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。

Based on the author's graduate course taught over many years inseveral physics departments, this book takes a 'reductionist' viewof statistical mechanics, while describing the main ideas andmethods underlying its applications. It implicitly assumes that thephysics of complex systems as observed is connected to fundamentalphysical laws represented at the molecular level by Newtonianmechanics or quantum mechanics. Organised into three parts, thefirst section describes the fundamental principles of equilibriumstatistical mechanics. The next section describes applications tophases of increasing density and order: gases, liquids and solids;it also treats phase transitions. The final section deals withdynamics, including a careful account of hydrodynamic theories andlinear response theory. This textbook is suitable for a one yeargraduate course in statistical mechanics for physicists, chemistsand chemical engineers. Problems are included following eachchapter, with solutions to selected problems provided.

A comprehensive guide to understanding today's global economyfrom the author of the bestselling A Beginner's Guide to the WorldEconomy. While reporting on today's world, business and mainstream mediaalike use terms and mention trends that even the savviest consumermay find baffling. In his latest book, Randy Charles Epping usescompelling narratives and insightful analogies to clearly andconcisely explain the rapidly changing way business is done in thetwenty-first century, without a single chart or graph. Epping defines key ideas and commonly used words and phraseslike: Carbon footprint WTO Economy of scale NAFTA Outsourcing Epping also illustrates how central banks help navigate globalcrises and drive the global economy, discusses the benefits ofGreen Economics, shows how trade wars can be avoided, and explainsthe virtual economy, where multimillion dollar transactions takeplace in the blink of an eye. Complete with 89 easy-to-master tools for

This unique text uses Microsoft Excel workbooks toinstruct students. In addition to explaining fundamental conceptsin microeconomic theory, readers acquire a great deal ofsophisticated Excel skills and gain the practical mathematicsneeded to succeed in advanced courses. In addition to theinnovative pedagogical approach, the book features explicitlyrepeated use of a single central methodology, the economicapproach. Students learn how economists think and how to think likean economist. With concrete, numerical examples and novel, engagingapplications, interest for readers remains high as live graphs anddata respond to manipulation by the user. Finally, clear writingand active learning are features sure to appeal to modernpractitioners and their students. The website accompanying the textis found at www.depauw.edu/learn/microexcel .

Why do so many global strategies fail—despite companies’ powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Seduced by market size, the illusion of a borderless, “flat” world, and the allure of similarities, firms launch one-size-fits-all strategies. But cross-border differences are larger than we often assume, explains Pankaj Ghemawat in Redefining Global Strategy. Most economic activity—including direct investment, tourism, and communication—happens locally, not internationally. In this “semiglobalized” world, one-size-fits-all strategies don’t stand a chance. Companies must instead reckon with cross-border differences. Ghemawat shows you how—by providing tools for: Assessing the cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic differences between countries at the industry level and deciding which ones merit attention. Tracking the implications of particular border-crossing moves for your company’s ability to create value. Creating superior perfo

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

"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other studyknown to man." -- Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson(1946) Every day economic claims are used by the media or inconversation to support social and political positions. Those onthe left tend to distrust economists, seeing them as friends of theright. There is something to this, since professional economistsare almost all keen supporters of the free market. Yet whilefactions on the right naturally embrace economists, they also tendto overestimate the effect of their support on free-marketpolicies. The result is widespread confusion. In fact, virtuallyall commonly held beliefs about economics--whether espoused bypolitical activists, politicians, journalists or taxpayers--arejust plain wrong. Professor Joseph Heath wants to raise our economic literacyand empower us with new ideas. In Economics WithoutIllusions , he draws on everyday examples to skewer the sixfavourite economic fallacies of the right, followed by impaling thesix

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。

The book is... timely, and if it will irritate some of theexperts it will also help bring some neglected issues and theoriesinto public focus. This ... has always been Mrs. Jacobs' mostnotable taient and her most constructive contribution.

There was a time (the 1980s and 1990s) when it seemed easy forexecutives to please Wall Street. That hasn't been true for awhile. The stock market has become an unforgiving place, anddealing with dissatisfied investors part of the daily job of CEOs,CFOs and investor-relations executives. There are right ways andmany, many wrong ways to face an angry mob. Nobody knows thembetter than Baruch Lev. He's done the research. He's analyzed thedata. And he has developed a set of authoritative, often surprisinginstructions for dealing intelligently with Wall Street. This booktells what to do when your company disappoints investors, getsslammed by financial analysts, or finds itself mired in lawsuitsall of which have a negative effect not just on stock prices but onemployee recruitment (who wants to work for a losing company?),consumer behavior (who wants to buy a major product of a failingfirm?), and supply chain development (who wants to partner with atroubled enterprise?). Stripped of cliches and emotional arg

In 1997, a groundbreaking McKinsey study exposed the "war fortalent" as a strategic business challenge and a critical driver ofcorporate performance. Then, when the dot-com bubble burst and theeconomy cooled, many assumed the war for talent was over. It'snot. Now the authors of the original study reveal that, because ofenduring economic and social forces, the war for talent willpersist for the next two decades. McKinsey Company consultants Ed Michaels, HelenHandfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod argue that winning the war forleadership talent is about much more than frenzied recruitingtactics. It's about the timeless principles of attracting,developing, and retaining highly talented managers-applied in boldnew ways. And it's about recognizing the strategic importance ofhuman capital because of the enormous value that better talentcreates. Fortified by five years of in-depth research on how companiesmanage leadership talent-including surveys of 13,000 executives atmore than 120 companies

Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in thewords of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge toconventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, andhumor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means(and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards ofindividual and societal complacence about economic inequity. While"affluent society" and "conventional wisdom" (first used in thisbook) have entered the vernacular, the message of the book has notbeen so widely embraced--reason enough to rediscover The AffluentSociety.

This book expands our understanding of the distinctive policyanalysis produced between 1919 and 1950 by economists and othersocial scientists for four major international organizations: theLeague of Nations, the International Labor Organization, the Bankfor International Settlements, and the United Nations. Thesepractitioners included some of the twentieth century's eminenteconomists, including Cassel, Haberler, Kalecki, Meade,Morgenstern, Nurkse, Ohlin, Tinbergen, and Viner. Irving Fisher andJohn Maynard Keynes also influenced the work of theseorganizations. Topics covered include: the relationship betweeneconomics and policy analysis in international organizations;business cycle research; the role and conduct of monetary policy;public investment; trade policy; social and labor economics;international finance; the coordination problem in internationalmacroeconomic policy; full employment economics; and therich-country-poor-country debate. Normative agendas underlyinginternational political economy are

In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, BookerPrize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority ofa brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelistto present a gripping account of the Irish diaspora. The nineteenth century saw Ireland lose half of its population tofamine, emigration, or deportation to penal colonies inAustralia--often for infractions as common as stealing food. Amongthe victims of this tragedy were Thomas Keneally's own forebearers,and they were his inspiration to tell the story of the Irish whostruggled and ultimately triumphed in Australia and North America.Relying on rare primary sources--including personal letters, courttran*s, ship manifests, and military documents--Keneallyoffers new and important insights into the impact of the Irish inexile. The result is a vivid saga of heroes and villains, fromGreat Famine protesters to American Civil War generals to greatorators and politicians.

This book explains how changing technology and economizingbehaviour induce vast changes in productivity, resource allocation,labour utilization, and patterns of living. Economic growth is seenas a process by which businesses, regimes, countries, and the wholeworld pass through distinct epochs, each one emerging from itspredecessor, each one creating the conditions for its successor.Viewed from a long-run perspective, growth must be characterized asan explosive process, marked by turbulent transitions in social andpolitical life as societies adapt to new opportunities, the demiseof old ways of living, and to the vast increase and redistributionof human populations. The book is based on a synthesis of classicaleconomics and contemporary concepts of adaptation and economicevolution. Although it is based on analytical methods, the text hasbeen stripped of all equations and with few exceptions is devoid oftechnical jargon.

A collection of Peter Ferdinand Drucker's legendary essays onbusiness, management, economics and society, written between 1972and 1980. They reflect an international viewpoint and are concernedwith what Drucker called "social ecology" and especiallyinstitutions - governments, organized science, business orschools. This hardcover release is being published as part of the HarvardBusiness Press Drucker Library.

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.

In this short, powerful book, multimillionaire and bestsellingauthor Steven K. Scott reveals King Solomon’s breakthroughstrategies to achieve a life of financial success and personalfulfillment. Steve Scott flunked out of every job he held in his first six yearsafter college. He couldn’t succeed no matter how hard he tried.Then Dr. Gary Smalley challenged him to study the book of Proverbs,promising that in doing so he would achieve greater success andhappiness than he had ever known. That promise came true, makingScott a millionaire many times over. In The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, Scott reveals Solomon’s key forwinning every race, explains how to resolve conflicts and turnenemies into allies, and discloses the five qualities essential tobecoming a valued and admired person at work and in your personallife. Scott illustrates each of Solomon’s insights and strategieswith anecdotes about his personal successes and failures, as wellas those of such extraordinary people as Benjamin Franklin, ThomasEdis

This book is a collection of essays written in honor ofProfessor Peter C. B. Phillips of Yale University by some of hisformer students. The essays, which were originally publishedin2006, analyze a number of important issues in econometrics, all ofwhich Professor Phillips has directly influenced through hisseminal scholarly contribution as well as through his remarkableachievements as a teacher. The essays are organized to cover topicsin higher-order asymptotics, deficient instruments, nonstationary,LAD and quantile regression, and nonstationary panels. These topicsspan both theoretical and applied approaches and are intended foruse by professionals and advanced graduate students.