Dynamic tax models have been devised to examine the effects of fundamental tax reform replacing the current U. S. federal tax system with a national retail sales tax. These models impose a constant and positive rate of time preference on households, in the tradition of the rational,...

By adopting a monetary approach with no reference to any substratum of value substance preexisting monetary exchange, the key to capitalism's form-determined interconnectedness is revealed. The concrete existence of the value-form is in money--in a ll its contingent physical manifestations....

Purpose: Financial struggles affecting universities across the United States have caused debate about whether business schools are cost prohibitive or cost savvy, especially for small liberal arts universities that lack large endowments and are highly dependent upon...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that restrictions on independent political expenditures by corporations and labor unions are unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds (Citizens United v. FEC, 2010). In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the decision gave an electoral boost to...

Matching provisions in state clean elections acts have been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds (Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, 2011). By modeling political speech as a costly advertising activity in an electoral contest, we...