A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing or Superior Supervision

A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing

Author: Hersh Shefrin

"A mathematical-economist-turned-behavioral-economist, Hersh Shefrin challenges and delights the reader by applying concepts of behavioral economics with emphasis on investor heterogeneity to revisit a broad spectrum of topics in finance including portfolio management, trading, and the pricing of equities, bonds and options."
George M. Constantinides, Leo Melamed Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

"The flood of empirical asset pricing research in recent years has often required financial economists to choose between two unpalatable options: either embrace the rich range of evidence with a somewhat atheoretical view; or, simply ignore that large portion of the evidence that conflicts with classical asset pricing theory. The behavioral finance pioneer Hersh Shefrin, in this new edition of his treatise, shows that one need not choose between theory and data. He shows that a number of seemingly "behavioral" patterns in the data can in fact be derived from a suitably modified version of the stochastic discount factor framework. Impressive in both scope and attention to detail, this book will be valuable for researchers, teachers, students, and investment professionals."
Jeffrey Wurgler, Research Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business

"Judging from the large volume of trade in the financial markets and the astounding volatility of prices, one has to accept the idea that investors hold divergent and fast fluctuating beliefs. For this to make sense, I see only two possible hypotheses. Both individual and professional investors receive a lot of information — some of it public but a lot more of itprivate — on which they act. Or they all receive similar information but each one interprets that information somewhat differently from the other. Although it is not quite rational, I find the latter behaviour more plausible than the former. A large part of the second edition of A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing is devoted to developing this arresting, although by no means mainstream, hypothesis. In that endeavour, Professor Shefrin is a maverick and a pioneer."
—Bernard Dumas, Professor of Finance, Swiss Finance Institute, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Praise for the First Edition:
"This book provides a much-needed bridge between behavioral finance and traditional asset pricing theory, so that the insights that the two fields offer can complement each other. This book will make the theory of behavioral finance far more useful and broadly applicable."
—Robert Shiller, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, International Center for Finance, Yale University

Incorporating the latest theory and empirical research, the second edition of A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive discussion of how psychology affects market activity. The key message remains: that the future of asset pricing theory lies in bringing together the powerful SDF-based tools adopted by neoclassical asset pricing theorists and the more realistic assumptions adopted by behavioral asset pricing theorists. The most important equation in the first edition is the decomposition of the log-SDF into sentiment and a fundamental component. In the second edition, Shefrin extends the analysis to demonstrate how this equation can be generalized to encompass the combination of behavioral preferences and behavioral beliefs. This generalization provides a unified approach that ties together the main ideas in the book.

The book is supported by a companion website, which contains examples worked out as Excel spreadsheets so that readers can input their own data to test the results.

Hersh Shefrin is Mario L. Belotti Professor of Finance, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, CA, USA

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction 1

I Heuristics and representativeness : experimental evidence 15

2 Representativeness and Bayes rule : psychological perspective 17

3 Representativeness and Bayes rule : economics perspective 27

4 A simple asset pricing model featuring representativeness 35

5 Heterogeneous judgments in experiments 47

II Heuristics and representativeness : investor expectations 63

6 Representativeness and heterogeneous beliefs among individual investors, financial executives, and academics 65

7 Representativeness and heterogeneity in the judgments of professional investors 79

III Developing behavioral asset pricing models 101

8 A simple asset pricing model with heterogeneous beliefs 103

9 Heterogeneous beliefs and inefficient markets 115

10 A simple market model of prices and trading volume 131

11 Efficiency and entropy : long-run dynamics 149

IV Heterogeneity in risk tolerance and time discounting 167

12 CRRA and CARA utility functions 169

13 Heterogeneous risk tolerance and time preference 183

14 Representative investors in a heterogeneous CRRA model 193

V Sentiment and behavioral SDF 211

15 Sentiment 213

16 Behavioral SDF and the sentiment premium 231

VI Applications of behavioral SDF 249

17 Behavioral betas and mean-variance portfolios 251

18 Cross-section of return expectations 269

19 Testing for a sentiment premium 295

20 A behavioral approach to the term structure of interest rates 305

21 Behavioral Black-Scholes 317

22 Irrational exuberance and option smiles 337

23 Empirical evidence in support of behavioral SDF 359

VII Behavioral preferences 389

24 Prospect theory : introduction 391

25 Prospecttheory portfolios 419

26 SP/A theory : introduction 429

27 SP/A-based behavioral portfolio theory 437

28 Equilibrium with behavioral preferences 461

29 The disposition effect : trading behavior and pricing 487

30 Reflections on the equity premium puzzle 505

VIII Future directions and closing comments 523

31 Continuous time behavioral equilibrium models 525

32 Conclusion 551

References 563

Index 587

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Superior Supervision: The Ten Percent Solution: The 10% Solution

Author: Raymond O Loen

Of all the supervisors in all the offices, plants, and organizations in the world, only a small group are truly outstanding at their jobs. Another small group are failures in their work, but the vast majority of supervisors are simply average performers. In Superior Supervision, Raymond O. Loen clearly identifies how supervisors can boost themselves into the top 10% of all supervisors and how they can avoid falling to the ranks of the bottom 10%. For each of the twelve essential components of any supervisor's job - from hiring and training new employees to setting priorities, delegating authority, giving instructions, motivating employees, and engendering cooperation - Loen identifies specific actions that will enable a supervisor to excel. He also spells out the mistakes and oversights that will cause a supervisor to fail. Questions and self-evaluations help readers to assess their supervisory strengths and weaknesses. Clear advice and rich examples guide them towards being a better boss. In this era of employee empowerment and organizational flattening, a supervisor's job is more complex and more important to the organization's success than ever before. With increasing responsibility for decisions, personnel, productivity, quality, sales, and profits, supervisors and their employers can no longer afford lackluster performance. Both new and experienced supervisors will benefit from Loen's advice as they are shown how to optimize their performance, get results, create support from employees and managers, and solve problems. In recognition of supervisors' greater authority and responsibility, Loen even offers a chapter on handling pressure. This book will enable any supervisor to excel more and fail less.

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Loen ( Manage More by Doing Less ) notes that supervising employees is a critically important, but generally little understood managerial task. Here he outlines 14 strategies and procedures supervisors can follow ``to perform in the upper ten percent of supervisory performance.'' He sees the supervisory position as an often underutilized opportunity for supervisors to counsel employees, and he adds a list of early warning signs often displayed by employees with a pressing need for counseling, along with intercession techniques. In covering motivation and staffing arrangements, he observes that ``one of the worst hiring practices is to make hiring decisions based primarily on the results of daisy-chain interviewing'' after which executives vote on whom to hire. His discussion of cooperation, instruction and improving worker performance is uninspired, a repackaging of familiar concepts. (Feb.)

Women of Academe or HRD Trends Worldwide

Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove

Author: Nadya Aisenberg

Drawing on more than sixty interviews, this book examines women's struggle to gain authority in the academic profession and to use the at authority to change conventional practices. The authors argue that as women rise in academe, they are stymied at a certain level by the remaining force of the old norms which in the past barred women from professional life altogether.

Publishers Weekly

In this illuminating study, Aisenberg (The Dream of Deliverance in American Politics) and Harrington, a lawyer and political science instructor at Vassar, identify ``a battery of danger points common to the experience of women seeking professional autonomy and authority'' in academia and warn that female intellectuals may undermine their own career advancement by refusing to follow the ``rules of the game.'' Interviews with 62 academics indicate that women seldom receive effective career counseling; fail to develop career strategies (five- and 10-year plans); neglect to establish professional credentials early on (e.g., submitting thesis papers for publication); are unfamiliar with networking; and shun self-promotion as calculated, even cold-blooded manipulation. Most cherish the ``merit dream,'' the belief that political expediency is beneath Ivory Tower purity. Even the tenured professor is loath to exercise her voice of authority, once attained, fearing stigmatization as a shrew. The authors offer concrete approaches to professionalization (e.g., gain practice in political skills through volunteer work) that will benefit women outside the academic community as well. (April) UFunder

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Women have long been subservient to men regardless of the lip service paid to equality; old stigmas still exist. Supported by over 60 interviews, the authors examine the old rules and the struggle of women to gain recognition in the academic profession. Their conclusions offer thoughts on what women should do; the possible actions provide no real solutions for individuals but collectively motivate and stimulate self-esteem. A definitive, thought-provoking study. Recommended. L.R. Little, Penticton P.L., British Columbia

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Drawing on more than 60 interviews, this book examines women's struggle to gain authority in the academic profession and to use that authority to change conventional practices. Paper $10.95. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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HRD Trends Worldwide: shared solutions to compete in a global economy

Author: Jack J J Phillips

Meet the demands of a competitive worldwide competitive economy. Discover the relevance of these 16 global HRD trends to your organization:
* Strategy and training * Needs assessment and analysis
* Performance improvement * Corporate universities
* Training and delivery * Shared responsibilities
* Systematic evaluation * Measuring the return on investment (ROI)
* Training costs * Profit centers
* Budgeting * Learning objectives
* Management partnerships * Technology
* Global training programs * Outsourcing



Jack Phillips noticed something while consulting for organizations all over the world. He discovered that training and development departments - even though they are in different countries - experience many of the same issues and challenges. He recognized and then researched, sixteen critical global HRD trends.

These sixteen noteworthy trends were formulated by surveying thirty-five organizations in various industrialized countries, as well as actually working with training and development departments across the globe. This firsthand global HRD experience verified and brought to life the trends.

As a result of the author's investigation, 'HRD Trends Worldwide' outlines each HRD trend and helps you thoroughly understand them all and, more importantly, put them to good use.

This text presents the survey results and explains each trend through examples and evidence. To help you work with the trends, the text provides an examination of each trend's potential impact on your training and performance improvement functions.

Every HRDand training and development professional interested in meeting the demands of a competitive worldwide economy should make reading this book a priority.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Importance of Trends	1
Ch. 2	Strategy and Training	12
Ch. 3	Needs Assessment and Analysis	33
Ch. 4	Performance Improvement	50
Ch. 5	Corporate Universities	73
Ch. 6	Training and Delivery	98
Ch. 7	Shared Responsibilities	121
Ch. 8	Systematic Evaluation	141
Ch. 9	Measuring ROI	162
Ch. 10	Training Costs	189
Ch. 11	Profit Centers	211
Ch. 12	Budgeting	225
Ch. 13	Learning Organizations	238
Ch. 14	Management Partnerships	264
Ch. 15	Technology	289
Ch. 16	Global Training Programs	320
Ch. 17	Outsourcing	345
Ch. 18	Working with the Trends	367
App. 1	Top 16 Global HRD Trends: Survey Results	377
App. 2	Second 16 Global HRD Trends: Survey Results	381
	Index	389

Beyond Interdependence or Organisational Change and Retail Finance

Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology

Author: Jim MacNeill

Over the last year, the world has seen some cataclysmic changes. Eastern Europe is no longer yoked with Soviet communism, Germany is again a single, powerful nation, and Russia itself is pursuing a free-market economy at an almost frantic pace. Yet as we focus on the triumph of democracy, it is easy to overlook the potentially catastrophic changes that face the world environment, changes that are inextricably linked to the workings of the political and economic institutions of our time.
Beyond Interdependence builds upon the Brundtland Commission's landmark report Our Common Future, a book that has been hailed as "the most important document of the decade on the future of the world" and has sold over one-half million copies in nineteen foreign languages. Dr. Jim MacNeill, the principal author of both works, has in this latest study extended the Commission's analysis of the critical relationships between the global environment, the world economy, and the international order. Together with his eminent colleagues, Pieter Winsemius and Taizo Yakushiji, MacNeill shows that while our global economy and ecology have become completely interlocked, they have remained separate in our institutions, and in the minds of our policymakers. The result is a wide range of domestic and international policies that are accelerating the depletion of Earth's basic ecological (and economic) capital--its rivers, lakes, and oceans, its soils and forests, its flora and fauna, and its ozone shield. These short-sighted policies also threaten us in the next century with a greater rise in global warming and sea level than have occurred in the ten-thousand years since the last ice age. The authors arguethat this environmental degradation and resource depletion will be the principal source of interstate conflict in the post-cold war world.
Providing a fresh analysis of the issues of global change, and taking into account such recent events as the tidal-shift in East/West relations and the G7 Economic Summit in Houston, Beyond Interdependence shows how industrialized nations can take unilateral action to address environmental threats while improving macroeconomic efficiency and international competitiveness. It also demonstrates how developed nations can negotiate a series of mutually advantageous "bargains" with Eastern European and Third World nations.
With its incisive analysis and far-reaching recommendations for policy reform, Beyond Interdependence shows us how we can act urgently but intelligently to advance our common future.

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Organisational Change and Retail Finance: An Ethnographic Perspective

Author: Richard Harper

Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide these changes, both in terms of helping better understand and redraw work processes and through providing more accurate and flexible understanding of he role technology plays. It places he reported research in context by contrasting it with those approaches more commonly associated with change, including business processes engineering, participative design and soft systems methodologies. The book explains what are the benefits of ethnography, as well as the potential it has in helping achieve more desirable change in any and all organizations, financial services included. The book will be of interest to all international researchers concersed with organizational and technological change, as well as managers of organizational development. It will also interest advanced students in sociology, anthropology, management science and organizational studies.

Goods Power History or Decision Support in the Data Warehouse

Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture

Author: Arnold J Bauer

This book is an original exploration into the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years with special attention to the categories of food, clothing, shelter, and the arrangement of public and private space. The practice of consumption is related to supply and demand but also to the importance of ritual and the scramble for identity within the ethnic and class arrangements imposed by colonial and postcolonial societies.

Table of Contents:

	List of Maps and Figures
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	The Material Landscape of Pre-Columbian America	15
3	Contact Goods	46
4	Civilizing Goods	85
5	Modernizing Goods: Material Culture at the Crest of the First Liberalism	129
6	Developing Goods	165
7	Global Goods: Liberalism Redux	201
	Bibliography	221
	Index	235

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Decision Support in the Data Warehouse

Author: Hugh J Watson

Decision Support in the Data Warehouse demystifies data warehousing's technical jargon and provides a complete framework for building, maintaining, and using a data warehouse for decision support. This is the first book that integrates building and operating a data warehouse; developing decision support applications using the warehouse; and using the right warehouse tools. The book clearly describes the business and technical issues important to data warehousing success. They are brought to life with up-to-the-minute case studies drawn from today's leading organizations. Learn how to have a strategic business impact with your warehouse.

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Elucidating the new decision support environment of data warehousing, Gray (information science, Claremont Graduate U.) and Watson (business administration, U. of Georgia) present strategies, support tools, applications, products, services, and success stories. Includes "Codd's 12 rules for OLAP" (on-line analytical processing) and references. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Fair Shares or Service Quality in Leisure and Tourism

Fair Shares: The Future of Shareholder Power and Responsibility

Author: Jonathan Charkham

This book shows the importance of shareholder interest and involvement, which both authors strongly believe will remain in the best interests of the company and the wider society in the 21st century.

Table of Contents:

	Abbreviations
	Introduction: Why a Book about Shareholders?	1
1	The Purpose of the Company	15
2	The Role of shareholders in the UK	27
3	The World of Regulation	40
4	The Development of the Joint Stock Company	44
5	Directors: The Legal Framework	51
6	Shareholders: The Legal Framework	61
7	The Role of Banks	79
8	The Ownership of Companies	88
9	Shares as a Home for Savings	95
10	The Private Shareholder	108
11	Narrower Share Ownership	118
12	Power: The Greasy Pole	126
13	The Rise of the Institutions	131
14	The Legal Obligations of Institutional Shareholders	140
15	Investment Strategy and Governance	155
16	The Institutions: Combined Action	166
17	Remuneration	178
18	Disclosure	193
19	The International Dimension	201
20	The AGM	205
21	The Obligations of Significant Ownership	223
22	Guarding the Guards	231
23	A Summary of Proposals for Reform	239
App. 1	Report of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (Cadbury Code)	245
App. 2	Directors' Remuneration: Report of a Study Group Chaired by Sir Richard Greenbury (Greenbury Code)	248
App. 3	Committee on Corporate Governance	254
App. 4	List of IFMA Members as at 1 July 1997	258
App. 5	Extracts from IFMA Fund Management Survey 1997	260
	Select Bibliography and References	262
	Index	267

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Service Quality in Leisure and Tourism

Author: C Williams

The service sector is considered to lag behind manufacturing in introducing quality management cultures. The leisure and tourism industry has tended to be even more dilatory and so quality management was not given a high priority until recently. This book aims to develop an awareness of the underpinning theories of quality as applicable to leisure and tourism. It helps to comprehend the various dimensions of service quality along with the associated underpinning theory, facilitating and understanding of service, its characteristics and typology. Suitable for students and researchers, it shows how to evaluate critically the numerous quality management systems and techniques available within the context of the leisure and tourism business environment.

Planning for Real Time Event Response Management or Why Global Commitment Really Matters

Planning for Real Time Event Response Management

Author: David W J Ash

• Real-time intelligent agents: solutions and applications
• Choosing and integrating the best planning techniques
• Reaction decision frameworks and language frameworks
• Includes a complete case study

The act of planning for and responding to real-time events has been an area of intense investigation in the past few years. Planning for Real Time Event Response Management offers this state-of-the-art technology in depth and demonstrates how it can be employed for maximum effect. The techniques presented here are applicable to an exceptionally broad range of problems, from web-based shopping assistants to robots, medicine to financial analysis. Coverage includes:

• Conventional and reactive planning: when to use each, and when to avoid planning
• A flight planning example used throughout the book to bring together the concepts
• Key reactive planning techniques such as Brooks' subsumption architecture and Rosenschein/Kaelbling's situated automata—and their limitations
• Contingencies: building intelligent agents that can handle unanticipated events
• Applying planning paradigms to real-world domains
• Building Reaction Decision Frameworks that integrate conventional and reactive planning
• Solving problems at execution time: anytime algorithms and real-time architectures
• Real-time planning: integrating artificial intelligence and real-time computing

Planning for Real Time Event Response Management introduces a framework for describing reactive behavior that can be used in many knowledge domains, concluding with a previewof the next steps to be taken in intelligent agent development, including integration of real-time problem solving languages with existing Internet infrastructures.

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Why Global Commitment Really Matters!

Author: J David David Richardson

For both soaring Silicon Valley and slumping Central New York, and for firms both large and small, global integration usually has a very positive impact. In this study, Howard Lewis and J. David Richardson explore new gains from deep international integration, some of which were featured in two earlier Institute studies of the under-appreciated benefits of deep export dependence (*). Why Global Integration Matters Most! updates the export studies and explores the evidence for a more radical idea.

A growing body of research literature demonstrates that globally engaged firms and their workers enjoy numerous performance benefits over local counterparts that are identical with respect to size, industry, and location. Conscious decisions to export, import, invest abroad, or partner with foreign investors or technology seem to be a catalyst for added benefits, especially rapid and stable job growth. Over time, globally engaged firms rejuvenate whole industries as their market share rises and that of more insular firms shrinks. Any, many, or all types of global commitments reward firms, workers, and local communities.

The study supplements its research survey with real-life profiles of representative American exporters, importers (often businesses importing machines and components), investors abroad, foreign affiliates, and technology partners. It also weighs criticisms and alternative interpretations of the research, and discusses the problems of those left on the margins of global engagement.

Table of Contents:

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Summary	1
Overview	3
1 Introduction	7
2 The Globally Engaged Stand Tall: Firms, Workers,
Communities	13
Globally Engaged Firms Versus Other Firms	16
Globally Engaged Workers Versus Other Workers	24
Globally Engaged Firms, Workers, and Communities Abroad	35
3 Yes, But Does Globalization Really Cause Any of This Stuff?	39
Commitment, Not Intensity	40
The Chicken and the Egg	41
Global Commitments Are a Family of Activities	45
Even if Global Presence Meekly Mirrored Local
Performance, There May Be Gains	47
4 But What About ...? Complaints, Doubts, and Criticism	51
5 Policy Implications	61
References	63
Index	67
Tables
Table 3.1 Background data for Figures 3.4-3.	6—Wages
and employment shares of globally integrated and less	48

Player Manager or Knowledge Management

Player Manager: The Rise of Professionals Who Manage while They Work

Author: Philip Augar

Continual downsizing and pressure on the bottom line are forcing companies to replace full-time managers with revenue-generating professionals and asking them to take on management roles. This book shows a fundamental change taking place in the workplace. It gives detailed case studies on professionals who are currently in these situations and how they are handling themselves and their careers.

Table of Contents:

Methodology
Acknowledgments
Preface

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Knowledge Management: Classic and Contemporary Works

Author: Daryl Morey

This book provides an introduction to the field of knowledge management. Taking a learning-centric rather than information-centric approach, it emphasizes the continuous acquisition and application of knowledge. The book is organized into three sections, each opening with a classic work from a leader in the field. The first section, Strategy, discusses the motivation for knowledge management and how to structure a knowledge management program. The second section, Process, discusses the use of knowledge management to make existing practices more effective, the speeding up of organizational learning, and effective methods for implementing knowledge management. The third section, Metrics, discusses how to measure the impact of knowledge management on an organization. In addition to the classic essays, each section contains unpublished works that further develop the foundational concepts and strategies.

Marketing Research or Class Struggle or Family Struggle

Marketing Research

Author: Carl McDaniel

Presents marketing research through the eyes of a manager using and purchasing research information, while maintaining solid, competitive coverage of quantitative methods. Extensive updates and revisions enhance its traditional high quality and enjoyable style.

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Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea

Author: Seung Kyung Kim

This study considers South Korean economic development from the perspective of young female factory workers, who grapple with defining their roles in respect to marriage and motherhood. Kim explores the women's individual and collective struggles to improve their positions and examines their links with other political forces within the labor movement. She analyzes how female workers envision their place in society, how they cope with economic and social marginalization in their daily lives, and how they develop strategies for a better future.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Figures
	Preface: Field, Subject, Author
	Acknowledgments
	Language Note
1	Women Caught between Global Capitalism and South Korean Patriarchy	1
2	The Process of Production in the Masan Free Export Zone	19
3	The Myth of Social Mobility: Its Creation and Reproduction among Women Workers	57
4	Labor Militancy and Collective Action	97
5	The Making of Working-Class Identity: Students' Theories and Workers' Lives	129
6	Conclusion	170
	References	185
	Index	197

Econometrics or Frontiers in Development Economics

Econometrics

Author: Badi H Baltagi

This textbook teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them. It also includes a simple and concise treatment of more advanced topics in spatial correlation, panel data, limited dependent variables, regression diagnostics, specification testing and time series analysis. Each chapter has a set of theoretical exercises as well as an empirical illustration using a real economic application. These empirical exercises usually replicate a published article using Stata or Eviews.

The 4^th edition updates identification and estimation methods in the simultaneous equation model. It also reviews the problem of weak instrumental variables and illustrates with an example on crime using Stata. Moreover, it updates panel data methods illustrating dynamic panel data methods with Stata using dynamic demand for cigarettes in US states. Other chapters that are updated with empirical examples include the limited dependent variable chapter.

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Frontiers in Development Economics: The Future in Perspective

Author: Joseph E E Stiglitz

Co-edited by the Vice President of the World Bank, this volume offers cutting edge work from a new generation of dynamic thinkers in development economics.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction: Ideas for Development	1
	The Old Generation of Development Economists and the New	13
	Comment	51
	Comment	58
	On the Goals of Development	61
	Comment	87
	Comment	94
	Fallacies in Development Theory and Their Implications for Policy	103
	Comment	135
	Comment	147
	Revisiting the Challenge of Development	149
	The Evolution of Thinking about Poverty: Exploring the Interactions	183
	Development Issues: Settled and Open	227
	Distributive Conflicts, Collective Action, and Institutional Economics	269
	Comment	291
	Comment	296
	Historical Perspectives on Development	301
	Comment	335
	Comment	340
	In Quest of the Political: The Political Economy of Development Policymaking	345
	Comment	381
	Comment	384
	Modern Economic Theory and Development	389
	Comment	460
	Comment	464
	Comment	478
App	Reflections	487
	A Research Agenda	489
	Needed: A Theory of Change	491
	Sparks and Grit from the Anvil of Growth	492
	What Is Development About?	506
	Candidate Issues in Development Economics	514
App	Reflections by Pioneers	515
	"Pioneers Revisited"	517
	International Trade and the Domestic Institutional Framework	520
	The Economics of a Stagnant Population	529
	The View from the Trenches: Development Processes and Policies as Seen by a Working Professional	541
	Contributors and Commentators	563
	Index	565

Financing Sport or How to Enter and Succeed in Developing World Markets

Financing Sport: Winning Strategies

Author: Howard

Financing Sport maintains a strong practical orientation. Numerous vignettes or mini-cases drawn from actual practice are interspersed throughout the book. Students enjoy knowing how capital financing and revenue acquisition practices are actually being used by sport organizations; therefore the authors include numerous real-world examples to illustrate many of the best practices employed by sport managers. This "nuts and bolts" treatment allows readers to confidently transfer the methods to effective practice.

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How to Enter and Succeed in Developing World Markets

Author: A Samli

Entering & Succeeding in Emerging Countries: Marketing to the Forgotten Majority is a must-read for professionals, business owners, managers, and anyone else considering growing their business in the untapped market of developing countries. An expert in marketing in developing economies, Samli equips readers with proven techniques and practices to uncover and realize profitable opportunities. Extremely practical, he also offers insight into the following: Initiating your global strategy, Determining the best way to enter the market, Establishing Pricing Strategies, Monitoring results, and much more!

Value or Managing Human Services Personnel

Value: Its Measurement, Design, and Management

Author: M Larry Larry Shillito

Written for people of various professions and offering a modern approach to using value analysis for product development, this is a structured process that unites interdisciplinary teams in an organization to select and analyze projects in terms of investment potential and to integrate quality and productivity. It contains four sections that describe the nature, measurement, design and management of value.

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Managing Human Services Personnel

Author: Michael J Austin

"If this guide is read by managers and supervisors in social work agencies on both sides of the Atlantic in conjunction with the growing recognition of the need for more professional managerial activity within both the private and public sectors, then it will serve a useful purpose."

Table of Contents:

Personnel Management and Organizational Effectiveness
Development and Use of Task-Based Job Descriptions
Employee Recruitment and Selection
Designing and Conducting Worker Performance Evaluations
Handling Employee Performance Problems
Staff Development and Career Planning

Wests Business Law with Online Research Guide or Reforming Infrastructure

West's Business Law with Online Research Guide

Author:

This text is used at more colleges and universities than any other business law text. With the perfect balance of tradition and innovation, this benchmark text brings to life the functions and inner-workings of business law in the real world. Rich with classic and modern cases, West's Business Law is the ideal text for students entering virtually any field of business. By combining this market leading text with a complete supplements and technology package, this is the one clear choice in business law courses.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
	Internet Tools	1
	Accessing and Navigating the Internet	5
	Gateways to the Internet	5
	Navigating the Internet	6
	Conducting Online Research	8
	Finding People	14
	Investigating Companies	15
	Updating the Results	16
	Some of the Best Legal Resource Sites on the Internet	17
Appendix	Evaluating Online Resources	25

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Reforming Infrastructure: Privatization, Regulation, and Competition

Author: Ioannis Kessides

Infrastructure is crucial for generating growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. For much of the 20th century and in most countries, the network utilities that delivered infrastructure servicessuch as electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railroads, and water supplywere vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This approach often resulted in extremely weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and particularly for poor people. Common problems included low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and shortfalls in investment.

Recognizing infrastructures importance, many countries over the past two decades have implemented far-reaching infrastructure reformsrestructuring, privatizing, and establishing new approaches to regulation. Reforming Infrastructure identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection within the historical, economic, and institutional context of developing and transition economies. It also assesses the outcomes of these policy changes, as well as their distributional consequencesespecially for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. And, drawing on a range of international experiences and empirical studies, it recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performanceidentifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor peoples access to these crucial services.

Managing Humans Resources in the Hospitality Industry or Wireless Technology

Managing Humans Resources in the Hospitality Industry: An Experiential Approach

Author: Kathleen M Iverson

The hospitality supervisor of the future will be first and foremost a people manager, involved in leading, motivating, counseling and rewarding employees. Tomorrow's managers and supervisors must be prepared to take on new roles in the reengineered, highly participative organizations that are emerging. Managing Human Resources: An Experiential Approach will provide supervisors with comprehensive training in areas critical to their future success. It is an interesting and applied introduction to principles of supervision that will appeal to the career-oriented hospitality student.

• Part 1 is a management development component focusing on essential skill sets of supervisors including communication, problem solving, decision-making, and professional development. Part 2 addresses topics significant to managing human resources including selection, appraisal, counseling, discipline, and training. Finally, Part 3 provides an overview of organizational principles of the past and future including important contemporary topics such as organizational culture and change, strategic planning, diversity management, and the quality movement.
• The text will also include experiential components that allow students to apply concepts in situations similar to those they will encounter in the industry. It contains numerous real-life examples, experiential exercises, and skill testing opportunities that will keep students involved. Examples from the hospitality industry are dispersed throughout the book, allowing students to see principles in action.
• Each chapter opens with an Advanced Organizer to encourage students to cognitively connect thematerial that follows to their future career.
• Case studies, review questions, portfolio building projects, web-based learning components, and both individual and group experiential exercises will be included at the end of each chapter to create opportunities for students to apply the concepts they have studied.

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A textbook in which Iverson (Roosevelt U.) introduces students entering the hospitality industry to management principles by which to select, train, appraise, and motivate workers. Among the current aspects she includes are diversity, self-managed teams, coaching, the learning organization, personal mastery, career modeling, and behavioral interviewing. She covers essential supervisory skills, managing human resources, and organizational principles of the past and future. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

I. DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT SKILLS.

1. Leadership 2000.
2. Positive Communication.
3. Creative Problem Solving and Decision-Making.
4. Personal Mastery.

II. MANAGING AND DEVELOPING HUMAN RESOURCES.

5. Hiring Top Performers.
6. Training for Optimal Performance.
7. Leading through Motivation.
8. Performance Management.
9. Protecting Employee Rights.

III. A NEW ERA OF MANAGEMENT.

10. Labor Relations.
11. Evolution of Management Theory.
12. Strategic Management.
13. The Diversity Advantage.
14. The Quality Movement.
Index.

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Wireless Technology: Protocols, Standards, and Techniques

Author: Michel Daoud Yacoub

Featuring up-to-date material on second and third generation wireless systems, this new references covers GSM (Global System of Mobility) and CDMA (Code Division Multiplexing Access). It introduces third generation wireless networks based on the IMT-2000 system.

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Protocols, standards, and techniques are described for second- and third-generation wireless technologies, including those specific to wireless multimedia. Basic principles of wireless communications are introduced, and leading second-generation and third-generation technologies and wireless data technologies are examined. Appendices provide background tutorial information. The book is useful for telecommunications engineers, data communications specialists, network analysts and designers, computer and electrical engineers, technical personnel in the telecom industry, and undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, wireless communications, and information technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Introduction to Online Accounting Tax and Financial research or Global Management

Introduction to Online Accounting, Tax and Financial research, Vol. 2

Author: William Benjamin

Introduction to Online Accounting and Financial Research offers thorough coverage of effective online research practices for the financial manager. This volume begins by helping readers gain a solid understanding of the basics of conducting accounting and financial research, including technical standards, terminology and the context in which this information is used. The steps for defining the research problem, selecting the best sources, and developing search strategies that match the information's application are then discussed and evaluated. This reference guide also discusses recommended sources, free vs. for-pay options, and the critical issues of reliability and reputability. Like all the titles in the Business Research Series, this book is conveniently divided into four sections containing a number of business research applications that can be used for both in-house research training and reference. Internet research can be quick, easy, and abundant—but also challenging. Research sites sometimes come and go, and sources can be questionable. The Business Research Solutions Series provides comprehensive business and financial research reference guides and online training manuals to bridge a major gap in the field of online research methodology. This resourceful and innovative series of reference guides teaches readers how to approach a research problem, how to select the best online sources, and how to effectively use these sources. It also suggests alternate low-cost solutions for many standard questions and problems. A must-have for professionals involved in corporate research, these invaluable tools provide step-by-step advice on how to analyze, interpret, and present datafor informed decision-making.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Accounting and Financial Research: Definitions, Research Strategies, and Key Source Descriptions
2. Research Case Study on Acuonting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets in the Passenger Airlines
3. Accounting and Financial Research Problems and Solutions
4. Accounting and Financial Data Source Evaluations and Reviews
Appendix A: Directory of Online Business Data Sources
Appendix B: Directory of Online Business Data Publishers
Appendix C: Business Data Source Rating Survey
Appendix D: Contributor Biographies Index

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Global Management

Author: Betty Jane Punnett

Global Management is the new international management text for undergraduates, covering both strategy and the human resource function in a global context. Written by an authoritative author team, it features: * Coverage, in three main sections, of the Global Picture, the Firm Picture and the People Picture * A comprehensive list of references * Classroom-tested experiential exercises that relate to different countries, different sized organizations, and different people for flexible learning * Discussion questions at the end of each chapter * Long and short cases

Changing Corporate America from Inside Out or A Guide to the Basic Course for ESL Students

Changing Corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights

Author: Nicole Raeburn

Despite the backlash against lesbian and gay rights occurring in cities and states across the country, a growing number of corporations are actually expanding protections and benefits for their gay and lesbian employees. Why this should be, and why some corporations are increasingly open to inclusive policies while others are determinedly not, is what Nicole C. Raeburn seeks to explain in Changing Corporate America from Inside Out.A long-overdue study of the workplace movement, Raeburn's analysis focuses on the mobilization of lesbian, gay, and bisexual employee networks over the past fifteen years to win domestic partner benefits in Fortune 1000 companies. Drawing on surveys of nearly one hundred corporations with and without gay networks, intensive interviews with human resources executives and gay employee activists, as well as a number of case studies, Raeburn reveals the impact of the larger social and political environment on corporations' openness to gay-inclusive policies, the effects of industry and corporate characteristics on companies' willingness to adopt such policies, and what strategies have been most effective in transforming corporate policies and practices to support equitable benefits for all workers. Nicole C. Raeburn is assistant professor and chair of sociology at the University of San Francisco.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : corporations as the new frontier for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights	1
1	The rise of the corporate workplace movement	23
2	The slowdown in new corporate organizing	53
3	Building and benefiting from the movement	73
4	Winds of change outside corporate walls : external factors influence gay-inclusive policies	107
5	Corporate windows of opportunity : the impact of internal factors on gay-inclusive policies	157
6	Changing the corporation from inside out : the power of employee activism	189
	Conclusion : movement success, theoretical and practical	231
App	The birth of gay employee networks and the adoption of domestic partner benefits	269

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A Guide to the Basic Course for ESL Students

Author: Esther Yook

This item can be bundled with the text and is designed to assist the non-native English speaker. Features include FAQs, helpful URLs, strategies for accent management, and overcoming speech apprehension.

Open Economy Macroeconomics or The Political Economy of American Trade Policy

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Author: Asbjorn Rodseth

Professor Rødseth provides a broad survey of open economy macroeconomics within a unified framework. This upper-level book reviews the theories employed by ministries of finance, central banks and financial institutions that form the basis for most quantitative models of open economies. It also points out the limitations of these theories and gives an update on recent research. The emphasis is on how the nature of the markets for foreign exchange and for exports and imports sets the stage for government policy and determines the macroeconomic effects of external and internal shocks.

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The Political Economy of American Trade Policy

Author: Anne O O Krueger

Exploring the political and economic determinants of trade protection, this study provides a wealth of information on key American industries and documents the process of seeking and conferring protection.

Eight analytical histories of the automobile, steel, semiconductor, lumber, wheat, and textile and apparel industries demonstrate that trade barriers rarely have unequivocal benefits and may be counterproductive. They show that criteria for awarding protection do not take into account the interests of consumers or other industries and that political influence and an organized lobby are major sources of protection.

Based on these findings, a final essay suggests that current policy fails to consider adequately economic efficiency, the public good, and indirect negative effects. This volume will interest scholars in economics, business, and public policy who deal with trade issues.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Anne O. Krueger
1. Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Douglas A. Irwin
Comment: Andrew R. Dick
2. Steel Protection in the 1980s: The Waning Influence of Big Steel?
Michael O. Moore
Comment: William C. Lane
Comment: James R. Markusen
Comment: Michael H. Moskow
3. The Political Economy of U.S. Automobile Protection
Douglas R. Nelson
Comment: Anne E. Brunsdale, Randi Boorstein.
Comment: Richard N. Cooper
4. The MFA Paradox: More Protection and More Trade?
J. Michael Finger, Ann Harrison.
Comment: Robert E. Baldwin
Comment: I. M. Destler
5. Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade Policy: Do They Matter to the Political Economy of the Lumber Dispute?
Joseph P. Kalt
Comment: Geoffrey Carliner
6. The Political Economy of U.S. Export Subsidies for Wheat
Bruce L. Gardner
Comment: Robert Paarlberg
7. Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement
David Orden
Comment: Robert Paarlberg
8. Differences in the Uses and Effects of Antidumping Law across Import Sources
Robert W. Staiger and Frank A. Wolak
Comment: Kala Krishna
Comment: Anne E. Brunsdale, Keith B. Anderson.
9. Conclusions
Anne O. Krueger
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index

The Romance of Commerce and Culture or Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Cultural Reform

Author: James Sloan Allen

The story of how art and intellect fused with consumer capitalism to create Aspen, CO.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Second Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
I	Modernist Culture and Its Critics in Chicago
1	Modernist Marketing: The Consumer Revolution and the Container Corporation of America	3
2	Marketing Modernism: Moholy-Nagy and the Bauhaus in America	39
3	Great Books and Cultural Reform: The Chicago Bildungsideal	83
II	Healing the Wounds of War
4	The Magic Mountain: Discovering Aspen	119
5	Selling the Postwar Goethe	153
6	Celebrating the Postwar Goethe	180
7	The Birth of the Aspen Idea	208
III	Aspen and America in the Fifties - And After
8	Consensus, Criticism, and the New American Elite	237
9	The Aspen Muses and the Twilight of Modernism	268
10	Epilogue: The Romance of Commerce and Culture, 2002	291
	Notes	314
	Index	347

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Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

Author: Charles A Perron

This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. It focuses on how traditional Brazilian musical styles have been influenced by international popular music to form new hybrids. Since the heyday of Carmen Miranda in the 1940s, Brazilian influences have been felt in the US, and this two-way street has resulted in an explosion of rich musical styles. With today's emphasis on Global Pop and World Music, there is great interest in Latin American musical forms. For anyone interested in the history and scope of Brazilian music, this volume is a must-read.

Currency Competition and Foreign Exchange Markets or Microeconomic Theory

Currency Competition and Foreign Exchange Markets: The Dollar, the Yen and the Euro

Author: Philipp Hartmann

Currency Competition and Foreign Exchange Markets is a major new theoretical and empirical study of international currencies that focuses on the role the Euro (the future European currency) will play in the international monetary and financial system, along with the US dollar and the Japanese yen. In contrast to much of the existing literature that approaches the subject from a macroeconomic perspective, Philipp Hartmann develops a theoretical model that uses game theory, time series and panel econometrics, and links financial markets analysis with transaction cost economics. The results are presented with reference to political, historical and institutional considerations, and provide accessible answers to policy makers, business people and scholars world wide.

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Microeconomic Theory

Author: Tatsuro Ichiishi

Microeconomic Theory is a modern treatment of the neoclassical paradigm which is essential for understanding microeconomics. The author has carefully applied this theory in a non-mathematical and intuitive way. The special features include: * emphasis on the nature of the neoclassical paradigm * introduction to game theory * minimal mathematical content * intuitive exercises and examples * written in a concise format This book is one of the more simple yet focused texts available for Microeconomic theory. It is geared for first year graduate students of economics.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Static Analysis of Consumer Behavior	3
2	Static Analysis of Producer Behavior	43
3	Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Output Market	77
4	General Equilibrium Analysis	93
5	Behavior under Uncertainty	141
6	General Equilibrium Analysis of Uncertainty	157
7	Information Processing	173
8	Underlying Game-Theoretical Structure	229
9	Cooperative Behavioral Principle: Theory of the Firm	303
A	Mathematical Appendix	407
	Index for the Text	431
	Index for the Mathematical Appendix	439

Managing like a Man or Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States

Managing like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management

Author: Judy Wajcman

A critical analysis of women's and men's experiences in five multinational corporations with model equality policies.

"Why can't a man be more like a woman?" seems to be the catchphrase of modern management gurus. They claim to be revaluing feminine "soft" skills as qualities necessary for corporate success. This book looks behind the rhetoric and investigates the gender relations of senior management in a post-equal opportunities world.

The proportion of women managers has risen dramatically in the last twenty years, yet there are still very few women getting to the top. Based on a major study of five multinational corporations with model equality policies, this book takes a critical look at women's and men's experience in a changing corporate climate. Wajcman brings to bear feminist theories on equality and difference in employment, together with organizational analysis, in her assessment of whether women really do bring a distinct feminine style of management to tomorrow's organizations. The main focus is on the processes of masculine organizational culture that sexualize women and exclude them from senior management.

But how comfortable are men with the masculinity of management? This book presents fascinating material on the private lives of managers and looks at the interconnections between home and work for men as well as women. The author reveals how relations between the sexes are negotiated in the corridors of power and at the kitchen sink.

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Rather than considering only women managers, as most such studies have, examines men and women doing the same jobs, and encompasses the experiences of both sexes in the managerial hierarchy. Argues that management incorporates a male standard that positions women as out of place, and that the construction of women as different from men is one of the mechanisms by which male power in the workplace is maintained. The study is based on high-technology, multinational companies with high-sounding equal opportunity claims. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

What People Are Saying

Joan Acker
This is an absorbing analysis of women's and men's managerial careers in leading-edge multinational firms. . . .The book is a delight to read and a real contribution to understanding the complex ties between gender, work, and organizations. -- University of Oregon

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Sex Equality in Organizations	10
2	The Gender Relations of Management	31
3	It's Hard to be Soft: Is Management Style Gendered?	55
4	The Corporate Career: 'Why Can't a Woman be More like a Man?'	78
5	Personal Management: Sexuality and Workplace Relationships	108
6	Managing Home Life	132
	Conclusion	158
	Bibliography	167
	Index	178

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Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States

Author: Michael Loriaux

'A first-rate book. It represents the cutting edge of research in political economy and groups together in a single volume some of the most original research to date on the politics of financial liberalization.' -- Harvey B. Feigenbaum, George Washington University.

The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader or Making Markets

The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader

Author: Ash Amin

This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy.

• Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy.

• Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main strands and history of the cultural economy approach.

• Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms culture or economy.

• Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both a substantive task and a valuable contribution to knowledge.

• Material is organised around different links in the value chain.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design	3
2	Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace	15
3	Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice	40
4	The Economy of Qualities	58
5	Inside the Economy of Appearances	83
6	Physics and Finance: S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies	101
7	Traders' Engagement with Markets: A Postsocial Relationship	121
8	Varieties of Protectors	145
9	The Agony of Mammon	164
10	Governing by Numbers: Why Calculative Practices Matter	179
11	African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown	193
12	Retailers, Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The Case of the Cut Flower Trade	210
13	Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective	231
14	Making Love in Supermarkets	251
15	Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and New Consumer Skills	266
16	What's in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction	289
17	It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England	307
18	Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses	329
19	Negotiating the Bar: Sex, Money and the Uneasy Politics of Third Space	352
20	A Joint's a Joint	368
21	Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable	384
	Index	404

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Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street

Author: Mitchel Y Abolafia

In the wake of million-dollar scandals brought about by Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and their like, Wall Street seems like the province of rampant individualism operating at the outermost extremes of self-interest and greed. But this, Mitchel Abolafia suggests, would be a case of missing the real culture of the Street for the characters who dominate the financial news.

Making Markets, an ethnography of Wall Street culture, offers a more complex picture of how the market and its denizens work. Not merely masses of individuals striving independently, markets appear here as socially constructed institutions in which the behavior of traders is suspended in a web of customs, norms, and structures of control. Within these structures we see the actions that led to the Drexel Burnham and Salomon Brothers debacles not as bizarre aberrations, but as mere exaggerations of behavior accepted on the Street.

Abolafia looks at three subcultures that co-exist in the world of Wall Street: the stock, bond, and futures markets. Through interviews, anecdotes, and the author's skillful analysis, we see how traders and New York Stock Exchange "specialists" negotiate the perpetual tension between short-term self-interest and long-term self-restraint that marks their respective communities—and how the temptation toward excess spurs market activity. We also see the complex relationships among those market communities—why, for instance, NYSE specialists resent the freedoms permitted over-the-counter bond traders and futures traders. Making Markets shows us that what propels Wall Street is not a fundamental human drive or instinct, but strategies enacted in thecontext of social relationships, cultural idioms, and institutions—a cycle that moves between phases of unbridled self-interest and collective self-restraint.

Contemporary Sociology - Peter Evans

Mitchel Abolafia's fascinating...book...is a great take on the other side of world finance, on life's most bruising sport—making money—and on how to think about markets as interdependent social structures.

London Financial News [UK] - Ruben Lee

[This is] a great must-read. Abolafia's central thesis is that markets cannot be viewed simply as anonymous fora where nameless economic forces work their mysterious ways to determine equilibrium price-quantity outcomes. Instead, they are better seen as stages on which diverse groups of actors seek to further their own, often conflicting, interests...The view that markets are social constructs has a particularly significant consequence for understanding and reacting to the phenomenon of manipulation. Abolafia's view that manipulation 'arises out of a conflict between buyers and sellers where one side is pressing its advantage', rather than being either a legal definition or an economic phenomenon, is extremely convincing...It is impossibly infuriating that one's assumptions about how the financial world works should be overturned by a mere sociologist.

Managing the Organizational Melting Pot or Crimes of Outrage

Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity

Author: Michael B Elmes

Illuminating the troublesome and disturbing aspects of workplace diversity that tend to be glossed over in most management literature, Managing the Organizational Melting Pot covers key issues such key as: individual and institutional resistance, the effectiveness of diversity change efforts, and the less visible ways in which exclusion and discrimination continue to be practiced in the workplace. To assist the reader in understanding some of these dilemmas, the contributors to this collection adopt an array of theoretical frameworks, that are all striking departures from traditional and more functional perspectives on diversity. The volume also employs a variety of theoretical perspectives, including intergroup relations theory, critical theory, Jungian psychology, feminism, post-colonial theory, cultural history, postmodernism, realism, institutional theory, and class analysis. Further, the authors examine a multitude of organizational situations in which the complications of diversity surface-many of which cross race, gender, ethnic and other socially constructed boundaries. Managing the Organizational Melting Pot draws examples not only from the United States , but also looks at situations from Canada, Britain, and the Middle East. Students, scholars, and managers who want to prepare themselves to deal with the challenges presented by a multicultural workforce will find this beneficial reading. In addition, researchers interested in conducting research in diversity management will find this an up-to-date, thought-provoking resource.

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Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence, and Victorian Working Women

Author: Shani DCruz

This provocative study explores the subordination of Victorian working women in the home, neighborhood, and workplace. Drawing on courtroom proceedings, D'Cruze reveals that women's interest in speaking out against violent crimes often coincide with the court's agenda to discipline the unruly behavior of working men. However, while women used local courts of vindicate their reputation before their neighbors, doing so often compromised their respectability in the eyes of the public.

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Explores sexual violence against Victorian working women, Victorian notions of femininity and masculinity, and the culture of violence in which they existed. D'Cruze (history, Manchester Metropolitan U.) investigates 909 criminal and civil cases that reveal these women as more than just victims. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

What People Are Saying

Prudence Moylan
Provides new insights and approaches to both the history of crime and the history of sexuality.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	She levelled them all three	7
2	An "industnous woman" and a "ruined" child	27
3	As agreeable as neighbours ought to be	47
4	A sad case of domestic infelicity	63
5	She did not ask for a character	81
6	Clipping in the clubroom	111
7	Previous to my being ravished	137
8	A sensation in court	171
	Afterword	191
	Appendix	197
	Notes	199
	Bibliography	237
	Index	257

Working Well Living Well or Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay

Working Well, Living Well: Discover the Career Within You

Author: Clarke G Carney

Whether students have an idea of what they want to do beyond college or no inkling at all, Working Well, Living Well is the ideal book for finding a job that matches their personality and their life. With a new emphasis on wellness in this edition, authors Clarke G. Carney and Cinda Field Wells demonstrate how an assessment of one's skills, interests, and values can lead to a rewarding career - one where students can do what they love and love what they do. From the initial career search to expanding their options once they find the perfect job, this insightful book will help your students every step of the way. Carney and Wells help students discover: · How to gather and assess information on careers · How to integrate the views of their significant others when making occupational choices · How to conduct an effective job campaign · How to adjust to a new work setting Using a life-span framework, the authors demonstrate how career is an integral element in the process of life planning and provide a picture of the skills needed for career success and satisfaction. The new edition offers a focus on current realities, such as the immediacy of the job search, the urgency of student debt, and other complexities.

Table of Contents:

1. BEING WELL, DOING WELL. Work and Life: A holistic View. Three Reasons We Work. Career-Planning Questions. Six Skills for Effective Career and Life Planning. Some Questions to Consider. References and Resources. 2. CHOICES IN ACTION. Decision Strategies. Stages of an Informed Career Decision. Decision Style Worksheet. Where Am I in the Career Decision-Making Process? References and Resources. 3. THE EMERGING SELF: BIRTH TO ADOLESCENCE. Childhood Identity: You Are a Person Who . . . Adolescence: Who Am I? The College Years: I Am a Person Who . . . Making a Productive Use of your Leisure Time. Factors Affecting Vocational Self-Concept. Predicting Your Occupational Orientation. References and Resources. 4. THE EMERGING SELF: BEYOND ADOLESCENCE. Adult Life Stages. Early Adult. Reexamination. Midlife Shift. Refocusing. Redirection. Back to the Future: A Questionnaire. References and Resources. 5. A WORLD OF CHANGE. Technology Shapes Our Future. Thirteen Changes Affecting Our Life and Work. News Release Activity. References and Resources. 6. PATHS IN THE WORKPLACE. Questions to Keep in Mind. Choosing a Career Path. Functional Skills Survey. Occupational Education and Training Requirements Categories. Exploring Appealing Enterprises. References and Resources. 7. JUST THE FACTS, PLEASE: CONDUCTING A CAREER INFORMATION SEARCH. Visualizing Your Career Information Search. Career Information Resources. Evaluating Career Information. Your Ideal Job Description. P.L.A.C.E.: A Guide for Exploring and Evaluating an Occupation. A Place for Your Values. Guidelines for Your Occupational Report. References and Resources. 8. INSIDE/OUTSIDE. Development in Society:Integrating Inside and Outside. Social and Environmental Influences. Interpersonal Influences. Internal Influences. Integrated Career Choices. Career Roadblocks. Letter to Your Significant Others. Identifying Pathways and Roadblocks. Messages from Within. References and Resources. 9. FINDING A JOB IS A JOB! Profiting from Experience. The Traditional Job Campaign. A Novel Approach to Job Campaigning. Contents of a Resume. Resume Organization. Cover Letters and Follow-Up Calls. The Employment Interview. Preparing for the Interview. More Interview Suggestions. Follow-up Contact. When You Need a Detour. When You Are Out of Work. Personal Skills Review. Personal Skills Inventory. Adaptive Skills Self-Survey. Some Challenging Situations for the Interviewee. Some Challenging Situations for the Interviewer. References and Resources. 10. WORK ADJUSTMENT AND CAREER EXPANSION. The Organizational Climate. The Sixth Skill: Work Adjustment. Getting Along with Others. Adjusting to a Work Environment. Becoming an Effective Communicator. Managing Your Time Wisely. Understanding and Managing Stress on the Job. Handling Performance Appraisals Effectively. Dealing with Discrimination and Harassment. Avenues for Career Development within an Organization. Career Development. Promoting Constructive Change. Self-Review Activity: How Much Have I changed? References and Resources. APPENDIX: SELF-ASSESSMENT INVENTORY. Preference Inventory. Interest Inventory. Skill Inventory. The Summary Profile. VIESA Job Family Charts. Index to Descriptions of Occupations. WELLNESS LOG. ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF CAREER INFORMATION. State and Local Information. Factors Affecting the Utilization of Occupations within Industries. INDEX.

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Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organizational Ideal

Author: Howard S Schwartz

Howard S. Schwartz shows how American industry is in a process of decay unable to cope with foreign competition and stagnant in technological development. He attributes this Organizational Decay to a reluctance in the part of corporate members to deal with reality.

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Attributes America's corporate decay to people's pathological desire to work in a nice place, even at the cost of not being the biggest and baddest in the world. Cites the examples of General Motors and NASA, and generalizes to the society as a whole. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Improving Care in the Nursing Home or Correspondence of Alfred Marshall Economist

Improving Care in the Nursing Home: Comprehensive Reviews of Clinical Research

Author: Laurence Z Rubenstein

In recent years, the nursing home has emerged as the dominant health-related institution in U.S. health care. Yet, the knowledge base regarding nursing home patients, care, and outcomes is underdeveloped compared to that of acute and ambulatory care. Improving Care in the Nursing Home provides systematic reviews of the state of clinical and health services research in patient-care problem areas pertinent to nursing homes. Each chapter defines progress on a specific clinical nursing home problem and provides a critical synthesis and review of research information. Topics covered include medication use, infection control, pressure ulcers, falls, urinary incontinence, and behavior problems. This volume also includes sections on managing nurse aides, clinical interventions for nutritional problems, and clinical research on falls in nursing homes. Improving Care in the Nursing Home is essential reading for those in the health professions interested in quality of care in the nursing home. "The language is clear and approachable without excess medical jargon. . . . The chapters are well organized, self-contained, and easily digested, reflective of a great deal of effort by both the authors and editors. . . . [This book] is a worthwhile addition to the libraries of academically oriented nursing homes and of researchers in the issues of clinical practice in the long-term care setting." --Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Clinical Research in the Nursing Home
1	Rehabilitation in the Nursing Facility	1
2	Improving Medication Use in the Nursing Home	33
3	Infections and Infection Control	65
4	Pressure Ulcers in the Nursing Home	102
5	Assessment, Treatment, and Management of Urinary Incontinence in the Nursing Home	131
6	A Review of Research on Common Bowel Problems in the Nursing Home	160
7	Nutritional Problems in the Nursing Home Population: Opportunities for Clinical Interventions	195
8	Clinical Research on Falls in the Nursing Home	216
9	The Assessment and Control of Pain in the Nursing Home	241
10	The Management of Depression in the Nursing Home	251
11	Assessment and Management of Behavior Problems in the Nursing Home	275
12	Managing Nurse Aides to Promote Quality of Care in the Nursing Home	314
	Index	332
	About the Contributors	338

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Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist: Volume 1, Climbing, 1868-1890

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This three-volume work constitutes a comprehensive scholarly edition of the correspondence of the English economist, Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), one of the leading figures in the development of economics and the founder of the Cambridge School of Economics. The edition fills a long- standing gap in the history of economic thought and contains hitherto unpublished material. Notable for their frankness and spontaneity, Marshall's letters provide much new information about his views on economic, social and political issues, his struggles to promote the teaching of economics at the University of Cambridge, and his relations with colleagues there and elsewhere.