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Ultimately, it's about making the best use of your time and energy.

Whether you want to know how to approach each task with clarity, focus and purpose, how to prioritize, or even how to make sure others don't waste your time, Cut to the Chase has a brilliant and simple rule you can follow.

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How do cyclic and chaotic dynamics arise in economic models of equilibrium How can empirical methods be used to detect nonlinearities and cyclic and chaotic structures in economic models In examining these questions, this book brings together the work that has been done in economics-based chaos theory.

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In addition, it explains how today's economic problems arose, why governments cannot solve those problems, and where those problems will lead us.

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And that's exactly what management experts Peg Thoms and Jim Fairbank deliver: The Daily Art of Management is the mentor at a manager's shoulder, full of excellent advice and encouragement.

Most advice to managers consists of general prescriptions: Be inspiring, Drive innovation, or Beat the competition through crisp execution.

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Tells the story of what makes money flow from high-income countries to lower-income ones, and what makes it flow out again. David Lubin follows a trajectory from the emergence of petrodollars, global inflation, and the US Federal Reserve in the 1970s; to Latin America's lost decade of the 80s; to the rise of China in the early 2000s.

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This book helps identify and explain how the new federal campaign finance rules changed the way campaigns were run and paid for in 2012, along with shifting the balance of power from political parties to third-party interest groups.

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Despite the recent downturn in the stock market, the 1990s boom and the shift to defined contribution plans mean that more individuals will have significant wealth upon retirement.

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Unravels the following mystery: how is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support This work is a portrait of American politics as viewed through the lens of the death tax repeal saga.

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A hysterically funny and very wise book in which the authors share their successful approach to business through humorous and vivid real-world examples from around the world.

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A study of the clearings and debits series is combined with a broad investigation of the contributions these series have made to economic analysis and of the services they have rendered to the economic analyst, historian, and theorist.

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Examining the causes of the acute Latin American debt crisis that began in mid-1982, North American analysts have typically focused on deficiencies in the debtor countries' economic policies and on shocks from the world economy. Much less emphasis has been placed on the role of the region's principal creditors--private banks--in the development of

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This study provides an in-depth analysis of the external debt problem of a country--Mexico--that allegedly faces a debt overhang, which inhibits long-term growth-oriented investment.

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Applying the tools of modern political economy to a developing-country context, this title analyzes the different patterns of national economic and political behavior that arose in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela. It is suitable for those who are interested in comparative politics, international studies, and development studies.

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The boom in corporate restructuring, accompanied by large increases in debt finance, was one of the most important developments in the U.S. economy in the 1980s.

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Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did this happen The first book to follow the history