本书内容分产业投资基金概述，产业生命周期与产业投资基金，产业投资基金的产生与发展，产业投资基金类型的比较，产业投资基金的运作机制，产业投资基金的评估等十章。

作为一本研究型的教材，《金融伦理学》的目的是开创完整的金融伦理学的理论框架和教学体系，即努力使金融学或相关专业学生通过这门课程，系统地透过伦理视角审视整个金融体系的运作，深刻地反思和检讨金融与伦理的辩证关系，理解金融体系内部的伦理冲突及其相关利益者之间的伦理关系，全面把握金融伦理的核心范畴和基本价值规范，从而确立一种有利于金融稳健运作、公众福利提升和社会和谐发展的崭新的金融伦理规则。《金融伦理学》对金融伦理的理论基础与金融市场和金融机构的伦理问题进行了全方位的探讨，对商业银行、投资银行、保险机构和资本市场的金融伦理规范进行了详尽的理论和案例研究，有很强的理论价值和实践价值。

《套期保值实务》针对当前套期保值过程中存在的认识和应用误区，从风险分析、套保模式、效果评价等方面进行了深入研究，对树立正确的套保理念，建立科学的套保决策体系，选择正确的套保方法，均具有重要的启发和指导作用。《套期保值实务》力求体现“可操作性强、理论和实践相结合”的特色。因此，《套期保值实务》不仅在套期保值理论上进行了深入的研究，而且对套期保值实践过程中遇到的重点和难点问题也给出了我们的答案。

小林一三，日本实业家，日本第三产业先驱，创立了阪急电铁（箕面有马电气轨道）、宝冢歌剧团、阪急百货商店、东宝等企业。在阪急电铁沿线开展了城市开发和流通业，以此开创了日本式民营铁路经营的原型。他秉承的“大众为本”经营理念，极大地改变了现有的酒店业以及电影、戏剧界的经营方式，也开创了当今日本人城市生活方式的原型。本书解析了这个不断在日本开创新事业的绝代实业家的人生轨迹，揭示了他在革新与创造背后的不可动摇的成功法则。

This study introduces 'time-specific' analysis of economicprocesses. Economic processes are conventionally analysed from onepoint in time to another over a series of time units - days, weeks,or years. By contrast, these time-specific models focus on thetemporal character of events within the unit time - their timing,duration, and sequence - utilizing the information that is lost inthe macroscopic time perspective of standard economic theory. Whattime-specific analysis reveals are economic and technologicalcharacteristics of goods and services - prices and cost behaviourand temporal mobility or immobility within the unit time - thataffect capital productivity and its utilization, optimal schedulesof production, work, and consumption, least-cost methods ofproducing time-shaped outputs, and efficient welfare-maximizingbehavior in time-specific, including peak-load, markets.

Free to succeed . . . Whether in troubled economic times or during years of prosperity,there is a proven way for companies to boost productivity, profits,and growth. Remarkably, it costs nothing––whether cost is measuredin terms of monetary resources or time– –and is simply based on thebelief that, if only people can be free to act in the bestinterests of their company, the results will be tremendous.Freedom, Inc. presents the evidence that this is not thePollyannaish wish of a few dreamers, but a reality built bybottom-line-focused leaders. . . . The culture of freedom works–and Freedom, Inc. reveals thesecrets of a successful business paradigm based on a trusting,nonhierarchical, liberated environment. The visionary leaders profiled here performed near-miracles indriving their companies to unheard-of levels of success, often fromunlikely or disheartening beginnings. Businesses as diverse asinsurance company USAA, winemaker Sea Smoke Cellars, Gore Associates,

A brilliant reconsideration of the Gilded Age in America, whenan oligarchy of wealth triumphed over democracy, when dreams offreedom and equality died of their impossibility. Jay Gould, the“Mephisto of Wall Street,” never runs for office, but he rules.This was his time (and John D. Rockefeller’s and AndrewCarnegie’s), and this was his country. At the end of the Civil War, with the rebellion put down andslavery ended, America belonged to Lincoln’s “plain people.” But“government of the people” and economic democracy were betrayed bypolitical parties that fanned memories of the war to distractAmericans from government of the corporation. Synthesizing the research of a new generation of scholars, JackBeatty gives us a fresh look at the “revolution from above” ofindustrialization that forged modern America. In Age of Betrayal,Supreme Court justices turn the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of“equal protection of the laws” to the freed slave into the shieldof the corpora

Harvard Business EssentialsYour Guide and Mentor to DoingBusiness EffectivelyFinance for ManagersCalculating and assessingthe overall financial health of the business is an important partof any managerial position. From reading and deciphering financialstatements, to understanding net present value, to calculatingreturn on investment, this book provides the fundamentals offinancial literacy. Easy to use and non-technical, this helpfulguide gives managers the smart advice they need to increase theirimpact on financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

An internationally renowned energy expert has written a bookessential for every American–a galvanizing account of how therising price and diminishing availability of oil are going toradically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get aWhole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book thatexplores what the new global economy will look like and what itwill mean for all of us. In a compelling and accessible style, Jeff Rubin reveals thatdespite the recent recessionary dip, oil prices will skyrocketagain once the economy recovers. The fact is, worldwide oilreserves are disappearing for good. Consequently, the amount offood and other goods we get from abroad will be curtailed;long-distance driving will become a luxury and international travelrare. Globalization as we know it will reverse. The near futurewill be a time that, in its physical limits, may resemble thedistant past. But Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is ahopeful work about how we can benefit–personally, political

Part business book, part golf novel, Plugged resonates long afterwards and provides real world lessons thatapply to the home, the office or the golf course. Chet McGill, thededicated vice president of sales at AlphaMax Manufacturing, isunder fire — Trident, their biggest client, is being pursued,aggressively, by a new competitor. At the same time, Chet isfeeling off-balance as he preps for a golf tournament in which he’spartnered with Reggie Ward, Trident’s vice president of operations.Faced with big problems and with all eyes on him, Chet learns toget back to what's important to his company, his clients, andhimself. Plugged teaches readers to "shoot for PAR," asimple, proven method to achieve success in just three useful steps— prioritize, adapt, and be responsible. In the spirit of WhoMoved My Cheese? , Krissi and Dan Barr offer a simple parablethat is engaging, engrossing and empowering.

Mikael H?rnqvist challenges us to rethink the overall meaningand importance of Machiavelli's political thinking. Machiavelli andEmpire combines close textual analysis of The Prince and TheDiscourses with a broad historical approach, to establish theimportance of empire-building and imperial strategy inMachiavelli's thought. The primary context of Machiavelli's work,H?rnqvist argues, is not the mirror-for-princes genre or medievaland Renaissance republicanism in general, but a tradition ofFlorentine imperialist republicanism dating back to the latethirteenth-century, based on the twin notions of liberty at homeand empire abroad. Weaving together themes and topics drawn fromcontemporary Florentine political debate, Medicean ritual andRenaissance triumphalism, this study explores how Machiavelli inhis chancery writings and theoretical works promoted the longstanding aspirations of Florence to become a great and expandingempire, modelled on the example of the ancient Roman republic. Thisis a distinctive an

Natural Resources and Economic Development, first published in2005, explores a key paradox: why is natural resource exploitationnot yielding greater benefits to the poor economies of Africa, Asiaand Latin America? Part I examines this paradox both through ahistorical review of resource use and development and throughexamining current theories which explain the under-performance oftoday's resource-abundant economies, and proposes a frontierexpansion hypothesis as an alternative explanation. Part IIdevelops models to analyse the key economic factors underlying landexpansion and water use in developing countries. Part III exploresfurther the 'dualism within dualism' structure of resourcedependency, rural poverty and resource degradation withindeveloping countries, and through illustrative countrycase-studies, proposes policy and institutional reforms necessaryfor successful resource-based development.

In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrumentfor the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquidwealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to theproduction of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Grazianichallenges traditional theories of monetary production, arguingthat a modern economy based on credit cannot be understood withouta focus on the administration of credit flows. He argues thatmarket asset configuration depends not upon consumer preferencesand available technologies but on how money and credit are managed.A strong exponent of the circulation theory of monetary production,Graziani presents an original and perhaps controversial argumentthat will stimulate debate on the topic.

As Europe proceeds towards economic and monetary union, fiscalconvergence and the prospect of a common money are at the centre ofdiscussion. This volume from the Centre for Economic PolicyResearch brings together theoretical, applied and historicalresearch on the management of public debt and its implications forfinancial stability. Gale fills a gap in the literature, using aconsistent framework to investigate the welfare economics of publicdebt, while Calvo and Guidotti analyse the trade-off betweenindexation and maturity when it comes to minimizing debt service.Confidence crises have become relevant again in view of the highdebt ratios in countries such as Belgium, Italy and Ireland.Alesina, Prati and Tabellini develop a formal model of thepropagation of a debt run and use it to interpret Italian debtpanics. Giavazzi and Pagano concentrate on how inappropriate debtmanagement can precipitate a run on the currency while Makinen andWoodward review a broad sweep of historical experience.

There is an ongoing perception that public accountability inmodern-day governance is in 'crisis', caused by globalization andthe increasing power of private economic interests. This bookresponds to that idea, providing the most comprehensive survey todate of how different organizations hold persons acting in thepublic interest to account, and the various problems they face. Thebook shows how key issues, such as public-mindedness, democracy andresponsibility, and structures, such as bureaucracy, markets andtransparency, adopt radically different and sometimes contradictoryinterpretations when viewed from different experientialperspectives. It also demonstrates how underlying all this are corecommunities of experiences that bind these diverse interpretationsand perspectives into a complex web of mutual interaction andinfluence. The book includes studies not only of Anglo-Americanexperiences, but also of the experiences of foreign andtransnational organizations: NGOs, transnational resistancemovements, th

Two years in the cauldron of capitalism-"horrifying and veryfunny" (The Wall Street Journal) In this candid and entertaining insider's look at the mostinfluential school in global business, Philip Delves Broughtondraws on his crack reporting skills to describe his madcap years atHarvard Business School. Ahead of the Curve recounts the mostedifying and surprising lessons learned in the quest for an MBA,from the ingenious chicanery of leveraging and the unlikelypleasures of accounting, to the antics of the "booze luge" andother, less savory trappings of student culture. Published duringthe one hundredth anniversary of Harvard Business School, this isthe unflinching truth about life in the trenches of an iconicAmerican institution.