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Environmental Economics and Sustainability
Author Siqi Zheng , Brian Chi-ang Lin
Environmental Economics and Sustainability presents a collection of peer-reviewed research articles contributed by international experts that reveal the current state of our knowledge in the field of environmental economics.Presents the latest research results on a....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Compensation as a Strategic Asset
Author Coral L. Rice , August J. Aquila
Everyone wants to work at a successful firm where the rewards are both financial and professional. What makes the top firms successful is not merely superior execution, though that's a good place to start, what makes them stand out is excellence at hiring and kee....
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A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation
Author Harry M. Markowitz , David Turkington , Mark P. Kritzman , William Kinlaw
The authors' goal in writing this book is twofold: to describe several important innovations that address key challenges to asset allocation and to dispel certain fallacies about asset allocation. Section I covers the fundamentals of asset allocation, section II pr....
Release Date 2017/05 -
International Economics, Second Edition
Author Paul Torelli
Today’s news media displays an intense fascination with the global economy—and for good reason. The degree of worldwide economic integration is unprecedented. Rising globalization has lifted living standards and reduced poverty, while foreign markets an....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Author Scott D Miller
Changing demographics, impending changes in taxation, and challenging economic conditions have made ESOPs a creative strategy to ensure organization survival and success. This publication defines issues that must be fully considered before installing an ESOP, and h....
Release Date 2017/05 -
The Accelerating TechnOnomic Medium ('ATOM')
Author Kartik Gada
The accelerating pace and diffusion of technological change has taken control of an ever-growing fraction of the world economy. This fraction is being assimilated into a different set of economic fundamentals, such as the rapid and exponential price deflation inher....
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Tips & Tricks for Excel-Based Financial Modeling, Volume II
Author M.A. Mian
The purpose of this work is to show some advanced concepts related to Excel based financial modelling. Microsoft Excel™ is a very powerful tool and most of the time we do not utilize its full potential. Of course, any advanced concepts require the basic knowl....
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Economics and the Environment, 8th Edition
Author Stephen Polasky , Eban S. Goodstein
TRY (FREE for 14 days), OR RENT this title: www.wileystudentchoice.com Climate change has morphed from an environmental problem into a challenge to civilization itself. As CO2 levels have continued to rise, the 8th Edition of this book is now more relevant than eve....
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Author John Hope Bryant
True power in this world comes from economic independence, but too many people have too much month left at the end of their money. John Hope Bryant, founder and CEO of Operation HOPE, illuminates the path toward liberation that is hiding in plain sight. His me....
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WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Author Tim O'Reilly
Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future—what he calls the "next economy."Tim O'Reilly's genius is to identify and explain emerging technologies with world shaking pote....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Grow Your Global Markets: A Handbook for Successful Market Entry
Author Raymond A. Hopkins
Use this comprehensive primer to simplify exporting, discover exportable products and services, and determine and select the best target market entry alternative while ensuring that you get paid. US small- to medium-size business owners (SMEs with less than 500 emp....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being
Author Satya R. Chakravarty
“An indispensable reference for all researchers interested in the measurement of social welfare. . .”—François Bourguignon, Emeritus Professor at Paris School of Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank. “. . .a detailed, insightful, and pedagogical pre....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Marine Tourism, Climate Change, and Resilience in the Caribbean, Volume II
Author Samantha Hogenson , Martha Honey , Kreg Ettenger
As the nations of the Caribbean respond to the emerging effects of climate change and prepare for those to come, tourism has the potential to either worsen or mitigate these impacts. In this book we look specifically at marine recreation and how its various sectors....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Author Carrie Foster
What if organization's pursued something other than an economic agenda? It may appear on the surface that this is a na•ve question, but it is a fundamental question about the role of organizations in our society. Why has the capitalist profit and neo-liber....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Economics of Sustainable Development
Author Anup Sinha , Runa Sarkar
We attempt to sensitize the business practitioner and the public-policy planner, as well as students of business management and the social sciences, to the concept of sustainable development in an easily comprehensible manner. This book analyzes sustainable develop....
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Econometrics for Daily Lives, Volume I
Author Tam Bang Vu
Econometrics for Daily Lives helps you collect data and analyze the relationship among numerous factors facing you in your everyday activities. This first volume comprises two parts. Part I reviews basic statistics and introduces the most elementary topics in econo....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Major Sociocultural Trends Shaping the Contemporary World
Author K.H. Yeganeh
The current volume offers a concise and analytical portrait of the contemporary world. The author encompasses concepts and theories from multiple disciplines notably sociology, anthropology, international relations, and economics to examine the major sociocultural ....
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Size, Causes and Consequences of the Underground Economy
Author Friedrich Schneider
Bringing together top international researchers this book provides a worldwide coverage of underground economic activities. It presents estimates of the underground economy for 145 countries - the most comprehensive ever undertaken; an in-depth examination of the u....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Organizational Design in Business
Author Carrie Foster
This book offers an alternative to the industrial revolutionary paradigm of organization that we still live and work with today and instead argues that the environmental and economic complexity of the digital age require an evolutionary leap in the purpose, design,....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Econometrics for Daily Lives, Volume II
Author Tam Bang Vu
This volume deals with advanced topics and specific problems in applied econometrics. Part III introduces advanced topics in econometric theory and contains three chapters. Chapter 7 deals with modeling issues and some phenomena that occur when the dataset you have....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Erika Gomes-Gonçalves , Silvia Mayoral , Henryk Gzyl
This volume deals with two complementary topics. On one hand the book deals with the problem of determining the the probability distribution of a positive compound random variable, a problem which appears in the banking and insurance industries, in many areas of op....
Release Date 2018/02 -
The Economics and Econometrics of the Energy-Growth Nexus
Author Angeliki Menegaki
The Economics and Econometrics of the Energy-Growth Nexus recognizes that research in the energy-growth nexus field is heterogeneous and controversial. To make studies in the field as comparable as possible, chapters cover aggregate energy and disaggregate energy c....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Electricity from Sunlight, 2nd Edition
Author Paul A. Lynn , Vasilis M. Fthenakis
Praised for its visual appeal, conversational style and clear explanation of complex ideas with minimal mathematics, Electricity from Sunlight has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect advances in the global PV market, economics and installed capacity.Key ....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Sir Richard Branson , Sheryl Sandberg , Marc Kielburger , Holly Branson , Craig Kiel
Your guide to ‘Business with Benefits'... for All!Purpose and profit are powerful human motivators. Combined, this power can change the world.WEconomy is your guidebook to the greatest evolution in business since the assembly line. Discover the secret to achievi....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Economic Disturbances and Equilibrium in an Integrated Global Economy
Author Victor A. Canto
Economic Disturbances and Equilibrium in an Integrated Global Economy: Investment Insights and Policy Analysis helps readers develop a framework for analyzing economic events and make better, more consistent decisions. Victor Canto presents the theoretical building....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Author Jan Chvosta , A. Ford Ramsey , Barry K. Goodwin
Using Applied Econometrics with SAS: Modeling Demand, Supply, and Risk, you will quickly master SAS applications for implementing and estimating standard models in the field of econometrics. This guide introduces you to the major theories underpinning applied deman....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Counterintelligence for Corporate Environments, Volume II
Author Dylan van Genderen
Counterintelligence for Corporate Environments, Volume I provides the reader with unique, comprehensive, and efficient methodologies that will change and improve corporate security and operational models to the highest degree possible. Through the extensive and sop....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Humanistic Management: Social Entrepreneurship and Mindfulness, Volume II
Author Dr. Robert J Blomme , Dr. Jyoti Bachani , Dr. Michael Pirson
Humanistic management agenda is to protect human dignity and promote societal well-being. The currently dominant theories prioritize economistic goals of profits and productivity at the cost of threatening sustainability. A humanistic perspective offers an alternat....
Release Date 2018/06 -
HBR Guide to Changing Your Career
Author Harvard Business Review
Your next act starts now.You're ready for something new, but it's hard to start over. Just the idea of trading the security you have now for the unknown or throwing away the education and time you've invested in your current career can plunge you into a swirl of....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Constructed Wetlands for Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Author Alexandros I. Stefanakis
A groundbreaking book on the application of the economic and environmentally effective treatment of industrial wastewater Constructed Wetlands for Industrial Wastewater Treatment contains a review of the state-of-the-art applications of constructed wetland technolo....
Release Date 2018/08