Economics
mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Mark R. Tercek & Jonathan S. Adams [Tercek, Mark R.]

MARINE ECOSYSTEMS ARE MORE DYNAMIC AND INTERCONNECTED than grasslands, forests, or deserts. And compared to land-based resources, much more of the ocean is considered common property, open to all comers, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Ludwig von Mises [Mises, Ludwig von]

CHAPTER 19 Interest 1 The Phenomenon of Interest * * * It has been shown that time preference is a category inherent in every human action. Time preference manifests itself ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Robin Chase

Taxi regulations are full of outdated rules; hence the success of Uber and Lyft. Washington, D.C.’s Taxicab Commission chairman, Ron Linton, said that “Uber’s service is illegal because its drivers ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Christopher Meyer

Collaboration Emerges By now, transaction costs have fallen so low and the ability to connect with others is so pervasive and rich that collaboration and collective action bubble up unbidden ...
( Category: International December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Adam L. Penenberg [Penenberg, Adam L.]

[ WHAT NOT TO DO ] Because the odds of benefiting from a phenomenon like the Mentos–Diet Coke geysers can be less than the chances of winning American Idol, some ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Matthew Hancock & Nadhim Zahawi [Hancock, Matthew]

The Rise of the Machines For centuries, mankind has tried to manage risk. Fear over the future is part of our survival instinct, whether you hoard food, save money, or ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Edward Tse

GEELY BUYS A BRAND At the start of 2010, Geely Auto was a minor player in China’s auto industry—a mid-sized, privately owned carmaker based in east China’s Zhejiang Province. The ...
( Category: International December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Robert Paarlberg

Culture and Overeating When considering the cultural sources of excessive food consumption in America, individualism does become the most useful place to start. Americans are the most individualistic people in ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-08-18 | Author:Edmund S. Phelps [Phelps, Edmund S.]

FIGURE 7.3 Market capitalization and labor productivity: business output per employed worker. Market capitalization variable measures the value of shares in the corporate sector in 1988. Labor productivity is calculated ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:Rachel Botsman & Roo Rogers

I’ll Help You, Someone Else Helps Me Anthropologists and socioeconomists have spent decades examining the principle of people responding to a positive action with another positive action, referred to as ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Robert W. McChesney [McChesney, Robert W.]

A Military-Digital Complex? In his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ominously warned about the military-industrial complex that had emerged as a cornerstone of the American political economy ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Zachary Karabell

8 WHERE’S WALDO? And now we return to the question posed at the beginning of the book: What if you were told that one of the core assumptions that we ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Peter Nolan

3.5 Multinational companies ‘going in’ to China It would be a serious misunderstanding of the strategy of multinational companies to exaggerate the significance of China compared with other parts of ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-07-01 | Author:Scott D. Anthony & Mark W. Johnson & Joseph V. Sinfield & Elizabeth J. Altman [Anthony, Scott D.]

That’s not to say that organizations should jump into completely unknown waters. It is important to understand how your capabilities can help you stretch into new, high-profit territory. Few have ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )