Government Business category: 2241 books
The Price of Justice
A True Story of Greed and Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A nonfiction legal thriller that traces the fourteen-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history, Don Blankenship, to justice
Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s, ran an industry that provides nearly half of America's electric...
by Robert A.G. Monks
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Democratic capitalism—the source of America’s vast wealth, the foundation of our entire economic system—is threatened as never before, not from without but from within. Shareholders today no longer own, except in the narrowest legal sense, the corporations they have invested in. Emboldened by...
The End of the Free Market
Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Understanding the rise of state capitalism and its threat to global free markets
The End of the Free Market details the growing phenomenon of state capitalism, a system in which governments drive local economies through ownership of market-dominant companies and large pools of excess capital,...
by Allan H. Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Allan H. Meltzer's monumental history of the Federal Reserve System tells the story of one of America's most influential but least understood public institutions. This first volume covers the period from the Federal Reserve's founding in 1913 through the Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord of 1951, which...
by GCIS
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Globally media is in a state of flux with digital technologies disrupting traditional ways of doing business, current ownership patterns being challenged, and questions being raised about the degree of diversity within media industries.Media Landscape 2014: Celebrating 20 Years of South Africa’s...
Corporation Nation
How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Foreword by Ralph Nader. In Corporation Nation Derber addresses the unchecked power of today's corporations to shape the way we work, earn, buy, sell, and think—the very way we live. Huge, far-reaching mergers are now commonplace, downsizing is rampant, and our lines of communication, news and entertainment...
Mindful Economics
How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be Different
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Are the huge profits garnered by corporations each year a case of a few bad apples in the business world taking advantage of unmonitored dealings? Is this consolidation of wealth made at the expense of the overall economy and the wellbeing of the average citizen? Will the planet be saved by developing...
An American Sickness
How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
**A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017
"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The...
Summary: Time to Get Tough - Donald Trump
Making America #1 Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Donald J. Trump's book: "Time to Get Tough: Make America #1 Again!".This summary of the ideas from Donald J. Trump's book "Time to Get Tough" reveals the business leader's plan to restore America's greatness. According to him, the Republicans have turned America into an unprecendented...
Eco-Business
A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Two experts explain the consequences for the planet when corporations use sustainability as a business tool.
by Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Has capitalism failed?
Is it fundamentally greedy and immoral, enabling the rich to get richer? Are free markets Darwinian places where the most ruthless crush smaller competitors, where vital products and services are priced beyond the ability of many people to afford them?
Capitalism is the world's...
Social Enterprise and the Third Sector
Changing European Landscapes in a Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are rapidly attracting increased attention in academic spheres and from policy-makers, as well as field workers who are setting up new initiatives or reshaping their organizations. These concepts are perceived as defining innovative and...
Corporate Governance and Sustainability
Challenges for Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In recent years, as corporations and governments have increasingly been confronted with managing the expectations of a society newly alerted to the social and environmental risks of economic development, recognition is dawning that achieving a sustainable world is dependent upon the democratic management...
Uncommon Thinking
New Insights for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
When independence arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1960s, everyone was optimistic higher living standards would quickly follow. But after almost half-a-century of intensive policy and institutional reforms, and massive foreign grants and loans, the condition of the majority has hardly improved.
Bad...