Government Business category: 2241 books
Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Routledge Revivals)
The UK Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book, first published in 1978, provides an analysis of British monetary policy and considers what techniques of monetary control were most appropriate to the context of the U.K. during the 1970s and 1980s. David Gowland answers crucial questions surrounding economic management in the period between...
Alternatives to Privatization
Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an alternative...
by Filip Pierzchalski
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal...
Making Failure Feasible
How Bankruptcy Reform Can End Too Big to Fail
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In 2012, building off work first published in 2010, the Resolution Project proposed that a new Chapter 14 be added to the Bankruptcy Code, exclusively designed to deal with the reorganization or liquidation of the nation's large financial institutions. In Making Failure Feasible, the contributors...
by Yang Li, Xiaojing Zhang, Xin Chang
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The book aims at perfecting the national governance system and improving national governance ability. It evaluates the balance sheets of the state and residents, non-financial corporations, financial institutions and the central bank, the central government, local government and external sectors –...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
This regulation, Army Regulation AR 750-1 Maintenance of Supplies and Equipment Army Materiel Maintenance Policy 12 September 2013, covers Department of the Army policy for general maintenance operations; commodity-oriented maintenance operations; maintenance management systems; inter-Service and...
The Responsive City
Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew cities and citizenship in America
The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group...
Steering Clear
How to Avoid a Debt Crisis and Secure Our Economic Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
“Despite clear danger and explicit warnings, the United States of America—distracted by short-term challenges and its own political dysfunction—is steaming toward its own collision, one with long-term debt.”
Philanthropist, businessman, and former secretary of commerce Peter G. Peterson...
by G.W. Pomichter
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This is the most comprehensive and easiest to follow road map to the political campaign trail. This easy to read, understandable and complete campaign guide will assist any candidate, campaign volunteer or campaign coordinator with all of the day-to-day activities associated with fielding a winning...
Reframing Finance
New Models of Long-Term Investment Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Since the 2008 financial crisis, beneficiary organizations—like pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and foundations—have been seeking ways to mitigate the risk of their investments and make better financial decisions. For them, Reframing Finance offers a path forward.
This...
Downsizing Federal Government Spending
A Cato Institute Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Downsizing Federal Government Spending is a clear and essential guide for policymakers and voters alike on reducing federal spending and on preventing a massive budget crisis that could crush the generations ahead. It provides a detailed series of comprehensive and concise policy strategies to reduce...
by Lorelei Moosbrugger
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Where politics is dominated by two large parties, as in the United States, politicians should be relatively immune to the influence of small groups. Yet narrow interest groups often win private benefits against majority preferences and at great public expense. Why? The “vulnerability thesis” is that...
Shaky Ground
The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
In a way, the situation is ironic: housing was at the root of the financial crisis, and six years after the meltdown, housing finance is still the greatest unsolved issue. The U.S. housing market is roughly $10 trillion, making it one of the largest segments of the bond market. Roughly 70 percent...
Introduction to US Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but rather than quell the rhetoric, it has sparked even more heated debate. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. Barr reviews...