Work and Welfare: (University Center for Human Values)

Tanner Lectures are serious business. I was asked to choose a topic, and even outline briefly what I intended to say, about eighteen months in advance of the lectures themselves. “Welfare and Work” sounded just about right for lectures on “human values,” especially because I had had, over the years, a particular sort of association with an important body of research on the underlying issues, from a slightly unusual angle. It seemed highly unlikely, at that moment, that a major welfare reform act—I cannot bear to write down the fatuous title that Congress gave it—embodying a fairly strong work requirement would already be law by the scheduled date of the lectures.

Robert M. Solow | Princeton University Press; 1 edition | 1998 | ISBN: B001SAQWYY | English | 1134 pages | PDF | 1MB |
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Ethics out of Economics

One brief paper in this collection dates from long ago, but the rest were all first published in the 1990s. Most of my earlier writings in economics and ethics formed part of the long development of my book Weighing Goods, and whatever truth I thought they contained was eventually incorporated into the book.

CONTENTS

Preface page

1 Introduction: ethics out of economics
2 ‘Utility’
3 Extended preferences
4 Discounting the future
5 Can a Humean be moderate?
6 Bolker–Jeffrey expected utility theory and axiomatic utilitarianism
7 Fairness
8 Is incommensurability vagueness?
9 Incommensurable values
10 Goodness is reducible to betterness: the evil of death is the value of life
11 Trying to value a life
12 Structured and unstructured valuation
13 Qalys
14 The value of living
15 The value of a person

Notes
Bibliography
Index

John Broome
| Cambridge University | 1999 | ISBN: 0521644917 | English | 276 pages | PDF | 1MB |

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Corporate Takeovers: Causes and Consequences (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

The papers and discussants' comments that follow were originally presented at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference in February 1987 in Key Largo. The reader should keep this date in mind in light of whatever may have happened since in the rapidly evolving market for corporate control. This volume represents a part of the NBER project on Mergers and Acquisitions, which was generously funded by the Seaver Institute.

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction

1. The Impact of Firm Acquisitions on Labor
2. Breach of Trust in Hostile Takeovers
3. The Effect of Takeover Activity on Corporate Research and Development
4. Characteristics of Targets of Hostile and Friendly Takeovers

5. Do Target Shareholders Lose in Unsuccessful Control Contests?
6. The Effects of Taxation on the Merger Decision
7. Share Repurchases and Acquisitions: An Analysis of Which Firms Participate
8. Means of Payment in Takeovers: Results for the United Kingdom and the United States
9. A Time-Series Analysis of Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Economy
10. Panel Discussion: Corporate Takeovers and Public Policy

Alan J. Auerbach | University Of Chicago Press | 1991 | ISBN: 0226032124 | English | 354 pages | PDF | 21MB |
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Financing Higher Education: Answers from the UK

This is the book that launched a revolution, one that is yet to finish its course, but I have no doubt that it will come to fruition. Like Lincoln Steffens I have seen the future and know it works. Indeed I had my first glimpse of the future in 1988 when Nicholas Barr, as a younger colleague at the LSE, sent me the first draft of his paper on loan-funded higher education. It was the summer holiday, in France, which for a university academic meant spending the time reading, writing and catching up with academic work not done in term-time.

CONTENTS

Preface

1. Higher education in Britain, 1987 to 2004
2. 1987 Income-contingent loans: a central theme
3. 1988 Setting universities free from central planning: a second central theme
4. 1989 A specific loan proposal
5. 1990 The government loan scheme: a critique

6. 1991 Pulling the arguments together
7. 1993 Alternative funding sources for higher education
8. 1995 Education and the life cycle
9. 1997 Evidence to the Dearing Committee: funding higher education in an age of expansion
10. 1998 The Dearing Report and the Government’s response: a critique
11. 1998 An international view
12. 2000 The benefits of education: what we know and what we don’t
13. 2002 Evidence to the Education Select Committee 1: funding higher education, policies for access and quality
14. 2002 Evidence to the Education Select Committee 2
15. 2003 The Higher Education White Paper: a critique
16. Financing higher education: a universal model



Nicholas Barr  | Routledge | 2005 | ISBN: 0415346207 | English | 336pages | PDF | 3MB |
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Designing U.S. Economic Policy: An Anaylytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling

This book is a revision of a previous study, supported by the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri, USA, by myself and Willadee Gillan Wehmeyer, a graduate student at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and now an instructor at Central Nazarene
University, Olathe, Kansas.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Preface

1. Biographical Background and Analytical Analysis
2. Influences of the Times: The 1930s
3. Leon H. Keyserling and the Council of Economic
4. Selected Testimonies: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress (HJEC)
5. Keyserling after the Council of Economic Advisers: “The Conference on Economic Progress”
6. Other Writings of Leon H. Keyserling: The Problems of Economic Balance and the End of Poverty – the
Crucial Connection
7. The Theoretical Analysis of Leon H. Keyserling and Economic Policy

Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

W. Robert Brazelton
| Palgrave Macmillan | 2001 | ISBN: 0333775759 | English | 193 pages | PDF | 1MB |

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Unternehmen Verstehen, Gestalten, Ver Ndern: Das Graves-Value-System in Der Praxis

Sie als Unternehmer, Manager oder Berater haben das Ziel, Unternehmen langfristig leistungsfähig aufzustellen. Dies ist nur durch eine regelmäßige zielgerichtete Anpassung des Unternehmens an die sich häufig schnell verändernden Rahmenbedingungen möglich.

Der Blick in die Entwicklung von Unternehmen zeigt grundsätzlich, dass diese auch in der Vergangenheit verschiedenste Veränderungen durchlaufen haben. Dies gilt auch für öffentliche Organisationen, ganze Gesellschaften oder kleinere Gruppen wie Abteilungen, Vereine oder Familien. Die Veränderungen waren entweder gezielt herbeigeführt oder sind das Ergebnis einer Summe von Einflussfaktoren. Oft kann man deren tatsächliches Zusammenwirken nicht wirklich greifen. Für viele Bereiche sieht man dabei, dass weitere Veränderungen nötig sind – und häufig ist nicht klar, wie diese herbeigeführt werden sollen.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Vorwort zur 2. Auflage
2. Vorwort zur 1. Auflage

3. Abbildungsverzeichnis
4. Change-Prozesse sind doch anders – darum dieses Buch
5. Das Graves-Value-System in der Praxis – ein Modell der Welt
6. Entwicklungsstufen in Unternehmen
7. Der Veränderungsrahmen
8. Fallbeispiele
9. Schlusswort & Ausblick
10. Anhang: Theoretische Vertiefung und Hintergründe des Modells

11. Literatur
12. Die Autoren



Martina Bär
| Lightning Source UK Ltd | 2010 | ISBN: 3834919063 | German| 232 pages | PDF | 1MB |

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Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse (Nature/History/Society)

The aim of this book is to understand the history of, and possible alternatives to, managerial responses to environmental issues by examining one of the largest natural resource management failures of the twentieth century: the collapse of the northern cod fi sheries off Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. I wanted to understand this history partly to make sense of a childhood loss.

CONTENTS

Figures and Tables
Foreword
Graeme Wynn
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1. A Sea Swarming with Fish
2. The Introduction and Development of Cod Fisheries
Management
3. Success through Failure: The Expansion of Management after
the Moratorium
4. Socio-Ecological System Description of the Cod Fishery
5. From Managing Fish to Managing Fishermen
6. Managing Cod from Egg to Plate
7. Articulating Management into Cod Fisheries
8. Alternatives to Management and Managerial Ecology

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Dean Bavington
| Graeme Wynn, University of British Columbia | 2010 | ISBN: 0774817488 | English | 212pages | PDF | 1MB |

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