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Handbook on Taxation (Public Administration And Public Policy Ser. #72)
By W. Bartley Hildreth, James A. Richardson. 1999
A groundbreaking reference, this book provides a comprehensive review of tax policy from political, legal, constitutional, administrative, and economic perspectives.…
A collection of writings from over 45 prominent tax experts, it charts the influence of taxation on economic activity and economic behavior. Featuring over 2400 references, tables, equations, and drawings, the book describes how taxes affect individual and business behavior, shows how taxes operate as work and investment incentives, explains how tax structures impact different income groups, weighs the balanced use of sales, property, and personal income taxes, traces the influence of recent tax changes, and more.First published in 1999, this study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of livestock farming systems and…
their conditions of change. The framework should be generally applicable in developing countries and make it possible to analyse livestock farming in different agro-ecological regions. Secondly, Regina Birner applies the framework to a case study in Sri Lanka, the ecological conditions and agrarian structure of which is an excellent setting for studying the diverse factors influencing the action and change of livestock farming. Thirdly, Birner contributes to improving the planning basis for livestock developing policies in developing countries.This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing boundaries,…
and increasing reliance on networks and alliances with other firms.The contributors offer a blend of theoretical and empirical studies; they are based on a set of related perspectives in modern economics, incluMoney and Growth: Selected Papers of Allyn Abbott Young (Routledge Studies In The History Of Economics)
By Roger J. Sandilands, Perry G. Mehrling. 1999
Allyn Young is one of the central figures in the development of American economic thought, and is one of the…
originators of modern endogenous growth theory. This book allows full appreciation of the full extent of Young's work because many of his most significant contributions are buried in obscure journals and unsigned articles. This volume addresFirst published in 1998, this study offers a survey of the conceptual background, the political dimension, and the macroeconomic context…
and constraints of the social security system in Israel, which in four decades (since the mid-1950s) grew virtually from scratch into a comprehensive system, similar in scope to that of Western and Northern Europe, North America, the European outposts in the antipodes and, of course, Japan.First published in 1999, this volume responds to the recent application of Local Economic Development around the world and examines…
its impact in South Africa in the wake of the nation’s recent political transition. Etienne Louis Nel observes how the initiative is taking on a dual form of community-led and authority-led initiatives. Nel explores the issue through areas including South Africa’s space economy, a case study of Stuttenheim and local economic development in East London.European Union - European Industrial Relations?: Global Challenge, National Development and Transitional Dynamics
By Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, Wolfgang E. Lecher. 1998
This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern of industrial relations, in which the European-level…
organisations representing employers and trade unions gain in importance vis-a-vis their national organisations. In particular, the impact of the 'Social Chapter' to the Maastricht Treaty is considered. The studyKeynes and the Neoclassical Synthesis: Einsteinian versus Newtonian Macroeconomics
By Dario Togati. 1998
This remarkable volume provides a critical assessment of Neoclassical Synthesis, long regarded as the standard interpretation of Keynes. Taking issue…
with this orthodoxy, the author offers a unique interpretation of the foundation of modern macroeconomics, arguing that the subject derives from the conflict between two research programmes inspired bEnvironmental Risk Communication: Principles and Practices for Industry
By Anthony Sadar, Mark Shull. 1999
A public meeting with angry residents and eager reporters is a common feature on the local news. Whether addressing environmental,…
or other issues, the experience for the board members, consultants, and specialists at these meetings ranges from uncomfortable to nightmarish. The issues discussed in these meetings usually stem from years of community disappointment, mistrust, fears, factions, political or social positioning, or all of the above. Industry faces a labyrinth of environmental and business regulations, and unique challenges in dealing with the public and the media. Environmental Risk Communication serves as a guide to understanding and complying with the Federal Risk Management Program and applying risk management and communication principles to daily plant operations. This book also helps Risk Management Plan (RMP) facilities successfully meet the new Federal requirements for public disclosure of RMP offsite consequence analysis results and provides techniques for communicating effectively during environmental emergencies.Written in a straight-forward, no-nonsense style the book presents concise informative chapters, flow diagrams, checklists, and a thorough index. The authors present step-by-step instruction on developing a principled plan of action that generates open communications. CEOs, Corporate Communications Specialists, Plant Managers, Environmental Compliance Supervisors, Health and Safety Officers, Environmental Scientists and Engineers, and Consultants will benefit from Environmental Risk Communication.The Role of Banks in Monitoring Firms: The Case of the Credit Mobilier
By Elisabeth Paulet. 1999
This book addresses issues in the current literature on corporate finance using historical evidence. In particular it looks at the…
role of universal banks in relaxing the credit constraints of firms, supervising managers and stabilizing share prices. The key issues is whether the Anglo-American asset based financing is more efective than the main-bThe Dynamics of the Modern Brewing Industry
By Terry Gourvish, Richard G. Wilson. 1998
For the past two centuries, brewing has been a constantly innovative and evolving industry, subject to changes in technology, taste…
and industrial structure. This ground-breaking book is one of the first to examine the industry from the perspectives of economic and business history. It combines chapters on the major European nations with chapters oThe March to Capitalism in the Transition Countries (Routledge Revivals)
By Irving S. Michelman. 1998
First published in 1998, this book analyses and reconsiders one of the great economic dramas of Western history, the march…
to capitalism in Russia, Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The period is from 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the liberated countries rushed headlong into democracy and capitalism. Special emphasis is on the role, often misunderstood, played by the Western-dominated aid agencies, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. They were called in while the Western countries dawdled and made empty promises. They basically financed and guided the transition, their own funds amounting to $50 billion, while issuing free-market strictures in the process. This reflected the supremacy of such ideology in the Thatcher-Reagan era. Russia, in its agony, offers a laboratory for the conflicting claims of free-market theory against a more pragmatic, experimental approach. China's hybrid-capitalism is also analyzed and compared.First published in 1998, this organizational and professional socialization of trainee chartered accountants reports the findings of an ICAEW funded…
research project which explored the training and socialization of trainee accountants in two Big Six firms in the UK. The background to the research, particularly the under-researched nature of the socialization of accountants, is outlined. The research issues are located within the institutional context of the accounting profession in the UK and the academic literature on the professions and professional socialization. The main research findings reported concern. The main research findings reported concern the development of trainees’ understandings of their professional indentity; the role of formal processes and informal norms within socialization; the relationship of professional identity to notions of client service, firm identity, divisionalization, and career success.Women's Employment in Europe: Trends and Prospects
By Mark Smith, Colette Fagan, Jill Rubery. 1999
Based on extensive original research, this volume examines contemporary patterns of womens employment in Europe in the context of the…
profound economic, social and cultural changes that have taken place in recent years. It considers the progress made towards equal treatment in the labour market in the light of European Union action programmes, andFirst published in 1998 this boo responds to the dynamics of Industrializing Asia and the behavioural changes of actors which,…
in response to changing internal and external forces, have given rise to and are constantly giving rise to alterations in patterns of growth. From a geographical perspective, these are expressed in regional change, understood as a reconstruction of spatial organization. The imperatives of dynamic comparative advantage, changing global or regional competitiveness, and regional competition, faced by different actors, entities or territorial units can be identified as important forces underlying and shaping regional change. This volume provides further illumination, contextualization and interpretation of the spatiality of the economic reality in Industrializing Asia, as well as the role played by, and the implications for, different actors. The objectives of this book are 1) to outline the processes of regional change, linked to responses in the form of restructuring and integrative and regionalization tendencies, as well as the realignment of the global-regional-local divide in production systems/complexes and the operation of firms associated with reorganization of production in the process of maintaining and reconfiguring comparative advantage; 2) to highlight the wide scope of the process by considering differential units of analysis, linked to the agents and manifestations of regional change, and the role of scale in terms of the spatial units involved; 3) to highlight the implications as to the current and future position or role of differential actors/agents (particularly nation state) in shaping the new economic reality in the region and as a corollary, its positioning in the global economic order.Property Tax: An International Comparative Review (Routledge Revivals)
By William McCluskey. 1999
First published in 1999, this volume aims to add to the existing body of knowledge with regard to application of…
ad valorem property taxation in various countries. To this end, the present volume has essentially focused on updating, revising and extending the coverage of material included in the earlier book, ‘Comparative Property Tax Systems’. The contributors discuss issues including property tax in Singapore, Ireland, Pakistan, Poland and Cyprus.Evolutionary Patterns of Local Industrial Systems (Routledge Revivals)
By Fiorenza Belussi, Giorgio Gottardi. 1999
Pulished in 2000, a selection of contributions presented in 1998 at the conference of Udine entitled, "The Development of Industrial Districts…
in Italy". The theoretical aim of the book is to explain the dynamic mechanism of the growth of Italian "industrial districts" shifting attention from "Marshallian industrial districts", where focus is not just on the decentralization of production among small-batch firms. Determinant factors explaining growth seem related to the ways in which firms explore the markets, learn tacit knowledge, network with subcontractors and make incremental innovations. In substance, the work offers a cognitive approach to the issue of industrial districts.Social and Economic Change in Eastern Ukraine: The Example of Zaporizhzhia (Routledge Revivals)
By Hans Van Zon, Andre Batako, Anna Kreslavaska. 1998
First published in 1998, this deeply engaging volume describes the ‘great transformation’ of our time. While transformation, it is definitely…
not a transition to the market economy, civil society and democratic rule. Instead, this book maps the growth of the economic jungle, clan society and a corrupted, criminalised state. Capitalists but no capitalism. Watching Warsaw, Prague and Budapest, one should not forget about Zaporizhzhya. After this book, one cannot.Drawing on the work of the Austrian School and its heirs, Capital in Disequilibrium develops a modern, systematic version of…
capital theory in order to suggest a new approach to the subject of economics. Original and provocative in his reflection, Lewin offers both a new approach and an accessible discussion of one of the most important, but also oFirst published in 1998, this volume explores international investment strategies as mainly antecedent decisions about what, when, where, and how…
a transnational investor should invest in the pursuit of its sustained competitive advantages in the global marketplace. The objective of this book is to provide international managers with conceptual frameworks, general guidelines, governmental policies, and insightful evidence useful for their strategic investment decisions involving the People’s Republic of China, a country which is now the largest emerging economy and the biggest foreign direct investment absorption developing country in the world.