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

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...

Money, Credit, and Euro-Dollars

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...

Eradicating polio: the dollars and sense.

Hopefully, we are now at the bitter end of global eradication of wild polioviruses, with annual cases of paralytic polio down globally from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 to under 2000 today.[1] Following successful eradication, we must choose wisely among the many policy options[2] that will determine our future risks, costs, and benefits.[3-8] But first, we need to complete polio eradication. W...

Drumming up Dollars for Stem Cell Research

With stringent U.S. federal restrictions on funding for human embryonic stem cell research still in place, states grapple with the issue of whether to fund such research themselves.