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The 1993 publication of Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson's Beyond Economic Man was a landmark in both feminist scholarship and the discipline of economics, and it quickly became a handbook for those seeking to explore the emerging connections between the two. A decade later, this book looks back at the progress of feminist economics and forward to its future, offering both a thorough overview of feminist economic thought and a collection of new, high-quality work from the field's leading scholars.
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This is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from
a feminist point of view. In these original essays, the authors
suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing
itself from masculine biases.
Beyond Economic Man raises questions about the discipline not
because economics is too objective but because it is not objective
enough. The contributors—nine economists, a sociologist, and a
philosopher—discuss the extent to which gender has influenced both
the range of subjects economists have studied and the way in which
scholars have conducted their studies. They investigate, for example,
how masculine concerns underlie economists' concentration on market as
opposed to household activities and their emphasis on individual
choice to the exclusion of social constraints on choice. This focus
on masculine interests, the contributors contend, has biased the
definition and boundaries of the discipline, its central assumptions,
and its preferred rhetoric and methods. However, the aim of this book
is not to reject current economic practices, but to broaden them,
permitting a fuller understanding of economic phenomena.
These essays examine current economic practices in the light of a
feminist understanding of gender differences as socially constructed
rather than based on essential male and female characteristics. The
authors use this concept of gender, along with feminist readings of
rhetoric and the history of science, as well as postmodernist theory
and personal experience as economists, to analyze the boundaries,
assumptions, and methods of neoclassical, socialist, and
institutionalist economics.
The contributors are Rebecca M. Blank, Paula England, Marianne A.
Ferber, Nancy Folbre, Ann L. Jennings, Helen E. Longino, Donald N.
McCloskey, Julie A. Nelson, Robert M. Solow, Diana Strassmann, and
Rhonda M. Williams.
Customer Reviews:
Methinks the ladies doth protest too much.......2005-10-09
The best essay in this short collection is by Nobel prize winner Robert Solow, who points out the main fault of so called feminist economics: it is tangential stuff. This is obvious in reading the collection of essays which focus more on Institutional Economics (a branch of sociology), rhetoric, and anthropology. Most of the contributors buzz around the issue of the (patriarchal) family and use Gary Becker, another (very undeserving) Nobel prize winner as their whipping boy. But Becker's work on the economics of sleep and such like is also tangential.
This slim tome strikes me as an exercise in academic vanity publishing. The inclusion of Donald McCloskey, who got a sex change operation since it was published, reinforces that. Economics has a myriad of failings and short comings but having it colonized by even softer and shallower social "sciences" is not the answer. The contributors devote some space to explaining that their type of work is regard as sciences in most languages, English being the big exception. That seems to be where they are at: kitchen arguments, ignoring facts and solid axioms in favor of doctrine.
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Money and Capital Markets: The Financial System in an Increasingly Global Economy
Peter S. Rose
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Money and Capital Markets : The Financial System in an Incre.......2000-04-04
This book has impressed me greatly. I think it can be a bestseller for most of specialist in finance.
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Con Tricks: Choosing The Right Consultancy
Martin Ashford
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Creating the corporate style guide: process and product. (Practicalities): An article from: Technical Communication
Carol Barnum
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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on August 1, 1993. The length of the article is 3555 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.
From the supplier: The process of creating a corporate style guide is described. A style guide formulates and defines the standards for corporate documents to achieve a consistency among these documents that would mirror an organization's commitment to quality and style.
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Title: Creating the corporate style guide: process and product. (Practicalities)
Author: Carol Barnum
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Technical Communication (Refereed)
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Design of Business Communications: The Process and the Product
Elizabeth Tebeaux
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From the editors of the Wall Street Journal's Career Journal .com, this up-to-the minute almanac rates the 250 best and worst jobs, ranked by such factors as current salary and future prospects, stress risks, safety and security, enviromental conditions, physical demands, career outlooks, travel opportunities, and special perks.
Customer Reviews:
A Good Guide to Career Choice.......2007-05-12
I recommend this book to career beginers. It is a very good source fo determining well paying and convenient careers.
Interesting.......2006-06-13
Worth a read......when I grow up (I'm 36 years old) I actually want to be an Occupational Sociologist and what better book could I possible have on my book shelf......good stuff. Interesting things about a wide array of careers.
very good read.......2003-08-24
I thought this was a very interesting and informative book. It gave me a lot of information about different jobs.
As for the upset people who rated this book low, i'm sure Les rated firemen higher than nurses in stress level because some nurses work in a low stress environment in some kind of pediatric aera, giving shots to little kids, while firemen have to be ready all the time when they are on call. And as for librarians, well, reccomending a book or showing someone to a copy of Moneyball doesn't really compare in stress to making international relations decisions or having to make a precise cut with a scalpel.
Good, but needs updating.......2003-05-11
A good reference for those seeking a career change or just starting out. Unfortunately, two of the top ten rated jobs are computer-related. These may not be the best jobs to get into at this time. The current trend in the corporate world is to cut IT spending to the bare minimum. The apparently ideal way to do this is to outsource programming jobs to inexpensive offshore companies. Fewer computer jobs are available to Americans and those jobs are often much lower paying than they once were. I wouldn't suggest becoming a programmer. Consider taking biology classes instead.
250 jobs ranging from Actuary to Zoologist.......2002-07-08
Now in an updated and expanded sixth edition, the Jobs Rated Almanac continues to be a highly recommended reference for anyone seeking to match their career goals and priorities to their next job. Such considerations as salary, stress, work environment, career outlook, security, physical demand, are provided for 250 jobs ranging from Actuary to Zoologist.
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When I started doing personal financial counseling back in 1990, I believed that because most Americans had never learned how to manage their personal finances (for example, in the schools) that they needed more personal financial education. While I still believe this to be the case, over the decade plus that I was actively involved in financial counseling and now getting inquiries from readers, I have developed a modified view. Ingrained behaviors also clearly stand in the way of people making the best financial decisions and moves.
Mind Over Money: Your Path to Wealth and Happiness presents a compilation of common financial obstacles (overspending, investing errors, working harder thinking that more money will solve problems, spousal disagreements over money, etc.) and proven methods for developing and retaining the best financial habits. The book also synthesizes research that explains why we do what we do and who is most at risk and why for certain behaviors. The book takes a holistic approach to fitting money and financial decisions into your life.
Mind over Money offers proven solutions you can use to stop self-defeating financial habits and get yourself onto the right path. Too many people end up unhealthy, overstressed, and without significant financial resources despite decades of long work hours. Are you giving sufficient attention to your family, personal life, happiness, values, and health? Mind over Money explains how you can achieve both your financial and personal goals and is written to show how you can successfully relate to and deal with money — and each other.
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Mind Over Money - an Inspirational Money Management Resource.......2006-12-19
Tyson's inspirational Mind Over Money is an excellent resource for helping consumers learn how to manage their finances, from the inside out. Exploring complex money personalities such as The Shopper (also subtitled Shopping, Spending and Debt Accumulation), The Workaholic, Misaligned Investment Mind-Sets (a.k.a. Herd Follower and Information Junkie), The Obsessive, The Supersaver (Hoarding and Cheating) and The Avoider, this book offers practical financial solutions for all. And the icing on the cake, two of my favorite chapters... Relationships and Money, and Raising Money-Smart Kids. Echoing the sound money management advice that we strive to teach at [...], if there's even the slightest possibility that one or more of these personality categories might include you, this book may be one of the best investments you could ever make. - Michelle Jones, Founder of BetterBudgeting.com
Mind over Money.......2006-06-10
Well, the book is kind of interesting but it is not the kind of book one would like to read over and over. It is just another book about money that's it.
Great book, should be required reading before getting a job or credit card.......2006-04-13
Tyson stands out as one of the most readable Personal Finance authors in the world. He has his priorities correct and great focus on how to help readers who are just starting and those who have amassed assets. Great reading for the airplane and and an asset for the home library.
The perfect High School or College graduation gift.
A quite practical reference on how we might logically save and invest our money effectively.......2006-04-11
Mind Over Money: Your Path To Wealth And Happiness by financial consultant Eric Tyson is an informed and informative study and a quite practical reference on how we might logically save and invest our money effectively. Based upon the personal experiences of years, Mind Over Money delves very deeply into the intricacies of the financial and investment world, enlightening readers as to what they may do based upon their own fiscal situation, regardless of prior experience with investment or money management. An invaluable and "reader friendly" addition to personal and community library Money & Finance reference collections, Mind Over Money is very strongly recommended to all readers worried for their financial situation and future, hoping for a more practical approach to personal money management, and seeking to gain an accurate understanding of their net worth.
A Very Good Book!.......2006-03-21
I picked up this book just to review the contents and ended up reading it right there and then from cover to cover. Sound odd for a book with the subject matter being financial advice? It is, because few financial advice books are written with the heart of the everyday Joe in mind, but this one is.
Author Eric Tyson has packed his new work chock full of top of the notch information to help everyone from the everyday Joe to the multi-millionaire tycoon have a better understanding of achieving financial goals and the many pitfalls to avoid. Think this work is boring? Think again!
Our author breaks down his work down into nine chapters with subtitles after each, such as:
3 -The Workaholic: Fitting Life into Your Work (my favoritie chapter)
Why do we work so much
The Damage Done by Working So Much
Working Solutions
How Do I Know If I'm A Workaholic
I particularly enjoyed this chapter on the Workaholic because that is who I tend to be. The insight was amazing and certainly left me making a strong decision to make some changes. Excellent!
6- The Supersaver: Hoarding and Cheating
The Supersaver personality
Overcoming Oversaving
I had to giggle some in reading this chapter since I know a few people that I would personally call 'cheap,' you know the ones always afraid to buy a coke because that dollar has to be saved for the rainy day. This chapter really brings it home, as do all those inside this outstanding book.
In each chapter he talks to you not just about your money but about your life and how important it is that money does not control your life, who you think you are, or where your going. His advise helps you set priorities in order and get your financial situation to line up with your life. He shows the pitfalls of excessive spending and living beyond our means by using credit cards and explains the harm that can do. He even takes you back to your childhood and asks you to uncover any reasons why you are controlling your money the way you are, bringing to remembrance youthful memories that have now influenced your financial behavior. Interesting.
To be honest with you I have never seen a book on financial planning quite like this one. It is fresh, full of heart and has a real feel that this author actually cares if you win or lose in this game; that's something you don't see everyday. The information given is so detailed that even someone like me can pick it up and run to victory with it.
You see, this is a book that isn't all about money, but all about you first and money second. It will help you to put priorities in order, understand many pitfalls and help you avoid them, and make you think, what am I doing, where am I going, and what is important to me and what am I sacrificing to achieve that. If I were to give this book a sub-title it would have to be, "Money and Me," because our lives definitely do revolve around our money and in this work you will find how to make money work for you, not you work for money. I highly recommend this book; it is a gem and a keeper.
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- This Book is Like a Conversation With a Best Friend
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The Path to Happiness and Wealth
Steve Rhode
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Millions of people feel uncertain about their lives because of high debt, underearning, lack of financial confidence and more. The Path to Happiness and Wealth gives a new approach to dealing with money troubles that will set people free.
With humor and honesty, author Steve Rhode leads people to discover their true self through practical, emotional and introspective steps. His approach focuses on the whole person, changing negative money habits into positive steps that invigorate life and financial goals.
Rhode shares his personal tragedies and triumphs, along with those of many others, to show that money doesn't have to control a person's life. In fact, each of us can control our own financial destiny.
Discover your own path to happiness and wealth by shedding the old habits that run your life today. Stop the endless search and discover who you really are. You deserve it.
Customer Reviews:
This Book is Like a Conversation With a Best Friend.......2003-01-10
This book was selected as the Book of The Month by the Washington Post. It's wonderful. The best way to describe it is as a caring conversation with a best friend that makes you feel good and laugh at times but has the right dose of reality checks about how to eliminate your pain and find your path in life to have more joy. Reading the snipets about other peoples stories and money troubles was like financial voyerism but it made me feel better about my own life. This book was just what I needed.
Walk the Walk.......2003-01-07
It is easier to "talk the talk" to financial/lifestyle riches. Then comes another once-in-a-lifetime sale that blows away all resolve. Just like with eating healthier, sometimes you need someone outside your life, outside of your brain, to remind you what you want out of life. This book provides that to us.
Positive Change.......2002-10-18
Before your try to "fix" your money problems, read this book. You'll learn how to create lasting and positive change.
Gerri Detweiler
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"Riches of Internal Prosperity".......2002-10-18
Steve Rhode is a regular guest on "Money Sense" Radio, heard weekly throughout South Florida. Steve's book, "The Path to Happines and Wealth," puts wealth in perspective. With a surprise beginning, the book opens, "The pursuit of material possessions alone is empty and hollow." The book explains the meaning of happiness, how to escape the rate race, and how to achieve riches of interal prosperity. This book is especially helpful for anyone with credit card debt.
Charles Morgan, Attorney
Host "Money Sense" Radio Show
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The Peaceful Path of Prosperity: Practical and Spiritual Approaches to Enrich Your Life with Your Inner Wealth
Danny Babineaux
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The book helps you recognize your inner prosperity by reaching the peaceful place that we all have at our core. From there you can create the prosperous life you have imagined.
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Common Sense and Practical Advice.......2002-04-25
This book is wonderfully written and the concepts are easy to follow and understand. In an age where the desire to "leave the rat race" is an impossible dream due to the confines of internal and external turmoil, when combined with the pressures to "get ahead" financially so a better quality of life can presumably be achieved...the result is a complete breakdown of moral, ethical, spiritual and personal awareness.
Mr. Babineaux's philosophy is that of learning to listen to the voice within (the Creator) and disregarding the enticement of the what we think we want to be or need in order to be "prosperous"; the Imposter. It's like being in a comfort zone that attracts all of the good things in life we are looking for. For those us who are able to consciously slip ourselves in and out of this zone, this book affirms that we "get it".
For those of us who are not able to do so, this book explains how to find that comfort zone...and once we're there, how to let go and let yourself partner with the spiritual and natural forces that surround us to build up and attract inner peace and inner wealth.
For the record, I am 37 years old and consider myself to be fabulously wealthy by Mr. Babineaux's standards. I want my husband to read this book NOW. He's 41 and embroiled in the inner-struggle of "I'm over 40 and I STILL haven't made something of myself. I'm a worthless nobody...." He chases what he thinks is a chance at prosperity (i.e. "I hope this opportunity takes off and I can earn a lot of money to get myself out of the black whole called debt"...) and then is crushed when it eludes him.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who feels the same way my husband does, or if you have been effected by recent tragic events, illness or career/life frustration and stagnation.
Mr. Babineaux is right. Find the peaceful comfort zone within and let everything else around you that brings material prosperity come to you like a moth to the flame.
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Path to riches and happiness
Benjamin Franklin
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Sony is a global household name. Look around your house – you may have a Trinitron television, a VAIO computer, a PlayStation or a Walkman. Or maybe movie DVDs such as Men In Black and Stuart Little. Or music CDs by Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson or Macy Gray. Sony’s role in the evolution of electronics over the half a century is undeniable, offering the world the first transistor radio, the first portable stereo, the first home video-game console using three-dimensional graphics, among others. This book tells the story of Sony’s past and present, and the vision and drive of founders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. Beyond narrative history, the book serves as a case study for how entrepreneurs, with the right combination of tenacity, passion, creativity and an eye for the future, can build a company from the humblest of beginnings into a global giant, with operating revenues of more than US$50 billion and close to 170,000 employees.
The rapid changes in technology and the advent of the Broadband Age have made it difficult for Sony to rest on the laurels it earned in the past. But even as Sony strives to develop beyond traditional realms of a consumer-electronics company to become a global giant of broadband entertainment, one constant will almost always remain within the company’s culture, and that is Sony’s drive to think outside conventional wisdom and capture consumers’ imagination, continuing to make them see products and exclaim, “Ah, it’s a Sony!”
Shu Shin Luh is a freelance journalist who writes regularly about technology, management and corporate governance issues around Asia. She contributes to publications such as the South China Morning Post, the China Post, the American Lawyer Magazine and the Corporate Counsel Magazine, and has won awards for her reporting on consumer rights issues. She has worked for the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Currently, she lives in Taipei, Taiwan.
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an inspirational book.......2005-03-16
The story of Sony is fascinating. Ms. Shu does a good job of telling the story like a reporter. You get a bird's eyeview of Sony's progress with lots of interesting facts. After reading the book you can give examples of Sony's past situations which makes you sound like a business type of person. For example, Sony started as two men trying to make an electric rice cooker and failing miserably. As talented and gifted as Sony's founder were, they failed to make a relatively simple appliance. So the lesson is that failures in starting a business are not that big of a deal. Just keep on going and things will fall into place. It's helpful to individuals thinking of or in the process of starting their own business. The writing style is not up to standard but that's b/c English is not the native language of the author. The book deserves 3 and a half stars and this option is not given in Amazon, so 4 stars it is. The content of the book is quite well researched and I look for content rather than technical writing ability. Above all it's a very inspirational story of Sony.
An embarrassment to the Sony Corporation.......2005-01-16
Had Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita read this book before its publication they would have been appalled at the way it describes their organisation. This book is without a doubt the most unprofessional attempt to characterise a business empire. It is poorly written and poorly researched. The author's horrific use of the English language, combined with an obvious lack of business understanding to qualify her statements, makes this an extremely terrible read.
By the fourth chapter, I had to throw the book away as I was disgusted that I had paid money to read it. Thinking I was buying a 'business book' (as the title suggests) "Business the Sony Way" is simply an overview of the corporation predominately based on secondary sources and is by no means an attempt to critically examine the processes and methods Sony uses to stay ahead of its competition. For readers who are into this genre I would recommend "Sony" by John Nathans, "The Toyota Way" by Jeffrey Liker or "Jack" by Jack Welch.
To support my arguments about this disgraceful dialogue, I would draw your attention to the most silliest comments I've ever read in a book. Here are my top five which made me laugh the most;
5. "With each new generation of PlayStation game consoles, new features are introduced." Page 112
4. "The challenge then lies in achieving both levels of localisation well" page 51
3. "When they were both at work, Ibuka and Morita took lunch together" page 31
2. "Sony has taken risks with its hiring, with a view to find talented employees" page29
1. "...Sony did not grant me interviews with its executives..." page 1
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