كتب اقتصاد جديدة Economics

The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' and 'Wealth of Nations' (International Library of Economics)
By Dogan GoCmen


Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2007-09-18
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1845114000
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781845114008
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:


This is the first scholarly work to deal solely with the ‘Adam Smith problem’, namely the apparent contradiction between Adam Smith’s most famous works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Since the 1840s scholars have puzzled over and attempted to explain the fact that these works offer two fundamentally different and contradictory concepts of human nature. In this radical new approach Dogan Göçmen makes a major contribution to the debate. Accepting that Smith does indeed put forward two different and varied ideas, he argues that the ethical position articulated in The Theory of Moral Sentiments can be, and was intended by Smith to be, applied as a basis for criticising the commercial society analysed in the Wealth of Nations. Göçmen argues that this ethical position points to the character of an ideal future society, Adam Smith’s Utopia, a society in which its social components are completely in sympathy - and therefore harmonious - with each other.



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Anatomy of a Trend
By Henrik Vejlgaard


Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2007-08-27
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071488707
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071488709
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:



Why do millions of people end up wearing the same style of clothing?

What makes people change their tastes in food, music, and cars?

It's because of trends-the powerful process of change that affects every industry across the globe.

Drawing on his groundbreaking research, trend sociologist Henrik Vejlgaard unearths essential clues about how trends emerge and go mainstream and examines the influential individuals who make this happen.

Throughout are real-life stories of both famous and anonymous movers and shakers who have had worldwide influence in changing our styles of living, including business leaders, designers, and artists, while also conveying the fascinating development of little-known trends that perfectly illustrate the trend's life cycle. Anatomy of a Trend explores every level of this remarkable process-making it easy for you to benefit from the powerful social dynamic that causes trends to take off and spread.

Vejlgaard delivers the tools and knowledge you need to capitalize on every stage of the trend process. As you gain insight into this aspect of human behavior, you will better understand trends and how they affect society, and ultimately learn how you can predict future needs.

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The Chemical Process Industries Infrastructure: Function and Economics (Chemical Industries)
By James Couper, O. Thomas Beasley, W. Roy Penney


Publisher: CRC
Number Of Pages: 627
Publication Date: 2000-11-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0824704355
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780824704353
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

"Covers global and domestic competition, marketing strategies, operating expenses, and environmental and safety regulations for chemical professionals at all levels. Contains up-to-date mergers and acquisitions of chemical companies."

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Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research)
By Stephen L. Morgan, Christopher Winship


Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 334
Publication Date: 2007-07-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521856159
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521856157
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

Did mandatory busing programs in the 1970s increase the school achievement of disadvantaged minority youth? Does obtaining a college degree increase an individual's labor market earnings? Did the use of a butterfly ballot in some Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore votes? Simple cause-and-effect questions such as these are the motivation for much empirical work in the social sciences. In this book, the counterfactual model of causality for observational data analysis is presented, and methods for causal effect estimation are demonstrated using examples from sociology, political science, and economics.

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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Global Economy
By Gerald I. Susman


Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 345
Publication Date: 2007-04-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1845425952
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781845425951
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

`Globalization has jarred the traditional role and competitiveness of small- and medium-sized enterprises. This masterful volume comprises leading scholars, policy makers and business leaders who have new insights and strategies for SMEs creating opportunities rather than being victims of globalization. The result is a breakthrough in our understanding of entrepreneurship in the global context.'
- David Audretsch, Indiana University, US



Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often have difficulty competing in the global economy unless they collaborate with domestic or foreign partners or with public sector organizations. This book addresses the resource leverage and innovation challenges that increased global trade represents for SMEs. In doing so, it explores how SMEs can become more competitive at home and in foreign markets as stand-alone firms or as members of supplier and customer networks.

SMEs are turning increasingly to innovation as a source of competitive advantage in order to protect their home markets and participate in expanding foreign markets. The contributors to this volume - leading experts in entrepreneurship, innovation, and international business - provide in-depth coverage of the most compelling issues facing SMEs. These include: innovation as a competitive strategy, network dynamics, ways to leverage technology, internationalization, and the role of the public sector in helping SMEs to overcome resource deficiencies.

This comprehensive look at SMEs in the global marketplace will be of great interest to academics who study entrepreneurship, innovation, or international business, officials from public sector agencies with responsibility for helping SMEs to internationalize and become more innovative, and senior executives of SMEs or executives of larger companies who are considering collaboration with SMEs.

Contents: Introduction Part I: Innovation and Competitive Advantage Part II: Network Dynamics Part III: Technology and Enhanced Capabilities Part IV: Internationalization Part V: Role of the Public Sector Part VI: Executive Summaries Index

Contributors: J. Andrews, A. Camuffo, G. Cattani, S. Chamberlain, D. Crick, H. Etemad, M. Freel, A. Furlan, R. Grandinetti, T. Guay, J. Hoban, M.V. Jones, A. Kaufman, M. Kujawa, K. Lint, J.H Love, J.W. Lu, C. Maitland, D.J. Maslach, R.B. McNaughton, V. Ojala, T. O'Shaughnessy, J.M. Pennings, I.J. Petrick, S. Roper, M. Rosales, P. Shapira, M. Spence, J.P. Stites, G.I. Susman, P.M. Swamidass, M.I. Tambakeras, D. Ucbasaran, V. Vulasa, P. Westhead, C.H. Wood, M. Wright, Z. Wu, J. Youti

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Successes and Failures in Regulating and Deregulating Utilities: Evidence from the UK, Europe and the USA
By Colin Robinson


Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2004-08-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1843767708
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781843767701
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

This book is the latest annual review of utility regulation and deregulation, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School. It contains a series of chapters from leading practitioners in the field which comment on the most significant and up-to-date developments. Topics include US telecoms deregulation, road network regulation, UK competition policy, Ofcom and light touch regulation, railway regulation, the liberalization of European utility markets, postal regulation, investment and regulation, and energy regulation in the UK.

Two papers are presented on each issue: the first by a distinguished academic or industry expert and the second, a shorter comment, usually by the relevant regulator. Together they show how regulation and deregulation are evolving, and highlight the successes which have been achieved and the failures which must be overcome. This book will be of considerable value to practitioners, policymakers and academics involved in regulatory reform and regulatory economics. It will also be of interest to anyone wishing to gain an overview of international regulatory policies.


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Socializing Capital
By William G. Roy


Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: 1999-07-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 069101034X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780691010342
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:



Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as the result of technological development and market growth that required greater efficiency in larger scale firms, Roy focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power.

The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of railroads. Finally, and most particularly, he analyzes its flowering into the realm of manufacturing, when at the turn of this century, many of the same giants that still dominate the American economic landscape were created. Thus, the corporation altered manufacturing entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals as had previously been the case.

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State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History
By Howard Bodenhorn


Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2002-10-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195147766
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195147766
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

Howard Bodenhorn's State Banking in Early America studies the financial experimentation that took place in the United States between 1790 and 1860. Dr. Bodenhorn's book explores regional differences in banking structures, which bear indirectly in the conection between financial and economic development. If a single theme emerges, it is that the United States benefitted from its free banking philosophy in which state governments, rather than a centralized authority, created financial structures designed to serve specific, local needs. Thus decentralized federalism provided state legislatures with a great deal of flexibility in their individual approaches to economic and financial issues. The important lessons to be learned from Dr. Bodenhorn's historical account are that successful banking systems are flexible, predictable, and incentive-compatible; they meet the needs of the borrowers, depositors and shareholders, and they reduce downside risks to generally agreed upon levels. These lessons imply that we cannot, a priori, define an optimal, one-size-fits-all banking system. We need to know something about the formal and informal institutions underlying an economy and about the risk preferences of its citizenry. Historically, outsiders view Americans as experimenters and risk takers. Nowhere is this experimentation and risk taking more apparent than in early American banking policies.

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States of Liberalization: Redefining the Public Sector in Integrated Europe (SUNY Series in Global Politics)
By Mitchell P. Smith


Publisher: State University of New York Press
Number Of Pages: 242
Publication Date: 2006-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0791465446
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780791465448
Binding: Paperback


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Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History)
By J. Adam Tooze


Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 332
Publication Date: 2007-08-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521039126
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521039123
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

Tooze provides an interpretation of the period of dramatic statistical innovation between 1900 and 1945. The Weimar Republic and the Third Reich were in the forefront of statistical innovation in the interwar decades. New ways of measuring the economy were inspired both by contemporary developments in macroeconomic theory and the needs of government. Under the Nazi regime, these statistical tools provided the basis for a radical experiment in economic planning. Based on the German example, Tooze argues for a more wide-ranging reconsideration of the history of modern economic knowledge.


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Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
By Peter L. Bernstein


Publisher: Free Press
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1993-03-29
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0029030129
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780029030127
Binding: Paperback


Summary: Thorough introduction to financial theater
Rating: 3

A great book to establish an understanding for how the current investment strategies came about. Petere Bernstein did a great job of introducing mathematical masterminds such as Louis Bachelier; the inventor of stochastic analysis concepts, the birth of Dow Jones, the creation of S&P 500 index by Alfred Cowles, Portfolio Selection by Harry Markowitz and many other financial and statistical intellects.


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Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis

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Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2003-04
Sales Rank: 45965
ISBN / ASIN: 1583225811
EAN: 9781583225813
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
Studio: Seven Stories Press
Average Rating: 4.5
Total Reviews: 7




Book Description:

Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privitization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills. “In thinking about the possible obsolescence of the prison,” Davis writes, “we should ask how it is that so many people could end up in prison without major debates regarding the efficacy of incarceration.” Whereas Reagan-era politicians with “tough on crime” stances argued that imprisonment and longer sentences would keep communities free of crime, history has shown that the practice of mass incarceration during that period has had little or no effect on official crime rates: in fact, larger prison populations led not to safer communities but to even larger prison populations. As we make our way into the twenty-first century—two hundred years after the invention of the penitentiary —the question of prison abolition has acquired an unprecedented urgency. Backed by growing numbers of prisons and prisoners, Davis analyzes these institutions in the U.S., arguing that the very future of democracy depends on our ability to develop radical theories and practices that make it possible to plan and fight for a world beyond the prison industrial complex.




Date: 2007-04-12 Rating: 4
Review:

Literature Working on the Prison System

Angela Davis talks about many different points in her book Are Prisons Obsolete? She tries to convince the audience that the current U.S. prison system is not run adequately. Davis questions the United States system of justice and the prison system that currently houses over two million people throughout the nation. In her book, she argues that prisons do not solve crime and that over the past twenty years the prison boom has not lowered crime rates across the country, but has intensified criminal behavior. The injustices within the current prison system, including institutionalized racism, gender inequalities, and class segregation are thoroughly explored in this book. She also debates whether a prison reform would be enough or prison abolition is necessary. This book is a great piece of literature that exposes readers with little to no knowledge about prisons to some cruel realities.
The book offers an overview of the history of prisons. Davis takes as an example California, a state which "landscape has thoroughly been prisonized over the last twenty years" (Davis, 12). This overview is extremely important to underline Davis' point that prisons have become ineffective as rehabilitatory institutions. Although, theoretically, the main purpose of a prison is to rehabilitate criminals, economic factors as well as racist motives, quickly drove the prison system to emulate a new way of slavery. As Davis says: "segregation ruled in the south until it was outlawed a century after the abolition of slavery. Many people who lived under Jim Crow could not envision a legal system defined by racial equality" (Davis, 23). The need for cheap labor in the south incited the spur of legislations that promoted the incarceration of as many African Americans as possible after the civil war. These prisoners, then, were leased out resulting in productive yet cheap laborers. Davis touches base with racism and economic oppression issues in chapter two of her book.
As evidence to help us understand the causes by which prisons started to proliferate when official studies showed that crime rate was going down (Davis, 85), Professor Davis uses the fact that "many corporations with global markets, now rely on prisons as an important source of profit" (Davis, 85). All the data compiled in chapter five of Davis' book is important to explain how the prison system has embodied a prison industrial complex that manipulates inmates' labor in exchange for economic gain. She attributes the so-called "tough on crime" legislation to private prisons and other corporations' interests. Although chapter five is bombards the reader with communist idealism, a communist mentality is not necessary to understand Davis' conclusions.
Even though not enough facts and statistics are given in the book with regards to the problem with the system, the book offers two chapters full of first hand information gathered by Davis. Nevertheless, the book's emphasis is on proposing a prison abolition program that should go hand and hand with the prison reform movement (Davis, 9-10). She is the voice of many prison reformers who have been trying to end violence and sexual abuse in prisons, provide prisoners with education so that their civil rights are not stripped away, and most importantly, work for prisons to be part of the solution and not another cause of problem.
In her last chapter, Professor Davis proposes, not so concrete ideas to adopt a completely different system or correction. This is the book's weakest chapter since it is too rhetorical and lacks solid proposals. She implies that the amount of knowledge and work necessary to make a solid change is in fact not very achievable by saying: "An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions" (Davis107), referring to questions such as "how can we imagine a society in which punishment is not based on race and class?"(Davis107). Nonetheless her ideology and optimism opens many possibilities that could in fact be effective substitutes to incarceration.
It is for all these reasons that I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in knowing the hidden problems within the current U.S. prison system and the ongoing racial segregation issues. This book makes us think whether or not prisons are obsolete. Davis thinks they are.


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