16th
March
2010

Pricing Nature: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy | Publisher: Edward Elgar | ISBN: 1848444702 | edition 2009 | PDF | 353 pages |
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and government policies. Nick Hanley and Edward Barbier show how CBA can be applied to environmental policy...
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16th
March
2010

Business Computing | Emerald Group | 2009 | ISBN: 1848552645 | 442 pages | PDF |
This book is broadly organized in three parts. The first section ('Enhancing and Managing Customer Value') focuses on presenting the state-of-knowledge in managing and enhancing customer value through extraction of consumer-centric knowledge from mountains of data that modern interactive applications generate. The extracted information can...
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13th
March
2010

Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit In the 21st Century | Wiley | 2009 | ISBN: 0470432071 | 303 pages | PDF |
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It is a fascinating and exciting time to be in the nonprofit world. There are more challenges, more opportunities, and more ways to respond to the increasing community needs that are at your door. As a nation...
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12th
March
2010

Myths About Doing Business in China | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 140394458X | edition 2005 | PDF | 175 pages | 12,4 mb
China is rapidly becoming an economic superpower, yet has a very different business culture that is often misunderstood outside of China. This can result in costly financial and strategic errors. This book confronts the myths about China...
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12th
March
2010

International Handbook on the Economics of Energy | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2009 | ISBN: 1847203523 | 831 pages | PDF |
As an essential component for economic growth, energy has a significant impact on the global economy. The need to meet growing energy demand has prompted cutting-edge innovation in clean technology in an attempt to realise environmental and cost...
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12th
March
2010

Clearing Services for Global Markets: A Framework for the Future Development of the Clearing Industry | Cambridge University Press | 2009-10-26 | ISBN: 0521518717 | 568 pages | PDF |
Clearing forms the core part of a smooth and efficiently functioning financial market infrastructure. Traditionally, it has been provided by clearing houses, most of which today act as a 'central counterparty'...
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12th
March
2010

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Multinational Enterprises and the Challenge of Sustainable Development | Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub 2009-12-09 | 313 Pages | ISBN: 1848444133 | PDF | 10 MB
Transnational corporations play a role in the design, diffusion, and consolidation of sustainable development in the context of globalization and multinational firms. In this timely book European and American contributors analyze this role and...
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10th
March
2010

Investment, Vol. 3: Lifting the Burden: Tax Reform, the Cost of Capital, and U.S. Economic Growth | The MIT Press | 2002-05-01 | ISBN: 0262100916 | 504 pages | PDF |
This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the cost-of-capital approach for analyzing the economic impact of tax policy. This approach has provided an intellectual impetus for reforms of capital income...
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9th
March
2010

How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In | Jim Collins | 2009 | ISBN: 0977326411 | 240 pages | PDF | 10,2 MB
Decline can be avoided.
Decline can be detected.
Decline can be reversed.
Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided?...
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6th
March
2010

Beyond Inflation Targeting: Assessing the Impacts and Policy Alternatives | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2010 | ISBN: 1847209386 | 318 pages | PDF |
This volume, written by an international team of economists, develops concrete, country specific alternatives to inflation targeting, the dominant policy framework of central bank policy that focuses on keeping inflation in the low single digits to...
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