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Does Stanford (or anybody else) have a policy on the conflict of interest in professors assigning their own textbooks to their classes? The only professor I'm aware of to consider the issue, Stanford's Bill Rivers (he taught in the Communications Department from the late 60s into the 90s), assigned his books, but rebated his royalty payment to any student who brought in a receipt.

A lot of places have policies - I don't know about Stanford.

Apparently in 1981 Stanford had no such policies. Here is an old Daily article on the topic.
http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/...124-01.2.7

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Does Stanford (or anybody else) have a policy on the conflict of interest in professors assigning their own textbooks to their classes? The only professor I'm aware of to consider the issue, Stanford's Bill Rivers (he taught in the Communications Department from the late 60s into the 90s), assigned his books, but rebated his royalty payment to any student who brought in a receipt.

A lot of places have policies - I don't know about Stanford.

Apparently in 1981 Stanford had no such policies. Here is an old Daily article on the topic.
http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/...124-01.2.7