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Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the FutureDeveloping policies to guide decision making can help the family business avoid serious problems. The authors provide a step-by-step process for engaging family members in developing policies which cover issues such as: dealing with conflicts of interest; retirement timing; distribution of profits; loan programs;...
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How Families Work TogetherThrough an investigative look at familial interactions, the authors highlight normal conflicts, criticisms, and communications failures that are a part of the family experience as well as their effects on working relationships within the enterprise.Author: M. Whiteside, C. Aronoff, J. WardPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 01/11/2011Pages:...
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Family Business Succession: The Final Test of GreatnessHelps to prepare for passing the family business on to the next generation. Leaders will learn how to create a succession plan; how to develop opportunities for succession candidates; how to build consensus with the family and leaders on succession plans and finally leaders...
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Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social IssuesWhen economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or budget deficits, they do so by incorporating an impersonal, detached mode of reasoning. But economists also analyze issues that, to others, typically do not fall within the realm of economic reasoning, such as organ...
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Memoirs of an Unregulated EconomistIn this witty and modest intellectual autobiography, George J. Stigler gives us a fascinating glimpse into the little-known world of economics and the people who study it. One of the most distinguished economists of the twentieth century, Stigler was awarded the Nobel Prize in...
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The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International PerspectiveThe relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it's clear that low-quality government institutions have tremendous negative effects on the health and...
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Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political EconomyAuthor: Stephen a. Resnick, Richard D. WolffPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 07/15/1989Pages: 359Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10dISBN: 9780226710235
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Clashing Over Commerce: A History of Us Trade PolicyShould the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in The Federalist Papers,...
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Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking DemocraticBanks and bankers are hardly the most beloved institutions and people in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold on the American economy, Wall Street is held in high regard by few outside the financial sector. But the pitchforks raised against...
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Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman EmpireWhat distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men--and occasionally women--who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions, and cures, these entrepreneurs...
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Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our SelvesUrban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define them--how do you make neighborhoods productive and fair for their residents? In Making Our Neighborhoods,...
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Thinking Through StatisticsSimply put, Thinking Through Statistics is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work, and one that makes a strong case for revising the way that we try to use statistics to support our theories. But don't let that...
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The Organization of Interests: Incentives and the Internal Dynamics of Political Interest GroupsCriticisms of Mancur Olson's theory of group membership and organizational behavior and discussions of the limits of his formulations are not new, but Terry Moe has set them forth in thoroughgoing fashion, has elaborated and extended them, and has made positive new contributions. The...
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Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century AmericaMost scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage...
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The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through TenureIs a career as a professor the right choice for you? If you are a graduate student, how can you clear the hurdles successfully and position yourself for academic employment? What's the best way to prepare for a job interview, and how can you...
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American Taxation, American SlaveryIn American Taxation, American Slavery, Robin Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear and loathing of taxes. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong and democratic government as a threat...
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Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man EventIn the summer of 2008, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to its organizers. Over four...
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Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. HayekFriedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as...
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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly CapitalismSince the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard...
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The Economics of DiscriminationThis second edition of Gary S. Becker's The Economics of Discrimination has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems...
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