Author : Frederic Will
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1443830534
This book harvests the author’s work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts.
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Balance of payments
ISBN :
Considers methodology of reporting U.S. balance of payments statistics and focuses on controversial report prepared for the Budget Bureau entitled, "Balance of Payments Statistics of the U.S., A Review and Appraisal," proposing use of a new concept for reporting these statistics.
Author : Leslie Lipschitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108568467
Understanding macroeconomic developments and policies in the twenty-first century is daunting: policy-makers face the combined challenges of supporting economic activity and employment, keeping inflation low and risks of financial crises at bay, and navigating the ever-tighter linkages of globalization. Many professionals face demands to evaluate the implications of developments and policies for their business, financial, or public policy decisions. Macroeconomics for Professionals provides a concise, rigorous, yet intuitive framework for assessing a country's macroeconomic outlook and policies. Drawing on years of experience at the International Monetary Fund, Leslie Lipschitz and Susan Schadler have created an operating manual for professional applied economists and all those required to evaluate economic analysis.
Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781590318737
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Author : Carmen M. Reinhart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2011-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691152640
An empirical investigation of financial crises during the last 800 years.
Author : Mr.Jack Diamond
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781557757876
Traditionally, economics training in public finances has focused more on tax than public expenditure issues, and within expenditure, more on policy considerations than the more mundane matters of public expenditure management. For many years, the IMF's Public Expenditure Management Division has answered specific questions raised by fiscal economists on such missions. Based on this experience, these guidelines arose from the need to provide a general overview of the principles and practices observed in three key aspects of public expenditure management: budget preparation, budget execution, and cash planning. For each aspect of public expenditure management, the guidelines identify separately the differing practices in four groups of countries - the francophone systems, the Commonwealth systems, Latin America, and those in the transition economies. Edited by Barry H. Potter and Jack Diamond, this publication is intended for a general fiscal, or a general budget, advisor interested in the macroeconomic dimension of public expenditure management.
Author : Clay Shirky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101434724
The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better. In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital technology is unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For the first time, people are embracing new media that allow them to pool their efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind-expanding reference tools like Wikipedia to life-saving Web sites like Ushahidi.com, which allows Kenyans to report acts of violence in real time. Cognitive Surplus explores what's possible when people unite to use their intellect, energy, and time for the greater good.
Author : Frederic Will
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1443852112
The present book is a social and cultural study of a mid-sized Nigerian city. The author strives to indicate the structure of the everyday, in a community where hustle and insecurity hasten a world only occasionally recognizable to its founding fathers.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781557754707
A companion document to the fifth edition of the Balance of Payments Manual, the Balance of Payments Compilation Guide shows how the conceptual framework described in the Manual may be implemented in practice. The primary purpose of the Guide is to provide practical guidance for using sources and methods to compile statistics on the balance of payments and the international investment position. the Guide is designed to assist balance of payments compilers and statisticians in understanding the relative strengths and weaknesses of various approaches. The material reflects the emergence of new data sources and adaptations in the application of statistical methodologies to changing circumstances. Discussed in the Guide are all of the tasks that a BOP compiler normally performs. Appendices contain a set of model BOP questionnaires and a set of model BOP publication tables. Relationships between the balance of payments statistics and relevant aspects of national accounts are covered as well.
Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780912646596
The four essays that make up this volume are based upon and expand the lectures Ricoeur delivered at Texas Christian University, 27-30 November 1973, as their Centennial Lectures. They may be read as separate essays, but they may also be read as step by step approximations of a solution to a single problem, that of understanding language at the level of such productions as poems, narratives and essays, whether literary or philosophical. In other words, the central problem at stake in these four essays is that of works; in particular, that of language as a work.
