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Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at$6.49The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line provides the most detailed exploration ever of college completion at America's public universities. This groundbreaking book sheds light on such serious issues as dropout rates linked to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy (CambridgeSOLD OUTUnderstanding moral philosophy can help one to do economics better, and philosophers can learn by drawing on economic insights and analytical tools. This book argues that standard views of rationality lead economists to espouse questionable moral principles, and discusses methods of economic evaluation in terms of welfare and other moral criteria. It also contains a brief discussion of the relevance of social choice and game theory to philosophy.
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at$13.44The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line provides the most detailed exploration ever of college completion at America's public universities. This groundbreaking book sheds light on such serious issues as dropout rates linked to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy$25.20This 2006 book shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores rationality and its connections to morality. It argues that in defending their model of rationality, mainstream economists implicitly espouse contestable moral principles.
The Student Aid Game$26.49Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government's financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution.
Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational$12.99As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely. This book assesses the role of government subsidies for higher education -- especially but not exclusively federal student aid -- in keeping college affordable for Americans of all economic and social backgrounds.
Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison$27.10Since the publication of 'Invisible Man' in 1952, scholarship on Ellison's masterpiece has been abundant indeed. Scores of articles, dissertations, book chapters, and the like have delineated aspects of the novel's narrative structure, imagistic texture, and thematic design; at the same time, Ellison's own essays and interviews have provided lucid authorial perspectives on these and similar issues.