Predators And Profits

Author : Martin Howell
Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN 13 : 0131402447
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Predators and Profits written by Martin Howell and published by Prentice Hall Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive "no sacred cows" guide to spotting financial scams and how to avoid them, this handbook for the investment consumer shows how to spot the snake oil of the past, present and future.

Author : Russell Mokhiber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate Predators written by Russell Mokhiber and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 51 of the world's biggest 100 economies are corporations, not countries. As the most powerful institution of our time, the multinational corporation dominates not only global economics, but politics and culture as well. Yet the mechanisms of corporate control have remained largely hidden from public perception-until now.

Author : Wilf E. Pyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883171318
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting Predators for Hides and Profit written by Wilf E. Pyle and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader through every step of the hunting / marketing process -- from selecting the right guns and ammo to coping successfully in the wilds and preparing the hides for sale.

Author : James Galbraith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141656683X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Predator State written by James Galbraith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A progressive economist challenges popular conservative-minded economic practices, in a scathing critique of Reagan-Bush policies that contends that the political right is misrepresenting the consequences of free-market and free-trade ideals. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Connie Bruck
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982144262
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Predators' Ball written by Connie Bruck and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Connie Bruck traces the rise of this empire with vivid metaphors and with a smooth command of high finance’s terminology.” —The New York Times “The Predators’ Ball is dirty dancing downtown.” —New York Newsday From bestselling author Connie Bruck, The Predators’ Ball dramatically captures American business history in the making, uncovering the philosophy of greed that dominated Wall Street in the 1980s. During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as “the highly confident letter” (“I’m highly confident that I can raise the money you need to buy company X”) and the “blind pool” (“Here’s a billion dollars: let us help you buy a company”), and he financed the biggest corporate raiders—men like Carl Icahn and Ronald Perelman. And then, on September 7, 1988, things changed... The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert with insider trading and stock fraud. Waiting in the wings was the US District Attorney, who wanted to file criminal and racketeering charges. What motivated Milken in his drive for power and money? Did Drexel Burnham Lambert condone the breaking of laws?

Author : Michel Villette
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801475665
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Predators to Icons written by Michel Villette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of business and management that train new generations of entrepreneurs and executives, achieving extraordinary success in business is attributed to far-sighted individuals who have taken bold risks, provided innovative leadership, and introduced new products, services, or ideas superior to those of the competition. Amid the growing skepticism about the means by which vast amounts of wealth are accumulated and its consequences, however, this belief is long overdue for reevaluation. In From Predators to Icons, Michel Villette, a sociologist, and Catherine Vuillermot, a business historian, examine the careers of thirty-two of today's wealthiest global executives--including Warren Buffett, Ingvar Kamprad, Bernard Arnault, Jim Clark, and Richard Branson--in order to challenge the conventional explanations for their extreme success and come to a better understanding of modern business practices. In contrast to the familiar image of the entrepreneur as a visionary with a plan, Villette and Vuillermot instead discover a far less dramatic process of improvised adaptations gradually assembled into a coherent course of conduct. And rather than being risk-takers, those who are most successful in business are risk-minimizers. Huge gains, these case studies reveal, are most reliably obtained in circumstances where the entrepreneur has established careful provisions for risk reduction. As for the view that innovation makes success possible, the authors find that because innovation is an expensive process that takes a long time to produce profits, innovators first of all require capital; success makes innovation possible. The necessary resources, they show, are most often derived from what they provocatively term "predation" ruthlessly taking advantage of imperfections, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities within the market or among competitors. Finally, From Predator to Icon considers the "practical ethics" implemented during the phase in which capital is most rapidly accumulated, as well as the social consequences of these activities. Drawing on interviews with some of their subjects and, crucially, close readings of the authorized biographies and other hagiographic accounts of these figures, which eliminates the bias of malicious interpretations, Villette and Vuillermot provide revelatory insights about the creation and maintenance of business wealth that will be profitably read by both the captains and the critics of contemporary capitalism.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on the Environment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Predator Control written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Predator Control, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Environment..., 93-1, on S. 819..., S. 887..., March 27, 29, and May 10, 1973 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard S. Markovits
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364224307X
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law written by Richard S. Markovits and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume (1) defines the specific-anticompetitive-intent, lessening-competition, distorting-competition, and exploitative-abuse tests of illegality promulgated by U.S. and/or E.U. antitrust law, (2) compares the efficiency defenses promulgated by U.S. and E.U. antitrust law, (3) compares the conduct-coverage of the various U.S. and E.U. antitrust laws, (4) defines price competition and quality-or-variety-increasing-investment (QV-investment) competition and explains why they should be analyzed separately, (5) defines the components of individualized-pricing and across-the-board-pricing sellers’ price minus marginal cost gaps and analyses each’s determinants, (6) defines the determinants of the intensity of QV-investment competition and explains how they determine that intensity, (7) demonstrates that definitions of both classical and antitrust markets are inevitably arbitrary, not just at their periphery but comprehensively, (8) criticizes the various protocols for market definition recommended/used by scholars, the U.S. antitrust agencies, the European Commission, and U.S. and E.U. courts, (9) explains that a firm’s economic (market) power or dominance depends on its power over both price and QV investment and demonstrates that, even if markets could be defined non-arbitrarily, a firm’s economic power could not be predicted from its market share, (10) articulates a definition of “oligopolistic conduct” that some economists have implicitly used–conduct whose perpetrator-perceived ex ante profitability depended critically on the perpetrator’s belief that its rivals’ responses would be affected by their belief that it could react to their responses, distinguishes two types of such conduct–contrived and natural–by whether it entails anticompetitive threats and/or offers, explains why this distinction is critical under U.S. but not E.U. antitrust law, analyzes the profitability of each kind of oligopolistic conduct, examines these analyses’ implications for each’s antitrust legality, and criticizes related U.S. and E.U. case-law and doctrine and scholarly positions (e.g., on the evidence that establishes the illegal oligopolistic character of pricing), and (11) executes parallel analyses of predatory conduct--e.g., criticizes various arguments for the inevitable unprofitability of predatory pricing, the various tests that economists/U.S. courts advocate using/use to determine whether pricing is predatory, and two analyses by economists of the conditions under which QV investment and systems rivalry are predatory and examines the conditions under which production-process research, plant-modernization, and long-term full-requirements contracts are predatory.

Author : Paul Koutstaal
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781959756
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Policy and Climate Change written by Paul Koutstaal and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book deserves to be widely read. . .' - Brian Garrod, Environmental Politics 'The issues dealt with in Paul Koutstaal's analysis are unquestionably highly topical and of great importance, in particular to the fossil fuel energy sector.' - Benito Müller, Journal of Energy Literature Economic Policy and Climate Change focuses on the design, implementation and consequences of a feasible system of tradable carbon permits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the context of the European Union.