MACROECONOMICS

We have designed this book to be a supplement to Robert J. Barro’s Macroeconomics, which is the textbook that is used in introductory macroeconomics courses at the University of Chicago. In teaching these courses, we have found that Barro’s treatment of the subject does not make use of the mathematical skills of our students. In particular, Barro relies almost exclusively on economic in…

Hidden Financial Risk

I started writing articles on such topics in the 1980s and published them in obscure academic journals. Then in January 1996 I began writing the “Spirit of Accounting” col- umn for Accounting Today with my friend Paul Miller. I needed a break in 2000, so I quit the column; Paul Bahnson joined Paul Miller on it. After a year’s respite, I found myself writing “Accounting Annotations” fo…

Strategic Human Resources Management: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Database Nation

Today's war on privacy is intimately related to the dramatic advances in technology we've seen in recent years. As we'll see time and again in this book, unrestrained technology ends privacy. Video cameras observe personal moments; computers store personal facts; and communications networks make personal information widely available throughout the world. Although some specialty technology may b…

Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance

Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions provides a valuable resource for academicians and practitioners by addressing the most pressing issues facing cyber-security from both a national and global perspective. This reference source takes a holistic approach to cyber security and information assurance by treating both the technical as well as manag…

ADHD in Adults

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The New World of Economics

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MANAGING RISK AND CREATING VALUE WITH MICRO FINANCE

when World Bank staff members meet with representatives of a country’s microfi nance sector, microfi nance institution (MFI) managers often assume that they will receive some kind of new fi nancing—credit lines, guarantees, or grants—to support their development eff orts. Th ey do not expect the Bank to provide technical assistance or best-practice information. More recently, however,…

Water Resource Management

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CENTRAL BANKING WITHOUT CENTRAL MONEY

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Communications and Technology for Violence Prevention

The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to a recognition that violence is preventable. As evidence-based interventions increasingly demonstrate measurable impacts on the prevalence of violence, those who work in the field of violence prevention face the challenge of finding new ways to disseminate in…

Cisco Router Configuration Handbook

There are many sources of information and documentation for configuring Cisco networking devices, but few provide a quick and portable solution for networking professionals. This book is designed to provide a quick-and-easy reference guide for a wide range of commonly used features that can be configured on Cisco routers. In essence, the subject matter from an entire bookshelf of Cisco IOS Soft…

THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

In order to enable the House to adopt the most proper means for regulating the British government in India, and for promoting the happiness of the natives who live under its authority or influence, your Committee hold it expedient to collect into distinct points of view the circumstances by which that government appears to them to be most essentially disordered, and to explain fully the princip…

Business Risk A Practical guide for Board Members

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Food Processing

Over the past couple of decades, the role of the engineer in the food industry has gained considerable prominence. The food processing industry is extremely complex, diverse and evolved. With a consumer market becoming evermore sophisticated and demanding, there is a continual need for process innovation. Even allowing for the demands of the consumer for product consistency and quality, the con…

SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT

Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed of the papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it is not worth while to tell thee. These, which remain, I hope are sufficient to establish the throne of our great restorer, our present King William; to make good his title, in the consent of t…

Extending Self - Esteem Theory and Research

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Occupational Health and Safety Management

Risk management may be defined as the reduction and control of the adverse effects of the risks to which an organization is exposed. Risks include all aspects of accidental losses that may lead to any wastage of the organization's, society’s and environmental assets. These assets cover personnel, materials, machinery, procedures, products, money, and natural resources: soil, water, energy, na…

MUNCHAUSEN'S SYNDROME BY PROXY: Current Issues in Assessment, Treatment and R…

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ADOPTION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MIS) IN LAUTECH TEACHING HOSPITAL…

This paper describes primarily the advantages abound in the introduction of Management Information Systems (MIS) into the hospital library information service delivery. The ‘tool’ if adopted will in no small measure aid the achievement of effective and efficient information management in the hospital under review. Using health systems research methodology, it was found that there is the nee…

MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT: CORNERSTONE OF AVIATION SAFETY CULTURE

Knowledge of cultural influences can be leveraged to mitigate risk, to contain costs and to improve corporate effectiveness. Surprisingly, these aspects of organizational behaviour are often overlooked or their effect underestimated. Management commitment may be the single most important determinant of airline safety. Although further research linking measured management commitment and safet…

Relative Deprivation: Specification, Development, and Integration

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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

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Accounting and Routing in the Internet

There has been discussion of proposals to engage in the collection of traffic flow measurement information for monitoring and to support charging and accounting. Some suggest that network interconnection points, such as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) connections between networks operated by administrations and operating agencies authorized by national governments, would be suitable points to…

THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION

After this event there was contention for a long time between the upper classes and the populace. Not only was the constitution at this time oligarchical in every respect, but the poorer classes, men, women, and children, were the serfs of the rich. They were known as Pelatae and also as Hectemori, because they cultivated the lands of the rich at the rent thus indicated. The whole country was i…

NLP FOR PROJECT MANAGERS

For more experienced project and program managers, this book will help you to manage the increasingly complex stakeholder arrangements that you will face. It will also show you how to choose behaviours and language appropriate to the context and task. For those responsible for portfolios of projects, this book will help you to manage ‘the big picture’ and the process of negotiation and…

Credit Risk Management

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THE ROUGH GUIDE TO Economics

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Better Business Decisions from Data

statistics are not popular. one might even say they are disliked. not by statisti- cians, of course, but by the millions who have to cope with the steady flow of statistics supporting all kinds of assertions, opinions, and theories. received wisdom harrumphs, “You can prove anything by statistics”—and then sneers, “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” my sympathies do not lie with thes…

The Use of Management Information Systems (MIS) In Decision Making In The Sou…

This study investigated the use of Management Information Systems (MIS) in decision-making on longterm planning, short-term planning and budgeting in the South-West Nigerian Universities. The study used the descriptive research design of the survey type. Data were collected from a sample of 600 subjects consisting of 400 academic staff holding administrative staff positions and 200 senior a…