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Wonderfully hilarious, and very usefull!.......2003-04-11

"Living and Working in Britain" gave me a feel of how it would be to live in England as a foreigner. I have British family, and Miss. Hall's description of the British was very accurate!

There is a small section describing how the British react to a bit of snow which I found absolutely hilarious as I come from the Great White North (Canada). Also, the Case Studies of other immigrants to the UK was very helpful as it gave different view points in many different situations.

Overall, I found this book very helpful and I plan to recommend it to friends or family who wish to move to the UK.

Many thanks to the author, Christine Hall; a wonderfully written book!

Courtney Kelly

Humourous and useful, but bitter.......2002-10-11

I bought this book because the title seemed perfectly suited to my needs: "How to Study, Work and Settle in the Uk". My husband and I plan to relocate to the UK and settle there. But I was disappointed by the bitter tone of this volume.

Ms. Hall is an expatriate German who has been living in England for around 15 years. Her information is useful. The "case studies" of other expatriates living in England that she presents give a full range of the different experiences of people who have moved to England. But her wit is too bitter for my liking. Although I find her jabs at the British funny, there is a point where they become tiresome and I find myself asking, "Then why do you live there?" Instead of complaining about how Englishwomen are obsessed with buying keep-fit videos which they never watch or how England shuts down at the first sign of snow, she could be telling us useful information.

Not that the book isn't full of useful stuff. Indeed, for such a small volume, it's packed with advice and warnings. But the author's anti-Anglo prejudice does get on one's nerves after a while.

I would suggest you explore other books about living in England before buying this book. I bought it as a "how-to" guide and I got someone's personal diatribe against the English instead. But all in all, it's not useless. If you've read all the others and want to make fun of the Brits, buy this one.

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Specifically for people on a paycheck and a tight budget

WONDERFUL

I wish I had read this book 20 years ago

Everybody Wants Your Money: A Guidebook to Keeping It
Peter M. Montessi , and Anna Lisa Montessi
Manufacturer: Jordan Publishing (AZ)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0967861403

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A money survival guide book to help a person gain control of and develop an understanding of money. It teaches a person to create a personal financial plan to aid in arriving at financial freedom.

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Specifically for people on a paycheck and a tight budget.......2001-12-13

Peter and Anna Lisa Montessi's Everybody Wants Your Money: A Guidebook To Keeping It is quite different from most financial guidebooks, which tend to be written for people who already have a sizeable amount of money to invest. Unlike those books, Everybody Wants Your Money is designed specifically for people on a paycheck and a tight budget; it concisely and clearly narrates strategies to save, invest, and accumulate wealth even for the most perpetually cash-strapped workers. Chapters discuss topics such as goals and plans, maintaining records, cutting back spending, saving through a checking account, balancing one's checkbook, credit, and building one's reserves. Samples, examples, forms, and questionnaires to self-test your knowledge are included throughout. Written in highly accessible language for the lay reader, Everybody Wants Your Money is a "must" for any working person looking for tips, tricks, and techniques to making their money work for them, create a college fund, put aside something for retirement, or just make a simple emergency cushion in case of unforeseen financial hardship. An excellent, "user friendly", very highly recommended financial and instructional book.

WONDERFUL.......2001-09-22

I THINK THIS BOOK SHOULD BE IN EVERYONE'S HOME AND IN THE SCHOOLS. IT IS JUST WONDERFUL. I WISHED I HAD READ THIS BOOK WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. SO INFORMATIVE. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE AUTHORS.

I wish I had read this book 20 years ago.......2000-07-17

This is a great book on the basics of budgeting and money management. Step by step, the authors guide the novice through saving accounts, checking accounts, and how to avoid credit pitfalls.

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This book presents an original economic analysis of the English professional football industry. The economic influences on decisions taken by owners, managers, players and spectators are all considered, using theoretical and empirical methods of economic investigation. The empirical analysis draws on English club-level data, with extensive international comparisons. Concludes with an extended discussion of a number of major economic policy issues affecting the future of the football industry, including European super league proposals, contractual arrangements in the players' labor market, and football's evolving relationship with the broadcasting media.

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This book presents the first detailed economic analysis of professional football at club level, using a combination of economic reasoning and statistical and econometric analysis. Most of the original empirical research reported in the book is based on English club football. A wide range of international comparisons help emphasise both the broader relevance as well as the unique characteristics of the English experience. Specific topics include: the links between football clubs' financial strength and competitive balance and uncertainty of outcome; the determinants of professional footballers' compensation; measuring the football manager's contribution to team performance, the determinants of managerial change, and its effects on team performance; patterns of spectator demand for attendance; predicting match results, betting on football, and the market in football clubs' company shares. The book concludes with an extended discussion of the major economic policy issues currently facing football's legislators and administrators worldwide.

Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry

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Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry
Richard McGowan
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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ASIN: 1840643153

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During the 1990s the gambling industry transformed its image by referring to itself as the `gaming industry'. While critics of the industry scoffed at this transformation as merely a meaningless name change, it has had profound effects on the business and public policies that face the newly transformed gaming industry.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the historical and cultural forces that have shaped this new gaming industry. Emphasis is placed on the two types of games (agon - games of skill, and alea - games of chance). It is shown that the types of games a society embraces have a significant impact on whether gambling is permitted to enter the mainstream of the entertainment industry.

The second part of the book analyzes how each segment (pari-mutuel betting, lotteries and casinos) competes in the new industry. The political and social implications of gaming are the focus of the final part, which concludes with a series of recommendations that will enable the industry, public policy officials and anti-gambling activists to construct policies that mitigate some of the problems associated with gambling.

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Generally regarded as the most influential social science treatise of the 20th century, this work by legendary economist John Maynard Keynes is relevant reading even today for anyone who wants to understand international economics and foreign affairs. First published in 1919, The Economic Consequences of Peace created an intense and immediate controversy for its brazen criticism of world leaders and the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I. Keynes argued that as a blueprint for peace, it was destined to create tension and conflict ahead...and history proved him right when world war broke out again within a generation. The popularity of this key work, and its place in history, helped cement Keynes’s status as one of the 20th century’s principal economists.
“The Economic Consequences of Peace marked the entrance into the world scene of the twentieth century’s most influential economist. It should be in the library of every serious student of world affairs.”—Paul A. Volcker, from his introduction

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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. Very few of us realise with conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated, unreliable, temporary nature of the economic organisation by which Western Europe has lived for the last half century.

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Brilliant foresight.......2007-01-16

John Maynard Keynes describes in sufficient detail, and in the flowing language of his day, the terms of the Treaty of Versailles - particularly how they laid the groundwork for future conflict in Europe. It is easy to view his ideas as commonsense in light of the benefits of hindsight, yet this book is remarkably insightful in its predictions that eventually manifested themselves during the Second World War. Above all, this work should be valued as a classic example that the Carthaginian terms of the Paris Peace Conference did not go unnoticed during their time. They were then, as now, seen as a dangerous effort in retribution that would only rub salt in the wounds of Europe.

Keynes' disorganized critique of the Versailles Treaty.......2007-01-09

This book achieved instant fame when it was published in 1919, not only for its scathing criticism of the Versailles Treaty but also for its personal attacks against leading signatories (especially Clemenceau and Wilson). For a book focused primarily on economic concerns, the text is surprisingly easy to read. However, the book's poor organization vitally detracts from its effectiveness. The principle reason the book is still famous today lies in the fact that it was written by none other than John Maynard Keynes, the founder of 20th century style, gov't & debt driven economics.

The book is organized into chapters on pre-war Europe, Allied statesmen, summary of key treaty points, reparations, post-war Europe predictions, and Keynes' suggestion of remedies to provide a practical treaty settlement. Unfortunately, within each chapter things are jumbled together without clear rhyme or reason. (Is this indicative of Keynes' own personal organization and logical thinking?)

Within the book, he makes a very practical (but politically infeasible) argument for a non-vindictive treaty. He basically suggests that the Allies should forget both about reparations and repayment of wartime debts from the other Allies, and instead they should settle (though not ideally) for frontier adjustments and confiscation of only German gov't property. (Did the German gov't sponsor Keynes' work in writing this book?)

Keynes argues that a crushing reparations burden on the German people would disincent them to produce anything beyond a mere subsistence minimum and discourage entrepreneurial enterprise. There is some logic in this point; however, later on he goes on to state that the US should forgive its $10 billion debt to its wartime allies ($5 billion of which was owed by the UK). Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't such a move disincent American entreprises from entrepreneurship as well. It's extremely hypocritical that the Allied gov'ts desperately sought loans from the US during the war and then once it was over to claim that they couldn't pay them. If they didn't want to repay, then they shouldn't have borrowed the money - period. (If I borrow money to buy a home, the bank won't ever agree to forgive my debt - regardless of whether I'm out of work, injured, or the house burns down. I don't see why gov'ts should get any exceptional treatment.)

Notwithstanding his problems with disorganization and inconsistent logic, Keynes does produce a reasonable, brief list of treaty rememdies, especially in his efforts to restore economic life throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Not until the advent of the Cold War and the interests of extending American political influence would Keynes' policies largely succeed (albeit yet again to the detriment of American taxpayers).

Overall, I felt the book was ok. I would only recommend it if you have an interest in reading all of Keynes' work. Don't expect to find any theoretical economic insights in the book, though. Based on the high ratings on this page, I think the other reviewers here might have some pro-Keynesian bias.

The Relevance of a Neglected Masterpiece.......2006-10-17

This prescient book displays the keen insights of a genius observing a process and result with a devestating prediction later coming to fruition on schedule. It should serve as not only history and foresight but also as an invaluable lesson and warning for those who desire to dictate to defeated or weak nations from a position of obtained military might or success.

Nought remains but vindictiveness among the strong.......2006-07-20

For Keynes, the Peace Treaty of Paris after World War I was a matter of life and death, of starvation and existence, and the fearful convulsions of a dying civilization.
But the negotiating politicians had absolutely no vision. Clemenceau wanted a Carthaginian peace, President Wilson was essentially a theologian and Lloyd George yielded to national electoral chicane.
The victors had no magnanimity. `The future life of Europe was not their concern; its means of livelihood was not their anxiety. Their preoccupations related to frontiers and nationalities, to imperial aggrandizements, to the future enfeeblement of a strong and dangerous enemy, to revenge and to the shifting of their unbearable financial burden on to the shoulders of the defeated.
But for Keynes, the policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation was abhorrent and detestable: `Nations are not authorized, by religion or natural morals, to visit on the children of their enemies the misdoings of parents or of rulers.'

Keynes had the decency to leave the negotiations from the moment he saw the looming disastrous results.

Keynes brilliantly calculated that Germany could not pay the imposed debt. He foresaw the coming German hyperinflation. He clearly recognized the danger of `a victory of reaction' (the right) in Germany, because it would endanger the security of Europe and the basis of peace.
Eventually that's what happened with all its disastrous consequences for Europe.
His prediction of millions of dead from starvation in Germany didn't occur.

This sometimes rather technical book is still a very worth-while read. His author was a visionary.

An unknown classic.......2004-05-13

The art of writing a valuable work on a conjuntural topic of politics is a difficult one. One must at the same time have an eye for the detail of ongoing developments as well as grasp the concrete goals of the main protagonists, and eventually be able to devine the overall logic of the general process. Few writers on politics mastered this art. One, for instance, was Marx in his accounts of contemporary Franch politics- "Class Struggles in France" and the "Eighteenth Brumaire". Another was this work by Keynes, that dealing with an event fraught with bitter partsan struggles, was able at the same time to wite a history of the Versailles Treaty and at the same time an history of the crisis of XIXth. Century laissez faire capitalism. Simply a classic.

Economics and Ethics: An Introduction to Theory, Institutions, and Policy

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Economics and Ethics: An Introduction to Theory, Institutions, and Policy
Douglas Vickers
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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ASIN: 0275959783

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Noted economist Douglas Vickers reexamines the relationship between economics and moral philosophy. That relationship, once very strong, is again the subject of increasing attention and discussion both within and beyond the academy. Vickers reestablishes the substantial bridges between ethical philosophy and economics. He addresses three main issues: first, the historical means by which economics has consciously surrendered its original association with ethical categories and criteria; second, the need to articulate the appropriate thoughtforms and vocabulary of ethical theory; and third, the illustration of areas in economics where ethical awareness is desirable and should be allowed to exert influence. This work is a major analysis which will be of considerable interest to economists, the business community, government regulators, and all concerned with economic decisionmaking in modern society.

The End of the Terraces: The Transformation of English Football in the 1990s

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The End of the Terraces: The Transformation of English Football in the 1990s
Anthony King
Manufacturer: Leicester University Press
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Hungary;: Geography, history, political and social system, economy, living standard, culture, sports

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Hungary;: Geography, history, political and social system, economy, living standard, culture, sports
Zoltan Halasz
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The Political Economy of College Sports
Nand Hart-Nibbrig , and Clement Ottingham
Manufacturer: Lexington Books
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The Political Economy of Sport
Timothy M. Shaw
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 0333773861
Release Date: 2005-11-10

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Sport studies has become one of the largest and fastest growing international industries. This collection of essays from a range of international contributors analyzes all aspects of the political economy of this industry, including media sports production, urban growth politics, and capital accumulation and the economic effects of Olympism.

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