Employee-ownership and co-operatives

Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt.

Employee participation programs have many faces, many definitions, many forms-and they change all the time.

The economy of India is growing at a rate of 8 percent per year, and its exports of goods and services have more than doubled in the past three years.

The first swap was executed over thirty years ago.

Our interactive world can take a creative product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety.

Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt.

Focusing on the electronic media-television, radio, and the Internet-Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers.

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Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.

Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.

For the past three decades, neoclassical doctrine has dominated economic theory and policy.

For the past three decades, neoclassical doctrine has dominated economic theory and policy.

Based on fieldwork in four African countries, this study reveals how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises.

This book uses economic theory to argue that labor-managed firms are rare due to market failures rather than any inherent organizational defects.

This book uses economic theory to argue that labor-managed firms are rare due to market failures rather than any inherent organizational defects.

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This book provides case studies of worker-controlled firms and surveys available evidence on their behavior.

Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power.

A profile of Berkshire Hathaway, the keys to its success, and how it can survive beyond its iconic chairman and CEO, Warren Buffett.

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Actions taken by the United States and other countries during the Great Recession focused on restoring the viability of major financial institutions while guaranteeing debt and stimulating growth.

Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition.

Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth, are sure to be more critical in the future.

Accounting for Value teaches investors and analysts how to handle accounting in evaluating equity investments.

Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities.

Since its first publication, Michael J.

More than thirty leading scholars and finance practitioners discuss the theory and practice of using enterprise-risk management (ERM) to increase corporate values.

Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits.

Effective corporate governance, or the set of controls and incentives that drive top management, originates both outside and inside the firm and assures investors who hope to commit their capital.

In order to avoid another Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco, company directors have assumed a bold and independent role in the boardroom, monitoring the actions and day-to-day operations of the CEO.

Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960.

Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives.

The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries.

The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose?

David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations-their function and their failure-both in theory and in practice.

Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory.

Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them.

Focusing on the electronic media-television, radio, and the Internet-Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers.

Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits.

The first swap was executed over thirty years ago.

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds with combined asset holdings that are fast approaching four trillion dollars.

Author of the acclaimed work Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory, Kent Osband argues that uncertainty is central rather than marginal to finance.

The economy of India is growing at a rate of 8 percent per year, and its exports of goods and services have more than doubled in the past three years.

Taxes are a crucial policy issue, especially in developing countries.

Our interactive world can take a creative product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety.

Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old practices of public communication and at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment.

Rapid growth, reduced poverty, and stable societies: the announced benefits of the world economy celebrated by neoliberal proponents of "e;the Washington consensus"e; have failed to materialize.

An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called "e;riveting and indispensable,"e; The Best Business Writing is a far-ranging survey of business's dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life.

The Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems featured a core collection of accessible, timely essays on the challenges facing today's global markets and financial institutions.