Cuts and Guts: Public University Budget Hemorrhages

Budget cuts and the plight of postdocs.

Calling on scientists to fight budget cuts.

THE FUNDING LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE Bush Administration for 2006 (“Caught in the squeeze,” J. Mervis, News Focus, 11 Feb., p. 832) represent a decrease in science and technology funding across the board. This budget and its priorities do not bode well for American science and technology or for America’s scientists and science students. Underfunding science and technology research and education ...

Cuts spark university rethink

Britain's new government is thinking aloud about radical changes to university funding and other countries are also considering the future.

Mapping the Factors Affecting Public Budget Anomalies

This research has introduced a concept called anomaly of the public budget of the country and its causes. Anomaly of the budget is any objective and non-objective deviances, violation of the major plans of a society, creation of abnormal behaviors that cause a lack of zero balance of operational balance, balance of capital assets and balance of financial assets, and, consequently, instability o...

Public Goods and Budget Deficit

We examine incentive-compatible mechanisms for fair financing and efficient selection of a public budget (or public good). A mechanism selects the level of the public budget and imposes taxes on individuals. Individuals’ preferences are quasilinear. Fairness is expressed as weak monotonicity (called scale monotonicity) of the tax imposed on an individual as a function of his benefit from an inc...