Introduction -- Money as Communication -- Politicization of Campaign Fundraising: A History -- Democratic Fundraising 2020 Presidential Primary -- Self-Funding in 2020 -- Republican Fundraising 2020 Presidential Primary -- Biden Fundraising Post Convention -- Trump Fundraising Post Convention --...

Where the money comes from -- Market forces in higher education -- Why public universities cannot restrain costs -- The university prime directive -- The faculty are the university -- The cargo cult college -- The blessing and curse of shared governance -- What price shared governance? -- The...

VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from the United States' long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. From nineteenth-century whaling to the multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture capital has been driven by the pull of...