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Dictionary of Accounting - 2nd Edition
Estes, Ralph - The MIT Press
original entries have been revised, and comprehensive coverage is provided for financial accounting, management accounting …, taxation, auditing, social accounting, information systems, computers, financial analysis, reporting standards, and statistical … methods. Among the new terms are accelerated cost recovery system (ACRS), "carve-out" accounting, debt defeasance, deep …
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Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
Parthasarathy, Shobita - The MIT Press
In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as...
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Dollar and Yen: Resolving Economic Conflict between the United States and Japan
McKinnon, Ronald I.; Ohno, Kenichi - The MIT Press
From the mid-1950s to the early 1990s, Japan grew faster than any other major industrial economy, displacing the United States in dominance of worldwide manufacturing markets. In the 1970s and 1980s, many books appeared linking the apparent decline of the United States in the world economy to...
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Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States
Fenge, Robert (contributor); Ménil, Georges de (contributor) - The MIT Press
Demographic realities will soon force developed countries to find ways to pay for longer retirements for more people. In Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, with a focus on raising the retirement age, increasing...
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Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
Amsden, Alice H. - The MIT Press
The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed a modicum of economic growth. New industries mushroomed and skilled jobs multiplied, thanks...
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From Tellers to Sellers: Changing Employment Relations in Banks
Regini, Marino (contributor); Kitay, Jim (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
Once stolid, strictly regulated organizations that epitomized lifetime employment, retail banks are now highly competitive enterprises with fragmented career structures and a new focus on sales and performance. Because banks are a major employer of labor, such changes have important implications...
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Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations
Caves, Richard E. - The MIT Press
Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations continues the pioneering research begun in Caves and Barton's Efficiency in U.S. Manufacturing Industries, extending it to the international sphere and laying the empirical groundwork for a deeper understanding of the sources of inefficiency and their cost in...
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Sustainability of Public Debt
Neck, Reinhard (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor) - The MIT Press
In recent decades, governments have built up substantial public debt, which is often accompanied by a growing public sector and fiscal policies that neglect long-term considerations. The contributors to this CESifo volume consider whether the development of public debt in the United States and...
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Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy
Driesen, David M. (contributor) - The MIT Press
The United States, once a world leader in addressing international environmental challenges, became a vigorous opponent of action on climate change over the past two decades, repudiating regulation and promoting only ineffectual voluntary actions to meet a growing global threat. Why has the...
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Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy
Driesen, David M. (contributor) - The MIT Press
The United States, once a world leader in addressing international environmental challenges, became a vigorous opponent of action on climate change over the past two decades, repudiating regulation and promoting only ineffectual voluntary actions to meet a growing global threat. Why has the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587784