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The magazine Typographica--brainchild of founder, editor, designer, and renowned typographer Herbert Spencer--had a brief life, a total of 32 issues published over nineteen years. But its influence stretched--and stretches--far beyond its modest distribution and print runs of the time. Indeed, for many graphic designers, Typographica is something of an obsession, to be collected if and when found, savored, and poured over for designs and techniques not seen since. Remarkably, Spencer never intended to turn a profit, so no expenses were spared in the making of the magazine. Different papers, letterpress, tip-ins, and more were all employed in the presentation of an eclectic range of subject matter: Braille, locomotive lettering, sex and typography, typewriter faces, street lettering, matches, and avant-garde poetry all found their way into the magazine. Rick Poynor, founding editor of Eye, recreates the excitement of Typographica in this carefully researched, accessibly written, and beautifully illustrated book that pays tribute to the man and the magazine that changed the course of graphic design.
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An important book.......2003-05-17
This important volume works both as a rich and detailed history and as a visual feast. Though the subject may seem esoteric (a British typography magazine that ceased publication in 1967), Rick Poynor makes a convincing case for Herbert Spencer's crucial role in the history of British graphic design as a champion of the modernist aesthetic. The book is cleanly designed by Stephen Coates, with superb reproductions from the magazine.
an archieve of old Typographica Magazine.......2003-04-01
The name "Typographica" sounds great but may be misleading! It's not an index book or source about nowadays modern typographic design but a memory of Typographica Magazine which has been published over between 1949-1967. Includes collected sample pages and scripts from the old magazine. It's just history...
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Teaching Young Children to Draw: Imaginative Approaches to Representational Drawing
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This illustrated handbook on teaching young children to draw has been developed using what the authors call the "negotiated drawing approach". It presents this approach to teachers, demonstrating how it works, ideas for future work, and concrete evidence that it actually produces good results.
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Correction -- not an accurate review.......1999-10-01
My Tydings is the Chilton "Advanced Yashica Guide," not the Photo-Visual Guide, which I have never seen. I posted my previous review in error.
Almost useless as a historical guide.......1999-10-01
The Tydings books were potboilers and this one fits the pattern -- a lot about Ken Tyding's pet theory, which he calls the "SET Theory" -- "Sharp, well Exposed, Thought-out" -- and lots of "your Yashica is capable of good photos", but not much else. Mine claims to "cover all models -- Y16, Y35's, Y44's, Y66's, Y635" but only just mentions that most of them exist. Totally shortchanges the Y16's. Don't pay too much for this book.
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Excellent historical resource.......1999-10-01
Thorough, authoritative, accurate, and invaluable
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The Yashica Guide
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HIV/AIDS is generating a major humanitarian crisis for families in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS is expected to rise to 35 million by 2010. Rolling back decades of progress in social development, HIV/AIDS has become a major constraint in the fight against poverty. Many African countries are also suffering from civil unrest and post-conflict situations resulting in more orphans and/or displaced children.
Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the many risks and vulnerabilities faced by orphans and the ameliorating role played by the actions of governments and donors. It brings together the admittedly limited evidence from interventions on behalf of orphans with a view to advancing our knowledge on what works and what does not in mitigating the risks faced by orphans and enhancing capacities of communities to address this problem. Juxtaposing the risks and needs of orphans against the effectiveness (including cost-effectiveness) of care-giving arrangements, the study addresses issues bearing on how to scale up the more promising of interventions.
The authors draw several important conclusions on the strengths and weaknesses of various programs, targeting methods and their implications, and in particular highlight the gaps in our knowledge with respect to the cost-effectiveness of interventions and the potential incentive effects of orphan care. Considering that resources are limited and the problem is immense, the study rightly underscores the need for coordination of efforts among all agencies seeking to respond to the crisis.
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HIV/AIDS is generating a major humanitarian crisis for families in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS is expected to rise to 35 million by 2010. Rolling back decades of progress in social development, HIV/AIDS has become a major constraint in the fight against poverty. Many African countries are also suffering from civil unrest and post-conflict situations resulting in more orphans and/or displaced children. Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the many risks and vulnerabilities faced by orphans and the ameliorating role played by the actions of governments and donors. It brings together the admittedly limited evidence from interventions on behalf of orphans with a view to advancing our knowledge on what works and what does not in mitigating the risks faced by orphans and enhancing capacities of communities to address this problem. Juxtaposing the risks and needs of orphans against the effectiveness (including cost-effectiveness) of care-giving arrangements, the study addresses issues bearing on how to scale up the more promising of interventions. The authors draw several important conclusions on the strengths and weaknesses of various programs, targeting methods and their implications, and in particular highlight the gaps in our knowledge with respect to the cost-effectiveness of interventions and the potential incentive effects of orphan care. Considering that resources are limited and the problem is immense, the study rightly underscores the need for coordination of efforts among all agencies seeking to respond to the crisis.
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This collection examines the forces, both external and internal, that lead corporations to behave efficiently and to create wealth. Corporations vest control rights in shareholders, the author argues, because they are the constituency that bear business risk and therefore have the appropriate incentives to maximize corporate value. Assigning control to any other group would be tantamount to allowing that group to play poker with someone else's money, and would create inefficiencies. The implicit denial of this proposition is the fallacy of the so-called stakeholder theory of the corporation, which argues that corporations should be run in the interests of all stakeholders. This theory offers no account of how conflicts between different stakeholders are to be resolved, and gives managers no principle on which to base decisions, except to follow their own preferences.
In practice, shareholders delegate their control rights to a board of directors, who hire, fire, and set the compensation of the chief officers of the firm. However, because agents have different incentives than the principals they represent, they can destroy corporate value unless closely monitored. This happened in the 1960s and led to hostile takeovers in the market for corporate control in the 1970s and 1980s. The author argues that the takeover movement generated increases in corporate efficiency that exceeded $1.5 trillion and helped to lay the foundation for the great economic boom of the 1990s.
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Interesting & Ideological.......2007-10-01
The book is a collection of articles published at different times with different co-authors, but nonetheless forms a coherent whole. If you are interested in academic analysis of why business organizations are structured as they are, this is the book for you. But you may not agree with his viewpoint. Professor Jensen has a strong ideological bias, which occasionally leads him into error. For example, on page 27 he claims that bypassing "the inefficient work rules and high wages imposed by unions" will "increase efficiency and thereby contribute to excess capacity." Yet there is no reason to think lower wages will increase either efficiency or capacity. If anything, lower wages could reduce efficiency, as the best workers leave for better paying jobs. A more pervasive problem is his claim that corporations are best regarded as "a nexus...of...contracts among disparate individuals." His theory fits the tradition of Locke, etc., but disregards important noncontractual aspects of the corporation. The focus on contract cannot shed light on the corporation's relationships to government authorities, since such relationships are not based on any contract. The contractual view also ignores the corporation's role as the owner of property, such as a patent or a factory or timberland. Professor's Jensen's ideology, however, does not make him an apologist for the managerial class. A major theme of the book is the conflict of interest between managers and stockholders. Professor Jensen seems to be an honest scholar: his footnotes sometimes show that what he says in the text isn't the full story. An interesting book, sparkling with ideas--but read with skepticism.
The elegant theory of the firm.......2002-11-17
Elegant and well elaborated, Jensen presents the classic economic theory of the firm. The one shortcoming is that the activities of the firm in an international and social context are not touched on. I recommend this book with another that elaborates on the theory of the firm in social and political environments, such as Usha Haley's "Multinational Corporations in Political Environments".
A Modern Theory of the Firm?.......2001-08-23
This book is a collection of eight previously published papers by Prof. Michael Jensen (and co-authors) of the Harvard Business School in a stream of research dealing with agency theoretic formulations of the theory of the firm.
It is aimed specifically at research scholars in financial economics, strategic management, organizational theory, and public policy. Because it is a collection, the papers tend to vary in style and technicality from impassioned advocacy (chapter 3) to general narrative (chapter 2) to formal mathematical modeling (chapter 6). Deliberately little was done to reedit the papers for flow and while this tends to give the reader mental whiplash as he tries to adjust between chapters, it maintains the integrity of the original thoughts that went into the original papers. It makes a good first book for Ph.D. students and scholars new to the field needing a quick summary of a half-century of theoretical development; and because only they would have the tenacity to plow through the formal models.
The ideas in the book are not new to scholars familiar to the field, but they do represent the theoretical cutting edge, which attests to the robustness of Prof. Jensen's ideas (chapter four was first published in 1976) or to the more cynical - a lack of theoretical advancement. Because they are brought together in one place, the book neatly presents the historical development and theoretical arguments in a way that sorting through a bunch of papers cannot.
The main point the book makes is that one cannot build a complete theory of the firm, typically encountered in traditional production models, without special consideration for the governance mechanisms that ensure the efficient deployment of resources and distribution of wealth. For example, the book demonstrates the theoretical and practical importance of knowing the identity of the firm's owner. In classical theories of the firm, owners are merely suppliers of capital, homogenously risk averse and value maximizing. The book however makes an oft-missed point in today's heady arguments over shareholder wealth maximization and corporate responsibility that all parties to the contract called The Firm have different risk preferences. For example, institutional owners may even have conflicting risk preferences, which can result in control issues such as minority oppression that do not arise in classical theory-of-the-firm formulations.
The book early on dismisses the usefulness of traditional conceptions of the firm as pure production functions. Instead, it reconstructs a theory of the firm on a positive agency theory foundation, arguing that it is the contractual relationship between the suppliers and users of capital and talent that determine what, how and when production occurs. This framework brings together the following elements: a. The importance of capital structure, i.e., debt/equity mix and types, refuting Modigliani and Miller's (1958) irrelevance hypothesis, b. The importance of governance structure, making Jensen one of the earliest to emphasize the important role of outside directors in the boardroom, c. The role of transaction specific and specialized knowledge, elevating the theoretical significance of the knowledge worker, d. The importance of the residual claimant, centralizing the shareholder, and e. The existence and nature of agency costs, which Jensen notes are inevitable between parties with asymmetric information and different preference curves.
This theoretical model is elegantly simple and yet powerful enough to deal with such diverse organizational structures as the owner-operated firm to the widely held multi-unit public corporation. It is particularly suited to theoretical modeling such topics as top management compensation, self-governing contracts, mutual monitoring at the firm and individual levels of analyses, distribution of residuals, hierarchy, and corporate takeovers.
The book also makes a credible attempt to apply agency theory, without direct reference to sociological constructs, to different organizational forms such as mutuals, partnerships, labor-managed, cooperatives, owner operated, substantially controlled, and the widely held public corporation. Chapter six is particularly interesting in this regard because it attempts to applying the theoretical framework to labor managed organizations, most commonly seen in Communist political economies. The original paper's conclusion that such systems are doomed to failure presages the collapse of the Soviet state and the ensuing adjustments toward free market systems around the world.
The seminal works of agency cost economics collected.......2001-02-20
Michael Jensen is one of the founders of the agency cost economics branch of the New Institutional Economics. "A Theory of the Firm" collects eight articles by Jensen and various co-authors that, collectively, represent the seminal body of work in this field. (I wonder how his various co-authors felt about being left of the spine of this book?) While his contributions to agency cost theory are the work for which he is best known, Jensen also figures prominently in the intellectual history of the nexus of contracts theory of the firm, as several of the articles collected here demonstrate.
U.S. public corporations are characterized by a separation of ownership and control: the firm's nominal owners, the shareholders, exercise virtually no control over either day to day operations or long-term policy. Instead, control is vested in the hands of professional managers, who typically own only a small portion of the firm's shares. The separation of ownership and control characteristic of U.S. corporations has costs: "The separation of ownership from control produces a condition where the interests of owner and of ultimate manager may, and often do, diverge . . . ." (Berle and Means, 1932). Modern scholars refer to the consequences of these divergences as agency costs, following Jensen and Meckling (1976), which are conventionally defined as the sum of the monitoring and bonding costs, plus any residual loss, incurred to prevent shirking by agents. In turn, shirking is conventionally defined to include as any action by a member of a production team that diverges from the interests of the team as a whole. As such, shirking includes not only culpable cheating, but also negligence, oversight, incapacity, and even honest mistakes. In other words, shirking is simply the inevitable consequence of bounded rationality and opportunism within agency relationships. The classic Jensen & Meckling article is reprinted herein.
Although agency cost theory undeniably is critical to understanding the modern corporate form, too many agency cost theorists have narrowly focused on agency costs to the exclusion of other institutional considerations, which easily can distort one's understanding. Corporate managers operate within a pervasive web of accountability mechanisms that substitute for monitoring by residual claimants. Important constraints are provided by a variety of market forces. The capital and product markets, the internal and external employment markets, and the market for corporate control all constrain shirking by firm agents. In addition, the legal system evolved various adaptive responses to the ineffectiveness of shareholder monitoring, establishing alternative accountability structures to punish and deter wrongdoing by firm agents, such as the board of directors. An even more important consideration, however, is that agency costs are the inevitable consequence of vesting discretion in someone other than the residual claimant. We could substantially reduce, if not eliminate, agency costs by eliminating discretion; that we do not do so suggests that discretion has substantial virtues. A complete theory of the firm thus requires one to balance the virtues of discretion against the need to require that discretion be used responsibly. Neither discretion nor accountability can be ignored, because both promote values essential to the survival of business organizations. Unfortunately, they are ultimately antithetical: one cannot have more of one without also having less of the other - the power to hold to account is the power to decide. Managers cannot be made more accountable without undermining their discretionary authority. Establishing the proper mix of discretion and accountability thus emerges as the central corporate governance question.
Jensen recognizes this tension in several of the articles collected here, which in general are less lex-centric than those of many of his intellectual progeny. In other words, Jensen is less likely to believe that regulation is an appropriate solution to a given problem. Instead, his work focuses on market solutions to agency cost problems. The articles on takeovers and leveraged buyouts are good examples.
Given the many virtues of Jensen's work, why have I subtracted one star? Mostly because there is nothing new here. To be sure, it is useful to have all Jensen's major agency cost articles collected in a convenient forum. And this text can remind a new generation of scholars of Jensen's early work. Yet, newcomers and generalists may find the text heavy going in places, while us old-timers have already read all of these articles in their original publications.
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Growing Up With Unemployment: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ITS PSYCHOLOGIAL IMPACT (ADOLESCENCE AND SOCIETY)
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Great book to learn the issues..........2001-09-12
I used many of Dr. Carson's books in college, and found them to be great for getting a good understanding of the issues. He usually had an overview the issues and both sides of the argument explained. I threw out alot of my college textbooks but kept all of his books. Only issue is the argments in the book may become dated so try to get the latest editions.
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Three Viewpoints on Burning Economic Issues.......2004-05-18
Here is a great way to learn economics without all the mathematics! Carson, Thomas, and Hecht have produced a short, very readable book covering the burning economic issues of our time. The unique thing about this book is that it provides three different viewpoints (Conservative, Liberal, and Radical) for each issue covered!
A layman's guide to the economic issues of today........2004-04-22
"Economic Issues Today" is the layman's guide to the big economic issues affecting American society in our time. The book covers a wide range of issues from consumer welfare and income distribution to big business and international economics. For each topic (and there are 14 topics altogether) the conservative, liberal and radical views are presented. Given the number of topics there is only limited discussion on each.
Carson, Thomas and Hecht have tried to present the basic arguments of each side, while reserving judgment on what they think is the `right' view. They admit that they were tempted to do this, but decided that the reader should be the final judge as to the merits of each argument. Because of this, the essays read as a debate between three economists, each from a different school of thought, but without the jargon usually involved in such debates. On some issues, one side clearly shines but on others there did not seem to be a winner to me. The only caveat here is not to take the representative views here as that actually held by the sides in real life. The arguments employed by actual conservatives , liberals and radicals are obviously much more thorough and realistic. The essays at time make it seem that some of the sides have very simplistic and unrealistic views on life, and the reader may be tempted to believe it especially if it confirms their prior biases. The authors have written a short bibliography for those readers interested in finding out more about the differing views. The bibliography is short, but it lists the major figures that have had a large influence on their respective schools of thought.
Carson et al. have done an excellent job by not letting their biases show when relating the three different paradigms, I would highly recommend this book to undergraduates in economics or politics or to any general reader who wants to find out more about the economic arguments employed by conservatives, liberals and radicals when they talk about the economic issues of today.
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Microeconomic Issues Today: Alternative Approaches
Robert Barry Carson
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Great, easy to read, and informative supplement........2007-09-22
This book is a great and easy read for the economics student. It helps to give a modern view of some issues today in microeconomics and applies the fundamentals taught in most economics courses.
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