Steve Coulter
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Well-designed industrial policies can improve a nation's economic performance. Using a range of tools, such as subsidies, tax incentives, infrastructure development, protective regulations, and R&D support, governments are able to support specific industries or economic activities.
Steve Coulter examines the patterns of industrial policymaking across late capitalist societies. Drawing on case studies from a range of countries, each with different...
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Much of economics is a top-down analysis that simplifies and reduces the huge varieties between individuals to a predictable range of characteristics that lend themselves to systematic analysis. This book eschews this conventional perspective, which sees national economies as simply agglomerations of the activities of millions of people, and instead explores the role played by the individual in the economy, in particular, how the individual experiences...
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The goal of this book is to help minimize the risks that working on a KPI/performance management project encompasses. It is designed for the project team, senior management, external project facilitators, and team coordinators whose role it is to steer such a project to success. The tentative contents is: (1) Introduction (2) Foundation Stones for Implementing Key Performance Indicators; (3) Developing and Using KPIs: A 12-Step Model; (4) KPI Team...
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Why can some people appear to consistently make all the right decisions where money is concerned, while others, who claim to diligently follow the technical advice of financial experts never seem to be able to dig themselves out of their hole and build sustainable wealth? The truth is, strategic financial planning is but a piece of wealth building. There’s a whole organic component that’s often absent today, before you even begin to consider investment...
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Most Americans predict that the Civil War will end by Christmas, but Henry (Tim Morton) and Francis Mellon (David Maloney) couldn't care less. Bracing for another winter on their struggling farm in rural Kentucky, the brothers have become suffocatingly close. Francis' practical jokes become more and more aggressive until the night he accidentally injures Henry in a drunken fight. After humiliating himself in front of a daughter (Rachel Korine) of...
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In this second book, Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, and David Weaver-Zercher, authors' of Amish Grace, will shed further light on the Amish, this time on their spirituality and spiritual practices. The Amish Way interprets the distinctive practices of Amish spirituality in their cultural context and explores their applicability for the wider world. Using a holistic perspective, the text tells the story of Amish religious experience in their words and...