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In this series of essays that span over 20 years of research, Benjamin Bobo builds the case for multinational corporations to take an active role in combating poverty around the world.

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Most people find it hard to define 'the economy' beyond saying it is 'to do with money'. Through ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, this book explores what 'the economy' means to people's lives and what goes through their minds when they hear politicians talking about it. -- .

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Most people find it hard to define 'the economy' beyond saying it is 'to do with money'. Through ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, this book explores what 'the economy' means to people's lives and what goes through their minds when they hear politicians talking about it. -- .

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Explains a brain-based approach people can use to become effective leaders, whether in a business, or a family. This volume shows how those with maximum success are leaders who understand both the right brain mode and the left brain mode styles and have the ability to switch between the two when the situation is best served by one or the other.

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This intriguing analysis examines an aspect of President Obama that falls outside of his ethnic background, his political career, or policies: how his unique leadership style comes from his extraordinary ability to use both halves of his brain to maximum potential.

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With growing international competition, American firms have been gaced with increasing pressures to produce better products, cut costs, and improve efficiency.

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Beenhakker offers a comprehensive examination of all aspects of risk managementfrom financial structures and techniques through the development of efficient portfolios and decisions that will minimize investment risks and taxes.

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Flamboyant and unorthodox, Rene Rivkin is the Australian financial world's most intriguing character - charming, often brilliant, and occasionally self-destructive. This book lifts the lid on this troubled former guru's life.

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America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centres is worsening. Because of the many strong and conflicting interests, policy discussions about the road system are also in gridlock. Road Work proposes a comprehensive highway pricing and investment policy to meet the goals of efficiency, equity, and financial stability.

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Focuses largely on developments within the United States and Japan but looks at those in other nations as well. This title examines two broad areas: the Japanese approach to regulating financial institutions and promoting financial stability and the US approach in light of the Dodd-Frank Act.

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This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current workings of cryptocurrency and the underground economy, both in the United States and around the world.

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This conference volume deals with the question of what the economic impact of a shift in federal taxation toward greater use of indirect taxes would be with respect to the rate of saving and investment, personal effort, the balance of payments, and the efficiency of resource use. A major focus therefore is on the economic growth and balance-of-paym

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Charts the history of the ancient crafts of rope, twine and net making, describing the traditional fibres and techniques used, as well as the modern machines and man-made fibres that took their place. This work features black and white photographs that show how the methods of rope, twine and net making have evolved over the years.

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The study uses primary source documents extensively as well as the little existing secondary literature.

This is part of Sperlich's larger project dealing with the government, society, economy, political participation, and administration of the law and the system of courts of the GDR.

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The capture of the French king John II at Poitiers in 1356 marked the end of royal taxation as a temporary, wartime expedient and its beginning as an annual assessment. John Henneman's detailed treatment of war financing in the period immediately preceding, from 1322 to 1356, is the first volume in a proposed study of royal finances in France durin

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