Economics
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:National Commission on the Causes of the Financial & Economic Crisis in the United States [Commission, The Financial Crisis Inquiry]

“THE IDEA STRIKES ME AS PERVERSE” Regulators at OFHEO and the Treasury huddled with GSE executives to discuss lowering capital requirements if the GSEs would raise more capital. “The entire ...
( Category: Finance June 16,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Klein, Maury [Klein, Maury]

Chapter 20 Mixed Signals We have no other dependable source of leadership except in Roosevelt and some of the men around him. That is a terrible thing to say about ...
( Category: Americas June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-21 | Author:Anthony Michell

The future of the Samsung brand When the mid-2007 crisis of confidence hit Samsung, marketing had no obvious answer. The Kim–Yun initiative had run its course and been under-supported since ...
( Category: Skills June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Maria Bartiromo

The canniness of Bob Diamond was never more evident than on Tuesday, September 16. Diamond had gone into the weekend wanting Lehman, and now he was on a scavenger hunt. ...
( Category: Finance June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Macey, Jonathan [Macey, Jonathan]

Endnotes 1. Ross L. Watts and Jerold L. Zimmerman, “Agency Problems, Auditing, and the Theory of the Firm: Some Evidence,” Journal of Law and Economics 26 (1983): 613; see also ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales June 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Fred Pearce

Eka Tjipta Widjaja was born Oei Ek Tjhong. He emigrated from China to Sulawesi in Indonesia with his family at the age of nine. He started in business selling cookies ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-29 | Author:Roam, Dan [Roam, Dan]

Seeing beyond the numbers As we’ve discussed, charts are a really big deal in business.21 Since businesses measure success and failure almost entirely (and exclusively) by numbers, it’s not surprising ...
( Category: Skills June 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-18 | Author:Wheelan, Charles [Wheelan, Charles]

All that is well and good. But how does one get rich in the markets? One of my former colleagues at The Economist suggested that this book should be called ...
( Category: Economics June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:John R. Lott

Overall, the three crime fighting techniques outlined above—increased use of the death penalty, rising arrest and conviction rates, and the passage of right-to-carry laws—account for between 50 and 60 percent ...
( Category: Economics June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-02 | Author:Roger Martin [MARTIN, ROGER]

USEFUL INCENTIVE COMPENSATION If stock-based compensation doesn’t work, what then is the nature of useful incentive compensation? Before diving into an answer, we must observe one important caveat: while we ...
( Category: Management & Leadership June 15,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Palast, Greg [Palast, Greg]

Now, Schwartz stands. Giffen’s mouthpiece is about to earn his $600 an hour. At a dark-wood lectern, tall and dramatic, the attorney says that his client had merely “failed to ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Thomas C. Schelling & Thomas C. Schelling

4 SORTING AND MIXING: RACE AND SEX PEOPLE GET SEPARATED along many lines and in many ways. There is segregation by sex, age, income, language, religion, color, personal taste, and ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]

Discouraged workers are those who are willing and able to work, but become so frustrated in their attempts to find work that they stop trying. Because they are not making ...
( Category: Macroeconomics June 15,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1999-04-15 | Author:Prajit K. Dutta [Dutta, Prajit K.]

( Category: Economics June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Joel Mokyr

CHAPTER EIGHT Classical and Medieval Technology Why did classical society, with its indisputable intellectual superiority, achieve so little by way of technological innovation compared to the crude and illiterate peasants ...
( Category: Industries June 15,2017 )