Authors:Randall Miller, Paul Cimbala,
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: america, series, reconstructing, reconstruction, bureau, freedmen
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0823219356
ISBN-13: 9780823219353
The Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen’s Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this lively and well-documented book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau’s agents state by state. They offer insight into the actions and thoughts, not only of the agents, but also of the southern planters and the former slaves, as both of these groups learned how to deal with new responsibilities, new advantages and disadvantages, and altered relationships. The peri
Author: David A. Wise
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: research, project, report, economic, bureau, economics, aging, national, inquiries
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 1998-06-22
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 0226903036
ISBN-13: 9780226903033
For over a decade, the National Bureau of Economic Research has sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A. Wise. The program addresses issues that affect the well-being of individuals as they age and a society that is composed increasingly of older people.Within the next twenty years, an unprecedented proportion of Americans will be over sixty-five. New research in the economics of aging is an essential element of understanding what the future holds for this aging population. Inquiries in the Economics of Aging presents both empirical papers that consider questio
Author: Jagdish Bhagwati
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: research, conference, report, economic, bureau, competition, response, national, import
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1982-05-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0226045390
ISBN-13: 9780226045399
These papers, by a number of leading international-trade theorists, present
Author: Kenneth J. Singleton
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: research, project, report, economic, bureau, monetary, policy, national, japanese
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1993-06-15
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0226760669
ISBN-13: 9780226760667
How has the Bank of Japan (BOJ) helped shape Japan’s economic growth during the past two decades? This book comprehensively explores the relations between financial market liberalization and BOJ policies and examines the ways in which these policies promoted economic growth in the 1980s. The authors argue that the structure of Japan’s financial markets, particularly restrictions on money-market transactions and the key role of commercial banks in financing corporate investments, allowed the BOJ to influence Japan’s economic success. The first two chapters provide the most in-
Author: Randall K. Morck
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: research, conference, report, economic, bureau, corporate, ownership, national, concentrated
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 0226536785
ISBN-13: 9780226536781
Standard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large U.S. firms, but wealthy individuals or families generally hold controlling blocks in smaller U.S. firms and in all firms in most other countries. Given this, the lack of theoretical and empirical work on tightly held firms is surprising. What corporate governance problems arise in tightly held firms? How do these differ from corporate governance problems in widely held firms? How do control blocks arise and how are they maintained? How does concentrated ownership affect economic growth? How should we
Author: Frederick Cecil Mills
Publisher: Arno Press
Keywords: research, publications, reprint, economic, bureau, prices, national, behavior
Number of Pages: 598
Published: 1975
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 040507607X
ISBN-13: 9780405076077
Author: Census Bureau (U.S.)
Publisher: Bureau of Census
Keywords: data, book, national, states, abstract, united, statistical
Number of Pages: 1022
Published: 2004-11-22
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0160723302
ISBN-13: 9780160723308
Official Government Edition. Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts. Also contains over 1,000 additional charts and tables on everyfacet of American activity. Charts are arranged by variables such as age, state, and geographic area.
