The Economics of Staging the Olympics: A Comparison of the Games 1972-2008

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`The Olympic Games are the most prestigious sports event that a city can organise. They are the dream and fulfilment of young athletes. They also represent an extraordinary sporting, social, cultural and environmental legacy for the host city, the region and the country. The IOC is dedicated and committed to ensuring that its legacy is the best possible one. Professor Holger Preuss highlights the beneficial impact of the Olympic Games, financially and socially. Nowadays, hosting the Olympic Games can act as a catalyst for urban redevelopment, enabling changes, which might normally take several decades, to be completed over a seven-year cycle. This work, which highlights macroeconomic and business analysis related to over 30 years of Olympic Games's history, will certainly be useful to share the knowledge and the various experiences in this field and prove a valuable tool for students and researchers who are interested in the Olympic Movement. It is through similar publications that the complexity of the Olympic Games and their economic impact can be further understood by the generations to come. I trust that each of you will enjoy reading this book and appreciate the work of its author.'
- From the preface by Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee

The Olympic Games is a unique event centering global interest on its host city. The financing of the Games has changed dramatically since Munich (1972) and economic interests and effects are increasingly paramount. It is therefore an anomaly that accurate economic analysis and comparison is not readily available. This is the most detailed study on the economic implications of recent and future Olympic Games over four decades.

Holger Preuss analyses the most important issues surrounding the hosting of the Olympics, and its wider economic effects, including:

• financial gigantism of the Olympic Games
• commercialisation and its control
• problems associated with achieving the Olympic requirements and standards
• the economic legacy of Olympic Games
• the feasibility of developing countries staging future Olympic Games
• detailed post Olympic analysis of financial figures
• conclusions on the economic related achievements of respective Organising Committees.

Academics and researchers of sports economics, international economics, international business and competition will all find this fascinating book of great value. The rigorous and authoritative analysis ensures valuable information will be available for future bid cities, and in a wider context, any city planning to bid for a major sporting event. It will also appeal to those interested in the broader context of the Olympic Games and concerned by their commercialisation and gigantism.

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Maria-Theresien-Thaler by Carl Peetz and Dr. Josef Raudnitz, two high-ranking Austrian officials, portrays the fascinating history of the Maria-Theresien-Thaler (MTT). The currency was used in Egypt, Arabia, the Sudan, and Ethiopia, and was abandoned for official use by the Ottoman Empire in 1883. It remained in wide circulation for a variety of reasons, including its perceived stability resulting in a superior exchange rate, ties to ethnic and religious traditions, and hoarding by private collectors. Failed efforts by the Zanzibar sultan and others to introduce a new currency are described. The book deals with the complex factors in the preeminence and rise of the MTT and its eventual disappearance in 1897, as part of the last stage of a commercial boom prior to the colonial takeover.

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Inside the Minds: Internet BizDev features leading business development executives from some of the top Internet and technology companies in the world including LifeMinders, Netcreations, Imandi.com, yesmail.com, Juno Online Services, Keen.com, RealNames and more. Their experiences, advice, and stories provide an unprecedented look at the various strategies used to grow an Internet business, or Internet aspect of a business, for companies of every size and in every industry. Also examined are calculating potential return on investment, partnership strategies, joint ventures, and where the future of Internet business development is heading among numerous other issues. Inside the Minds: Internet BizDev contains the most up to date information available regarding business development and is a must have for every executive, entrepreneur, and anyone in the business development or marketing world.

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Well Done-Highly Recommend.......2000-12-15

A truly excellent book-these exec's know what they are talking about. It is amazing the way deals are done in the Internet space-yet they are still based on all the same common principles as old world deals. This book highlights both and gives great insights into the ways these exec's handle their deals.

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How to Make Money Growing Plants, Trees, and Flowers: A Guide to Profitable Earth Friendly Ventures
Francis X. Jozwik
Manufacturer: Andmar Press
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How to Make Money Growing Plants, Trees & Flowers : A Guide to Profitable Earth Friendly Ventures
Francis X. Jozwik
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Magic Words at Work: Powerful Phrases to Help You Conquer the Working World
Howard Kaminsky , and Alexandra Penney
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WORDS THAT WORK: IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAY, IT'S WHAT PEOPLE HEAR

ASIN: 0767914414
Release Date: 2004-02-10

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From the bestselling authors of Magic Words: a collection of workplace wisdom for spectacular results on the job

Having survived and thrived in the competitive media industry, Alexandra Penney and Howard Kaminsky are now revealing their strategies for success. Magic Words at Work captures lessions learned in the trenches and coins perfect turns of phrase for every office situation, including:

• Raising Your Voice Can Work Better Than Raising Your Hand: Don’t spend your life asking for permission and waiting to be called on
• The Red Light Is On: Learn the secret to working without interruption
• Make Like a Prairie Dog: When management is in flux, stay low to the ground
• I'm Going to Lead Between the Lines: Find a solution, then make it fit the rules
• Low Overhead Equals High Independence: Living debt-free keeps your options wide open

With a memorable mixture of chutzpah and charm, Kaminsky and Penney deliver the bottom line on rising to the top.

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From the bestselling authors of Magic Words, a collection of workplace wisdom for spectacular results on the job.

Having survived and thrived in the competitive media industry, Alexandra Penney and Howard Kaminsky are now revealing their strategies for success. Magic Words at Work captures lessions learned in the trenches and coins perfect turns of phrase for every office situation, including:

Raising Your Voice Can Work Better Than Raising Your Hand: Don't spend your life asking for permission and waiting to be called on
The Red Light Is On: Learn the secret to working without interruption
Make Like a Prairie Dog: When management is in flux, stay low to the ground
I'm Going to Lead Between the Lines: Find a solution, then make it fit the rules
Low Overhead Equals High Independence: Living debt-free keeps your options wide open

With a memorable mixture of chutzpah and charm, Kaminsky and Penney deliver the bottom line on rising to the top.

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Simple But Effective

The worst anything ever

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The Don't Sweat Guide To Your Finances: Planning, Saving, and Spending Stress-Free
Editors of Don't Sweat Press
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inances are often confusing and frustrating. This easy-to-follow guidebook will help readers plan, save, and spend. The key is budgeting without obsessing over every bill and expense.

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With the dips and turns in the economy, it can be difficult not to stress out over one's living expenses, savings (or lack thereof), college tuition, and more. Yet worrying doesn't help any of these matters, and indeed can make things worse. THE DON'T SWEAT GUIDE TO YOUR FINANCES shows readers how to relax and take control of resources and financial planning, in a series of helpful essays, including: Clarity Creates Money Free Money From Your Employer Discussing Your Expectations Dig Yourself Out of Debt Daily Finances in Five Minutes a Day Let Charitable Giving Enrich Your Life...and many more. This book is the perfect guide for people who want to stress less over their money.

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Simple But Effective.......2007-04-29

I kinda liked this book. It wasn't written for the people who know a lot about finances. There are plenty of books around that are for them. What this book IS is 100 suggestions about how to start thinking about money in non-stressful ways. Just like all the other titles in this series.
I didn't need to read the book but I picked it up because no matter where a person is in their financial life there is a lot of information they can use. Information that they might not have remembered about because they need to start over but have no idea how to begin. Any one of these tips would be useful for either a beginner who is starting to accumulate "real" money or a person just trying to get out of debt. People don't think straight when they worry about things as important as money and that's what this book helps them deal with.

The worst anything ever.......2007-03-08

This is without a doubt the worst written work I have ever encountered. I just threw it in the trash as the thought of its harming someone who might pick it up a thrift store is upsetting. Not only is there next to nothing of value there is alot of really bad advice.
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Absolutely worthless.......2005-11-09

I'm a huge fan of Richard Carlson's original "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" book that was originally published in 1997, so I was excited to see that he also wrote a book about finances. After about five minutes of reading it, however, I found it to be the most utterly worthless financial advice book imaginable. It ought to be called, "Ridiculously Simple and Obvious Advice for Utter Morons Who Don't Know the First Thing About Money." Anyone who can tell the difference between a penny and a quarter surely knows everything in this book already. I can't believe that Carlson actually put his name on this one. Trust me, the best way to start managing your finances wisely is to avoid spending any money on this book.

Inane, wrong, look elsewhere.......2004-06-30

This book is pathetic! Its little paragraphs about financial and economic subjects are inane. And, many times the given information is flat wrong. It's clear the "author" didn't bother to put any sweat into his work. If you want useful, accurate information on finance, I suggest you look elsewhere.

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Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green—a former Bell System employee and current labor historian—presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the break-up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984. Green shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerized one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the workplace.
More than a simple story of the impact of technology, Race on the Line combines oral history, personal experience, and archival research to weave a complicated history of how skill is constructed and how its meanings change within a rapidly expanding industry. Green discusses how women faced an environment where male union leaders displayed economic as well as gender biases and where racism served as a persistent system of division. Separated into chronological sections, the study moves from the early years when the Bell company gave both male and female workers opportunities to advance; to the era of the “white lady” image of the company, when African American women were excluded from the industry and feminist working-class consciousness among white women was consequently inhibited; to the computer era, a time when black women had waged a successful struggle to integrate the telephone operating system but faced technological displacement and unrewarding work.
An important study of working-class American women during the twentieth century, this book will appeal to a wide audience, particularly students and scholars with interest in women’s history, labor history, African American history, the history of technology, and business history.

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Labour/Le Travail

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PUBLIC--PRIVATE SECTOR LINKAGES IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE SEED INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL, CHINA AND INDIA.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement): ... American Journal of Agricultural Economics
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This digital document is an article from American Journal of Agricultural Economics, published by American Agricultural Economics Association on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3545 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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William A. Benjamin
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Indonesia's remarkable economic and social achievements, amidst incredible cultural diversity and complexity, have motivated the World Bank to herald this sprawling archipelago of 200 million people as a model developing economy. Driven by an agenda of massive market reforms and deregulations, the government is undeniably committed to the country's sustainable global competitiveness in the 21st century. In Business Opportunities in Indonesia, the ninth volume in the Nanyang Business Report Series, the editors profile the vast business environment emerging within this newly awakened giant.

This book is comprehensive, but practical, in focusing on new reforms spanning manufacturing and trade, foreign investment trends and bold initiatives in the financial, petroleum and banking sectors. Distribution, advertising and marketing issues are uniquely integrated across Indonesia's socio-cultural sensitivities together with the important area of dispute resolution.

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From Chapter 3:

Penang is the second smallest state of Peninsular Malaysia in terms of land areas, comprising approximately 1,031 sq. km. It consists of the island of Penang which comprises only 293 sq. km; and the Wellesley Province situated on the north-western coast of mainland (bounded to the north and east by the State of Kedah and to the south by the State of Perak) which comprises the remaining 798 sq. km.

The British were probably the first to recognise the strategic position of Penang as an important trading centre in the Straits of Malacca and Sumatra. Penang's port served not only the northern part of west Malaysia, north Sumatra and south Thailand but also Myanmar and India. However, its role as a trading centre was significantly reduced when Penang lost its free port status in the 1960s. As a result, Penang's economy flatered.

And yet, today, Penang is one of the fastest growing economies in Malaysia. It is recognised as an industralised state. In 1991, for instance, Penang's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 11%. Between now and the year 2000, Penang is expected to achieve an average annual growth rate of at least 7%.

Penang has a stable socio-political environment and a steadily growing economy. In addition, the Penang State Government is responsive to business needs and has identified the necessary strategies to develop Penang into a business centre.

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

Indonesia Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business and Investment Opportunities Library)

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This report contains business intelligence information for succesful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more... The report also contains selected information on investment and business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, as well as, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities (Modern Economic History of Southeast Asia)

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History and Government Does Matters

The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities (Modern Economic History of Southeast Asia)
Anne Booth
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History and Government Does Matters.......2003-10-23

This book is intended to present a stocktaking of what has become a fast-growing field of study. But also, the goal of this book is an attempt to provide at least tentative answer to what is surely the main question any economic historian of Indonesia would ask: why at the close pf the twentieth century is the country still relatively poor and economically underdeveloped?

To answer the above question, Booth have dedicated the entire Chapter 3: Living Standards and the Distribution of Income in an attempt to explain poverty in Indonesia. Her main assertion is that though she finds that output has growth quite substantially during the Dutch colonization, the impact on welfare or on distribution of income is - at best - dismal.

Booth also mentions that many nineteenth-century writings on Indonesia were inevitably `Java-centric' though many scholars writing in the latter part of the twentieth century have tried to correct the balance.

It seems that the colonial government has made a centralized `Java-centric' policy such that Java became the capital of Indonesia, even though outer region might have had more advantages and chances to develop only if the colonial government had given the same attention that they have gave to Java. The pattern of `Java-centric' policy seems to be inherited by the central government after independence (especially during Suharto ruling), which currently has received many opposition from outer-region (especially from resource-rich outer regions) that have felt to be marginalized and left-out from the development process for many years.

The central argument of this book , then, is that a much better understanding of Indonesia's economic past is essential for formulating policies for future changes. Booth argues that Dutch colonial policies between 1815 and 1942 placed the Indonesian economy on a trajectory from which it has only partially departed.

The "approaches" used to develop the arguments

Booth follows the conventional economics classical argument in explaining Indonesian economy, by highlighting the importance of manufacturing or industrial sector (the structural change from agriculture to industry) and investment as the engine of growth, and also by highlighting the importance of foreign trade and entrepreneurs.

I have the impression that Booth, in writing this book, views herself more as an economist rather than a historian. In the book, Booth also viewed that what was needed to understand the economic history phenomenon was a new hybrid breed of scholar who was comfortable with both historical research and economic theory. (Tan, 1965:401)

The `economics' approach is apparent by the vast amount of numbers, tables and some technical economics terms that she sometimes used, such as `elasticities of government revenues' and ICOR (Incremental Capital Output Ratio). In short, the book is filled with historical data which mostly are coming from the 15 series of CEI (Changing Economy in Indonesia) published in the The Hague and Amsterdam, 1975-1994.

The effectiveness and the limitations

The main message of the book, that history do matters and history tend to repeat itself, surely has been based with strong foundations and arguments. The quantitative data used is very comprehensive, and the economic analysis is sound and based on a vast number of literatures.

Indeed, many previous Dutch colonial policies, like the policy to promote Chinese middlemen and the exploitation of indigenous producers, has been continued even after independence. As Booth (1998) stated "the real problem was not that indigenous Indonesians were prevented by an inherent lack of commercial ability from participating in the market economy. Rather, it was that large and powerful conglomerates were allowed to subvert market forces to the detriment of smaller producers." (pp.290-291. History, according to Booth, cast a long shadow over the present, in economic matters as much as in other aspect of human affairs.

Booth has also criticized the `piecemeal' approach to the study of economic change in Indonesia, than she said to be misleading, to have caused policy makers in general to be reluctant to learn from past experience. This point I think is very important for future policy-making process.

This book surely has its plus in its time-series data and analysis, especially from the colonial periods. The economics analysis also is very sound and comprehensive, and has based itself firmly with the data available.

The main problem in doing macroeconomic analysis is when we have the lack of aggregate data. When economists only have limited data, in terms of time-span and details, usually they would be reluctant to make any firm analysis and conclusions. This book surely complements the lack of economic aggregate data during colonial period, enabling the author to make firm economic analysis and conclusions.

This book also highlights the difference in economic history compared with conventional history. If history, from my point of view, would try to make conclusions from scattered or pieces of evidence, Booth tends to be reluctant in doing that. She prefers an aggregate or macro data in doing analysis or making conclusions. Booth has offered an alternative view of interpreting history, which of course it is what I think history is made of - from novelty and interpretations.

For example Booth has highlighted the difficulties in obtaining firm data source in assessing the level of welfare or inequalities in Indonesian society since the data that is available in the micro level is sadly lacking. As such, Booth prefers to view the increase in tax revenue and the numbers of pilgrims going to Mecca during colonial period as an indication that the degree of inequality has increased. Whereas, Pierre van der Eng, a prominent economic historian from ANU, has used the same numbers to point out the increasing level of output growth, rather than the increase in inequality.

Some controversy, however, I think remains. Booth mention that the motive of Dutch occupation are mixed and often more strategic than economic. She added on by saying that economic justifications were never cited in the official document. This statement, from my subjective point of view, is controversial. I think judging the (colonial) government intention, by basing from the official document from the Dutch, would yield misleading result. We could not judge intention only based on the official document. Even in the Indonesian Government after independence, the official document of planning is filled with benevolent and noble goals, like providing education and welfare, eliminate poverty, providing basic services to the poor, etc. But the fact that it is written in the official planning document does not necessarily mean that it is actually implemented, nor does that guarantee that the government `really' have a true political intention to implement it when drafting the document.

In addition, in the first paragraph of the conclusions, Booth stressed that the study of the economic history of Indonesia since 1800 is a study of missed opportunities. Both then continue with a strong statement "A country colonized by one of the most prosperous and enlightened states in Europe should surely have developed, in step with the metropolitan power, through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, into a modern industrial nation, and into a stable constitutional democracy". (p.327)

It is as if as, looking from the above statement, Booth has written a subjective interpretation or belief that the Dutch colonization has all the well-being and noble intention when they colonize Indonesia only from the official papers of the Colonial government.

In explaining the poor performance of growth, Booth often ignores the impact of war and instability during the Dutch occupation. She did mention about Aceh war and how it has drag the fiscal resources of the Dutch Government. But specific details of other domestic wars during Dutch colonization are hardly ever been mentioned and recognized. The instability and the military costs, not to mention the ruins of public infrastructure because of these domestic wars or rebellion would surely drag some resources out of the economy.

I think the reason for the above analysis is that the literatures are mainly published in English, after being translated from the Netherlands. It then would ignores the study of Indonesian (economic) history written in Indonesian language. As such, Booth might get into the risk of writing history based on the elite perspective, rather than the people.

The concept of path dependence, that the past policy errors is being inherited from the past into the present, would be difficult to use in a long time span of 170 years, the same question being posed by van der Eng (2000). In short, if history does matters, which history is relevant then?

I felt that after reading the book, I got the impression that Booth is trying to point out that based on history government and governance matters a lot to the performance of the economy and welfare of the people at large. Colonial government policy, later on followed by indigenous government, has made Java as the central/locus point of Indonesia. Government has made conscious policy effort to marginalize the role of indigenous people in business leading to the domination of Chinese in business. All of these government policies has made a long-term impact on the path of economic growth and welfare of Indonesia.

As such it might be important to assess whether the government really has viable policy alternative or is there really no choice at all besides doing what the government did in its policy formulation in the past?

Though the main thesis of the book is that government matters and government could do a lot to change the economy, no analysis is being made on the government from the political framework. The major shortcomings of the economics analysis on East Asia during the 1997 economic crisis is the lack of analysis on "Government" as an institution. As such the framework of political-economy, especially in analyzing the behavior of the government, might be proven to be very useful.

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Title: CHINA: JOINT VENTURE CONSTRUCTION PLANS FOR PROPOSED $400,000,000 PULP MILL, SINAR MAS GROUP [INDONESIA] - Order #: 010701.
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Katherine V. Schinasi
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