University Publishing Association imprint: 18 books
Public Official Associations and State and Local Government
A Bridge Across One Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1994
This volume is an authoritative description of a little-recognized element of modern governance: associations of public officials in state and local government. These associations, whose membership consists of elected and appointed officials such as mayors, legislators, council members, city and county...
How Professors Play the Cat Guarding the Cream
Why We're Paying More and Getting Less in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1993
This book is a "must read" for every parent who has ever signed a check for tuition, every student who has ever wondered where all the distinguished professors are hiding, and everyone else who has ever questioned what faculty do with themselves all day.
In this lucid and engaging account,...
A Century of the Sherman Act
American Economic Opinion, 1890-1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1992
This book celebrates the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by gathering together a century of interpretation and commentary on that piece of legislation. Opinions represented include John Bates Clark, Edward S. Mason, Joe S. Bain, J.K. Galbraith, Joseph A. Schumpeter, G.B. Richardson, Oliver E. Williamson,...
Money and Banking
The American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1995
Today, interest in monetary history has been revived. Economists are examing the "structure" of money and banking: what is money and what are banks? With new technologies, overwhelming market forces, and changes in law and regulation, the answers that had been taken for granted have been...
The Merits of Flexible Exchange Rates
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1988
This anthology of significant writings by eminent economists is, in part, a critique of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was very successful at the time it was instituted but which, because of its rigidity, failed in the end to address the economic problems of the post-war era....
The Moral Tales
Leopoldo Alas
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1988
Now, for the first time, the stories of Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas have been translated into English. This is an important collection from a writer who is remembered as a master story-teller.
The Will of the People
The Legacy of George Mason, The George Mason Lecture Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1991
Americans are justly proud of their tradition of representative government. In fact, America's is the longest continuous representative government in existence. Ironically, it may be that, because of the two hundred uninterrupted years of the republic's existence, we take it for granted that we view...
The Rights Retained by the People
The Ninth Amendment and Constitutional Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1993
Volume II of The Rights Retained by the People explores how the Ninth Amendment affects the proper way of interpreting the Constitution as a whole.
Contributors: Sotirios A. Barber, Michael W. McConnell, Sanford Levinson, Stephen Macedo, Andrzej Rapacznski, Thomas C. Grey, Lawrence G. Sager, Morris...
by Gary M. Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1992
Bowman describes Governor Gerald L. Balies' attempt to address the transportation problems caused by rapid suburban growth by reorienting the highway program from rural to suburban areas. He describes the political background and the political consequences of the program change. This is the only recent...
by John H. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1994
A penetrating study by prominent authors of the aftermath of the collapse of Marxism. Rudolf Andorka discusses the causes of the collapse of the Communist system; Francis Kukuyama looks at the varieties of Russian nationalism; Craig Calhoun addresses the interaction of nationalism, civil society,...
On the Trail of Homo Economicus
Essays by Gordon Tullock
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1994
This collection of previously unpublished expository writings by Gordon Tullock on themes ranging from game theory, externalities, public choice, rent-seeking, law and economics, and economic progress is representative of the breadth of Tullock's career. As co-founder of Public Choice, Tullock has...
The New Unionism in the New Society
Public Sector Unions in the Redistributive States
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1994
Leo Troy describes and analyzes the changes in the economy and labor markets and the subsequent and continuing changes in unions. He contrasts new and old unionism, detailing the characteristics of the new union movement and patterns of organization. He sets this discussion in the context of the new...
Poetics of Love in the Middle Ages
Texts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1989
This volume examines the treatment and expression of love in medieval literature and art. These nineteen essays, contributed by recognized authorities on medieval romantic expression, consider a wide variety of texts from the following cultures: French, Arabic, Latin, Hispanic, Hebrew, Provencal,...
by James A. Dorn, Henry G. Manne
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 1988
Essays in this volume refocus attention on Constitutional protection for economic liberties. Divided into three parts, the book deals with the following topics: Interpreting the Constitution: Theory and Practice; Property Rights, Activism and the Judicial Process; and Recent Economic Issues in the Courts.
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