Author: Margaret M. Blair
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This report suggests ways in which government and business can work together to improve the reliability and quality of information about intangible assets such as intellectual capital, research and development, brand names, and human capital. Blair is professor at the Georgetown University Law Cente
Unseen Wealth
Author: Margaret M. Blair
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This report suggests ways in which government and business can work together to improve the reliability and quality of information about intangible assets such as intellectual capital, research and development, brand names, and human capital. Blair is professor at the Georgetown University Law Cente
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This report suggests ways in which government and business can work together to improve the reliability and quality of information about intangible assets such as intellectual capital, research and development, brand names, and human capital. Blair is professor at the Georgetown University Law Cente
Big Dirty Money
Author: Jennifer Taub
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879995
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
“Blood-boiling…with quippy analysis…Taub proposes straightforward fixes and ways everyday people can get involved in taking white-collar criminals to task.”—San Francisco Chronicle How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful—and how we can stop it. There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%. But if you're rich and commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, lie in court, obstruct justice, bribe a public official, launder money, or cheat on your taxes, you're likely to get off scot-free (or even win an election). When caught and convicted, such as for bribing their kids' way into college, high-class criminals make brief stops in minimum security "Club Fed" camps. Operate the scam from the executive suite of a giant corporation, and you can prosper with impunity. Consider Wells Fargo & Co. Pressured by management, employees at the bank opened more than three million bank and credit card accounts without customer consent, and charged late fees and penalties to account holders. When CEO John Stumpf resigned in "shame," the board of directors granted him a $134 million golden parachute. This is not victimless crime. Big Dirty Money details the scandalously common and concrete ways that ordinary Americans suffer when the well-heeled use white collar crime to gain and sustain wealth, social status, and political influence. Profiteers caused the mortgage meltdown and the prescription opioid crisis, they've evaded taxes and deprived communities of public funds for education, public health, and infrastructure. Taub goes beyond the headlines (of which there is no shortage) to track how we got here (essentially a post-Enron failure of prosecutorial muscle, the growth of "too big to jail" syndrome, and a developing implicit immunity of the upper class) and pose solutions that can help catch and convict offenders.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879995
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
“Blood-boiling…with quippy analysis…Taub proposes straightforward fixes and ways everyday people can get involved in taking white-collar criminals to task.”—San Francisco Chronicle How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful—and how we can stop it. There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%. But if you're rich and commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, lie in court, obstruct justice, bribe a public official, launder money, or cheat on your taxes, you're likely to get off scot-free (or even win an election). When caught and convicted, such as for bribing their kids' way into college, high-class criminals make brief stops in minimum security "Club Fed" camps. Operate the scam from the executive suite of a giant corporation, and you can prosper with impunity. Consider Wells Fargo & Co. Pressured by management, employees at the bank opened more than three million bank and credit card accounts without customer consent, and charged late fees and penalties to account holders. When CEO John Stumpf resigned in "shame," the board of directors granted him a $134 million golden parachute. This is not victimless crime. Big Dirty Money details the scandalously common and concrete ways that ordinary Americans suffer when the well-heeled use white collar crime to gain and sustain wealth, social status, and political influence. Profiteers caused the mortgage meltdown and the prescription opioid crisis, they've evaded taxes and deprived communities of public funds for education, public health, and infrastructure. Taub goes beyond the headlines (of which there is no shortage) to track how we got here (essentially a post-Enron failure of prosecutorial muscle, the growth of "too big to jail" syndrome, and a developing implicit immunity of the upper class) and pose solutions that can help catch and convict offenders.
Money
Author: Nico Stehr
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000690725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Since the publication of Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money more than a century ago, social science has primarily considered money a medium of exchange. This new book treats money as a more inclusive social concept that has profoundly influenced the emergence of modern society. Money is also a moral and political category. It communicates prices and thus embodies innumerable evaluations and judgments of objects and services, of social relationships and associations. At the same time, modern societies are undergoing fundamental transformations in which money assumes an ever-important role, while banking and financial services constitute the new primary sector of modern service economies. In this book, the authors trace the transformational scope of monetarization and financialization along the four classical productive forces—land, capital, labor, and knowledge—and evaluate the consequences of an irrepressible urge to quantify and monetarize almost everything social. What happens to a society in which the tangible products of the real economy lose their preeminent status, and everything is judged purely according to its economic value? The authors identify an increasing disconnect between market prices and social values with serious social, political, economic, and environmental consequences.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000690725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Since the publication of Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money more than a century ago, social science has primarily considered money a medium of exchange. This new book treats money as a more inclusive social concept that has profoundly influenced the emergence of modern society. Money is also a moral and political category. It communicates prices and thus embodies innumerable evaluations and judgments of objects and services, of social relationships and associations. At the same time, modern societies are undergoing fundamental transformations in which money assumes an ever-important role, while banking and financial services constitute the new primary sector of modern service economies. In this book, the authors trace the transformational scope of monetarization and financialization along the four classical productive forces—land, capital, labor, and knowledge—and evaluate the consequences of an irrepressible urge to quantify and monetarize almost everything social. What happens to a society in which the tangible products of the real economy lose their preeminent status, and everything is judged purely according to its economic value? The authors identify an increasing disconnect between market prices and social values with serious social, political, economic, and environmental consequences.
Ready for Anything
Author: Stuart Corrigan
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1908009918
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
How to think creatively about the interconnected problems we face (climate, health, energy, governance, economy, etc.) without being overwhelmed by their complexity.
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1908009918
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
How to think creatively about the interconnected problems we face (climate, health, energy, governance, economy, etc.) without being overwhelmed by their complexity.
Wealth and Welfare States
Author: Irwin Garfinkel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019957930X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019957930X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.
Levels of Living
Author: Henry Frederick Cope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized
Author: Per L. Bylund
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739194585
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book illuminates the real effects of regulations on people’s everyday lives. It traces the effects of regulations on an economy by working through the ripple effects of changes. In so doing, the book provides a fundamental understanding for the economy as an organism rather than a machine, and enlightens the reader by offering a model for understanding the economy and market. Regulations, which are restrictions placed on the working of the economy, have consequences, both intended and unintended, direct and indirect. While the direct effects are well understood, the indirect effects are often overlooked because they don’t fit with the machine understanding of an economy. More to the point, this book emphasizes the real effects of regulation and market change on individual actors, thereby stressing how the economy works to provide an individual with the options that exist in choice situations. We draft a new definition of prosperity and well-being which focuses on the individual’s access to valuable alternatives. From this point of view, the real implications of regulation are traced step by step, following the logic of exchange and the effects on individual actors rather than the economy as a whole.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739194585
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book illuminates the real effects of regulations on people’s everyday lives. It traces the effects of regulations on an economy by working through the ripple effects of changes. In so doing, the book provides a fundamental understanding for the economy as an organism rather than a machine, and enlightens the reader by offering a model for understanding the economy and market. Regulations, which are restrictions placed on the working of the economy, have consequences, both intended and unintended, direct and indirect. While the direct effects are well understood, the indirect effects are often overlooked because they don’t fit with the machine understanding of an economy. More to the point, this book emphasizes the real effects of regulation and market change on individual actors, thereby stressing how the economy works to provide an individual with the options that exist in choice situations. We draft a new definition of prosperity and well-being which focuses on the individual’s access to valuable alternatives. From this point of view, the real implications of regulation are traced step by step, following the logic of exchange and the effects on individual actors rather than the economy as a whole.
Where Your Treasure Is
Author: James Reapsome
Publisher: Shaw Books
ISBN: 0877880344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Readers will find out what God has to say about how they should earn, spend, and give away their money.
Publisher: Shaw Books
ISBN: 0877880344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Readers will find out what God has to say about how they should earn, spend, and give away their money.
Levels of Living
Author: Henry Frederick Cope
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Through the Land of the Serb is a memoir of the British writer and traveler Mary Edith Durham. In this book, she describes her journey through Montenegro and Serbia in the early 1910s. Edith Durham later became known as the Queen of the Albanian Highlands for her love of this land and its vivid description in her literary works.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Through the Land of the Serb is a memoir of the British writer and traveler Mary Edith Durham. In this book, she describes her journey through Montenegro and Serbia in the early 1910s. Edith Durham later became known as the Queen of the Albanian Highlands for her love of this land and its vivid description in her literary works.
Invisible Capital
Author: Chris Rabb
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459626176
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Writer, consultant and speaker Chris Rabb coined the term invisible capital to represent the unseen forces that dramatically impact entrepreneurial viability when a good attitude, a great idea, and hard work simply aren't enough. In his book, Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity, Rabb puts forth concrete and...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459626176
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Writer, consultant and speaker Chris Rabb coined the term invisible capital to represent the unseen forces that dramatically impact entrepreneurial viability when a good attitude, a great idea, and hard work simply aren't enough. In his book, Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity, Rabb puts forth concrete and...