Editorial Reviews
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The first third of Ms. Painter’s book is a reality check for aspiring innkeepers. The middle third is for any innkeeper that needs ideas on how to increase business. The last third, which gets the five star rating, is a well organized overview for the [...]
Pension plans in America no longer represent commitments that financially troubled companies will honor. Neither bankruptcy courts, nor Washington, nor unions have the clout to make them do so. The disposition of these plans is instead left to serve the needs of big investors. Often these investors are a company’s best hope [...]
Editorial Reviews
The marketing of organic products is viewed as a significant link between the production side of the business and the consumers, thereby facilitating the distribution of these relatively new products. It has become obvious that companies can organize organic production and influence consumers’ purchasing behaviour through the employment of appropriate [...]
Editorial Reviews
The marketing of organic products is viewed as a significant link between the production side of the business and the consumers, thereby facilitating the distribution of these relatively new products. It has become obvious that companies can organize organic production and influence consumers’ purchasing behaviour through the employment of appropriate [...]
In a world that has become increasingly complex, complicated and impersonal, it is easy to feel that each of our individual lives is relatively insignificant. But nothing could be further from the truth. Every life is unique! Each of us is created with the potential to make this world a better place because [...]
Much existing economic theory overlooks ethics. Rather than situating the market and values at separate extremes of a continuum, Ethics and the Market contends that the two are necessarily and intimately related.
This volume brings together some of the best work in the social economics tradition, with contributions on the social economy, [...]
From Publishers Weekly
“Some physicians become known as whores.” This is strong language in Kassirer’s mostly temperate but tough look at how big business is corrupting medicine—but according to Kassirer, one doctor’s wife used the word “whore” to describe her husband’s accepting high fees to promote medical [...]
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‘… Michael Santoro and Thomas Gorrie have compiled a series of essays that provide a fair, balanced and insightful examination of an increasingly troubled relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and society.’ Journal of the American Medical Association
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“Santoro and [...]
During the early decades of the 20th century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this study Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernised in the 1920s because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural and ideological apparatus of industrialism. Fitzgerald examines [...]
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‘The book is recommended to read by the executive group in the industry as well as in university, especially the managing group of R&D department.’ Shuryo Nakai, Food, Nutrition & Health
‘The book is recommended to read by the executive group in the industry as well as in [...]
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