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Provides a snapshot of the issues posed by the growing concentrations of income, focusing on the United States but drawing on international comparisons to help set the context. This book examines the economic, technological, and political drivers of inequality and identify worrying trends associated with its rise.

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Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow - or accelerate - environmental degradation This book provide answers to this difficult question, using research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability.

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Radical institutionalisma processual paradigm focused on changing the direction of cultural evolution and the function of social provisioning in order to promote the full participation of alldefines inequality as evolving from class exploitation, gender domination, race discrimination, and national predation.

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A worsening economic crisis due to the shift in wealth over the past decade is the central concern of this study. It profiles the current status of income inequality in the USA and discerns disturbing trends for the future.

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Usually the defeat of one union official by another would not occasion great interest by historians. The highly charged atmosphere after World War II and at the beginning of the cold war however led to a strongly disputed election which left Walter Reuther the new president of the UAW.

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The ways financial analysts, traders, and other specialists use information and learn from each other are of fundamental importance to understanding how markets work and prices are set. This book analyzes how markets aggregate information and examines the impacts of market arrangements on the aggregation process and overall performance of markets.

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Illustrates how information choice is used to answer questions in monetary economics, portfolio choice theory, business cycle theory, international finance, asset pricing, and other areas. This book covers work on topics such as rational inattention, information markets, and strategic games with heterogeneous information.

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Illustrates how information choice is used to answer questions in monetary economics, portfolio choice theory, business cycle theory, international finance, asset pricing, and other areas. This book covers work on topics such as rational inattention, information markets, and strategic games with heterogeneous information.

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This guide covers 195 of the most important information sources that are particularly relevant or useful to those involved in international marketing.

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Today's workplace demands skills for a productive use of information. This guide explores the basic skills, including thinking and decision-making, creativity enhancement, innovation and risk-taking, computer literacy, subject matter literacy, learning how to learn, and on-the-job help.

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Organizations with computer networks, Web sites, and employees carrying laptops and Blackberries face an array of security challenges. This book provides an overview of these challenges and more. It covers topics related to data security like outsourcing, contractual considerations with vendors, data privacy laws, and hiring practices.

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How do people in organisations get the information they need and what effect does their research have on their organisations This study explores the reasons why people do and do not get the information they need and why technologies to facilitate information gathering so often fail.

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Presents a structural model of information system implementation and tests using data from several independent system implementation efforts. This book includes a review of past implementation research, an explanation of the basis for the structural model's mathematical properties, and descriptions of two field tests of the model.

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'Information Technologies in Latin America' provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.

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The most authoritative, up-to-date source of information on the subject, this volume is recommended for practitioners and scholars concerned with public policy, international trade relations, finance, communications, information technology, and a variety of related fields.

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This text draws on organizational research, information technology research, and research in information economics to develop an empirical basis for the integration of the three disciplines. It also analyzes organizational and managerial motivations leading to investment in IT.

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The authors bring a dual perspectivethat of a practicing consultant and that of a professor of economicsto the complex strategic questions facing managers and corporate leaders who want their firms to get the most out of their investments in information technology.

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Samli explains, first, the various data generating procedures, with special emphasis on data analysis, and second, the procedures for creating information out of data all in a clear, systematic presentation that marketing managers will understand and benefit from immediately.

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Provides a consolidated history of U.S. business and a guide to information sources, indicating what is useful and what is not.

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Outlines the importance of original thinking to give you the edge on the competition. Drawing on his many years of experience as a marketing manager, the author uses anecdote and example to illustrate new ways to approach business and to succeed at it.