Economics
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-27 | Author:Ian Morris [Morris, Ian]

Figure 5.16. Eastern and Western war-making capacity, 200 BCE–1600 CE. The shape of the curves for Western and Eastern war-making capacity between 200 BCE and 1500 CE (figure 5.16) suggests ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Greg Farrell [Farrell, Greg]

LEHMAN WAS NOT SCHEDULED to announce its third-quarter earnings until midmonth, but the loss of confidence in the marketplace forced Fuld and his top managers to rush out their earnings ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Suzanne McGee [McGee, Suzanne]

Efforts at Reform? Several Wall Street firms began to tweak their compensation packages in late 2008 in response to the public outrage, introducing the concept of the clawback to investment ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-27 | Author:The Economist

* * * This article was downloaded by calibre from http://www.economist.com/news/china/21565228-westerners-who-laud-chinese-meritocracy-continue-miss-point-embarrassed-meritocrats/print | Section Menu | Main Menu | Middle East and Africa Lebanon and Syria: Peering into the abyss Syria’s ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Liaquat Ahamed

PART FOUR REAPING ANOTHER WHIRLWIND 1928-33 16. INTO THE VORTEX 1928-29 At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money. . . . ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:The Economist

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( Category: Theory March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Kaufman, Josh [Kaufman, Josh]

Reorganization Not all those who wander are lost. — J. R. R. TOLKIEN, AUTHOR OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS Whenever a perception violates the system’s Reference Level, action will ...
( Category: Management March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Coase, Ronald & Wang, Ning [Wang, Ning]

6 From Capitalism to Capitalisms In the concluding speech at the close of the 2008 Chicago Conference on China’s Market Transformation on July 18th, 2008, Ronald Coase pronounced that “the ...
( Category: Economic History March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Kindleberger, Charles P. & Aliber, Robert Z. [Kindleberger, Charles P.]

Four innovations contributed to the surge in property prices and real estate prices in Mexico, Thailand, and other emerging-market countries in the early 1990s. The funding of the overhang of ...
( Category: Economics March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-20 | Author:Douglas E. French [French, Douglas E.]

3. DEPRESSION BABIES LEARNED early that “saving for a rainy day” was not something one hopes to do but a requirement. The saying originated when most people worked on the ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-28 | Author:Terry L. Anderson [Anderson, Terry L.]

The Skyline pilot effort, negotiated between a willing seller and buyer, can demonstrate the energy, environmental, and economic benefits associated with transfers from out-of-stream to instream flows in the Columbia ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Thomas E Woods [Woods, Thomas E]

It's Not the Markets, It's the Morals: How Excessively Blaming Markets Undermines Civil Society John Larrivee The extreme ideologies of the twentieth century—Communism, fascism, and National Socialism—produced totalitarian disaster wherever ...
( Category: Economic History March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & Kenneth Cukier

The big-data value chain The primary substance of big data is the information itself. So it makes sense to look first at the data holders. They may not have done ...
( Category: Development & Growth March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-20 | Author:The Economist

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( Category: Macroeconomics March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Woods, Jr., Thomas E.

The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, on the other hand, understood that the inflationary boom was inherently unsustainable and had to come to an end. The permanent prosperity that mainstream ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 3,2015 )