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To most people, the word "economics" sounds like homework. In Visible Hand, Wall Street Journal op-ed editor Matthew Hennessey brings basic economic principles vividly to life in plain English, without resort to numbers, graphs, or jargon. This isn't Fed policy or the stock market. This is the essential stuff: supply and demand, incentives and tradeoffs, scarcity and innovation, work and leisure. A teenager should be able to discuss these things intelligently....
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Authoritarian regimes have made a concerted effort to shrink the space available for civil society by restricting access to domestic decision-making, transparency, and accountability. An ultimate power ruler is known as an autocrat. A democracy's three branches of government - executive, judicial, and legislative - serve as an essential check on an executive leader's unchecked and uncontested power. The executive branch has grown at the expense of...
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Everything you need to know about Forex, Options and Day Trading.
Learn all the basics that will allow you to start trading on FOREX markets. Things such as -Trading Language. Forex Brokers. Your Forex Account. Currency Pairs. What Moves Currency Pairs. Fundamental Analysis. Technical Analysis. PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE!
64) The Fairshare Model: Reimagining Capitalism at the DNA Level-A Performance Based Capital Structur
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"...Pay-for-performance might sound like it's just too far out.... is book shows how it can be relevant, what it would take, and why it would make a difference."-Gordon Feller, San Francisco, Board Member of four VC-funded tech start-upsThe Fairshare Model is an idea for a performance-based capital structure that redefines capitalism at the DNA level, where ownership interests are set. When used to raise venture capital via an IPO, it balances and...
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We are called the human race. We are not in a human race. Take your time, learn, adapt, grow. Educate, meditate, gravitate, replicate. Planting the seeds is easy, but you won't grow if you stay in the dark...The bamboo plant takes around three years before it becomes established. It spends all that time growing the roots, the foundations. The bamboo grows its limbs and canes for sixty days at a time, getting bigger and bigger each spring, all the...
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Bulk Vending – Hit The Quarter Jackpot documents our first years in bulk vending. We experienced and learned a lot in our first years in bulk vending: buying new and used machines, using location services and buying existing routes. We hope that what we have learned will help anyone with any level of experience in bulk vending. We explain how we got into bulk vending, our purchases of new and used machines and purchasing existing routes. We go...
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For centuries, powerful empires have been built by ambitious individuals who sought to gain wealth, power, and influence. This has been true of both the ancient world and the modern world. What is most fascinating, however, is the story of a powerful corporate empire that was built up and then destroyed in a relatively short period of time.
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The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes...
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Team Building and Group Dynamic Management give to management, managers, team leaders, and consultants practical guidance on how to build and manage teams. Individuals wishing to build successful teams in today's complex, highly interconnected, and globally competitive environments. This book helps you put theory into practice.
An effective team promise of higher productivity and greater problem-solving ability and Maximize team productivity by encouraging...
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Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "The Basics" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings have created this series. It is a series of small quick and easy to read and understand booklets, designed to give you a quick idea on a subject. Instead of spending a lot of time...
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"Communist Utopia or Dystopia? Examining the Realities of Ideals" is a meticulously researched and thought-provoking exploration of communism, from its utopian origins to its tumultuous history and ultimate legacy. This comprehensive book covers key aspects of the communist story, including:Utopian Visions and Influential Thinkers: Explore the early utopian ideals and the foundational works of Marx and Engels.Core Principles: Delve into the key principles...
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You will never run out of problems...and that's GREAT news! If you've got 99 problems, opportunities to profit isn't one of them. This book will walk you through a step-by-step system to turn your past problems into profits that you can spend to help you solve today's problems. No marketing budget? No problem. No niche? No problem. No website? No problem. No social media presence? No problem. This book is going to teach you how to get up and running...
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Qu'est-ce que le capitalisme? Cette question, l'histoire la pose chaque fois que ce système entre en crise, étalantau grand jour ses absurdités. Pour y répondre, il faut en comprendre les origines. Voilà ce que propose Ellen Meiksins Wood dans cet ouvrage initialement paru en 2009.
Personne ne niera que le capitalisme a permis à l'humanité d'accomplir des avancées notables sur le plan matériel. Mais il est devenu aujourd'hui manifeste que...
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¿Qué clase de animal es el capitalismo y cuál es su dieta para mantenerse con vida? Si respondemos esta pregunta, dice Nancy Fraser, entenderemos de verdad la crisis de nuestro tiempo y descubriremos el modo de matar de hambre a la bestia. Para eso, no nos alcanzan los modelos teóricos heredados del marxismo, que tienden a concebir el capitalismo como un sistema económico basado en la explotación de la fuerza de trabajo y en la producción con...
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The new American Dream is doing work you love with the freedom and income to live the life you want. Thanks to the Internet, anyone can launch a business with little or no start-up capital or technical expertise.
The rules have changed. The American Dream is no longer the "corner office." It's a successful lifestyle business you can run from your home, the beach, or wherever you desire. In this book, lifestyle entrepreneurship expert Scott Fox teaches...
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"This startling, vital book deserves our attention." --San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand. The United States federal government spent over 10 billion dollars on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves,...
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Journalist Ida Tarbell wrote her exposé of the monopolistic practices of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company as a serialized work in McClure's Magazine before the appearance of the first book edition of 1904. The breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 into thirty-four "baby Standards" can be attributed in large part to Tarbell's masterly investigative reporting, often labeled as muckraking. Ida Tarbell's childhood experiences were the inspiration...
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Entrepreneurs, business owners, investors: here is the rare, no-nonsense advice you haven't heard-straight from Paychex founder and billionaire philanthropist Tom Golisano-to overcome the most common (and some not so common) obstacles to live a successful life.
Watching his father struggle to support his family through bigotry and other challenges in being an Italian immigrant, Tom Golisano learned early on the value of thinking outside the box and...
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La "big picture" pour monter votre business en toute simplicité.
Vous vous morfondez dans votre vie professionnelle actuelle? Vous rêvez de démarrer votre propre affaire mais vous ne savez pas comment vous y prendre? Ce petit manuel "101 idées utiles pour..." va vous aider! Découvrez des idées simples, testées et éprouvées, des ressources simples qui vont vous montrer l'image d'ensemble et vraiment vous aider :-)
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