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  • Paying the Piper

    Productivity, Incentives, and Financing in U.S. Higher Education

    Edited by Michael McPherson, Morton Owen Schapiro, Gordon Winston ...
    Rising tuitions and shrinking government budgets have pushed questions about productivity and resource use in U.S. higher education to the fore. In Paying the Piper three distinguished researchers examine the many successes of U.S. higher education, identify real problems, and carefully analyze potential solutions. Among the questions addressed are: On what do colleges and universities spend their ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Campus Economics

    How Economic Thinking Can Help Improve College and University Decisions

    by Sandy Baum, Michael McPherson ...
    An invaluable primer on the role economic reasoning plays in campus debate and decision makingCampus Economics provides college and university administrators, trustees, and faculty with an essential understanding of how college finances actually work. Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson explain the concepts needed to analyze the pros, the cons, and the trade-offs of difficult decisions, and offer a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Can College Level the Playing Field?

    Higher Education in an Unequal Society

    by Sandy Baum, Michael McPherson ...
    Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injusticeWe often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one’s background or upbringing. In this eye-opening book, two of today’s leading economists argue that higher education alone cannot overcome the lasting effects of inequality that continue to plague us, and offer ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Ethics in Higher Education

    Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry

    Edited by Rebecca M. Taylor, Ashley Floyd Kuntz ...
    CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022In this thought-provoking volume, editors Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz invite readers to explore the many facets of on-campus ethical dilemmas and the careful, nuanced decision-making processes required to address them.Taylor and Kuntz demonstrate how to apply collaborative, multidisciplinary, philosophical inquiry to deeply complex issues. They ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Everything You Never Learned About Sex

    Take Back Your Masculine Power & Use Your Sex Energy For Good

    by Michael McPherson, Michael McPherson ...
    Who did you talk to about sex when you were a kid? If you’re a Millennial, chances are your answer is “nobody.” In this all-inclusive look into a man’s world, author Michael McPherson shines a light on what it was like for the men of his generation to mature sexually, and why so many still haven’t. He explores what’s currently in the way of men experiencing an empowered relationship with sex and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

    by Daniel Hausman, Michael McPherson, Debra Satz ...
    This book shows through argument and numerous policy-related examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores the idea of rationality and its connections to ethics, arguing that when they defend their formal ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • The Aims of Higher Education

    Problems of Morality and Justice

    Edited by Harry Brighouse, Michael McPherson ...
    In this book, philosopher Harry Brighouse and Spencer Foundation president Michael McPherson bring together leading philosophers to think about some of the most fundamental questions that higher education faces. Looking beyond the din of arguments over how universities should be financed, how they should be run, and what their contributions to the economy are, the contributors to this volume set ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Student Aid Game

    Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education

    by Morton Schapiro, Michael McPherson ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government's financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution. In The Student Aid ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Lesson Plan

    An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education

    by William G. Bowen, Michael McPherson ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Why and how American colleges and universities need to change in order to meet the nation's pressing needsAmerican higher education faces some serious problems—but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises—from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Crossing the Finish Line

    Completing College at America's Public Universities

    by William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, Michael McPherson ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Why so many of America's public university students are not graduating—and what to do about itThe United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Why Does College Cost So Much?

    by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman ...
    Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Blind Spots

    Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel ...
    When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco ... Read more

    $14.39 USD