"Inflation Targeting, Debt, and the Brazilian Experience, 1999 to 2003 " by Francesco Giavazzi , Ilan Goldfajn , and Santiago Herrera The MIT Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0262072599 | 325 pages | PDF | 1.55 Mb
Inflation targeting -- when central bank policies set specific inflation rate objectives -- is widely used by both developed and developing countries around the world (although not by the United States or the European Central Bank). This collection of original essays looks at how Brazil's policy of inflation targeting, coupled with a floating exchange rate, survived a series of severe economic shocks and examines the policy lessons that can be drawn from Brazil's experience.After a successful start in early 1999, Brazil's policy regime had to manage mounting difficulties, including a sudden reversal of capital flows and its effects on the exchange rate and public debt, the contagion of Argentina's severe economic problems, a domestic energy crisis, and the political uncertainty of the 2002 presidential campaign. The contributors, prominent Brazilian and international economists, draw important lessons from Brazil's experience, including the necessity of accompanying monetary policy with fiscal improvement, the trade-offs involved in dollar-linked debt, the importance of fiscal institutions in an emerging market economy, and the importance of keeping inflation under control. http://rapidshare.com/files/113698226/0262072599.rar.html ================= "Economics" Paul A. Samuelson, William D. Nordhaus McGraw-Hill Companies | 1998-01-06 | ISBN: 0070579474 | 824 pages | PDF | 22,2 Mb For 50 years, the standard-bearer for elementary economics courses, this revision is a clear and modern introduction to economic principles. Bill Nordhaus is now the primary author of this classic text. http://depositfiles.com/files/5133026 http://w13.easy-share.com/1700310406.html ================ "Market, Class, and Employment" by Patrick McGovern, Stephen Hill, Colin Mills, and Michael White Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-01-11 | ISBN: 0199213372 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,1 Mb Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations. Non-standard forms of employment, the delayering of organizational hierarchies, and the use of individual performance-based payment systems are all held up as examples of a new neo-liberal order in which employers and employees no longer feel a sense of obligation to each other. Drawing on a range of employee and employer surveys, including the authors own Working in Britain 2000 survey, this ambitious study presents a comprehensive examination of the conditions, attitudes, and experiences of British employees from the mid-1980s to the early years of this century. The authors' analyses provides a compelling critique of the received wisdom, while also providing an original, alternative account of recent developments in work and labour markets. Along the way, the book covers such topical issues as the changing nature of trade union membership, the consequences of Britain's 'long hours' culture', and the apparent inability of women to ask for pay rises. Significantly, the authors seek to reposition debates about the future of work by restoring the concepts of contracts and social class to the analysis of the employment relationship. Based on the ESRC funded Future of Work research programme this book is destined to shape our understanding of employment in Britain for the foreseeable future. http://depositfiles.com/files/5093607 http://w14.easy-share.com/1700291436.html ================ "Computer-Aided Introduction to Econometrics" by Juan Rodriguez Poo Springer | 2003-02-26| ISBN: 354044114X | 332 pages | PDF | 1,7 Mb The advent of low cost computation has made many previously intractable econometric models empirically feasible and computational methods are now realized as an integral part of the theory. This book provides graduate students and researchers not only with a sound theoretical introduction to the topic, but allows the reader through an internet based interactive computing method to learn from theory to practice the different techniques discussed in the book. Among the theoretical issues presented are linear regression analysis, univariate time series modelling with some interesting extensions such as ARCH models and dimensionality reduction techniques. http://depositfiles.com/files/5049646 http://w16.easy-share.com/1700271331.html ================== "Econometrics" by Fumio Hayashi Princeton University Press | 2000-12-15 | ISBN: 0691010188 | 690 pages | PDF | 18 Mb Hayashi's Econometrics promises to be the next great synthesis of modern econometrics. It introduces first year Ph.D. students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective. It covers all the standard material necessary for understanding the principal techniques of econometrics from ordinary least squares through cointegration. The book is also distinctive in developing both time-series and cross-section analysis fully, giving the reader a unified framework for understanding and integrating results. Econometrics has many useful features and covers all the important topics in econometrics in a succinct manner. All the estimation techniques that could possibly be taught in a first-year graduate course, except maximum likelihood, are treated as special cases of GMM (generalized methods of moments). Maximum likelihood estimators for a variety of models (such as probit and tobit) are collected in a separate chapter. This arrangement enables students to learn various estimation techniques in an efficient manner. Eight of the ten chapters include a serious empirical application drawn from labor economics, industrial organization, domestic and international finance, and macroeconomics. These empirical exercises at the end of each chapter provide students a hands-on experience applying the techniques covered in the chapter. The exposition is rigorous yet accessible to students who have a working knowledge of very basic linear algebra and probability theory. All the results are stated as propositions, so that students can see the points of the discussion and also the conditions under which those results hold. Most propositions are proved in the text. For those who intend to write a thesis on applied topics, the empirical applications of the book are a good way to learn how to conduct empirical research. For the theoretically inclined, the no-compromise treatment of the basic techniques is a good preparation for more advanced theory courses. pass: gigapedia http://depositfiles.com/files/4997946 http://w13.easy-share.com/1700246931.html ========== "Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits: Real-World Strategies That Work" by Ilona M. Bray NOLO | 2008-01-15 | ISBN: 1413307485 | 496 pages | PDF | 10 Mb Getting tax-exempt status for your nonprofit organization is just the first step -- whether its mission will succeed depends entirely on your ability to raise money. Fortunately, Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits will show you how. Featuring advice and stories from over 40 experienced fundraisers, foundation staffers, journalists and more Download (10504 KB) http://rapidshare.com/files/115937448/EffectiveFundraisingForNonprofits_200801.rar.html =========== "Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age" (Religion, Media and Culture) by Mara Einstein Routledge (2007) | English | ISBN: 0203938879 | 259 pages | PDF | 4.10 MB In a society overrun by commercial clutter, religion has become yet another product sold in the consumer marketplace, and faiths of all kinds must compete with a myriad of more entertaining and more convenient leisure activities. Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively, faiths have had to become brands - easily recognizable symbols and spokespeople with whom religious prospects can make immediate connections. Mara Einstein shows how religious branding has expanded over the past twenty years to create a blended world of commerce and faith, where the sacred becomes secular and the secular sacred. In a series of fascinating case studies of faith brands, she explores the significance of branded church courses, such as Alpha and The Purpose Driven Life, mega-churches, and the popularity of the televangelist Joel Olsteen and television presenter Oprah Winfrey, as well as the rise of Kaballah. She asks what the consequences of this religious marketing will be, and outlines the possible results of religious commercialism - good and bad. Repackaging religion - updating music, creating teen-targeted bibles - is justifiable and necessary. However, when the content becomes obscured, religion may lose its unique selling proposition - the very ability to raise us above the market. Download (4306 KB) http://rapidshare.com/files/115930524/Brands_of_Faith.rar.html ============ "Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe" by Zachary Shore Johns Hopkins University Press (2006) | English | ISBN: 0801885051 | 244 pages | PDF | 1.18 MB While American leaders wage war on extremists in the Middle East, they are dangerously detached from a potentially greater threat closer to home. In Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore asserts that the growing ambivalence of Europe's Muslims poses risks to national identities, international security, and the transatlantic alliance. Europe's failure to integrate its Muslim millions, combined with America's battered image in the Muslim world, have left too many Western Muslims easy prey for violent dogmas. Until America and Europe adopt new strategies, Shore argues, Europe will increasingly become the incubation ground for breeding new Bin Ladens. The U.S. continues to spend billions of dollars and lose thousands of its young men and women to combat Islamic extremists, a group estimated to be as small as fifty thousand. What Western leaders have not done, says Shore, is seek to understand the millions of moderate Muslims who live peacefully in the United States and Europe. Many in this extraordinarily diverse group are deeply ambivalent toward perceived Western values. While they may admire America's economic or technological might, many are appalled by its crass consumerism, sexualization of women, lack of social justice, and putative hypocritical foreign policies. Shore offers a deeply nuanced and hopeful consideration of Islam's future in the West. Cautioning Western leaders against an anti-terrorist tunnel-vision that could ultimately backfire, Shore proposes bold, creative, and controversial solutions for attracting the hearts and minds of moderate Muslims living in the West. http://rapidshare.com/files/114172266/8r33din9_8in_L4d3n5.rar.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/00234f/
