Theory and Measurement: Causality Issues in Milton Friedman's Monetary Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

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Focusing on the period of Milton Friedman's collaboration with Anna J. Schwartz, from 1948 to 1991, this work examines the history of debates between Friedman and his critics over money's causal role in business cycles. Professor Hammond shows that critics' reactions were grounded in two distinctive features of Friedman and Schwartz's way of doing economic analysis--their National Bureau business cycle methods and Friedman's Marshallian methodology. Drawing extensively on unpublished materials, Professor Hammond's treatment offers new insights on Milton Friedman's attempts to settle debates with his critics and his eventual recognition of the methodological impediments.

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b /b b i Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain /i /b is an original and controversial analysis of the thesis, made familiar in recent years by Martin J. Wiener, Anthony Sampson, Correlli Barnett, and others, which states that Britain's alleged economic decline since 1870 was the result of deep-seated anti-industrial factors in Britain's culture. Rubinstein argues, from a novel perspective, that Britain was never an industrial, but always a commercial/financial economy whose comparative advantage lay within that area. br br Rubinstein illustrates that the much-criticized features of Britain's class system, such as the public schools, were actually efficient instruments to enhance this competitive advantage. He closely examines Britain's cultural values and elite structures to demonstrate that these were both rational and modern, arguing that Britain's standard of living has been virtually identical to all countries whose economies have been considered more "successful." Emphasizing the central importance of London-based finance and addressing socialism, Keynesianism, and Thatcherism, b /b b i Capitalism, Culture, and Decline in /i /b b /b b i Britain /i /b presents an original and challenging contribution to this debate.

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boring.......1998-05-06

too much detail.

Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain; 1750-1990

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Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain; 1750-1990
W. RUBINSTEIN
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUFY5O

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The great transformation undertaken by the countries of the former communist bloc exhibits immense diversityDSin terms of initial conditions, shifting target models, consistency, paths, speed, progress to date, and economic performance. This is the first comprehensive study of the economics and politics of postsocialism to be written by an author so deeplyDSand so successfullyDSinvolved in the reform process. Many people writing on the reform process offer advice that is not really credible; as a member of the Polish government, and architect of the successful Polish reform, Grzegorz Kolodko actually solved many of the difficulties of transition, which allows him to come forward here with policy proposals and long-term forecasts. The treatment of the transition from plan to market as a historical process is an important feature of the book. The author claims that there is no historical fatalityDSthat sound policies in the present are more determining than the favourable or unfavourable legacies of the past. The aim is to create and maintain the conditions for sustainable growth and durable development.

Shock therapy and privatization : an analysis of RomaniaÂ’s economic reform

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Shock therapy and privatization : an analysis of RomaniaÂ’s economic reform
Dan Grindea
Manufacturer: Boulder, Colo. : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WVUJN0

Shock Therapy and Privatization: An Analysis of Romania's Economic Reform

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Shock Therapy and Privatization: An Analysis of Romania's Economic Reform
Daniel Grindea
Manufacturer: East European Monographs & Columbia University Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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Stabilization and Privatization in Poland: An Economic Evaluation of the Shock Therapy Program (International Studies in Economics and Econometrics)

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Stabilization and Privatization in Poland: An Economic Evaluation of the Shock Therapy Program (International Studies in Economics and Econometrics)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Stabilization and Privatization: An Economic Evaluation of the Shock Therapy Program is the first comprehensive account of Poland's economic transition since mid-1989. Monetary stabilization, trade liberalization (including convertibility) and privatization of state capital assets are discussed. Sources of economic recession which have accompanied the post-1989 transition are analyzed. The role of demand-side factors (i.e. monetary contraction) is weighed against that of supply-side factors (i.e. credit availability). The prevailing view is that the recession has been supply-type rather than demand-type. Economic performance has been impacted by the lack of a proper institutional framework (e.g. a segmented banking sector, diluted property rights). Arguments in favor of evolutionary reforms and market enhancing measures are presented. Stabilization and Privatization examines the main components of Poland's shock therapy program implemented in 1990. Post-shock recession, lasting at least through 1992, is examined to establish whether a sharp decline in output was caused by excessive demand contraction or lack of accommodating credit policies. The merits of an evolutionary approach and a more proactive state are debated.

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Internet technologies such as extranets and intranets are changing the way organizations operate. CTR's 268-page report looks at how these technologies are enabling new business and communication channels, with a focus on E-commerce.

Intranets Versus Extranets

Intranets are internal TCP/IP-based networks that allow information to be shared within an organization. Extranets expand this technology by selectively making the information available to an organization's business partners, customers, and suppliers. Implementing these technologies offers organizations the ability to effectively serve users both inside and outside of the enterprise. CTR's new Extranets and Intranets: E-commerce Business Strategies for the Future report explores how the Internet and its related technologies enable the creation of an interactive enterprise -- the business paradigm of the future. The report will help IT professionals form an extranet business strategy, conduct an extranet risk and needs analysis, maximize potential revenue from extranets and E-commerce, and use extranets to enhance customer service support.

Extranets: The Key to E-commerce By combining the privacy and security of intranets with the global reach of the Internet, extranets are ideal environments for implementing E-commerce business solutions. Extranets are expected to build business traffic on the Web far above what has been possible with Web sites, search engines, and banner advertising. In fact, many experts believe that extranets will be the platform of choice for more than 80% of business-to-business E-commerce by the year 2001.

Extranets and Intranets: E-commerce Business Strategies for the Future provides valuable information on how organizations can implement extranet technology to conduct E-commerce securely and cost effectively.

The report also evaluates the available E-commerce products and services, explains how E-commerce enhances productivity and competitiveness, and discusses the critical internal and external security issues associated with extranets.

The Future of Networking

Creating an extranet over existing Internet infrastructure brings international companies closer to the idea of operating as a virtual enterprise -- the ultimate in Internet technology.

Extranets and Intranets: E-commerce Business Strategies for the Future includes an in-depth discussion of VPNs, an emerging form of extranet implementation that may become a viable replacement for traditional WANs.

The extranet market is a new and volatile industry; new companies and products are being created every day. While this industry is truly in its formative stages, the report identifies the very latest and most stable products, services, and vendors. A number of case studies of early extranet implementations are also included, providing valuable insight for organizations now embarking on an extranet project.

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a good book.......1999-04-06

a must for all e-commerce student

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This annual conference has become a key event in Europe for the discussion of development issues. It is a unique platform for many of the world's finest development thinkers and experienced policymakers to present their perspectives, ideas, and to challenge researchers and senior staff of the World Bank and other organizations with their views. These papers look at a number of compelling issues surrounding the topic of development.

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This report defines the needs within Afghanistan's postwar agricultural economy and suggests detailed, medium-term goals for improved performance. Focusing primarily on preparing project profiles for quick-impact interventions, the report also addresses strategies for sustainable institutional development, with attention paid to what steps are necessary to achieve a viable sector framework. Also discussed are subsector programs and natural resource management.

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Congo, Democratic Republic: A Spy Guide (World Investment and Business Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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ASIN: 0739784684

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Democratic Republic of Congo Foreign Policy and Government Guide
Global Investment & Business Inc
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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ASIN: 0739737406

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Democratic Republic of Congo Investment & Business Guide
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739717391

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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities and regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

Democratic Republic of Congo Investment & Business Guide

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Democratic Republic of Congo Investment & Business Guide
Emerging Markets Investment Center
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739702378

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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities, regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

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A comprehensive picture of costs in Japan's effective and efficient health care system.

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Sharing secrets for the effective creation of auditing mechanisms for Health/Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) compliant Oracle systems, this book demonstrates how the HIPAA framework provides complete security access and auditing for Oracle database information. Complete details for using Oracle auditing features, including auditing from Oracle redo logs, using system-level triggers, and using Oracle9i fine-grained auditing (FGA) for auditing of the retrieval of sensitive information, are provided. Examples from all areas of auditing are covered and include working scripts and code snippets. Also discussed are the use of the Oracle9i LogMiner to retrieve audits of database updates and how to implement all Oracle system-level triggers for auditing, including DDL triggers, server error triggers, and login and logoff triggers.

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SOX appears on the title only...........2006-04-15

Excellent book for general security information with Oracle (VPDs, Roles, Encryption and the rest)
As an another review pointed out, the book is very light on SOX material and focuses instead on the HealthCare sector.
If that's what you want..by all means, buy the book...A.Nanda is one of the very best DBAs out there and knows his material inside and out...
If you need SOX and/or GLB, look elsewhere...

Oracle Privacy and Security Auditing.......2005-12-07

I primarily purchased this book for help on Virtual Private Database (VPD) and Row Level Security (RLS). We use these features at work and need to expand on them. Something I did like about this book is that it is well written and covers many subject areas that are spread out over many different books in Oracle's documentation. The examples are not much more helpful than Oracle's and that is an area that could be improved on the second edition.

The book is 672 pages and if it was formatted a little differently it would probably be closer to 300. The font is large and the pages are narrow.

Misleading and worthless.......2004-10-22

I bought this book for understanding how to handle compliance in Oracle. No where in the book can you find details about HIPAA, SOX or GLBA complaince!!!! It was totally, completely, worthless for me!

Major Problems with this Book.......2004-09-01

The title of this book is quite misleading. The title should stop with HIPAA. HIPAA is the sole focus; there is no mention of SO or GLB. True, the overall goals of SO and GLB are similar to those of HIPAA (control, accountability, confidentiality) but I would expect a book that has SO and GLB in the title to mention those laws and perhaps (as I was hoping) provide some specific insights. If you want to learn something about HIPAA, this is the book. If you want to learn something about SO or GLB, you have to learn it elsewhere and then apply the legalistic knowledge into this book on Oracle.

The second gripe is with the index. Personally, I don't have the time to read a book cover-to-cover. I need a competent index to be able to look up specifics. This index is woefully short (4 large type pages). Further, I sincerely believe the index is for some other version of the book or other book entirely. The page references do not match the pages. Hence index is useless.

I was in the process of returning this book (first time I would have done so) when I came over to the reviews and started reading them. My gripes are legitimate but I have decided to keep the book for its security aspects rather than its integration of HIPAA, SO or GLB requirements into Oracle security. After all, the Oracle Security Handbook (Theriault and Newman) is out of date.

Landmark book for Oracle shops.......2004-07-12

This remarkable book covers how to use Oracle 9i security and auditing facilities to achieve compliance with three major laws. While the book emphasizes HIPAA, it also addresses, either directly or indirectly, privacy security and auditing with respect to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Subtitle A: Disclosure of Nonpublic Personal Information 15 U.S.C. 6801-6810 and Subtitle B: Fraudulent Access to Financial Information 15 U.S.C. 6821-6827), HIPAA requirements for protecting data and enforcing security and privacy, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404 requirements related to integration of transactional systems, logs and auditing trails, and data security.

Structure of this book is in three sections:

Section I gives an introductions to HIPAA, Oracle security and Oracle auditing. Among the topics covered are grant, role-based, and profile based security, as well as virtual private databases (row-level security, fine-grained access control), and application server security.

Section II goes deeper into general Oracle security, covering relational grant security as it relates specifically to HIPAA (but can be also used for Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance because the requirements are similar regarding these mechanisms and techniques). Also covered are encryption and network security.

Section III deals with auditing using Oracle facilities, tables, DDL and DML, and covers the spectrum from grants auditing to fine-grained audits. Again, the focus is on HIPAA requirements (Chapter 11, for example, contains the following topics: Auditing select access as per the HIPAA mandated auditing of Patient Health Information, and Combining FGA and Flashback queries to answer the most important question in addition to who saw the data, what they saw.) This section ends with HIPAA security and auditing checklists, which can be also applied to Sarbanes-Oxley and Gramm-Leach-Bliley security and auditing.

This book is an outstanding addition to bodies of knowledge spanning three disciplines - internal auditing, DBA, and IT security & privacy. A copy should be provided to managers and subject matter experts in each of those domains.

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In five decades, Taiwan has shifted from an authoritarian regime to a multi-party democracy, has moved steadily toward modernization, and has become an economically affluent, socially pluralistic society. Its experience provides valuable lessons for developing countries. This book offers a critical assessment of Taiwan's path to modernization, focusing particularly on developments of constitutional democracy and the rule of law, democratic transition and consolidation, internationalization and globalization, and social developments. From its market economy to its democratization, Taiwan provides a valuable case study. On social developments, it provides a unique model of demographic transition, rising women's social status, and the emergence of the nuclear family. In eighteen chapters written by prominent scholars, this book examines the multiple aspects of Taiwan's modernization in a global perspective.

Taiwan's Modernization in Global Perspective

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Taiwan's Modernization in Global Perspective
Peter C.Y. Chow
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORVRTM

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Low-paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low-paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for low-skilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition.

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Credit Discrimination (1999 Supplement with Compaion Disk Update) (The Consumer Credit and Sales Legal Practice Series)
National Consumer Law Center
Manufacturer: National Consumer Law Center
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1881793850

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Credit Discrimination: The Consumer Credit and Sales Legal Practice Series/With Supplement (Consumer Credit and Sales Legal Practices Series)
Jonathan Sheldon
Manufacturer: National Consumer Law Center
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ASIN: 1881793109

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Early Beth Shan (Strata XIX-XIII): G. M. FitzGerald's Deep Cut on the Tell.(Book review): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Susan L. Cohen
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000MGV3ZS
Release Date: 2007-01-09

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1373 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: Early Beth Shan (Strata XIX-XIII): G. M. FitzGerald's Deep Cut on the Tell.(Book review)
Author: Susan L. Cohen
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 125 Issue: 2 Page: 300(2)

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Early Beth Shan (Strata XIX-XIII):G.M. Fitzgerald's Deep Cut On The Tell (University Museum Monograph, 121)

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Early Beth Shan (Strata XIX-XIII):G.M. Fitzgerald's Deep Cut On The Tell (University Museum Monograph, 121)
Eliot Braun
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Morris Goldstein is the Project Director of this Report of an Independent Commission Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations.

Safeguarding Prosperity in a Global Financial System : The Future International Financial Architecture

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Safeguarding Prosperity in a Global Financial System : The Future International Financial Architecture

Manufacturer: Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I8REAI

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This study provides a systematic approach to the key dimensions of analysis in support of policy-based operations. Concepts presented include: understanding the macroeconomic context of sector policy reforms using a macro-meso-micro perspective, using dimensions of sector diagnosis to identify sequential binding constraints to development in a prevailing policy and institutional environment, and assessing the effects of policy change. Also included are examples of measuring the costs of policy change and lessons from incorporating policy change assessments into policy operation design.

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Bahrain Business Law Handbook
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739719122

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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking. (Updated annually)

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Bahrain Business Law Handbook
Emerging Markets Investment Center
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739704125

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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking.

Bahrain Business Law Handbook (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Bahrain Business Law Handbook (World Business Law Handbook Library)
Igor Oleynik
Manufacturer: International Business Publications USA
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ASIN: B00005R4UU
Release Date: 2006-01-01

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Basic business legislation, laws, export-import regulations affecting business, business climate and contacts

Bahrain (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Bahrain (World Business Law Handbook Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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