... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking ... ...re is 10% and in Ireland – 3%. In each 5-year period only 25% of low paid Americans are in a poor family at some point (the figure is 10% in the UK)... ...freelance, and fixed-term contract employees (or even illegal aliens) and executives. Both are peripatetic. Workplace-orientated trade unionism cann... ...ces. Stock options now constitute c. 60 percent of the pay of Fortune 500 executives. Whitney Tilson of Tilson Capital Partners notes in "The Motle... ...ture will stabilize, service sector jobs will mushroom, employment in the manufacturing sector will be squeezed by "just in time" inventory and prod... ... not have had such an impact on work patterns. Manufacturing techniques - chiefly miniaturization - had a profound effect on the relocation of work ... ...roup of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzer...

...oduce it provided the source is acknowledged. We will appreciate if a copy of reproduced materials is sent to us. 4 Fixing Global Finance Contents Ac... ... Fixing Global Finance Contents Acronyms 6-7 Data Notes 8 1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 9 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing ... ...MFIs Micro Finance Institutions MSE Micro and Small Enterprise NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NBFCs Non-Banking Financial Companies NGOs No... ...piled by US Census Bureau reveal that 43.6 million people (or one in seven Americans) lived in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million in 2008. The US p... ...e shock was much more widespread and severe. The industrial production and manufacturing exports witnessed the sharp slowdown in the developing world.... ... bounds in the last three decades. As illustrated by Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the IMF, financial industry’s share in the total US corp... ...ved more money than the annual public budgets of Russia and India. 4 Some executives of private equity firms earn billions of dollars in fees and pro... ...gn direct investors such as Siemens or Vodafone might do by investing in a manufacturing plant or telecommunications network), but in order to sell th... ...e Committee on Financial Sector Reforms (chaired by Raghuram Rajan, former chief economist of the IMF). Table 4: Key Indicators of Openness of the Ind...

...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the world. The turbulence in financial systems was followed by a significant reduction in real economic a...

...1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Players 5. ...

...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...BLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTIO... ...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...ore intangible, altruistic and ideational. It is more than half a century since Chief Justice Holmes alluded to a marketplace for a free trade in... ...heir mission is nonprofit. The obvious examples are foreign airlines and shipping companies"). A Tangible-Abstract Product Dimension The second... ...ion: origination the creation of form utility (by discovering, harvesting, mining, manufacturing, etc.); force-taking of utility without offering a p... ...tional campaigns may be differentiated for each segment. How Many Segments? The chief objective of segmentation is not merely to increase product ... ...my of Advertising and the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Sales and Marketing Executives Association. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island with ...

...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some o...

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...ces and intellectual property would become primary fields of endeavor and the chief engines of the economy. Now they are, and it is no more rational to... ...dscape in music. (It is almost as hard to take seriously the record industry executives who moralistically denounce the downloading in the name of the... ...s, we simply laugh. The “hacking” there consists of looking at the razor and manufacturing a blade that will fit. To say this is somehow immoral seems ... ...ion about extending monopolies is seldom to be found in the reasoning of our chief patent court. The difference is striking. Jefferson said that the j... ...urt issued a temporary injunction telling Static Controls that it must cease manufacturing generic toner cartridges that operated in Lexmark printers—...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...ed to order a “nationwide ground stop. ” While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25. 145... ...ded frequent updates to Acting Deputy Administrator Monte Belger and other executives at FAA headquarters as United 93 headed toward Washington, D.C. ... ...President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outsi... ... President,Vice President, Secretary of Defense,Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley all pa... ...fa, a Khartoum pharma- ceutical plant, which intelligence reports said was manufacturing a precursor ingredient for nerve gas with Bin Ladin’s financi...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...