Economics
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Friedman, Walter

CRITICISM AND CRISIS Despite its international connections, the Harvard Economic Service faced challenges on several fronts—more than its competitors had encountered. On the one hand, a barrage of criticism came ...
( Category: Economic History June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-06-22 | Author:Robert L. Heilbroner

We need not spell out the whole emotionally charged argument; the crux of it lies in this passage. Henry George is outraged at the spectacle of men whose incomes—sometimes fabulous ...
( Category: Theory June 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Barth, John [Barth, John]

Additional small strain, somebody just said, on a prevailingly happy marriage. Mandy's and mine has been that, for sure; keenly aware of each other's strengths and shortcomings, we feel much ...
( Category: Short Stories June 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Richard Donkin

We worked in the huge Buna plant, to which we were herded each morning about 3 a.m. At midday our food consisted of potato and turnip soup, and in the ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-08 | Author:Das, Gurcharan

wholesalers and retailers, Dhirubhai Ambani was hustling nearby in Bombay's Mulji Jetha wholesale market. He was peddling imported nylon yarn, which he had acquired through the export of rayon fabric. ...
( Category: Asian June 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Drèze, Jean & Sen, Amartya [Drèze, Jean]

Proportion of BPL households who did not get any foodgrains from the PDS in the last 3 months (%) 35 0 Average foodgrain purchases of BPL households from the PDS ...
( Category: Democracy June 9,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:carr

respectable and solid class than the nouveaux riches of the midcentury. The career of Juan March, who became the richest man in modern Spain, represents the persistence of an earlier ...
( Category: History June 6,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Heuer, Richards J. & Pherson, Randolph H. [Heuer, Richards J. & Pherson, Randolph H.]

Overview of Techniques Key Assumptions Check is one of the most important and frequently used techniques. Analytic judgment is always based on a combination of evidence and assumptions, or preconceptions, ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides June 6,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-05-31 | Author:Adam Smith [Smith, Adam]

CHAPTER V. OF BOUNTIES. Bounties upon exportation are, in Great Britain, frequently petitioned for, and sometimes granted, to the produce of particular branches of domestic industry. By means of them, ...
( Category: Theory June 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-24 | Author:Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski [Kuper, Simon & Szymanski, Stefan]

operated. When American officials wanted an Iraqi to do something, the lawyer said, they would generally call the person into the Green Zone and if necessary “bawl him out.” Sometimes ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports June 1,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-30 | Author:Yunus, Muhammad [Yunus, Muhammad]

After 1986, when Grameen made it clear to the World Bank that we would not let it tell us how to run our business, the bank decided to try to ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration May 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Muhammad Yunus [Yunus, Muhammad]

After 1986, when Grameen made it clear to the World Bank that we would not let it tell us how to run our business, the bank decided to try to ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration May 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Jackson, Andrew & Dyson, Ben [Jackson, Andrew]

The power to shape the economy The previous section showed that banks are able to use the funds that flow to them, as a result of payments made to their ...
( Category: Banks & Banking May 30,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Amartya Sen

THE REACH AND LIMITS OF HAPPINESS It is hard to deny that happiness is extremely important and we have very good reason to try to advance people’s happiness, including our ...
( Category: History & Theory May 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Teitelbaum, Michael S.

[A]ssessing the claims of labor market shortages is crucial. Purported labor market shortages for scientists and engineers are anecdotal and also not supported by the available evidence. Little analysis has ...
( Category: Economics May 29,2014 )