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Taylor & Francis Inc Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1985. This volume contains material prepared over a three week field trip by the authors in rural China in July and August of 1982 and then again in September 1983. Including field work in the areas of Shaanxi, and the Chongqing municipality.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Institutional Change and Income Distribution, The Responsibility System and Institutional Change, Employment and Incomes in Rural China: The Impact of Recent Organisational Changes, China's New Population Policies, Commune- and Brigade-run Enterprises in Rural China: An Overview, Commune- and Brigade-run Enterprises in Rural China: Some recent Observations, The New Development Strategy and Rural Reforms in Post-Mao China, Epilogue: Rural China in 1983.
£150.00
Taylor & Francis Inc An Institutionalist Guide to Economics and Public Policy
Book SynopsisThis narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction, Fundamentals of an Institutionalist Perspective on Economic Policy, Social Reform and Economic Policy, Institutionalist Reflections on the Role of the Public Sector, Economic Stabilization and Inflation, Domestic Monetary Policy: If Not Monetarism, What?, Selective Employment Programs and Economic Policy, The Myth Is Not the Reality: Income Maintenance and Welfare, Industrial Policy, Uncertainty, Indicative Planning, and Industrial Policy, Public Utility Regulation: A Case Study in the Debate over Effectiveness of Economic Regulation, Shifting the Burden of Environmental Protection, A Geobased National Agricultural Policy for Rural Community Enhancement, Environmental Vitality, and Income Stabilization, Foreign Economic Policy: Challenges of the 1980s, The Implementation of Economic Development, About the Authors
£42.99
Taylor & Francis Inc The Policy Consequences of John Maynard Keynes
Book SynopsisExamines the history, contemporary practice, and policy issues of non-union employee representation in the USA and Canada. The text encompasses many organizational devices that are organized for the purposes of representing employees on a range of production, quality, and employment issues.Table of ContentsForeword, Introduction, Keynes's Policies in Theory and Practice, Wall Street's View of Keynes and Keynes's View of Wall Street, The Radical Keynes, Listen Keynesians!, Keynes's Influence on Public Policy: A Conservative's View, Keynes, Roosevelt, and the Complementary Revolutions, Keynes, Keynesians, and British Economic Policy, The Influence of Keynes on French Economic Policy: Past and Present, The Influence of Keynesian Thought on German Economic Policy, Relevance of Keynes for Developing Countries, Keynes and the Postwar International Economic Order, About the Contributors
£46.99
Taylor & Francis Inc Macroeconomics
Book SynopsisThe climate of opinion among economists recently seems to have shifted in favour of the view that the Keynesian style of economic management does not work in industrial capitalism. This has provided an opportunity for various related doctrines like ''monetarism'' and ''supply-side economies'' to surface as contending views. They argue that the Keynesian view of economic management is theoretically defective and a better alternative is to rely less on economic intervention by the State and more on the market mechanism. This textbook brings into focus the radical content of Keynesianism by concentrating on the common macroeconomic tradition of Marx, Kalecki and Keynes. It shows how Marx''s method of analysis in terms of ''historical categories'' naturally leads to an analysis of capitalist commodity production under the principle of effective demand.Table of ContentsPreface, 1 The Nature of Capitalistic Production, 2 The Principle of Effective Demand, 3 The Relation Between Prices and Money Wages,4 The Social Device of Money, 5 Trade and Financial Relations Among Nations, 6 The Instability of Commodity Production, 7 Capitalistic Accumulation: a Long Term View, 8 Economic Policy and the Theory of the State, References, Author Index, Subject Index
£42.99
Taylor & Francis Inc Reform in China
Book SynopsisThis work includes every Supreme Court case relevant to gender and sexual equality from 1787 to the end of the 1999/2000 term. It is a primary document reference book, organized in eight chapters, including civil and social rights and duties; morality and sexual ethics; and education policies.Table of ContentsPart I Reform; Chapter 1 Summary Report; Part II Achievements of Reform; Chapter 2 The Role of the Two-Tier Price System, Diao Xinshen; Chapter 3 The Present Management Environment in China's Industrial Enterprises, Zhang Shaojie, Zhang Amei; Chapter 4 The Public Response to Price Reform, Yang Guansan, Yang Xiaodong, Xuan Mingdong; Chapter 5 Enterprise Cadres and Reform, Yang Guansan, Lin Bin, Wang Hansheng, Wu Quhui; Part III Problems of Reform; Chapter 6 Consumption Expansion: A Grave Challenge to Reform and Development, Xia Xiaoxun, Li Jun; Chapter 7 Investment: Initial Changes in the Mechanism and Preliminary Ideas About Reform, Zhang Shaojie, Cui Heming, Xu Gang, Ji Xiaoming; Chapter 8 Management of Extrabudgetary Funds, Zhao Yujiang; Part IV Solutions; Chapter 9 From Iron Ricebowls to Labor Markets: Reforming the Social Security System, Huang Xiaojing, Yang Xiao; Chapter 10 Young People's Attitudes and Aspirations: Will They Welcome Reform?, Bai Nanfeng; Chapter 11 The Financial Two-Track System: Strengthen Credit and Open Up the Nonbank Market, Jiang Sidong, Xu Xiaopo;
£142.50
Taylor & Francis Inc Reorganization and Reform in the Soviet Economy
Book SynopsisRichly represented in the Russian folktale tradition, the legends in this work are religious tales in a peasant village setting. Among the standard themes is the return of Christ, who wanders through rural Russia with his disciples. Satan appears too, as do a cast of spirits and lesser devils.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Organizations and Hierarchies: The Perennial Search for Solutions, Gorbachev’s Reform Program: “Radical” or More of the Same?, Soviet Economic Reform: An Analysis and a Model, Hierarchical Reform in the Soviet Economy: The Case of Agriculture, Restructuring and “Radical Reform”: The Articulation of Investment Demand, Economic Reform and Industrial Performance in the Soviet Union: 1950–1984, The Impact of Soviet Economic Reform: Evidence from the Soviet Interview Project, About the Editors
£99.99
Taylor & Francis Inc Accumulation and Power
Book SynopsisAccumulation and Power analyses America's economic development across three great waves of economic expansion: the Grand Traverse 1850-1900, the New Era 1916-1929 and the Great Postwar Boom, 1945-1972. Drawing on the work of Keynes, Schumpeter, Marx it departs radically from the new economic history model, focusing instead on capitalist decision making and its social consequences. It argues that the accumulation process is far more important than competitive markets in explaining resource allocation and growth. This innovative book is essential reading for all students and scholars of American economic history.Table of Contents1. The Flow of Economic History: Accumulation, Monopolization, Competition2. Accumulation and the Changing Structure of Business, 1790–18603. The Grand Traverse of the American Economy, 1865–19004. The New Age of Monopolization, 1875–19025. Investment, Growth, and Instability: Oligopoly and the Pursuit of Prosperity, 1900–19296. Investment, Growth, and Instability: The Great Postwar Boom, 1945–19727. Investment, Growth, and Instability: Stagflation and the Corporate Counterattack, 1973–19888. Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment: The Road to Hegemony and Back, 1880–19889. Economic Growth in the Corporate Era: Trends, Triumphs, Paradoxes
£150.00
Taylor & Francis Inc Comparative Economic Systems v 2 Market and State in Economic Systems II
Book SynopsisComparative Economic Systems is published in three editions, one for each major part. This is Part II and covers Socialist Alternatives, looking at the Hungarian Economy, the structure and trends of the Chinese economy, the Yugoslav workers self-management, planning, agriculture and foreign tradeTable of ContentsFIGURES, TABLES, PREFACE, PART I MARKET AND STATE IN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS, PART II SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVES, PART III CAPITALIST ALTERNATIVES, INDEX
£31.36
Taylor & Francis Inc Gardiner C.Means Institutional and PostKeynesian Economics
Book SynopsisGardiner Means has a secure place in the history of 20th century economic thought, as the co-author with A.A.Berle of The Modern Corporation and Private Property. But according to Samuels and Medema, Means should be remembered for major contributions in both micro- and macroeconomics. The authors discuss Means''s ideas of administered pricing and profit maximization within the giant corporation, the possible links between industrial structure and macroeconomic performance, a theory of the firm as it relates to the market, and the micro foundations of macroeconomics. Central to Means''s macroeconomics is his theory that administered pricing generates inflation and stagflation. Means, in the authors'' view, was a seminal thinker and a post-Keynesian economist, as well as an institutionalist. This book also gives an precis of Means''s unusual career in government and the academy.Table of ContentsPreface, 1. Introduction, 1. Introduction and Objectives, 2. The Problem of Interpretation, 3. A Precis of Means's Career, 4. Means's General Perspective, 2. The Modern Corporation: Property and Power, 1. Introduction, 2. The Corporation, 3. Concentration and Size, 4. Dispersion of Stock Ownership, 5. Separation of Ownership and Control, a. The Meaning of Control, b. Profit Maximization, c. The Separation of Ownership and Control, 6. The Corporate System: The Economy as a System of Power, 7. The Changing Meaning of Private Property: Collectivized, 8. The Economy as a System of Power, 9. The Corporation as Private Government, 3. A New Microeconomics, 1. Administered Prices, 2. The Price Adjusnnent Process, 3. The Theory of the Firm in Relation to the Market, 4. The Macroeconomic Consequences of Administered Prices, 1. Introduction, 2. Administered Pricing and Inflation 3. Means in Relation to Keynes 4. Accounting for the Cost of Idle or Excess Capacity, 5. The Reception of Means's Work and the Relation of His Work to That of Others, 1. Introduction, 2. Means's Dissertation, 3. Facts, Paradigms, Ideology, and Discourse, 4. Already and Newly Established Fields, 5. Aspects of Filtration, 6. "A Man of One Idea", 7. Recollections of Early Perceptions, 8. The Status of Means's Work, a. A General Mosaic, b. Random Smveys of Several Fields within Economics, i. Keynes and Keynesian Economics, ii. Intermediate Microeconomics, iii. Intermediate Macroeconomics, iv. The Corporation and Corporate Power, 9. The Sociology of Academic Opportunity, 10. Means as an Outsider, 6. Gardiner C. Means in the History of Economic Thought: A Preliminary Assessment, Notes, References, Index, About the Authors
£110.00
Taylor & Francis Inc The Changing Face of Fiscal Federalism
Book SynopsisA remarkable change has occurred in how we finance the public enterprise, yet this change has gone largely unnoticed by the general public. Policy makers in the federal, state and local levels of government have had to respond to this change. The causes of the change, future policy directions, and the eventual impact on society of this change is the subject of this book. Six of the nation''s most influential economists, political scientists and sociologists have been asked to comment and their views can be found here.Table of ContentsSix Profiles of the Changing Face of Fiscal Federalism : An Overview, The Deregulation of the American Federal System: 1789-1989, Federalism and Urban Policy: The Intergovernmental Dialectic, Changing Federalism: Trends and Interstate Variations, State Finances in the New Era of Fiscal Federalism, Big City Finances in the New Era of Fiscal Federalism, The Economics of Fiscal Federalism and Its Reform, Index.
£42.99
Taylor & Francis Inc Opportunity Knocks
Book SynopsisPrimarily concerned with how the US government can outwit its former allies in the rush to exploit their former common enemy. Considers the US sluggishness in technological innovation, flaws in education and labor management, the dangers of free trade, and resource depletion. Annotation copyright BoTable of ContentsPart 1 How Can We Have Full Employment and Price Stability?; Chapter 1 Policy Revisited; Chapter 2 Questions; Chapter 3 Answers; Part 2 The Question of Political Competence: MITI and AIM; Chapter 4 MITI and the Instrumentality of Economic Reform; Chapter 5 AIM; Part 3 How Can We Regain Technological Preeminence and Accelerate the Rise of American Industrial Productivity?; Chapter 6 Losing the Race; Chapter 7 Some Elements of the System; Chapter 8 Decline of the American System; Chapter 9 Policies; Chapter 10 Crisis; Part 4 How Can We Achieve Balanced International Trade?; Chapter 11 The Benefits of Trade; Chapter 12 The Continuum of Imbalance; Chapter 13 Finding Balance; Chapter 14 The International Flight of Cash Balances; Part 5 Is There a Preferred Alternative to a World System of International Free Trade?; Chapter 15 Options and Choices; Chapter 16 Comparison and Contrast; Chapter 17 Policy Implications; Part 6 What Policy Can Confront the Depletion and Ultimate Exhaustion of a Critical Natural Resource?; Chapter 18 Perceptions; Chapter 19 Problems and Policies; Chapter 20 Survival;
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Megacorp and Macrodynamics
Book SynopsisThese essays on Post-Keynesian economics were written expressly for a volume to honour the life and work of Alfred Eichner. The original countributions - that critically examine and extend ideas in Eichner''s The Macrodynamics of Advanced Market Economies are organized in seven sections that correspond to areas of economics in which Eichner made a significant contribution. Part 1 deals with the megacorp, a theory of firm pricing and investment that was one of Eichner''s most important contributions. Issues of productivity and technical change, that lie at the center of Eichner''s macrodynamic model, are the focus of part 1 and parts 3 and 4 elaborate on Eichner''s work on growth and money and yield insights into the theoretical disagreements among the Post-Keynesians themselves. Part 5 presents a number of examples of non-neo-classical model building. Part 6 opens with a critique of the new economic history that leads to other essays on thorny methodological issues confronting Post-KeyTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Social Thought and Social Change'”Alfred Eichner's Vision of a New Economics, William Milberg; Part 1 The Megacorp; Chapter 2 The 'œMegacorp': Eichner's Contribution to the Theory of the Firm, Nina Shapiro; Chapter 3 Demand, Pricing, and Investment, Edward J. Nell; Chapter 4 Finance and the Growth of Corporations: A Flow-of-Funds Approach, Matthew V. Fung; Part 2 Productivity and Technical Change; Chapter 5 The Integration of Household Structure and Industrial Structure: An Extension of the Input-Output Model, Eileen Appelbaum; Chapter 6 An Evolutionary Model of Technical Change with Markup Pricing, E. Ray Canterbery; Chapter 7 Technical Change in the Corporate Economy: A Vertically Integrated Approach, William Milberg, Bruce Elmslie; Part 3 Macrodynamics; Chapter 8 The Integration of Micro and Macroeconomics through Macrodynamic Megacorps, J.A. Kregel; Chapter 9 The Real Wage and Growth Trade-off in Post Keynesian Economics, Brian de Uriarte; Part 4 Money; Chapter 10 Macrodynamics, the Flow of Funds, and the Monetary-Financial System, Andrea Terzi; Chapter 11 The Macroeconomics of the Megacorp's Determination of the Markup, Johan Deprez; Chapter 12 Eichner's Approach to Money and Macrodynamics, Paul Davidson; Part 5 Modeling the Post-Keynesian Alternative; Chapter 13 An Outline of a Short-period Post Keynesian Model for the Brazilian Economy, Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho, Luiz Chrysostomo de Oliveira Filho; Chapter 14 Export-led Growth: A New Interpretation, John Cornwall, Wendy Cornwall; Chapter 15 Competing Microeconomic Theories of Industrial Profits: An Empirical Approach, Eduardo M. Ochoa, Mark Glick; Part 6 Methodology; Chapter 16 Toward a New Macroeconomic History, Richard B. Du Boff; Chapter 17 Alfred Eichner and the Revival of Empirical Economics, Fritz W. Efaw; Chapter 18 The Pervasive Proposition, 'œWhat Is, Is and Ought to Be': A Critique, Warren J. Samuels; Part 7 European Perspectives; Chapter 19 Economic Policies in a Post-Keynesian World, Philip Arestis; Chapter 20 At the Source of Alfred Eichner's Post-Keynesian Economics: A Personal Note, Luigi L. Pasinetti;
£42.99
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Successful PublicPrivate Partnerships From
Book SynopsisExamines the obstacles and opportunities inherent in public private partnerships (PPPs), as well as provide a toolkit of best practices and lessons learned for the creation of effective PPPs. The material in this book is applicable to a wide range of communities, and is designed to help members of the public and private sectors understand each others' needs, expectations, and resources.
£17.95
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Professional Real Estate Development The Uli
Book SynopsisThis basic primer covers the nuts and bolts of developing all types of real estate, including multifamily, office, retail, and industrial projects. Thoroughly updated, this new edition includes numerous case studies of actual projects as well as small-scale examples that are ideal for anyone new to real estate development.
£89.10
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Building Small A Toolkit for Real Estate
Book SynopsisDrawing on research and using case studies, interviews with over 100 developers, and first-hand knowledge, Jim Heid articulates what small-scale development means, why it is essential to communities, and how entrepreneurial developers and community leaders can help remove obstacles to small-delivering successful projects.
£39.96
HRD Press Inc.,U.S. The Mentees Guide to Mentoring
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£13.12
Harvard Business Review Press Levers of Control
Book SynopsisBased on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies three new control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems that communicate core values and provide inspiration and direction, boundary systems that frame the strategic domain and define the limits of freedom, and interactive systems that provide flexibility in adapting to competitive environments and encourage organizational learning. These four control systems, according to Simons, will provide managers with the basic levers for pursuing strategic objectives.
£26.59
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Hard Problems of Management
Book SynopsisOffers managers new tools to deal with the tough problems businesses face today. Reveals how analyzing the ethical dimensions of problems actually offers competitive advantages. Offers illustrative case examples from internally recognized companies showing that high ethics and high profits go hand in hand--and identifies the factors responsible for these companies' success.Table of ContentsPart One: The Ethical Core of Hard Problems 1. The Competitive Advantage of Ethics-Based Thinking 2. Uncovering and Taking Control of Organizational GroundRules Part Two: Tackling Hard Problems 3. Breaking the Gridlock of Competing Interests 4. Knowing Who Really Counts in Difficult Decisions 5. Why Managing for the Long Run Is the Wrong Strategy 6. Resolving Conflicts Between Business Ethics and PublicAffairs 7. Why Organizations Should Have Weak Cultures and StrongEthics 8. Make-or-Break Factors in Organizational Success: Purpose,Responsibility, Creativity Part Three: Managing Ahead of the Curve Confronting New Threats to Business The Thinking Manager's Toolbox Lessons from High-Profit, High Ethics Companies: An AgAnda forManagerial Action
£23.24
Berklee Press Publications Music Marketing Press Promotion Distribution and
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Berklee Press Publications The New Music Therapists Handbook 3rd Edition
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Taylor & Francis Inc Morals and Markets
Book SynopsisThe complex relations between money, human life, and death form the central themes of Morals and Markets. The process of monetarizing life remains a perplexing phenomenon. With lively detail Zelizer chronicles the fascinating development in the second half of the nineteenth century of the life insurance industry in the United States--one of the most unusual tales in the history of American business. This book portrays the controversial origins of the life insurance industry, which was once widely condemned and denounced by newspapers and religious leaders as sacrilegious and immoral.
£25.99
The Peterson Institute for International Economics Launching New Global Trade Talks An Action Agenda
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£16.14
Workman Publishing Growing Your Herb Business
Book SynopsisTurn your love of herbs into a profitable business. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience running an herb and spice shop, Bertha Reppert helps you successfully develop and market your own herbal products. Showing you how to determine a start-up budget, find niche markets, create unique packaging, track inventory, and organize business-boosting special events, Reppert also includes a series of inspiring profiles of professional herbalists. Transform your passion into a profession and get ready to open up shop!
£13.29
Workman Publishing Successful SmallScale Farming
Book SynopsisInstructs the beginning farmer in evaluating and preserving the soil, acquiring and maintaining machinery, and raising a successful crop through sound farming practices.
£14.86
Taylor & Francis Mount Laurel II
Book SynopsisMount Laurel II is a historic state supreme court decision which mandates that all new residential development include housing for low- and moder ate-income families.This study provides a rational approach to low-cost housing. Methods for defining housing market areas are given, as well as demand and supply projection techniques. Housing cost reduction alternatives and allocation approaches are detailed.It elaborates step-by-step methodologies with operational baselines, data framework, and alternative approaches.â The Potential of Zoning and Subdivision Controlsâ What Housing is Affordable - And by Whomâ Fair Share Allocation ProceduresTable of ContentsIntroduction and Organa nation, Summary of Findings, 1 The Definition of a Housing Region 2 Definition of the Mount Laurel Population: Present and Prospective Housing Demand 3 Socioeconomic and Housing Characteristics of the Present and Prospective Mount-Laurel Eligible Populations 4 Present and Prospective Mount Laurel Supply 5 Demand versus Supply- Unmet Mount Laurel Housing Need 6 Bridge Mechanisms to meet the Mount Laurel Mandate 7 An Introduction to the Fair Share Concept?
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Taylor & Francis Economic Growth and Fiscal Planning in New York
Book SynopsisIn an era of federal deficits and struggling municipalities, states have emerged as the most significant governmental actors. But state governments face the major challenge of fiscal planning in the midst of economic change. Roy Bahl and William Duncombe tackle this challenge head-on. Using New York as a case study, they identify looming dangers for state revenue and expenditure planning.Bahl and Duncombe begin with the premise that one cannot separate an evaluation of fiscal performance from an evaluation of economic performance. Accordingly, they describe and analyze the patterns of population, employment, and personal income growth. Following this is a study of state and local government finances in New York since 1970 and a recounting of the fiscal adjustments that were taken in the face of slower and then faster growth in the economy.The authors conclude that based on current conditions, the state and its local governments are in for fiscal belt-tightening. They note that the statTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: New York’s Economy in the 1980s; 1: Population; 2: Employment; 3: Personal Income; 2: New York’s Fiscal Performance and Health; 4: The Public Sector in New York in the 1980s; 5: Explaining Government Growth in New York; 6: Fiscal Health and Responsiveness; 3: New York’s Finances in the 1990s; 7: Violence in the Home; 8: Conclusions
£99.99
Taylor & Francis Inc The Professionalization of Economics Alfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy Classics in Economics Paperback
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on how and why, early in the twentieth century, one set of economic ideas came to exert a preeminence, which has persisted to this day.Table of ContentsContents, 1 Economics in the 1870s, 2 Marshall’s objectives and Marshallian orthodoxy, 3 John Neville Keynes, a reluctant lieutenant, 4 Cannan and Nicholson, 5 Cunningham and historicism, 6 Two economic outsiders: Macleod and Crozier, 7 Hobson’s choice, Orthodox welfare economics, 9 Economists and ethics, 10 The ideology of marginalism, 11 The Marshallians and the Pigouese, Biographical notes, Notes, Select bibliography, Index
£42.99
Taylor & Francis Inc The Safety of Elderly Drivers Yesterdays Young in Todays Traffic
Book SynopsisBy the turn of the century, the elderly will comprise about 20 percent of the population in North America, and 28 percent of those who drive. Place this percentage in high-powered automobiles, and the need for planning and policy development becomes evident. Most standard research on elderly drivers has not gone beyond gathering data on specific situations or characteristics. This book rises beyond simple statistical presentation. It blends sociological insight with statistical detail to produce an absorbing description of the elderly drivers'' daily lives, driving styles, experiences with accident and injury, social relationships, and life aspirations. It also describes areas of neglect: imagined and real health problems, driving exposure and traffic violations, accidents, and loss of self-esteem. It presents in-depth accounts of the trauma of loss of license and the importance of the automobile for sustaining mental, physical, and social well-being. The self-imposed or self-defined rTable of ContentsList of Tables, List of Figures, Foreword Joseph Gusfield, Preface, Acknowledgments, Growing Older, The Elderly Under the Conceptual Microscope, (Written by B. de Vries, with the assistance of J. Thornton), Other Writers on Elderly Drivers, The Research Schemata, Different Ages, Different Risks: The Realm of Accident Statistics (Written by P.J. Cooper), Trends, Factors and Patterns, Face-to-Face, Victims of Serious Crashes, Windows of Change: Transitions, Predictions, and Eventualities (Written by B. de Vries), Recommendations, APPENDIXES, Appendix to Chapter 2:, Tables A-l to A-5, Appendix to Chapter 6: Interview Survey Tables B-l to B-48, Appendix to Chapter 7: Focus Group Discussions, Discussion Guide, Tables C-l to C-25, Appendix to Chapter 8: Victims of Serious Crashes, Index
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Taylor & Francis The Modern Corporation and Private Property
Book SynopsisThis monumental work on the corporation is one of those enduring classics that many cite but few have read. Graced with a new introduction by Weidenbaum and Jensen, this new edition makes this classic available to a new generation. Written in the early 1930s, The Modern Corporation and Private Property remains the fundamental introduction to the internal organization of the corporation in modern society. Combining the analytical skills of an attorney with those of an economist, Berle and Means raise the central questions, even when their answers have been superseded by changing circumstances.The book's most enduring theme is the separation of ownership from control of the modern corporation and its consequences. Berle and Means display keen awareness of the divergent interests of directors and managers, and of each from owners of the firm. Among their predictions are the characteristic increase in size of the modem corporation and concentration of the economy. The auTable of ContentsBOOK I Property in Flux: Separation of the attributes of ownership under the corporate system BOOK II Regrouping o f Rights: Relative legal position of ownership “ control” BOOK III Property in the Stock Markets: Security exchanges as appraisers and liquidators BOOK IV Reorientation of Enterprise: Effects of the corporate system on fundamental economic concepts
£43.99
Ibis Press Exploring the Financial Universe The Role of the
Book SynopsisThe role of the sun, planets and stars and their influence on global markets is intriguing to traders and investors alike. Christeen Skinner''s research shows very definite links between major stock market movements and the position of the planets. This book will be of interest to those with little understanding of astrology as well as those well-versed in the subject. The work includes charts, graphs and horoscopes and explanations of some of the techniques used for astro-financial forecasting.In EXPLORING THE FINANCIAL UNIVERSE, Skinner covers solar rhythms and the intricacies of commodity, property and currency price movements with planet cycles. The role of the planets in mastering the relationship between time and price is considered. There is a chapter on the natal horoscope and financial rhythms set from birth. The book concludes with forecasts for 2017-2024.Chapters include:Stock market crashes of the 20th centuryCurrencies and major planetary configurationsCommodity price move
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The University of Michigan Press Salt and State
Book SynopsisThe role salt played in the politics of Song China, as told through a unique contemporary narrative, translated into English for the first time
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Maney Publishing Advances in Physical Metallurgy A Collection of Invited Papers Presented to Mark the 70th Birthday Year of Professor Sir Alan Cottrell Matsci
Book SynopsisA collection of invited papers presented to mark the 70th birthday of Professor Sir Alan Cottrell. Contents: dislocations and cracks; theory of the yield point and of strain ageing in steel; ductile and brittle failure in steel/pressure vessel assessments; dislocation reactions; the nature of grain boundaries in ordered alloys; radiation damage and point defects; ''the metallic state revisited''; microstructural characterisation of defects and mechanisms; creep and creep fracture; fibre reinforcement at the metallurgy laboratory at Cambridge 1958-67; strengths of grain boundaries in pure metals.
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Resistance Books Introduction to Marxist Theory
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Taylor & Francis The New Crusaders
Book SynopsisShould corporations seek to alleviate social inequalities? Or should they, rather, aim solely for profit maximization? Most social thinkers writing on the topic of corporate social responsibility have assumed that the question has been settled, that indeed, corporations ought to act as mere trustees for society's wealth because they exist at the pleasure of society, and so should do its bidding.Table of ContentsI. INTRODUCTION, II. THE ATTACK ON CORPORATE FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY, III. A THEORY OF CORPORATE FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY, IV. SOUTH AFRICA, V. PLANT CLOSINGS, VI. EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES, VII. POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, VIII. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, IX. CONCLUSION
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Liberty Fund Inc Theory of Money Credit
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Taylor & Francis Inc Zero Quality Control Source Inspection and the
Book SynopsisA combination of source inspection and mistake-proofing devices is the only method to get you to zero defects. Shigeo Shingo shows you how this proven system for reducing errors turns out the highest quality products in the shortest period of time. Shingo provides 112 specific examples of poka-yoke development devices on the shop floor, most of them costing less than $100 to implement. He also discusses inspection systems, quality control circles, and the function of management with regard to inspection.Table of Contents1. Inspections and the Structure of Production 2. Management Functions and Quality Control 3. Inspections Don't Reduce Defects 4. Approaching the Zero QC Method 5. More on Inspection Systems 6. Using Poka-yoke Systems 7. Examples of Poka-yoke Systems 8. Quality Control and QC Circles
£105.00
Harvard University Press Odessa
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Black Rose Books Bureaucracy and Community
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Luath Press Ltd Crofting Years
Book SynopsisIn its short lifetime of 100 years, the crofting system of landholding has had profound effects upon Scotland. In this book, the author presents vivid descriptions of crofting life, past and present, in a deeply-researched social history.Trade Review.
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Newcastle Libraries & Information Service Namedropper
Book SynopsisAn unorthodox autobiography detailing a 50 year career in the music, entertainment and film industry.Trade ReviewA few years ago I was at a North East Film Festival of which I'm the patron. We discussed a post-screening interview with a visiting guest."Who will moderate?" I asked, and was told - Chris Phipps. ;I then asked who Chris Phipps was and was told - "Oh, he's very good." They were right, Chris is not just a very good moderator, he is exceptional, as was proved again this year when he chaired a discussion with myself, my partner Dick Clement and director David Batty following a showing of our latest film My Generation. ;He's exceptional, not just because he does his homework, which is easier these days if you plunder Wikipedia, but because he cares so much about his subject, especially if it involves film or music. ;Those twin passions are certainly the glue that fortifies our friendship. We usually end up after a couple of drinks in intense discussions, especially involving music trivia. I won't try to compete with Chris on this, he's just too clued in. ;Yes, I could name the first Kinks' single but Chris could name every track on their debut album. Yes, I know the Proclaimers were the Scottish Everly Brothers but he probably knows where their births are registered. After all he was a producer of the seminal, coolest of cool rock shows The Tube. Apart from that show he has always had a great respect and affection for North Eastern culture and heritage.; A true Northern soul - it always surprises me that he has a Brummie accent. ;Chris's book is suffused with his customary wit, wisdom and humour. ;And if Chris Phipps is dropping names, these are names really worth dropping. ;Ian La Frenais
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Cotswold Archaeological Trust Ltd Later Prehistoric and RomanoBritish Burial and Settlement at HucclecoteGloucestershire
Book SynopsisThis title provides the results of archaeological excavations on Bronze Age cremations, a BronzeAge/Iron Age settlement, a Roman settlement and a cemetery close to Ermin Street.
£16.37
Triarchy Press Management Flaws
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of more than 80 of business guru, Russell Ackoff's management f-laws: the uncomfortable truths about how organizations really work, what's wrong with the way we design and manage businesses, what makes managers tick... and how we can make things work better.Trade Review"Reading Russell Ackoff's slim new volume, Management f-Laws (with Herbert Addison and Sally Bibb, Triarchy Press), is like being pricked by a series of delayed electric shocks. At first glance and on their own, the book's 81 short aphorisms, paradoxes and put-downs seems nothing special. The first shock comes as the implication sinks in, followed by a chain-reaction of secondary ones as the first implication interacts with subsequent ones, until shocks are going off all over and you are left in no doubt that you are in the presence of one of the profoundest and wittiest brains ever to engage with the bizarre human activity called management." Simon Caulkin ~ The Observer "If you ever need a reality check after stumbling out of some appalling management meeting, or just need cheering up on a long business trip, this is the book for you. Just about every myth or pompous delusion about management gets punctured in the course of 160 feisty pages." Stefan Stern ~ The Daily Telegraph Skim it, if you like, and raise the odd wry smile of rueful recognition. Or undergo a self-examination course. Take each f-Law in turn and ask yourself how it applies to you, to your role in the organisation and to your organisation as a whole. Do it seriously and you might learn a lot. But the book might be best used as the basis for a serious conversation with colleagues. There is truth at the heart of all the laws, and it will be best dragged out in discussion, perhaps as one f-Law at a time. Every meeting, someone has suggested, could start with a short f-Law meditation - or might that be too American?
£20.00
Triarchy Press Systems Thinking in the Public Sector
Book Synopsis..".an extraordinary insight into why, at the end of each month, millions of us are left wondering where on earth all the money taken from us in tax has gone. The argument compellingly made by John Seddon is that the Government has designed failure into almost everything it does on our behalf." Philip Johnston, Daily TelegraphTrade Review"Systems Thinking in the Public Sector ... is an extraordinary insight into why, at the end of each month, millions of us are left wondering where on earth all the money taken from us in tax has gone." "The argument compellingly made in this book by John Seddon is that the Government has designed failure into almost everything it does on our behalf. It has not done so deliberately; but it is culpable because it has failed to listen to people who know better how to run services on behalf of the customer rather than the producer."Philip Johnston, Daily Telegraph "It's time to face up to the unpalatable truth - Labour's public-service reforms have failed. Determined to liberate public services from producer interests, the government itself has turned into the oppressor. It is now locked into a nightmare cycle in which each round of reforms makes things worse, justifying further reforms which founder in their turn because (you've heard this before) in attempting to do the wrong things righter, they actually become wronger.;Do quotas and targets enforced by a regulatory bureaucracy remind you of anything? Yes: they're called central planning and don't work any better in UK local government offices and police stations than in Soviet tractor factories. One of the strengths of Seddon's diagnosis is that, as a consultant, he has seen almost every public service from the inside. From trading standards to planning and housing repairs, all exhibit the same dysfunction, being forced to conform to a work design that starts from the wrong end - the requirements of government rather than those of the citizen. The design fills the system with error and waste, driving quality and effective capacity down and cost up."Simon Caulkin, The Observer
£20.00
Troubador Publishing The Complete It Recruitment Survival Guide
Book SynopsisAyub Shaikh is a renowned trainer, famous for having brought credibility, confidence and industry knowledge to over 5,000 IT recruitment consultants, HR professionals and resourcers through his training courses around the world. In the past Ayub himself was an accomplished IT recruiter in the financial heart of London and is now a mentor to some of the world's largest IT recruitment consultancies. His company Holistica Consulting is the world's only training company dedicated purely to teaching IT recruiters and resourcers all they need to know about the various IT vertical markets such as SAP, JAVA, C#, and Telecoms. Without doubt there is nobody more suited to writing the world's first 'survival guide' for the IT Recruitment industry. Each chapter is written with recruitment relevance in mind, and includes Interview questions and further techniques to help match candidates to jobs. This is a hugely significant work for the IT recruitment industry, but do not be daunted (those of you who are squeamish about IT jargon and terminology).Those who have attended Ayub's training will immediately relate to the uniquely simple, passionate and even humorous ways in which he puts across very complex IT concepts and principals. And his now famous easy-to-understand teaching style continues into this ground breaking book. IT knowledge is delivered in a reassuring and relaxed way; and the stories, trivia, and anecdotes flow throughout. This is an instruction manual like no other. With The Complete IT Recruitment Survival Guide you have a constant, easy-to-understand yet knowledgeable companion as you tackle the murky waters of the world of IT recruitment.
£28.45
Prophecy Publishing The BIG and Easy Guide to Take a Bright Idea from
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£999.99
The Marketing Directors Ltd The Marketing Directors Handbook The Definitive
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£44.99
The Marketing Directors Ltd The Marketing Directors Handbook Volumes 1 and 2
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£49.49
SB Publishing Service Automation Robots and the Future of Work
Book SynopsisThis book captures a year's worth of learning about service automation based on a survey, in-depth client case studies, and interviews with service automation clients, providers, and advisors. It gives a balanced, informed and compelling view on gaining the many benefits, as well as managing the downsides, of present and future technologies.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: Service Automation: The Bigger Picture | CHAPTER 2: What Is Robotic Process Automation? | CHAPTER 3: Robotic Process Automation at Telefonica O2 | CHAPTER 4: Robotic Process Automation at Xchanging | CHAPTER 5: Mature RPA Capabilities in the Energy Sector | CHAPTER 6: The IT Function & Robotic Process Automation | CHAPTER 7: In Their Own Words: Client Responses | CHAPTER 8: In Their Own Words: Provider Responses | CHAPTER 9: In Their Own Words: Advisor Responses | CHAPTER 10: Lessons and the Future of Automation and Work
£19.00
