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...scenes, he keeps shouting: "Be careful, I am spontaneous". The Director and fat-cat capitalistic producers want him to be spontaneous, they want him... ...d ends badly. Finally, the "Truman Show" encapsulates the most virulent attack on capitalism in a long time. Greedy, thoughtless money machines in... ...thers. Disparities of money create markets, labour, property, planning, wealth and capital. Mental inequalities lead to innovation and theory. Know... ...ponsibility for or share in their generation and has no possibility to effect their long-term preservation. Money, on the other hand, is generated o... ...e. Inevitably, things go awry. The design of the robots is unwise: they retain the long-term memories of their masters, which renders them suscepti... ...ionalized as should be land use; drought-related indigenous agricultural and water management knowledge and crop varieties should be preserved; flo... ...nsactions. 1988 to 1990 Co-founder and Director of "Mikbats-Tesuah", a portfolio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities included large-sca... ...folio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities included large-scale portfolio management, underwriting, forex trading and general financial ad...

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...tarted selling cookies again after my non-compete clause expired, I could capitalize on my high visi­ bility and long association with a product I ha... ...alth products. After leaving Nature's Gateway, Portola set up a ven­ ture capital firm to locate struggling companies, buy them, turn them around, t... ... million dollars per year. They built it up to over $80 million. Portola capitalized on a name that personified quality. And since I had few respon... ...uctive patterns that used to hurt my loved ones, and being a responsible long-term marriage partner and parent. You Always Get as Many Second Chan... ...ve patterns that used to hurt my loved ones, and of being a respon­ sible long-term marriage partner and parent. 8 , Reached for the Sky But , ... ...ersonal mentor-by your side whenever you need help with the challenges of management in today's fast-paced, often perplexing business environment. T... ...en Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and The Power of Ethical Management Wally's smiling countenance, known as "the face that launched ...

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...tal viewpoint ....................................................... 382 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ........................................................... ........................................................................ 386 Capital punishment if moral from a self-centered viewpoint ................... ...self-centered viewpoint ............................................. 387 Capital punishment is immoral from a self centered point of view ............. ...an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled ch... ...g consideration has to be what is in the community's overall good and its long-term interest. The fundamental question we ask ourselves is, who shou... ...24% less than they did in 1970. In the U.S they work 20% more. Downsizing management increases the workload of those who still work. And the drive f... ...two years but giver her job back. I had a friend who hired a woman into a management job with a high salary. Within a month of being hired she annou... ... as in other socialistically leaning countries, workers have a say in the management of the company. That‘s letting the inmates run the asylum. ...

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......................... 20 FIGURE 21: PRESENCE OF WEB-BASED LSP OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PLATFORM IN THE APEC REGION. AS REPORTED BY GOVERNMENT INSTITUT... ...nomies have been guided by the principle of open regionalism for creating long-term growth, with numerous initiatives implemented to support trade a... ...of the following factors: number of people employed, annual income and/or capital investment (Figure 1). Figure 1: SME Classification Requirements f... ...rnment institution respondents. Economy Workforce Size Annual Income Capital Investment Notes Australia Less than 20 USD 81 - 650K Enterp... ...he internal restraints of SME logistics service providers, we discovered “capital deficiency” and “lack of financing resources” were rated as the to... ...straints to Growth 21 Figure 21: Presence of Web-based LSP Operations Management Platform in the APEC Region. As reported by government institut... ... 65% 54% 58% 58% 54% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Shipping Management Warehouse Management Distribution Management Order Process ...

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...ys our Governments can raise 20 Stimulus Capital 4. Will Outsourcing become more Localized ... ...smaller Businesses rebuild our Economy 33 11. Reinventing Capitalism 34 ... ... and see what types of economies, we could have in the future. 1. Command- Capitalist A command economy was based on the old communist system w... ..., and in some cases were nationalized. In many cases, the existing pre-crisis management structure remains in place with only 10% of Executives leav... ... rather than invest in their own Country. The German example of bad economic Management, should be considered a warning to States that face high un... ... end of the traditional American Corporate Executive? There is no doubt that Management structures and techniques have to change. The once mighty C...

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...other one must first love oneself. And, in the absence of a Self that is impossible. And, in the long-term, he is incapable of living because life i... ...cult for patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) to work in a team or to maintain long-term professional achievements. The narcissist'... ...se rapid alterations between absolute overvaluation (idealization) and complete devaluation make long-term interpersonal relationships with the narc... ...atient AND his environment are ONE and the same. Disease is a perturbation in the operation and management of the complex ecosystem known as patient... ...ological and institutional health of social units, such as the family, or the workplace. Social capital can often be measured in cognitive (hence, ... ... Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Mana... ...nd leasing transactions. 1988 to 1990 Co-founder and Director of "Mikbats-Tesuah", a portfolio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities inclu... ...suah", a portfolio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities included large-scale portfolio management, underwriting, forex trading and general... ...esent Freelance consultant to many of Israel's Blue-Chip firms, mainly on issues related to the capital markets in Israel, Canada, the UK and the U...

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...alent. Serbia, Montenegro and Russia fought a war against Turkey in an effort to capitalize on a Serb peasants' revolt in Bosnia in 1875. The lat... ...ols and hospitals, parallel networks of services staffed by the Serb-dispossessed, capitalizing on a sweeping wave of volunteerism. Albania recogni... ... it as an ally of NATO on the ground and the real government of a future Kosovo. It capitalized ingeniously on Rugova's mysterious disappearance and... ...ve also attempted to delineate some practical implications to the macro- and micro-management of group psychopathology. In my work I have drawn upo... ...e basis and of techniques of such a manipulation could be useful in the successful management of conflict situations. Sam: Institutionalized relig... ...ansactions. 1988 to 1990 Co-founder and Director of "Mikbats-Tesuah", a portfolio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities included large-sca...

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...s the child actively or passively is qualitatively different and is bound to yield long-term effects such as dissociation or severe personality dis... ...ett expounded on this theme in "The Fall of Public Man: On the Social Psychology of Capitalism" [Vintage Books, 1978]. One of the chapters in Devere... ...nt in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Lt... ...ransactions. 1988 to 1990 Co-founder and Director of "Mikbats-Tesuah", a portfolio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities included large-sc... ...folio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities included large-scale portfolio management, underwriting, forex trading and general financial ad... ...nce consultant to many of Israel's Blue-Chip firms, mainly on issues related to the capital markets in Israel, Canada, the UK and the USA. Consultan...

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... AD), what to us appears heinous and atrocious may merely be an integral part of a long-term divine plan whose aim is to preponderate good. Leibniz... ...t, it is impossible, again in principle, to understand its internal functioning and management of information. To describe this input-output mechani... ...nt in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Lt... ...nsactions. 1988 to 1990 Co-founder and Director of "Mikbats-Tesuah", a portfolio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities included large-sca... ...folio management firm based in Tel-Aviv. Activities included large-scale portfolio management, underwriting, forex trading and general financial ad... ...nce consultant to many of Israel's Blue-Chip firms, mainly on issues related to the capital markets in Israel, Canada, the UK and the USA. Consulta... ...ents locally in the USA, Canada and London. 1993 to 1996 Publisher and Editor of a Capital Markets Newsletter distributed by subscription only to d...

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... is what we are still doing today: it’s called adversarial competition: modern capitalism. An important reason for continued tool-use by our early ... ...yptian mercenaries because there were none to be had. That is the fate of all long-term advantage and dominance which Empires suffer from. It weake... ...uld sell to other tribes. They were not interested in profit. They were not capitalists. If humans had only traveled through wetlands and never s... ...idea of using a period for an ‘i’… the cap or tip of the bone broken off. The Capital letter. One bone longer than another. Holding bones in your... ...r. This has nothing to do with balance, fairness or justice. It is simply a management technique. The concepts of including equality, fairness a... ...iving organisms and tools. Since we benefit from tools in the short run, the long-term consequences of tool-use are not even an issue for us. Rath... ... to look down at owners. It is easy for workers to feel ethically superior to management. They do not have to take the risks of their company faili... ...d clean of collusion, graft and corrupt practices only because the owners and management do it for them. They can remain conveniently free of all t... ...ess people do not have. With expensive gifts these people do not have. With long-term relationships these homeless people do not have. And all th...

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...sed Information Theoretic Model of Utility Applicable to Active Risk Management Engineered by Multi-asset Options-based Portfolio Insuranc... ...osed information theoretic utility measure scheme for a multi-asset, capital-guaranteed financial structured product ... ... proposed and proved. The work also analyzes the utility of an endogenous capital guarantee built within a financial structured product. The aspect ... ...olio insurance structures involving several underlying assets because the capital guarantee mechanism that could potentially be embedded in such stru... ...tulated model is proposed in reconciliation of price discrepancies in the long-term options market where the only source of resolvable risk is the l... ... is something that may be statistically controlled using fractional money management techniques and brought down to very low levels. But even if th... ...tility is rationally expected to gravitate geometrically back towards its long-term mean level of σ M. That is, when instantaneous volatility is ab... ...be decreasing as t → T. Again, when instantaneous volatility is below the long-term mean, it should be rationally expected to be increasing as t → T... ...rive an Information Theoretic model of utility applicable to dynamic risk management engineered by a multi-asset options-based portfolio insurance st...

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...), Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), Danareksa Research Institute, Trimegah Securities, Capital Market Supervisory Agency and Financial Institution (B... ...l de Valores/CCV (Securities Clearing Guarantee Agency), Brookings Institute, Caravel Management LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., IMF Asia and Pac... ...ployment (except for Indonesia); depreciation in of the local currency; a decrease in capital market composite index; decline in exports and imports;... ...mies v offshore funds, high household debt, and high housing prices. Large short term capital inflows as well as narrow and shallow financial market... ...lity ever more difficult. However, lessons learned from experiences of causes, and management of financial crises, a number of policy actions can ... ...foster the emergence of a healthy, strong, and efficient markets; 2) applying better management of the development of financial markets to ensure ... ...l rise if they are confident that the fiscal consolidation process is consistent with long-term growth. - Policymakers to ensure fair competition co... ... promotes pension funds as it believes they will play an important role in mobilizing long-term funds. Table 3.11: Pension Fund Description 2005... ...ars and more than $1 trillion over the second 10 years. - Thanks to the the ACA, the long-term fiscal imbalance is projected to be less than 2 per...

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...y in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. The Green-Eyed Capitalist XVII. The Case of the Compressed Image XVIII. The F... ...r XXII. Market Impeders and Market Inefficiencies XXIII. Financial Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture XX... ...h, mathematical modeling, transparent decision making, free trade, and professional management - help better allocate these increased resources to y... ...ored by John Campbell, Andrew Lo, and Craig MacKinlay: "An approach to investment management based on the belief that historical price series, tra... ...rms as well as background information about the company's products, business plan, management, industry, the economy, and the marketplace. Econom... ...lures, deregulation, globalization, technology, dwindling and more cautious venture capital, avaricious managers and investors out to increase share... ...management theory explicitly states that the investment horizon is irrelevant. Both long-term and short-term magpies choose the same bundle of asset... ...Resources for the Future think tank - describes one such predicament: "Suppose a long-term discount rate of 7 percent (after inflation) is used, ... ...people intuitively and unconsciously apply cost-benefit analyses to decisions with long-term outcomes. Moreover, contrary to current economic think...

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...The Agent-Principal Conundrum XXII. Trading in Sovereign Promises XXIII. Portfolio Management Theory XXIV. Going Bankrupt in the World XXV. The Au... ...ly possible outcome is win-lose. The first "dirty secret" is that a firm's market capitalization often stands in inverse proportion to its value a... ... an objective, neutral, disinterested party). This is true especially when agents (management) are not also principals (owners). Owing to its comp... ...wners). Owing to its compensation structure, invariably tied to the firms' market capitalization, management strives to maximize the former by man... ...to its compensation structure, invariably tied to the firms' market capitalization, management strives to maximize the former by manipulating the la... ...r by manipulating the latter. Very often, the only way to affect the firm's market capitalization in the short-term is to sacrifice the firm's inte... ...f pyramid schemes - cannot cope with such stampedes. Some of the money is invested long-term, or lent. Few financial institutions keep more than 10... ...wyers, bankers, insurers, and so on - self- regulation was premised on the belief in long-term self- preservation. Rational economic players and moral... ...ing and organizing the resources required to satisfy those needs and at defining a long-term strategy of development and marketing. As the enterpri...

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... Ethic XII. Industrial Action and Competition Laws XIII. Employees and Management Ownership of Firms XIV. Making Your Workers Your Partners XV... ...sal to use disguised unemployment for the construction of social overhead capital projects arises from inadequate consideration of the problem of pr... ..., do not raise wages and prices. In Sweden, for instance, both labour and management organizations are responsible to maintain price stability. The ... ...vance procedures. Possibilities include conciliation (a third party bring management and labour together to try and solve the problems on their own)... ...tor of the business sector, a catalyst of skill acquisition for the under-capitalized private sector. Small business employers should have the prior... ...ent accorded to foreign investors: tax credits, tax holidays, deferral of capital gains taxes and so on. 5. Small to medium size businesses will b... ...instituting compulsory apprenticeship. But the young become the kernel of long-term unemployment. This is because a tug of war, a basic conflict of ... ...ticeship. But the young unemployed form the tough and immutable kernel of long-term unemployment. This is because a tug of war, a basic conflict of ... ...on-conformity. It is common in the States to choose entrepreneurship as a long-term career path. In Europe it is considered professional suicide. In...

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...ey still ascribe American behavior to the irreconcilable contradictions inherent in capitalism. The United States is impelled by its economy and va... ...of interest, not the shoddy workmanship. The article clearly identifies America's (capitalistic) economy and its (liberal, pluralistic, religious a... ...conspiracy theories, the paper insists that expansion was "triggered by commercial capital." This capital - better known in the West as the militar... ...ands of bright Chinese students train in the United states. American technologies, management, knowledge, capital and marketing permeate Beijing's ... ...ions, countering other foreign influences, attaining commercial goals, or securing long-term presence and say in local affairs. America's "exploit... ...material structure of the empire, which had long been crumbling, was now under the management of the sultan-basileus. But the Orthodox faith was le... ...mber 2005) exposed the frailty and lack of preparedness of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and, to some extent, the National Guard. It b... ...servation of peace. They think that America is a far more reliable sponsor of their long-term safety and prosperity than the fractured European "Un... ...tunity as the recent takeover of Tyumen Oil by British Petroleum proves. Still, the long-term risk of being unseated by a reconstructed Iraq as the ...

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...over from a deep recession, returning to their pre-crisis levels but not to their long-term trend 5 . The global recovery in trade was led mainly by... ...global recovery in trade was led mainly by rapidly growing demand, especially for capital goods, from developing economies. According to the WTO, th... ...pments as early as possible in the supply chain. Develop and adopt advanced risk management methodology, such as a systematic cargo profiling techn... ...ogy, such as a systematic cargo profiling techniques, and/or a computerized risk management system to identify high-risk shipments and minimize phy...

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...l be hard for me to love him." (p. 5) Agent-Principal Problem In the catechism of capitalism, shares represent the part- ownership of an economic e... ...lders meet once a year to vent and disperse. Boards of directors are appointed by management - as are auditors. Shareholders are not represented i... ...shares reify the expectation to find future buyers at a higher price and thus incur capital gains. In the Ponzi scheme known as the stock exchange, ... ...are allowed by shareholders to loot the company providing they generate consistent capital gains to their masters by provoking persistent interest ... ...its forms, has failed. The notion that we can safely and successfully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a... ...wyers, bankers, insurers, and so on - self- regulation was premised on the belief in long-term self- preservation. Rational economic players and moral... ...ry. In the long run, the real inheritors and proprietors of the Middle East are its long-term inhabitants, the Arabs. A strong army is not a guarant... .... If a firm improves itself, re-engineers its production processes, introduces new management techniques, modernizes - in order to fight the compe... ...ponsibility for or share in their generation and has no possibility to effect their long-term preservation. Money, on the other hand, is generated o...

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...ning of Autonomy in Thai Universities 37 The Transitional Path 44 Relative Funding Models 46 National Weightings 49 E. Budget Management in Univerities 50 Governance and Centrality of Finances 50 Model for Budgetary Autonomy 52 Learning from the Corporate Sector 53 Performance-Based Budgeting 61 Budgeting Transiti...

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...yes. These all relate to human interactions with the natural environment, which is most commonly considered under the rubric of natural resource management (NRM). The effect of speed of a disaster is, in public parlance, often illustrated by the metaphor of the ‘boiled frog’ – different human responses arise from whether a disaster is perceived to be of slow or rapi...

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...sters 22 Chapter 2 –Components of Disasters and NRM 27 Economic Analysis – Five Forms of Capital 27 The Significance of Context 31 Ecosystems Functional Analysis 35 A Note on Statistics 39 Chapter ...