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The rise and fall of an economic empire

with lessons for aspiring economies

While many authors have documented empires maintained through military strength, power derived solely from economic might is a more modern phenomenon. These different sources of power share one important characteristic, though. There is an inevitability to the decline of empires that rest on either foundation ...

The ventura capital investment process

The book provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the internal and external challenges of processing venture capital deals from the fund manager's perspective. It provides a nine-step process model that breaks down each part of the deal into its own specific challenges ...

Crisis and recovery

ethics economics and justice

The financial crisis is about more than money. It is also about morality, casting an uncomfortable light on the links between the activities of bankers and the wellbeing of society as a whole. The idea that economics is morally neutral or that finance should be ...

Family business as paradox

Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and over time, perhaps, synthesize these contradictions, the Family Enterprise will have a long-term strategic and competitive advantage and the family will remain committed ...

The future of decision making

how revolutionary software can improve the ability to decide

We now possess the capability to make great business decisions in even the most difficult or ambiguous of situations with the use of today's advanced software capability. The authors, who are experts in cognitive science, software, and practical decision-making, explain the new science of ...

Political obligation

Do we have any obligations to our political society? If so, how should they be understood and explained? Political philosophers since Socrates have grappled with these questions, and have reached a diverse range of conclusions. Following on from the success of the first edition, this ...

See no Evil

uncovering the truth behind the financial crisis

We are doomed to experience further financial crises in the future, because money is powerful, bankers clever, political will malleable, and memories short. So argues Erik Banks in this brilliant book, which tells the story of the recent global economic crisis in the words of ...

What environmentalists need to know about economics

KEY TITLE Economic insights are essential to understanding the root causes of environmental problems and the policy options for how to change behavior at the individual, community, national, and international levels. What Environmentalists Need to Know about Economics Provides a conceptual set of tools for ...

The legacy of punishment in international Law

This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.

Ethics, Law and military operations

Ed. David Whetham. Public anger at perceived ethical and legal failures in recent wars has reinforced the importance of understanding military ethics. Ethics, Law and Military Operations is one of the first texts to examine both the ethical and the legal considerations of contemporary military ...

Operations rules

delivering customer value through flexible operations

In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategies as just-in-time, lean manufacturing, offshoring, and frequent deliveries to retail outlets. But today, these much-touted strategies may be risky. Global financial turmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in the ...

Revisiting Keynes

Eds. Lorenzo Pecchi, Gustavo Piga. In 1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes published a short essay, Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, in his collection Essays in Persuasion. In the essay, he expressed optimism for the economic future despite the doldrums of the post-World War I ...

Minimum wages

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009. Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increased the minimum wage and its coverage at irregular intervals ever since; in addition ...

Happiness

a revolution in economics

Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however, has the potential to change economics substantially. Its findings, which are gradually being ...

The Comingled Code

open source and economic development

Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open ...

Product variety and the gains from international trade

The application of the monopolistic competition model to international trade by Elhanan Helpman, Paul Krugman, and Kelvin Lancaster was one of the great achievements of international trade theory in the 1970s and 1980s. Monopolistic competition models have required new empirical methods to implement their theoretical ...

Macroeconomic essentials

understanding economics in the news

This introductory text offers an alternative to the encyclopedic, technically oriented approach taken by traditional textbooks on macroeconomic principles. Concise and nontechnical but rigorous, its goal is not to teach students to shift curves on diagrams but to help them understand fundamental macroeconomic concepts and ...

The indirect side of direct investment

multinational company finance and taxation

The recent increase in cross-border flows of foreign direct investment has sharpened the research focus on multinational taxation. In this book, taxation experts Jack Mintz and Alfons Weichenrieder examine how multinational corporations use indirect financing structures--organizing themselves into groups with several tiers of ownership--to reduce ...

Knowledge and environmental policy

re-imagining the boundaries of science and politics

During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The Obama administration has pledged to restore science to the policy making process. And yet, as the ...

Constitutional theocracy

At the intersection of two sweeping global trends - the rise of popular support for principles of theocratic governance and the spread of constitutionalism and judicial review - a new legal order has emerged: constitutional theocracy. It enshrines religion and its interlocutors as 'a' or 'the' source ...