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Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance

An Exploratory Essay

By: Richard E. Wagner

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Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance

An Exploratory Essay

By: Richard E. Wagner

Rejecting conventional approaches, the author offers a view of public finance as one element of a broader scheme of social theorizing. The book assumes a working knowledge of the standard conceptual framework within which the theory of public finance is commonly presented.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781951357

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Family Letters of Richard Wagner

By: Richard Wagner

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Family Letters of Richard Wagner

By: Richard Wagner

A new, expanded edition of Richard Wagner's letters to his family.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472102923

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9780472102921

Charging for Government (Routledge Revivals)

User charges and earmarked taxes in principle and practice

By: Richard E. Wagner

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Charging for Government (Routledge Revivals)

User charges and earmarked taxes in principle and practice

By: Richard E. Wagner

Originally published in 1991, user charges and earmarked taxes are methods by which people pay directly for the services they recieve from government. As such they are frequently supported by those who oppose increased taxation, who argue that they are more like market transactions than traditional forms of taxation. This book explores the cogency of these arguments in the light of public choice analyses of political processes.

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Routledge

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1317831551

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9781317831556

The Enigmatic Reality of Time

Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today

By: Michael F. Wagner

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The Enigmatic Reality of Time

Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today

By: Michael F. Wagner

This book integrates interdsciplinary work with philosophical analyses to explain facets of the perennial question of time's nature and existence, both in its contemporary and its original classical contexts, and it explains the two most influential investigations of the topic in classical Western thought: Aristotle's and Plotinus'.

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BRILL

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9004170251

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9789004170254

A Sociology of Modernity

Liberty and Discipline

By: Peter Wagner

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A Sociology of Modernity

Liberty and Discipline

By: Peter Wagner

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134891911

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9781134891917

Tweeting to Power

The Social Media Revolution in American Politics

By: Jason Gainous,Kevin M. Wagner

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Tweeting to Power

The Social Media Revolution in American Politics

By: Jason Gainous,Kevin M. Wagner

Using theory and data, Gainous and Wagner illustrate how online social media is bypassing traditional media and creating new forums for the exchange of political information and campaigning.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199965099

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9780199965090

Unionization in the Academy

Visions and Realities

By: Judith Wagner DeCew

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Unionization in the Academy

Visions and Realities

By: Judith Wagner DeCew

Unionization in the Academy is an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of academic unions--their history, purpose, and the conflicts they cause. Judith Wagner DeCew takes on the central issues, including unions for part-time and adjunct faculty, graduate student unions, and collective bargaining. The book also includes a history of the rise of academic unions and its watershed moments, such as the U.S. Supreme Court's 1980 Yeshiva decision. A series of important articles by other observers supplements DeCew's insights and arguments. This combination yields a detailed survey of the arguments for and against academic unions of all kinds. Are unions a threat because they create adversity and conflict with academic values? Or do unions support those values by creating community and collegiality? Unions in Academia is the essential reader for faculty, students, administrators, and anyone else trying to answer those questions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847696715

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9780847696710

4UR Ranch at Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resort: A History

By: Sandra Wagner, with contributions by Pete and Lindsey Leavell

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4UR Ranch at Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resort: A History

By: Sandra Wagner, with contributions by Pete and Lindsey Leavell

Detailed history of the resort and the area around the resort. Includes information on ownership, mining operations, and geology.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467144509

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9781467144506

Paradoxical Life

Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice

By: Andreas Wagner

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Paradoxical Life

Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice

By: Andreas Wagner

What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide, or die. Andreas Wagner's ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge. Though we tend to think of concepts in such mutually exclusive pairs as mind-matter, self-other, and nature-nurture, Wagner argues that these opposing ideas are not actually separate. Indeed, they are as inextricably connected as the two sides of a coin. Through a tour of modern biological marvels, Wagner illustrates how this paradoxical tension has a profound effect on the way we define the world around us. Paradoxical Life is thus not only a unique account of modern biology. It ultimately serves a radical--and optimistic--outlook for humans and the world we help create.

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Yale University Press

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0300156375

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9780300156379

Reporting Inequality

Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity

By: Sally Lehrman,Venise Wagner

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Reporting Inequality

Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity

By: Sally Lehrman,Venise Wagner

Under increasingly intense newsroom demands, reporters often find it difficult to cover the complexity of topics that deal with racial and social inequality. This path-breaking book lays out simple, effective reporting strategies that equip journalists to investigate disparity’s root causes. Chapters discuss how racially disparate outcomes in health, education, wealth/income, housing, and the criminal justice system are often the result of inequity in opportunity and also provide theoretical frameworks for understanding the roots of racial inequity. Examples of model reporting from ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, and the San Jose Mercury News showcase best practice in writing while emphasizing community-based reporting. Throughout the book, tools and practical techniques such as the Fault Lines framework, the Listening Post and the authors' Opportunity Index and Upstream-Downstream Framework all help journalists improve their awareness and coverage of structural inequity at a practical level. For students and journalists alike, Reporting Inequality is an ideal resource for understanding how to cover structures of injustice with balance and precision.

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Routledge

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1317533011

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9781317533016

Participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn

A Biographical Dictionary of Sioux, Cheyenne and United States Military Personnel, 2d ed.

By: Frederic C. Wagner III

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Participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn

A Biographical Dictionary of Sioux, Cheyenne and United States Military Personnel, 2d ed.

By: Frederic C. Wagner III

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. In its second edition this biographical dictionary of all known participants--the 7th Cavalry, civilians and Indians--provides a brief description of the battle, as well as information on the various tribes, their customs and methods of fighting. Seven appendices cover the units soldiers were assigned to, uniforms and equipment of the cavalry, controversial listings of scouts and the number of Indians in the encampments, the location of camps on the way to the Big Horn and more. Updated biographies are provided for many European soldiers, along with an additional 5,060 names of Indians who were or could have been in the battle.

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McFarland

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1476664595

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Massacre in the Clouds

An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

By: Kim A. Wagner

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Massacre in the Clouds

An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

By: Kim A. Wagner

In this “forensic, unflinching, devastating work of historical recovery” (Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo—an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or My Lai, yet today largely forgotten—is revealed, thanks to the rediscovery of a single photograph. In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called ‘Battle of Bud Dajo’ was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a “brilliant feat of arms” according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain, saw the massacre for what it was, but they were the exception and the U.S. military authorities successfully managed to bury the story. Despite the fact that the slaughter of Moros had been captured on camera, the memory of the massacre soon disappeared from the historical record. In Massacre in the Clouds, Kim A. Wagner meticulously recovers the history of a forgotten atrocity and the remarkable photograph that exposed its grim logic. His vivid, unsparing account of the massacre—which claimed hundreds more lives than Wounded Knee and My Lai combined—reveals the extent to which practices of colonial warfare and violence, derived from European imperialism, were fully embraced by Americans with catastrophic results.

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PublicAffairs

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1541701518

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Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance

An Exploratory Essay

By: Richard E. Wagner

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An Exploratory Essay

By: Richard E. Wagner

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The Economics of Smoking

By: Robert D. Tollison,Richard E. Wagner

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The Economics of Smoking

By: Robert D. Tollison,Richard E. Wagner

Cigarettes are under political attack at all_levels of government in the United States. From Washington, D. C. to state capitals to local govern ments, proposals abound to increase the cigarette excise tax, to impose smoking bans, to prevent cigarette advertising, to restrict the sale of cigarettes through vending machines, to cut off the export of cigarettes, to earmark the cigarette excise tax for health programs, to divest the stock of cigarette companies, and so on. And all of these are purportedly being advocated in the name of health. Undergirding and abetting the health argument is an economic argument that claims to place a value of up to $100 billion per year on the alleged health costs of smoking to the American economy, which is more than $3 per pack of cigarettes smoked. As our title suggests, our interest lies in the economics of smoking and not in the health issues surrounding smoking. We are professional economists and not medical scientists. We will focus on what, if any, economic consequences arise for nonsmokers when smokers smoke. For purposes of our discussion, we simply accept the premise that smoking damages health and proceed with our analysis. Since we have not studied the issue ourselves, we have no way of knowing whether such a premise is true. But it really does not matter for getting the economics of smoking right. The important point resides in who pays for whatever to smoking.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401138923

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9789401138925

U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Q & A

By: Debbie M. Schell,Richard E. Schell,Kurt A. Wagner

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U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Q & A

By: Debbie M. Schell,Richard E. Schell,Kurt A. Wagner

How can I bring my family with me? What is the easiest way to obtain a work visa? What steps do I need to take to become a citizen? Visiting and immigrating to the United States can be a complicated and confusing procedure. Now more than ever, if you fail to follow all of the rules, you can be denied entry into the United States and even barred from ever coming here. Plus, once you are here, missing an important visa date or immigration deadlinecan remove all hopes of future citizenship. U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Q&A provides easy-to-understand answers to many, if not all, of your immigration and citizenship questions. It will take you from the beginning of the immigration process through naturalization. Find up-to-date information regarding: - Changes in consular procedures - Special registration requirements - Use of biometrics at the border - New visa options - Student visas - Family-related visas - Work visas - Labor certification filings - Permanent residency - Asylum requests - Citizenship requirements - Naturalization procedures U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Q&A smoothes out the process and helps you do everything more easily, quickly and legally.

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Sphinx Publishing

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1572485493

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9781572485495

Rethinking Economics as Social Theory

By: Richard E. Wagner

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Rethinking Economics as Social Theory

By: Richard E. Wagner

Taking an innovative look at the origins of economics, this forward-thinking book relocates economics from a materialistic general theory of rational action into an idealistic theory of social organization and individual action. Adding new insightful analytical methods such as complexity theory, graph theory and computational modelling to the original insights of the Scottish Enlightenment, Richard E. Wagner explores economics in an ever-changing society, looking at the key civilizing processes and the important social questions.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1802204768

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Mind, Society, and Human Action

Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social-Economy

By: Richard Wagner

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Mind, Society, and Human Action

Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social-Economy

By: Richard Wagner

In this book, Wagner offers a new logic for economic analysis seeking to transcend the distinction between neoclassical and Austrian economics that has come increasingly into play over the past 30 years.

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Routledge

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113516732X

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Politics as a Peculiar Business

Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy

By: Richard E. Wagner

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Politics as a Peculiar Business

Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy

By: Richard E. Wagner

Economists typically treat government as something outside the business realm, a sort of “Lord of the Manor”. Richard Wagner argues that this is the wrong approach and can ultimately be destructive to capitalism and to society. Modern governments are a peculiar form of business enterprise. They face the same problems as regular businesses, such as ascertaining demand and organizing production, and act within the system in a way that can lead to a parasitical relationship with the market. Largely rooted in political economy, this book develops new theoretical ideas and formulations to explain why democracy is a difficult form of government to maintain. The author explores how and why limited governments can morph into a system of destructive politics, and looks at ways to escape this process. This dynamic book will be useful for public choice scholars, economists, political scientists, and lawyers who are interested in political economy in its various guises.

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1785365487

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Mind, Society, and Human Action

Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social-Economy

By: Richard Wagner

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Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social-Economy

By: Richard Wagner

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James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy

A Rational Reconstruction

By: Richard E. Wagner

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James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy

A Rational Reconstruction

By: Richard E. Wagner

James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan’s body of work. The book uses Buchanan’s past contributions to explore the present and future relevance of his scholarly contributions and insights. It seeks mainly to explain what insight for their work contemporary scholars might acquire by becoming familiar with some of Buchanan’s formulations. Buchanan was one of the most creative and prolific scholars of political economy during the post-war period. Not only was his body of work so immense that it could not be contained within 20 volumes of Collected Works, but also Buchanan’s scholarship made such strong contact with law, ethics, and political science that he could easily have served as a poster-child for the programs in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics which have been gaining momentum in recent years. Buchanan spoke for a style of economics that made wide and firm contact with the full range of the humane studies. This book emphasizes those features of Buchanan’s thought that seem relevant for contemporary scholarship within the broadly liberal tradition of political economy.

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Lexington Books

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1498539076

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