947

Securities Regulation: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms 2023 Supplement

By: James D. Cox,Robert W. Hillman,Donald C. Langevoort,Ann M. Lipton

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Securities Regulation: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms 2023 Supplement

By: James D. Cox,Robert W. Hillman,Donald C. Langevoort,Ann M. Lipton

Securities Regulation: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms 2023 Supplement

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Book's by Robert Grant Price

Why Does College Cost So Much?

Why Does College Cost So Much?

The Strategic Constitution

The Strategic Constitution

Financing the New Federalism

Financing the New Federalism

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Tower of Babel

Tower of Babel

Too Much Is Not Enough

Too Much Is Not Enough

ESOP

ESOP

Modern Labor Economics

Modern Labor Economics

The Modern Land-Grant University

The Modern Land-Grant University

The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities

The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities

The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (Vol. Three-Volume Set)

The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (Vol. Three-Volume Set)

Making Millions For Dummies

Making Millions For Dummies

The Economics of Collusion

The Economics of Collusion

Securities Regulation: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms 2023 Supplement

Securities Regulation: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms 2023 Supplement

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