Authors:Thomas N. Carson, William P. Litma,
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
Keywords: funds, wealth, sovereign
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1606923196
ISBN-13: 9781606923191

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are investment funds owned and managed by national governments. Such funds currently manage between $1.9 and $2.9 trillion and are expected to grow to over $12 trillion by 2015. This is due to the rapid growth of commodity prices and large trade surpluses in several emerging market economies. During the second half of 2007, interest in SWFs increased as Asian and Middle Eastern SWFs, fueled by surging foreign exchange reserves, invested large sums of capital in U.S. and other Western companies. Policy makers in the United States have raised two broad policy concer

Author: Jessica Litma
Publisher: Prometheus Book
Keywords: copyright, digital
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-07-05
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 159102420X
ISBN-13: 9781591024200

In 1998, copyright lobbyists succeeded in persuading Congress to enact laws greatly expanding copyright owners’ control over individuals’ private uses of their works. The efforts to enforce these new rights have resulted in highly publicized legal battles between established media, and new upstarts. In this enlightening and well-argued book, law professor Jessica Litman questions whether copyright laws crafted by lawyers and their lobbyists really make sense for the vast majority of us. Should every interaction between ordinary consumers and copyright-protected works be restricted

Authors:Ann Amernick,  Taran Z, Margie Litma,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: dessert, art
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-04-16
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0471443816
ISBN-13: 9780471443810

Named one of the country’s top ten pastry chefs by both Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design magazines and nominated five times for the James Beard Pastry Chef of the Year award, Ann Amernick is one of the nation’s most accomplished dessert makers. Now, in The Art of Dessert she shares nearly 100 recipes for artfully distinctive desserts - the summation of her long and distinguished career as a baker. Amernick’s creations often recall familiar foods and flavors - a cheese danish, for example, or a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup - but in her hands, the familiar becomes somethi

Authors:William J. Cook, William H. Cunningham, William R.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: optimization, combinatorial
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-11-12
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 047155894X
ISBN-13: 9780471558941

A complete, highly accessible introduction to one of today’s most exciting areas of applied mathematics One of the youngest, most vital areas of applied mathematics, combinatorial optimization integrates techniques from combinatorics, linear programming, and the theory of algorithms. Because of its success in solving difficult problems in areas from telecommunications to VLSI, from product distribution to airline crew scheduling, the field has seen a ground swell of activity over the past decade. Combinatorial Optimization is an ideal introduction to this mathematical discipline for ad

Authors:William Reichenstein, William W. Jennings, William
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: code, tax, investments, integrating
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2003-01-17
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0471216429
ISBN-13: 9780471216421

Add Value to any Client’s Portfolio With Tax-Saving Strategies "Bill Reichenstein and William Jennings are two of the industry’s very few true pioneers. This book should be on the short list of anyone interested in private wealth management, whether expressed in thousands or millions of dollars." –Jean L. P. Brunel, CFA, Editor of the Journal of Wealth Management and author of Integrated Wealth Management "Reichenstein and Jennings tackle many key issues facing individual investors, including ‘How should you differentiate between the before-tax dollars in retirement acc

Authors:William G. Gale, J. Mark Iwry, David C. John, William
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: saves, america, way, changing, automatic
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815702787
ISBN-13: 9780815702788

Automatic offers an innovative new way to think about how Americans can save for retirement.Over the past quarter century, America’s pension system has shifted away from defined benefit plans and toward defined contribution savings programs such as 401(k)s and IRAs. There is much to be done to improve the defined contribution system. Many workers fail to participate and those who do often contribute too little, invest the funds poorly, and are not adequately prepared to manage funds while in retirement.To resolve these problems, the authors propose that employees should be automatically

Authors:William S. Laufer, William Merton, Freda Adler, Willi
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: theory, volume, criminology, advances, legacy, anomie
Number of Pages: 449
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0765806622
ISBN-13: 9780765806628