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Charting corporate corruption

agency, structure and escalation

In the post-Enron era, corporate corruption is increasingly on the research agenda. This informative book provides a novel approach by charting the causes of corruption. It demonstrates how agency (decisions and choices of individuals) and structure (the contextual pressures in the business environment) can interact ...

The golden constant

the english and american experience 1560-2007

"The Golden Constant" is a unique examination of how gold's purchasing power has remained consistent over the centuries. First published in 1977, this new edition has additional material to bring it up to date. The book is the only in-depth examination of how the ...

Electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945

Martin Chick's book is a major economic and historical study of the development of electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. Using newly available archival material the author draws important comparisons between these countries and includes all of ...

Megacommunities

how leaders of government, business and non-profits can tackle today's global challenges together

Auts. Mark Gerencser...[et.al]. This is a groundbreaking book for leaders, showing how different sectors of society can work together toward mutual goals. Megacommunities, different sectors working together in a globalized way, are the future of the economy. This book offers a plan for ...

The second automobile revolution

trajectories of the world carmakers in the 21st century

Ed. Michel Freyssenet. The rapid takeoff of the continent-sized national economies and the increasing expense of extraction have led to strong tensions in petrol prices and a race towards alternative driving systems. This book analyses the emergence of a second automobile revolution through the trajectories ...

John Maynard Keynes

Martin Chick's book is a major economic and historical study of the development of electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. Using newly available archival material the author draws important comparisons between these countries and includes all of ...

La phénoménologie dans tous ses états

Présentation de Jean-Pierre Cometti. Content: le tournant théologique de la phénoménologie française, 'suivi de' La phénoménologie éclatée. Les deux textes - Le tournant théologique de la phénoménologie française (1991) et La phénoménologie éclatée (1997) - qui constituent cet ouvrage ont ouvert une des plus fortes polémiques philosophiques ...

Designing the european model

Eds. Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann. This book examines existing problems in the European economy, focusing on labour markets, including labour market reform and outsourcing, as well as macroeconomic issues, such as macroeconomic stabilization in the Euro area and convergence and divergence in economic growth in ...

Increasing returns and economic efficiency

Recognizing increasing returns disrupts much of the established wisdom in economic analysis, making money non-neutral, equity conflict with freedom, and encouraging goods with increasing returns efficient. This book discusses these problems and ways they can be handled, helping to explain phenomena in the real world.

The determinants of currency crises

a political-economy approach

Explores the role of political factors in the occurrence of currency crises, using an eclectic approach that blends case studies, theoretical discussion, and econometric analysis.

Agenda-Setting in the European Union

Why does the EU deal with some issues but not others? This is the central question of this book dedicated to agenda-setting processes in the EU. Through a comparison of EU and US policy agendas and the analysis of four case studies in environmental and ...

Winner takes all

Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the race to own Las Vegas

Sharp, insightful, and revealing, this is the gripping story of the billions of dollars and unparalleled drive for power of three moguls-- Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn, and Dr. Gary Loveman--and their strategic and creative genius in the race to own Las Vegas.

10000 Years of art

Includes 500 great works of art from different periods and regions in the world. This book reveals the diversity of man's artistic achievements through time and around the globe. It includes both fine and decorative arts - most commonly painting and sculpture, but also textiles ...

No marcas

diario de un anticonsumista

«Hace menos de un siglo, los logos que aparecían en las prendas de vestir existían para identificar la calidad y el origen de la producción. A día de hoy, estos símbolos han venido a significar un tremendo mucho más. Mediante la repetición que utiliza la ...

Piensa, es gratis

84 ideas prácticas para potenciar el talento

«¿Necesitas un gran reto? Toma nota: todo puede hacerse mejor.» Piensa, es gratis es un potente despertador y animador del cerebro de personas, grupos y empresas, porque frase tras frase ofrece una avalancha de conceptos que excitan, animan y persuaden de la inmensa capacidad y ...

Desde el otro lado del escaparate

Los chispazos de genialidad de Toni Segarra pueden conseguir que, por ejemplo, BMW aumente sus ventas en más de un 70% (be water, my friend). La publicidad mueve al mundo y Toni Segarra está considerado como el mejor creativo publicitario español del siglo xx. En ...

El reino de la humildad

una fábula sobre los valores fundamentales

Las enseñanzas de su severo padre, el rey Estuardo, habían ido esculpiendo en él un carácter severo y agresivo. Contemplaba la victoria en el campo de batalla como un medio más que como un fin. Su voluntad última era la humillación del rival y su ...

Stratégies fiscales des États et des entreprises

souveraineté et concurrence

Dir. Michel Aujean, christian Saint-Étienne. Dans l'actuelle situation de crise des économies et des finances publiques, il faut s'interroger sur les réformes fiscales à mettre en #uvre, dans chaque Etat européen et au sein de l'Union européenne, pour accélérer la reprise économique ...

Blat, metalls i cabdills

Catalunya del neolític a la iberització

Dibuixos i peus d´il ilustració, Ramón Álvarez; Reconstruccions, Mar H. Pongiluppi. Blat, metalls i cabdills. Catalunya del neolític a la iberització és una síntesi de mig segle de recerques arqueològiques a casa nostra per oferir una visió coherent i moderna del país entre el ...

Sports economics

theory, evidence and policy

"The Economics of Sport" provides a highly accessible introduction to the main theoretical, empirical and policy issues that emanate from the economic analysis of sport. Written in a style that makes economics accessible to sports management and policy students, this is a lively and reader-friendly ...