Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - General

Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire--and did, for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared.

In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider's view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how...

Management as we know it has been the driver of business growth in U.S. economies for a couple of centuries. Yet the practice of management is no longer focused on creating real value. Instead, it is now all about using sophisticated financial techniques-and practices like outsourcing and downsizing, among others to improve profitability. Such addition through subtraction results in higher profits in the short term but puts the corporation and its employees at risk in the long term not to mention the entire U.S. economy. Innovation and productivity improvement, corporate manager Jack...

A major problem for less developed countries is to make their primary sectors sufficiently profitable in order to be able to build up manufacturing and service sectors. This edited collection, first published in 1985, examines the nature of the primary sector and its role in economic development. Chapters consider problems of stagnation and income distribution in such countries as Chile and Brazil; trade in national primary products and exports in Africa and the Middle East; and reform and policies of development in countries such as Peru. An interesting volume with an international scope,...

Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis. This book shows that central planning is not always, or even primarily, a state enterprise, and that the giant industrial corporations that dominated the American economy through the twentieth century were, first and foremost, unprecedented examples of successful, consensual central planning at a very large scale.

• Explores these questions: Why do we have subsidies? How did they evolve? What is the present and possible future of subsidies? What is their impact on a typical African farmer?
  
• Written for the general public, this book will also be useful for courses in Agricultural Policy
  
• Provides a detailed examination of subsidy histories and the current policies of the United States, various European countries,...

The 7 Best-Kept Secrets of Today's Job Market

The current employment outlook might seem grim at first glance, but only if you don't know where to look. Government and individual investors are pouring billions of dollars into a handful of industries, sparking long-term growth and a wealth of great new career opportunities.

Where the Jobs Are Now explains how you can find a long and lucrative career, at any level, in one of these robust, cutting-edge industries:

• Health Care
• Biotechnology
• Energy
• Education
• Government
• Security...