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Truth in accounting
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Beggar thy neighbor
The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usur...
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The beneficiary in life insurance
The Beneficiary in Life Insurance consists of ten lectures by leading authorities explaining the principles of designating and protecting the beneficiary.
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Group incentives
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Corporation nation
From bank bailouts and corporate scandals to the financial panic of 2008 and its lingering effects, corporate governance in America has been wracked by crises. Amid a weakening system of checks and balances in which corporate executives have little incentive to protect shareholder interests, U.S....
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The prepared leader
The next crisis might be here now, or it might be around the corner. In The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before, two history-making experts in crisis leadership—James, dean of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Wooten, president of Simmons Uni...
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Manpower in homebuilding
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Some economic aspects of business organization
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Market restraints in the retail drug industry
Founded in 1921 as a separate Wharton department, the Industrial Research Unit has a long record of publication and research in the labor market, productivity, union relations, and business report fields. Major Industrial Research Unit studies as published as research projects are completed. This...
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Positioning pensions for the twenty-first century
As the United States comes to terms with the pending insolvency of social security, workers are increasingly pinning their hopes for retirement adequacy on employer-sponsored plans. Positioning Pensions for the Twenty-First Century analyzes the role of pensions in retirement security, examining h...
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Economics and the real world
Drawing on a lifetime of distinguished work in economic research and policymaking, Andrew Kamarck details how his profession can more usefully analyze and solve economic problems by changing its basic approach to research.Kamarck contends that most economists today strive for a mathematical preci...
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Collective bargaining in the pacific coast pulp and paper industry
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Negro employment in public utilities
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Corporate governance failures
Corporate governance, the internal policies and leadership that guide the actions of corporations, played a major part in the recent global financial crisis. While much blame has been targeted at compensation arrangements that rewarded extreme risk-taking but did not punish failure, the performan...
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Voluntary allotment
A practical plan to balance supply and demand in farm products in order to restore the agricultural income of 1930.
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The immigrant exodus
A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARMany of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small busine...
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Selling style
As the turn of the twentieth century approached, clothing and fashion reflected Americans' concerns with the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape. Clothing helped define social status, relationships between men and women, and ideals of American citizenship. The heightened importance of ...
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World insurance trends
Proceedings of the First International Insurance Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1957
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Econometric model performance
Models of the American economy exist in government, research institutes, universities, and private corporations. Given the proliferation, it is wise to take stock because these models come from diverse sources and describe different conditions from alternative points of view. They could be saying...
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Negro employment in finance
This volume investigates African-American employment in banking and insurance in the United States. The authors describe how these once almost all-white industries are now employing large numbers of African-American and what problems remain to be solved before equal employment opportunity can be ...
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An analysis of production of worsted sales yarn
A study based on data for the years 1911-1913 and 1919-1929, supplied by spinners owning 90 per cent of the active sales-yarn spindles in the United States.
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Workers' emotions in shop and home
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The nlrb and the appropriate bargaining unit
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Steam power on the american farm
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