Principles and Methods of Law and Economics or Public Relations in Schools

Principles and Methods of Law and Economics: Basic Tools for Normative Reasoning

Author: Nicholas L Georgakopoulos

This introductory book targets the reader who has the ambition to apply economic analysis but may be missing a technical introduction to its mathematical techniques or seeks a structured elaboration of its philosophical principles. The text juxtaposes economic analysis with moral philosophy, political theory, egalitarianism, and other methodological principles and then progresses to the details of methods such as model-building, derivatives, differential equations, statistical tests, and the use of computer programs.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : innovation in legal thinking	1
1	From formal logic to normative reasoning	11
2	Social welfare versus moral philosophy	20
3	From political philosophy to game theory	37
4	The importance of distribution of wealth	72
5	Coase and Law's irrelevance	95
6	More failures of Coasean irrelevance	112
7	Mathematical modeling	129
8	Confronting uncertainty : basic probability theory	154
9	Advanced probability : distributions as the shape of randomness	175
10	How to price uncertainty : finance	197
11	Finance and probability : options and derivatives	225
12	Using spreadsheets	249
13	Statistics	283
14	Conclusion : importing methodological innovations	315
App	Meinhard v. Salmon 249 N.Y. 458 (1928)
App	Mathematica notebooks

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Public Relations in Schools

Author: Theodore J Ed Kowalski

With chapter contributions by leading experts Public Relations in Schools, 4/e, provides a comprehensive view of how community relations affect organizational behavior and the effective management of districts and schools. With a focus on communication alternatives in modern technology and political demands for change it offers an integrated foundation of theory and craft to help practitioners facilitate a positive change in public relations.

 

Beginning with the organizational characteristics of public relations this text  offers coverage of  specific duties assumed by administrative personnel in planning, collecting and analyzing data, media relations, funding campaigns, evaluating public relations activities, and responding to crisis situations.

 

Features of the fourth edition include:

·        NEW! Greater focus on principals and their role in public relations.

·        NEW! Greater attention throughout the text on the use of technology in practice.

·        NEW! Greater attention to understanding and dealing with emerging school reform trends. NEW!  A new chapter (Chapter 10) on communicating with parents and the community.

·        NEW! Chapter 7 is a revision distilled from chapters 7 and 8 of theprevious edition combining the coverage of districts and schools.

·        Case Studies with end of chapter questions confront the reader with real-life situations designed to promote critical thinking in problem solving.

 

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