When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics and politics. Within a short time, it had inspired whole government departments in the US and UK, and others as far afield as Singapore. One of the keys to Nudge’s success is Thaler and Sunstein’s...

Current technological revolution, immense Internet penetration, and mobile technologies resulted in a brand new type of consumer. This new consumer changed the manner of making purchasing decisions, but also leaves thousands of footprints on WWW pages, in mobile apps, maps, or transaction systems. All this has resulted in redefining the role of marketing, and placed remarkable challenges...

In general, when we think about media, and especially mass media, we seldom associate them with economy. Meanwhile, the freedom of communication is closely related to the fi nancing sources. The Americans say: “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” In the modern world, it is diffi cult to establish who pays and what they actually pay with. Very few of us realize that the currency we pay...

The sixth edition of the authoritative and acclaimed commercial law text 'A great book ... will be equally useful to legal practitioners, students and business people' Financial Times This sixth edition of Goode on Commercial Law, now retitled Goode and McKendrick on Commercial Law, remains the first port of call for the modern day practitioner with its theoretical and practical coverage of...

This book is a valuable synthesis of relations between USA and USSR in the 1970s seen through the prism of trade relations which Washington used for two distinctive purposes: as a “reward” mechanism encouraging cooperation, or conversely, as a tool of “punishment” in response to undesired activities. Such an instrumental approach to economic issues in the 1970s was not anything new in...

The strategy tools you need for your business to succeed! Let Key Strategy Tools be your guide to developing a winning strategy for your firm.  Cherry-pick the most useful approaches for your business and create a robust strategy that withstands investor scrutiny and becomes your roadmap to success.  Covering 88 tools and framed within an innovative strategy development process, the Strategy...

Kryzys zapoczątkowany w 2007 na międzynarodowych rynkach finansowych unaocznił, jak wielkie jest znaczenie zjawiska ryzyka systemowego w generowaniu i rozprzestrzenianiu się niestabilności finansowej, i jak poważne mogą być skutki materializacji tego ryzyka dla sfery realnej gospodarki. Jedną z lekcji, jakie wynieśliśmy jest lepsze poznanie i zrozumienie znaczenia ryzyka systemowego w...

Poland has been building its market economy for slightly more than a quarter of a century and has been a member of the European Union for thirteen years. Currently, Poland can feel the results of the international crisis, but with some delay compared to the other European countries. Despite its stable economic development and relatively low unemployment, a deterioration in the quality of...

How would it feel to have the crystal Clear strategy for creating a website that can get results? This book is aimed at two types of people: entrepreneurs who want to build a website themselves and business owners who want to hire someone to do it for them. Both instances require a strategy. Read this book to get clarity on the 10 steps required to create an action plan so you know...

Drugie wydanie tłumaczenia polskich ustaw podatkowych na język niemiecki. Książka zawiera tłumaczenia następujących aktów prawnych: Ustawa o podatku od spadków i darowizn; Ustawa o podatku od czynności cywilnoprawnych; Ustawy o podatkach i opłatach lokalnych; Ustawa o podatku akcyzowym. Tłumaczenie uwzględnia najnowsze zmiany do powyższych ustaw obowiązujące od 1 marca 2017...

Das Buch zeigt praxisnah wie sich IT-Organisationen optimal aufstellen müssen in dieser sich dynamisch wandelnden Welt und was dies für die Führung dieser immer wichtiger werdenden IT bedeutet. Darüber hinaus wird das Thema Führung einer IT-Organisation näher beleuchtet: Was ist die Rolle und was sind die Führungsaufgaben eines CIOs? Wie und mit welchen Mitteln kann eine IT-Organisation am...

Many traders go around searching for that one perfect trading strategy that works all the time in the global FOREX (foreign exchange/currency) market. Frequently, they will complain that a strategy doesn't work. Few people understand that successful trading of the FOREX market entails the application of the right strategy for the right market condition. "7 Winning Strategies For Trading...

Based on Brown University's highest-rated course - The Entrepreneurial Process - Professor Danny Warshay's See, Solve, Scale is a proven and paradigm-shifting method for unleashing your inner entrepreneur.

The follow-up to Victor Niederhoffer's critically and commercially acclaimed book The Education of a Speculator has finally arrived. Practical Speculation continues the story of a true market legend who ran a hugely successful futures trading firm that had annual returns of over thirty percent until unforeseen losses forced him to close operations. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes,...

There is constant debate around the questions of what constitutes the 'just' distribution of goods and how we can assess existing distribution patterns. Some commentators mistakenly believe that there can be one simple, all-encompassing governing principle that automatically yields the 'fairest' results. In this book Grzegorz Lissowski argues that three types of principles need to be...

Jędrzej Chumiński: Die Instrumentalisierung der polnischen Gewerkschaften und der Arbeitervertretungen in den Jahren 1944-1945 Cecylia Leszczyńska, Łucja Lisiecka: Useful or Harmful? Money Usury Law in the Second Republic of Poland Roman Macyra: Polish Commodity Exchanges in the Years 1946-1951. An Outline of the Problem

The financial crisis of 2008–2009 has become the most serious challenge for the Central and Eastern European countries after they had completed the process of post-socialist transformation and became EU members. The negative impacts of the recession on their most important international partners multiplied their own tensions and imbalances which – in some cases – have led to a dramatic...

In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is a new impetus for industrial policy. In Europe and the United States, where the crisis emphasized that markets are by themselves imperfect, industrial policy has re-entered the dialogue about restoring growth. And in emerging economies especially, policymakers have taken a keen interest in the various ways smart industrial policy can help...

Over the last years the online trade is growing rapidly. Web stores are selling more and more goods and the principles of merchandising are finding new soil for further development. We are witnessing an online technological boom of web stores and especially the techniques and elements of presenting goods in an online environment. This technological development is giving birth to a new...

Get the most comprehensive coverage of the FASB Codification and the latest FASB updates in a single volume Wiley GAAP 2018: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles is a thorough study and analysis of all US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) set forth in the pronouncements of the FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) Codification. All...