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Dancing With Giants: China, India, And the Global Economy
World Bank Publications | ISBN 0821367498 | 2007-01-10 | PDF | 288 pages | 1.05 Mb
China has one advantage over us. An early start. China has built a strong manufacturing base with an eye on the global market (40% of its GDP is from exports vs 15% for us). However, in the end, China has one disadvantage. In China the State is determining who will pursue economic activity and who will not by its "hukou" system (license to live in special zones) and "TVE system" (town and village enterprise owned by local governments with limited authority to retain and reinvest super profits). This was useful in creating "private firms" in a socialist economy.
Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization: The Latin American Experience (Latin American Development Forum)
Stanford Economics and Finance | ISBN 0804757194 | 1960-10-27 | PDF | 518 pages | 1.05 Mb
Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately, they are now faced with disheartening results. Stock and bond markets remain illiquid and segmented. Debt is concentrated at the short end of the maturity spectrum and denominated in foreign currency, exposing countries to maturity and currency risk.
Capital markets in Latin America look particularly underdeveloped when considering the many efforts undertaken to improve the macroeconomic environment and to reform the institutions believed to foster capital market development. The disappointing performance has made conventional policy recommendations questionable, at best.
Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization analyzes where we stand and where we are heading on capital market development. First, it takes stock of the state and evolution of Latin American capital markets and related reforms over time and relative to other countries. Second, it analyzes the factors related to the development of capital markets, with particular interest on measuring the impact of reforms. And third, in light of this analysis, it discusses the prospects for capital market development in Latin America and emerging economies and the implications for the reform agenda.
Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution
Cambridge University Press | ISBN0521625343 | 2001-11-19 | PDF | 262pages | 1.25 Mb
This book spans two million years of human evolution and explores the impact of economics on human evolution and natural history. The theory of evolution by natural selection has always relied in part on progress in areas of science outside of biology. By applying economic principles at the borderlines of biology, Haim Ofek shows how some of the outstanding issues in human evolution, such as the increase in human brain size and the expansion of the environmental niche humans occupied, can be answered. He identifies distinct economic forces at work, beginning with the transition from the feed-as-you-go strategy of primates, through hunter-gathering and the domestication of fire to the development of agriculture. This highly readable book will inform and intrigue general readers and those in fields such as evolutionary biology and psychology, economics, and anthropology.
McGraw-Hill | December 15, 2005 | 307 pages | ISBN: 0071459103 | PDF | 8.8 Mb
From the Back Cover
The fast and easy way to learn corporate finance!
Now anyone can grasp the fundamentals of corporate finance--without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In Corporate Finance Demystified, finance professor Troy Adair provides an effective, illuminating, and entertaining way to learn this complex subject.
This self-teaching guide first explains the basic principles of corporate finance, including accounting statements, cash flows, and ratio analysis. Then, you’ll get into the specifics of such topics as the time value of money, interest rate conversion, payment composition, and amortization schedules. Details on valuing bonds, stocks, and options as well as measuring risk and return are also included. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will teach you the ins-and-outs of corporate finance in no time at all.
Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Corporate Finance Demystified is your shortcut to a working knowledge of this important business topic.
This hands-on, self-teaching text offers:
* An easy way to understand corporate finance
* Hundreds of worked examples with solutions
* A quiz at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses
* A final exam at the end of the book
* No unnecessary technical jargon
* A time-saving approach to performing better on an exam or at work!
Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control
Inst of Economic Affairs | ISBN 0255365128 | 2001-12 | PDF | 295 pages | 585 kB
Twenty-five years after the founding of Britain's first and fully independent university, the University of Buckingham, it is time to take stock. Many commentators say that universities are in crisis, in terms of funding, resources and above all staff morale. New ways must be found for them to flourish and prosper.
One means of finding these 'new ways' is to revisit some of the lessons that led to the creation of the University of Buckingham in the first place, and re-apply them to the changing conditions of the present. This collection therefore includes Harry S. Fern's Towards and Independent University, first published by the IEA in 1969, which provided the intellectual framework for the creation of Buckingham as a university. A selection of up-to-date essays by notable academics and commentators complements Fern's important paper: all specially commissioned for this volume, the essays reflect on the past, present and future of British universities and put them into the context of an increasingly competitive global market.
International Economics (with InfoTrac)
South-Western College Pub | ISBN 0324205910 | 2004-12-03 | PDF | 560 pages | 28.3 Mb
The hallmark approach of this very successful market-leading text is its clear and concise treatment of international trade and finance theory illustrated with a wealth of the most up-to-date contemporary issues and examples. Carbaugh demonstrates the relevance of theory through real-world economic issues. Theoretical discussions are presented in both verbal and graphical terms, making the book highly accessible to students with little economics background. Its concise and flexible format makes it an ideal fit for most one-term courses.
Rick Szostak, "Econ Art: Divorcing Art from Science in Modern Economics"
Pluto Press | ISBN 0745314422 | 1999-07-01 | PDF | 240 pages | 765 kB
KLAUS WERNER - HANS WEISS "El libro negro de las marcas"
ISBN 9500723832 | 2003 | PDF | 2 Mb | 261 pages
Adidas, Bayer, Nike, Siemens, Shell, McDonald’s, Nestlé, Samsung… ¿Cuántas de nuestras marcas preferidas basan sus ganancias en la corrupción, el trabajo infantil, la destrucción del medio ambiente o el maltrato de animales? Cada vez son más las grandes empresas que trasladan sus fábricas allí donde pueden aprovechar condiciones inhumanas de trabajo, que se benefician desvergonzadamente de crisis económicas y conflictos armados, que toleran la tortura y la esclavitud y que transgreden la ley para poder vender bienes probadamente dañinos.
Pero a la vez hay cada vez más consumidores que no están dispuestos a tolerar esta situación y que exigen niveles mínimos de moralidad. El libro negro de las marcas desenmascara las verdades más turbias que se esconden detrás de las imágenes exitosas de las grandes marcas, pero también muestra el poder que pueden tener los consumidores para obligar a las empresas a cambiar algunas de sus prácticas. Con fichas que detallan una por una las acciones perniciosas de 50 compañías conocidas en el mundo entero, explica también qué actitud puede tomar cada lector para luchar activamente en contra de esta situación
]Understanding Stocks
McGraw-Hill | Pages:180 | 2003-08-19 | ISBN: 0071409130 | PDF | 1.0 MB
By Michael Sincere
Everything a novice investor needs to know about getting started in stocks. While dozens of books purport to be for the beginning investor, most "beginner" books assume a level of knowledge that true novices just don't have. Understanding Stocks is targeted to the beginning investor, providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of the stock market without subjecting readers to terms and ideas they can't understand and frankly, will probably never use.
Written in an engaging and direct style, Understanding Stocks uses short, easy-toread chapters to provide a solid working knowledge of the stock market.
Topics include:
* What is a stock?
* How to place a trade
* Evaluating a stock
* Knowing when to sell
Global Tourism, Third Edition
Butterworth-Heinemann | Pages:588 | 2004-07-26 | ISBN: 0750677899 | 1.7MB | PDF
Edited by William F. Theobald
Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development. That is why, as Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, I am pleased to see the serious analysis of the problems and prospects of the tourism sector as presented in this third edition.
-- Francesco Frangialli, Secretary-General, World Tourism Organization
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* The future of tourism
* Difference in travel characteristics of significant travel segments
* Sustainability standards in the global economy
* Crisis management in tourist destinations
* Tourism and social identities
* Tourism, mobility, and global communities
* Issues are explored using structured framework
* International contributors offer full range of perspectives