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Covering the entire world of business from heavy industry to the financial houses of Wall Street, this book shines a spotlight on 100 of the most infamous cases of misconduct and malfeasance in corporate history.

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Applying developments in corporate finance theory and the economic theory of organizations, this work describes in practical terms how such authorities could be created and given the incentives to behave exactly like bankers behave toward borrowers, as "tough" claimholders.

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What caused the UKs cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure.

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Analyzes the underlying structural causes of the banking troubles of the 1980s and early 1990s.

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The volume examines the role of telecommunications in the development process. While it seems obvious that telecommunications contribute to the efficient operation and productive growth of an economy, telecommunications may be a cause, a consequence, and a manifestation of development.

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This book examines the expanding reach of the securities market in the US financial system. It analyzes key elements such as the rise of technology, the role of hedge funds, and the bloated agency system, and argues that the current structure is doomed to fail. It suggests a new structure capable of withstanding the challenges of modern markets.

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This book examines the expanding reach of the securities market in the US financial system. It analyzes key elements such as the rise of technology, the role of hedge funds, and the bloated agency system, and argues that the current structure is doomed to fail. It suggests a new structure capable of withstanding the challenges of modern markets.

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Traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. This title recreates the drama of America's battle for financial credibility.

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This text aims to help the reader to create a highly-motivated sales team, win customers more easily and keep customers coming back.

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The first comprehensive comparison of the pink tide in Latin America, the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements in Europe and North America, with a focus on the apparent lack of union involvement

An economics 'whodunit', this book is a search for the suspects who committed the crime (as many people see it) of the steady retreat from Australia's egalitarian policy structures and institutions over the past two decades. Argy proposes an ambitious, but economically and politically viable, social reform agenda for the future.

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The vulnerability of societies caught up in new networks of interdependence due to reduced distances also are put to the fore, in the context of the new accelerated circulation of information, ideas, goods, and human beings.

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Presenting a fresh view of the motives behind various governments' decisions to remain on or defect from the gold standard in the early 20th century, this study specifically analyzes the influence of domestic politics on national responses to the international economy.

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Debates about tax policy arise every year in Washington, and legislative changes occur almost as often. In just the past decade, corporate tax burdens were dramatically reduced and then subsequently increased.

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In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services.

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Identifies some the most powerful people in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era, describes how they interacted with each other to mutual benefit, and reveals who are the few to retain their power amid the debris arising from the bursting of our economic bubble.

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Fifty years ago, a new alliance of Japanese elites sparked the miraculous transformation of their country from a land decimated by war to an economic superpower that would become the envy of the world.

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Established in 1917 by publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize is now awarded in 21 categories, including investigative reporting, news photography, drama, poetry, music, and others.