Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance

In this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past. Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of “secret donation booths” for campaign contributions. They unveil a plan in which the government provides each voter with a special credit card account containing fifty “Patriot dollars” for presidential elections. To use this money, citizens go to their local ATM machine and anonymously send their Patriot dollars to their favorite candidates or political organizations. Americans are free to make additional contributions, but they must also give these gifts anonymously. Because candidates cannot identify who provided the funds, it will be much harder for big contributors to buy political influence. And the need for politicians to compete for the Patriot dollars will give much more power to the people. Ackerman and Ayres work out the operating details of their plan, anticipate problems, design safeguards, suggest overseers, and show how their proposals satisfy the most stringent constitutional requirements. They conclude with a model statute that could serve as the basis of a serious congressional effort to restore Americans’ faith in democratic politics.

Politics & Social Sciences

Ian Ayres

Bruce Ackerman

Politics & Government

Yale University Press

Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done

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Super Crunchers: How Anything Can Be Predicted

Reference

John Murray

Supercrunchers

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.

Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

Diversification provides a well-known way of getting something close to a free lunch: by spreading money across different kinds of investments, investors can earn the same return with lower risk (or a much higher return for the same amount of risk). This strategy, introduced nearly fifty years ago, led to such strategies as index funds. What if we were all missing out on another free lunch that's right under our noses? In Lifecycle Investing, Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres - two of the most innovative thinkers in business, law, and economics - have developed tools that will allow nearly any investor to diversify their portfolios over time. By using leveraging when young - a controversial idea that sparked hate mail when the authors first floated it in the pages of Forbes - investors of all stripes, from those just starting to plan to those getting ready to retire, can substantially reduce overall risk while improving their returns. In Lifecycle Investing, readers will learn.

Lifecycle Investing: A New, Safe, and Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio (Large Print 16pt)

Parenting & Relationships

ReadHowYouWant

Teaching Notes/Teacher's Manual for course using "Studies in Contract Law" as a textbook

Studies in Contract Law (Teaching Notes) (University Casebook Series)

Richard E. Speidel

Edward J. Murphy

Business

Foundation Press

Offers guidelines for brainstorming and problem solving in order to solve new problems with existing solutions and to generate new solutions for existing problems.

Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small

Business & Money

Ayres, Ian

Barry J. Nalebuff

Management & Leadership

Harvard Business School Pr

Why Not?: How To Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big And Small

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

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