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Chain of blame

how Wall Street caused the mortgage and credit crisis

This is an updated and revised look at the truth behind America's housing and mortgage bubbles. In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average, fifty lenders a month were going bust-and the people ...

L'Etat actionnaire

Préface de Didier Truchet. L'Etat actionnaire n'appartient pas encore au passé. Paradoxalement, c'est dans un contexte de réduction du secteur public que le sujet a connu, ces dernières années, un véritable renouveau. Cette étude s'attache à apprécier dans quelle mesure les ...

Quantitative Methods for business, management and finance

Quantitative Methods is a comprehensive guide to the techniques any student of business or finance is likely to need. The authors' coaching, learning-by-doing approach coupled with the text's clear structural outline makes these essential mathematical skills far less daunting.

Offshoring in the global economy

microeconomic structure and macroeconomic implications

In the early 1990s, trade and labor economists, noting the fall in wages for low-skilled workers relative to high-skilled workers, began to debate the impact of trade on wages. This debate--which led to a sometimes heated exchange on the role of trade versus the role ...

Selling your business for more

maximizing returns for you, your family, and the business

Selling Your Business for More is a holistic and values based approach to selling your family business that gives the family business owner a unique personal and professional perspective of the sales cycle. It focuses on the entire process of selling - before, during and after ...

Innovation management

strategy and implementation using the pentathlon framework

Managing innovation is a challenge in any organization and demands a wide range of skills. How can you judge whether your department or company is as innovative as it could be? And if it isn't, what can you do and where do you start ...

La contratación del mantenimiento industrial

procesos de externalización, contratos y empresas de mantenimiento

Prol. Asociación Española de Mantenimiento. El mantenimiento contratado supone entre el 40 y el 50 por ciento de la actividad de mantenimiento en países industrializados. Este libro repasa las razones que llevan a las empresas a poner un aspecto tan estratégico como el mantenimiento de ...

Introduction to quantitative finance

a math tool kit

This text offers an accessible yet rigorous development of many of the fields of mathematics necessary for success in investment and quantitative finance, covering topics applicable to portfolio theory, investment banking, option pricing, investment, and insurance risk management. The approach emphasizes the mathematical framework provided ...

Cornered

the new monopoly capitalism and the economics of destruction

Regular "Harper"'s and "Financial Times" contributor Barry C. Lynn paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector ...

The big short

inside the Doomsday machine

Truth really is stranger than fiction. Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker to explain how the event we were told was impossible - the free fall of the American economy - finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously ...

SuperCycles

the new economic force transforming global markets and investment strategy

A brilliantly original assessment of what caused the global crash - and a practical plan for investing accordingly "Supercycles", according to international economist and strategist, Arun Motianey, are the continuous, long waves of boom and bust that undulate through the global economic and financial systems. More ...

Jimmy Stewart is dead

ending the world's ongoing financial plague with limited purpose banking

Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs. Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, the trustworthy, honest banker in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life", is ...

Spezielles Gesellschaftsrecht für börsennotierte Aktiengesellschaften in den EG-Mitgliedstaaten

Auf der Grundlage einer rechtsvergleichenden Untersuchung der Gesellschaftsrechtsordnungen der wirtschaftlich wichtigsten EG- Mitgliedstaaten Frankreich, Großbritannien und Deutschland beschäftigt sich die vorliegende Arbeit mit der Frage, inwiefern "spezielles Gesellschaftsrecht für börsennotierte Aktiengesellschaften in den EG- Mitgliedstaaten" geschaffen worden ist und was die sinnvollen Inhalte eines derartigen ...

International perspectives on the goals of university basic and secondary education

Edited by Joel E. Cohen and Martin B. Malin. Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non- profit organizations, little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education ...

Introducción a la sabiduría; El Sabio

En unas seiscientas máximas morales nos ofrece el humanista Juan Luis Vives una visión de conjunto de su "filosofía", que es ante todo una ética, cuyos fundamentos están en la filosofía griega, especialmente en Aristóteles y la ética estoica, y en el pensamiento cristiano. El ...

Strategic risk management practice

how to deal effectively with major corporate exposures

At a time when corporate scandals and major financial failures dominate newspaper headlines, the importance of good risk management practices has never been more obvious. The absence or mismanagement of such practices can have devastating effects on exposed organizations and the wider economy (Barings Bank ...

The Great Brain race

how global universities are reshaping the world

In "The Great Brain Race", former "U.S. News & World Report" education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education - and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every ...

Minds maps for business

revolutionise your business thinking and practice

Tony Buzan knows more than a little about Mind Maps after all, he did invent them! Often referred to as the the Swiss-army knife for the brain', Mind Maps are a ground-breaking, note-taking and mind-organising technique that has already revolutionised the lives of many millions ...

Fixed income finance

a quantitative approach

This title offers the fundamentals of finance for advanced mathematical minds. Written by authors at the top of their respective fields, "Fixed Income Finance" is a thorough introduction to the concepts, formulas, methodologies and applications that are critical to pursuing a career in fixed income ...

La conciliación en el ámbito laboral

nueva regulación conforme a la Ley 13/2009 de reforma de la legislación procesal para la implantación de la nueva Oficina Judicial

La presente obra analiza la conciliación procesal en el ámbito del proceso laboral, como una institución llamada a resolver las cuestiones jurídicas en clave de alternancia a la intervención judicial. Y novedosamente, su prácica se atribuye como competencia propia al Secretario Judicial, solución que se ...