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Propriety and Prosperity
by Leslie Marsh David F. HardwickThis book is a collection of specially commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, and political scientists, focusing on Adam Smith's two main works Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations with a view to bringing Smith to a mainstream philosophy audience while simultaneously informing Smith's traditional constituency.
Propuestas del Bicentenario: Rutas para el desarrollo institucional
by Videnza ConsultoresVidenza Instituto presenta Propuestas del Bicentenario: Rutas para el desarrollo institucional, un libro cuyo foco está en cómo mejorar la institucionalidad de los sectores público y privado, y en cómo lograr poner al ciudadano en el centro de la toma de decisiones. Las crisis económica y política que persisten en el Perú pospandemia reflejan un Estado que ha dejado de funcionar con eficencia y eficacia. De no implementarse cambios estructurales, este contexto presagia una mayor precarización de la calidad de vida de la población.Propuestas del Bicentenario: Rutas para el desarrollo institucional propone medidas para fortalecer el Estado y atender las necesidades básicas de todos. Su foco está en cómo mejorar la institucionalidad de los sectores público y privado, y en cómo lograr poner al ciudadano en el centro de la toma de decisiones. Este libro reúne a un destacado grupo de expertos que plantean las estrategias y reformas institucionales que el Perú requiere. Abordan temas tan apremiantes como la lucha contra la corrupción, la necesidad de una reforma política y la implementación de un régimen meritocrático en la administración pública. Igualmente, se abordan los requerimientos por establecer un sistema nacional de salud que solucione las necesidades del ciudadano, un servicio de educación moderno y centrado en el estudiante, el uso correcto de los recursos hídricos y cómo mejorar los niveles de seguridad ciudadana ante el aumento de la delincuencia.
Propuestas del bicentenario: Rutas para el desarrollo regional
by Videnza ConsultoresVidenza Consultores presenta su segundo tomo de Propuestas del Bicentenario con la absoluta certeza de que el desarrollo regional es el gran reto del Estado peruano Con la absoluta certeza de que el desarrollo económico en cada una de las regiones del país es el gran reto del Estado peruano, Videnza Consultores presenta el segundo tomo de Propuestas del Bicentenario. En Propuestas del Bicentenario: Rutas para el desarrollo regional, un grupo de especialistas, con amplia experiencia en la gestión pública, despliega un conjunto de estrategias y soluciones que contribuyan a generar oportunidades de crecimiento de forma más homogénea en el territorio nacional. Para ello, se identifican y analizan algunos de los principales factores transversales requeridos para promover el avance económico y la inversión pública y privada en las regiones: descentralización, conectividad física y digital, viabilidad social, desarrollo productivo del ámbito minero, agricultor y forestal, entre otros. Asimismo, se estudian casos exitosos que, en su mayoría, conviven con otras experiencias que parecen haberse detenido en el tiempo. En un contexto en el que la pandemia, la corrupción y la inestabilidad institucional han agudizado la crisis en el país, este libro ofrece alternativas viables y esperanzadoras que permiten romper las barreras de crecimiento de las regiones, con el fin de mejorar la calidad de vida de todos los peruanos.
Prosecuting Political Violence: Collaborative Research and Method (Political Violence)
by Michael LoadenthalThis volume unpacks the multidimensional realities of political violence, and how these crimes are dealt with throughout the US judicial system, using a mixed methods approach. The work seeks to challenge the often-noted problems with mainstream terrorism research, namely an overreliance on secondary sources, a scarcity of data-driven analyses, and a tendency for authors not to work collaboratively. This volume inverts these challenges, situating itself within primary-source materials, empirically studied through collaborative, inter-generational (statistical) analysis. Through a focused exploration of how these crimes are influenced by gender, ethnicity, ideology, tactical choice, geography, and citizenship, the chapters offered here represent scholarship from a pool of more than sixty authors. Utilizing a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, including regression and other forms of statistical analysis, Grounded Theory, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis, the researchers in this book explore not only the subject of political violence and the law but also the craft of research. In bringing together these emerging voices, this volume seeks to challenge expertism, while privileging the empirical. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, criminology, and US politics.
Prosecutors and Democracy: A Cross-National Study (ASCL Studies in Comparative Law)
by Máximo Langer Sklansky David AlanFocusing squarely on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and what role they should play in a democracy. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they can undermine it, and why it has proven so challenging to hold prosecutors accountable while insulating them from politics. Drawing on experiences from the United States, the UK and continental Europe, the contributors show how different legal systems have addressed that challenge in very different ways. Comparing and contrasting those strategies allows us to assess their relative strengths - and to gain a richer understanding of the contested connections between law and democratic politics. Chapters are in explicit conversation with each other, showing how each author's perspective informs, or differs from, that of the others. This is an ideal resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.
Prosecutors in the Boardroom: Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate Conduct
by Rachel E. Barkow Anthony S. BarkowWho should police corporate misconduct and how should it be policed? In recent years, the Department of Justice has resolved investigations of dozens of Fortune 500 companies via deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements, where, instead of facing criminal charges, these companies become regulated by outside agencies. Increasingly, the threat of prosecution and such prosecution agreements is being used to regulate corporate behavior. This practice has been sharply criticized on numerous fronts: agreements are too lenient, there is too little oversight of these agreements, and, perhaps most important, the criminal prosecutors doing the regulating aren’t subject to the same checks and balances that civil regulatory agencies are. Prosecutors in the Boardroom explores the questions raised by this practice by compiling the insights of the leading lights in the field, including criminal law professors who specialize in the field of corporate criminal liability and criminal law, a top economist at the SEC who studies corporate wrongdoing, and a leading expert on the use of monitors in criminal law. The essays in this volume move beyond criticisms of the practice to closely examine exactly how regulation by prosecutors works. Broadly, the contributors consider who should police corporate misconduct and how it should be policed, and in conclusion offer a policy blueprint of best practices for federal and state prosecution.Contributors: Cindy R. Alexander, Jennifer Arlen, Anthony S. Barkow, Rachel E. Barkow, Sara Sun Beale, Samuel W. Buell, Mark A. Cohen, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Richard A. Epstein, Brandon L. Garrett, Lisa Kern Griffin, and Vikramaditya Khanna
Prospect Research for Fundraisers
by Helen E. Brown Jennifer J. FillaEssential tools for implementing right-sized prospect research techniques that help nonprofit organizations reach their fundraising goalsWritten especially for front-line fundraisers, Prospect Research for Fundraisers presents a practical understanding of prospect research, prospect management, and fundraising analytics, demonstrating how research can be used to raise more money. Filled with examples, case studies, interviews, and stories, this unique book is structured around the fundraising cycle and illustrates the myriad of current and ever-changing prospect research tools and techniques available to boost an organization's fundraising effectiveness. From essential overviews to how-to-search skills, this practical book gives development officers the tools to understand how to use prospect research in ways that best fit their goals for each stage of the fundraising cycle.Provides practical insight to understand the best use of each prospect research tool and techniqueFeatures a companion website with a variety of online tools to help readers implement key conceptsPart of the AFP Fund Development SeriesProspect Research for Fundraisers provides fundraisers with an understanding of what prospect research is and which resources are available to small organizations that have limited internal capacity, medium-sized organizations building capacity, and large organizations wanting to maximize their strengths. It offers a practical understanding of the relevant tools at the disposal of development officers and managers responsible for hiring, outsourcing, purchasing, managing, and implementing prospect research within their organizations.
Prospect Theory
by Peter P. WakkerProspect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity provides the first comprehensive and accessible textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical probabilities associated with uncertain future events (risk) and when we lack them (ambiguity). The book presents models, primarily prospect theory, that are both tractable and psychologically realistic. A method of presentation is chosen that makes the empirical meaning of each theoretical model completely transparent. Prospect theory has many applications in a wide variety of disciplines. The material in the book has been carefully organized to allow readers to select pathways through the book relevant to their own interests. With numerous exercises and worked examples, the book is ideally suited to the needs of students taking courses in decision theory in economics, mathematics, finance, psychology, management science, health, computer science, Bayesian statistics, and engineering.
Prospective Financial Information
by AicpaThis resource provides interpretive guidance and implementation strategies for all preparation, compilation examination and agreed upon procedures on prospective financial information: Helps with establishing proven best-practices. Provides practical tools and resources to assist with compliance. Exposes potential pitfalls associated with independence and ethics requirements. SSAE No. 18 SSARS No. 23 Preparation and compilation engagements now fall under the SSARSs The attestation engagements require an assertion from the responsible party
Prospective Payment Systems
by Duane C. AbbeyThe third book in the Healthcare Payment Systems series, Prospective Payment Systems examines the various types of prospective payment systems (PPS) used by healthcare providers and third-party payers. Emphasizing the basic elements of PPS, it considers the many variations of payment for hospital inpatient and outpatient services, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, long-term hospital care, and rehabilitation facilities along with other providers. The book describes the anatomy of PPS, including cost reports, adjudication features and processes, relative weights, and payment processes. It outlines the features and documentation requirements for Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs), the Medicare Ambulatory Payment Classifications (APCs), Medicare HHPPS, Medicare Skilled Nursing Resource Utilization Groups (RUGs), and private third-party payers.Provides a framework for understanding and analyzing the characteristics of any PPSDiscusses Medicare prospective payment systems and approachesIncludes specific references to helpful resources, both online and in printFacilitates a clear understanding of the complexities related to PPS covering specific topics at a high level and revisiting similar topics to reinforce understandingComplete with a detailed listing of the acronyms most-commonly used in healthcare coding, billing, and reimbursement, the book includes a series of case studies that illustrate key concepts. It concludes with a discussion of the challenges with PPS including compliance and overpayment issues to provide you with the real-world understanding needed to make sense of any PPS.
Prospects and Challenges of Free Trade Agreements: Unlocking Business Opportunities in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Markets
by Doren Chadee Banjo Roxas Tim RogmansThis book assesses the effectiveness of free trade agreements (FTAs) in unlocking international business opportunities in member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). It takes an institutional perspective in explaining the existence and effects of non-tariff barriers and how FTAs can address these barriers to attract foreign investors.
Prospects and Policies for Global Sustainable Recovery: Promoting Environmental and Economic Sustainability (International Papers in Political Economy)
by Philip Arestis Malcolm SawyerThis book presents economic policies to combat the challenges posed by financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the climate crisis. How the role of the markets, the state, and social cohesion have come into question is explored, alongside broader issues, such as inequality. Particular attention is given to policies relating to the funding and financing of investment to confront the climate emergency, enhancing productivity and technical innovation, the significance of the commons in the context of the state, and macroeconomic policies to underpin sustainability. This book aims to present a framework for a sustainable future, with policy suggestions that promote both environmental and economic sustainability. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy and sustainable development.
Prospects for Polar Tourism
by B. Stonehouse J. M. SnyderImprovements in transportation have made the Polar Regions more accessible to tourists. Snyder, a consultant, and Stonehouse (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK) look at environmental, cultural, and economic aspects of polar tourism. Contributors to the book, all professionally involved in different aspects of polar management, explore ship-borne tourism, adventure tourism, private expeditions, and scenic overflights in specific polar tourism markets, and discuss resource management techniques. The readership for the book includes researchers in tourism, ecology, and environmental studies, as well as those developing sustainable tourism in the region.
Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy (Routledge Revivals)
by F. V. MeyerFirst published in 1985, Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy examines the origins of the economic downturn of the early 1980s. The book explores the causes of the decrease in industrial production and employment during the early 1980s and considers the longer-term cyclical problems of the British economy. In doing so, it provides a detailed study on downturn and recovery from a variety of perspectives. Topics covered include the role of the financial markets; the decline in profitability and productivity in the manufacturing industry; and, the social implications of long-term trends. Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy is ideal for those with an interest in the history of the British economy and the history of economic thought.
Prospects for Soil Regeneration and Its Impact on Environmental Protection (Earth and Environmental Sciences Library)
by Naga Raju Maddela Sesan Abiodun Aransiola Babafemi Raphael Babaniyi Adejoke Blessing AransiolaSoil is a complex system of inorganic and organic materials, living organisms, water, and air. It is home to more than one trillion species of microorganisms. Soil also plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. Because plants absorb carbon from the atmosphere, convert it to plant tissue, and return it to the soil as plant residue, soils globally act as the world’s largest sink of active carbon. Soil has role to play in food production and safety. Soil contamination undermined by modern agricultural practices that deplete soil carbon stocks. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have been raising recorded temperatures since the Industrial Revolution. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry, and fisheries have almost doubled in the last 50 years and will increase by 30% by 2050 given the current trend. The primacy of arresting climate change is nowhere more evident than the adoption of 195 countries of the first legally binding global climate deal at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. With atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) reaching 400 parts per million in 2016, soils can be an ally in bringing the CO2 level down to a sustainable level if protected for regeneration. Soil protection and regeneration is a technique that involves the conservative rehabilitation of soil ecosystem and farmland. This technique focuses on top soil regeneration, improving the water cycle, supporting biosequestration, enhancing ecosystem services, increasing biodiversity, strengthening the vitality and health of farm soil, and increasing resilience to climate change and landscape. Environmental protection not only improves soil health, productivity, and resilience to weather extremes, raising farm yields and income while strengthening regional food security in the face of a changing climate, but can also form part of a region’s broader climate strategy. This book is timely as more studies and reviews need to be reported about regenerating global polluted soil and the impacts on the environment, the benefit of both biotic and abiotic structure, thereby creating more awareness of environmental protection and sustainability. Thus, this book presents a vista to research on regeneration of lost resources in the soil and its impacts on the environment.
Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture
by Michael P. Levine William M. TaylorBringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as what they can do in the face of challenging times. It does so by exploring the notion that architecture and design can (and possibly should), in their own right, make for a distinctive form of ethical investigation. The book is less concerned with absolutist understandings of the two components of ethics, a theory of ‘the good’ and a theory of ‘the right’, than with remaining open to multiple relations between ideas about the built environment, design practices and the plurality of kinds of human subjects (inhabitants, individuals and communities) accommodated by buildings and urban spaces. The built environment contributes to the inculcation of all sorts of values (good and bad). Thus, this book aims to change the way people commonly think about ethics, not only in relation to the built environment, but to themselves, their ways of thinking and modes of behaviour.
Prospects for the World Oil Industry (Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Politics of Oil and Gas #10)
by TIM NIBLOCK AND RICHARD LAWLESSWritten in 1985, at a time when the world oil industry was facing a difficult period of over-supply and falling prices, this book examines some of the most important strategic issues facing both the producers and consumers of oil and gas. A theme underlying al the papers is the need for strengthening the co-operation between producing and consuming nations, especially between the Arab Gulf States and the members of the EU. The security of supply is also examined in the light of regional instability and peace in the Middle East.
Prospects of Fresh Market Wastes Management in Developing Countries (Water Science and Technology Library #92)
by Radin Maya Saphira Radin Mohamed Adel Ali Saeed Al-Gheethi Amir Hashim Mohd Kassim Efaq Ali NomanThis book focuses on the prospects of fresh market waste management in developing countries. It characterizes fresh market wastewater and solid wastes, and highlights the human health impact of corresponding waste management practices. With regard to treatment technologies, the book discusses the anaerobic digestion of fresh solid wastes; the application of natural coagulants for wastewater treatment; the remediation of xenobiotics in wastewater using nanotechnology; and biofilter aquaponic systems for nutrient removal. All of these technologies are recent innovations, offer several concrete advantages, and can be applied in developing countries as non-central treatment systems. In addition, the book covers electricity production from fresh solid wastes using microbial fuel cells, demonstrating the potential held by recycling fresh market wastewater and solid wastes.
Prospects of Renewable Bioprocessing in Future Energy Systems (Biofuel and Biorefinery Technologies #10)
by Ajar Nath Yadav Arti Gupta Ali Asghar RastegariThis book discusses various renewable energy resources and technologies. Topics covered include recent advances in photobioreactor design; microalgal biomass harvesting, drying, and processing; and technological advances and optimised production systems as prerequisites for achieving a positive energy balance. It highlights alternative resources that can be used to replace fossil fuels, such as algal biofuels, biodiesel, bioethanol, and biohydrogen. Further, it reviews microbial technologies, discusses an immobilization method, and highlights the efficiency of enzymes as a key factor in biofuel production. In closing, the book outlines future research directions to increase oil yields in microalgae, which could create new opportunities for lipid-based biofuels, and provides an outlook on the future of global biofuel production. Given its scope, the book will appeal to all researchers and engineers working in the renewable energy sector.
Prospects of the Industrial Areas of Great Britain (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Economics #27)
by M. P. FogartyThis book, first published in 1945, is based primarily on some fifty regional reports submitted to the Government between 1941 and 1943. The original reports, condensed and brought together in this volume, were for the most part prepared by members of university departments of economics or geography.
Prosper
by Ethan Willis Randy GarnWhat is true prosperity? Is it simply having enough money? Certainly financial security is necessary for peace of mind. But for many people the pursuit of money stresses and exhausts them so much, it makes peace of mind impossible. And they're always chasing after more--they never feel like they have enough. True prosperity is when there is no conflict between money and happiness--when you don't have to drag yourself out of bed every morning because the way you make a living is true to who you are. And when your way of life is sustainable, you don't fall victim to the boom/crash syndrome that afflicts so many people because you know exactly what you need to be happy and have a plan to achieve it. For the past twelve years Ethan Willis and Randy Garn have helped tens of thousands of people find their own personal path to prosperity. After nearly 11 million hours of personal coaching observation in eighty countries, they've developed six Prosperity Practices that will enable you to create a life that is rich, rewarding, and renewing. You begin by focusing on what you have, not on what you do not--you'll be sur- prised what you find once you shift your way of thinking. A key part of this process is determining what Willis and Garn call your "Polaris Point": a precise description of the life you want and what you need to sustain it. This becomes your own private North Star, guiding all your actions and keeping you from chasing after things you don't really want or need. Then you'll discover how to leverage your passions, experi- ence, and expertise to generate the income you require to reach your Polaris Point. Although you'll find much to reflect on here, Prosper is an action guide--at the end of each chapter, Willis and Garn provide concrete steps you can take to make each of the Prosperity Practices a reality. Soon your life will be aligned with the core of your being, you will have a deep understanding of what you need to be happy, and you'll know how to hold to that vision--and you will truly prosper.
Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China
by Lynette H. OngThe official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-ops are mandated to support agricultural development among farm households, since 1980 half of RCC loans have gone to small and medium-sized industrial enterprises located in, and managed by, townships and villages. These township and village enterprises have experienced highly uneven levels of success, and by the end of the 1990s, half of all RCC loans were in or close to default, forcing China's central bank to bail out RCCs. In Prosper or Perish, Lynette H. Ong examines the bias in RCC lending patterns, focusing on why the mobilization of rural savings has contributed to successful industrial development in some locales but not in others.Interweaving insightful and theoretically informed discussions of rural credit, development, governance, and bank bailouts, Ong identifies various sources for China's uneven development. In the highly decentralized fiscal environment of the People's Republic, successful industrialization has significant implications for rural governance. Local governments depend on revenue from industrial output to provide public goods and services; unsuccessful enterprises starve local governments of revenue and result in radical cutbacks in services. High peasant burdens, land takings without adequate compensation by local governments, and other poor governance practices tend to be associated with unsuccessful industrialization. In light of the recent liberalization of the rural credit sector in China, Prosper or Perish makes a significant contribution to debates within political science, economic development, and international banking.
Prosper!
by Chris Martenson Adam TaggartThe Next 20 Years Will Be Completely Different From The PastCurrent global trends are bleak: weak economic growth, too much debt, declining incomes for the lower 99%, a dangerous addiction to fossil fuels, and ecological destruction just to name a few. Many of us understandably feel resigned to an eroding standard of living in the years to come. At best. But what if we told you that there are specific, attainable steps you can take today that can limit your vulnerability to these trends and help you be: - Richer- Live with greater purpose- Healthier- More valued by others- Happier- Safer from harm That s exactly what Prosper offers: a blueprint for taking control of and improving your destiny. It outlines practical, actionable investments of your time & resources that will ensure you enjoy greater prosperity in your life, whatever the future may bring. In Prosper , Martenson and Taggart will explain: - The trends mostly likely to shape your life over the next 20 years- Why developing resilience offers your best chance for thriving, even though society may suffer from the changes these trends may bring- How to build true wealth- What specific actions to take now to secure a prosperous future, no matter what the future holds- How everybody can benefit from this guidance, regardless of age, income or ability How we can best serve the next generation by the actions we take today Prosper is the highly anticipated follow-up to Martenson s acclaimed book The Crash Course (Wiley, 2011)"
Prosperare: la persona molto sensibile e la sua carriera
by Tracy CooperIn questo libro innovativo la ricercatrice e collega HSP (sigla inglese che sta per "persona molto sensibile"), la dottoressa Tracy Cooper, presenta nuovi importanti risultati della ricerca che possono permetterti di capire meglio come gli HSP vivono il posto di lavoro moderno, scoprono nuove opportunità emergenti e si connettono con le narrazioni degli HSP da un'ampia varietà di punti di vista del mondo reale. Questo libro è dedicato alla persona altamente sensibile che desidera andare oltre la sopravvivenza per prosperare! Basato sulla ricerca della dottoressa Elaine Aron , questo libro è un must da leggere per tutti gli HSP!
Prosperity Amidst Crisis: Austria's Economic Policy And The Energy Crunch
by Wilhelm Hankel Jean SteinbergThis book deals with the exciting question of whether the world economic crisis can in fact be stopped only by a fight among all against all by forcing others to make painful adjustments in their demand, price, and employment levels.