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Passion for reality
The first biography of a major early-twentieth-century business leader and the historical and ethical implications of his work.
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Sports entrepreneurship
This book is for anyone who dreams of starting a sports business. Christopher Mumford explores the state of the game in data analytics, sports betting, eSports, youth sports, fitness, and the fan experience.
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Currency conflict and trade policy
C. Fred Bergsten and Joseph E. Gagnon trace the history, causes, and effects of currency manipulation and analyzes a range of policy responses that the United States could adopt. The book is an indispensable guide to a complex and serious problem and what might be done to solve it.
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Leasing public land
Leasehold systems offer a flexible form of land tenure that can be designed to provide an ongoing stream of revenue to finance public infrastructure. Leasing public land has long been advocated as a viable land tenure option for former socialist countries and other transitional economies. However...
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Inside the investments of warren buffett
Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century's most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did they know they were making the right investments? What did Buffet and his partners look for in an up-and-coming company, and how can others replicate t...
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The economics of cars
This book explains how the car industry works and analyzes the challenges for the sector and for the economies that rely on the industry. Fabio Cassia and Matteo Ferrazzi investigate why western and Japanese manufacturers still dominate the market and how fluctuations in oil prices and changing e...
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The china miracle
The tremendous success of China's economic reform, in contrast with the vast difficulties encountered by the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries in their transition, has attracted worldwide attention. Using a historical, comparative and analytic approach grounded in mainstream econ...
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Escaping the resource curse
The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with large...
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Equitably developing america’s smaller legacy cities
Many smaller industrial cities in the Rust Belt declined in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This report presents strategies for reinventing these places—tapping their full potential while preparing workers for jobs, helping local businesses expand, empowering residents to become civic l...
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Management by values
?This book demonstrates the significance of values in organizational management. It depicts differences between various types of organization, including joint stock companies, other trading companies, and non-commercial enterprises. The book emphasizes the role of values in the formation of organ...
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Risk, choice, and uncertainty
Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty offers a new narrative of the three-century history of the study of decision making, tracing how crucial ideas have evolved and telling the stories of the thinkers who shaped the field. George G. Szpiro examines economics from theories of optimal decision making to b...
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The right balance for banks
William R. Cline analyzes whether reforms of capital requirements for banks have gone far enough. He calculates how much higher bank capital reduces the risk of banking crises. This study also challenges the recent "too much finance" literature, which holds that in advanced countries banking sect...
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Reset
James Rubin and Barie Carmichael provide a roadmap for businesses to rebuild trust and find their voice. Reset offers case studies of reputations lost and found, suggesting fundamental strategies to mitigate risk and build the corporate brand. This book is a guide to navigating the pitfalls and t...
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Essays on civil war, inequality and underdevelopment
These essays are a significant contribution to understanding the failure of sustainable economic development and the armed conflict that it spawns in developing states.
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A new statistical domain in india
A new structure of local government, the contemporary village panchayat, has emerged in rural India as a consequence of the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992. This new statistical domain requires databases for the development functions that have been allocated to it. This book is a study of...
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Garden variety
John Hoenig explores the path by which the tomato went from a rare seasonal crop to America’s favorite vegetable. Garden Variety illuminates American culinary culture from 1800 to the present, challenging a simple story of mass-produced homogeneity and demonstrating the persistence of diverse foo...
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From head shops to whole foods
From Head Shops to Whole Foods writes a new history of social movements and capitalism by showing how activists embraced small businesses. Joshua Clark Davis uncovers the historical roots of contemporary interest in ethical consumption while exploring how today’s companies have adopted the langua...
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Speculation, trading, and bubbles
José A. Scheinkman offers new insight into the mystery of bubbles in financial markets. Noting some general characteristics of bubbles—such as the rise in trading volume and the coincidence between increases in supply and bubble implosions—Scheinkman offers a model, based on differences in belief...
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Too little, too late
The current approach to resolving sovereign debt crises does not work: sovereign debt restructurings come too late and do too little. Providing guidance for those who intend to take up reform, this book assesses the relative merits of various debt-restructuring proposals, especially in relation t...
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Airport competitiveness
In recent years, there has been intensive development of the Polish civil aviation sector, especially regional airports. Effective growth requires a diagnosis of their competitiveness in today's turbulent passenger transport market. The book compares regional airports in Poland with competitive E...
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Kosher usa
Roger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher to the success of Manischewitz wine with non-Jewish consumers, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the history of modern Jewish American life a...
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