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During the 1980s, widespread dissatisfaction with America's schools gave rise to a powerful movement for educational change, and the nation's political institutions responded with aggressive reforms. Chubb and Moe argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem.

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Options have been traded for hundreds of years - at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy and sell commodities in Antwerp and Amsterdam - but for centuries nobody knew what their true value really was. This title retraces the historical developments that ultimately led to the breakthrough of an options pricing formula.

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Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austens novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austens novels and how Smiths and Austens perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.

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Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austens novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austens novels and how Smiths and Austens perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.

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A columnist for the Daily News shares interviews with eighteen prominent Yankee players, including Yogi Berra and Paul O'Neill, to convey their experiences of playing on one of major league baseball's top teams.

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Describes how leaders and managers implement change and gain commitment to their initiatives from inside and outside their organizations through the use of principled leadership and business diplomacy.

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Managing Global Supply Chains addresses the challenges and trends that the global supply chain industry has encountered in recent decades. The books emphasis is on emerging and developed economies in Asia, North America and Latin America.

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The definitive introduction to the field of human resource development-fully updated and revised for a new generation of teachers, students, and practitioners

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Beginning with an exposition of the four most widely argued theories of the press, this book goes on to explore several critical perspectives on the tasks and roles of print and broadcast news media in the United States.

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The unprecedented shifts in the U.S. dollar's exhange rate that started during the late 1970s and continued through the 1980s provide an ideal opportunity to explore how the global economy works and the role that multinational enterprises (MNEs) play in the phenomenon of globalization.

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Addresses privacy-related issues in the workplace, including how to balance employee privacy interests with business needs and the role of computers in monitoring employees. This legal issue has grown in importance in the last 20 years and this book aims to cover developments.

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Private Equity explores the deal making and investment strategies of private equity investors with an analytical framework that focuses on value-add.

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This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. Carol Graham examines the effects of market-based strategies on the performance of public institutions, the political sustainability of market reforms, and equity.

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Privatization and capital markets support and reinforce each other to promote economic growth around the world. This work discusses the links between privatization and capital markets, and provides insights for policy makers in developing countries and the international donor agencies.

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Throughout the world, governments are reducing their involvement in the area of telecommunications. The situation in six Asian countries, four European countries, and two Latin American countries are examined. In addition, there is one chapter on the telecommunications business in developing countries as a whole.

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This work surveys the situation in Central Europe in the early 1990s. This was the period when the governments of Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Slovenia and other independent states of former Yugoslavia, were experimenting with privatisation and economic reform.

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The post-communist European countries have faced enormous political and economic problems in attempting the transformation to a market oriented economy through two of the most important channels influencing this processprivatization and foreign investments.

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Before the energy crisis of the 1970s, electricity provision was a non-issue the world over, but the crisis of 1973 induced policymakers worldwide to consider private and restructured electricity provision as an alternative to unified, publicly and privately owned systems.

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These essays examine how privatization in Central and Eastern Europe is perceived and implemented showing how economic reform is pursued at the expense of social welfare.