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Fiscal Health for Local Governments
ISBN: 9780123547514 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiscal Health for Local Governments offers a how-to approach to identifying and solving financial problems. Its principal selling point lies in its assumptions: instead of using the vocabulary and research agendas of economist, finance scholars, and political scientists, it will appeal to readers who lack sophisticated knowledge in these areas and nevertheless need practical advice. The book stems from the Fiscal Health Education Program, an applied economics program at the University of Minnesota. It uses three measures of fiscal health - financial condition, trend analysis,... Fiscal Health for Local Governments offers a how-to approach to identifying and solving financial problems. Its principal selling point lies... |
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228,18 zł |
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Big Bets Gone Bad: Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County. The Largest Municipal Failure in U.S. History
ISBN: 9780123903600 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can a municipal investment pool, which is supposed to be safe, lose billions of dollars? What are derivatives and how did they contribute to this tragedy? In December 1994, Orange County became the largest municipality in U.S. history to become bankrupt. By borrowing heavily and placing the wrong bets, Orange County Treasurer Robert Citron lost $1.7 billion of Orange County's $7.4 billion investment portfolio. "Big Bets Gone Bad: Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County" is the first detailed description of the Orange County bankruptcy. Author Philippe Jorion, the only professor in...
How can a municipal investment pool, which is supposed to be safe, lose billions of dollars? What are derivatives and how did they contribute to this ...
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262,03 zł |
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Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and Postwar America
ISBN: 9780195064209 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like the United States today, Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain were the richest, most dynamic economic systems of their times. Yet each succumbed to a fiscal crisis brought on by public debt and taxation and eventually fell into long-term economic decline. Now, public debt and taxation dominate the America policy agenda. Must the United States follow the same dismal pattern of fiscal crisis and economic decline? Mountains of Debt argues that it is not too late for the United States to change directions and suggests a comprehensive program for reform of American fiscal...
Like the United States today, Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain were the richest, most dynamic economic systems of their times. Yet each succ...
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286,40 zł |
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The Financial Economics of Privatization
ISBN: 9780195150629 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1981, over 100 governments around the world have raised over $1 trillion through the sale of SOEs to private investors. Privatization programs have transformed the role of the state in virtually all-major economies, and have massively increased the capitalization and liquidity of all non-U.S. stock markets. The focus of this book lies on where privatization stands today and what are the next frontiers, the why and how behind countries who privatize certain industries, whether privatization works as an economic tool and important insights relevant to financial institutions such as how to...
Since 1981, over 100 governments around the world have raised over $1 trillion through the sale of SOEs to private investors. Privatization programs h...
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595,98 zł |
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Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads: Challenges and Proposals for Resolving the Third World Debt Crisis
ISBN: 9780195168013 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in raising public awareness of the devastating effects of debt, coupled with the highly publicized Bono/O'Neill tour of Africa, and the spectacular default and economic implosion of Argentina have helped spur a global debate over debt. A growing chorus of globalization critics, galvanized by the Catholic Church's demand for forgiveness and bolstered by recent defaults, has put debt near the top of the international agenda....
Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the J...
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224,92 zł |
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Economic Systems and State Finance
ISBN: 9780198205456 / Angielski / Twarda / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume to appear in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series, which arises from an important international research program sponsored by the European Science Foundation. The aim of the series, which comprises seven volumes, is to bring together specialists from different countries, who reinterpret from a comparative European perspective different aspects of the formation of the state over the long period from the beginning of the thirteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. One of the main achievements of the research program has been to overcome the...
This is the first volume to appear in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series, which arises from an important international research program ...
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1197,95 zł |
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The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure, 1976-1993
ISBN: 9780198277842 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With unique access to treasury Expenditure Controllers and senior financial officials in the main spending departments, the authors of this work provide a detailed and authoritative account of the roles, relationships, and inter-actions of the key players in Whitehall Expenditure Community as they confront each other in annual rituals of the Expenditure "Survey." Thain and Wright explain how the rules of the expenditure game were re-drawn in the 1980s in the relentless search for cuts, greater economy and efficiency in the design and delivery of public services, and the creation of a more...
With unique access to treasury Expenditure Controllers and senior financial officials in the main spending departments, the authors of this work provi...
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463,30 zł |
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Pension Funds: Retirement-Income Security and the Development of Financial Systems: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9780198293040 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coping with the aging of the population without economic disruption is undoubtedly one of the major challenges facing the global economy and world financial markets both now and for the coming decades. In this context, this book assesses the major economic issues raised by occupational pension funds, as they have arisen in 12 OECD countries; the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, as well as in Chile and Singapore. Particular emphasis is placed on the performance of funds in financial markets, the influence on funds...
Coping with the aging of the population without economic disruption is undoubtedly one of the major challenges facing the global economy and world fin...
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453,47 zł |
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Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization: Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870-1913 and Today
ISBN: 9780199226139 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The frequency and virulence of recent financial crises have led to calls for reform of the current international financial architecture. In an effort to learn more about today's international financial environment, the authors turn to an earlier era of financial globalization between 1870 and 1913. By examining data on sovereign bonds issued by borrowing developing countries in this earlier period and in the present day, the authors are able to identify the characteristics of successful borrowers in the two periods. They are then able to show that global crises or contagion are a feature of...
The frequency and virulence of recent financial crises have led to calls for reform of the current international financial architecture. In an effort ...
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266,74 zł |
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Pension Fund Capitalism
ISBN: 9780199240487 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pension fund assets are truly astronomical. But little is known about their functions, structures, and modes of decision making. This book fills the gap through a theoretically informed account of Anglo-American pension funds, set in context with current debates about the role of government policy and the roles and responsibilities of pension funds.
Pension fund assets are truly astronomical. But little is known about their functions, structures, and modes of decision making. This book fills the g...
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320,80 zł |
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Japan's Fiscal Crisis: The Ministry of Finance and the Politics of Public Spending, 1975-2000
ISBN: 9780199250530 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this controversial and authoritative account of Japan's public budgeting and politics, the author traces the origins and development of Japan's present fiscal crisis. In a detailed analysis of the institutions, structures, and processes of central government, the role of the Ministry of Finance is analysed and its relationship with other ministries in deciding how much to spend and on what is examined. Drawing on a rich archive of interview material and primary budget data, the author explains how and why Japan accumulated the world's largest public debt.
In this controversial and authoritative account of Japan's public budgeting and politics, the author traces the origins and development of Japan's pre...
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478,04 zł |
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The Economics of Public Spending
ISBN: 9780199260331 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Economics of Public Spending investigates the extent of government involvement in the economy, its rationale, and traces its historical record. The book unites articles previously published in Fiscal Studies. Both the data and the relevant theory are analysed. A new introduction investigates the overall role of the public sector and discusses the general theory of public expenditure.
The Economics of Public Spending investigates the extent of government involvement in the economy, its rationale, and traces its historical record. Th...
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232,29 zł |
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Public Finance
ISBN: 9780202307855 / Angielski / Miękka / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Broad in scope and carefully balanced in emphasis, this book is a major treatise on the theory and practice of public fi nance. It is unique in its presentation of a worldwide perspective and in its treatment of both the instruments of public fi nance and the goals, effects, and criteria of public fi nance measures.
Broad in scope and carefully balanced in emphasis, this book is a major treatise on the theory and practice of public fi nance. It is unique in its pr...
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248,92 zł |
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Public Expenditure
ISBN: 9780202361512 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In all highly industrialized countries public expenditures are a substantial and growing share of total economic activity. The authors integrate normative and positive theory and empirical analysis of public expenditure, concentrating on the optimal provision of public goods and the estimation of their costs and effects. This volume emphasizes the techniques that are available for reaching collective decisions about the provision of public goods and stresses the importance of income distribution and intergovernmental fiscal relations. In a mixed economy, where the public sector is growing... In all highly industrialized countries public expenditures are a substantial and growing share of total economic activity. The authors integrate no... |
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228,18 zł |
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Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago
ISBN: 9780226267913 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Ester R. Fuchs examines key policy decisions which have influenced the political structures of these cities and guided them into, or clear of, periods of economic crisis.
Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Este...
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180,18 zł |
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Developing Country Debt and the World Economy
ISBN: 9780226733395 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries have intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis, almost all the debtor countries were still unable to borrow in the international capital markets on normal terms. Moreover, the world financial system has been disrupted by the prospect of widespread defaults on those debts. Because of the urgency of the present crisis, and because similar crises have...
For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those coun...
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163,80 zł |
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Economic Growth with Equity: Challenges for Latin America
ISBN: 9780230018938 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a peak. This volume focuses on growth-with-equity, and is written by an outstanding group of Latin American and international researchers and policy-makers.
This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a pe...
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382,84 zł |
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Political Crisis/Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City
ISBN: 9780231079433 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the factors that caused New York City's financial crisis in 1975 and demonstrates how these manifestations of newly evolved political alliances and systems continue to undermine the city's financial stability. It shows how these problems, which are enduring features of the city's political system, are not unique to New York but a threat to the financial stability of most major American cities. The volume won the American Political Science Association's Award for the Best Book on Urban Policy.
This study examines the factors that caused New York City's financial crisis in 1975 and demonstrates how these manifestations of newly evolved politi...
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224,86 zł |
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Contemporary Public Finance
ISBN: 9780275930448 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students, researchers, and public sector officials will find that this comprehensive survey of public finance both reviews traditional fiscal policy theories and searches for solutions to contemporary problems by relating theory to practice. The author analyzes the place the public sector can and should have in market economies and its influence on the private sector. Issues in public sector finance as they affect overall economic policies to correct undesirable trends. Governments are troubled by budget deficits, inflation, and unemployment, and international transactions grow rapidly... Students, researchers, and public sector officials will find that this comprehensive survey of public finance both reviews traditional fiscal polic... |
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404,04 zł |
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The Economic Consequences of State Lotteries
ISBN: 9780275935702 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the modern wave of lotteries began over twenty-five years ago in New Hampshire, state-operated lotteries have become an area of tremendous growth for public sector financing. Gambling taxes of all kinds have been steadily increasing, and thirty-three states are now operating lotteries. In this work, Mary Borg, Paul Mason, and Stephen Shapiro examine the economic impact and consequences of state lotteries, focusing specifically on the efficiency and equity of state government revenue and expenditure policy. The study begins with an overview of statistical information characterizing the...
Since the modern wave of lotteries began over twenty-five years ago in New Hampshire, state-operated lotteries have become an area of tremendous growt...
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404,04 zł |
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