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The Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count it
Harvard Business School Press Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0071036350 |
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Would be interesting to re-read in 2004.......2004-01-24
This book explains why Eisner thought we shouldn't fear the debt run up by the Democrat Congresses and Reagan/Bush I presidencies. Though it was clear enough to me, and Eisner's practice at writing for intelligent lay readers of various non-academic publications helped, I agree with the other reviewer that it shoots between audiences and so misses both. Still, I plan to re-read it soon in order to determine if his conclusions then are valid today.
It's in a sort of book limbo........2003-12-08
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Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count It.
Manufacturer: 0 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000ICTYMK |
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Executive Report on Strategies in Namibia, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
The Namibia Research Group , and The Namibia Research Group Manufacturer: Icon Group International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound ASIN: 0741829150 |
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Namibia has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners. This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given.
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When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy
William L. Silber Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691127476 |
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When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled America's ability to repay its debts abroad. Fear that the United States would abandon the gold standard sent the dollar plummeting on world markets. Without a central bank in the summer of 1914, the United States resembled a headless financial giant.
William McAdoo stepped in with courageous action, we read in Silber's gripping account. He shut the New York Stock Exchange for more than four months to prevent Europeans from selling their American securities and demanding gold in return. He smothered the country with emergency currency to prevent a replay of the bank runs that swept America in 1907. And he launched the United States as a world monetary power by honoring America's commitment to the gold standard. His actions provide a blueprint for crisis control that merits attention today. McAdoo's recipe emphasizes an exit strategy that allows policymakers to throttle a crisis while minimizing collateral damage.
When Washington Shut Down Wall Street recreates the drama of America's battle for financial credibility. McAdoo's accomplishments place him alongside Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan as great American financial leaders. McAdoo, in fact, nursed the Federal Reserve into existence as the 1914 crisis waned and served as the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
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Great read.......2007-08-30
Fascinating history of how the U.S. became the world's financial leader.......2007-03-30
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Currencies and Crises
Paul Krugman Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0262611090 |
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Currencies and Crises brings together Paul Krugman's work on international monetary economics from the late 1970s to the present, in an effort to make sense of a turbulent period that, in Krugman's words, "involved one surprise after another, most of them unpleasant." The eleven essays cover such key areas as the role of exchange rates in balance-of-payments adjustment policy, the role of speculation in the functioning of exchange-rate regimes, third world debt, and the construction of an international monetary system.Customer Reviews:
Currency Management- Very important for corporations.......2000-06-28
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Currency Crises (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0226454622 |
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Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0226155404 |
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Anticipating Balance of Payments Crises: The Role of Early Warning Systems (Occasional Paper (International Monetary Fund), No. 186.)
Andrew Berg , Eduardo Borensztein , Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti , and Catherine Pattillo Manufacturer: International Monetary Fund ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 155775828X |
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Recent years have witnessed an increase in the frequency of currency and balance of payments crises in developing countries. More important, the crises have become more virulent, have caused widespread disruption to other developing countries, and have even had repercussions on advanced economies. To predict crises, their causes must be clearly understood. Two competing strands of theories are reviewed in this paper. The first focuses on the consequences of such policies as excessive credit growth in provoking depletion of foreign exchange reserves and making a devaluation inevitable. The second emphasizes the trade-offs between internal and external balance that the policymaker faces in defending a peg.
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The Asian Currency Crisis
Gerald Tan Manufacturer: Times Academic Press,Singapore ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9812101578 |
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Excellent work -- informative and scholarly.......2001-09-18
Dealing with the crisis chronologically, and country-by-country, Tan is able to illustrate patterns that span the whole event, and unique events within each country. He treats the responses of each country, and does not shirk from providing a sober and often scathing assessment of the attitudes and policy responses of individual countries. His political analyses are just as useful, since the implications of the event have so much to do with the political makeup of individual countries, and their political and financial institutions.
Market data is used extensively to support his claim. There is a tremendous and often overwhelming plethora of data. However, if one is just looking for an identification of major patterns and analyses, Tan illustrates this very clearly within his chapters.
This book is a great resource for someone who wants access to source data that is relevant to the Asian Meltdown, as well as just a broad introduction to the phenomena that helps a reader trying to understand such a significant event (or series of events).
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Big elephants in small ponds: Do large traders make financial markets more aggressive? [An article from: Journal of Monetary Economics]
C.E. Bannier Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR7PKE |
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Monetary Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Book review: Andre Fourcans and Rafael Franck, Currency Crises: A Theoretical and Empirical Perspective, Edward Elgar, 2003, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, ... from: European Journal of Political Economy]
D. Salvatore Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR4ZPC |
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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Political Economy, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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CAN CURRENCY CRISES BE PREVENTED OR BETTER MANAGED?
JAN JOOST TEUNISSEN Manufacturer: FONDAD ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 907420807X |
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Can event study methods solve the currency exposure puzzle? [An article from: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal]
K.L. Dewenter , R.C. Higgins , and T.T. Simin Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR2GCG |
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This digital document is a journal article from Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Small Business Fraud Prevention Manual
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Manufacturer: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1889277355 |
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Small business owners and managers cannot afford losses due to fraud yet in many of these types of businesses are the most common victims. The ACFE's Small Business Fraud Prevention Manual provides information on the most common internal and external fraud schemes committed by customers, employees and vendors against small businesses as well as tips on how to prevent these schemes from happening to you.
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The Small Business Fraud Prevention Manual also explains what to do if your small business becomes a victim to fraud, including avoiding liability when conducting investigations and taking civil actions against perpetrators. This popular manual is ideal for all management in the small business environment.
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Manager's Lifetime Guide to the Language of Power
James Holtje Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0138948828 |
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Great reference for everyday situations.......2005-08-16
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Manager's Lifetime Guide to the Language of Power
James (editor) Holtje Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OLXU20 |
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The New Managerial Mentor: Becoming a Learning Leader to Build Communities of Purpose
Patricia J. Fritts Manufacturer: Davies-Black Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0891061207 |
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Above all else, our Information Age is an Education Age. This book provides the tools to help learning happen through supportive, interdependent, and collaborative mentoring relationships.Customer Reviews:
Improving your Learning Leadership skills.......2000-01-31
This book is an excellent resource for helping to assess and to give you ideas on how to build your skills to become a better learning leader. Fritts creates a "learning moment" by having you take inventory your Learning Leader Role Preference and assess for yourself what areas are strengths and which need more development. I also liked the way it was clearly laid out. Each role was clearly defined, followed by focus of that role and the competencies needed. In addition to defining each competency, Fritts gives you an example of it in practice. Then you have an opportunity to assess your level in this competency with an exercise. The exercise was followed by ideas and/or suggestion of how to develop a plan to improve your level of learning in that competency. The way this book is laid out makes it a very practical read and a good learning resource.
As Fritts says on page 158 "To increase productivity in a knowledge economy, managers need to focus more on people than on technology". Fritts puts the mentor role in a new light, one of needing to fully develop a diverse set of roles, collaborator, innovator, producer, and integrator. Traditionally mentoring described a relationship of an "older individual imparting their wisdom to younger associates" (pg. 169). However, as Fritts states, "the new model calls for people at all levels to create reciprocal learning relationships and develop the technical and interpersonal competencies needed to thrive in the new economy", working in any business today requires us to be able to learn on the fly and be flexible, while meeting the marketplace needs. I think that Fritts hits the nail on the head with this book.
I enjoyed this book so much that I have purchased copies for my team and we are planning to use these concepts at our next offsite to see how we can continue to build our skills as learning leaders.
The New Managerial Mentor : Becoming a Learning Leader.......2000-01-23
The author divides the book into three sections - (1) Mentoring in the learning organization addresses the role that managers play in mentoring relationship and the diverse competencies of the learning leader. (2) Becoming a learning leader addresses the different learner styles - collaborator, innovator, producer and integrator. These four managerial mentoring roles help to provide individual competency assessment. Assists in focusing on the strengths and abilities. (3) Putting your plan together steps the reader through the process to become a learning leader by leading with a purpose. The book is equipped with exercises and checklists throughout the book designed to step you through the different processes, preference inventory and scoring sheets help you focus your development effort.
The book is concise, easy to read and flows well. Pat Fritts has skillfully put together the tasks and processes essential for identifying innovative ways to engage in collaborative learning. Use this book as a guide to step you through the processes. The exercises and checklists will ensure a successful plan for mastering new learning competencies. I would highly recommend this book for any manager who wants to ensure the success of his organization as well as the success of its employees by partnering and co-learning. A word of caution, this book is not for every organization. Its' methodologies and approach is aggressive and requires organizations to build its foundation on mutual trust and collaboration. It requires employees to empower themselves and take risks. It requires a transformation at every level of the organization.
This is a practical and easy to use guide........1999-04-05
Excellent learning vehicle for business/nonprofit managers.......1999-03-29
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The New Managerial Mentor: Becoming a Learning Leader to Build Communities of Purpose.(Review) (book review): An article from: Human Resource Planning
Laura L. Bierema Manufacturer: Human Resource Planning Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00099O828 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1277 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Sales: Building Lifetime Skills for Success
Robert R. Mander Manufacturer: Ryan & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 096696960X |
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Do you need reliable skills for successful selling? This insightful book takes people who sell beyond gimmicks, inspiration and "secrets" to build genuine professional sales skills. It guides sales people, students, downsizees, entrepreneurs, corporate customer service reps, and sales management toward reliable effective sales performance.Discover how to sell from your own personal sales strengths, manage your motivations, sense the hunting nature of sales, harness your unique passions for sales, and master performing arts skills that work for you. Sales confronts sales ethics and explores its history to empower people who sell to better anticipate and plan their futures.
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Thinking Man's Guide.......2000-04-10
Thinking Man's Guide.......2000-04-10
Bob Mander is as good a writer as he is a salesman!.......1999-06-03
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Government Agencies of Consumer Instalment Credit (Financial Research Program, Studies in Consumer Instalment Financing 5)
Joseph D. Coppock ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SP1ZEC |
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National Bureau of Economic Research 216 pages last of 5 institutional studies
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The government agencies of consumer instalment credit, (Financial research program of the National bureau of economic research. Studies in consumer instalment financing:)
Joseph D Coppock Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006DIEO0 |
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