Contemporary Labor Economics or Understanding the Digital Economy

Contemporary Labor Economics

Author: Campbell R McConnell

Contemporary Labor Economics, 7e presents the "new" labor economics. In the past, study of labor was highly descriptive, emphasizing historical developments, facts, institutions, and legal considerations. Labor markets and unemployment was accorded some attention, but the analysis was typically minimal. This state of affairs has changed significantly in recent decades. Economists have achieved important breakthroughs in studying labor markets and problems. Labor economics is increasingly an applied field of micro and macro theory and has become a critical part of the core of analytical economics. As a result, the focus of the text is on the "new" labor economics. However, it also presents traditional topics such as labor law, structure of unions, and collective bargaining since these issues also play an important role in labor markets.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Labor Economics: Introduction and Overview	1
Ch. 2	The Theory of Individual Labor Supply	14
Ch. 3	Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work	51
Ch. 4	Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital	84
Ch. 5	The Demand for Labor	126
Ch. 6	Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor	167
Ch. 7	Alternative Pay Schemes and Labor Efficiency	207
Ch. 8	The Wage Structure	241
Ch. 9	Mobility, Migration, and Efficiency	275
Ch. 10	Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining	306
Ch. 11	The Economic Impact of Unions	343
Ch. 12	Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation	376
Ch. 13	Government and the Labor Market: Legislation and Regulation?	403
Ch. 14	Labor Market Discrimination	438
Ch. 15	Job Search: External and Internal	479
Ch. 16	The Distribution of Personal Earnings	499
Ch. 17	Labor Productivity: Wages, Prices, and Unemployment	524
Ch. 18	Employment and Unemployment	553
App	Information Sources in Labor Economics	582
	Glossary	598
	Answers to "Your Turn" Questions	613
	Index	617

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Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Author: Erik Brynjolfsson

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the economic implications of the Internet and electronic commerce domestically and internationally, and to consider new types of data collection and research that could be undertaken by public and private organizations.

This book contains work presented at a conference held by executive branch agencies in May 1999 at the Department of Commerce. The goals of the conference were to assess current research on the digital economy, to engage the private sector in developing the research that informs investment and policy decisions, and to promote better understanding of the growth and socioeconomic implications of information technology and electronic commerce. Aspects of the digital economy addressed include macroeconomic assessment, organizational change, small business, access, market structure and competition, and employment and the workforce.

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles or Nine Questions

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Author: Dean Cocking

Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, the authors develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles. They provide insights into the central notions of professional detachment, professional integrity, and moral character in professional life, and demonstrate how a virtue-based approach can help us better understand what ethical professional-client relationships would be like.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The nature of virtue ethics	7
2	The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship	39
3	A virtue ethics approach to professional roles	74
4	Ethical models of the good general practitioner	95
5	Professional virtues, ordinary vices	116
6	Professional detachment in health care and legal practice	137
	Bibliography	172
	Index	184

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Nine Questions: Secured Debt Deals in the 21st Century

Author: David G Epstein

Nine Questions is about secured debt deals: whether to do a secured debt deal, documenting the deal, dealing with deal problems. The book is organized around the "life cycle" of deals, which helps students understand why Article 9 concepts matter and how Article 9 works. The book covers principles and principal problem areas rather than all particulars of perfection and priority rules. Nine Questions is the first secured credit casebook to include edited, relevant Article 9 provisions throughout the book, right next to the problems and cases and original text.

The Work Family Challenge or Engines of Enterprise

The Work-Family Challenge: Rethinking Employment

Author: Suzan Lewis

The Context for Change / II. Policy and Practice / III. Barriers to the Effectiveness of Current Policies and Strategies for Moving Beyond Policies to Culture Change / IV. Conclusion CONTRIBUTORS: S. Lewis, P. Moss, J. Lewis, L. Harker, J. Gonyea, B. Googins, H. Holt, I. Thaulow, C. L. Cooper, A. Watts, C. Camp, K. Taylor, P. H. Raabe, J. K. Fletcher, R. Rapoport

Table of Contents:

	List of Contributors
	Foreword
1	Rethinking Employment: An Organizational Culture Change Framework	1
2	Reconciling Employment and Family Responsibilities: A European Perspective	20
3	Work-Family Reconciliation and the Law: Intrusion or Empowerment?	34
4	The Family-Friendly Employer in Europe	48
5	The Restructuring of Work and Family in the United States: A New Challenge for American Corporations	63
6	Formal and Informal Flexibility in the Workplace	79
7	Corporate Relocation Policies	93
8	Developing and Implementing Policies: Midland Bank's Experience	103
9	Evaluating the Impact of Family-Friendly Employer Policies: A Case Study	112
10	Constructing Pluralistic Work and Career Arrangements	128
11	Work-Family Issues as a Catalyst for Organizational Change	142
12	Rethinking Employment: A Partnership Approach	159
	Index	169

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Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England

Author: Peter Temin

New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginning—as immigration ground to a halt in the eighteenth century—New England went on to lead the United States in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest of the country caught up in the mid-twentieth century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society.

Engines of Enterprise tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays written by preeminent historians and economists. These essays chart the changing fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers, businessmen and inventors, and common folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices. The authors describe how, short of staple crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea and built an empire; and how the region became the earliest home of the textile industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries in the nineteenth century. They show us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country and as the rest of the United States caught up. And they trace the transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools to such intangible goods as education and software. Concluding short essays also put forward surprising but persuasive arguments—for instance, that slavery, while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical part of the economy; and that the federal government played a crucial role in the development of the region's industrial skills.

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The economy of New England experienced far-reaching changes over the centuries and led the way in the transformation of an American agrarian economy to a manufacturing powerhouse. This process of change is the subject of this well-knit collection of essays by economists and historians, edited by Temin (economics, MIT). The essays trace the fortunes of venture capitalists and investors in 18th-century New England, which, lacking staple crops to trade, made overseas ventures the foundation of the region's economy. In the early 19th century, Yankee ingenuity made New England the nation's leader in manufacturing, beginning with cotton textiles and machine tools. Eventually, other sections of the country forged ahead of New England in terms of factory output. Showing great ingenuity, however, New England reinvented itself as an important producer of less tangible but still valuable products and services, such as higher education and, in our own time, computer software. A scholarly work that effectively synthesizes much available information, this is recommended for the economic history collections of academic libraries.--Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., NY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Resource Management for Individuals and Families or Black Unionism in the Industrial South

Resource Management for Individuals and Families

Author: Elizabeth B B Goldsmith

The text applies the modern management theory and evaluation to the decision making and problem solving within the family unit. The text applies principles of planning, implementing and evaluating needs in household settings. The position that sees management as a process approach sets the text apart from earlier texts on family management.

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Black Unionism in the Industrial South

Author: Ernest Obadele Starks

In the early twentieth century, the Upper Texas Gulf Coast was one of the fastest growing industrial areas in the country. The cotton trade had attracted railroad and ship labor to the banks of the Gulf of Mexico, numerous oil refineries sprouted up in response to the Spindletop gusher of 1901, and the ship-building and steel trades were also prospering as a result of the oil boom. Such economic promise attracted thousands of black laborers from across the South who hoped to find a good job and a better life. They were instead kept in low-wage jobs, refused union memberships, and restricted in their mobility.

Black Unionism in the Industrial South presents the struggles of black workers who fought for equality and unionization in the heyday of Gulf Coast industry. Ernest Obadele-Starks examines the unionists' responses to racial and class domination and their creative strategies to reach their goals. Facing public and corporate policy that typically deferred to white workers, blacks banded together to achieve representation in the workplace, form union auxiliaries, charter their own local unions, seal alliances with members of the black middle class, and manipulate the media to benefit their cause. Personal accounts highlight the unionists' passion, even when their requests and demands resulted in little more than "gradual participation, sporadic inclusion, and minimal interracial cooperation."

Obadele-Starks eloquently captures the unionists' fight and discusses the implications of their struggle for the industrial society of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast. Students and scholars of American labor history, race relations, and Texas history will find Black Unionism in the Industrial South a valuable and compelling scholarly work.

The Predatory Society or Just Another Car Factory

The Predatory Society: Deception in the American Marketplace

Author: Paul Blumberg

Who knows more about a business's shady practices than the people who work there? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg examines a wide variety of evidence, including over 600 accounts written by workers who disclose in elaborate detail the deceptions their employers practiced on the public.
Employed in a wide variety of business enterprises--supermarkets, restaurants, fish markets, department stores, gas stations, drug stores, pet stores, and many more--these workers pull back the curtain and reveal the hidden recesses of the American marketplace.
Blumberg documents these deceptions in numerous vivid stories, providing readers with a trenchant handbook on survival in America. He tells of stores that routinely mark prices up before a sale; gas stations that sell regular gas as high test; auto mechanics who spray-paint customers' old car parts and then charge them for new parts (in one gas stations, the workers claimed that the mechanic's best tool was his paint can); and pharmacists who sell generic drugs and charge name-brand prices.
But equally important, he provides an insightful analysis of why deception pervades the American marketplace. Though at times amusing, The Predatory Society is also frequently disturbing for what it says about private capitalism: how dishonesty is all but built into the American marketplace, and how this dishonesty has potentially disastrous effects on trust and community in our society.

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Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents

Author: James Rinehart

This Study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology, labor studies, and a human resource management.

Table of Contents:

	Author Recognition
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Strike That Was Not Supposed to Happen	3
Ch. 2	Touring the Plant	11
Ch. 3	Lean Production: The Essentials and CAMI's Version	25
Ch. 4	Recruitment and Training	33
Ch. 5	Working at CAMI: Multiskilling or Multitasking?	44
Ch. 6	Working Lean	65
Ch. 7	Team Concept and Working in Teams	85
Ch. 8	Gender on the Line	108
Ch. 9	The Kaizen Agenda	124
Ch. 10	Kaizen: Shop Floor Responses and Outcomes	137
Ch. 11	Commitment	157
Ch. 12	The Union	180
Ch. 13	Is CAMI Exceptional?	194
Ch. 14	Just Another Car Factory?	201
	App. I: Methodology	207
	App. II: Questionnaire Items Referred to in the Text	221
	References	231
	Index	243

Additional Calculus Topics or Introduction to Econometrics

Additional Calculus Topics: To Accompany Calculus, 10/E and College Mathematics, 10/E

Author: Raymond A Barnett

This three-chapter supplement to the tenth editions of Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences and College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences provides additional coverage of differential equations, Taylor polynomials, infinite series, and the role of probability in calculus. Includes coverage of separable differential equations, first-order linear differential equations, and related applications. Provides increased emphasis on recognition of the relevant growth laws. Discusses the operations that can be performed on Taylor series and the effects of these operations on the interval of convergence. Presents comprehensive discussion of improper integrals and properties of continuous probability density functions, including the uniform, exponential, and normal probability distributions, that requires no previous experience with probability. Includes additional information on increments and differentials, L'Hopital's Rule, double integrals over more general regions, and interpolating polynomials. For anyone interested in learning more about calculus.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Differential Equations

Chapter 2: Taylor Polynomials and Infinite Series

Chapter 3:Probability and Calculus

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Introduction to Econometrics

Author: James H Stock

Designed for a first course in introductory econometrics, Introduction to Econometrics, reflects modern theory and practice, with interesting applications that motivate and match up with the theory to ensure students grasp the relevance of econometrics. Authors James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson integrate real-world questions and data into the development of the theory, with serious treatment of the substantive findings of the resulting empirical analysis.

Communication Technologies or Entrepreneurial Economics

Communication Technologies (NetEffects Series)

Author: Dennis O Gehris

Not all end-users. are technicians.
In fact, most aren't ....

This book is intended for the individual who. uses technology in daily work activities and desires a technical overview of electronic communication systems. It was written to the Organisational and End-user Information Systems (OEIS) model curriculum developed by the Organizational Systems Research Association (OSRA).

Discover:

• The vocabulary of telecommunications
• Emerging communication technologies, including e-mail, voice processing, teleconferencing, and wireless communication
• The Internet
• Solutions to telecommunication problems
• Network fundamentals

Readers can assess their knowledge on-line by using the Companion Web Site at
.

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A textbook for an college course on end-user communications technologies and telecommunications applications within such disciplines as office information systems and computer information systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

I. COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: INTRODUCTION, HISTORY, AND FUTURE.

1. Introduction to Communications Technology.
2. History and Future of Communication Technologies.

II. COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES APPLICATIONS.

3. Electronic Mail.
4. Teleconferencing.
5. Voice Processing and Facsimile.
6. Wireless Communications.
7. Telecommuting and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

III. THE INTERNET/INTRANETS.

8. Introduction to the Internet and Intranets.
9. Electronic Mail Discussion Groups and Newsgroups.
10. World Wide Web.
11. Creating Web Pages.
12. Other Internet Utilities.

IV. NETWORKING FUNDAMENTALS.

13. Introduction to Networks.
14. Telecommunication Models and Network Connectivity.
15. Telephony.
Appendix.
Glossary.
Index.

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Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from Dismal Science

Author: Alexander Tabarrok

This intriguing collection is designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation's social institutions. By taking the task of political economy seriously, the contributors (including some of today's most distinguished economists) reveal the power of economic thought to offer innovative solutions to some of the most difficult problems facing society today. By creating markets where none existed before, the authors propose efficient, reliable, and profitable improvements to current systems of health insurance, financial markets, human organ distribution, judicial practice, bankruptcy and securities regulation, patenting, and transportation. Written in the entrepreneurial spirit, these essays show economics to be an ambitious, dynamic, and far-from-dismal science.

Finance and Investments using the Wall Street Journal or City of Gold

Finance and Investments using the Wall Street Journal

Author: Peter R Crabb

Peter Crabb's The Wall Street Journal Workbook for Investments and Finance will help students evaluate and apply information from the Wall Street Journal. It consists of three main parts: 1. An overview of the finance/investments topic, 2. A group of exercises based on data or an article that is printed in the workbook, 3. A group of exercises based on data or an article that is in a current edition of the Wall Street Journal. This workbook establishes a firm link between our textbooks and the discounted Wall Street Journal subscription program ($20 for 15 weeks of the WSJ, both printed and online versions).

Table of Contents:

PART I – INTRODUCTIONFinance and Investments Using the Wall Street Journal PART II – MARKET ANALYSIS Economic Analysis Industry Analysis International Economics and Markets PART III – SECURITIES MARKETS AND ANALYSIS Time Value of Money Bond Valuations Stock Valuations Foreign Exchange PART IV – INVESTMENT ANALYSIS Financial Statement Analysis Technical Analysis PART V – DERIVATIVE SECURITIES Options Futures Index Futures and Options PART VI- PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Risk Measurement Asset Allocation Benchmarking PART VII - CORPORATE FINANCING Cost of Capital Public Offering of Securities Dividend Policy Mergers and Acquisitions

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City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent

Author: David Westbrook

David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life. In this wide-ranging, multi-tiered exploration of our contemporary global political economy, he touches on four major themes: the historical foundation of the city of gold, an assessment of its political scope, its current discontents, and ways to make a better--albeit imperfect--world from within it.

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a powerful demonstration of the limits within which global ...organiz[es] economic interaction in our cosmopolitan society.

Europe at the Crossroads or Successful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses

Europe at the Crossroads

Author: Guillermo de la Dehesa

From the beginning, the European Union had a clear objective: to permanently consolidate peace in Europe after two of the bloodiest wars in history. This was supplemented after the fall of communism with a second priority: to become an economic power capable of counterbalancing America's growing dominance. The current state of Europe, however, has sparked a fierce debate on just how well the economy is really doing in comparison to the U.S.--and whether Europe can continue to compete and maintain its generous welfare state.

Written by one of Europe's most well-known and respected economists, Europe at the Crossroads analyzes whether the EU is fulfilling its economic and social targets, outlining in a simple and understandable way the main issues facing the EU today and in the future. Drawing upon the recent official data and literature, Guillermo de la Dehesa seeks solutions for Europe by comparing its situation to that of the U.S. and revealing how much more can be achieved in the areas of efficiency, productivity, and innovation.

De la Dehesa documents the EU's persistent economic underperformance in recent decades and examines the cause of its slower growth. He then presents a comprehensive blueprint of reforms for increased prosperity and deeper social cohesion, which addresses:

• The main economic challenge facing both the U.S. and the EU: the impact of aging on public expenditures
• How to enrich the EU's policy and institutional environments to enhance business conditions for existing firms and new entrepreneurial activities
• Necessary structural reforms--welfare state, labor and product markets
• Fostering a knowledgesociety though increased investments in R&D and higher education
• The difficulties in implementing the Lisbon Strategy (major strategic goals for improving the EU's economic efficiency) and methods for meeting those challenges

Thought-provoking, expertly researched, and brilliantly evaluated, Europe at the Crossroads presents the most informed discussion on the current and future state of Europe's economy.

Guillermo de la Dehesa is Chairman of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Member of The Group of Thirty, and Chairman of the Instituto Empresa. He is also Director of Banco Santander and Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs Europe, independent director of four European firms, and a member of the European advisory board of U.S.-based corporations Eli Lilly and Coca-Cola. De la Dehesa is the author and coauthor of numerous books on economics, and the author of over two hundred articles and papers.

Publishers Weekly

With its extensive annotated tables, graphs, summaries of EU studies and a wrapup of the most recent Lisbon Summit, this volume is a treasure trove of data for Europolicy wonks. And it doesn't neglect the technical details behind the numbers, which cover leisure, income, productivity, education and technology research and development. Topics include European demographic trends, the economic and fiscal effects of pension plans, the relative productivity of labor and capital and comparisons of the EU to the United States and the separate countries against each other. A key focus is the two labor markets within Europe: the protected insiders, usually older European men, and the unprotected outsiders, usually immigrants, women and youth. Discussion is mostly limited to the pan-European level so the book can touch only superficially on major issues such as immigration policy and intraunion regulation and trade policy. One serious defect is the book's rambling structure; it has neither clear questions nor strong conclusions. The author is deeply attached to the European social model, but seems vaguely gloomy about its ability to support vibrant economic growth or to extend its coverage to all European residents. Few of the statistics cover periods since 2002 and the many tables list countries in differing and apparently random order making table to table comparisons laborious. (Feb.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Successful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses: Using Knowledge Management to Win Government, Private-Sector, and International Contracts

Author: Robert S Frey

Newly expanded and thoroughly revised to reflect and meet the demands of a high-velocity global business environment, the fourth edition of this popular book and its companion CD-ROM help small and midsized businesses as well as nonprofit organizations and public-sector agencies to achieve effective, efficient, and disciplined business development, proposal development, and knowledge management (KM) processes.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Competitive proposals and small business	1
Ch. 2	Strategic partnering and subcontracting opportunities	43
Ch. 3	Marketing to and with your clients	59
Ch. 4	Requests for proposals	97
Ch. 5	Private-sector solicitation requests	111
Ch. 6	The federal acquisition process : emerging directions	121
Ch. 7	The proposal life cycle	145
Ch. 8	Major proposal components	189
Ch. 9	Acquisition/capture and proposal team activities	213
Ch. 10	The role of the proposal manager	225
Ch. 11	Pursuing international business and structuring international proposals	255
Ch. 12	Proposal production and publication	291
Ch. 13	Human and organizational dynamics of the proposal process	315
Ch. 14	Controlling bid and proposal costs	331
Ch. 15	Tried-and-true proposal writing and editing techniques	339
Ch. 16	Packaging and managing proposal information and knowledge effectively	353
Ch. 17	Leveraging business complexity in a knowledge-based economy	381
Ch. 18	Planning and producing SF330 responses for architect-engineer services	395
	Epilogue : thinking to win small-business competitive proposals	411
App. A	Sample proposal kickoff package	415
App. B	Template to capture important resume information	419
App. C	Marketing information and intelligence sources : federal, international, and private sector	435

Breakthrough Technology Project Management or Principles of Economic Growth

Breakthrough Technology Project Management

Author: Bennet P Lientz

Although there are many books of methods and tools in different areas, few books actually give detailed tips and lessons on how to effectively set up and manage projects. Most books on project management devote all their space to specific methods. Breakthrough Technology Project Management, Second Edition provides tangible guidelines through examples and suggestions to help people participate in and manage projects more effectively. The authors' techniques and guidelines have been proven over the past 15 years in courses and counseling. This book will prove a valuable tool for those working in information systems, engineering, computer science, operations and production, and other environments involving project management.
The Purpose of this Book is to Answer:
* How can the overall technology project management process be improved?
* Which systems projects should be given resources and approved for action?
* How can all systems and technology projects be better managed together?
* How can individual projects be better managed and more successful?
* What are specific guidelines for managing different types of projects?
The Scope of the Book Answers:
* What projects should be approved?
* How do you formulate and start projects effectively?
* How do you manage single and multiple projects?
* How do you identify, analyze, and address specific project issues?
* How do you obtain results through communicating effectively with management, team members, staff, and vendors?

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Describes an approach to the management of information technology projects which emphasizes the management of multiple projects, modern software tools, collaborative teamwork, risk management, and project templates. Lientz (information systems, UCLA) and Rea (a private consultant) cover technology project management from development through implementation. A sampling of topics includes finding the right project leader, building the project team, project tracking and coordination, and operations, maintenance, and enhancement. The final section covers business, human resource, management, technical, vendor and consultant issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. I	Improving the Project Management Process
Ch. 1	Introduction
Ch. 2	Developing Your Project Management Process and Strategy
Ch. 3	Managing Multiple Projects and the Project Slate
Pt. II	Developing Your Project Plans
Ch. 4	The Project Concept
Ch. 5	The Right Project Leader
Ch. 6	Building the Project Team
Ch. 7	Developing the Project Plan
Pt. III	Managing Projects
Ch. 8	Effective Project Tracking and Coordination
Ch. 9	Software Development
Ch. 10	Operations, Maintenance, and Enhancement
Ch. 11	Software Packages
Ch. 12	Technology Projects
Pt. IV	How to Successfully Address Project Issues
Ch. 13	Business Issues
Ch. 14	Human Resource Issues
Ch. 15	Technical Issues
Ch. 16	Vendor and Consultant Issues
	Bibliography
	Index

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Principles of Economic Growth

Author: Thorvaldur Gylfason

This is a concise and reader-friendly introduction to the principles of economic growth for students of economics and business. Thorvaldur Gylfason examines theoretical and empirical models of economic growth through case studies drawn from around the world and gives a trenchant analysis of classic thought in this area. The influence of public policy on economic efficiency and growth is a key theme.

Cost Benefit Analysis or Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond Integrating Your Entire Organization

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Author: Richard Layard

This second edition covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise. It is entirely up to date, reflecting the most recent research in the area.

Part One covers the main theoretical issues affecting cost-benefit analysis.

Part Two considers the problem of ascribing a monetary value to things. The third part covers six separate case studies drawn from real-life examples. The book begins with an extended elementary introduction written by the editors.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Shadow prices and markets: Policy reform, shadow prices and market prices	59
2	Shadow prices and markets: Feasibility constraints: foreign exchange and shadow wages	100
3	Discount rates: The rate of discount for benefit-cost analysis and the theory of the second best	116
4	Risk and uncertainty: Uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions	160
5	Income distribution: Allowing for income distribution	179
6	The costs and benefits of analysis: Project appraisal and planning twenty years on	199
7	Time savings: Research into the value of time	235
8	Safety and the saving of life: The theory of equalizing differences	272
9	Safety and the saving of life: The economics of safety and physical risk	290
10	The environment: The environment and emerging development issues	319
11	Exhaustible resources: Resource depletion, research and development and the social rate of discount	349
12	Regulation and deregulation: Enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation system	375
13	Pricing: Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads	396
14	Public transport: The allocation of urban public transport subsidy	418
15	Health care: QALYs and the equity-efficiency tradeoff	428
16	Infrastructure: Water vending activities in developing countries	448
17	The environment: Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry	464
	Index	491

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Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond Integrating Your Entire Organization

Author: Gary A Langenwalter

To achieve success in today's business climate you must do more than provide high quality low cost products to customers when and how they want them. Customers and suppliers require fully integrated information - throughout the supply chain or value chain. You must integrate your organization so completely that executive decisions are implemented effortlessly. Competitive pressures often cause a reduction in prices, in spite of continually rising costs. A decrease in prices paired with increased costs quickly eliminates any profitability and threatens your company's ability to survive. This book shows you how you can reduce costs through the elimination of waste caused by poor communication and coordination throughout a company as well as between the company, its suppliers, and its customers. The author explains Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in non-technical terms, describing how an ERP system can fully integrate all functions in your manufacturing organization. He demonstrates the system's capability to increase efficiency and profitability - and to delight the customer - as well as its current deficiencies. In addition to his thorough coverage of ERP, the author introduces Total Enterprise Integration (TEI), the process of integrating all the information required to fully support a manufacturing company. TEI represents a logical extension of complete information integration throughout a manufacturing enterprise and into the supply chain. This new concept shows you how the intelligent use of work flow allows responsibility to go to the most appropriate front-line decision makers while maintaining proper budgetary and operational controls. The power of TEI is in the integrationof communication across the entire manufacturing company, and out through the supply chain to customers and suppliers. Enterprise Resource Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization focuses on what a fully integrated system can do for you.

Macroeconomics or The Interactive Computing Series

Macroeconomics

Author: Richard G G Lipsey

This thoroughly revised edition provides a complete, balanced introduction to economics and to the most important issues facing the world's economies at the turn of the millennium. In addition to fine-tuning and streamlining the prose and the overall presentation, the authors have comprehensively updated the text and the applications to reflect recent economic developments and topics of current interest. Students in particular will find the Study Guide, with its practice questions, exercises, and problems, to be an excellent source of study support and extra review material. It is available in both a one- and a two-volume edition.

Library Journal

Why are there no taxes in Kathmandu? Why is rent in Manhattan so high? And who really pays taxes? These and many other questions about economics of interest to a lay audience form the basis of this excellent set, which is tailor-made for public and high school libraries. The staff editors do not provide an academic treatise on the complex, technical details of economic theory or principles. Instead, they focus on translating economics into an easily understood language, making this work highly useful for students--especially at the high school level. The six volumes cover money, banking, and finance; the citizen and the economy; business operations; the U.S. economy and the world; economic theory; and economic history. With the exception of Volume 5 (on economic theory), the volumes contain numerous well-organized chapters that adequately cover the topic. Volume 5 is arranged as an A-Z encyclopedia of shorter articles about fundamental concepts in economics and can be used as both a reference to the other volumes and a stand-alone reference. Numerous charts, diagrams, figures, and glossy photos are used to clarify concepts, and the set's glossary, reading list, and index are re-produced in each of the six volumes, making for easier cross-referencing. With the ever-changing nature of finance law and regulations, this well-prepared reference set will need regular updates, but it remains the resource of choice on economics for its targeted audience.--Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

An introduction to issues, methods, and policy problems in economics. Part I discusses comparative economic systems. Part II deals with demand and supply, and applies the tools of price determination and elasticity to case studies. Part III presents foundations of supply and demand and consumer behavior, and includes material on the derivation of demand curves using indifference curves. Features highlighted key concepts, chapter summaries, questions, and applications boxes. This 11th edition focuses on globalization, and addresses transitional economies in Eastern Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

See also: Energie, Umgebung, und Klimaveränderung

The Interactive Computing Series: PowerPoint 2002 - Introductory

Author: Kenneth Laudon

The Interactive Computing Series is the Visual, Interactive way to develop and apply software skills. This Skills based approach coupled with its highly illustrated, 2 page-spread design is ideal for the intro CIS course, the self-paced course or students in non-traditional education settings.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to PowerPoint

Designing Your Presentation

Developing Your Presentation

Strengthening Your Presentation

Creating a Custom Presentation

Working with Visual Elements and Effects

Working with External Objects

Using PowerPoint in Collaborative Situations

Poverty Vulnerability and Agricultural Extension or The Most Typical Avant Garde

Poverty, Vulnerability, and Agricultural Extension: Policy Reforms in a Globalizing World

Author: Ian Christoplos

The study draws on evidence from India and a range of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to argue that agricultural extension has an essential role in helping farmers to reach into new, often global, markets. There should be a comprehensive strategy within agricultural extension to address low-income agricultural households in the context of their wider livelihoods and not merely as commodity producers.

Table of Contents:

1	The issues	1
2	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in India	44
3	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in Vietnam	90
4	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in Uganda	124
5	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in Nicaragua	171
6	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in Bolivia	210
7	Conclusions : extension and the scope for pro-poor policy reform	224

See also: Hammer and Hoe or The Federal Budget

The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles

Author: David E James

Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of independent cinemas: avant-garde and art cinema, ethnic and industrial films, pornography, documentaries, and many other far-flung corners of film culture. This glorious panoramic history of film production outside the commercial studio system reconfigures Los Angeles, rather than New York, as the true center of avant-garde cinema in the United States. As he brilliantly delineates the cultural perimeter of the film business from the earliest days of cinema to the contemporary scene, David James argues that avant-garde and minority filmmaking in Los Angeles has in fact been the prototypical attempt to create emancipatory and progressive culture.
Drawing from urban history and geography, local news reporting, and a wide range of film criticism, James gives astute analyzes of scores of films--many of which are to found only in archives. He also looks at some of the most innovative moments in Hollywood, revealing the full extent of the cross-fertilization the occurred between the studio system and films created outside it. Throughout, he demonstrates that Los Angeles has been in the aesthetic and social vanguard in all cinematic periods--from the Socialist cinemas of the early teens and 1930s; to the personal cinemas of psychic self-investigation in the 1940s; to attempts in the 1960s to revitalize the industry with the counterculture's utopian visions; and to the 1970s, when African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, women, gays, and lesbians worked to create cinemas of their own. James takes us up to the 1990s and beyond to explore new forms of art cinema that are now transforming the representation of Southern California'sgeography.

Inside the Boardroom or Central Bank Autonomy

Inside the Boardroom: How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance

Author: James Gillies

Distinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directors

In light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc's in-depth five-year study of 39 boards of directors of both for- and not-for-profit organizations, Building a Better Board goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of boards of directors, including how they make decisions.


Recently chosen as one of Canada's "Top 40 Under 40"(TM), Dr Richard Leblanc is an award-winning teacher and researcher, certified management consultant, professional speaker, professor, lawyer and specialist on boards of directors. He can be reached at . James Gillies, PhD (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is Professor Emeritus at the Schulich School of Business, York University, where he serves as Chair of the Canada-Russia Corporate Governance Program.

Interesting book: Perfect Drink for Every Occasion or How to Eat around the World

Central Bank Autonomy: The Federal Reserve System in American Politics

Author: J Kevin Corder

Why is the Federal Reserve System so powerful and autonomous? The autonomy of the central bank in the United States is the joint product of strategic choices made by decision makers in the Fed and choices made by members of Congress. Fed decision makers update administrative procedure in ways that frustrate representative control of monetary policy. Members of Congress tolerate experimentation with procedures and rules because Fed independence creates an obstacle for presidents interested in controlling macroeconomic outcomes for electoral or partisan gain. Central bank autonomy is not a serious threat for members of Congress, as they independently develop a number of federal credit programs to counteract the consequences of monetary policy choices for particular sectors of the economy (notably, home construction and small business enterprise).

The transformation of the Federal Reserve System reveals how gradual and incremental institutional changes can affect the strategies of political actors and policy outcomes. This finding challenges the dominant description of institutional change that has informed applied work on political institutions in both international relations and American politics. Conventional descriptions emphasize long periods of institutional stability punctuated by short periods of rapid change. Institutional change at the Fed is a gradual and continuous process. Incremental changes in monetary policy institutions (reserve requirements, open market rules, selective credit regulations) reveal the rich variety of strategic options for bureaucrats who desire autonomy from elected officials and the real effects of changing policy institutions on macroeconomic andcapital market outcomes.

Table of Contents:

	Tables and Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
1	The Puzzle of Central Bank Autonomy	3
2	Central Bank Autonomy and the Preferences of Central Bankers	23
3	Reserve Requirements and the Distribution of Monetary Restraint	45
4	Open Market Transactions: the Scope and Frequency of Capital Market Intervention	71
5	Selective Credit Controls and Credit Allocation	99
6	Macroeconomic Outcomes and Monetary Policy Institutions	125
7	Capital Market Flows and Federal Credit Institutions	157
8	Representative Control of Monetary Policy	171
	References	187
	Index	197

Meetings Expositions Events and Conventions or In the Mirror of the Third World

Meetings, Expositions, Events and Conventions: An Introduction to the Industry

Author: George Fenich

Meetings, Expositions, Events, and Conventions (MEEC) is one of the fastest growing segments of the United States economy, and embraces multiple aspects of the hospitality and tourism industry. Communities are increasingly trying to attract conventions and special events, and are spending huge sums of money to build convention centers, stadiums, and arenas. No city is considered "world class" without them. Thus, there is a tremendous need for this book. A panel of industry experts determined the topics covered in this book, such as venues, sponsors, organizers, exhibitions, special events, food R beverage, program planning, convention and visitor bureaus, legal issues, technology, and international issues. This book provides a thorough understanding of the MEEC industry. As such, it is a "must read" for anyone thinking of becoming involved in MEEC, or even those with a passing interest in the subject.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to the meetings, expositions, events, and conventions industry	1
2	Planning, organizing, directing, and control in MEEC	32
3	Meeting, exhibition, event, and convention sponsors	75
4	Meeting and convention venues	102
5	Exhibitions	144
6	Special events management	177
7	Food and beverage	204
8	Destination management companies	234
9	Service contractors	277
10	Program planning	305
11	Convention and visitor bureaus	338
12	Legal issues in the MEEC industry	363
13	Directing the future of convention and meeting technology	403
14	International issues in MEEC	438
15	Putting it all together	467

Interesting textbook: 6 Weeks to a Hollywood Body or 100 Simple Secrets of Healthy People

In the Mirror of the Third World: Capitalist Development in Modern Europe

Author: Sandra Halperin

In Marx's familiar dictum, the more-developed country shows the less-developed an image of its own future. Turning this idea upside down, In the Mirror of the 'Third W' looks to the contemporary Third World for a reflection of European history.

Political Economy of Public Administration or International Travel and Tourism

Political Economy of Public Administration: Institutional Choice in the Public Sector

Author: Murray J Horn

This book uses a transactions cost approach to explain the key institutional characteristics across the public sector. It defines the distinctive governance, financing and employment arrangements that characterize the common forms of public sector organization: the regulatory commission, the executive tax-financed bureau and the state-owned enterprise. It suggests why these forms are used to perform different administrative functions, and why legislators often leave very important decisions to be resolved at the administrative level.

Interesting book: Simply Color Therapy or Womans Qigong Guide

International Travel and Tourism

Author: Helle Sorensen

This book is bound to become the industry's top introductory reference on international travel and tourism by offering travel professionals a single source of information on traveling abroad.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	About the Author
Ch. 1	Introduction to International Travel and Tourism	1
Ch. 2	Air Travel Geography	33
Ch. 3	Travel Requirements	67
Ch. 4	International Airfares	91
Ch. 5	International Ticketing	119
Ch. 6	The New Europe	149
Ch. 7	The New Russia	185
Ch. 8	Asia and the Pacific	207
Ch. 9	Developing Nations	233
Ch. 10	A Sustainable Future	261
	Appendices	287
	Glossary	343
	Index	351