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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social ProgressIt has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output...
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Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and PracticesNonprofit organizations in the United States have exploded over the past two decades, and while many books touch on aspects of these organizations, few directly address the principles and practices incoming workers need to know to become leaders in the field. This volume begins...
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Complexity Theory for a Sustainable FutureComplexity theory illuminates the many interactions between natural and social systems, providing a better understanding of the general principles that can help solve some of today's most pressing environmental issues. Complexity theory was developed from key ideas in economics, physics, biology, and the social...
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The Legacy Family: The Definitive Guide to Creating a Successful Multigenerational FamilyWritten by two experts in the field, will provide readers with a roadmap for detailing how to leave family wealth and more importantly, legacy, intact. Readers will learn a variety of skills, including how to articulate a collective vision and aspiration for the future...
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Human Development Report 2006: Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and Global Water CrisisIn the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.Author: United Nations...
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Creating Good Work: The World's Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy EconomyCreating Good Work is a practical guide book, that recounts the stories of some of the most successful social entrepreneurial programs operating today, with real life examples of and how they overcame both physical and societal barriers to create a lasting impact on the...
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Research MethodsThe Business Briefings series offers authoritative introductory textbooks in core business topics. Covering the basics and providing springboards to further study, the books take a no-nonsense practical approach, and are ideal as accessible introductions or as revision guides. This book explains what is required...
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Borderless EconomicsA century ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call--or Skype--home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their...
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Credit Guarantee Institutions and Sme FinanceThis book analyses and confronts the functioning of guarantee systems for SMEs in countries where these schemes had an important development. The book also highlights how the current financial crisis is modifying the guarantees schemes, through policy maker interventions.Author: Paola Leone, Gianfranco A. VentoPublisher:...
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The Illusion of Leadership: Directing Creativity in Business and the ArtsPeople need a degree of free choice for creativity and change to happen. But they must also have boundaries. At one level this is what politics and business are all about. Too much of the wrong sort of control and the system becomes bureaucratic...
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13 Steps to Manufacturing in China: The Definitive Guide to Opening a Plant, from Site Location to Plant Start-UpA comprehensive reference book providing the tactics, strategies, and methodology for establishing a manufacturing plant in China. The book is jam packed with details including sourcing Chinese equipment, importing used or new equipment, building construction, and permit requirements.Author: B. MitchellPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 02/07/2012Pages: 384Binding...
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Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family BusinessThis book establishes the principles and patterns necessary to laying the foundation for capital and liquidity planning. Through an in-depth examination of financial situations, it leads family businesses to making wise, well-timed choices about the future of the business and the family.Author: François M....
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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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