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Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 45.00The U.S. government is the world’s largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential cost and risk of these actions and obligations remain poorly understood and only partially measured. Government budgetary and financial accounting rules, which largely determine the information available... more...
Group Purchasing Organizations
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) are a massive subset of the healthcare industry that negotiate lower costs for healthcare supplies by buying for several hospitals at once. Group Purchasing Organizations provides an analysis and critique of this industry. more...
Wired Brown Land
University of NSW Press 2009; US$ 31.95Describes the commercial and political battle between Telstra and everyone else to control Australias broadband infrastructure, a struggle that escalates as the Government prepares to spend $43 billion on a new broadband network. more...
Public Administration in East Asia
CRC Press 2010; US$ 159.95A resource that brings together the fragments of knowledge on East Asian economies. Organized into four sections, each dedicated to a specific country, it showcases the economic practices in the region and East Asia's innovative approaches to economic challenges. more...
Path Dependency and Macroeconomics
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 115.00This fifth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series focuses on the theme of path dependency and macroeconomics in terms of both theory and applications. The volume examines how path dependency is linked with notions of fundamental uncertainty, non-ergodicity and hysteresis. more...
Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.A.
CRC Press 2009; US$ 49.95Distills the whole of the US healthcare system into something comprehensible if not logical and consequently, remediable. The author examines the history of US healthcare and details the maze of the unforgiving system; explores the regulations that add more complexity than protection; and discusses potential means of financing. more...
Globalisation Fractures
Profile 2010; US$ 23.98In his previous books, The Bill from the China Shop and China and America: A Time of Reckoning, Charles Dumas was the first to identify the existence and potential impact of the Eurasian Savings Glut ? most importantly how it would push US mortgage borrowing to excess, precipitating the global credit crisis. As we now strive to rescue the international... more...
Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
Taylor Trade Publishing 2010; US$ 8.99Adam Smith was an advocate of the free market; however his first and widely-acclaimed work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was on ethics. While commentators tend to review this work in isolation from his writing on political economy, Richard Morgan argues that although The Wealth of Nations is concerned with political economy, Smith's pointed attacks... more...
Bitter Pills
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 23.00We take our medicines on faith. We assume our doctors are well-informed, our drug companies scrupulous, our FDA diligent?and our medications safe. All too often we're wrong. Just how wrong is documented in this critically acclaimed portrait of the international pharmaceutical industry by one of our most highly respected investigative journalists. ... more...
Opportunism
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 24.99In this bold and forward-looking book, an Israeli civic leader shows how reorienting our society to make the most of ?opportunity? could restore the global economy to health?and give added value to the contributions of the new class of knowledge workers. For most of us, opportunism is a tainted concept. Shraga F. Biran thinks otherwise. He shows... more...









