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The great divestiture

evaluating the welfare impact of thr British Privatizations 1979-1997

The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatization of state industries in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Massimo Florio's systematic analysis is the first ...

India's emerging economy

performance and prospects in the 1990s and beyond

India's economy over the last decade looks in many ways like a success story; after a major economic crisis in 1991, followed by bold reform measures, the economy has experienced a rapid economic growth rate, more foreign investment, and a boom in the information ...

Innovation policy and the economy

Vol. 4

Eds. Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, Scott Stern The rapid pace of technological change brings with it an active debate about appropriate economic policies regarding research, innovation, and the commercialization of new technology. This annual series, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, provides ...

Public policy and the economics of entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief that it invigorates the economy -- producing greater productivity, more jobs, and higher economic growth. President George W. Bush promoted his economic plan by pointing to its encouragement of ...

The economics of knowledge

A practical, step-by-step reference guide for improving your customer service through the nine rules of great service. Customer service is about much more than just serving customers. But what exactly is good customer service, and how do you go about delivering it? Designed to help ...

Managing European Union enlargement

In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become members. The number of new members and their diversity make this "big bang" enlargement particularly challenging ...

Mesuring the tax burden on capital and labor

Today's highly complicated tax codes have led economists and policy makers depend on simplified summary measures in order to understand how taxes affect the economy. Studies of the effective tax rate--that is, a measurement of the net amount of tax levied on certain economic ...

European monetary integration

The success of European monetary integration -- called by the editors of this CESifo volume "one of the most far-reaching, real world experiments in monetary policy to date" -- is not assured. Policy makers have been forced to deal with challenges posed by formulating a uniform monetary ...

La filosofía del Derecho

La mayoría de las obras que llevan por título “Filosofía del Derecho” tienen en común el ofrecernos un punto de vista muy general sobre el Derecho, designando así una reflexión sistemática sobre la definición del Derecho, su relación con la Justicia, la Ciencia del Derecho ...

Juicios y mentiras

crónica de la crisis del proceso penal estadounidense

El establishment jurídico y la maquinaria mediática estadounidense sostienen sin rubor en los más diversos foros ante el mundo entero –no solo en conversaciones informales y en las películas de Hollywood, sino también por escrito en la pluma de destacados académicos y representantes políticos- su ...

The Euro and its Central Bank

getting united after the nion

This history and analysis of the euro and the European Central Bank traces the process of European monetary integration from its beginnings as a utopian vision in the aftermath of World War II through the establishment of a single currency managed by a central bank ...

Introduction to the economics and mathematics of financial markets

Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets fills the longstanding need for an accessible yet serious textbook treatment of financial economics. The book provides a rigorous overview of the subject, while its flexible presentation makes it suitable for use with different levels of ...

From airline reservations to sonic the hedgehog

a history of the software industry

From its first glimmerings in the 1950s, the software industry has evolved to become the fourth largest industrial sector of the US economy. Starting with a handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry grew to include producers ...

Lives of the laureates

eighteen Nobel Economists

Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by eighteen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic ideas of our time but also shed light ...

La nueva Ley General Tributaria

(Ley 58/2003, de 17 de diciembre)

La era de las marcas depredadoras

R.Homs vaticina el entorno competitivo en el cual se desenvolverán las marcas tanto en el corto como en el mediano y largo plazos.Además, en esta obra, se desarrolla uno de los planteamientos más importantes del márketing "La teoría de las compensaciones", mediante la ...

Liderazgo emocionalmente inteligente

recursos y estrategias para formar líderes emocionalmente inteligentes

La cualidad principal de un líder es su espíritu creativo que logra contagiar sus emociones a un equipo humano...lo que le permite sobresalir y conducir a ese determinado grupo a base de su ejemplo y del convencimiento. Un empresario que es capaz de motivar ...

Free trade in the Bermuda Triangle

...and other tales of counterglobalization

An alternative approach to mapping the world offers a new way to contest capitalism and globalization. Shangri-La, the Bermuda Triangle, Transylvania, the Golden Triangle#far- flung in popular conception, these anomalous places nonetheless occupy the same mysterious zone, a mythography of unruly cartographic practices. And ...

Trading chaos

maximize profits with proven technical techniques

CHAPTER 1: The Market Is What You Think It Is. CHAPTER 2: Chaos Theory. CHAPTER 3: Defining Your Underlying Structure#and How That Affects Winning and Losing. CHAPTER 4: Gearing Up for Trading. CHAPTER 5: What Type of Trader Are You? CHAPTER 6: Super-Natural Trade ...

Financial modeling using Excel and VBA

Provides information for creating financial models and shows how to use basic information in practice. This book offers a blend of theory and practice by discussing financial modelling, from statements and the time value of money problems, to the measuring and comparing of returns on ...