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From vision to action
Drawing on his extensive career, John Marks provides a practitioner’s guide to the underlying principles of social entrepreneurship.
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Global economics in extraordinary times
Over the course of five decades, John Williamson has published an extraordinary number of books, articles, and other pieces on topics ranging from international monetary economics to development policy and bridging scholarly literature and policy debates. This book provides an overview and insigh...
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Learn or die
In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, and education with key research on high-performance businesses to create an actionable blueprint for becoming a leading-edge learning organization.
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Improving tax increment financing (tif) for economic development
In the most comprehensive assessment of tax increment financing (TIF) with practical policy recommendations, economist David Merriman reviews more than 30 studies and offers guidance for local policy makers and practitioners. The report explains how TIF districts work, illustrates TIF use with ca...
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Buying gay
David K. Johnson tells the story of the physique magazine produced by and for gay men to show how gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay-rights movement but an important catalyst for it. He offers a vivid look into the lives of physique entrepreneurs and their customers, presenting a wealth ...
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The arab economies in a changing world
The tragic events of 9/11 and the subsequent war in Iraq have focused international attention on a nexus of problems involving economic underperformance, problematic internal politics, and externalization of domestic dissent in the Muslim world. This book examines the economics of the Middle East...
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The seventh sense
The first book to apply advances in neuroscience to the greatest problem of personal strategy: “What should I do with my life?”
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Intellectual property rights in the global economy
Over the past 15 years, intellectual property rights (IPRs)-patents, copyrights, and trademarks-have moved from an arcane area of legal analysis and a policy backwater to the forefront of global economic policymaking. In the 1990s dozens of countries unilaterally strengthened their laws and regul...
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Dollar overvaluation and the world economy
The dollar rose by about 35 percent in real terms from 1995 through the end of 2001, supporting the booming US economy of the late 1990s but pushing the current account deficit to a record high of almost 5 percent of GDP. This special report provides alternative views of how large a dollar deprec...
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The canadian non-profit sector
A comprehensive overview of the anatomy of the Canadian non-profit sector providing critical analysis of key social policy and political issues.
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Making the property tax work
This book analyzes the property tax in developing and transitional countries, addressing why it does not work well there and what can be done to make it a more relevant source of revenue for those governments. It shows that, with careful design and administration, the property tax can be a key to...
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Economic thought
In this concise history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray how insights are acquired, lost, and reborn. He focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the historical events that provoke the combination and recombination of d...
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If you're in a dogfight, become a cat!
Leonard Sherman draws on decades of experience in management consulting, venture capital, and teaching business strategy at Columbia Business School to share practical advice on two of the most vexing issues facing business executives: why is it so hard to achieve long-term profitable growth, and...
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The corporate art index
Based on extensive research, Viviane Mörmann presents twenty-one promising corporate art initiatives (CAIs). She introduces different types of art initiatives and provides a standardized scheme to evaluate them.
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Bailouts or bail-ins?
Roughly once a year, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the US treasury secretary and in some cases the finance ministers of other G-7 countries will get a call from the finance minister of a large emerging market economy. The emerging market finance minister will indicate ...
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How latin america weathered the global financial crisis
Why has the economy of Latin America responded more positively than Asia, Europe, or the United States after being hit by the recent global financial crisis? Three years after the worst of the crisis, Latin America's GDP is 25 percent higher than its precrisis level. José De Gregorio, Governor of...
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The case for an international banking standard
This study presents the case for an international banking standard (IBS) to deal with the rash of banking crises in developing countries. Over the past 15 years, almost three-fourths of the IMF's member countries have experienced at least one serious bout of banking problems; there have been at l...
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The decline of us labor unions and the role of trade
Between 1977 and 1997, there was a precipitous decline in the proportion of US workers with median education (12 years or less) who were represented by a labor union—from 29 to 14 percent; the unionization proportion declined much less among workers with above-median education (19 to 13 percent)....
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Housing markets and the economy
The timing of this volume could not be more opportune. Based on the work of Karl “Chip” Case, who is renowned for his scientific contributions to the economics of housing and public policy, chapters analyze risk in the housing market, the regulation of housing markets by government, and other iss...
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Barriers down
Barriers Down reveals the unexpected origins of freedom of information in political, economic, and cultural battles in the postwar period. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global m...
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Currencies and politics in the united states, germany, and japan
Currencies and Politics is the first comprehensive, in-depth comparison of the institutions and processes that formulate domestic and external monetary policy in the U.S., Germany, and Japan. It outlines the differences in policymaking among the three countries and the policy patterns they produc...
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Conservation capital in the americas
Conservation finance innovations are central to protecting ecosystems. Through case studies, this book shows environmentalists and policy makers how to find the financial, human, social, and natural capital to steward the earth's resources for future generations.
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Payments in lieu of taxes
Payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) programs for nonprofits provide crucial revenue for many municipalities, but they are not perfect. Through case studies and research, this report provides guidelines for when municipalities should consider PILOTs, highlights the importance of municipal–nonprofit ...
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