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Regulating to Disaster

Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Regulating to Disaster

What is a green job” anyway? Few can adequately define one. Even the government isn’t sure, you will learn in these pages. Still, President Obama and environmentalist coalitions such as the BlueGreen Alliance claim the creation of green jobs can save America’s economy, and are worth taxpayers’ investment.But in Regulating to Disaster, Diana Furchtgott-Roth debunks that myth. Instead, energy prices rise dramatically and America’s...

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Faithless Execution

Andrew C McCarthy

Faithless Execution

We still imagine ourselves a nation of laws, not of men. This is not merely an article of faith but a bedrock principle of the United States Constitution. Our founding compact provides a remedy against rulers supplanting the rule of law, and Andrew C. McCarthy makes a compelling case for using it.The authors of the Constitution saw practical reasons to place awesome powers in a single chief executive, who could act quickly and decisively in times of peril. Yet they well understood that unchecked...

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Andrew C McCarthy

The Smart Society

Peter D. Salins

The Smart Society

The Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all Americansnot just a privileged elitesmarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation’s safety net.” The spectacular, centuries-long success of the United States is based on its having determined, early on, to be a smart country, single-mindedly developing institutions and...

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Peter D. Salins

Local Government in Connecticut, Th...

Frank B. Connolly

Local Government in Connecticut, Third Edition

Originally published in 1992 and revised in 2001, Frank B. Connolly's Local Government in Connecticut is one of the most useful and well-established resources on the state's local government. Written expressly for public officials and students, the book explains Connecticut's basic forms of local government and its many variants, as well as examining their inner workings, including governance, management, administration, municipal services, education, and land...

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Frank B. Connolly

Crisis and Inequality

Mattias Vermeiren

Crisis and Inequality

Spiralling inequality since the 1970s and the global financial crisis of 2008 have been the two most important challenges to democratic capitalism since the Great Depression. To understand the political economy of contemporary Europe and America we must, therefore, put inequality and crisis at the heart of the picture. In this innovative new textbook Mattias Vermeiren does just this, demonstrating that both the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis resulted from a...

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Mattias Vermeiren

Small Business for Dummies

Veechi Curtis

Small Business for Dummies

Get inspired to build a profitable business with this essential guide In the latest edition of this bestselling and authoritative reference, Small Business For Dummies explains how to set your business on the path for success. Using this guide, you'll discover how to nurture your entrepreneurial spirit, build a winning edge over your competitors, and respond to the increasing challenges of everyday business. From the basics of setting up a budget to working out your exit plan, this...

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Veechi Curtis

The Wealth Hoarders

Chuck Collins

The Wealth Hoarders

For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defence Industry. These ‘agents of inequality’ are paid millions to hide trillions for the richest 0.01%. In this book, inequality expert Chuck Collins, who himself inherited a fortune, interviews the leading players and gives a unique insider account of how this industry is doing everything it can to create and entrench hereditary dynasties of wealth...

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Chuck Collins

Projektmanagement für Dummies

Stanley E. Portny

Projektmanagement für Dummies

Vor einem liegt nicht nur ein bislang unüberschaubares Projekt, sondern schon eine Ahnung hinsichtlich all der Probleme, die mit ihm einhergehen könnten: Wer kennt das nicht? Stanley Portny zeigt, wie Projektmanagement richtig funktioniert, wenn man weiß, worauf zu achten ist. Er erklärt, wie man Projekte richtig plant, durchführt und kontrolliert, damit man die Ziele nicht aus den Augen verliert und den Überblick behält. Dazu gehört natürlich auch zu wissen, was ein gutes Projektteam...

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Stanley E. Portny

Robust!

Gerald Moser

Robust!

Die Welt, in der wir leben, wird volatiler und unberechenbarer. Wir sind zunehmend mit nicht vorhersehbaren Ereignissen konfrontiert, die überfallsartig auf uns einprasseln und die wir kaum beeinflussen können. Speziell Kleinst- und Kleinunternehmen sind dadurch höchst verwundbar. Gerade im Zuge der Corona-Krise kämpften und kämpfen viele ums Überleben. Aber es können auch weniger drastische globale Ereignisse diese Unternehmen ins Schleudern bringen, wie z. B. der Konkurs eines...

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Gerald Moser

The Dignity of Labour

Jon Cruddas

The Dignity of Labour

Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues that it is imperative that the Left rejects the siren call of technological determinism and roots it politics firmly in the workplace. Drawing from his experience of his own Dagenham and Rainham constituency, he examines the history of Marxist...

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Jon Cruddas

Applied Modeling Techniques and Dat...

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Applied Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis 2

BIG DATA, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA ANALYSIS SET Coordinated by Jacques Janssen Data analysis is a scientific field that continues to grow enormously, most notably over the last few decades, following rapid growth within the tech industry, as well as the wide applicability of computational techniques alongside new advances in analytic tools. Modeling enables data analysts to identify relationships, make predictions, and to understand, interpret and visualize the extracted information...

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Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment...

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Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion

Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed countries. By critically unraveling the long-term consequences of growing up poor, the close linkages between multiple deprivations and...

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Risikomanagement nach ISO 31000:201...

Bruno Brühwiler

Risikomanagement nach ISO 31000:2018 und ÖNORM-Reihe D 490x:2021

Die 3., aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage dieser QuickInfo stellt das Risikomanagement nach der „ISO 31000:2018 Risk management – Guidelines“ und deren Umsetzung in der „ÖNORM-Reihe D 490x:2021 Risikomanagement für Organisationen und Systeme“ kompakt und verständlich dar. Sie erklärt an-hand von 10 Praxisbeispielen, wie Risikomanagement in Ihrem Unternehmen eingeführt und umgesetzt werden kann. Dabei geht es nicht um abstrakte, theoretische Modelle, sondern vor allem darum, die wirklichen...

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Bruno Brühwiler

Trade in the 21st Century

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Trade in the 21st Century

Despite troubled trade negotiations, global tradeand trade policywill thrive in the twenty-first century, but with a bow to the past. Is the multilateral trading order of the twentieth century a historical artifact? Was the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995 the high point of multilateral cooperation on trade? This new volume, edited by Bernard M. Hoekman and Ernesto Zedillo, assesses the relevance of the WTO in the context of the rise of China and the United...

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Public Sector Reform in the Middle...

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Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa

Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsive Political upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have obscured efforts by many countries in the region to reform their public sectors. Unwieldy, unresponsiveand often corruptgovernments across the region have faced new pressure, not least from their publics, to improve the quality of public services and open up their decisionmaking processes. Some of these reform...

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For the Love of Community Engagemen...

Becky Hirst

For the Love of Community Engagement

Becky Hirst is a skilled community engagement practitioner who is willing to tell it how it is. And she has grave concerns for the future of public participation. To have a thriving society, we need people and communities who are actively involved in civic life. For politicians, public servants, corporations, or planners to engage with communities in any positive way, they need to learn a new way of doing things. A wealth of sophisticated public consultation slogans, methods and frameworks...

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Becky Hirst

Build Bridges, Not Walls

Todd Miller

Build Bridges, Not Walls

The US border is going to continue to be a high profile national issue no matter who wins the White House in 2020. Todd Miller, an award-winning border journalist with twenty years experience, enters the debate with the most humanist and controversial solution: abolish borders . Directly inspired by the accessible pamphlet-size concept of We Should All Be Feminists , this new book presents Miller’s essential views through personal first-hand anecdotes, experience, and personal...

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Leading Meaningful Change

Beverley Patwell

Leading Meaningful Change

Based on her research and 30 years of experience helping people lead and manage meaningful change, Beverley Patwell offers a new framework to guide and enhance the change journey. This approach is humanizing, engaging, and results in the belief in a higher purpose that permeates throughout the organization while at the same time achieves outcomes that are far greater than one person’s single contribution. Patwell’s framework is effective in: • creating a shared vision that compels...

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Beverley Patwell

Participatory Ideology

Beresford, Peter

Participatory Ideology

The COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter movement and renewed action against climate change all highlight the increasing gulf between narrowly based dominant political ideologies and popular demands for social justice, global health, environmentalism and human rights. This book examines for the first time the exclusionary nature of prevailing political ideologies. Bringing together theory, practice and the relationship between participation, political ideology and social welfare, it offers a...

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Beresford, Peter

The Challenge of Controlling COVID-...

Lewis, Jane

The Challenge of Controlling COVID-19

Providing an account of the policy response to COVID-19 in England, this book analyses the political and long-term systemic factors associated with the failures to control the first wave of the pandemic during 2020. It explores the part played by key policy actors, particularly politicians and scientists, and focuses on two difficult policy issues during the first wave: the establishment of a ‘test, trace and isolate’ system and responses to the high death rate in care homes for older people....

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Lewis, Jane

Entrepreneurship i vidensamfundet

Jens Christensen

Entrepreneurship i vidensamfundet

Hvordan far man skabt en entrepreneuriel videnskultur og et entrepreneurielt samspil mellem universiteter, det etablerede forretningsliv og ivAerksAetterne? Entrepreneurship i vidensamfundet giver svaret. I vidensamfundet skabes samfundsvAerdierne ved at omsAette viden til praksis. Da Danmark befinder sig i toppen af verdenssamfundet, kan danske virksomheder kun konkurrere i kraft af et stadigt hojere videnindhold i produkter og organisationer. Det har for alvor rettet opmAerksomheden mod de...

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Jens Christensen

The Struggle for Social Sustainabil...

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The Struggle for Social Sustainability

The ongoing social crises and moral conflicts evident in global social policy debates are addressed in this timely volume. Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the ‘social’ of social policy, which is increasingly conceived in a globalized form, as new international agreements and global goals engender social struggles. They tackle pressing ‘social questions’, many of which have been exacerbated by COVID-19, including growing inequality, changing world population, ageing societies,...

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Trump's Democrats

Stephanie Muravchik

Trump's Democrats

[b]Why did so many traditionally blue communities break for Donald Trump in 2016? Will they do so again in 2020? Will they become Republican strongholds? Looking for answers, Muravchik and Shields lived in three such flipped blue communities, finding that these voters still like the Democratic Party, but it’s not the party many of this book’s readers will recognize. In these communities, some of the most beloved and longest-serving Democratic leaders are...

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Stephanie Muravchik

Monetary and Economic Policy Proble...

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Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War

The present volume is devoted to some of Mises’s earliest writings. As with the second volume in the series, the articles that compose this book include Mises’s policy memoranda, essays, and speeches that were found in a formerly secret KGB archive in Moscow. The articles have two primary focuses: First, they reveal Mises’s thoughts on the monetary, fiscal, and general economic policy problems of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before and during World War I; and second, they focus on his thoughts on...

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