Learn IT - Books tags economic

Doing Business in the New China: A Handbook and Guide

Praeger Publishers, 2004

China's economy, despite recently weathered challenges, continues to prove attractive to foreign investors, expanding businesses, and entrepreneurs seeking global opportunities. This handbook has been written for anyone with an interest in doing business in China, including the consultants and specialists who work with global companies, but it is...

Technological Innovation Across Nations: Applied Studies of Coevolutionary Development

Springer, 2009

The book offers an interesting blend of applied state-of-the-art studies of coevolutionary development of institutions, innovation diffusion and innovative entrepreneurship, not published anywhere else. It can firstly be classified as belonging to mainstream endogenous growth studies on the country level, and secondly, to mainstream evolutionary...

Getting StartED with Netbooks

Apress, 2009

Getting StartED with Netbooks broadly targets consumers at a pivotal moment in the explosive growth of the MID/Netbook/UMPC market. We intend to create value for this group by providing an indispensable, "Consumer Reports Meets Whole Earth Catalog" sort of information aggregation.

For this project, timing and tone...

An Introduction to Socio-Finance

Springer, 2013

This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.

Two different levels of this sociological influence are considered: First, we...

Handbook of Power System Engineering

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Maintaining the reliable and efficient generation, transmission and distribution of electrical power is of the utmost importance in a world where electricity is the inevitable means of energy acquisition, transportation, and utilization, and the principle mode of communicating media. Our modern society is entirely dependent on electricity, so...

The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment

Columbia University Press, 2019

The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan’s nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one hundred years...

Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal

New Press, 2009

Why do contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere "inefficient"? Why do they feel that corporate executives deserve no less than their multimillion-dollar "compensation" packages and workers no more than their meager wages? Here is a...

Risk Management and Value Creation in Financial Institutions

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

From an empirical as well as a personal point of view, risk management in the financial industry has been one of the most exciting and most researched areas over the last decade. Depositors and regulators claim that risk management is necessary, and many banks argue that superior risk management can create (shareholder) value. However, from a...

Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Praise for Lecturing Birds On Flying

"Finally, a book taking a critical look at quantitative finance models, illuminating both their flawed fantasy assumptions as well as the uncritical use of such models on Wall Street, in many cases, leading to billion dollar losses. Pablo Triana knows both the financial...

Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response

Wharton School Publishing, 2009

Breakthrough Best Practices for Managing Extreme Risks–Both Natural and Man-Made

How to prepare for risks ranging from financial crises and climate change to pandemics and terrorism

Indispensable...

Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts

Apress, 2014

We are visual animals. But before we can see the world in its true splendor, our brains, just like our computers, have to sort and organize raw data, and then transform that data to produce new images of the world. Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts, Second Edition discusses turning many types of...

Family Wealth--Keeping It in the Family: How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations

Bloomberg Press, 2004

The landmark book that changed the way exceptional families think about their heritage, their wealth, and their legacy to future generations--now revised and expanded.

Every family, looking at the next generation, hopes to confer advantages that are more than just material and financial--to inculcate character...

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