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America the Principled
6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Sometimes it seems that Americans are divided in countless ways—red or blue; black, brown, or white; rich or poor; male or female. What happened to America as the land of freedom and openness? In America the Principled, renowned Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Rosabeth Moss...
African Successes, Volume I
Government and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet...
Chipping Away at Public Debt
Sources of Failure and Keys to Success in Fiscal Adjustment
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Path-breaking research on one of the most important macroeconomic policy challenges in the post-crisis world, presented in accessible language
Written and researched by a team of experts from the International Monetary Fund, other policy-making institutions, and academia, this timely book looks...
Saving Capitalism
Keeping America Strong
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
When the U.S. financial structure collapsed in fall 2008, it quickly became clear that our system of market capitalism was broken, endangered by decades of absolutist market dogma, shortsighted policies, and the abandonment of America's working people. Now, as the Obama administration seeks to repair...
Performance Budgeting (with CD)
What Works, What Doesn't
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Improve Your Agency's Performance Budgets and Accountability Reports
Performance Budgeting: What Works, What Doesn't is a must-have resource for government officials implementing performance budgeting within their organizations. The author examines performance budgets and accountability reports...
UnFair
Exposing the IRS
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
UnFair reveals the truth about the abuses of power and the cover-ups by the IRS, exposing it as a blatantly unfair and corrupt entity which is unable to be reformed and, therefore, must be abolished. This book is firmly grounded in history, building on the arguments of the US Founders, along with...
by Willem H. Buiter
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This title, first published in 1979, presents the Ph.D. thesis of the world-renowned economist and financial expert, Willem Buiter. In Part I, three alternative specifications of temporary equilibria in asset markets, including their implications for macroeconomic models, are discussed; Part II examines...
The History of the European Monetary Union
Comparing Strategies amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The financial and economic crisis that hit Europe in 2009 brought out the precariousness of the monetary union, accentuating the economic disequilibrium among European nations and strengthening Euro-skepticism.
The crisis served as a catalyst for long-standing and unresolved problems: the creation...
by Jim Berzina, Sam S. Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
First-Time Administrator's Handbook has served as a guide for many first time administrators. This e-book covers five areas: first administrator in a community, first time as an administrator, promotion to administrator from within, new to local government, and resources. Describes what might be...
Global Governance Enterprises
Creating Multisector Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Global Governance Enterprises focuses on a specific multi-sector collaboration—the formation of an entity that carries out global governance—providing a detailed analysis of the context of their emergence, as well as how they are created, managed, and sustained.
Forrer considers the growing...
FDA in the Twenty-First Century
The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In its decades-long effort to assure the safety, efficacy, and security of medicines and other products, the Food and Drug Administration has struggled with issues of funding, proper associations with industry, and the balance between consumer choice and consumer protection. Today, these challenges...
by William G. Arnold CDFM-A, CCA
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Find the Answers You Need to Comply with the Prompt Payment Act!
It can be challenging for federal agencies to comply with the Prompt Payment Act. Although the basic rules are simple, they can be difficult to interpret and apply properly — until now. Designed as a reference, The Prompt Payment...
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially...
China 2030
Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
China should complete its transition to a market economy through enterprise, land, labor, and financial sector reforms, strengthen its private sector, open its markets to greater competition and innovation, and ensure equality of opportunity to help achieve its goal of a new structure for economic growth....