The Myth of Property: Toward an Egalitarian Theory of Ownership

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The Myth of Property is the first book-length study to focus directly on the variable and complex structure of ownership. It critically analyzes what it means to own something, and it takes familiar debates about distributive justice and recasts them into discussions of the structure of ownership. The traditional notion of private property assumed by both defenders and opponents of that system is criticized and exposed as a "myth." The book then puts forward a new theory of what it means to own something, one that will be important for any theory of distributive justice. This new approach more adequately reveals the disparate social and individual values that property ownership serves to promote. The study has importance for understanding the reform of capitalist and welfare state systems, as well as the institution of market economies in former socialist states, for the view developed here makes the traditional dichotomy between private ownership capitalism and public ownership socialism obsolete. This new approach to ownership also places egalitarian principles of distributive justice in a new light and challenges critics to clarify aspects of property ownership worth protecting against calls for greater equality. The book closes by showing how defenders of egalitarianism can make use of some of the ideas and values that traditionally made private property appear to be such a pervasive human institution.

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Your One-Stop Guide to Buying a Homebased Franchise

Join the growing ranks of entrepreneurs starting homebased businesses by exploring the exciting opportunities available in today’s franchise market. Ultimate Book of Homebased Franchises 2005/2006 provides comprehensive franchise listings targeted the expanding segment of homebased businesses. Focused on entrepreneurs seeking options beyond joining the 9-to-5 work force, this all-in-one guide delivers practical advice and an expert overview of the franchise world, plus listings of the top homebased franchises.

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Time-critical information for doing business today
Top 10 list for homebased franchises
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Learn everything you need to know about homebased franchise ownership, from researching options to buying the franchise to setting it up in your home. Discover insightful advice on daily operations and skills needed for sustaining continued success, such as marketing, promotion, administration and more. Ultimate Book of Homebased Franchises is the most comprehensive and powerful tool available for establishing a profitable homebased business today.

Customer Reviews:

A Good Introduction to the Basics.......2005-05-17

Note the words "Home Based" in the title of this book. This lets out all the burger-chicken-fish places and limits the choice to those kinds of business that might be done in a home. And wisely, the first page of the book asks the question, Is It Legal. There are an awful lot of restrictions on running a business out of your home. The book points out some common ones, but you need to investigate local laws. Some of the businesses listed in this book wouldn't be legal to run from a home in most places.

After that, up to page 108 in the book is about general rules of running a business and the advantages and disadvantages of a franchise. Advantage: it should be a proven concept that is simply being replicated elsewhere. Disadvantage: you have to run the business exactly as the franchiser tells you.

After that the book lists some generalized information about 300+ franchise operations. Maybe one of them will fit your needs. Note that in their top ten list, eight of the ten have something to do with cleaning.

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Here is a guide to presenting statistical information. Provides a variety of techniques for presenting complex data, analyses and arguments, clearly and effectively, to decision-makers and offers several approaches, appropriate for different target audiences. Describes the use of statistical descriptions, maps and spatial statistics, costs and presentation style.

Presenting Statistics : A Manager's Guide to the Persuasive Use of Statistics

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Presenting Statistics : A Manager's Guide to the Persuasive Use of Statistics
Lawrence P.; Greenstreet, Robert Witzling
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLS8V8

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This is a 3 in 1 publication. A do-it-yourself kit for skilled workers under latest immigration policy effective from June 28, 2002. A comprehensive step-by-step settlement guide for new immigrants and visitors. A detailed job search guide with profession specific addresses.

The do-it-yourself kit will enable the skilled workers to access their eligibility and prepare their immigration application professionally without any external help. This will potentially save them US$ 3000-5000 as professional fee charged by immigration consultants.

If you think that you are proficient enough in English language and do not want to take IELTS test to prove your English language ability which is strongly recommended in new policy. But at the same time if you want to secure points for English language without interview then you will find a specimen of alternate submission in this book which is required to consider exemption from IELTS test.

If your points are short to become eligible for immigration under point system then you will find all available job search tools and resources in this book which will enable you to register online with thousands of Canadian and American recruiting agencies and employers for free to secure a job offer and subsequently the 10 points towards your eligibility.

You will also find North American style resume and top interview questions asked by Canadian employers with practice interview example in this book.

If you do not have any degree or diploma and cannot qualify for Canadian immigration under point system but if you have 1-2 years of apprenticeship and experience in your skill with good English or French language ability or both then you can try for Temporary Work Permit to work in Canada by securing a job offer through this job search guide. Canada issue 90,000 temporary work permit every year which can be obtained in 3 to 6 months time. Temporary Work Permit holders could be eligible for Canadian immigration with their families after working certain period of time in Canada.

If you fall under refugee, business, entrepreneur, self-employed or skilled worker category and your case is in process then you will also find a step-by-step newcomer's settlement guide and what you should know before you leave for Canada. This guide will prepare you in advance to well plan your moves and time to avoid surprises, cultural shock and loss of money. It will also help you to prepare your immigration interview if you got any with the wealth of information about Canada.

This publication has been produced with the approval of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and with the authorization of Communication Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1M4.

Customer Reviews:

Save your time.......2006-03-05

I bought the 2nd edition ( ISBN:0973455187 ) of this book. I really love it, especially the step-by-step sequence of it. I would say that even I do have the broadband internet connection but if I would be searching for the information that I have found in this book, It would have cost me at least $1000/- worth my time. If you are looking to migrate to Canada then this book will be a smart start that can save you $$$$$ and time.

if you've got access to the internet............2006-02-13

I wish I'd read more of the reviews before I bought this book.. There is one review (Reviewer: Raj. April 20, 2005) that explains that this is just a copy of what available at the Canadian immigration web site... and that's what it is. There is NOTHING in this book that is not available at the www site... DON'T waste your money!!!!!

Go for 2nd Edition.......2005-09-09

You will absolutely love the 2nd edition of this book ( ISBN:0973455187 ) over 450 pages jam packed with information and tips. This is all you need to know kind of publication.

Buy its 2nd Edition.......2005-08-25

If you really want to save your time and money, I would highly recommend this book/kit. Get its 2nd edition with ISBN 0973455187 that contains over 400 pages of vital information and tips.You can also check its table of contents at amazon UK site.

Excellent resource.......2005-07-01

This is quite a gem of a book and would be an excellent resource for anybody interested in migrating and working Canada.

Immigrating to Canada and Finding Employment: A Do-It-Yourself Kit for Skilled Workers Under the Latest Immigration Policy. A Step-by-Step Settlement and Job Search Guide- A 3 in 1 Publication

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Revised Edition is Much Better & Low Priced
A ready made solution
Regurgitation of on-line material
something very precious at a nominal price
A Real Money and Time Saver

Immigrating to Canada and Finding Employment: A Do-It-Yourself Kit for Skilled Workers Under the Latest Immigration Policy. A Step-by-Step Settlement and Job Search Guide- A 3 in 1 Publication
Tariq Nadeem
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Revised Edition is Much Better & Low Priced.......2004-09-07

I would simply say that it is a great book if you want to save your thousands of $ on immigration or job search. I would recommend to buy its REVISED VERSION released by Lightning Source U.K Ltd.

A ready made solution.......2003-06-08

Although I do have unlimited internet access but the amount of information and research work I found in this book saved me from unguided research on the internet about Canadian immigration and job search. It would have cost me 10 times more then the price of this kit in terms of my time if I had started searching the net by myself. Someone said a real time and money saver and it is. I got much more then the value of my money. This book is a ready-made solution at very reasonable price even for people from wired countries who wish to start a new life in Canada.

Regurgitation of on-line material.......2003-06-06

It seems that about 90% of the contents of this "book" were simply copied and pasted from Canadian Government Web sites! I especially wouldn't recommend it to people coming from the US or the UK, as they aren't going to have any culture shock or language issues. Bottom line: if you already know something about Canada and the basics of conducting a job search, and you have Internet access, this is a waste of money.

something very precious at a nominal price.......2003-04-11

My immigration application under skilled worker class is already in process but I was worried about what might happen after arriving in Canada and from where I will start. I feel lucky that I found this book on Amazon that contains every bit of settlement information that I need during my settlement process. After reading that book, I come to know that there is a lot of work that I have to start and finish towards my employment eligibility in Canada in my profession - at least 6 months prior to my travel. I bought something very precious at a nominal price
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A Real Money and Time Saver.......2003-04-04

I bought this kit/book for a friend of mine who is planning to immigrate to Canada . I found this as the only complete package of its kind in the market. Apart from do-it-yourself kit and step-by-step settlement guide, tons of information specially the job search part with top interview questions, North American style Resume, job interview practice, job search addresses for every profession and tips. Plus a comprehensive article on Understanding Cultural Shock. Price is very vary low with respect to savings that my friend is going to make as $4000 for professional fee with additional step-by-step settlement and job search guide. ...

Above all this kit has been inspected and approved by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and authorized by Communication Canada which mean credibility of this package...I will rate this product as A STRONG BUY.

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Things to consider..........2006-07-16

This book is a bit old but it does do a good job of covering items that should be considered before quitting your job to stay home such as its impact on your career, marriage, and self-esteem. It offers suggestions on saving on housing cars and living expenses but not as much as Jonni McCoy's books. Still its a good primer on how to prepare for the stay-at-home lifestyle.

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 841 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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Title: Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839-1912.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Robin O. Harris
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: 52 Issue: 2 Page: 337

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This book analyzes the institutional underpinnings of East Asia's dynamic growth by exploring the interplay between governance and flexibility. As the challenges of promoting and sustaining economic growth become ever more complex, firms in both advanced and industrializing countries face constant pressures for change from markets and technology. Globalization, heightened competition, and shorter product cycles mean that markets are increasingly volatile and fragmented. To contend with demands for higher quality, quicker delivery, and cost efficiencies, firms must enhance their capability to innovate and diversify. Achieving this flexibility, in turn, often requires new forms of governance-arrangements that facilitate the exchange of resources among diverse yet interdependent economic actors. Moving beyond the literature's emphasis on developed economies, this volume emphasizes the relevance of the links between governance and flexibility for understanding East Asia's explosive economic growth over the past quarter century. In case studies that encompass a variety of key industrial sectors and countries, the contributors emphasize the importance of network patterns of governance for facilitating flexibility in firms throughout the region. Their analyses illuminate both the strengths and limitations of recent growth strategies and offer insights into prospects for continued expansion in the wake of the East Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s.

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For much of the post-World War II period, the increasing globalization of the U.S. economy was welcomed by policymakers and by the American people. We gained the benefits of cheaper and, in some cases, better foreign-made products, while U.S. firms gained wider access to foreign markets. The increasing economic interlinkages with the rest of the world helped promote capitalism and democracy around the globe. Indeed, we helped "win" the Cold War by trading and investing with the rest of the world, in the process demonstrating to all concerned the virtues of trade and markets. In recent years, however, a growing chorus of complaints has been lodged against globalization--which is blamed for costing American workers their jobs and lowering their wages. The authors of this book speak directly and simply to these concerns, demonstrating with easy prose and illustrations why the "globaphobes" are wrong. Globalization has not cost the United States jobs. Nor has it played any more than a small part in the disappointing trends in wages of many American workers. The challenge for all Americans is to embrace globalization and all of the benefits it brings, while adopting targeted policies to ease the very real pain of those few Americans whom globalization may harm. Globaphobia outlines a novel, yet sensible program for advancing this objective.

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The Very First Book To Read on Globalization.......2002-02-17

The ease of reading is exceptional. If you are worried about your limited understanding in economics and especially international trade, this is the book for you. In addition to the book being written and edited to be understood by nearly any modestly educated person it is further advantaged by authors that clearly understand the subject in great depth. As is so often the case the extremely well informed can write with such clarity for the lay reader.

As nearly all economists understand net trade flows always equal net investment flows. Shockingly large numbers of media and congressmen do not understand this utterly simple formula. In a nut shell, with all the foreign money pouring into the USA treasuries market, stock market and direct business investments over the last several decades, it follows that the USA would run trade deficits equal to the net investment inflow over the same period. If you do not understand this or you want an ultra easy review of these simple facts, this book was made for you. In a grand gesture of national service these authors wrote the book that was needed for general understanding of what positive and negative points globalization means to the USA. It is not designed for academic kudos.

If every modestly educated voter would read this book, the future of the USA and the world would be significantly brightened. While this is a pipe dream, at least read this book before you say one more word about globalization otherwise you may embarrass your self in the presence of informed people. If you are informed on economics please forgive my heavy handedness. It is not meant for you. This is a critical issue for underdeveloped nations and the mature nations, there is so much to be gained by informed voters on this subject.

This book is carefully grounded in the proven principals of economics. While a reviewer or two gives an impression to the contrary, decades of reading in economics provides me the confidence to assure you that this book is profoundly well grounded. At each point where scholars may differ the authors and editors have carefully laid out its discussion. This is not a book written with a liberal or conservative bent. Modern economics encompasses a significant degree of science and mathematical logic. To view this book as otherwise, is to be illogical or unwilling to accept the most basic proven equations. Again you will not find an easier more meaningful book to read on economics.

The USA economy for a variety of reasons has sharply declining need for workers without a high school education and places a continuing rising premium on post college education. Increasingly, those that can graduate from the elite institutions lead nearly a charmed life in the USA. Immigrants that are able to enter the USA with limited education are having increasing difficulty as the decades roll by. It is not clear that globalization is a meaningful factor in placing the such great educational needs on the American worker. This book helps frame the questions that might be asked about the rising importance of education in the USA. The book being about globalization does not dwell on this issue, but it does strongly suggest that the potential understanding of this issue of the exponentially rising need for superior knowledge is much broader than the globalization trend.

The most provocative theme in the latter chapters of the book is the impact of globalization on those American workers that are poorly educated. The adverse impacts on this group comes from rapid technology changes, defective educational system, ineffective governmental assistance and to a very small degree open trade. The authors documentation about how little negative impact foreign trade has on a very limited number of workers is shocking. A source of another worthy book would be to provide a more exhaustive review of this aspect. The authors conclude that the popular obsession on this point should treated with a reorganized aggressive worker assistance program. Almost any reasonable assistance program would be a modest cost relative to the diverse and powerful benefits that all the rest of Americans get from open trade according to the authors.

The authors are very negative on the effectiveness of government sponsored retraining. The book is highly critical of the governments ability to define injured parties in open trade without it being a political football. The authors suggest an assistance program that is indiscriminate as to the cause of worker misfortune and focuses on programs that show imperial evidence of effectiveness. The focal point is intermediate assistance for any lower income workers need to find new employment. While the left and the right quarrel about where to draw the line, the authors contend that so few people are in need relative to the benefits of open trade that just focusing on a well designed assistance program would make all the difference in giving support and comfort to the aggrieved relative to the huge benefits of open trade.

A little gem.......2001-06-30

Globaphobia is a great little text on the benefits of free trade. If only some of those protesting about the evils of capitalism actually took the time to educate themselves. They might then see that everyone benefits from free trade; developing countries have more jobs and developed countries higher real wages; consumers everywhere get greater choice.

There will always be losers - as the book makes clear. But that's a fact of life whichever economic creed you follow. There are significantly fewer losers in Asia now that forty years of economic liberalisation have raised income levels from paddy field to first world standards. This book explains why - in crisp simple terms.

Excellent Information BUT Beware of Assumptions.......2001-03-05

Globaphobia is an important book for anyone trying to get a handle on the free trade arguments. The book is well written and addressed to a lay audience. One should be careful about some of the assumptions in the book, especially if one has no background in economics. I was required to get the book as a supplementary reading for an International Trade Theory course. I found it to be very helpful in getting a big picture understanding of current International Trade Theory. Buy the book; it is worth the relatively inexpensive price!

Stimulating ideas on globalization and the U. S. economy........1998-10-10

An effective presentation of the positive and sometimes negative effects that open world trade has on the U. S. economy. It suggests thought-provoking ideas on how the United States and other national economies can ease the negative effects of globalization on their less-educated or poorly-prepared working populations. Our consulting staff recommends this publication as "semi-relaxed" reading when you are ready to let your mind roam and consider new ideas. John R. Jagoe, Director, Export Institute

Stimulating ideas on globalization and the U. S. economy........1998-10-10

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