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Could the USSR have been prepared for World War II more humanely and efficiently In this first integrated evaluation of Stalin's economic goals and actions, Holland Hunter and Janusz Szyrmer reconstruct and test Soviet results annually and by sector. Addressing historians, political scientists, and economists, the authors build a new, internally c

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This book is a comprehensive study of the enormous concentration of economic power resulting from the Third Great Merger Movement, during which over 9,400 firms disappeared through merger, increasing from 954 in 1961 to 2,442 in the peak year of 1968.

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The study finds support for arguments that goals and timetables, agency size, resources allocated to EEO, and the disposition of agency EEO implementers affect rank on the index while indicating that other variables, such as agency growth and the structure of agency EEO efforts, appear to be less important.

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To clarify the issues in estate and gift taxation, a conference was held at the Brookings Institution where a group of experts reviewed the major controversial issues, analyzed the provisions of the present law, and clarified differences of opinion on this part of the tax system.

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The federal income tax exemption for state and local government securities has been a controversial issue for many years. Proponents argue that elimination of the tax exemption would make the cost of borrowing money to many state and local governments prohibitive.

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In the last 2 centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding success story. Agriculture has fed population with a variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book explains how these feats were accomplished. It covers various factors that have affected agricultural performance.

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This collection of original essays brings econometric theory to bear on the problem of estimating the labor force participation of women. Five scholars here examine, both theoretically and empirically, the determinants of women's wages in the market, the value of their home time, and the factors that affect their employment. Originally published i

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This edited collection critiques postfeminist advertising through the lenses of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, age, class, and nationality. The authors represent a variety of feminisms, including Black, disabled, lesbian, transnational, and more.

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This book is about understanding feminist theories and feminist economics through a multi-paradigmatic approach. It discusses four paradigms, offers four paradigmatic viewpoints of several social concerns of feminism, and emphasizes that the four views provide a broader and balanced understanding of feminism.

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The case-study outlines the inherent dangers in international mergers, as well as explaining the acute problems associated with City practices that avoided issues that would bring down Ferranti in spectacular fashion. -- .

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An in-depth analysis of the struggles against water privatisation across Europe in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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An in-depth analysis of the struggles against water privatisation across Europe in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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A textbook designed to teach the student of management ninety per cent of all they will ever need to know in accounting and finance at any level within their organisation. -- .

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The theory of transnational regimes is advocated as a new way of structuring the global system.

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The finance basics that experts and top professionals understand.

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Finance Ethics is not just a moral critique of the finance paradigm, arguing that self-interested profit making must be constrained by ethics. Rather, it is a critique from within that paradigm, in which truth becomes a rational mechanism to enforce contracts, and virtuous behavior is shown to make the most business sense.

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In this first book-length analysis of the Latin American financial sector, Barbara Stallings and Rogerio Studart examine the dramatic changes resulting from financial liberalization in the region.

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Although ratio analysis is generally used as a univariate strategy, the accounting and finance literature has evolved to include multivariate-based models in financial analysis, and these models can be used to explain economic events and often predict them.