Post Tagged with: "Richard Vedder"

“Like compulsive Las Vegas gamblers, many university presidents like to make big bets hoping for large payoffs. And like most gamblers, they usually lose,” writes Dr. Richard Vedder in a Dec. 2 Fiscal Times column. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of […]

“Stop subsidizing colleges’ 100-year debt binge,” says the headline on Dr. Richard Vedder’s Oct. 30 column from Bloomberg. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. The Barack Obama administration and Congress purport to […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. co-authored with Ken Blackwell a column on “Cincinnati Must Face the Crisis that Sealed Detroit’s Fate” Nov. 1 at Townhall.com. Cincinnati and Detroit are separated by barely more than 250 miles – a five-hour drive […]

“Institutional reform depends on three ‘I’ words: information, incentives, and innovation. Let me discuss each of these words in the context of institutional governance,” said Dr. Richard Vedder as he addressed members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability […]

Wall Street Journal writer Allysia Finley interviewed Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, on “how subsidies fuel rising prices and why there’s a ‘bubble’ in student loans and college enrollment.” College […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, published an opinion column July 9 in the New York Times’ Room for Debate  on Oregon’s proposal to delay when students pay for a college education […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University, testified before the Ohio House Ways and Means Committee on a proposed major tax overhaul, as reporter by Jim Provance in the Toledo Blade on June 22. Supporters of the plan, however, argued before the House Ways and Means Committee […]