wyszukanych pozycji: 19
Resolved: Debate Can Revolutionize Education and Help Save Our Democracy
ISBN: 9780815737872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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109,36 zł |
The Need for Speed: A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780815725060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. Robert Litan and Hal Singer argue that given the speed of innovation in this sector, the Federal Communications Commission's outdated policies and rules are inhibiting investment in the telecom industry, specifically in fast broadband networks. This pithy handbook presents the kind of fundamental rethinking needed to bring communications policy in line with technological advances. Fast broadband has huge societal benefits,... The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twen... |
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103,89 zł |
The Life and Times of Dave The Rave Stallworth: A View from the Bench and Stands
ISBN: 9781915662866 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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112,56 zł |
Charting a Future for the Civil Jury System: Report from an American Bar Association/Brookings Symposium
ISBN: 9780815712657 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Juries are the one place where common citizens play an important part in the governmental process. But both the jury system and the American legal system itself have been under attack. Juries have been reduced in size, their selection procedures altered, and the unanimity requirement suspended. Many now question the ability of lay jurors to decide increasingly complex technical and scientific questions arising in civil suits and have advocated sharp limitations on the right to a jury trial. At the same time, the civil justice system itself has been criticized for the high and rising costs... Juries are the one place where common citizens play an important part in the governmental process. But both the jury system and the American legal ... |
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54,65 zł |
Liability: Perspectives and Policy
ISBN: 9780815752714 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Brings together economists and experts in liability law and the insurance industry to formulate sound public policy. Led by Robert Litan and Clifford Winston, the contributors describe the major changes that have contributed to the insurance crunch and set forth a methodological framework for evaluating the debate over the current liability system.
Brings together economists and experts in liability law and the insurance industry to formulate sound public policy. Led by Robert Litan and Clifford ...
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178,52 zł |
Moving Money: The Future of Consumer Payments
ISBN: 9780815702771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Once we paid for things with bills, coins, or checks. Today we pay with zeroes and onesdigital entries on credit and debit cards, or electronic messages sent over the Internet. In "Moving Money," distinguished analysts explore this trend, its development and likely future, and the ramifications of this transformation. This is a book about money as a medium of exchangein the past, in the present, but particularly in the future. What forms has money taken over the years? Moreover, how have those means of payment changed in recent years, and how will they develop in the future? And what (if... Once we paid for things with bills, coins, or checks. Today we pay with zeroes and onesdigital entries on credit and debit cards, or electronic mes... |
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136,76 zł |
Verdict: Assessing the Civil Jury System
ISBN: 9780815752813 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system. In recent years, however, aspects of the civil jury system have increasingly come under attack. Many question the ability of lay jurors to decide complex scientific and technical questions that often arise in civil suits. Others debate the high and rising costs of litigation, the staggering delay in resolving disputes, and the quality of justice. Federal and state courts, crowded with growing numbers of criminal cases, complain about handling difficult civil matters. As a result, the jury trial is... The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system. In recent years, however, aspects of the civil jury system have ... |
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226,03 zł |
Better Capitalism: Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy
ISBN: 9780300146783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerged. This welcome book cuts through the chatter and offers a detailed, nonideological, and practical blueprint to restore the vigor of the American economy. Better Capitalism extends and significantly expands on the insights of the authors' widely praised previous book, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, co-written with... In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about... |
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404,20 zł |
The Future of Domestic Capital Markets in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780815752998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Future of Domestic Capital Markets in Developing Countries addresses the challenges that countries face as they develop and strengthen capital markets. Based on input from the world's most prominent capital market experts and leading policymakers in developing countries, this volume represents the latest thinking in capital market development. It captures the views of a global gathering of experts, with perspectives from developing and developed countries, from all regions of the world, from the public and private sector. This volume should be of interest to senior financial sector... The Future of Domestic Capital Markets in Developing Countries addresses the challenges that countries face as they develop and strengthen capital ... |
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273,55 zł |
Open Doors: Foreign Participation in Financial Systems in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780815702450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The extensive reforms and liberalization of financial services in emerging markets worldwide call for cutting-edge strategies to capture the benefits of new investment opportunities. In Open Doors, a volume of papers from the third annual Financial Markets and Development conference, multidisciplinary financial sector experts analyze current economic and political trends and prescribe practical advice to the financial development community. The book addresses the key issues of concern regarding the emerging markets, including the trends, motivations, and scope of FDI in finance; policy... The extensive reforms and liberalization of financial services in emerging markets worldwide call for cutting-edge strategies to capture the benefi... |
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191,47 zł |
Down in the Dumps: Administration of the Unfair Trade Laws
ISBN: 9780815710196 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With the increasing integration of the major economies of the world, trade frictions have also increased. The Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, once scheduled for completion in December 1990, has been slowed over the issue of agricultural subsidies. The U.S.-Japanese trade relations have continued to be a source of friction between the two countries. At issue in all these disputes is whether the United States and other countries are playing "fairly" in the international trade arena. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) outlines a variety of rules designed to... With the increasing integration of the major economies of the world, trade frictions have also increased. The Uruguay Round of multilateral trade n... |
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109,36 zł |
Saving Free Trade: A Pragmatic Approach
ISBN: 9780815751779 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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82,01 zł |
Financial Regulation in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9780815752837 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In recent years, the major industrialized nations have developed cooperative procedures for supervising banks, harmonized their standards for bank capital requirements, and initiated cooperative understanding about securities market supervision. This book assesses what further coordination and harmonization in financial regulation will be required in an era of increased globalization. A volume of Brookings' Integrating National Economies Series
In recent years, the major industrialized nations have developed cooperative procedures for supervising banks, harmonized their standards for bank cap...
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142,89 zł |
What Should Banks Do?
ISBN: 9780815752691 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The financial services industries are undergoing revolutionary change. Continuing technological advances, coupled with the removal of controls on deposit interest rates and barriers to interstate bank expansion, have ushered in a new age of competition among banks themselves and between banks and other types of financial institutions. What Should Banks Do? offers a new and controversial proposal for carefully circumscribed diversification. Robert Litan first examines what role banks should play in this altered environment: Should banks and their holding companies be confined to the "business...
The financial services industries are undergoing revolutionary change. Continuing technological advances, coupled with the removal of controls on depo...
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154,77 zł |
Going Digital!
ISBN: 9780815752851 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The information age technology revolution promises enormous benefits to the U.S. and global economies. Yet if those benefits are to be fully realized, policymakers in the U.S. and abroad must rethink some fundamental premises about how economic activity has traditionally been governed. Should we continue to regulate industries the way we have in the past? Does the digital age require a new approach to antitrust enforcement? To best facilitate global electronic commerce, what changes are needed in intellectual property law, professional licensing requirements, laws governing privacy and... The information age technology revolution promises enormous benefits to the U.S. and global economies. Yet if those benefits are to be fully realiz... |
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113,20 zł |
Law and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9781781009321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 804 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The symbiosis that exists between entrepreneurship and law is of paramount importance in accommodating and advancing the freedom to innovate, as well as the need to prevent unfair and abusive activities. Seminal articles and essays reprinted in this collection examine several major subject areas of law associated with entrepreneurship, including intellectual property, restrictive covenants designed to protect proprietary information, business organizations, taxation, securities regulation and tort law. This collection presents issues implicated in both for-profit growth ventures and creative...
The symbiosis that exists between entrepreneurship and law is of paramount importance in accommodating and advancing the freedom to innovate, as well ...
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1865,44 zł |
Financial Privacy, Consumer Prosperity, and the Public Good
ISBN: 9780815713173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. American consumers have become accustomed to obtaining instant credit. The process requires that credit bureaus have easy access to sensitive financial information about individuals, compiled largely without their consent. This report examines the debate surrounding the role of the states in regulating these credit bureaus, especially in light of expiring amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which have allowed bureaus to continue these practices, exempting them from state laws that might obstruct them. How this controversy is resolved will have an important bearing on credit... American consumers have become accustomed to obtaining instant credit. The process requires that credit bureaus have easy access to sensitive finan... |
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54,65 zł |
American Living Standards: Threats and Challenges
ISBN: 9780815752738 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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154,77 zł |
The Future of State-Owned Financial Institutions
ISBN: 9780815713357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Research suggests that if the majority of a country's financial institutions are owned by the state, that country will experience slower financial development, less efficient financial systems, less private sector credit, and slower GDP growth. Yet more than 40 percent of the world's population live in countries in which public sector institutions dominate the banking system. In "The Role of State-Owned Financial Institutions: Policy and Practice" noted experts discuss the challenges presented by state-owned financial institutions and offer cross-disciplinary solutions for policymakers and... Research suggests that if the majority of a country's financial institutions are owned by the state, that country will experience slower financial ... |
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191,47 zł |