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The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won't fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government taxing and spending harms the economy, but where is that point? In this accessible book, best-selling authors Jeff Madrick, Jon Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, and Peter Lindert try to answer whether our government can grow any larger and examine how we can optimize growth and...
| Автор | Jeff Madrick |
How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors that explain the presence of unskilled immigrants in our midst. Focusing on Los Angeles, the capital of today's immigrant America, this hard-hitting book elucidates the other side of the...
| Автор | Roger Waldinger |
What knowledge, skills and characteristics mark a good Cost of labor project manager? What Cost of labor services do you require? How sensitive must the Cost of labor strategy be to cost? How do you mitigate Cost of labor risk? What Cost of labor coordination do you need? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time,...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an...
| Автор | Adam Hochschild |
What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Funds management brings? Record-keeping requirements flow from the records needed as inputs, outputs, controls and for transformation of a Funds management process, are the records needed as inputs to the Funds management process available? Who are the Funds management improvement team members, including Management Leads and Coaches? Among the Funds management product and service cost to be estimated, which is considered...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that many published results are potentially erroneous has made those conducting social science research more determined to ensure the underlying research is sound.  <I>Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research</I> is the first book to summarize and synthesize new approaches to combat false positives and...
| Автор | Edward Miguel |
What do you measure to verify effectiveness gains? What was the context? What are the top 3 things at the forefront of your Cash handling system agendas for the next 3 years? What is the extent or complexity of the Cash handling system problem? Is there any existing Cash handling system governance structure? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. ...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Create, Produce, Consume explores the cycle of musical experience for musicians, professionals, and budding entrepreneurs looking to break into the music industry. Building on the concepts of his previous book, Making Money, Making Music, David Bruenger provides readers with a basic framework for understanding the relationships between the artist and audience and the producer consumer by examining the methods underlying creation-production-reception and creation-consumption-compensation. Each...
| Автор | David Bruenger |
What are your results for key measures or indicators of the accomplishment of your Green Infrastructure for Water Management strategy and action plans, including building and strengthening core competencies? Is the suppliers process defined and controlled? What are your personal philosophies regarding Green Infrastructure for Water Management and how do they influence your work? Is special Green Infrastructure for Water Management user knowledge required? How are training requirements...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate Marianchild combines extensive research and years of personal experience to explore some of the marvelous plants and animals that the oak woodlands nurture. Acorn woodpeckers unite in marriages of up to ten mates and raise their young cooperatively. Ground...
| Автор | Kate Marianchild |
How do you verify and develop ideas and innovations? Where can you gather more information? How do you measure efficient delivery of Parameterized testing services? What are the costs and benefits? Why is Parameterized testing important for you now? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
From his galvanizing exposés in <i>Ramparts</i> magazine to his hand in inventing gonzo, Warren Hinckle upended twentieth-century investigative reporting and gave it new provocation and zest. In the first career-spanning collection of writings by this key figure of American journalism, <i>Ransoming Pagan Babies</i> ranges an astonishing thematic sweep: Joseph Mitchell-esque portraits of old San Francisco and its characters; insightful reporting on conflicts in...
| Автор | Warren Hinckle |
Do you aggressively reward and promote the people who have the biggest impact on creating excellent Document Engineering services/products? Is the Document Engineering documentation thorough? What are the operational costs after Document Engineering deployment? Is it clear when you think of the day ahead of you what activities and tasks you need to complete? What are the potential basics of Document Engineering fraud? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, «Get a trade.» Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their white...
| Автор | Deirdre Royster |
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
For the past several decades, politicians and economists thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But because America’s middle class is now so weak, the US economy suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. As <I>Hollowed Out</I> explains, to have strong, sustainable growth, the economy needs to work for everyone and expand from the middle out. This new thinking has the potential to supplant trickle-down economics—the theory that...
| Автор | David Madland |
This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, <I>Hard Work </I>explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America. <br /><br /><I>Hard Work </I>begins with...
| Автор | Rick Fantasia |
How do you define the solutions' scope? Are you measuring, monitoring and predicting Virtual operating system activities to optimize operations and profitability, and enhancing outcomes? What are your most important goals for the strategic Virtual operating system objectives? Does a Virtual operating system quantification method exist? At what point will vulnerability assessments be performed once Virtual operating system is put into production (e.g., ongoing Risk Management after...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Despite the significance of tourism to the economic, social and environmental structures of Latin America, little has been documented in the English-language literature about tourism in this region. Filling that void, this book focuses exclusively on tourism development and planning, and the impact this has on a wide number of Latin American countries. It covers experiences, challenges, successful and unsuccessful stories, specific cases, and other tourism-related issues, with respect to 10...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Who is on the team? How is Information systems security engineering project cost planned, managed, monitored? What needs to stay? Is the need for organizational change recognized? How can you negotiate Information systems security engineering successfully with a stubborn boss, an irate client, or a deceitful coworker? This breakthrough Information Systems Security Engineering self-assessment will make you the reliable Information Systems Security Engineering domain visionary by revealing just...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
This is a general interest trade book that describes the development of automotive technology and engineering from the start of the industry before 1900 to the present day. It explains how various systems and elements in the automobile work in layman's terms, without resorting to mathematics, and highlights the keymilestones in the historical development of automotive technology. All photos and illustrations are in full color. The intended audience is older teens to adults of any age who...
| Автор | Robert L. Norton |
How do you gather Geospatial intelligence requirements? Does Geospatial intelligence create potential expectations in other areas that need to be recognized and considered? Is there any existing Geospatial intelligence governance structure? What are the Geospatial intelligence design outputs? How much are sponsors, customers, partners, stakeholders involved in Geospatial intelligence? In other words, what are the risks, if Geospatial intelligence does not deliver successfully? This easy...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The Language of Localization defines 52 terms that every business professional should know, even professionals who do not specialize in localization. In a global market, every business person needs to understand the importance of localization and be able to speak intelligently with localization professionals. Each term was authored by an expert practitioner who provided a short definition, a statement of why that term is important, and an essay that explains why a business professional or...
| Автор | Katherine Brown-Hoekstra |
What sources do you use to gather information for a Software Performance Engineering study? Are you maintaining a past–present–future perspective throughout the Software Performance Engineering discussion? What are your primary costs, revenues, assets? Who sets the Software Performance Engineering standards? What are your key performance measures or indicators and in-process measures for the control and improvement of your Software Performance Engineering processes? This exclusive Software...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |