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A fabulous failure
How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care ...
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Auditing practices in local governments
Through a comparative analysis of the development of auditing practices in governments across the globe, Auditing Practices in Local Governments: An International Comparison provides a contemporary overview of public sector auditing practices at both local and state level.
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Australian franchising code of conduct
Including chapters on the areas of disclosure, good faith, and intellectual property, Buberis takes a comprehensive approach in exploring the Australian Franchising Code of Conduct's development through its consideration and enforcement by the Regulator and the courts.
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Bailouts
Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive bai...
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Between debt and the devil
Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woesAdair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In ...
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Capital gains
Recent events—the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others—have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field...
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Cogs and monsters
How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Dian...
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Common sense
In Common Sense, the New York Times best-selling author Joel Greenblatt offers an investor’s perspective on building an economy that truly works for everyone. With dry and self-deprecating wit, he makes a lively and provocative case for disruptive new approaches.
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Concrete economics
an excellent new book” Paul Krugman, The New York TimesHistory, not ideology, holds the key to growth.Brilliantly written and argued, Concrete Economics shows how government has repeatedly reshaped the American economy ever since Alexander Hamilton’s first, foundational redesign.This book doe...
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Crisis cycle
How the euro survived a series of crises, and how to make it more resilientThe euro has survived crises unimagined at its founding: the financial meltdown of 2007–2009, the sovereign debt crisis of 2010–2012, the pandemic, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The European Central Bank fought thes...
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Crusading for globalization
The first book to shed light on what caused corporate executives to pursue a pro-globalization agenda over the last eight decadesCrusading for Globalization tells the story of an extraordinarily influential group of business executives at the helms of the largest US multinational corporations and...
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Defeating dengue
This book tells the remarkable story of how a multistakeholder partnership in Indonesia fought dengue fever and explores the implications for all social enterprises and business families seeking to tackle the world’s biggest challenges.
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Designing local e-government
In the age of digitalization, even the way we govern is adapting. Here, Israel Patiño Galvan suggests a specialized design structure as an alternative to the new, digital governments that are becoming increasingly more common.
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Discovering prices
Paul Milgrom describes how auctions can be used to discover prices and guide efficient resource allocations. Milgrom roots his new theories in real-world examples (including the ambitious U.S. incentive auction of radio frequencies, whose design he led) and provides economists with crucial new to...
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Economic risks of climate change
A landmark, data-driven assessment for decision makers intent on insuring their interests against climate change.
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Enhancing transatlantic solidarity in collective defence
The main objective of the book is to show how allied countries manage collective defence across their various domains. Managing defence resources has therefore become a priority in the current context, and increased budgets must be allocated accordingly to enhance current resources.
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Enterprise risk management in europe
Enterprise Risk Management in Europe advances understanding of ERM in Europe, providing a novel and unique set of perspectives on the ongoing dynamics between ERM and corporate processes. This is an essential guide for researchers, practitioners and policy makers both in and beyond European borders.
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Entrepreneurship and innovation in brics economies
This comprehensive book offers a multifaceted exploration of entrepreneurship and innovation across BRICS nations, comprising various themes. It provides an overview of the challenges faced by SMEs, the dynamics of risk management, technology transfer, and global value chains, particularly in the...
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Fda in the twenty-first century
Addresses perennial and new problems and the improvements the FDA can make to better serve the public good.
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Finance and the good society
Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why we need to reclaim finance for the common goodThe reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for ...
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From microfinance to business planning
This groundbreaking book shows how innovative microfinance solutions can help billions to avoid 'poverty traps' and escape atavistic misery. While the success of microfinance has globally exceeded even the wildest expectations, there are still many obstacles – above all the lack of proper busines...
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Future governments
Governments of today need to be future-oriented. The cases and perspectives are grouped in five themes: government foresight, future orientation, regulatory reforms & strategy, the happiness agenda and the sharing economy. The countries covered are: UAE, Iceland, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Ch...
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Government digital
Industry, academic, and government experts present a roadmap for radical change in how we govern. Learnings and recommendations point the way forward for governments in an age where standing still and doing nothing equates failure.
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Growth, development and environmental implications of good governance
Author Ramesh Chandra Das explores the complex ties between governance, economic growth, development, and environmental management. Addressing key questions on governance’s role in development and sustainability, this work uses global case studies to analyze governance models and their impact on ...
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How growth really happens
A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first centuryAchieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to understand how successful growth happens we need an ec...
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Illusions of progress
Today, the word “neoliberal” is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism’s policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism.In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul chronicl...
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Innovation and its discontents
The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation. Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how re...
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Markets, state, and people
A textbook that examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resourcesWhile economic research emphasizes the importance of governmental institutions for growth and progress, conventional public policy textbooks tend to focus on macroeconomic policies and on tax-...
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Multiple loyalties and commitments at work
The authors examine the uniqueness of the public sector in relation to workplace loyalty and commitment, in light of recent phenomena of change in the workplace, including attitudes to work, type of employment and use of technology.
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Pawned states
How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. This reliance on external public finance offered emerging nations endless ...
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Political power and corporate control
Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which compani...
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Pricing lives
How society’s undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk—and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix itLike it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. In the past, government agencies used the financial "cost of death" to monetize the mortality risks of regu...
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Private finance, public power
The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking riskBanks in America are private institutions with private shareholders, boards of directors, profit motives, customers, and competitors. And yet the public plays a key role in deciding what risks are taken as well as how, when, and...
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Proximity
Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff provide an indispensable guide to the Proximity revolution, showing how it’s transforming every industry—and our lives.
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Saving capitalism from the capitalists
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists is a groundbreaking book that will radically change our understanding of the capitalist system, particularly the role of financial markets. They are the catalyst for inspiring human ingenuity and spreading prosperity. The perception of many, especially in th...
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Shaky ground
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created by Congress to serve the American Dream of homeownership. By the end of the century, they had become extremely profitable and powerful companies, instrumental in putting millions of Americans in their homes. So why does the government now want them dead? ...
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Shapeholders
Many companies fail to anticipate activism, and they flounder on first contact. Mark R. Kennedy examines the different languages that shapeholders and companies speak and their contrasting metrics for what constitutes acceptable business practice. Executives, he argues, must be visionaries who fi...
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Smarter new york city
This book explains how innovation from within city agencies and administrations makes urban systems smarter and shapes life in New York City. With case studies challenge the tech-centric view of innovation, Smarter New York City brings together a multidisciplinary and integrated perspective to im...
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Social movements, stakeholders and non-market strategy
This edited collection brings together research that bridges the domains of stakeholder theory, non-market strategy and social movement theory.
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Sovereign wealth funds in resource economies
Sovereign Wealth Funds in Resource Economies explains the fiscal rules and institutional structures that can make SWFs thrive, providing a practical and theoretical guide to their optimal use in resource-revenue management. Khalid Alsweilem and Malan Rietveld's institutional perspective examines ...
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The art of sanctions
The Art of Sanctions offers a practical framework for planning and applying sanctions based on two critical factors: pain and resolve. Focusing on lessons learned from sanctions on Iran and Iraq, Richard Nephew provides policymakers with practical guidance on how to measure and respond to pain an...
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The brazilian way of doing public administration
The Brazilian Way of Doing Public Administration is an accessible collaboration between scholars and practitioners rich with findings applicable worldwide, exploring Brazil’s government’s functioning at various points in recent history.
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The china boom
A systematic investigation into the origins and unraveling of China’s economic miracle.
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The consulting trap
This book exposes how powerful consulting firms influence public policy; with grave consequences for democracy, essential services, and the common good.
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