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Where does the Protestant work ethic come from And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long This title traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, turned a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth.

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Explores what we know about determinants of happiness and presents potential pitfalls of injecting "economics of happiness" into public policymaking. This book spotlights contributions of happiness research to dismal science. It raises a cautionary note about issues that still need to be addressed before policymakers can make best use of them.

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This book provides a clear and concise toolkit to understand how trade, finance, and production bind us in a globally connected international system. Presenting both the theory and the evidence needed to understand economic globalization, this essential primer helps readers understand the character and contradictions of the global economy.

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This volume examines the experiences of well-managed firms that attempt to improve quality, productivity, innovation, technology, and human resources.

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It is an inspiring, interdisciplinary study in the field of social sciences that analyses the most important challenges facing the world economy and modern civilization. Grzegorz W. Kolodko explains in a comprehensible way the contradictions of ideas and interests and practical ways of solving them and its implications for our future.

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How can developing countries grow their economies Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves. Lin examines how the co

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This book asks what are the common assumptions - or frames of references - that underlie our understanding of political economy today. How many of them are worthy of retaining Could others be discarded

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This book asks what are the common assumptions - or frames of references - that underlie our understanding of political economy today. How many of them are worthy of retaining Could others be discarded

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Using a variety of methods, analysts from the International Research Group on R&D Management, an interdisciplinary group of researchers from universities and research colleges in four industrialised nations, examine the organisation and management of R&D in and between their respective countries.

How do venture capitalists pick winners like Apple How do the FBI's hostage rescue team find agents for the world's toughest job How do Hollywood casting agents and major sports scouts size up the best talent In this title, the author reveals how we can learn the hidden 'tells' that really matter.

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The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books

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This unique book examines the re-emergence of a securities market in the People's Republic of China, providing a comprehensive analysis of the market forces that are transforming China's centrally planned economy.

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According to Fixer Jay, many wealthy investors earn 20, 30, and even 40 times more money than the average person--but that doesn't mean they're 20, 30, or 40 times smarter, nor do they work that much harder. The big difference is in how they manage their financial affairs. In The Real Estate Fisherman, you'll learn how to invest in real estate and manage your finances like a millionaire.

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Your next real estate investment doesnt have to be so risky. Learn how to crunch the right numbers before you commit capital.

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A powerful new approach to leadership-the art of challenging assumptions, managing competing values, and building trust in unpredictable times.

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Callaway aims at the front-line executive and manager and drives home the point that there are no standard solutions to management problems, simply because management circumstances are never alike.

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Allan Gruchy, the elder statesman of the institutionalist school of economic thought, has written a book which is important because it is both insightful and profound.

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This book compares existing approaches to regionalism and transregionalism and discusses its global impact on world politics and economy. It argues that for the changing world order, the development of transregionalism would have benign implications on the global level.

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Examining the regulation of banking in the United States between 1900 and the Great Depression, Eugene Nelson White shows how Congress and the state legislatures tried to strengthen the banking system by creating new institutions, rather than by changing nineteenth-century laws that perpetuated the unit structure of the banking industry. Originall

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