A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established. For nearly a century, America, alone among developed nations, refused to consider any central or organizing agency in i...
Handbook of Public Administration (The Jossey-Bass public administration)
"An essential reference for students and practitioners of public administration." -Public Administration Review Sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration, this completely revised and expanded edition reflects both the ever-evolving changes in public administration and the continuity of practice. Written by experts from diverse areas of public administration-including law, politics, personnel, and operations-the book has been substantially updated to reflect the most current dev...
Handbook of Employee Benefits and Administration
by Christopher G Reddick and Jerrell D. Coggburn
Fiscal realities and changing social priorities are requiring a dramatic shift in the way that benefits are selected and awarded to employees, especially in the public sector. This means that public administrators and policy researchers must consider new parameters and contingencies, both financial and social, when evaluating choices and making pol
Making Foreign Direct Investment Work for Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development. Trade)
by Thomas Farole
The EU CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme
by Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara
The European CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the cornerstone of EU climate change policy. As the first large-scale cross-border tradable permit scheme covering greenhouse gas emissions, it has generated significant interest among both scholars and policymakers. This book takes a critical look at the achievements of the pilot phase and the lessons that can be learned as EU policymakers prepare for a comprehensive review starting in 2006. The authors identify the principal topics that wil...
"The Evolving Bargain" explores the impact of deregulation and privatization on company strategy in industries worldwide, and shows how these dynamic processes shape the critical evolving relationship, or bargain, between governments and affected enterprises.Drawing from extensive research and global case studies, the author details the factors that influence a firm's strategic options and performance outcomes within its own evolving bargain, and provides managers with a practical framework for...
Foderalismus und Parlamentarismus sowie Gewaltenteilung waren und sind unverzichtbare Bestandteile demokratischer Entwicklung in Deutschland. Diese Studie untersucht auf gesicherter Quellenbasis die Grunde und den Prozess der praktischen - wenn auch nicht juristischen - Beseitigung der zum grossen Teil historisch gewachsenen Lander Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen und Thuringen durch die SED-Fuhrung im Jahre 1952. Die daraus entstandene zentralistische Bezirksstruktur wurde nach...
Los Programas de Apoyo a la Microempresa en America Latina
by Samuel Carpintero
In the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development supported the Afghan Ministry of Public Health to deliver basic healthcare to 90 percent of the population, at a cost of $4.50 a head. The program played a vital role in improving the country's health; the number of children dying before the age of five dropped by 100,000 a year. But accounting standards at the Ministry of Public Health concerned the United States Special Investigator General for Afgha...
Can Green Sustain Growth? (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy)
by John Zysman and Mark Huberty
Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive. Can Green Sustain Growth? asks how we can move from theoretical support to implementation, and argues that this leap will require radical experimentation. But systemic change is costly, and a sweeping shift cannot be accomplished without political support, not to mention large-scale cooperation between business and government. Insightful and timely, this book brings together eight original, international case studies to...
It Okay To Make Mistakes Have Bad Days Be Less Than Perfect Take Care Of You Be Yourself Just Say No
by Progress Publishing
With Trump in the White House, big business has direct power in government. Trump has stacked his cabinet with former employees of investment banks, big oil and international corporations. Now that big business has its representatives in the cabinet, it no longer needs to indulge in expensive lobbying. Under Trump, corporations control US policy. How and why did this happen and what does it mean for the bulk of the population? T. J. Coles presents the background to Trump's rise, tracing the his...
Key Facts on Jordan (The Internationalist Business Guides)
by Patrick W Nee
In this refreshing look at leadership and management in government, the authors suggest that innovative policy programs are only as good as the managerial skills of the government employees who carry them out. They detail key characteristics of successful innovations and managerial skills of successful innovators.Using success stories drawn from a broad range of innovative public programs and agencies over the last twenty years, " Making Government Work" reveals how executives create public sect...
In April 2003, The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) celebrated its tenth anniversary and this book has been produced in order to commemorate this landmark achievement. It represents a collaboration between key members of ALT and members of ALTs' sister organisations: SURF in Holland and ASCILITE in Australia. The aims of the book are to use the topic of "institutional implementation" to present a review of the impact of learning technology on tertiary education over the past few years;...