Main description: What can today's corporate raiders learn from the scourge of the high seas? A lot, as it turns out! Pirates have a surprising amount to teach about building better organizations, promoting diversity in the workplace, and creating powerful brands, among many other business...

Cover -- Tour Stops -- Waiting in the Lobby -- 1. Your Favorite Acronym -- 2. Burn, Baby, Burn -- 3. FSBO: Like-New, Preowned Wife -- 4. Public Uses for Private Parts -- 5. God Damn -- 6. Chicken, Please -- Hold the Poison -- 7. Jiminy Cricket's Journey to Hell -- 8. Fighting Solves Everything...

What can today's corporate raiders learn from the scourge of the high seas? A lot, as it turns out! Pirates have a surprising amount to teach about building better organizations, promoting diversity in the workplace, and creating powerful brands, among many other business lessons. Curious to...

Your favorite acronym -- Burn, baby, burn -- FSBO : like-new, preowned wife -- Public uses for private parts -- God damn -- Chicken, please; hold the poison -- Jiminy Cricket's journey to hell -- Fighting solves everything

Fifty years on we examine two key propositions in Neale's (1964) "Peculiar Economics": the need for competitors in sport to have opponents of similar ability in order to earn large revenues and the effect of frequent changes sports leagues' standings on consumer demand. We develop a consumer...

This paper introduces a two-stage interactive cobweb model with information diffusion. The additional stage of information diffusion leads to a possibility of up to five equilibria. Stability properties under learning remain similar to those under a model with one-way information diffusion, but...

We examine the relationship between college athletic scholarships and adolescent use of performance enhancing drugs. Annually, 4.5 million male high school athletes compete for about 132,000 athletic scholarships o_ered by NCAA Division I and II universities. Estimates from a probit model of...

We develop and empirically test a model of intercollegiate athletic department expenditure decisions. The model extends general dynamic models of nonprice competition and includes the idea that nonprofit athletic departments may simply set expenditure equal to revenues. Own and rival prestige is...

Drawing largely on educational literature outside of economics, we provide a survey of perspectives on alternative teaching methods. We then report results regarding the effectiveness of various alternative methods such as cooperative learning, class discussions, and the use of multimedia...

Drawing largely on educational literature outside of economics, we provide a survey of perspectives on alternative teaching methods. We then report results regarding the effectiveness of various alternative methods such as cooperative learning, class discussions, and the use of multimedia...