Dollars, Dust, and Draf

Money, Credit, and Euro-Dollars

Trading Dollars for Dollars: The Price of Attention Online and Offline

Recent years have witnessed a crisis in journalism. Newspaper staffs have been cut by a third since 2000 (Pew Research Center 2013). Stock prices of major newspaper companies have fallen by more than half over the same period. The costly work of gathering, interpreting, and disseminating news—activities widely believed to have large positive political and social externalities (Downs 1957; Becke...

THE SERRANO PRINCIPLE Dollars , Scholars and Constitutlan

JOHN E. COONS, WILLIAM H. CLUNE 111 U STEPHEN D. SUGARMAN Mr. Coons and Mr. Sugarman are professors of law at the University o f California and coauthors of Private Wealth and Public Education (Harvard University Press); borh appeared in and argued the Serrano case before the California Supreme Court which adopted their position. Mr. Clune teaches law at Wisconsin; he and Mr. Sugarman are form...

Sustainable business makes dollars and sense.

The last decade has marked a radical change in the business of sustainability, say environmental activists and industrialists alike. On the wane are "greenwashing" campaigns in which corporations promote dubious environmental accomplishments to draw attention away from environmentally damaging practices. On the rise are corporate investments in sustainability programs, new types of environmenta...

Preoperative spirometry and laparotomy: blowing away dollars.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Increasing evidence indicates that routine preoperative diagnostic spirometry (pulmonary function tests [PFTs]) before elective abdominal surgery does not predict individual risk of postoperative pulmonary complications and is overutilized. This economic evaluation estimates potential savings from reduced use of preoperative PFTs. DESIGN Analyses of (1) real costs (resource co...