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Power of Corporations in Democracies.......2007-02-25
The relationship between business and democracy is often murky. As such, operationalizing the relational power between these entities has long been the task of political economists. Lindblom and Vogel set out to examine the issue of business power in democratic political systems; each coming to a different conclusion.
Lindblom argues that big business and corporations do not "fit" with the idea of democracy. He supports this proposition by examining the many different types of politico-economic systems, ultimately breaking them down into a two-by-two matrix. In his examination, Lindblom finds that all democratic systems are characterized by a free-market economic arrangement. The author explains this anomaly by arguing that democratic systems are dependent on the market and private enterprise (162). He then builds on this foundation to demonstrate the ways in which corporate power maintains control or at least a significant amount of power, in democratic systems.
Lindblom begins to shore up this premise by examining democracy from a historical perspective. He argues that although many hold that democracy (or polyarchy) is a system of popular rule, it in fact is a system established to ensure the personal freedoms of individuals. Often these liberties exist in the form of economic freedoms, exemplified by participation in the free market. He writes, "Polyarchies were established to win and protect certain liberties: private property, free enterprise, free contract and occupational choice" (164). Under polyarchy, the liberties illustrated here were to be protected from the infringement of the governing authority.
Once Lindblom captures the idea that the purpose of polyarchy is to protect the liberties of the people, he poses the question as to why the people never attempt a system of central planning in order to address collective problems. Lindblom suggests that such an experiment has never been undertaken because the process "is subversive of the existing system, specifically of the prerogatives, privileges, and rights of the business and property-owning groups" (168). It is at this point that Lindblom makes the strong move to suggesting that corporate business interests possess a good deal of control under democratic governments. He writes: "We must at this point consider the possibility that existing polyarchies are not very democratic, that political debate in them is not very free, and that policy making in them is actually in the hands of persons who want to protect the privileges of business and property" (168).
Lindblom supports this argument of examining the advantaged power of business. In a system of centralized planning, all decisions regarding the production and dispersion of good and services (all things economic) would be left up to a centralized authority. However, in a polyarchy, many of the economic decisions affecting a nation are made by those in control of the business arena. Lindblom suggests that in free-market systems, it is the corporations which "decide a nation's industrial, technology, the pattern of work organization, the location of industry, the market structure, resource allocation" and other aspects of nation's economic well-being (171). The author refers to this relationship as the "public function" of the corporation. Once business begins to take on a public function, the government cannot readily avoid taking into consideration the interests of the corporate world. It becomes a necessary action of government to ensure that business is able to operate in an efficient manner. However, the relationship is not necessarily a hierarchical one. Rather what emerges is a "duality of leadership" between business and government leaders (180). The question then becomes, why, in a polyarchal system - one in which the government is supposedly run by the masses - do business interests hold such a disproportionate sway over government.
The problem arises in the fact that the under the duality of leadership between government and business, only government is constrained by polyarchal rules. Although often affected by the decisions of corporations, the citizens do not have a means to control the actions of big business (191). In fact, Lindblom argues, a rivalry emerges between the polyarchal interests and those of business. However, business often maintains an advantage over the polyarchal interests.
Due to the inordinate amount of resources, business interests are far more able to influence government than the polyarchal masses. First, corporations can draw upon the finances garnered through business. This grants them a significantly larger war chest which can be "thrown into party, interest-group, and electoral activity in pursuit of what ever corporate executives themselves choose" (194).
Secondly, corporations are often better organized than the polyarchal people. The corporation is an organization in and of itself. Staff exists which can be readily diverted to political issues. Lindblom argues that interests that rival big business to not have the organizational capacity to effectively purse their political interests.
Lastly, building on the previous point, business interests are already closely tied to governmental leadership. Having a duality of control puts them in a position of significantly more power than those pursuing polyarchal political influences. Lindblom writes, "Because of their privileged position in government and politics [corporations] are already known to government officials, already attentively listened to, already engaged in negation" (197). Such a close relation automatically grants big business a privileged position in negotiating with government in the pursuit of its interest.
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On Global Aging: Old-Age Income Systems in the EU and Other Major Parts of the World (Contributions to Economics)
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Nearly all countries in the world are experiencing an aging of their populations due to declining fertility rates and rising longevity. Aging has been the subject of much discussion in the last decade, often expressed in alarmist language.
On Global Aging presents a more optimistic look on the effects of aging on the economy. Nonetheless aging will pose major policy challenges on the well functioning of the economy and the society as a whole.
The book describes and analyses the effects of population aging on social and economic issues, labour and financial markets, pension and health care expenditures and public finance, and the welfare of people. It surveys also the policy measures in the face of aging to secure the resource base. They are mainly aimed at increasing labour force participation and above all at stimulating productivity growth. The book is a valuable resource for practitioners and policy makers and the wider academic community, economists, social scientists, gerontologists and others.
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Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
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The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy. For this reason, it's also a highly contentious issue in today's public policy circles. In this book, leading economists-many of whom have also participated in policy debates on these issues-consider how best to reduce the frequency and cost of such crises.
The contributions here explore the management process from the beginning of a crisis to the long-term effects of the techniques used to minimize it. The first three chapters focus on the earliest responses and the immediate defense of a currency under attack, exploring whether unnecessary damage to economies can be avoided by adopting the right response within the first few days of a financial crisis. Next, contributors examine the adjustment programs that follow, considering how to design these programs so that they shorten the recovery phase, encourage economic growth, and minimize the probability of future difficulties. Finally, the last four papers analyze the actual effects of adjustment programs, asking whether they accomplish what they are designed to do-and whether, as many critics assert, they impose disproportionate costs on the poorest members of society.
Recent high-profile currency crises have proven not only how harmful they can be to neighboring economies and trading partners, but also how important policy responses can be in determining their duration and severity. Economists and policymakers will welcome the insightful evaluations in this important volume, and those of its companion, Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel's Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets.
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- ITS AN EXCELENT BOOK!!!!!!
- Required reading for MIS professionals
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Insourcing After the Outsourcing: Mis Survival Guide
Robert B. Chapman , and
Kathleen Andrade
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The seduction of instant cost cutting has led many companies to adopt outsourcing without thinking of the downside. What happens when outsourcing goes wrong? Costs go up. Service goes down. And customers jump ship. A company may be worse off then when it started!
Insourcing After the Outsourcing thoroughly explores the pros and cons of outsourcing MIS functions to independent vendors. The book offers a practical escape plan for companies that have jumped onto the outsourcing bandwagon only to have it break down. And for companies considering a move to outsourcing, Insourcing After the Outsourcing helps readers to:
** learn what can realistically be expected from outsourcing
** discover when, where, and how outsourcing usually fails
** solve outsourcing problems by "insourcing" functions gone bad
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ITS AN EXCELENT BOOK!!!!!!.......1998-06-21
ITS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS REGARDING IS/IT INSOURCING, HIGHLY RECOMMENTED!!!!!!!!!!
Required reading for MIS professionals.......1997-10-16
This book is absolutely dead-nuts on, explaining in plain English, so even Dilbert's pointy-eared boss can understand, the facts and fictions and cost pressures of the typical outsourcing arrangement. As I feel when reading many of Scott Adam's cartoons, I kept wondering when these authors had worked for my company--how did they know was going on so accurately? Their clear explanations of figuring if an outsourcing makes any sense (MIS people are dense at financial concepts, I know I am), but their simple charts and NPV explanations helped me through the tough parts. Chapman and Andrade know their history, and they explain why we're all going to relive it. Read it before you have to relive it too. I'm ordering an additional copy for my boss. (He doesn't have pointy ears--yet, anyway!)
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Title: Mapping successful financing strategies: transitioning from a single-unit to a multi-unit operation: the transition from single-unit operator to multi-unit franchisee is a process that begins with successful operation of that first unit.(FINANCING THE FUTURE OF FRANCHISING)
Author: Reginald Heard
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Date: May 1, 2005
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Volume: 37
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An experiment was performed to understand the use of Intellectual Capital in a knowledge-based organization. A theoretical model was created; it interconnects the Intellectual Capital components as a way of understanding the intellectual wealth of a learning organization. Hypotheses were formulated from this. Data were then collected at two different time periods. These were then analysed using two scientific tools: concept mapping and structural equations modeling. Both were found to provide valuable information in studying Intellectual Capital in a knowledge-based firm.
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Helpful information about how to ace a job interview, this book gives step-by-step instructions for use as soon as a job interview is scheduled.
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Too basic.......2006-08-30
This book gave tips like make sure you get a good night's sleep, eat well, exercise, and dress nicely. It was all very useless. It also talked about the internet like it was a new tool to be used in the job search. It's 2006!!! You better already know how to use the internet. I guess maybe this is geared towards older people interviewing? I'm not sure. Anyway, this book was not useful to me at all. Instead, I would highly recommend the Monster Careers book. It has tons of practical and very useful advice from building your resume to interviewing to following up - a much more comprehensive and easy to use guide.
Worked for Me!.......2005-02-25
Even though I've been employed since I was 16, I somehow made it to the age of 31 without having to go through the interview process with HR type people and I was a bit nervous about having to do so. After reading this book and one other related book, I started looking for a new job in late January. Using the advice gleaned from this book, I've received interviews for both of the positions I've applied for, they both called me back in for second interviews and one of them has already offered me a position.
The best tip of all was to be as vague as possible with your answers. If they want more details, they'll ask. Also, the comments made by an HR professional regarding the "Where do you see yourself in five years?" question came in handy. :)
A direct and down- to -earth guide for anyone interviewing!.......1999-04-30
This book goes beyond buying a new suit and polishing up your resume. It gives job seekers a feeling of more control by its down-to-earth advice. I especially liked the discussion about positioning.
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When it’s time to leave home and start paying for real life expenses on your own, you’ve got two choices: paper or plastic. This guide covers everything you need to know to open your first checking account, apply for your first credit cards, and handle both so that there’s still some money left in your wallet at the end of the month.
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Real U Guide to Bank Accounts and Credit Cards starts with the basics–credit cards, debit cards, monthly statements, interest rates–and spells out all the options in an easy-to-understand style that is the trademark of award-winning journalist Ilyce Glink. From there, Glink delves into the finer points of Money Management 101, including such topics as:
· How to make the most of personal finance software
· How to pay your bills online
· Credit unions: Are they better than banks?
· How to bounce back from bad checks
· Six steps to a great credit rating
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Filled with 4-color photographs, magazine-style layouts, and a quiz which asks: “Can You Be Trusted With a Checkbook?” The answer will be “yes” by the time you’ve finished reading this guide.
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Fredrick J. Miller came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from Germany 150 years ago and started a small brewery that would evolve into one of the world's largest. In The Miller Beer Barons, author Tim John tells the complete story of the family that built a beer empire from the entrepreneurial days of brewers like Miller, Pabst and Best, through the struggles of Prohibition to the corporate modern era.
A member of the Miller family, John introduces readers to quirky and controversial family members like Emil Miller, who smashed beer bottles of competitors with his cane when he discovered them at taverns, or John's own father, Harry, who served a brief, but stormy, tenure as company president. Tim John spent several years researching the book, which is likely the most complete history of Miller Brewing ever done.
"The Miller Beer Barons" arrives just in time to commemorate Miller's 150th anniversry in 2005.
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A Refreshingly Honest Beer History.......2007-05-20
I went to High School with the author in Milwaukee- just blocks from the Miller Brewery; played on the same football team. Later I spent 13 years as an employee of the Miller Brewing Company. (After Tim John's family had sold to Philip Morris).
Tim has to be congratulated for both the scholarly handling of the subject and his candor about what has to be a deeply emotional subject.
I know that Tim John really cares for the people at Miller Brewing today. Even with no direct ties to the brewery he wanted to know how the workers at Miller were treated during my tenure. He is entitled to take pride in the incredible heritage his family left.
This book is quite refreshingly different from most self praising beer stories. Tim John writes frankly and well about a family business, a city and its neighborhoods, and the sometimes crazy world of beer. It's like that first good lager on a warm summer day!
I hope to catch up with Tim in Milwaukee sometime; perhaps at the 2007 150th Anniversary celebration of Marquette University High School. Maybe he'll buy me a beer!
If you want a real and honest history get this book.
A trans-generational tour of wealth, power, and their sometimes rocky transitions.......2006-01-07
The Miller Beer Barons: The Frederick J. Miller Family And Its Brewery is the true and fascinating story of the Miller family, which started and ran the Miller Brewing Company for over one hundred years. Stretching from late 1800's Germany, when Mr. Miller brewed his first beer, to 1970, when Harry G. John Jr.'s sale of Miller stock was the end of the family's involvement with the company, The Miller Beer Barons is a trans-generational tour of wealth, power, and their sometimes rocky transitions. An inset section of black-and-white photographic plates nicely rounds out this exhaustively researched, meticulously detailed, highly recommended family biography.
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Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs: Searching for the Perfect Pint
Robin Shepard
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This information-packed guidebook introduces you to more than sixty breweries and brewpubs—from the Shipwrecked Brew Pub in Egg Harbor, to smaller craft breweries like Capital Brewery west of Madison, to the world-famous Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee. Robin Shepard includes descriptions and his personal ratings of some 600 local beers, plus a taster’s chart you can use to record your own preferences.
For each brewpub and brewery site you’ll find:
• a description and brief history, plus any "Don’t miss" features
• names, comments, and ratings for all their specialty beers
• notes on the pub food, with recommendations
• suggestions of other sites to see and activities in the local area
• information about bottling and distribution
• availability of tours, tastings, gift shops, mug clubs, and "growlers"
• address and contact data, including Web sites and GPS coordinates!
Shepard also introduces novices to the brewing process and a wide variety of beer styles. And, you’ll find a list of helpful books and Web sites, as well as information on Wisconsin beer tastings and festivals. As we say in Wisconsin, "So, have a couple a two, three beers, hey?"
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the Beer Bible.......2003-04-24
This book is a must for anyone that enjoys fine crafted beer.
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- Excellent synopsis of brewing history in Wisconsin.
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Breweries of Wisconsin
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ASIN: 0299206548 |
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The story of the Dairy State’s other major industry—beer! From the immigrants who started brewing here during territorial days to the modern industrial giants, this is the history, the folklore, the architecture, the advertising, and the characters that made Wisconsin the nation’s brewing leader. Updated with the latest trends on the Wisconsin brewing scene.
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Excellent synopsis of brewing history in Wisconsin........1998-12-24
Very informative and detailed history of brewing in the state made famous by the craft of German immigrants. Short histories of the major breweries of Wisconsin fill in the trivia gaps any beer buff may have. Includes many historical pictures of Blatz, Schlitz, Pabst, Walter, Oshkosh, Mathie-Ruder, Gettelman, and of course, Miller. The listing of all known brewery buildings still standing in Wisconsin is espescially helpful for guiding the weekend roadtrip. Viewing these historical structures is a great way to imagine the brewing industry of the past 150 years. Highly recommended for anyone interested in beer, from the history afficionado, to the basement homebrewer.
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Title: Class action suit vs. brewers filed in Wisconsin.
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Date: March 7, 2005
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Leine reaches production max in Wisconsin. (Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co.): An article from: Modern Brewery Age
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Title: Leine reaches production max in Wisconsin. (Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co.)
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Modern Brewery Age (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 2, 1989
Publisher: Business Journals, Inc.
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Title: Wisconsin distribution bill delayed by state senate.
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- Reclaiming the Future: New Zealand and the Global Economy
- Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present
- Research Methodology in Applied Economics: Organizing, Planning and Conducting Economic Research
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