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From stress to growth
Asian financial systems, which serve the most economically dynamic region of the world, survived the global economic crisis of the last several years. In From Stress to Growth: Strengthening Asia's Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World, scholars affiliated with the Peterson Institute for Inter...
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Undiversified
The experienced practitioners Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley examine the lack of women in investment management and propose solutions to improve the imbalance. They explore the barriers that subtly but effectively discourage women from entering and staying in the industry at each point in the pipe...
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Limits of a post-soviet state
Though informed by case studies conducted in Ukraine, this book transcends its country-specific scope. It explains why informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary but a constant in most political systems. The book discusses self-protective mechanisms, responses to incompl...
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Accelerating the globalization of america
Information technology (IT) was key to the superior overall macroeconomic performance of the United States in the 1990s—high productivity, high growth, low inflation, and low unemployment. But IT also played a role in increasing earnings dispersion in the labor market—greatly rewarding workers wi...
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One up
One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of strategy in the video games industry to explain how it has gone from the fringe to the mainstream. Drawing on years of practical and academic experience in the interactive entertainment field, Joost van Dreunen analyzes how business model innovatio...
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Information technology and law
This book is addressed to all who are interested in the interplay between Information Technology and law. It constitutes the result of a project whose aim was to bring together computer scientists, legal theoreticians and legal practitioners and to prompt them to a common reflection on the implem...
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The myth of private equity
The Myth of Private Equity is a hard-hitting and meticulous exposé from an insider’s viewpoint. Jeffrey C. Hooke—a former private equity executive and investment banker with deep knowledge of the industry—examines the negative effects of private equity and the ways in which it has avoided scrutiny.
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An economic history of europe since 1700
Vera Zamagni provides a new economic history of Europe from the birth of industrialization to the financial crisis and its aftermath. The remarkable story of European economic growth is set within the wider context of world economic progress and alongside developments in Asia, Eastern Europe, and...
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British business banking
The UK business banking sector is unique in the EU in probiding most SME funding via bank overdrafts and credit cards rather than long-term loan finance. This book explores British banks’ attitude towards SME finance and the roots of their risk aversion.
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Detroit and the property tax
This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform at the local and state level, as well as insight and analysis to help policy makers across the country protect t...
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Hire purpose
Deanna Mulligan offers a practical look at the effects of automation and why the private sector needs to lead the charge in shaping a values-based response. With a focus on the power of education, she proposes that the solutions to workforce upheaval lie in reskilling and retraining for individua...
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The arrow impossibility theorem
Kenneth J. Arrow's "impossibility theorem" was a watershed in welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice. This book explores the implications of Arrow's theorem. Amartya Sen considers its value and limitations in relation to social reasoning, and Eric Maskin discusses how to design a...
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The venture alchemists
In The Venture Alchemists, Rob Lalka demystifies how tech entrepreneurs built empires that made trillions.
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The enduring value of roger murray
Roger Murray (1911–1998) was a crucial figure in the history of value investing. This book offers a compelling account of Murray’s multifaceted career alongside a series of remarkable lectures he gave late in his life that encapsulated his philosophy of investing.
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The mutual fund industry
Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth, are sure to be more critical in the future. Because the size of fees paid by investors to mutual fund advisers can strongly affect the return on investment, these fees have become a cont...
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The ex-im bank in the 21st century
President Franklin Roosevelt created the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) in 1934 to promote US trade in the midst of the Great Depression. At the outset, the Ex-Im Bank was instructed to supplement, not compete with, private sources of export finance. Historically, the Ex-Im ...
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Leveling the carbon playing field
As political momentum surrounding climate change builds in the US, policymakers are taking a fresh look at national climate policy and American involvement in multilateral climate negotiations. And as in years past, the potential economic impact of any US effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
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At the end of the rainbow?
Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous...
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The new economic nationalism
Can the new economic nationalism of industrial policy, tariffs, and various methods of state support for the economy deliver stability, national security, and prosperity?
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The central bank as crisis manager
In this important study, Patrick Honohan, former governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, calls on central banks to make preparation for crisis management a core activity.
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After crisis
The global financial crisis that exploded around September 2008 was just one more in a series of crises that have affected more than sixty countries in the era of financial liberalization. Of course the latest crisis is particularly significant in a number of ways: it originated in the core of ca...
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Class clowns
Class Clowns dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education and why they consistently fail. Jonathan A. Knee takes readers inside four spectacular financial failures, showing that although deep belief in the powers of the market drove these initiatives, it was investors' failure to ...
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Inside ibm
What made IBM so successful for such a long time, and what lessons can this iconic corporation teach present-day enterprises? James W. Cortada—a business historian who worked at IBM for many years—pinpoints the crucial role of corporate culture.
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Infrastructure economics and policy
In this comparison of infrastructure across countries and sectors, leading international academics and practitioners consider the latest approaches to infrastructure policy, implementation, and finance. The book presents evidence-based solutions and policy considerations, essential concepts and e...
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