Market Forces

Author : Richard K. Morgan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345457765
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Market Forces written by Richard K. Morgan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels–a turbocharged new thriller set in a world where killers are stars, media is mass entertainment, and freedom is a dangerous proposition . . . A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other–in exchange for a share of the spoils. To succeed, Shorn uses a new kind of corporate gladiator: sharp-suited, hard-driving gunslingers who operate armored vehicles and follow a Samurai code. And Chris Faulkner is just the man for the job. He fought his way out of London’s zone of destitution. And his kills are making him famous. But unlike his best friend and competitor at Shorn, Faulkner has a side that outsiders cannot see: the side his wife is trying to salvage, that another woman–a porn star turned TV news reporter–is trying to exploit. Steeped in blood, eyed by common criminals looking for a shot at fame, Faulkner is living on borrowed time. Until he’s given one last shot at getting out alive. . . .

Author : Deborah D. Avant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139446549
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Market for Force written by Deborah D. Avant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers – including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.

Author : Magnus Dahlstedt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429894023
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education written by Magnus Dahlstedt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education provides a wide perspective on the dramatic transformation of education policy in Sweden that has taken place during the last 30 years, with a specific focus on marketization. The marketization of education in Sweden is set in the wider international context of changes in education systems. With contributions from researchers across a wide range of scientific disciplines, the book provides examples of the consequences of market orientation in education in terms of increase in inequality as well as in terms of what the market orientation means for principals, teachers and students. It considers how Sweden has developed one of the most marketized education systems in the world and the possible consequences of such processes, as identified by research. Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education will be of great interest to educational practitioners, politicians, scholars in the field, and postgraduate and research students in education.

Author : William Nicolson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476730415
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Economist written by William Nicolson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An economist, tired of being dumped by a string of girlfriends, tries to apply the clear, rational rules of economics to his sputtering love life, including playing hard to get by reducing your supply and finding a new girlfriend by finding an undervalued asset. Original.

Author : V. S. Gupta
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170226987
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Market Forces written by V. S. Gupta and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed research papers of various seminars organized by Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Author : Terry L. Anderson
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817924566
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adapt and Be Adept written by Terry L. Anderson and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? Editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.

Author : Clifford Winston
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815739338
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Clifford Winston and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on ways that markets work with, rather than against, governments to enhance public welfare. The optimal mix of market forces and government intervention to allocate resources is one of the longest-standing problems facing human civilization. At the theoretical extremes, resources in centrally planned economies are allocated by the government, while resources in capitalist economies are allocated by private markets. In practice, market forces and government interventions co-exist to allocate goods and services in a political environment with shifting pressures to give one approach more responsibility than the other. Current public attitudes toward markets are at a low point in the wake of the Great Recession and the growth in income inequality that began in the 1970s. However, in this book, noted Brookings economist Clifford Winston argues that it is a serious mistake to overlook that markets will be a critical part of the solution to any public objective—whether it be to reduce inequality, stimulate long-term growth, slow climate change, or eliminate COVID 19. In Winston’s view, policymakers should be much more aware of the many ways that markets help government to achieve economic and social goals and the potential that markets have to provide greater assistance in achieving those goals. Winston synthesizes the empirical evidence on the efficacy of markets in helping to protect consumers against anti-competitive behavior and when technology appears to prevent price competition; to enable individuals to make more informed decisions; and to reduce negative externalities, improve public production, and encourage innovations. Importantly, Winston presents evidence indicating how markets can also help to reduce poverty, promote fairness in labor markets, and provide merit goods. Winston subjects his assessment to a robustness test by explaining how market forces have helped to address the COVID-19 pandemic by, for example, finding new ways for people to work safely and providing incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop safe and effective vaccines. Winston takes a proactive approach in his conclusion by suggesting the formation of a major “Commission” composed of academics, policymakers, and businesspeople. Such a panel could explore how market forces could provide greater help to government to address economic and social problems and could provide specific recommendations to facilitate market solutions where appropriate.

Author : Oleg T Bogomolov
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349115592
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Market Forces in Planned Economies written by Oleg T Bogomolov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank W. Musgrave
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457242
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of U.S. Health Care Policy: The Role of Market Forces written by Frank W. Musgrave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a primary text for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis of the health care industry in the context of market forces driving the industry, including negotiated markets, managed care, and the growing influence of oligopolies. Written in accessible prose, without the aid of technical jargon and mathematical formulations, the content is rich with applicable, understandable economic concepts and analysis, and examples of market failure and government involvement. Some of the major policy issues covered are drug pricing, Medicare and Medicaid reform, the medically uninsured, for-profit hospital monopoly price power, managed care competitive pricing, and new negotiated markets. The relevant economic concepts employed in the text include price elasticity of demand/supply, market structure from competitive to oligopolistic markets, monopoly pricing power, measures of health care inflation and the biases of the CPI, demand and supply factors, inverse relationship of present health care expenditures as a percentage of GDP, measures/concepts of efficiency, and the role of government in a market era.

Author : Sheena Choi
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815340300
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Ethnicity, Market Forces, and College Choices written by Sheena Choi and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.