Richard D. Bingham

In an era of global markets, free trade agreements, and worldwide commerce, economic development is an international rather than a national or local activity. The opportunities provided by global economic development require accurate and complete information about business enterprise, government institutions, and financial systems around the world. This book provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of economic development and business finance in thirteen key nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The focus is on how business is financed and the role of government in economic development and capital markets. For each country, authors summarize the social, economic, and political context of enterprise development; identify legal and institutional stimuli and constraints on economic development; describe how enterprise finance is raised and allocated; and review the state's role in enterprise finance. The chapters are packed with the latest data and illustrated with informative case studies. Written by internationally recognized experts, this is an essential reference for professionals, students, and others interested in economic development, business finance, and public policy in the global marketplace. Richard D. Bingham and Edward W. Hill; Matthew Marlin and Charles Wurster; Vijay M. Jog; Susan A. Macmanus; Cal Clark; Robert G. Fletcher and Brenda J. Moscove; Leslie Elliott Armijo; Yair Aharoni; Chris Thompson and Michael Teitz; Charles Harvey; Edward W. Hill and Terry F. Buss; Terry F. Buss and Roger J. Vaughan; Wim Wiewel and Mark de Jong, with Jeroen Broeders; Leslie Elliott Armijo.

This text introduces students to the process of program evaluation and the experimental and quasi-experimental approaches to evaluation. The book covers approaches to outcome evaluations, measurement, threats to internal validity, performance measurement, and benchmarking. It also introduces the basic experimental and quasi-experimental designs, presents a published article which uses each design, and offers an explanation and critique of how the authors implemented the design. Stand-alone articles invite students to explain and critique on their own.

The proper role of government in the US economy has long been the subject of ideological dispute. This study of industrial policy as practised by administration after administration, explores the variations from a hands-off approach to protectionist policies and aggressive support for businesses.

The proper role of government in the US economy has long been the subject of ideological dispute. This study of industrial policy as practised by administration after administration, explores the variations from a hands-off approach to protectionist policies and aggressive support for businesses.

In his influential 1991 book Edge City, Joel Garreau argued that every American city is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles, with multiple urban cores. He named these cores edge cities because they perform all of the city functions, but rise in places that were farmlands or villages only decades ago, far from the old downtowns. This new book expands and clarifies Garreau's pioneering concept as it develops a comprehensive theory of edge city growth and functions. The contributors draw on their expertise as geographers, political scientists, economics planners, and sociologists to offer a wide range of insights and analyses.

This study of civil liberties focuses on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the dispute in Skokie, Illinois over the rights of members of the Nazi party to hold public demonstrations. Because this issue promoted at least one-fourth of the membership of the ACLU to take some form of action, ranging from objecting and reducing financial contributions to resigning, this conflict presents the opportunity for a case study of the conditions under which attitudes toward civil liberties are mobilized into behavior.