The IMF and its Critics: Reform of Global Financial Architecture (Global Economic Institutions)

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Written by leading economists including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, this collection combines rigorous economic analysis with insider perspectives on key policy debates surrounding the future of the International Monetary Fund. As the role of the IMF and the "Washington Consensus" have come under intense scrutiny, this collection offers a valuable wide-ranging overview of the debate, making it an essential reference for anyone interested in the role of international financial institutions in our globalized economy.

Europe, East Asia and APEC: A Shared Global Agenda (Global Economic Institutions)

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Peter Drysdale , and David Vines
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This book contrasts regional economic integration in the Asia Pacific Region and in Europe. In the Asia Pacific Region, regionalism is developing by means of "open regionalism," constructed through the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Process). This is different from the regionalism that has developed in Europe through the construction of a single European Market and Monetary Union within the European Union. In the light of this contrast, a number of important contemporary policy questions are considered by an international team of contributors. How should Europe and other parts of the world respond to the development of open regionalism in the Asia Pacific Region? Can these regions develop a shared global agenda directed toward sustaining genuinely multilateral solutions to international trade policy problems over the coming years?

The European Economy: The Global Context

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C. Dent
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The shape of the world economy is changing. Globalization and regionalism have led to the development of powerful but interdependent economic blocs. Europe, considered as one such bloc, is the world's biggest international trader and investor. However, much economic potential has shifted from the Atlantic to the Pacific area. In view of this The European Economy argues that economists need a broader, worldwide base of information if these processes and their effect on Europe are to be fully understood. Discussing core European issues in depth, the book highlights the influence of other countries on the Europe, and vice-versa. This fresh approach highlights the issues which will challenge European countries in the 21st century.

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Globalizatiob and regionalism have led to the rise in the number of powerful but interdependent groups. This book argues that the shape of the world economy is changing and it highlights the challenges that countries will face in the future.

Financial Market Reform in China: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (Political Economy of Global Interdependence)

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy
Rafael Di Tella , Huw Pill , Ingrid Vogel , and Rafael Di Tella
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All managers face a business environment where international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is a crucial aspect in making informed managerial decisions. Adverse macroeconomic phenomena can have a catastrophic impact on firm performance witness the strong companies destroyed by the Mexican tequila crisis. Yet, at the same time, such episodes also create business opportunities and not just for the hedge funds and speculators that profit from them. Managers that have and use a coherent framework for analyzing these phenomena will enjoy a competitive advantage. This book presents a series of case studies taught in the Harvard Business School course Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy. The course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and proposes strategies for managing the risks that globalization entails.

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This volume provides a critical evaluation of Anna J. Schwartz's work and probes various facets of the immense contribution of her scholarship—How well has it stood the test of time? What critiques have been leveled against it? How has monetary research developed over the years, and how has her influence been manifested? Bordo has collected five conference papers presented by leading monetary scholars, discussants' comments, and closing remarks by Milton Friedman and Karl Brunner. Each of these insightful surveys extends Schwartz's work and makes its own contribution to the fields of monetary history, theory, and policy. The volume also contains a foreword by Martin Feldstein and a selected bibliography of publications by Anna Schwartz.

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Paul and Sarah Edwards have kept abreast of changing directions in small business through a series of eight bestselling books that began with their pioneering Working from Home, first published in 1985. Now, teaming up with computer industry journalist Linda Rohrbough, they've set their sights on the Internet and how to profitably incorporate it into an entrepreneurial operation. The book delivers on exactly what the title offers, Making Money in Cyberspace: The Inside Information You Need to Start or Take Your Own Business On-Line, and aims to flatten the learning curve for novice but interested small businesses. The nuts and bolts of working both within the medium (designing Web sites and providing associated services to others, for instance) and with it (selling various unrelated goods and services online) are thoroughly discussed from the small-business perspective, as are technical matters (such as choosing an entrepreneur-friendly ISP and setting up a credit-card account). Periodic profiles of those who successfully use cyberspace in their business--complete with relevant URLs--are also interesting and instructive. --Howard Rothman

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There's no question that the Internet is an increasingly effective place to sell goods or services; yet small and home-based businesspeople are without consulting giants to navigate the frontier of cyberspace for them. With Making Money in Cyberspace, the authors of The Best Home Businesses for the 90s now offer a comprehensive guide that tells you all you need to know about starting and maintaining a successful on-line business from scratch--or taking your current business into cyberspace. This complete guide to cyber-business includes such features as: *the four types of goods that really sell on-line; *what you need to know to design and promote web sites; *selling services in cyberspace; *how to take your existing business on-line--and whether you should; *revealing "case studies" of successful cyber-entrepreneurs; *the biggest mistakes businesses make in cyberspace; and *the best ways to get paid on-line. Packed with stimulating step-by-step instructions, Making Money in Cyberspace is a vital resource for any small business-

person who is considering starting or taking a business on-line.

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Filled with hot air.......2002-06-24

I thought this book would actually talk about ways you can make money in cyberspace. What a let down. It seems all the book talks about is how great the internet is and its advantages. I already knew the benefits of the internet before I read this book. Stay away from this one.

Stands the test of (Internet) time.......2001-08-11

When this book came across the desk, we thought "oh gosh, another out of date, get rich quick, internet how-to primer". Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Paul and Sarah Edwards seem to have a keyboard that turns whatever is typed into gold. The duo are noted for creating inspiring, hands-on, how-to books for the small time operator with big dreams, and this one is no different. In cyberspace, where one offline line year is the equivalent of ten online years, it is very difficult to write a book about the Internet that is not completely out of date by 3 p.m. the next day. This book though is one the few that can stand the test of time (or at least still be relevant next week).

The Edwards do the usual explaining, defining and exampling, but we were most impressed with their profiles. We visited several websites that were mentioned in the book and found all of them to still be in business! In the lightning fast "up and at `em" today "down and out" tomorrow atmosphere of the Internet this was truly a surprise. It just goes to show-if those entrepreneurs read this book and are still profiting, than maybe you will too.

Chock full of inspiring real life success stories, you'd do well to give this read your full attention.

--LiteratePlanet.com

Excellent cyberspace primer to making money on-line........2001-06-18

Don't let the title fool you... this book is not about the quick, get rich internet scams that proliferate around the web. This book is for the lay person who has a bricks and mortar business or who wants to start from scratch. The internet is not going away and it is possible, with hard work and this book as a guide, to make money using the internet as a tool. Buy this book and get out your highlighter... you'll find a great deal of information that you can put to use starting today!

Anyone Can Derive An Income From It!.......2000-08-02

Work-at-home experts Paul and Sarah Edwards, the authoring team of a series of leading working-from-home books, have teamed up with Linda Rohrbough to write Making Money In Cyberspace to encourage business people to take their existing businesses online and to invite others to test the waters of starting an online business from scratch themselves. This book will open up the exciting world of online business opportunities.

Making Money In Cyberspace was written to demonstrate that a number of traditional occupations including domestic, technical, and corporate level work can be conducted online from the comfort of a home or office. The authors cite a number of occupations that just about anyone can make a living from online. Check out the helpful checklist at the back of the book!

The book focuses a considerable amount of attention to the details of designing creative Websites that will effectively market an online business operation. Building and promoting effective Websites, developing content, advertising options, payment considerations, and selecting an Internet service provider are covered. A number of actual cases studies are provided to reinforce these important issues.

Readers will appreciate the fact that the authors have expressed themselves in a non-technical manner. Anyone can pick up this book and put it to use! It will make a great companion to other books written by these authors. This is sure to be a favorite among those who love what the Internet has to offer and desire to derive an income from it! This book would also make a nice gift!

A must read for all netrepreneurs and web designers.......1999-11-04

This book is great. Though the main focus is to show how people have become successful online, there's no hype about making billions overnite. Examples range from people who have made a few thousand dollars a year online, to people have made millions. The book reviews how some business ideas didn't work on the web at first, how how they had to change and adjust to get better results. Gets into some technical aspects too. Also a must read for web designers.

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Whether you're looking for a new job or seeking to advance in the one you already have, an ever-tightening market and the ever-toughening competition will not be giving you any slack. Promoting Yourself, by veteran Wall Street Journal careers columnist Hal Lancaster, offers 52 ways to even up the score--and then some. Writing from a tradition-based yet thoroughly modern point of view "for people who question the quick-fix psychobabble served up by the empowered, self-actualized, spirituality-seeking nexus that now dominates the overstuffed career advice field," Lancaster refreshingly addresses real-world situations with real-world suggestions. When writing a résumé, for example, he advocates replacing "vagaries with specifics" by substituting solid accomplishments for empty adjectives. Consequently, he urges learning all you can about a prospective employer before an interview and then anticipating everything they will want to know about you. Other issues Lancaster tackles include leadership, promotion, advanced education, management (for first-timers as well as the more experienced), job-hopping, time off, buy-outs, mergers, start-ups, office politics, and a few "alternative paths to glory" such as turning a hobby into a career and becoming a free agent. There's plenty of solid advice here that anyone can use to better their working lot in life. --Howard Rothman

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Longtime Wall Street Journal columnist Hal Lancaster is tired of feel-good career guides written by football coaches and soap opera actors who boil the complex workplace down to buzzwords and platitudes. Refreshing and controversial, Promoting Yourself asserts that readers can best build their careers not by listening to so-called gurus, but by studying others like them who have flourished.

Through stories of real-life professionals, Promoting Yourself reveals a workplace that requires you to pit your competitive fire against a horde of ambitious bosses, peers, and subordinates, all seeking the brass ring of success. Lancaster shows you how with tough, savvy answers to the fundamental questions: How can you find the right job? How can you improve your job? When should you leave? How do you survive your boss's foibles? How do you make sense of all the mergers, technological advances, and cultural changes that have muddied the career waters? When is it necessary to ignore the incessant calls of "family first"?

Promoting Yourselfgives readers the street smarts and insight needed to tackle the highly political and often unjust reality of corporate life.

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Profiles Winners, and tries to create rules from them........2003-04-28

Mr. Lancaster knows a lot about careers. He wrote the 'Career Column' for the Wall Street Journal. I read that now, and it's pretty interesting (though i only agree with the 'conclusions' 50% of the time).
I didn't find this book strong, though. The auther finds winners, and picks out their career path, and then says "See, you do the same." He profiles a woman who became a CEO of a Silicon Valley company in one of the 52 chapters. She started out as a kindergarten teacher, then moved into business. Mr. Lancaster reprints her quote "I feel that being a kindergarten teacher is a great introduction to business, because you have to keep the attention of 30,50,100 people." HUH? I have three children, and holding their attention has little to do with business success, at least not that I've seen in my 20 years as an engineer and project manager.
Also, the book does not take into account the existence of luck at all. Everyone who 'wins' the game of business did it through sheer intelligence and determination.
That doesn't happen in the real world. There is luck involved.
There are tens of thousands of engineers trying to do what Bill Gates did, and only about 1% are achieving even a small portion of his success. An author can take Bill G's life, show how "brilliant" he was for dropping out of Harvard as a freshman, and starting a highly risky technical firm. This is poor advice, though. I would never recommend anyone dropping out of Harvard to start a business. Just because it worked for Bill G doesn't mean it's a highly probable recipe for success.

The auther also frames issues too narrowly, and leaves out important aspects of peoples lives. As a father, i'm not so willing to move from state to state as a rising executive. That's my choice. However, his 52 ways assume you'll do ANYTHING to get ahead, that your whole life is centered around business success. That's too narrow of a definition for me.
The book assumes you'll pay any price to get ahead.
Yet it doesn't state that directly, which is a very key point.
He also left out some key psychological traits that business leaders possess: ruthlessness and an ability to feel comfortable winning at any cost, as long as the authority figure in your institution accepts it.

This book is a quick read, because it's pretty superficial.
If you've been in the business world for 10+ years, and you don't know a lot of these things by now, well, um, you need to pay attention more.
If you're 100% committed to your business life, and you will do anything at anytime for anyone to get ahead, then you can learn some fine points of behaivor from this book.
Otherwise, this is like saying you'll be Bill Gates if you
do what Bill Gates did.

Informative, accessible, and useful.......2002-08-26

I enjoyed Lancaster's column in the journal and hoped he would distill his work there into book form. Much of what he describes is done in other books; however he writes crisply and well. The book lacks jargon or chirpy advice. I find more balance in his examples than in most books of this type. He's clearly thought long and hard about these issues and it shows.

A solid business book.......2002-05-11

Promoting Yourself: 52 Lessons For Getting To The Top...And Staying There by journalist and columnist Hal Lancaster (The Wall Street Journal) is a solid business book packed with a wealth of practical tips, trips, and techniques to surviving office politics and new bosses, making oneself look good for promotion, improving one's negotiation and communication skills, and much more. A highly practical and sensible book for dedicated workers looking to earn a higher position in their chosen field, Promoting Yourself is especially recommended for the non-specialist general reader and a welcome contribution to community library Jobs/Careers reference collections.

Nothing New.......2002-04-06

Mr. Lancaster manages to pick some of the most intriguing topics for the "lessons" in his book, but time after time he glosses over them without saying much of anything new. These short essays (most are two pages long) do not have enough meat to make this book work. The table of contents looks good, but the payoff is just not there.

Good reference guide.......2002-02-27

Use this book as a sort of guidance counselor. Mr. Lancaster wrote the short easy-to-read chapters much like a career journal column in the Wall Street Journal.
All of the chapters won't apply to everyone, but Lancaster does a good job of moving along the topic with good specific examples.
A quick read that will stay on my referral shelf. All topics covered should apply now and in the future to all of us out there with difficult jobs, bosses and decisions to be made. Good stuff!

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Credit unions, the most important source of credit for microenterprises in Latin America, reach the poor in large numbers and have great potential for expansion and growth. When donor funding and subsidies began to dry up in the mid-1980s, and competition from commercial banks intensified in the 1990s, many credit unions throughout the region found themselves facing a profound crisis. The more progressive credit unions responded to these competitive forces by developing greater financial discipline and service innovation.

In facing up to this new environment, Latin American credit union movements will have to grapple with four key issues: rehabilitation, regulation and supervision, governance, and consolidation. Safe Money explores these issues and presents the new thinking on how credit unions can compete effectively in modern financial markets while still retaining their social mission.

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More and more women are striking out on their own in cyberspace. DotCom Divas, by Internet strategist Elizabeth Carlassare, profiles 20 of the best and brightest of these founding females, distilling key e-business insights and strategies. Moving beyond the model of two guys working in a garage, the author describes "successful women who are creating real, thriving Web companies from visions that were initially just twinkles in their eyes."

Her choices of women Web entrepreneurs are intriguing and eclectic: Nancy Evans and Candice Carpenter at iVillage, Janina Pawlowski of E-Loan, Eugenie Diserio of the astrology site Astronet, and oneNest founder Durreen Shahnaz, who links disadvantaged artisans with global markets.

Carlassare's readable profiles are not puff pieces. She organizes her visionary leaders into four areas of the Internet economy: Web portal, Web-based services, e-commerce, and e-business applications. Each chapter explores one company and founder in terms of the source of their winning business idea, the business plan, fundraising, team building, and meeting the challenges of growing and marketing their business. Chapter summaries capture the essence of each woman's strategies for success.

Carlassare offers many engaging excerpts from a day in the life of her divas. For example, oneNest CEO Durreen Shahnaz trekking in Bangladesh; Nancy Evans and Candice Carpenter raiding their personal bank accounts to meet the iVillage payroll; and Janina Pawlowski, standing on the floor of Goldman Sachs, sweating out E-Loan's public offering.

The book could have been strengthened by a concluding chapter to underline key success patterns. Still, each chapter offers specific insights and inspiration for both experienced and aspiring Web entrepreneurs. And these powerful perspectives are not for women only. --Barbara Mackoff

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In Dotcom Divas, prepare to meet some of the most talented, energetic, and visionary Internet entrepreneurs who ever plunged into the e-business revolution. And, oh, by the way -- they're all women. Industry insider, Elizabeth Carlassare, introduces readers to the inspiring women founders of 20 Internet companies, including LookSmart, EDGAR Online, E-Loan, RightWorks, and Marimba. In Dotcom Divas, these Internet pioneers reveal their hard-won business wisdom and practical advice -- invaluable insights for Internet professionals and entrepreneurs alike.

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In Dotcom Divas, prepare to meet some of the most talented, energetic, and visionary Internet entrepreneurs who ever plunged into the e-business revolution.

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Still relevant-- we need more women and girls in tech a MUST.......2005-02-16

Women and girls don't be left in the glass "basement" looking up at a future which is full of opportunity as we enter the 21st Century. Elizabeth knows her stuff I remember meeting her at Women in New Technology, she's sharp and her profiles are still very relevant today. Some of the websites she profiles are long gone -- but the women who created them are still high profile in the new tech world. Lots to learn from what happened in the "dot bomb" times and lots more to learn from girls and women who strive to create the next cross-network ventures. Visionary woman, visionary founders.

Not just for women.......2002-03-01

While the focus of the book is women, the lessons learned can benefit both men and women. Since most of the leaders in business profiled in the media are men, it is refreshing to read about accomplished women regardless of the outcome of their companies. It is especially nice that the women profiled have a diverse age range as well as HQ locations (two of the women live outside the US). The appendix has an outstanding list of relevant organizations and resources.

Utterly Vacuous.......2001-06-13

Mommy, what's a dot com? This book is jaded nonsense. Avoid.

It's About Time!.......2001-03-25

With all of the books and articles about male CEOs, particularly in the tech and Internet industries, it is about time there is a well-researched book about female CEOs and founders of successful and growing tech/Net companies that breaks down their businesses and their advice.

Even though the dot com explosion has affected two of the companies in the book, I think the rest of the women's ability to withstand the market shakeup is a testament to how women tend to start more conservative and more sound businesses. Although the market is still in flux, "Dotcom Divas" offers clear portraits of diverse businesswomen with varying styles and motivations that will undoubtedly lead them to continued success.

Any aspiring businessperson - not just women - will glean some essential tips and ideas from reading this book.

On The Fence.......2001-03-22

Good book, but what bothered me most was that the author seemed to plug these business women and their companies more than show an unbiased perspective. Every business plan painted a rosy picture with little emphasis on competition and the pitfalls one has to face when dealing with this industry.

As an e-entrepeneur of a growing business, I found the book a bit biased with little substance.

No doubt, the fact that so many women achieved such great success is inspiring and that they were profiled is fabulous. But, the seriousness of the pitfalls weren't accurately described. A great example of this is the fact that a few of these dot coms no longer exist, and reading their business plans in the book, seemed like they had no worries in the world...a bit misleading.

All in all, I recommend you buy the book, just don't take it too seriously and most importantly, don't let it intimidate you!

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Dotcom Divas: E-Business Insights from the Visionary Women Founders of 20 Net Ventures
Patricia B. Seybold Elizabeth Carlassare
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