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Far removed from the markets they're meant to serve, insensitive to market needs, inflexible in how they do business, America's oliuopolistic corporations are terrorizing consumers. Samli maintains that far from being hostile to business, he sees business as actually working against itself.

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The boomers are rejecting conventional notions of retirement and crossing into a new stage of work-and their energy could transform what work means for all Americans

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Collective ratemaking in the motor carrier industry is undoubtedly one of the most poorly understood issues in the literature on economic regulation. William Tye closes this gap in our knowledge with the most comprehensive study yet of the effects of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 on competition on the trucking industry.

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A reference source providing information on the broad range of topics that illuminate black business history.

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Cryptology, the science of codes and ciphers, has a long and fascinating history. In this book, Newton addresses its basic theoretical concepts and discusses the practical applications of codes in everyday life.

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Containing more than 250 entries, this unique and ambitious work traces the development of management thinking and major business culture in North America.

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A recent Times-Mirror survey has shown that 65 percent of Americans prefer television over other news media for news coverage, an increase of 10 percent in just over a decade.

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A reference for the consumer movement, this book sets out information covering subjects like movement-related institutions in a historical framework. Leaders, activities, and impacts are covered, with particular attention given to the laws and regulations intended to protect consumers.

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As the prime force behind trade throughout the Western Hemisphere, the United States is emerging with two trade projects--the newly-signed North American Free Trade Agreement and the projected New American Community.

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Assesses the sweeping, frequently dangerous, impact of the global corporation for the nation, the citizen, the worker, and the economy, while looking at the tension between corporate needs and the interests of society and the repercussions of specific corporate decisions, including outsourcing, for American workers. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom -- an achievement not to be let go of lightly. As Gideon Haigh shows in this engaging analysis for the lay reader, the industry has become a whetstone for various ideological axes, clouding the argument.

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The IRS is big, bad, and out of control as the recent scandal shows. Grover Norquist has been taking the IRS to task for years, he fights for and believes the IRS should leave us alone

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A provocative critique of America's cash money system and a powerful argument for replacing it with a cashless new system of federal electronic currency.

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Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing helped the United States emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. This book recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, by considering the crucial impact of trades featuring specialty, not standardized, production.

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Whereas other books on endogenous growth stress a particular aspect, such as trade or convergence, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the theoretical and empirical debates raised by modern growth theory.

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The rapid development of energy program evaluation has broad implications for the policy porcess and policy design. The authors have selected a variety of energy program evaluations from the hundreds that have been conducted over the past five years to illustrate this development in energy policy.

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The result is a model of production based on the two universal factor inputsbroadly defined energy and broadly defined organization.

Once the model of production is developed, the book then tests an empirical model with data from U.S., German, and Japanese manufacturing.

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The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America.

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The Middle Eastern and North African region (MENA) dominates world energy exports today and will likely do so for decades to come, even if world consumers make steady progress in conservation, renewable energy sources, and increases from gas, coal, and nuclear power.

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Energy Economics: Science, Policy, and Economic Applications explains various energy systems from an economics perspective. Specifically, the author uses the tools of economics to analyze the development of modern energy systems, the worlds reliance on fossil fuels, and the components of a transition to cleaner energy resources.

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What has happened in Latin America's energy sector since the early 1990s is a revolution. Here is invaluable information for energy economists, policy makers, government regulatory officials, oil company executives, and those interested in gaining an insight into the Latin American energy sector and its future.

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Contributors to this volume profile the energy situation in the developing countries, assess the role of energy policy in Third World development, and discuss the global energy situation in relation to these countries' consumption, production, trade, and resource endowment.