Founding Choices

Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226384756
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Founding Choices written by Douglas A. Irwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.

Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226384764
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Founding Choices written by Douglas A. Irwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to come. Founding Choices explores these economic choices and their profound influence on American life, westward expansion, and influence abroad. Among the topics covered are finance, trade, and monetary and banking policy, with a focus on the factors guiding those policies and their end result. This book redresses the relative neglect of the economic achievements of the founders. It will be essential reading for historians and economists alike.

Author : Noam Wasserman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691158304
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founder's Dilemmas written by Noam Wasserman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.

Author : Gerard N. Magliocca
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814761453
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Founding Son written by Gerard N. Magliocca and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans. He was also at the center of two of the greatest trials in history, giving the closing argument in the military prosecution of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. And more than any other man, Bingham played the key role in shaping the Union’s policy towards the occupied ex-Confederate States, with consequences that still haunt our politics. American Founding Son provides the most complete portrait yet of this remarkable statesman. Drawing on his personal letters and speeches, the book traces Bingham’s life from his humble roots in Pennsylvania through his career as a leader of the Republican Party. Gerard N. Magliocca argues that Bingham and his congressional colleagues transformed the Constitution that the Founding Fathers created, and did so with the same ingenuity that their forbears used to create a more perfect union in the 1780s. In this book, Magliocca restores Bingham to his rightful place as one of our great leaders. Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is the author of three books on constitutional law, and his work on Andrew Jackson was the subject of an hour-long program on C-Span’s Book TV.

Author : Noam Wasserman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503607429
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Is a Startup written by Noam Wasserman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades of research on founders, a best-selling book on the subject, and experience teaching and mentoring thousands of students in this field, Noam Wasserman is a prominent authority on startups. Hearing from countless readers and students that his insights helped them with important life decisions, beyond the incubator and boardroom, Wasserman brings us a new book that applies to everyday life his research on the methods of successful startup founders. Like entrepreneurs, we all deal with uncertainty, tough decision-making, and necessary problem-solving. Whether we freelance or work for large organizations, whether we're married or single, have kids or not, we must be able to think on our feet, assess risks and opportunities, and recruit others to help us navigate them. This book offers important advice for envisioning change in our lives—from contemplating the next step in a relationship to making a radical career move—and managing changes to which we've already committed. We can learn to recognize our own well-worn patterns and keep our tendencies and habits in check, recruit a personal taskforce—our own board of directors—to advise us, and plan ahead for growth. With his extensive database of entrepreneurship case studies—from Pandora to Twitter to Nike—complemented with data on 20,000 founders, Wasserman is able to go deeply into the entrepreneurial mindset and show us how startups provide specific lessons for crafting our most successful lives.

Author : Stephen C. Schlesinger
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786729708
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Act of Creation written by Stephen C. Schlesinger and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Act of Creation, Stephen C. Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American President, Harry Truman, picked up the pieces of the faltering campaign initiated by Franklin Roosevelt to create a "United Nations." Using secret agents, financial resources, and their unrivaled position of power, they overcame the intrigues of Stalin, the reservations of wartime allies like Winston Churchill, the discontent of smaller states, and a skeptical press corps to found the United Nations. The author reveals how the UN nearly collapsed several times during the conference over questions of which states should have power, who should be admitted, and how authority should be divided among its branches. By shedding new light on leading participants like John Foster Dulles, John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller, and E. B White, Act of Creation provides a fascinating tale of twentieth-century history not to be missed.

Author : Susan Dunn
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 9780465017805
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something That Will Surprise the World written by Susan Dunn and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of important speeches, letters, and writings by George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, capturing their words on government and political institutions, religion, education, love, the pursuit of happiness, and more. Reprint.

Author : Robert E. Wright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226910687
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Founding Fathers written by Robert E. Wright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors chronicle how a different group of nine founding fathers forged the wealth and institutions necessary to transform the American colonies from a diffuse alliance of contending business interests into one cohesive economic superpower.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706344
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founding Fish written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.

Author : Robert W. Galvin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742522800
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Founding Secret written by Robert W. Galvin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important work, the author illuminates how the founding fathers' motives, thoughts, and actions were framed by the Scottish Enlightenment.