Author: John Field
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: ideas, key, capital, social
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-06-24
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415433037
ISBN-13: 9780415433037
The term ‘social capital’ is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable international currency across the social sciences through the very different work of Pierre Bourdieu in France and James Coleman and Robert Putnam in the United States, and has been widely taken up within politics and sociology as an explanation for the decline in social cohesion and community values in western societies. It has also been adopted by policy makers, particularly in international governmental bodies such a
Author: Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: evolving, ideas, capital
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-05-04
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0470452498
ISBN-13: 9780470452493
"A lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal Capital Ideas. Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics, derivatives, hedging, and hyperactive trading. This fine and eminently readable book is unlikely to be surpassed as the definitive chronicle of a truly historic era." —John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and author, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing "Just as Dante could not have understood
Author: John B Jervis
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: capital, labour, question
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 111052823X
ISBN-13: 9781110528233
Originally published in 1877. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
Author: Shahid Ansari
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Keywords: process, budgeting, capital
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2000-03-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 007231575X
ISBN-13: 9780072315752
Author: Ichiro Kawachi
Publisher: Springer New York
Keywords: health, capital, social
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-12-28
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1441924353
ISBN-13: 9781441924353
Social Capital and Health discusses social capital—a concept that originated in the social sciences—and its application to the field of public health. The editors take care to define the concept of social capital, describe its theoretical origins, and discuss the controversies and debates surrounding the use of the concept in public health research and practice. The book provides a comprehensive "tool kit" of current approaches to measure social capital. Further, the book surveys the empirical evidence linking social capital to physical and mental health outcomes, health-related behaviors
Author: Charles Ehin
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: capital, intellectual, unleashing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-03-13
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0750672463
ISBN-13: 9780750672467
Unleashing Intellectual Capital reveals breakthrough principles for structuring Knowledge Age organizations. It helps leaders and knowledge professionals better understand how human nature supports or undermines voluntary workplace collaboration and innovation-vital sources of competitive advantage in business. Integrating the latest insights from diverse scientific disciplines, the book reestablishes some very basic truths about human innate behavior that determine how people best work together and are managed, or in some cases "unmanaged." Using understandable and practical models, Unleashin
Author: Irving Fisher
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: income, capital, nature
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1602069905
ISBN-13: 9781602069909
America’s first celebrated economist-developer of the Fisher equation, the Fisher hypothesis, and the Fisher separation theorem-offers here a rational foundation for the most fundamental of concepts behind the modern economics: capital and income. This 1906 textbooks explores such ideas as. . the difference between wealth and property rights . why one bankruptcy leads to another . the difficulties of defining income . the "premium" and "price" concepts of interest . risk in the economic arena . and much more.
