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  • Faulty Towers

    Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education

    by Roger E. Meiners, Ryan C. Amacher ...
    In Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education, Ryan C. Amacher and Roger E. Meiners examine the internal and external reforms necessary to bring competitive forces to American universities and thereby improve them.As debate accelerates over the declining standards in higher education, academic tenure is viewed with suspicion by many, who see it merely as job protection for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Regulation and the Reagan Era

    Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest

    by Roger E. Meiners, Bruce Yandle, Robert Crandall ...
    Was the so-called "Reagan Revolution" a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration’s friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why?When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief was that the size of government would be cut and that some of the regulatory excesses of the prior ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Who Owns the Environment?

    by Peter J. Hill, Roger E. Meiners, Terry L. Anderson, Elizabeth Brubaker, William J. Carney, Louis De Allessi, Donald R. Leal, Seth W. Norton, Bruce Yandle, Donald J. Boudreaux, RICHARD A. EPSTEIN, Vernon L. Smith, Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series The Political Economy Forum
    The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there is still widespread disagreement about many aspects of America's property rights paradigm. The ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Aftershock

    The Next Economy and America's Future

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Should Trees Have Standing?

    Law, Morality, and the Environment

    by Christopher D. Stone ...
    Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • A Capitalism for the People

    Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

    by Luigi Zingales ...
    Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment -- paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism -- on a country's economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Project 2025

    A Deep Dive into the Policies and Impacts of a Conservative Vision to Reshape America's Future

    by Antonio G. Lanier ...
    Gain critical insights into how Project 2025's conservative policies will influence America's political, economic, and social landscape.In "Project 2025: A Deep Dive into the Policies and Impacts of a Conservative Vision to Reshape America's Future," you will gain an in-depth understanding of this ambitious project designed to reshape the socio-political and economic landscape of the United States ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Captured Economy

    How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

    by Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles ...
    For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit. They document the proliferation of regressive regulations that ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • The Firm, the Market, and the Law

    by R. H. Coase ...
    A Nobel Prize winner's most important, groundbreaking work, collected in one volumeThe Firm, the Market, and the Law gathers the most important and lasting works by Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1991 for his groundbreaking work on the significance of transaction costs and property rights, Coase continually urged his fellow economists to examine the real ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

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