Corporate Finance or Racism without Racists

Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach

Author: Michael C Ehrhardt

Drawing from their experience with comprehensive textbooks Ehrhardt & Brigham focus on the critical financial concepts, skills, and technological applications required by every MBA in the 21st century workplace. The result is a lean textbook that (1) provides an in-depth treatment of all essential topics in corporate finance yet (2) can be covered in its entirely in a single semester.

Table of Contents:

Part I: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF CORPORATE FINANCE. 1. An Overview of Corporate Finance and the Financial Environment. 2. Time Value of Money. 3. Financial Statements, Cash Flow & Taxes. 4. Analysis of Financial Statements. 5. Risk and Return. Part II: SECURITIES AND THEIR VALUATION. 6. Bonds and their Valuation. 7. Stocks and their Valuation. 8. Financial Options: Their Valuation and Applications in Corporate Finance. Part III: PROJECTS AND THEIR VALUATION. 9. The Cost of Capital. 10. The Basics of Capital Budgeting: Evaluating Cash Flows. 11. Cash Flow Estimation and Risk Analysis. Part IV: CORPORATE VALUATION. 12. Financial Planning and Forecasting Statements. 13. Corporate Valuation, Value Based Management and Corporate Governance. Part V: STRATEGIC FINANCING DECISIONS. 14. Capital Structure Decisions. 15. Distribution to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases. Part VI: SPECIAL TOPICS. 16. Working Capital Management. 17. Multinational Corporate Finance.

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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States

Author: Eduardo Bonilla Silva

Racism is alive and well although it has changed its clothes. Color-blind racism combines elements of liberalism in the abstract with anti-minority views to justify contemporary racial inequality.

Table of Contents:

1	The strange enigma of race in contemporary America	1
2	The central frames of color-blind racism	25
3	The style of color blindness : how to talk nasty about minorities without sounding racist	53
4	"I didn't get that job because of a black man" : color-blind racism's racial stories	75
5	Peeking inside the (white) house of color blindness : the significance of whites' segregation	103
6	Are all whites refined Archie Bunkers? : an examination of white racial progressives	131
7	Are blacks color blind, too?	151
8	E Pluribus Unum or the same old perfume in a new bottle? : on the future of racial stratification in the United States	177
9	Conclusion : "the (color-blind) emperor has no clothes" : exposing the whiteness of color blindness	207
10	Queries : answers to questions from concerned readers	219
	Postscript : what is to be done (for real)?	229
App	In-depth interview schedule DAS 98-form B