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Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in A Global Age
Michael H. Shuman Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415927684 |
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Creating a sustainable local economy.......2007-10-09
Good information, lacking actionable plans.......2006-03-21
interesting but not practical.......2004-07-13
On presenting options for ownership, though, Shuman seems to go a little overboard.
When trying to decide how to promote the kinds of business he wants, Shuman starts reasonably enough, but quickly moves into the implausible. Suggestions such as using zoning law to encourage local business (by discouraging development in the locations and of the scale that WalMart likes to build) and implementing local currencies to encourage patronage of locally-oriented business are useful, and have been successfully used in many places. However, when we get into suggestions about tearing down the WTO and replacing it with something that supports local business, we're getting unreasonable. While it may be possible that the WTO would become less multinational- and more local-friendly, I'm betting that it will only do so when its member states do so, and not as a first step which will encourage its members to do so. Shuman seems to realize this to some extent, as he proposes pro-local legislation in the United States Congress, but this too is unuseful.
Fun to read, but not practical at all.
All you need to know about community empowerment.......2004-04-24
A Highly Important Book for Any Concerned Citizen.......1999-05-25
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Going Local! Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.(Review) : An article from: Dollars & Sense
Thad Williamson Manufacturer: Economic Affairs Bureau ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098SBZY Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Dollars & Sense, published by Economic Affairs Bureau on May 1, 1999. The length of the article is 739 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.(Review) (book review): An article from: Synthesis/Regeneration
Howie Hawkins Manufacturer: WD Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JB4V2 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Synthesis/Regeneration, published by WD Press on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 2043 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Michael H. Shuman. Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Utopian Studies
Margie DeWeese-Boyd Manufacturer: Society for Utopian Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008G74YG Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1423 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Financing Large Projects: Using Project Finance Techniques and Practices
M. Fouzul Kabir Khan , and Robert J. Parra Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0131016342 |
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Financing Large Projects is one of the most comprehensive books written on the art of project finance. Project finance is a technique employed for the purpose of mobilizing capital for very large start-up projects, or greenfields, based on the cash flow merits of the project--usually with little or no external support provided by parent companies in the form of guarantees. Unlike other books, this one addresses the financial, technical, legal and environmental aspects of financing complex projects. In explaining the principles involved, the authors followed the project development cycle illustrating how projects are evolved from inception, usually through international competitive bidding, to financial closure when all debt and equity needed to construct and operate the project that has been mobilized.The book is particularly thorough in explaining the criteria used by bankers and lawyers to distinguish projects that are bank-able from those that are not. It has some good sections, particularly apt for banking professionals, on the intricacies of international law as it impinges on project finance.
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Reasonable but an introduction only.......2005-10-26
A Useful Primer for Infrastructure Project Finance Technique.......2003-03-29
This book focuses on the financing of large projects that rely on project finance techniques and practices in order to raise debt. Being in infrastructure financing industry over four (4) years, I faced a tremendous dearth of a good book covering infrastructure financing intricacies. The book has offered knowledge of my much needed felt areas.
The book integrates every essential aspects of issues relating to the financing of large projects, namely, financing, law, engineering, environmental, etc. It also has a detailed description on history of project finance along with origin and development of various instruments.
What a user shall find noteworthy about the book is that it covers different phases of project development, and attributes thereof. Starting from the project conception, the book goes on explaining project negotiation, appraisal, creation and perfection of security over project assets.
The first half of the book describes project origination and early development activities, negotiations with ceding authority and others of project agreements, sources of international finance and credit enhancements, and the sponsor's support required for classic and non-classic deals. The second half discusses the architecture of the typical financial model, due diligence and appraisal process conducted by lenders, scope and content of negotiations related to each of several finance documents, role of derivatives and hedges, and typical issues encountered in structuring a security package.
Finally, the book also appends a very useful project feasibility financial model, which could be customized for use in feasibility analysis of similar projects.
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Problems in Health Care Law
Robert D. Miller Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0763745553 |
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Problems in Health Care Law, Ninth Edition has been extensively updated and restructured to utilize the "problems" approach. The text highlights general principles and emphasizes areas that remain most problematic. This classic book deliberately seeks to state expressly the general principles - both of the underlying conflicting public policies and the legal solutions to those problems. This edition has been restructured into a format that emphasizes the problems of health care law by heading sections with a question. Problems in Health Care Law, Ninth Edition continues to provide the helpful one-volume overview of health care law that it and its predecessor Problems in Hospital Law have provided since 1968.
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Health Law: Cases, Materials & Problems, 4th Ed
Thomas L. Greaney , Sandra H. Johnson , Timothy Stoltzfus Jost , and Robert L. Schwartz Manufacturer: West Group Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0314251928 |
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This book aims at complete coverage of the new issues in health law as well as the more traditional topics of law and medicine courses. The book covers emerging issues such as cost control, prospective payment, health care antitrust, and federal and state regulation of health care delivery; the difficult legal and ethical issues created by new reproductive possibilities and by the dilemmas of death and dying, and the core topics of professional liability and the physician-patient relationship.Customer Reviews:
great purchase.......2006-11-10
Review of Health Law: Cases and Materials.......2006-11-05
NEVER GOT THIS ITEM.......2005-09-10
No better guide to today's health news.......2005-06-16
Excellent & Comprehensive!.......2000-09-10
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Managed Care Quality: A Practical Guide
A. F. Al-Assaf , and R. Robyn Assaf Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 157444073X |
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Managed care organizations are paving the way to the future of health care delivery in the United States and countries around the world. As managed care systems evolve, a major concern is quality. Managed Care Quality: A Practical Guide is a collection of applications and experiences gathered from practicing health professionals in the field of managed care. This first "how to" guide was written to help managed care organizations meet the common objective of ensuring the best quality of services and care. Managed Care Quality: A Practical Guide presents successive steps in implementing quality in health care organizations. It introduces the methods, skills, and practices involved in quality health care programs and offers solutions to problems typically encountered in managed care.
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Cooperation, Complicity & Conscience: Problems in Healthcare, Science, Law and Public Policy
Manufacturer: The Linacre Centre ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0906561108 |
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Cooperation in evil or wrongdoing is one of the most perplexing areas in bioethics, both for those working in the field and those seeking their advice. This book includes both general treatments of the subject of complicity and conscientious objection, and more specific treatments of topics such as voting to improve unjust laws, research on fetal/embryonic cells, and care of suicidal patients. Contributors include philosophers, theologians and lawyers who have studied these problems, and those who have faced these problems in their own work in law, healthcare and research, and political campaigning.
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Creative Problem Solving for Health Care Professionals
Cecelia K. Golightly Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0894433717 |
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Global Habit: The Drug Problem in a Borderless World
Paul B. Stares Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0815781415 |
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Illegal drugs are wreaking havoc across the globe, but the revenues generated by the retail sale of these substances exceeds the gross national products of three-fourths of the world's 207 global economies. In Global Habit, Paul B. Stares, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, illustrates both sides of this complicated issue and notes that the appetite for dangerous drugs shows no sign of diminishing. Sanctions against drug trafficking should be maintained, he says, but treatment and prevention must become the dominant means of reducing production and consumption. Serious worldwide cooperation, he argues, is the only way to end the epidemic.
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Health Care (Library of Law and Contemporary Problems Series, No 15)
Manufacturer: Oceana Pubns ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0379115158 |
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Health Care Benefits Problem Solver for Human Resource Professionals and Managers
Charlotte Jane McDaniel Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471006580 |
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Health Facility Malpractice Cases: A Management Prevention Guide
Monroe M. Title , and William A. Rothman Manufacturer: Nova Science Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1560722274 |
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Law and the Public's Health (Issues and problems in health care)
Kenneth R. Wing Manufacturer: Mosby ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 080165601X |
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The sixth edition of Kenneth Wing's The Law and the Public's Health tailors discussions of law and the legal system to healthcare administration and policy students who do not have a background in law. With this text, students can familiarize themselves with American law, and prepare for the legal constraints and controversies they will likely encounter in their healthcare careers. With this familiarity, students can learn the skills needed to define relevant legal issues, to understand how these issues would be resolved, and perhaps most important, to seek out, communicate with, and evaluate legal counsel.Benefits:
A new chapter focuses on the issues that arise in business transactions between providers and payers including antitrust, liability, and tax considerations
The text includes updates throughout, as well as expanded material on fraud and abuse laws
No legal background is necessary to understand this book
The text comes with a supplemental casebook
The text comes with an online Instructor's Manual
Contents
Introduction to the Sixth Edition
The law and the legal system
The power of the state governments in matters affecting health care
Government power and the right to privacy
The constitutional discretion of the state and federal governments to limit or condition social welfare benefits
Government regulation of health care providers and payers
The scope of discretion of administrative agencies in matters affecting health and health care
The fraud and abuse laws
The antitrust laws: Government enforcement of competition
Malpractice: Liability for negligence in the delivery and financing of health care
Health care business law: Legal considerations in the structuring of entities and their transactions
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Agro-research for the semi-arid tropics: North-West Australia
Manufacturer: Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by University of Queensland Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 070221776X |
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