Background
Cook, Philip Jackson was born on October 15, 1946 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Gerhard Albert and Lura (Lincoln) Cook.
(100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun viole...)
100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms of medical costs and lost productivity. Here, economists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig widen the lens, developing a framework to calculate the full costs borne by Americans in a society where both gun violence and its ever-present threat mandate responses that touch every aspect of our lives. All of us, no matter where we reside or how we live, share the costs of gun violence. Whether waiting in line to pass through airport security or paying taxes for the protection of public officials; whether buying a transparent book bag for our children to meet their school's post-Columbine regulations or subsidizing an urban trauma center, the steps we take are many and the expenditures enormous. Cook and Ludwig reveal that investments in prevention, avoidance, and harm reduction, both public and private, constitute a far greater share of the gun-violence burden than previously recognized. They also employ extensive survey data to measure the subjective costs of living in a society where there is risk of being shot or losing a loved one or neighbor to gunfire. At the same time, they demonstrate that the problem of gun violence is not intractable. Their review of the available evidence suggests that there are both additional gun regulations and targeted law enforcement measures that will help. This urgently needed book documents for the first time how gun violence diminishes the quality of life for everyone in America. In doing so, it will move the debate over gun violence past symbolic politics to a direct engagement with the costs and benefits of policies that hold promise for reducing gun violence and may even pay for themselves.
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(Why does the top one per cent of the population capture s...)
Why does the top one per cent of the population capture such a disproportionate amount of the wealth? Why do top athletes win dozens of sponsorship deals, yet competitors who finish just moments behind struggle to attract a single deal? This title shows how in business, as in sport, thousands are competing for only a handful of top prizes.
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(With its huge jackpots and heartwarming rags-to-riches st...)
With its huge jackpots and heartwarming rags-to-riches stories, the lottery has become the hope and dream of millions of Americans--and the fastest-growing source of state revenue. Despite its popularity, however, there remains much controversy over whether this is an appropriate business for state government and, if so, how the business should be conducted.
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(Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business W...)
Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business Week chart of America's highest-paid executives, his $203 million in earnings roughly 10,000 times that of the lowest paid Disney employee. During the last two decades, the top one percent of U.S. earners captured more than 40 percent of the country's total earnings growth, one of the largest shifts any society has endured without a revolution or military defeat. Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook argue that behind this shift lies the spread of "winner-take-all markets"—markets in which small differences in performance give rise to enormous differences in reward. Long familiar in sports and entertainment, this payoff pattern has increasingly permeated law, finance, fashion, publishing, and other fields. The result: in addition to the growing gap between rich and poor, we see important professions like teaching and engineering in aching need of more talent. This relentless emphasis on coming out on top—the best-selling book, the blockbuster film, the Super Bowl winner—has molded our discourse in ways that many find deeply troubling.
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(Selected by Business Week as one of the 10 best business ...)
Selected by Business Week as one of the 10 best business books of the year, this text is "a major contribution to the debate about the causes and consequences of inequality in America".--The New York Times Book Review.
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Cook, Philip Jackson was born on October 15, 1946 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Gerhard Albert and Lura (Lincoln) Cook.
Bachelor, University of Michigan, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1973.
Professor Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, since 1973, director Institute Policy Sciences, 1985—1989, director Sanford Institute Public Policy, 1997—1999. Visiting scholar Institute Research in Social Science University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980, member advisory board Injury Prevention Research Center, since 1990. Expert Office Polytechnic and Management Analysis, criminal division United States Department Justice, 1982.
Member research advisory committee United States Sentencing Commission, 1986—1991, chair research advisory committee, 1986. Member advisory board H. John Heinz III School Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University, since 1992. Member Center Gun Policy Research Johns Hopkins University, 1995—2003.
Consultant enforcement division United States Department Treasury, 1999—2000. Research associate National Bureau Economic Research, since 1996. Member advisory committee Harvard Injury Control Center.
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(Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business W...)
(Selected by Business Week as one of the 10 best business ...)
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Fellow: American Society Criminology. Member: Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Committee on Law and Justice (vice chair since 2008), American Economic Association, Association Public Policy and Management (treasurer 1985-1993, vice president 2007-2009), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Judith Walmsley, June 27, 1966. Children; Elizabeth Camden, Brian Lincoln.