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Wok Bung Wantaim
Using Subnational Government Partnerships to Improve Infrastructure Implementation in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This report examines how existing implementation structures established under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and National Government investment programs could be used to channel subnational government resources toward priority infrastructure investments more effectively. The report considers the...
by Lisa DiTullio
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Building and leading teams that ensure project success may not be easy, but the techniques involved are straightforward and workable. Lisa DiTullio demonstrates that enhancing team dynamics to improve performance in the federal environment does not have to be complicated or time-consuming. Her time-tested...
The Entrepreneurial State
Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The world's most popular products, from the iPhone to Google Search, were funded not by private companies, but the taxpayer.
In this sharp and controversial international bestseller, an award-winning economist debunks the pervasive myth that the government is sluggish and inept, and at odds...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy.
We all have the sense that the American economy—and its government—tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation...
The China Fantasy
Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
**The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans
"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country,...
Engineering the Financial Crisis
Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence:...
Hidden in Plain Sight
What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis-and Why It Could Happen Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The 2008 financial crisis-like the Great Depression-was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced...
Plan to Succeed
A Guide to Strategic Planning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
According to a Foundation for Community Association Research report, “Strategic planning is the cornerstone of every common-interest community.” Strategic planning enables your business or organization to define and reach its goals. In this book, author Steven C. Stryker offers an accessible guide...
Governing to Win
Enhancing National Competitiveness Through New Policy and Operating Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Charles Prow has brought together an impressive lineup of businessmen and women, reporters, and experts to show how the United States can be more competitive in the global economy. This book shows not only what is wrong with the current federal spending plan, but ways to fix it. Business professionals...
Foundations of Managing Sporting Events
Organising the 1966 FIFA World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosted in England. Unlike previous literature, which has tended to focus activities on the field, this book brings an institutional level approach to organizing the 1966 FIFA World Cup and examines the management process in the buildup and...
Social versus Corporate Welfare
Competing Needs and Interests within the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive emergency state bailouts and interventions put in place from 2008 were unique only in their size and...
Bad History, Worse Policy
How a False Narrative About the Financial Crisis Led to the Dodd-Frank Act
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This timely study focuses on how the government-constructed narratives surrounding the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the 2008 financial crisis shaped the policymaking that led to the Dodd-Frank Act. The book shows that every major provision of the act can be traced directly to that narrative,...
U.S. Military Program Management
Lessons Learned and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
**An indispensable resource for all defense industry professionals—governmental and commercial!
Introducing the only book on the market offering valuable best practices and lessons learned for U.S. military program management
The U.S. Department of Defense and the related defense industry...
by Lilly B. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Published in 1994, this book examines a small segment of the medical technology innovation process to characterize the manner in which the federal government influences small business-based investigators to participate or withdraw from the medical technology innovation process. It provides an historical...