Learn IT - Books tags economy

Financial Structure and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Comparison of Banks, Markets, and Development

MIT Press, 2001

This is the first broad cross-country assessment of the ties between financial structure -- the mix of financial instruments, institutions, and markets in a given economy -- and economic growth since Raymond Goldsmith's 1969 landmark study. Most studies focus on developed countries and compare bank-based and market-based systems. Debates over the...

Mainframe Basics for Security Professionals: Getting Started with RACF

IBM Press, 2008

Security—it comes in many forms in the IT world: physical security around a data center, user ID authentication when a transaction gets executed, access control against a database, audit records for anomaly detection. All these forms can be bought and paid for, yet, one element must be taught. That is, the human, the person who administers...

Social Web Evolution: Integrating Semantic Applications and Web 2.0 Technologies

Information Science Publishing, 2009

As semantic technologies prove their value with targeted applications, there are increasing opportunities to consider their application in social contexts for knowledge, learning, and human development.

Semantic Web and Knowledge Management has been accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase knowledge-related performance...

Principles of Microeconomics, 5th Edition

Cengage Learning, 2008

PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS continues to be the most popular and widely used text in economics classrooms today. The fifth edition features a strong revision of content in all 36 chapters while maintaining the clear, accessible writing style and precise presentation that are the hallmark of this highly respected author. Dozens of new...

The New Reality of Wall Street

McGraw-Hill, 2003

"A lively, provocative, and comprehensive economic critique and analysis of investment intended for perilous periods and likely to be of enduring value."--Lawrence A. Cunningham, Author and Professor, Boston College

"Tracing the history of investment from the South Sea Bubble to America's bubble economy of the 1990s, Don Coxe has...

Managing Information Communication Technology Investments in Successful Enterprises

Idea Group Publishing, 2007

"The digital business world is undergoing phenomenal and sometimes turbulent changes. The digital economy has also seen the rise of entirely new businesses. Traditional bricks and mortar businesses are scrambling to become e-commerce businesses simply to survive in this new era. Whether in original economy or digital, IT investment is...

Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth

Columbia University Press, 2019

Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International Monetary Fund economists show that this...

Global Political Economy: A Multi-paradigmatic Approach

Springer, 2019

This book applies a multiparadigmatic philosophical frame of analysis to the global political economy. Crossing two disciplines and lines of literature?social philosophy and global political economy?this book considers seven aspects of global political economy and discusses each aspect from four diverse paradigmatic viewpoints:...

The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value

Apress, 2014

"It's our thesis that privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution and that innovators who are emphasizing privacy as an integral part of the product life cycle are on the right track." --The authors of The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto

The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting...

Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy

Apress, 2012

"I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn's Broken Markets on their nightstands. . . . Mellyn's work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should inform the debate on overhauling the U.S. and...

FairEconomy: Crises, Culture, Competition and the Role of Law (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law)

Springer, 2013

âFairEconomy is a concept for a free and fair market economy. In response to the financial and economic crises of the past years, the authors develop fundamental ideas of how a market economy works, what rules markets need and who safeguards fairness and equal opportunity in such an economy. The book sets out the...

Freedoms, Fragility and Job Creation: Perspectives from Jammu and Kashmir, India (SpringerBriefs in Political Science)

Springer, 2018

This book argues that inequality of basic freedoms?economic, political, sociocultural?is a central cause of fragility and challenge to job creation in fragile geopolitical situations. ?It is based on extensive official data and stakeholder interactions in the conflict-ridden Indian border state of Jammu and Kashmir, and involves a case...

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