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George J. Benston, professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics
at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, died unexpectedly
in January 2008. He was an impassioned advocate for corporate
integrity and a unique scholar; his research interests were as
broad as those of any recent academician. His colleagues have
selected and organized his most important papers into two volumes.
This second volume consists of his publications in the fields of
accounting and finance. The editor has selected a broad range of
papers from each of the major areas that are representative of
Benston's work in that particular field. James D. Rosenfeld,
Professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics, Goizueta Business
School, Emory University, serves as the editor and is assisted by
an editorial advisory board including George Kaufman, Greg Waymire,
Bob Eisenbeis, Larry Wall, Rashad Abdel-Kalik, and Lemma Senbet.
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Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour
history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a
collection of studies on the largest group of the global work
force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to
the present - a period when the emergence and consolidation of
capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three
questions have guided the approach and the structure of this
volume. First, how and why have peasant families managed to survive
under conditions of advancing commercialisation and
industrialisation? Second, why have coercive labour relations been
so persistent in the agricultural sector and third, what was the
role of states in the recruitment of agricultural workers?
Contributors are: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Josef Ehmer,
Katherine Jellison, Juan Carmona, James Simpson, Sophie Elpers,
Debojyoti Das, Lozaan Khumbah, Karl Heinz Arenz, Leida
Fernandez-Prieto, Rachel Kurian, Rafael Marquese, Bruno Gabriel
Witzel de Souza, Rogerio Naques Faleiros, Alessandro Stanziani,
Alexander Keese, Dina Bolokan, and Janina Puder.
How is capitalism represented in popular culture today?Are profits
seen as a legitimate reward of entrepreneurship? Are thrift and
effort still considered a cornerstone of a healthy society? Or is
it that inequalities are eliciting scandal and reproach? How is the
ecosystem portrayed, vis-a-vis profit seeking companies? Are they
irreconcilable, or maybe not? Are there any established trends with
respect to the presentation of entrepreneurship, and that complex
legal artefact that is the modern limited liability company? These
are questions that will be at the core of this book. But they are
not examined through the usual theoretical point of references, but
looking at TV series produced in 2000-2020. Each chapter of this
book is a case studies, covering some of the most popular,
successful and engaging TV shows of the last 20 years. And showing
how deep economic ideas and biases lie, at the roots of some of our
times' most successful entertainment products.
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In good times, growth and profits are welcome, but in bad times we
need resilience, and resilience cannot be spirited up overnight.
The economic fallout from the 2008-9 financial crisis and the
COVID-19 pandemic has been considerable. Each required
unprecedented measures to prevent the economy from crashing. We can
learn from crisis to move beyond the superficial success of
growth-based economics to adopt a more robust way to frame
economics. The adoption of resilient economics should allow an
economic system to evolve that is stable by default. The next
crisis could be any number of issues, some very closely aligned
with the economy and others related to health and environment, or
something else entirely. A truly resilient economy should be able
to weather any crisis and bounce back when it abates. We need to
recalibrate economics to regain its place as a solid and respected
discipline at the heart of policymaking. Resilient economics can do
this. It provides a framework that moves away from focusing on
expansion and growth, to focusing on security, stability, and
sustainability. All societies are different; every economy should
be different.
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The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher
Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious
institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies
spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have
accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic
stability at risk. If you asked most people what forces led to
today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no
one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed
has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy
grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy imploded in
2008, the Fed got credit for rescuing us. But here, for the first
time, is the inside story of how the Fed has reshaped the American
economy for the worse. It all started on November 3, 2010, when the
Fed began a radical intervention called quantitative easing. In
just a few short years, the Fed more than quadrupled the money
supply with one goal: to encourage banks and other investors to
extend more risky debt. Leaders at the Fed knew that they were
undertaking a bold experiment that would produce few real jobs,
with long-term risks that were hard to measure. But the Fed
proceeded anyway…and then found itself trapped. Once it printed
all that money, there was no way to withdraw it from circulation.
The Fed tried several times, only to see the market start to crash,
at which point the Fed turned the money spigot back on. That’s
what it did when COVID hit, printing 300 years’ worth of money in
a few short months. Which brings us to now: Ten years on, the gap
between the rich and poor has grown dramatically, inflation is
raging, and the stock market is driven by boom, busts, and
bailouts. Middle-class Americans seem stuck in a stage of permanent
stagnation, with wage gains wiped out by high prices even as they
remain buried under credit card debt, car loan debt, and student
debt. Meanwhile, the “too big to fail” banks remain bigger and
more powerful than ever while the richest Americans enjoy the gains
of a hyper-charged financial system. The Lords of Easy Money
“skillfully” (The Wall Street Journal) tells the
“fascinating” (The New York Times) tale of how quantitative
easing is imperiling the American economy through the story of the
one man who tried to warn us. This is the first inside story of how
we really got here—and why our economy rests on such unstable
ground.
Sustainable development is a long-term solution to how we plan our
indefinite progress in the future. The concept covers a broad scope
of environmental, social, and economic development, which continues
to prove its importance in our lives as it affects all aspects of
them. Innovative Economic, Social, and Environmental Practices for
Progressing Future Sustainability explores the current practice and
implementation of economic, social, and environmental sustainable
development. This book offers a reference for a wide number of
stakeholders interested in the importance of economic, social and
environmental development in sustainable development. New
contributions, especially theoretical, practical and managerial,
will be discussed in this book. This book is a reference for a wide
number of stakeholders interested in the area of sustainable
development, especially in the area of economic, social, and
environment. This text is an international platform to bring
together academics, researchers, lecturers, decision-makers,
policymakers, and practitioners to share new theories, research
findings, and case studies.
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