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Essays in Honor of James A. Graaskamp: Ten Years After (Research Issues in Real Estate)

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The "keynote" paper is a bit dry and stilted in its presentation, but the collection as a whole is an illuminating review of the contributions of Dr Graaskamp to the assessment of real estate project feasibility and valuation of existing properties. In passing, the articles also provide a glimpse of the snarking and general denigration of his contributions to students' learning by jealous colleagues in the business school, based on a combination of resentment of his commercial success outside of academia, his thin publication vita, and his lack of appreciation for empirically ungrounded real estate theory heavily represented elsewhere in the business curriculum. It's his name on the building housing the present real estate program, however. A good bio and window into his work is available at: [...]

It's a pricey volume, but to be expected, I suppose, given the narrow audience at which it was aimed and its always-financially-strapped sponsoring organization. Modern printing technology would make it available for much less, so I would expect a much better price if it is ever reprinted.