Author: Dale W. Jorgenso
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: cost, capital, policy, tax, vol, investment
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1996-04-19
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0262100576
ISBN-13: 9780262100571

"Dale Jorgenson . . . is preeminently the master of the territory between economics and statistics, where both have to be applied to the study of concrete probl ems. His prolonged exploration of the determinants of investment spending, whatever its ultimate lessons, will certainly long stand as one of the finest example s in the marriage of theory and practice in economics." -- John Bates Clark Medal citation by the American Economic Association These studies of the cost of capital will inspire and guide policy-makers who share the goal of making the allocation of capital in a market economy m

Author: Bill Sammo
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: election, steal, gore, cost
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-05-25
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0895262274
ISBN-13: 9780895262271

Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon makes it clear in the opening pages of At Any Cost that he’s not a big fan of Al Gore. In this fast-paced account of what happened to Florida’s controversial vote, he explains how a defeated Gore desperately fought to turn things around. He starts by suggesting that tens of thousands of voters in the Florida Panhandle--Republican country--decided not to cast ballots when the media wrongly called the state for Gore early in the evening on Election Day, before all the polls had closed in the western part of the state. Without this blunder--which

Author: Samuel. Waldo Specthrie
Publisher: Waldo Specthrie Pre
Keywords: accounting, cost, basic
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1406753955
ISBN-13: 9781406753950

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artw

Authors:Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen,
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Keywords: accounting, cost, cornerstones
Number of Pages: 1056
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $252.95
ISBN-10: 053873678X
ISBN-13: 9780538736787

Providing the most up-to-date and thorough coverage of cost management topics, Hansen/Mowen’s CORNERSTONES OF COST ACCOUNTING provides students with a solid foundation with its unique Cornerstones approach. Created from our research on student learning behavior, this step-by-step format helps students understand the How, Why, and What Ifs of solving and mastering basic cost management topics, while also getting at the conceptual nature of each equation or topic. This relevant text also addresses some of the most recent processes affecting the discipline such as a chapter on productivity

Author: William Winchell
Publisher: Society of Manufacturing Engineer
Keywords: manufacturing, estimating, cost, realistic
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1989-06-01
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0872633640
ISBN-13: 9780872633643

This revised edition contains material on the use of software, organization strategies in cost estimating, new types of costs, learning curves, and much more. Topics presented include manufacturing costs, standard vs. actual costs, cost in relation to product volume, analysis, types of estimates, cost estimating controls, cost requests from other departments, evaluating supplier quotes, calculating selling prices, and much more.

Author: Donald C. Shoup
Publisher: American Planning Association
Keywords: parking, free, cost
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1884829988
ISBN-13: 9781884829987

American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking for every new building. The resulting cost? Today we see sprawling cities that are better suited to cars than people and a nationwide fleet of motor vehicles that consume one-eighth of the world’s total oil production. Donald Shoup contends in The High Cost of Free Parking that parking is sorely misunderstood and mismanaged by planners, architects, and politicians. He proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking so that Americans can stop

Author: Tevfik F. Nas
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: application, theory, analysis, benefit, cost
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1996-02-14
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0803971338
ISBN-13: 9780803971332

This book has been designed specifically with the non-economist in mind, for example, students in public administration, urban studies and health care who may have little or no preparation in economics. It includes recent developments in the theoretical and empirical cost-benefit analysis (CBA) literature beginning with a detailed discussion of welfare economics and the microeconomic foundations of CBA. It gives comprehensive treatment to CBA methodology and concludes with the current state of CBA as it is practiced by public and international agencies, with applications in areas of health car