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“robert b archibald”

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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

  • Redesigning the Financial Aid System

    Why Colleges and Universities Should Switch Roles with the Federal Government

    by Robert B. Archibald ...
    As the cost of higher education continues to rise, students and their families find it increasingly difficult to navigate the financial aid maze. In Redesigning the Financial Aid System, economist Robert Archibald examines the history of the system and its current flaws, and he makes a radical proposal for changing the structure of the system.Archibald argues that one of the problems with the ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities

    by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman ...
    The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim. Archibald and Feldman, leading analysts, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their training future generations. And they demonstrate that our higher education system is resilient and adaptable enough to weather the internal, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • 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

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  • ECONned

    How Unenlightened Self Interest Damaged Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

    by Yves Smith ...
    Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk.But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. ECONned is the first book to examine the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how ... Read more

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  • When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

    by Mohamed El-Erian ...
    SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST"ONE OF THE SMARTEST INVESTORS ON THE PLANET."--MONEY MAGAZINE“This book is an essential read for those whowish to understand the modern world of investing.”—Alan GreenspanWinner of the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year AwardWhen Markets Collide is a timely alert... ... Read more

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  • The Problem of Twelve

    When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

    by John Coates ...
    The forces behind an economic and political crisis in the makingA “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s ... Read more

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  • Stewardship

    Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street

    by John G. Taft, Charles D. Ellis ...
    A compelling argument for why stewardship of wealth and service to others should be our highest financial priorityStewardship is the journey of financial insider John Taft towards understanding and affirming the importance of stewardship—which he has come to define as "serving others"—as a core principle for the financial services industry, the global financial system, and society at large.By ... Read more

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  • Principles of Financial Regulation

    by John Armour, Dan Awrey, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Colin Mayer, Jennifer Payne ...
    The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation of financial institutions and markets, and prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the design of financial regulation. As the financial system has become ever-more complex and interconnected, the pace of evolution continues to accelerate. It is now clear that regulation must focus on the financial system as a whole, but ... Read more

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  • Finance Ethics

    Critical Issues in Theory and Practice

    by John R. Boatright ...
    Series Book 11 - Robert W. Kolb Series
    A groundbreaking exploration of the critical ethical issues in financial theory and practiceCompiled by volume editor John Boatright, Finance Ethics consists of contributions from scholars from many different finance disciplines.It covers key issues in financial markets, financial services, financial management, and finance theory, and includes chapters on market regulation, due diligence, ... Read more

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  • What They Do With Your Money

    How the Financial System Fails Us and How to Fix It

    by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, David Pitt-Watson ...
    Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren’t told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance industry does a good job, but as this book shows, it too often fails us. Financial institutions regularly place their business interests first, charging ... Read more

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