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“I cannot emphasize enough the originality of this research for Italian studies in general as well as its painstaking and virtuoso qualities. The book will stand as the unavoidable model for the scholars who eventually do the history of banking and the public debt in [...]
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This book examines the area of financial regulation in the banking sector. Editors Mayes and Wood bring together such acadmics as Charles Goodhart, Charles Calomiris and Kern Alexander whose expertise shines through this volume to provide a reference tool for researchers, students and bankers themselves which will prove invaluable.
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…”this is a fine contribution to contemporary debate on monetary policy, containing many valuable pieces of scholarship….”-EH.Net, August 2001
‘The authors in this book are all experts in this field, and their perspective is refreshingly interdisciplinary, linking political science and economics. In this book they [...]
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This timely collection presents an authoritative overview of one of the three key currencies of the second half of the twentieth century, the German Mark. Charles A.E.Goodhart reflects on the future of the Euro against the background of the success story of the Deutsche Mark. Hans Tietmeyer reviews the 50 years [...]
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“In my 15-year involvement as a telework specialist, this is one of the most comprehensive books on the subject I have ever had the pleasure to read….The authors have really done their homework and are not afraid to support their assertions with hard facts….I consider [...]
Readers of Story of a Lean Journey will empathize with the plight of Allison Manufacturing Services (AMS), a small manufacturer struggling to survive global competition and specialization to the point where it is trying to be everything to everyone. Its board of directors is disheartened with the downward spiral of profits, continuing loss [...]
Whereas most crops drive farmers apart as they compete for the best prices, the price controls on tobacco bring growers together. The result is a culture unlike any other in America, one often forgotten or overlooked as federal and state governments fight over the spoils of the tobacco settlement. Tobacco Culture describes the [...]
The semiarid plains of western Kansas and eastern Colorado are hardly the setting for an agricultural empire, but it was here that former field hand John Kriss managed G-K Farms for Wichita entrepreneur Ray Garvey. Their enterprise became one of the largest wheat operations on the plains and yielded Kriss a one million [...]
From Booklist
In 1960 Harvard economics professor Edward Mason edited a landmark book, The Corporation in Modern Society, that investigated the U.S. corporate system and its role in society. One of the contributors to that work was Kaysen, then a Harvard professor but now a professor of political [...]
From Publishers Weekly
Stock options have been much maligned recently, mainly because of fatcat executives who’ve cashed them in for millions, before the share price tanks and average shareholders suffer. But stock options can be a very good thing if handled correctly, say Rutgers University professors Blasi and [...]
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