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The Common Good: Rising of a New Dawn will forever change how you see your neighbor. On this captivating spiritual…
journey through America, hear the stories of how ordinary people—people in the trenches devoted to the common good—are making an extraordinary difference in the lives of many. With passion, wit, and wisdom, Juanita Farrow discusses business, politics, and religion, and paints a compelling picture of how the common good is not only God’s desire for America but why it’s good for America. Juanita Farrow states, “We live in a great country, but far too often we allow our beliefs and egos to divide us in ways that become a form of paralysis that impacts the entire nation.” Explore how the people in our lives and the experiences of our journey begin to shape our decisions and our view of the world. The Common Good speaks to people of faith and nonbelievers, and challenges everyone to look within for authentic purpose. It looks at pressing issues for Americans but also the rising of a new dawn. Building the bridges to transcend differences will require a lot of heart. Creating a movement for the common good will be difficult, but even businesses, for instance, have found social entrepreneurship not only solves social problems around the world, but is good for the bottom line. The Common Good describes how living a more conscious life can heal a nation—one heart, one mind, one thought at a time. It is a message of hope and how to turn fear into love. Walk away feeling empowered and inspired to make a difference.The Journal of Law and Economics, volume 66 number 1 (February 2023)
Par The Journal of Law and Economics. 2023
This is volume 66 issue 1 of The Journal of Law and Economics. Established in 1958, the Journal of Law…
and Economics publishes research on a broad range of topics, including the economic analysis of law, the economic analysis of regulation and the behavior of regulated firms, industrial organization and antitrust policy, the political economy of legislation and legislative processes, law and finance, and corporate finance and governance. The JLE has published some of the most influential and widely cited articles in these areas. It is an invaluable resource for academics and those interested in cutting-edge analysis of current public policy issues.Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing…
on the political economy of social enterprise development in China, Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social enterprises and the implications of such relationships for their institutional effectiveness. She adopts a bottom-up approach that investigates indigenous practices embedded within the local political context. Common ground has been established internationally that the social enterprise model provides new ways of social service delivery that could potentially change and restructure the social welfare economy. However, the development path differs across social contexts, especially in an authoritarian country like China. This study provides insights into China's efforts to develop its social welfare sector and reinvigorate customary ideas about how public services could be better offered given the country's political economy. This book will be of great interest to both scholars of China’s political economy and those with an interest in the development of the social enterprise sector looking to see how this works in a Chinese context.Why Texas: How Business Discovered the Lone Star State
Par Ed Curtis Jr.. 2019
The founder of the elite business network YTexas interviews eighteen CEOs and other business leaders on the growth benefits of…
the Lone Star State.In recent years, hundreds of companies have relocated to the Lone Star State. But they don’t just move—they stay, grow, expand, and tell others to join them. Ed Curtis reveals why in this volume of insightful interviews with Texas-based Fortune 500 CEOs, entrepreneurs, leaders, and business icons.Did you know that San Antonio Texas is a major biotech center? Were you aware that the first 7-11 was founded in Dallas? Or that Kendra Scott’s first venture was to help cancer patients? Or that podcast and publishing icon Tim Ferriss recently relocated to Austin? Filled with Texan pride, economic insight, and helpful tips from Dallas Stars CEO Jim Lites, T. Boone Pickens, and many more, this is a must-read for anyone contemplating a relocation—or even a visit—to Texas.Build Better Teams: Creating Winning Teams in the Digital Age
Par George Karseras. 2021
How Today’s Highly Effective Leaders Develop High Performing Teams“Build Better Teams is an insightful book offering leaders a compelling and…
practical team building ‘code’ to optimize team performance.” —Amy EdmondsonBuild Better Teams, endorsed by both Amy Edmondson and Edgar Schein, provides the first ever scientifically backed team development code that can be applied to any virtual or hybrid team in any industry to boost performance. The book provides a simple, memorable, and easy to apply formula, together with practical advice for leaders expected to manage high performing teams.Teams today are more complex than ever before. Requirements for diversity training, and growing pressures from accelerating digitalisation, remote working, and mental health issues all combine to create increasing uncertainty and stress for team leaders. Build Better Teams describes this context and then provides a simple, practical code that takes the guess work out of leading and motivating a team to peak performance.Learn how to be a highly effective leader. Author George Karseras, executive team development coach with over twenty years of experience in team development, and founder of TeamUp, describes the “TeamUp Playbook”, a four-step sequence that any team leader can follow to produce high performing teams.Using real life examples from organizations and summaries from the most recent academic studies. Karseras equips leaders to use the code with practical tools, techniques and tips in a casual, easy to read format that answers questions such as:What can expect to be the impact of virtual working and digital transformations on my team?How do I use a road map that science confirms works for all teams?How do I build a greater sense of community into the organization and, eventually, the world?If you liked books like The Fearless Organization, Team of Teams, or Leaders Eat Last then you’ll love Build Better Teams.This book continues the discussion from Volume I on economic, fiscal, and financial crises in world history that have had…
a great impact on the entire world and the fiscal measures taken by governments to combat each crisis. Such events are often described as black swans, a concept introduced by Economist and Risk Analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in the book Fooled By Randomness in 2001, in reference to events that were thought to be impossible but had a huge impact when they did happen.The beginning of this book notes that crises are catastrophic periods when the consequences of economic mistakes made by governments are reflected to the public. Although economic crises are seen as opportunities in some cases, they have created a burden for the people. Some economic crises even triggered the world war. A recent example, Adolf Hitler, was seen as a hope of salvation in Germany due to the Great Depression and was brought to power.The twentieth century, when two great world wars took place on the stage of history, is the witness of major economic crises as well as wars. These crises have caused social and economic paradigm shifts to be experienced much faster and more effectively than the previous centuries. The transformation of the demand-oriented economic understanding created by the Great Depression in 1929 into an interventionist social state understanding, especially after the World War Two, increased the intervention of states in the socioeconomic field. In this period, the reconstruction of the countries, the development of social welfare services, the assurance of human rights, the acceleration of industrialization and development, and the economic growth and income growth of the countries resulted in the golden age enjoyed by the societies of the period.The interventionist social state, seen as a prescription and opportunity in the past crisis, was one of the cornerstones of the crisis in the last quarter of the century in the 1970s. Against interventionism, with the rise of neo-liberalism, financial liberalization, information society, and technological discoveries, globalization has become the new phenomenon of the age. This book examines in detail the causes, occurrences, and results of the twentieth-century crises.Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion
Par José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, José A Gómez-Ibáñez. 2006
In the 1980s and '90s many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, such as gas,…
telephones, and highways--with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles including the collapse of California's wholesale electricity market and the bankruptcy of Britain's largest railroad company have raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these: how can government fairly and effectively regulate "natural monopolies"--those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical? Rather than sticking to economics, José Gómez-Ibáñez draws on history, politics, and a wealth of examples to provide a road map for various approaches to regulation. He makes a strong case for favoring market-oriented and contractual approaches--including private contracts between infrastructure providers and customers as well as concession contracts with the government acting as an intermediary--over those that grant government regulators substantial discretion. Contracts can provide stronger protection for infrastructure customers and suppliers--and greater opportunities to tailor services to their mutual advantage. In some cases, however, the requirements of the firms and their customers are too unpredictable for contracts to work, and alternative schemes may be needed.The Economy of Brazil
Par Howard S. Ellis. 1969
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.Inequality, Demography and Fiscal Policy (Applied Economics and Policy Studies)
Par Weijie Luo. 2023
This book aims to empirically and theoretically study how income inequality and demographic change affected fiscal policy and subsequent economic…
growth globally in the past decades from four perspectives. First, it briefly reviews the dynamic changes of income sources that contribute to inequality. Second, it distinguishes between income inequality induced by differences in labor productivity and income inequality induced by differences in capital income. Third, it briefly reviews the dynamic changes of tax composition in the age of demographic change. Last, it discusses the impacts of changes in age structure on the extent of taxes on income relative to expenditure. This book offers a comprehensive discussion to understand and analyze the reason, performance and challenge of fiscal policy and economic growth from the perspective of inequality and demographics.In addition to students, teachers and researchers in the areas of equity, demography, political economy and economic policy, this book is also of great interest to policy makers, planners and non-government agencies who are concerned with understanding and addressing poverty-related and aging-related issues in developed and developing countries.Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans
Par Teresa Ghilarducci, Tony James. 2018
Retirement shouldn&’t be just for the rich: &“Finally, a practical plan to address Americans&’ lack of adequate retirement savings.&”—Michael Bloomberg…
Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don&’t act to fix this broken system, rates of impoverishment for senior citizens threaten to skyrocket, and tens of millions of Americans reaching retirement age in the coming decades will be forced to delay retirement and will experience a dramatic drop in their standard of living. In Rescuing Retirement, economist Teresa Ghilarducci and billionaire businessman Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. Built on people&’s own money in individual Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, the plan requires no new taxes, no more bureaucracy, and no increase in the deficit. Speaking to Americans&’ growing anxiety about their ability to retire, Rescuing Retirement provides answers to anyone wanting to understand the growing movement to protect a period of life once considered a deserved time of rest and creativity and offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement. &“Ghilarducci and James never slip into wonk-speak or jargon, and lay readers will appreciate the way the authors make sense of complex economic issues.&”—Publishers WeeklyEinfach zu einfach: Wie die leichten Lösungen unsere Demokratie bedrohen
Par Joachim Weimann. 2023
Stellen Sie sich vor, ein demokratischer Staat muss ein komplexes Problem lösen. Der Lösung muss eine Mehrheit der Bevölkerung zustimmen.…
Es stehen zwei Lösungen zur Wahl: Eine komplizierte, die schwer zu verstehen ist, das Problem aber löst und eine einfache, die leicht verständlich dargestellt werden kann, aber falsch ist, und das Problem nicht löst. Welche wird die Wahl gewinnen? Vermutlich die leichte, falsche Lösung. Wir Menschen tragen den „sense making Trieb“ in uns. Wir wollen verstehen, was um uns herum geschieht. Die Welt ist aber zu schwierig und zu kompliziert, um sie tatsächlich begreifen zu können. Das macht die leichten Scheinlösungen so verführerisch. Wir lieben sie, weil sie uns vorgaukeln, wir wüssten Bescheid. Politiker wissen das und bedienen uns mit leichter Kost und die Medien wissen es auch. Das führt zu der Frage: Sind Demokratien mit Ihrer breiten politischen Mitbestimmung überhaupt in der Lage, die hochkomplexen Probleme unserer Zeit zu lösen? Früher hat uns das Denken in weltanschaulichen Bahnen geholfen. Aber die Zeit ist darüber hinweggegangen und heute gibt keine klaren "linken" oder "rechten" Lösungen mehr. Wir brauchen deshalb dringend neue Wege, um als Demokratie zu überleben. Das Besondere an diesem Buch: Es enthält in jedem Kapitel auch eine Audioversion des Textes.Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order (Law, Legislation and Liberty)
Par Friedrich A. Hayek. 1978
This volume represents the first section of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty.…
Rules and Order constructs the framework necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of justice and of the conditions which a constitution securing personal liberty would have to satisfy.Playing The Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them
Par Charles C. Euchner. 1993
“Details how owners . . . have shamelessly played cities against one another to get sweetheart deals for their stadiums.” —Sports IllustratedCan…
a sports franchise “blackmail” a city into getting what it wants—a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms—by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city council approved it. A few years later, when Comiskey Park was in need of renovation, the owners threatened to move the team to Florida unless a new stadium was built. A site was chosen near the old stadium, property condemned, residents evicted, and a new stadium built. “We had to make threats,” the owners said. “If we didn't have the threat of moving, we wouldn’t have gotten the deal.”Sports is not a dominant industry in any city, this book points out, yet it receives the kind of attention one might expect to be lavished on major producers and employers. In Playing the Field, Charles Euchner examines the relationships between Los Angeles and the Raiders, Baltimore and the Colts and the Orioles, and Chicago and the White Sox, arguing that, in the absence of public standards for equitable arbitration between cities and teams, the sports industry has the ability to steer negotiations in a way that leaves cities vulnerable. He reveals what lies behind this leverage—and what that says about the urban political process.NASA and the Space Industry (New Series in NASA History)
Par Joan Lisa Bromberg. 1999
A timely exploration of the relationships between NASA and the private sector: “An interesting read.” —SpaceflightFew federal agencies have more…
extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA’s relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often been described as “partnerships.” These have produced a few memorable catastrophes, but mostly technical achievements of the highest order. Until now, no one has written extensively about them.In NASA and the Space Industry, Joan Lisa Bromberg explores how NASA’s relationship with the private sector developed and how it works. She outlines the various kinds of expertise public and private sectors brought to the tasks NASA took on, describing how this division of labor changed over time. She explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects and describes the agency’s role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.The Freedom Paradox: Is Unbridled Freedom Dividing America?
Par Bobby Albert. 2020
Cutting through the haze of hatred and polarizing politics of our time, The Freedom Paradox offers an unexpected solution to…
re-unite America. It was the best of times, and it now seems like the worst of times. The chaos, discord and hostility gripping America today are evident to all. The root cause of these woes, however, is not so obvious. Using his keen sense of cultural awareness, Bobby Albert answers the questions that are on our hearts and minds, “What happened to the America of our youth?” and “How can we re-claim it?”. Many are fighting for and celebrating their freedoms, but few realize that unrestrained freedom today results in chaos and constraints tomorrow. Within The Freedom Paradox, readers discover:The “Life and Liberty Equation” and why it’s out of balanceThe competing approaches of principle and expediency The contrasts and consequences associated with scarcity and abundance mindsets The impact of what they say and how they say it The root cause of the problems of their great nation and how they can helpErklärung von Emittentenratings von Banken mittels maschinellen Lernens (Business, Economics, and Law)
Par Gerrit Brendler. 2023
Die derzeitige Wirtschaftslage in Europa ist fragil. Spätestens seit dem Kriegsausbruch in der Ukraine und der damit verbundenen Energiekrise in…
Europa trüben sich die Wachstumserwartungen. Durch die wirtschaftliche Verflechtung zwischen Staaten und Banken ist es in diesen unbeständigen Zeiten wichtig, über Instrumente zu verfügen, um schnell auf veröffentliche Geschäftszahlen von Kreditinstituten reagieren zu können und eigenständig die Bonität von Banken einzuschätzen, da die Anpassung eines externen Ratings oftmals mit einer zeitlichen Verzögerung einhergeht. Daher wird auf Basis von drei Datensätzen mittels maschinellen Lernens versucht, die Determinanten von Emittentenratings von europäischen Banken zu erklären. Unter der Verwendung von Entscheidungsbäumen und logistischen Regressionsmodellen sollen die wesentlichen Einflüsse der binären Klassifikation in die Segmente Investmentgrade und Non-Investmentgrade sowie die ordinale Ratingklasse analysiert werden.Central African Economic and Monetary Community: Common Policies In Support Of Member Countries Reform Programs-staff Report; And Statement By The Executive Director (Imf Staff Country Reports)
Par International Monetary Fund. African Dept.. 2023
Financing Basic Income: A Dual Income Proposal (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)
Par Richard Pereira. 2023
This Palgrave Pivot second edition argues that basic income is, in fact, affordable. The contributors approach the topic from the…
perspectives of three different countries—Canada, Switzerland, and Australia—to overcome objections that a universal program to keep all citizens above the poverty line would be too expensive to implement. They assess the complex array of revenue sources that can make universal basic income feasible, from the underestimated value of public program redundancies to new and so far, unaccounted publicly owned assets.This new edition adds an analysis for financing basic income in the United States, as well as considering the basic income potential in a country of far more modest economic resources, Portugal. The COVID-19 pandemic is discussed in a new Prologue, demonstrating the need for universal economic security as a precautionary measure for unforeseen crises. New research and compelling analyses are included throughout, to provide support for a dual basic income proposal.The ASEAN Digital Economy: Towards an Integrated Regional Framework (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)
Par Paul Cheung, Xie Taojun. 2024
Boasting the fastest growing Internet market in the world, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is accelerating into the digital…
economy. This book assesses the potential economic impact of digital economy agreements (DEAs) and the readiness of some ASEAN member states to grow the digital economy in collaboration. The book presents a novel framework to assess countries’ readiness to enter digital economy collaborations, following the architecture of Singapore’s DEAs with its trading partners. It takes a bird’s-eye view of the digital economy in ASEAN and reviews the current state of digital infrastructure and regulations. The book also includes simulation exercises to project economic outcomes delivered by regional collaborations. It also elaborates on the specific strengths and weaknesses of five ASEAN member states. These ASEAN member states include Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The book concludes by revisiting the ASEAN economy as a whole. It points out key issues country leaders need to work on as they proceed with digital economy collaborations. This book is written for scholars, policymakers, and industrial practitioners who wish to learn the latest developments in the ASEAN digital economy.Billionaires and Stealth Politics
Par Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, Matthew J. Lacombe. 2018
In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him…
from wealthy donors and allow him to “drain the swamp.” But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to high-level positions and pursued billionaire-friendly policies, such as cutting corporate income taxes. Why the change from his fiery campaign rhetoric and promises to the working class? This should not be surprising, argue Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, and Matthew J. Lacombe: As the gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us has widened, the few who hold one billion dollars or more in net worth have begun to play a more and more active part in politics—with serious consequences for democracy in the United States. Page, Seawright, and Lacombe argue that while political contributions offer a window onto billionaires’ influence, especially on economic policy, they do not present a full picture of policy preferences and political actions. That is because on some of the most important issues, including taxation, immigration, and Social Security, billionaires have chosen to engage in “stealth politics.” They try hard to influence public policy, making large contributions to political parties and policy-focused causes, leading policy-advocacy organizations, holding political fundraisers, and bundling others’ contributions—all while rarely talking about public policy to the media. This means that their influence is not only unequal but also largely unaccountable to and unchallengeable by the American people. Stealth politics makes it difficult for ordinary citizens to know what billionaires are doing or mobilize against it. The book closes with remedies citizens can pursue if they wish to make wealthy Americans more politically accountable, such as public financing of political campaigns and easier voting procedures, and notes the broader types of reforms, such as a more progressive income tax system, that would be needed to increase political equality and reinvigorate majoritarian democracy in the United States.