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  • American Philanthropic Foundations

    Regional Difference and Change

    Essays examining the origins, development, and achievements of charitable organizations in key US cities and regions.Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine ... Leer más

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  • Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States

    A Reader

    Edición de David C. Hammack ...
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    "It is a delight to seen an anthology on nonprofit history done so well."—Barry Karl, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"This is a volume that everyone concerned about nonprofits—scholar, practitioner, and citizen—will find useful and illuminating."—Peter Dobkin Hall, Program on Non-Profit OrganizationsYale Divinity School"A remarkable book."—Robert Putnam, John F. Kennedy ... Leer más

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  • The Economics of Higher Education in the United States

    Series series Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students, parents, faculty, administrators, legislators, and taxpayers. Essays focus on the funding of ... Leer más

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  • A Versatile American Institution

    The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations

    America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow up their edited volume, American Foundations, with a comprehensive historical account of what American ... Leer más

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    Regional Difference and Change

    Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United ... Leer más

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    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

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  • Ages of American Capitalism

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    Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths and reveals how excessive government regulation and the minimum-wage law have imposed incalculable ... Leer más

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