Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice (Metaphilosophy)

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This volume combines original essays by political philosophers, legal theorists, and economists into a spirited debate about the practical dilemmas of globalization. It integrates rigorous thinking about the principles of global justice with concrete discussions of the UN, the WTO, the World Bank, and the rules of war. It thereby enriches moral theorizing by engaging it in real-world issues and also provides solid moral grounds for designing and assessing reforms of present international rules and organizations.

Asian Crisis and the EU's Global Responsibilities

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Asian Crisis and the EU's Global Responsibilities
Yao-Su Hu , and Dr. Yao-Su Hu
Manufacturer: The Federal Trust
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ASIN: 0901573922

Can Institutions Have Responsibilities?: Collective Moral Agency and International Relations (Global Issues)

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Can Institutions Have Responsibilities?: Collective Moral Agency and International Relations (Global Issues)

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0333971299

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Can institutions (in the sense of formal organizations) bear duties and be ascribed blame in the same way that we understand individual human beings to be morally responsible for actions? The idea of the "institutional moral agent" is critically examined in the guise of states, transnational corporations, the UN, NATO and international society in the context of some of the most critical and debated issues and events in international relations, including the Kosovo Campaign, development aid, and genocide in Rwanda.

Distribution of Powers And Responsibilities in Federal Countries (Global Dialogue on Federalism)

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Distribution of Powers And Responsibilities in Federal Countries (Global Dialogue on Federalism)

Manufacturer: McGill-Queen's University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0773529748

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Contributors include Hugues Dumont (Belgium), J.Isawa Elaigwu (Nigeria), Thomas Fleiner (Switzerland), Xavier Bernadí Gil (Spain), Ellis Katz (USA), Nicolas Lagasse (Belgium), George Mathew (India), Clement Macintyre (Australia), Enric Argullol Murgades (Spain), Manuel González Oropeza (Mexico), Marcelo Piancastelli (Brazil), Hans-Peter Schneider (Germany), Richard Simeon (Canada), Marc Van der Hulst (Belgium), Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck (Belgium), and John M. Williams (Australia). The French edition of this book, Répartition des compétences et responsabilités dans les pays fédéraux, is forthcoming.

Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice.

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Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice.
Christian Barry
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000M4O09G

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The intent is to provide not only an overview of the legal principles in a variety of areas of the law, but also to give a practical introduction to the kinds of duties and responsibilities that may face a paralegal in the workplace.Sufficiently comprehensive coverage of the sources of law, the courts system, basic legal terminology, legal research, civil law and discovery, criminal law, real estate, decedents' estates, domestic relations, and contracts.Specifically written for people who would like to know more about paralegal assisting or general subject areas of the law, but have little background in the area.

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Designed to answer questions about the makeup, purpose, use, and availability of economic indicators in a broad sense of the term, this book includes entries on 284 indicators, 137 of which are new to this edition. In addition to identifying and describing indicators, the entries show how they are calculated, where they are published, how they are used, where their values are published, and where one can find further information about them. Covering those indicators that are readily available through publication in newspapers and journals, on the World Wide Web, in library collections, or in government publications, the book will guide the researcher and librarian to current and historical values of these indicators and answer questions about their structure, function, and calculation. Arranged in dictionary format with extensive cross-references and indexing, the book is easy to use. Appendixes provide additional information on the authors and publishers of the indicators and their values as well as an extensive reading list on the subject. A final appendix identifies and defines tongue-in-cheek indicators that are frequently mentioned by professionals and in the press.

Handbook of United States Economic and Financial Indicators: Revised Edition (Bibliographies and Indexes in Economics and Economic History)

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Handbook of United States Economic and Financial Indicators: Revised Edition (Bibliographies and Indexes in Economics and Economic History)
F. M. O'Hara
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MC3RTM

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This book provides important insights into a relationship which has been crucial to life in rural India--that between peasants and usurers. It explores the relationship in a rounded way, examining how states extended support to usurers, as well as how Baniyas exerted a power that was both
economic and ideological.

Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India.

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Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India.
David Hardiman
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UFQTOG

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Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India
David Hardiman
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKS1RA

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Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India.

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The Customer is About to Revolt!: 5 Key Actions to Quell an Uprising
Jerry A. Mainey
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1403351201

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A lean and mean, fact filled expose' about the coming customer revolt against shoddy service and complacent attitudes in the market place. Hard-hitting.high impact.spiced with humor and anecdotes.packs the wallop of an angry mule.

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The approach that researchers have recently adopted to further our understanding of how economic interactions between countries will evolve as national borders decline in importance is to analyze economic interactions within a country--i.e. "intranational macroeconomics." This book brings the intranational macroeconomics literature into clearer focus by collecting the strands of research into a common thread. Each chapter of the book aims to answer the following two questions: What contributions do national and geographic borders make to our understanding of macroeconomics? How will these contributions change as the world becomes more integrated?

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Intranational Macroeconomics
Gregory D. (Edt)/ Van Wincoop, Eri Hess
Manufacturer: Cambridge Univ Pr 01/1//2000
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5MI20

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This book presents the results of several years of research on competition, concentration, efficiency and performance in the European banking market. The author seeks to explain and interrelate the numerous characteristics of the banking industry, and provide a detailed comparative analysis of various banking sectors throughout Europe.

The book begins with a survey on intermediation, integration and internationalization in the European banking market, which helps to explain the increased competitive pressures banks are now operating under. The author then examines indicators of concentration and competition, and attempts to measure these using a variety of approaches in both EU and non-EU countries. Significantly, he also presents a unique comparison of efficiency throughout the EU by estimating X-inefficiency and cost level differences. The book concludes with an investigation into cyclical patterns of profits, provisions and lending in order to assess the procyclicality of bank behavior in light of the new Basel Capital Accord.

Academics and policymakers interested in banking supervision, financial stability and monetary policy will welcome this thorough analysis of competition and efficiency in the European banking industry. The book will also prove invaluable reading for banking analysts and strategists in central banks, regulatory bodies and competition authorities.

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Basic business legislation, treaties, laws and regulations affecting business in the countries. Updated annually

Arab Cooperation Council Business Law Handbook (World Expoer-Import and Business Library)

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Arab Cooperation Council Business Law Handbook (World Expoer-Import and Business Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739775375

Arab Cooperation Council Investment and Business Guide (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Arab Cooperation Council Investment and Business Guide (World Business Law Handbook Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739775022

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For many years it was fashionable to treat macroeconomics and microeconomics as separate subjects without looking too deeply at the relationship between the two. But in the 1970s there occurred an episode of high inflation and high unemployment, which was inconsistent with orthodox theory. As a result, macroeconomists began to pay much greater attention to the microfoundations of their subject.

In this book Roger E. A. Farmer takes a somewhat controversial point of view, arguing for the future of macroeconomics as a branch of applied general equilibrium theory. His main theme is that macroeconomics is best viewed as the study of equilibrium environments in which the welfare theorems break down. This approach makes it possible to discuss the role of government policies in a context in which policy may serve some purpose.

Since the publication of the first edition in 1993, self-fulfilling prophecies has become a major competitor to the real business-cycle view of economic fluctuations. The second edition has been updated in three ways: (1) problems are included at the end of every chapter, and a study guide containing sample answers to all of the problems is available; (2) a new chapter discusses research from the past five years on business fluctuations in multisector models; and (3) the chapter on representative agent growth models now includes an appendix that explains the transversality condition.

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A recommended textbook for first-year graduate students.......2000-11-08

Though the name is "self-fulfilling prophecies", but I regard it as a standard advanced textbook for macroeconomics.

It introduced the basic technique and standard approach in modern macroeconomics, including linear difference equations, intertemporal optimization, representative agents and OG models, competitive equilibrium and welfare theorem, standard models of money (CIA and money in utility function), etc. It is good to think macroeconomics as a branch of applied general equilibrium.

It also includes some frontiers of research like RBC and calibration, increasing returns, multi-sector models, etc.

As it's name suggests, it tells much on multiple equilibria and sunspots, it maybe an alternative approach to explain the real phenomena.

The most important, all these materials are introduced in a moderate level. The mathematics used is more acceptable to the first-year graduate students in economics compare to some other texts.

Since it emphasizes on fluctuations, it lacks of some important topics like unemployment, labor market, incomplete and imperfect market, fiscal policy, policy-making, and little on endogenous growth. But it is not so bad, this keeps the text short and more friendly. Not a book can include all the important topics in the subject. The basic has been told, and all the others could upon to others.

So it is suitable for first-year graduate students in economics and is better to be used together with Blanchard & Fisher's "Lectures on macroeconomcs".

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Civil Procedure I Law in a Flash (flashcards)
Lazar Emanuel
Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Cards

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Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations 5th edition

ASIN: 0735527296

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Civil Procedure I (Law in a Flash Ser)
L. Emanuel , and K Walton
Manufacturer: Emanuel Pub Corp
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Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations 5th edition

ASIN: 1565425529

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In the late 1950s, the Philippines Economy could reasonably have been described as more advanced than those of its South Asian neighbours. Ever since then however, it hase and will consistently lagged behind and only really started to grow strongly in the mid 1990s and even then it failed to achieve the growth rates of the rest of Southeast Asia ten years earlier.
This book critically analyses the Filipino economy and attempts to explain the problems that it has faced, as well as the solutions that need to be put into practice.
This accessible and comprehensive book will be of great use to students, academics and business professionals with an interest in the economies of Asia.

The Economy of the Philippines: Elites, Inequalities and Economic Restructuring.: An article from: ASEAN Economic Bulletin

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The Economy of the Philippines: Elites, Inequalities and Economic Restructuring.: An article from: ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Aladdin D. Rillo
Manufacturer: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from ASEAN Economic Bulletin, published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) on August 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1154 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: The Economy of the Philippines: Elites, Inequalities and Economic Restructuring.
Author: Aladdin D. Rillo
Publication: ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Page: 254(2)

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Under New Ownership: Privatizing China's State-Owned Enterprises
Shahid Yusuf , Dwight H. Perkins , and Kaoru Nabeshima
Manufacturer: Stanford Economics and Finance
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Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants

ASIN: 0804753903
Release Date: 2005-11-16

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Although the relative size of the public sector has been much reduced worldwide since the early 1980s, it remains the dominant borrower from the banking system and responsible for the majority of the non-performing assets of banks. Drawing upon new firm-level survey data, this volume assesses how changes in the ownership structure of SOEs affect management, governance, innovation, and performance, comparing these SOEs to other types of firms in China. It also considers China's reform efforts against the experiences of other transition economies. The research reveals that the medium- and longer-term gains from privatization far outweigh costs of adjustment and that the precise mechanics of privatization have little effect on outcomes. The volume argues that privatization of large industrial SOEs and market-based consolidation of small- and medium-sized enterprises will be necessary to transform them into competitive and innovative world-class firms. Chapters include: China's Industrial System: Where is it, Where it Should be Headed, and Why; Reform in China, 1978-1997; The Accelerated Change in Enterprise Ownership, 1997-2003; Chinese Ownership Reform in the East European Mirror; Empirical Evidence on the Effect of SOE Reform in China; and Making Privatization Work.

Under New Ownership: Privatizing China's State-owned Enterprises

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Under New Ownership: Privatizing China's State-owned Enterprises
Shahid Yusuf , Kaoru Nabeshima , and Dwight H. Perkins
Manufacturer: World Bank Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0821356240

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"Although China's centrally planned economy is a little more than a shadow of its former self, the closely inter-linked reforms of the enterprise and banking sectors are still incomplete. The relative size of the state-owned enterprise sector has been much reduced, however, the sector remains the dominant borrower from the banking system and is responsible for the majority of bank non-performing assets. Thus in the interests of financial stability it is crucial to implement the remaining reform agenda. The accession to the WTO has also made it more urgent for China's most-dynamic state-owned enterprises and her banking industry to compete through innovation, continuing process upgrades, and active pursuit of strategies aimed at succeeding in global markets. In order to do so, not only do large state-owned industrial enterprises need to be privatized, but the government also needs to create the conditions that will result in market determined consolidation of small and medium size firms into entities with a core strength. Under New Ownership explores the effects of ownership reform in China on the performance of reformed industrial state-owned enterprises, and proposes privatization as a course of action to truly transform these enterprises into world class firms which compete on the basis of sound strategy, effective organization, and innovation. It draws upon newly collected firm level survey data to assess changes in the ownership structure of state enterprises on management, governance, innovation, and performance relative to other types of firms in China. This title provides researchers, students, and policymakers interested in the Chinese economy with in depth information and analysis on key issues related to the reform of state-owned enterprises. "

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Plan a Marketing Plan Software Version 3.0
Capital Bulletin Internet
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Binding: Diskette
ASIN: 0969807341

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The best way to sell "solutions" is to understand the problems.

In today's hypercompetitive sales environment, there are plenty of books that talk about the need to become intimate with your customers, anticipate their needs, and create long term partnerships based on trust and mutual advantage. These ideas are right on target, and Bottom-Line Selling: The Sales Professional's Guide to Improving Customer Profits is the first book that actually shows you how to do it.

Bottom-Line Selling guides anyone involved in the complex sale through the next step to becoming a true consultative sales professional: how to use annual reports, other published sources, and the Internet to learn about their customers' business operations, use this knowledge to find ways that their product will add value and generate competitive advantage, and express their solution in financial terms. Written by a sales professional who uses these tools in his daily life, the book is filled with practical knowledge the sales person can use immediately to build enduring partnerships with their customers.

While the books that are written about sales are short on details about financial concepts and business operations, those written about finance are usually written by and for accountants and have very little appeal for salespeople. This book bridges the gap between those two worlds, presenting the concepts in terms of how they help the sales professional become more effective immediately.

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Like going from the "Little League" to the "Majors"!.......1999-05-13

Reading this book challenged me in new ways to assess my customers from not only what my product or service could do for them, but HOW it could affect their bottom-line (thus increase my probability of success). A "must read" if you want to "play with the big boys".

The "How To" Guide for taking sales to the next level!.......1999-05-07

"In selling, knowledge is value..." This book helps the reader to do the necessary prep work that allows a good salesperson to more fully understand their customer's needs; adding knowledge and ultimately value to the sales process. This book will elevate the sales person into a valued consultant for their clients which will ultimately produce breakthrough sales.

An absolute "Must Read" for every professional sales person.......1999-03-26

This book delivered exactly the information I needed to truly become a consultative sales person. You can't help solve your customer's business problems - if you don't really understand thier business. "Bottom-Line Selling" gives you a major competitive advantage by giving you the tools to research and understand how your customer competes -- so that you can help them improve their business and differentiate their products. This is an information intensive book -- but well worth the effort and time -- you will get a high ROI from "Bottom-Line Selling."

An excellent tool for any serious salesperson........1998-11-14

Excellent! This book is aimed to professional sales people. This book will surely help them to confidently sell the value of their solutions at the highest levels in their customer's organizations. The structure is good. Easy to read. 16 chapters full of practical examples that can be applied immediately.

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As the final product of a project dealing with the security implications of Asia's financial and economic turmoil, this report considers the sharp economic reversals suffered in the Asian region in 1997 and 1998 and the marked but widely varying evidence of significant recovery among the different countries of the region. The report then turns to the medium- and longer-term trends with respect to economic growth, military spending, and military investment in five countries in the greater Asian area: namely, Japan, China, India, South Korea, and Indonesia. The five countries were selected by agreement with the sponsors from a larger set addressed in RAND's previous analyses in 1989 and 1995 of long-term economic and military trends. India, a South Asian country, was included along with the four principal East Asian countries in light of its size and enhanced military prominence.

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The OECD produces highly sought-after annual reviews of Member countries' economies and selected non-member countries. Approximately eighteen surveys are issued during a calendar year. Each issue provides a solid analysis of developments in the subject

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Finland Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business Intelligence Report Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739725572

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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.

Finland Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook

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Finland Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739721585

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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.

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