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At the request of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, RAND conducted and analyzed a strategic decisionmaking exercise to examine money laundering concerns raised by the deployment of cyberpayment systems. Participants in the exercise represented the Executive Branch, the cyberpayment and banking [...]
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Quarter analyzes the contribution of business people who use their business to develop and promote an idealistic social vision. He provides eleven case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries and an historical analysis of this phenomenon.
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JACK QUARTER is a Professor [...]
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Whether solicitors or donors, those involved in philanthropy will benefit from this analytical advisory. The authors have studied the causes that motivate women to contribute and the reasons major fund-raising organizations have not considered women as major contributors in the past. The development of [...]
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Quarter examines business owners who use their firms as laboratories for social innovation. After providing an introduction to this phenomenon in an historical perspective and discussing the 19th-century British industrialist Robert Owen, he provides ll case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries-the UK, US, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and New [...]
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Blanco’s book identifies and explains fraud in direct, no-nonsense terms… Useful to train staff to detect and thwart fraud. — Security Management, July 2001
A vital handbook to help spot and head off fraud in numerous domains, written by one of America’s premier experts on [...]
In the 18th century, Adam Smith warned of the dangers of the joint-stock company, the precursor to today’s modern corporation. Smith recognized the benefits of stock ownership–primarily in limiting risk to the investor–but he also saw these entities as a menace, with the potential for unlimited life, [...]
Social workers constantly encounter situations which present ethical problems and dilemmas; these are inseparable form social work practice. This book discusses ethical questions, such as professional conduct, confidentiality and anti-racist practice, relates them to practice and is accessible & up to date.
Order Ethical Issues in Social Work (Professional Ethics): Richard Hugman [...]
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Blanco’s book identifies and explains fraud in direct, no-nonsense terms… Useful to train staff to detect and thwart fraud. — Security Management, July 2001
A vital handbook to help spot and head off fraud in numerous domains, written by one of America’s premier experts [...]
Quarter examines business owners who use their firms as laboratories for social innovation. After providing an introduction to this phenomenon in an historical perspective and discussing the 19th-century British industrialist Robert Owen, he provides ll case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries-the UK, US, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and New Zealand. [...]
We live in a ‘bimoral’ society, in which people govern their lives by two contrasting sets of principles. On the one hand there are the principles associated with traditional morality. Although these allow a modicum of self-interest, their emphasis is on our duties and obligations to others: to treat people honestly and [...]
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