Non-monetary Trade Economies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for high returns, made risky loans a business staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy properties at almost any asking... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Jun 2004
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Books

farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers, View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

February, featured a keynote address by Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, who, during her tenure as U.S. Trade Representative from 1996 to 2001, pursued an aggressive agenda to open foreign markets around the world. Barshefsky, currently... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

filled, even the blare of rush-hour traffic clogging the central square of Athens out front—is the sound of Greece’s GDP on the move. It’s the ring of an economy finally looking up. “This place would have been empty in 2015,” says Dimos... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

institutions, the authors note how business needs to use data and analytics to their advantage, to deal with such issues as reconciling different data sets and how to leverage economies of scale while remaining agile with data. To address... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.

tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

their mirror position on the other side of the room. This included dress, hairstyle, mannerisms, voice, and style of comment typical of the person in question, and, of course, we traded namecards. Our professor rolled with it quite well,... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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