The Economic Implications of Aging Societies: The Costs of Living Happily Ever After

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The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what life will be like in tomorrow's older societies. But we do know that age dependency ratios--the ratio of retirees to workers--will be much higher than we see today. The combined effects of fewer workers, more retirees and longer retirement periods threaten not only the sustainability of pension systems but also the broader economic prospects of many developed countries. This analysis describes current trends in birth rates, longevity and labor force participation and productivity, the cross-border flow of capital, the globalization of labor markets, the financial viability of social insurance programs, and the ways economic output is shared between working-age and retiree populations.

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Winner, 1996 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize for the best book on liberal and democratic theory, Conference for the Study of Political Thought. Winner, 1994 First Book Prize, Foundations of Political Thought Organized Section, American Political Science Association.

Between the Norm and the Exception contributes historical insight to the ongoing debate over the future of the rule of law in welfare-state capitalist democracies. The core issue is whether or not society can offer its citizens welfare-state guarantees and still preserve the liberal vision of a norm-based legal system. Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, in an age dominated by Hitler and Stalin, sought to establish a sound theoretical basis for the "rule of law" ideal. As an outcome of their sophisticated understanding of the liberal political tradition, their writings suggest a theoretical missed opportunity, an alternative critical theory that might usefully be applied in understanding (and perhaps countering) the contemporary trend toward the deformalization of law.

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brilliantly researched and argued.......2000-06-16

This is a meticulously researched exposition of the theoretical development of two largely unheralded (at least in America) political theorists, Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann. Responding to past influences such as Locke, Rousseau, Weber and even Schmitt, these two contemporaries made signficant strides in the development of a critical democratic theory that would be responsive to the concerns of a (post)modern age. This book serves as an excellent introduction to their work, and as such truly a must-read for anyone grappling with the challenges of contemporary democracy.

Between the norm and the exception : the Frankfurt school and the rule of law

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Between the norm and the exception : the Frankfurt school and the rule of law

Manufacturer: MIT Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H5X2WG

Between the Norm and the Exception : The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

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Between the Norm and the Exception : The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
William E. Scheuerman
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQHA6C

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Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law
William E. Scheuerman
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQCVYI

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Winner of the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1994. The jury cited the book as "an ambitious, skilfully written, and exhaustively researched synthesis of African economic history in the 19th century." The citation goes on to say that "the book is an exercise in convincing challenge to hitherto accepted orthodoxies, terminologies, and interpretations, outstanding, pioneering work, destined to become highly influential, and providing such a wealth of information and details as to elevate the study of African economic history to a new pedestal."

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Highly Recommended!

Common Sense from Two Practicing Professionals

Expert promotional guidance

Almanac for Promotional Marketers

How to Sell More Stuff!: Promotional Marketing That Really Works
Steve Smith , and Don E. Schultz
Manufacturer: Kaplan Business
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Promotional Marketing

ASIN: 0793193311
Release Date: 2004-12-01

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With over $233 billion and 50 percent of marketing budgets allocated to consumer promotion, marketing professionals need a working reference tool to help them plan, budget, execute, and, ultimately, sell more stuff.

Sales promotions are used by the smallest mom-and-pop storefront to the most sophisticated consumer product marketer, and everyone in between.

How to Sell More Stuff tells executives, agencies, internal departments, entrepreneurs, and students alike how to close sales by influencing immediate customer behavior through an array of promotional techniques, including sweepstakes, tie-ins, coupons, events, and more.

Authors Steve Smith and renowned Professor Don E. Schultz give readers a fact-filled how-to handbook that covers the entire sales promotion spectrum clearly, concisely, and completely. Professor Schultz introduces each chapter with an insightful, analytical perspective, and then the authors show readers:

* How to choose the right tactic from over 100 options, reviewing descriptions, advantages, and disadvantages.

* How to budget the program.

* Pitfalls, cautions, and opportunities.

* How to put it all together with procedures and checklists.

Examples of leading promotions from Campbell Soup, General Mills, Stanley Tools, and Procter & Gamble. Every business, from small businesses to agencies to corporations to sales organizations to B2Bs, want to increase sales.

With How to Sell More Stuff, Smith and Schultz show them how to pick the right promotion to meet their needs and execute it flawlessly to achieve the desired results.

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Highly Recommended!.......2005-04-25

Readers instinctively understand that every topic is not equally adaptable to narrative treatment. You could read about Tiger Woods for a month, for example, and not improve your golf game by a stroke. In promotional marketing, however, the opposite is true. The marketer's tool kit only holds so many tricks, and many are careworn from repetitive use. That means you can learn tons about executing a sales promotion by reading a book, if you find the right one. Good news: this is that tome. Combining their many years of experience, Steve Smith and Don E. Schultz adroitly blend the practical with the strategic. Their book is packed with budget tips, planning advice and execution checklists. We recommend this comprehensive, insightful review even for battle-scarred veterans of the promotional wars. For new arrivals, here's the marketer's promo tool kit, ready to go.

Common Sense from Two Practicing Professionals.......2005-03-02

At last, an updated, readable reference on sales promotion from two consumate pros!
Promotion remains one of the most misunderstood of all marketing disciplines. The team of Smith and Schultz provide a logical framework to help the novice or the old hand intelligently plan their sales promotion programs.
What you see in the title is what you get in the book. Straightforward, common sense counsel. The authors take their subject quite seriously, but (fortunately for the reader) don't take themselves so seriously that their book fails to entertain, as well as inform.

Expert promotional guidance.......2005-01-13

I have been in the marketing business for years and you can never know enough. Unfortunately, most of the literature out there is either academic in nature or light industry news - nothing you can actually apply to your business. This book is the exception. Finally, here's a complete reference and how-to manual, breaking down every promotional tactic and describing how to evaluate, budget, plan and implement. The index alone is a brainstorm starter. Other marketing areas like advertising, PR and direct have excellent how-to books. Now promotional marketing has one and I find myself visiting this book frequently for expert guidance.

Almanac for Promotional Marketers.......2005-01-09

I can't imagine many people will read this outstanding book cover to cover, like they'd read a book at the beach. That's because it contains so much reference material. It has almanac qualities: it's a compendium of tables, checklists, and laundry lists...of very useful information.

Instead of reading it straight through myself, I've been living with the book for the last two weeks. I've picked the chapters I've wanted to read in full (and read them), and used various other sections as needed. In that time, the book's become sort of a right-hand office assistant.

The style of the book is arresting - in a good way. Steve Smith and Don Schultz view the subject of sales promotion differently, and it shows. Professor Schultz leads off the chapters with "some relevant research, basic concepts, and the like." Then Mr. Smith gives his practical, `real world' perspective. Sometimes the opening train of thought flows smoothly to the next; other times it does not. But the content is always complementary, not contradictory, and, by the time you've read a chapter you feel you've got a nice grasp of the subject.

I particularly like Mr. Smith's style. He has an easy way of addressing the pertinent aspects of running promotions, and he gets straight to the insightful parts without a lot of wasted words. (You can even read his sections back to front, I discovered!)

When he's not delivering chunks of insight, he's classifying, organizing, and providing checklists - putting the whole world of sales promotions and employee incentive (performance) programs in perspective. For a new marketer like me, I feel I've been given the best foundation imaginable.

Each author has clearly enjoyed his respective career working with sales promotions. I was reminded over and over while reading how fun and interesting it is, the challenge of finding, creating and offering things valuable enough to other people to move one's own organization forward. Thanks to both of them for their enthusiasm.

Keeler Cox
Sharon, PA

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Building a better credit record
Colleen Tressler
Manufacturer: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection
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Building a better credit record : how to understand your credit history, your credit report, and deal with credit problems (SuDoc FT 1.8/2:C 86/6)

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Building a better credit record : how to understand your credit history, your credit report, and deal with credit problems (SuDoc FT 1.8/2:C 86/6/996)

Manufacturer: The Commission
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Credit Ratings & Repair | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00010U73O

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Avoiding the more usual statistics-driven perspective, this textbook teaches an intuitive feel for handling survey data by emphasising that data analysis is more about understanding the research objectives and understanding what kinds and data have been collected. The book concludes by giving a review of strategies for coping with all the kinds of practical problems that arise in survey research. Reader-friendly throughout, the book provides numerous worked examples, end-of-chapter questions, and points for further discussion to help reinforce concepts learned. A companion website offers teaching support material as well as examples in SPSS.

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Construction Marketing
Not Your Typical Textbook

Construction Marketing: The Textbook
Elizabeth S. Jeppesen
Manufacturer: Green Tag Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound

Design & Construction | Home Design | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0971864101

Book Description

A step-by-step guide to successfully marketing construction services. When the author developed marketing strategies for commercial contractors, her efforts resulted in millions of dollars in contracts, ranging from small remodels to new buildings. The informative chapters include: Basics of Successful Construction Marketing, Developing a Prospect List, Project Leads - Good Places to Find Work, New Market Strategies, Meeting with a Potential Client, Design/Build, Job Performance Reviews, Dealing with Difficult Clients and Marketing Budgets. There are also interivews with architects and developers about their experience with contractors.

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Construction Marketing.......2004-01-31

Basically, I feel cheated. I advise others desiring detailed information on construction industry marketing not to waste your money. Unless you are a complete novice you will not gain any useful insite from the book.

Not Your Typical Textbook.......2003-08-22

How many times while reading a "textbook" have you laughed out loud? Construction Marketing is readable, informative and funny. It is full of valuable marketing basics that apply to any marketing endeavor. Well worth reviewing over again just to keep your marketing and sales goals on track. Owners and managers will especially benefit from Elizabeth's advice on hiring a good marketer. Marketing professionals whether new or seasoned will be validated and educated. She covers design/build, advertising, ground breaking and more. The book could have been titled Construction Marketing A to Z. Even if you know it all, this book is a great refresher and a great read.

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Dominic Kelly analyzes Japanese policies designed to lead to the reconstruction of East Asia. He presents a detailed picture of Japanese activity in East Asia in the areas of production, finance, security, and knowledge, and maps out the historical context upon which this activity rests. Kelly sheds light on the increasingly powerful but imperfectly understood phenomenon of regionalism. He goes on to identity the major fault line situated beneath both theoretical accounts of Japanese regionalism and "real world" predictions of its success or failure.

Post-conflict Reconstruction in Japan, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor

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Post-conflict Reconstruction in Japan, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor

Manufacturer: United Nations Pubns
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Economic staff working paper / International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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Economic staff working paper / International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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This yearbook contains basic information on export-import, investment and business opportunities in the respected country. Provides information on government structure, economy, business climate, regulations, and more... Includes basic statistics, information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

Belize Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Expoer-Import and Business Library)

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Belize Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Expoer-Import and Business Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Belize Investment & Business Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment & Business Opportunities Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739712179

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This yearbook contains information on investment business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

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