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An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world’s future prosperity. The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exported across the globe with devastating consequences. The crisis has sparked an essential debate about America’s economic missteps, the soundness of this country’s economy, and even the appropriate shape of a capitalist system. Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Stiglitz is “an insanely great economist, in ways you can’t really appreciate unless you’re deep into the field” (Paul Krugman, New York Times). In Freefall, Stiglitz traces the origins of the Great Recession, eschewing easy answer

A showcase for the world's most eye-catching windowdisplays, this book offers inspiration and guidance to visualmerchandisers and retailers, helping them to create windows thatnot only look good but also help to increase sales. Seven chapterscover key topics for the visual merchandiser, each with a galleryof photographs demonstrating how and why each window is successful.A must for anyone involved in bricks and mortar retail.

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Updated for paperback - an up-to-the-minute look at thechallenges met by Fed chair Ben Bernanke in trying to clean up theproblems affecting the U.S. economy that he inherited from hispredecessor, Alan Greenspan, informed by a historical look at howother central bankers have dealt with similar crises. Thesuccession of crises facing the U.S. economy in 2008 and 2009 havethrown a bright spotlight on Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.Each of his moves to address the disastrous economic conditions arereported and analyzed at length in the press as he works tomitigate the effects of the sub-prime lending debacle and resultingcredit crisis. Bernanke is undergoing a stern test as America'scentral banker - a test created for him, in large part, by hispredecessor, Alan Greenspan. This new paperback edition of"Bernanke's Test" is completely updated with events through the endof 2009. As such, it's among the most valuable and up-to-the-minuteworks on Bernanke's career as Fed chair published to date, makingit a

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"Can one be both an ethical person and an effectivebusinessperson? Stephen Green, an ordained priest and the chairmanof HSBC, thinks so. In Good Value, Green confronts some of the mostvexing questions of our age and argues that despite its recentlapses, the global financial industry is more necessary than ever.Also necessary, however, are good businesspeople who look to theirprinciples and not just their profit margins." "In order tounderstand the turbulence of the present, Green begins by retracingthe history of the global economy and its financial systems, fromancient government granaries in Alexandria to the Italian banksthat flourished during the Renaissance. He finds that free marketsare a persistent phenomenon throughout history. A highly efficientallocator of capital that has delivered huge advantages tohumanity, the marketplace has also abandoned over a billion peopleto extreme poverty, encouraged overconsumption and debt, ravagedthe environment, and allowed the greed and short-sightedness of t

In early 2009, many economists, financiers, and media pundits were confidently predicting the end of the American-led capitalism that has shaped history and economics for the past 100 years. Yet the U.S. economic model, far from being discredited, may be strengthened by the financial crisis. In this provocative book, Anatole Kaletsky re-interprets the financial crisis as part of an evolutionary process inherent to the nature of democratic capitalism. Capitalism, he argues, is resilient. Its first form, Capitalism 1.0, was the classical laissez-faire capitalism that lasted from 1776 until 1930. Next was Capitalism 2.0, New Deal Keynesian social capitalism created in the 1930s and extinguished in the 1970s. Its last mutation, Reagan-Thatcher market fundamentalism, culminated in the financially-dominated globalization of the past decade and triggered the recession of 2009-10. The self-destruction of Capitalism 3.0 leaves the field open for the next phase of capitalism’s evolution. Capitalism is likely to

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Essential resources for training and HR professionals KennethH. Silber and Lynn Kearny Organizational Intelligence A Guide toUnderstanding the business of your organization for HR, Training,and Performance Consulting Organizational Intelligence To succeed,those who practice as training, HPT, ID, OD, HR, or ITprofessionals must understand the "language of business," and thekey business issues and measures of the organizations we work for.Organizational Intelligence shows how to use the proven BusinessLogics Model to gather and synthesize the information needed tounderstand organizations, and how to align our work to key businessissues, explain it in appropriate language, and measure it in ameaningful way. "Kearny and Silber have taken the complexinterrelated aspects of a business and broken them into componentsand key questions that can help anyone understand the essence ofthat business." —Julie O'Mara, past president, American Society forTraining and Development "This book should be in your professio

For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of everyday life. This revised edition incorporates the latest developments in the field, including the rise of behavioral finance, the failure of carbon trading, and the growing trend of government bailouts. She also discusses such major debates as the relationship between economic statistics and presidential elections, the boundary between private choice and public action, and who is to blame for today's banking crisis.

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich with anecdotal evidence, piercing analysis, and a truly astonishing range of erudition, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is a "picture of enormous sweep and brilliant insight" (Kenneth Arrow) as well as one of the most audaciously ambitious works of history in decades.

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The lively and enthralling tale of three notoriouscounterfeiters offers insights into the makings of the Americanfinancial mind. In Moneymakers , BenTarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters whoflourished in early America, shedding fresh light on the country'sfinancial coming of age. The speculative ethos that pervades WallStreet today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the craft ofcounterfeiters who first took advantage of a turbulent Americaneconomy. Few nations have as rich a counterfeiting history as the UnitedStates. Since the colonies suffered from a chronic shortage ofprecious metals, they were the first place in the Western world touse easily forged paper bills. And until the national currency wasstandardized in the last half of the nineteenth century, the UnitedStates had a dizzying variety of banknotes, making early America acounterfeiter's paradise. In Moneymakers , Tarnoff recounts how three of America'smost successful counterfeiters-Owen

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Even as white collar jobs are outsourced to Indian firms,those of us in the developed world persist in the view that ourdistinct advantage over the developing world our ability toinnovate will remain unchallenged. After all, where are the IndianiPhones, Googles, and Viagras? But according to the latest researchby India business experts Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam, thisview is wrongheaded. In fact, though much of it is invisible to theWestern consumer, there is already a great deal of innovation inIndia such as management and process innovation, and innovations inB2B and R D, for example. Even more dramatically, Kumar andPuranam study a new, more visible, consumer-oriented kind ofinnovation emerging in India of compact, low-cost, robust, andefficient products. New products such as Tata's Nano, Going Green'sG-Wiz car, and GE's ECG machine exemplify this unique kind ofIndian innovation which is marked by robustness (more insensitiveto a harsh environment), compactness (miniaturization and systemint

A proven guide to building financial models from scratch The"Second Edition "of "Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel+ CD-ROM" provides beginning and intermediate level computer userswith step-by-step instructions on building financial models usingMicrosoft Excel 2007-the most popular spreadsheet programavailable. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Excel worksheets thattrack the course of the book and allow you to build your ownfinancial models. This comprehensive resource also covers importanttopics such as the concepts of valuation, sensitivity analysis, andcontribution margin. Offers accessible guidance on buildingfinancial models using Excel 2007 Illustrates how to integratefinancial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement,and statement of cash flows Covers the basics of building and usinga Capitalization Table Discusses how to best present a financialmodel Incorporating financial models into business decisions hasbecome an essential element of good business practice, and thisbook

Quick answers to your IFRS questions Presented in a question and answer format, The Vest Pocket IFRSprovides a brief explanation of each IFRS topic, the issuesinvolved, and the solution. Coverage includes calculations, journalentries, flowcharts outlining various options, footnotesdisclosures, and brief examples. Provides quick answers to specific questions in a Q Aformat Focuses on the most common accounting problems arising from aparticular IFRS topic Calculations, footnotes disclosures, and brief examples areprovided Other titles by Bragg: The Vest Pocket Controller, AccountingBest Practies, Sixth Edition, and Just-in-Time Accounting, ThirdEdition The first book of its kind to answer IFRS issues on the spot, TheVest Pocket IFRS gives you the quick, specific IFRS answers youneed right now.

Pomeranz is a history professor at the University of California^-Irvine and the author of The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853^-1937 (1993), an academic study that investigated the role of steam-powered transportation (among other developments) in the growth of China's Shantung Province. He is also the coauthor of the more popularly accessible The World That Trade Created (1999). Now he looks at the question of why sustained industrial growth began in northwestern Europe but not East Asia. To even ask the question can bring charges of Eurocentrism, but Pomeranz acknowledges the role of colonialism in Europe's growth. He emphasizes, though, Europe's access to America's resources as one of two contributing factors to industrial growth, the second being the widespread availability within Europe of coal as a fuel. After challenging the convention that Europe held an edge before 1800, he traces with scholarly diligence the diverging patterns of growth between Europe a

This book focuses on the 11 men, lawyers and bankers, who are responsible for the creation of Wall Street′s merger industry. It specifically concentrates on the events and personalities who dominated Wall Street during the takeover battles of the 1970s and 1980s. Lawyers Joe Flom and Marty Lipton, the godfathers of modern M A, educated bankers on takeover laws and regulations as well as tactics. Flom and Lipton were also superlative businessmen who built their own firms to become Wall Street powerhouses. The two men drew into their orbit a circle of bankers. Felix Rohatyn, Ira Harris, Steve Friedman, Geoff Boisi, Eric Gleacher and Bruce Wasserstein were close to Lipton. Robert Greenhill and Joe Perella were close to Flom. M A Titans provides insight into the culture of the different investment banks and how each of the bankers influenced the firms they worked in as they became more powerful. Some such as Gleacher, Harris, Wasserstein, Perella and Greenhill clashed with the men running their firms and