Economics
epub, pdf |deu | 2013-01-11 | Author:Henry Hazlitt

Chapter Sixteen “STABILIZING” COMMODITIES Attempts to lift the prices of particular commodities permanently above their natural market levels have failed so often, so disastrously and so notoriously that sophisticated pressure ...
( Category: Economics June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Huntington, James B. [Huntington, James B.]

Upshot: Four Dead Ends The areas here, more education and training, pursuing certain doubtful business activities, protectionist measures, and controlling or complaining about China, have two things in common. They ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Charles R. Morris

CHAPTER SIX America Is Number Two BY 1860, THE UNITED STATES WAS HOME TO 31 MILLION PEOPLE, OR NEARLY as populous as Great Britain and France. Until the 1830s, population ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Charles Eisenstein [Eisenstein, Charles]

THE DEBT CRISIS: OPPORTUNITY FOR TRANSITION A golden opportunity to transition to negative-interest money may be nigh in the form of the “debt bomb” that nearly brought down the global ...
( Category: Economics June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Danny Kennedy [Kennedy, Danny]

Sungevity as a Case in Point To get a solid quote, Sungevity’s customers fill out a simple online form, which includes identifying their home on a map interface for us. ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Wilhelm, Kevin [Wilhelm, Kevin]

Socially Responsible Investing Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) refers to the incorporation of the investor’s social or ethical criteria in the investment decision-making process. Before I write about the specifics of ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales June 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Steven G. Mandis [Mandis, Steven G.]

Management Committee Composition The changes in the membership of Goldman Sachs’ management committee corroborate the idea of a shifting emphasis toward the legal standard of compliance and away from the ...
( Category: Economics June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

Figure 19. US energy consumption by source (Source: US Energy Information Administration) France and the UK, despite having pursued breeder programs for several decades, have no plans for constructing more ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-12 | Author:Edward McClelland

10. “We’re All Going to End Up in Chicago” “What did Chicago do right?” a woman from Cleveland once asked me. In the 1990s, Chicago was the only Midwestern industrial ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron & Meera Balarajan

Figure 6.2. International remittances: top ten countries in terms of total receipts (US$ billions) and as percentage of GDP, 2008. Dilip Ratha, Sanket Mohapatra, and Zhimei Xu. 2008. “Outlook for ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-27 | Author:Jeff Kingston

Chinese Migrants Most of the 655,000 Chinese-born people residing in Japan as of 2008 came after the mid-1980s, making them the fastest-growing ethnic community. Between 1990 and 2005, 58,879 Chinese ...
( Category: Asia June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:North, Douglass C. [North, Douglass C.]

FIGURE 7.12. Scientific Periodicals, 1780-Present. Source: Law and Kim (2003). * Taken from the HOLLIS Catalog of Harvard University. Number of titles in HOLLIS Catalog equals the number of records ...
( Category: Economics June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Ryan Avent [Avent, Ryan]

As impressive as these new firms are, and as dramatic as the sectorial change has been since the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, we have only scratched the surface ...
( Category: Economics June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Carswell [Carswell, Simon]

12. Rounding Up the Golden Circle July 2008 – Anglo’s value: €4.4 billion On Friday, 4 July at 2.28 a.m., Drumm, still in the US, sent an email to a ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-25 | Author:Suleman Baig, Moorad Choudhry

Exhibit 3.5 Default vintage curves II Exhibit 3.4 shows the levels of incremental defaults to be diminishing, and the flattening effect produced by the curves allows us to infer that ...
( Category: Economics June 13,2017 )