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100 Percent Reserve Banking: A Comparison Of Proposals By Henry Simons And Laurence Kotlikoff, John H. Beck
100 Percent Reserve Banking: A Comparison Of Proposals By Henry Simons And Laurence Kotlikoff, John H. Beck
Economics Faculty Scholarship
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An Economist's View Of The Commerce Clause, John H. Beck
An Economist's View Of The Commerce Clause, John H. Beck
Economics Faculty Scholarship
In the course of this lecture, I will review how the courts have interpreted the commerce clause. I will also express an opinion – what might be called a “strict interpretation” – about how the commerce clause ought to be interpreted from a legal standpoint, although as an economist I have no professional expertise to do so. However, as an economist I do have expertise in analyzing what economists refer to as “market failures,” situations in which free markets may fail to achieve a theoretical ideal allocation of resources and government intervention may lead to a better outcome. Economists have …
Wisdom From Warren Buffett, Todd A. Finkle, Paul F. Buller
Wisdom From Warren Buffett, Todd A. Finkle, Paul F. Buller
Marketing Faculty Scholarship
This article documents a trip that was made by students from a U.S. University to visit Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and the third richest man in the world at his Global Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. Every year, Buffett invites students from a select number of schools to Omaha to visit with him. In 2011, students from Gonzaga University were fortunate to be invited by Buffett based on new products that they created in an entrepreneurship course. This article discusses the strategy that this university used to get invited to visit Buffett, the activities that occurred throughout …
Wisdom From Warren Buffett, Todd A. Finkle, Paul F. Buller
Wisdom From Warren Buffett, Todd A. Finkle, Paul F. Buller
Management Information Systems Faculty Scholarship
This article documents a trip that was made by students from a U.S. University to visit Warren Buffett, a chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and the third richest man in the world at his Global Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. Every year, Buffet invites students from a select number of schools to Omaha to visit with him. In 2011, students from Gonzaga University were fortunate to be invited by Buffet based on new products that they created in an entrepreneurship course. This article discusses the strategy that this university used to get invited to visit Buffet, the activities that occurred …
Improving Financial Information Literacy In Introduction To Financial Accounting, Anne Kelly, Teresa Williams, Brad Matthies, J. Burdeane Orris
Improving Financial Information Literacy In Introduction To Financial Accounting, Anne Kelly, Teresa Williams, Brad Matthies, J. Burdeane Orris
Foley Library Scholarship
The motivation for this study came from a desire to improve teaching of the use of accounting information for decision making. Te information literacy standards and related performance indicators guided the development of a semester-long case study by accounting faculty and academic business librarians. Their collaboration yielded a series of instruction modules and related student exercises leading up to a group activity involving the evaluation of a company as a potential investment for retirement savings. Students enrolled in two sections of an introductory accounting course volunteered to participate in this study. They provided information about their knowledge before and after …