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The zero transaction cost entrepreneur : powerful techniques to reduce friction and scale your business / by Berkery, Dermot,author.(CARDINAL)484971;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Harness the power of "zero transaction costs" to ensure long-term success in every new business proposition"--
Subjects: New business enterprises.; Transaction costs.; Nouvelles entreprises.; Coûts de transaction.;
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The economic case for LGBT equality : why fair and equal treatment benefits us all / by Badgett, M. V. Lee(Mary Virginia Lee),author.(CARDINAL)529233;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Stigma and schools -- Employment : funnels, fences, and walls -- When stigma makes you sick -- Making the business case for LGBT equality -- The cost to economies : adding it up -- A way forward -- Strategies for realizing the gains from LGBT (and LGBTI) equality."Badgett offers some new ways of thinking to convert the many people who use their power to hurt LGBT people, whether in passing discriminatory laws, firing them from jobs, harassing them in school, beating them on the streets, failing to protect them from beatings, kicking them out of families, or depriving them of appropriate health care-in short, in excluding them from the core institutions that make it possible to live a good life. Understanding the economic cost of that homophobia and transphobia gives activists, businesses, development agencies, and policymakers a new tool that can help change lives"--
Subjects: Homophobia; Transphobia; Gay rights; Discrimination; Transaction costs.; Opportunity costs.; Homophobia.; Transphobia.; Gay rights.;
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The Japanese labor market in a comparative perspective with the United States : a transaction-cost interpretation / by Hashimoto, Masanori.(CARDINAL)157488;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-143) and index.
Subjects: Labor market; Human capital; Labor market; Human capital;
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Teams, markets, and systems : business innovation and information technology / by Ciborra, Claudio.(CARDINAL)141978;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-242) and indexes.1. Cognitive models of man, organisation and information -- 2. Teams -- 3. Mediating technologies -- 4. Team-support systems -- 5. Market-support systems -- 6. Transaction cost analysis of information systems -- 7. Analysing costs and benefits -- 8. Systems development: a contractual view -- 9. Tactical information systems -- 10. Creating electronic markets: the case of fixed income bonds -- 11. Groupware, teams and markets in an airline -- 12. Networks and markets in public administration.
Subjects: Industrial management.; Technological innovations; Teams in the workplace.; Organizational change.;
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How the stock market works [videorecording] / by DeGennaro, Ramon Paul,1952-speaker.; DeGennaro, Ramon Paul,1952-How the stock market works, course guidebook.©2014.; White, David C.,1982-producer.; Allen, Jim M.,director.; Teaching Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;
Producer/editor, David C. White ; studio director, Jim M. Allen.Taught by : Professor Ramon P. DeGennaro, University of Tennessee, Knoxville."Detailed lectures that explain the stock market from the inside, introducing you to the factors that make company stocks rise and fall and the information you need to grasp the market's role in the world economy, evaluate the relative soundness of stocks, and understand the stock investment options available to you"--Publisher's website.DVD.
Subjects: Instructional films.; Lectures.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings.; Stocks; Investments; Stock exchanges;
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The laws of disruption : harnessing the new forces that govern life and business in the digital age / by Downes, Larry,1959-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.Digital life : understanding second-order effects -- The weird economics of information : non-rivalrous goods and the problem of transaction costs -- Law one : convergence : when worlds collide -- Law two : personal information : from privacy to propriety -- Law three : human rights : social contracts in digital life -- Law four : infrastructure : rules of the road on the information highway -- Law five : business : all regulation is local -- Law six : crime : public wrongs, private remedies -- Law seven : copyright : reset the balance -- Law eight : patent : virtual machines need virtual lubricants -- Law nine : software : open always wins...eventually -- Conclusion : lessons learned.Explores nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life. This book will help business owners and managers understand not only how to avoid being blindsided by customer rebellion, but also how to benefit from it. It will teach lawyers, judges, and regulators when to keep their hands off the system, and it will show consumers the consequences of their digital actions.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Information technology; Technological innovations;
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Aquanomics : water markets and the environment / by Gardner, B. Delworth,1928-; Simmons, Randy T.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Water quality markets: institutional design and performance -- Market-like water quality trading: why it matters and how to make it happen -- Buying water for the environment -- Auctions of water rights -- The economic effects of using property taxes in lieu of direct user fees to pay for water -- The economics of dam decommissioning for ecosystem restoration: making informed decisions to remove aging U.S. dams -- Markets for freshwater ecosystem services -- Lessons from Los Angeles: dealing with diminishing predictability in Los Angeles water sources: the evolving public trust doctrine: an obstacle to water marketing -- Dams, water rights, and market transfers in California -- The Sacramento-San Joaquin delta and the political economy of California water -- Allocation transaction costs and water -- Markets: the anticommons perspective.
Subjects: Water quality trading.; Water rights.; Water-supply.;
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Regulation and economic analysis : a critique over two centuries / by Gordon, Richard L.,1934-(CARDINAL)129060;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-247) and index.Foreword: The Road to the Study -- Ch. 1. Introduction: Governments and the Marketplace in Economic Analysis -- Ch. 2. Choices in a Market Economy: A Prologue -- Ch. 3. An Introduction to Market Failures -- Ch. 4. Further Problems of Analyzing and Treating Monopoly -- Ch. 5. International Trade Policy Issues -- Ch. 6. Transaction Costs, Property Rights, and the Limits of Government -- Ch. 7. Optimum Economic Organization: The Efficiency of Firms and Its Implications for Public Policy -- Ch. 8. Market Regulation and Macroeconomics Problems -- Ch. 9. Notes on Fairness and the Market Economy -- Ch. 10. Problems of Environmental Impacts and Regulating Business Practices -- Ch. 11. Land Policy as a Case Study in Excess Intervention -- Ch. 12. The Critiques of Intervention Reconsidered -- Ch. 13. Conclusions -- Appendix: Methodological Debates in Philosophy and Economics -- Substance Behind the Form?
Subjects: Industrial policy; Trade regulation;
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Institutional incentives and sustainable development : infrastructure policies in perspective / by Ostrom, Elinor.(CARDINAL)149172; Schroeder, Larry D.(CARDINAL)189823; Wynne, Susan G.(CARDINAL)165222;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.Introduction / Paul A. Sabatier, Series Editor -- 1. The Role of Infrastructure in Development. Postwar Development Initiatives. An Institutional Approach to Explaining Development Outcomes. The Importance of Physical Infrastructure. What Do We Mean by Infrastructure Sustainability? An Overview of Our Approach -- 2. The Problem of Sustainable Infrastructure. Infrastructure Maintenance and Its Finance. Phases of Infrastructure Development. Factors Influencing Maintenance Decisions of a Single Owner-User of Private Capital -- 3. Individuals, Incentives, and Transaction Costs. Assumptions About the Individual. Problems of Contractual Uncertainty and Transaction Costs. Information Asymmetries as Sources of Contractual Uncertainty. Kinship Networks as Counteracting Institutions. Nepotism and Corruption -- 4. Provision and Production of Rural Infrastructure. Distinction Between Provision and Production. Attributes of Rural Infrastructure Primarily Affecting Provision.Attributes of Rural Infrastructure Primarily Affecting Production -- 5. Evaluating Institutional Performance. Overall Performance Criteria. Intermediate Performance Criteria -- 6. Analyzing Institutional Arrangements. Institutional Arrangements for Private Infrastructure Development. Institutional Arrangements for Public Infrastructure Development -- 7. Centralized Institutional Arrangements. Centralized Infrastructure Development. The Problem of Truncated Analyses. The Role of Donor Agencies -- 8. Decentralized Institutional Arrangements. Decentralization Efforts. Does Administrative Decentralization Improve the Performance of Centralized National Governments? -- 9. Polycentric Institutional Arrangements. The Concept of Polycentricity. The Possibility of Polycentricity in Developing Countries. Some Common Concerns About Polycentric Arrangements. Privatization as a Form of Decentralization -- 10. Implications of an Institutional Approach to Sustainable Development.1550L
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); Sustainable development;
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Financial management theory in the public sector / by Khan, Aman.(CARDINAL)275222; Hildreth, W. Bartley,1949-(CARDINAL)174071;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.Managing financial transactions efficiently : a transaction cost model of public financial management / John R. Bartle and Jun Ma -- Information asymmetry in public investment management / Brian K. Collins and Aman Khan -- Bridging the gap between contract service delivery and public financial management : applying theory to practice / Lawrence L. Martin -- Prospect theory and the municipal bond market / Kenneth A. Kriz -- Practice as interpretation in public financial management / Gerald J. Miller, Jonathan B. Justice, and Iryna Illiash -- Should financial reporting by government encompass performance reporting? : origins and implications of the GFOA-GASB conflict / William Earle Klay, Sam M. McCall, and Curtis E. Baynes -- Assessing the likely acceptance of financial management techniques in the public sector : a characteristic approach / William G. Albrecht and Rev. Thomas D. Lynch -- Fiscal decentralization : theory as reform / James Edwin Kee -- Managing structural imbalances : implications for fiscal decision making and policy / Merl Hackbart and James R. Ramsey -- E-government financial management models / Craig L. Johnson -- Integrating theory and practice : financial management reform in the U.S. Federal Government / Larry R. Jones and Jerry L. McCaffery.
Subjects: Finance, Public.;
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