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An exploration of the private equity firm Blackstone Group that discusses its history, control of corporations around the world, controversies, founders, and other related topics.

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A completely unique guide to investing your hard earned loot, Kissing the frog translates the mystifying language of money into the language of classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

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Inspirational stories of eleven low-income women who are moving their families out of poverty by starting their own businesses

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In this five-week video study, pastor and business leader Jeff Henderson provides practical tools to help Christians communicate to the world what they are FOR rather than AGAINST.

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In the 21st century, intangible resources such as knowledge and social capital have become as necessary to the modern economy as coal, diamonds, and oil were to the past.

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The essays in this book examine the role of education and the university in economic development.

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Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon.

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This book concentrates on knowledge workers, mainly editors, in the Chinese publishing industry. The book focuses on their changing social, economic, and political roles; their dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities associated with current social reform; and Chinas integration into the global political economy.

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This book concentrates on knowledge workers, mainly editors, in the Chinese publishing industry. The book focuses on their changing social, economic, and political roles; their dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities associated with current social reform; and Chinas integration into the global political economy.

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Highlights the influence of Edmund Phelps' ideas. Addressing the most important debates in macroeconomic theory, this book focuses on the rates at which new technologies arise and information about markets is dispersed, information imperfections, and the heterogeneity of beliefs as determinants of an economy's performance.

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With this first of eight volumes, the eminent economist Fritz Machlup launches his monumental inquiry into the production of knowledge as an economic activity. Volume I presents the conceptual framework for this inquiry and falls into three parts: Types of Knowledge, Qualities of Knowledge, and Knowledge as a Product. Originally published in 1981.

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Can Korea realize its dream of matching the economic performance of the G-7 nations in the next 15 years This book puts Korea's technological challenge in its historical context, documents the reasons past strategies are no longer viable, and presents a blueprint for the next stage in Korean development.

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Kuznets focuses on the four key characteristics of South Korean economic development since the mid-1960s: relatively high investment rates, labor market competition, export orientation, and a strong, interventionist government.

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Despite its rise in the global market, political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This work investigates the history, industry structure and trends of filmmaking in Korea, and its relationship to Hollywood.

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Examines management practices behind Korea's successful transformation from an underdeveloped nation into a major world player. The contributors study the success story and point to the economic policies of government, a well-disciplined labour force, and a homogenous culture.

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As the European Community moves toward full integration of its members' economies, one of the most far-reaching changes will be in the European labor market.

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Bognanno and Coleman offer the most comprehensive, current, and valuable work on arbitrators and their professional practice.

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Provides a comprehensive picture of the disparate field of labor demand. This book reviews both the static and dynamic theories of labor demand, and uses theory and evidence to establish a generalized framework for analyzing the impact of policies such as minimum wages, payroll taxes, job- security measures, unemployment insurance, and others.

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Stephen Innes studies the relationship between work, land, and community in seventeenth-century Springfield, Massachusetts. Using analytical concepts drawn from anthropology--dependence, mediation, and clientage--he shows that the town was a highly commercialized, developmental community contrasting sharply with the communal, quietistic models that

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