CONFLICT OR COOPERATION? THREE VISIONS REVISITED by Richard K. Betts FOREIGN AFFAIRS‚ Nov/Dec 2010 “Practical men‚ who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence‚ are usually the slave of some defunct economist‚" John Maynard Keynes once wrote. Politicians and pundits view the world through instincts and assumptions rooted in some philosopher’s Big Idea. Some ideas are old and taken for granted throughout society. For most Americans‚ it is the ideas of the liberal tradition
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Searching for optimal Capital Structure. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance‚ 6:4–14‚ 1993. Myers‚ Stewart C. and Majluf‚ N. S. Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions when Firms have Information that Investors do not have. 13:187–221‚ 1984. Nassim Taleb. Dynamic Hedging‚ Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options. Wiley Series in Financial Engineering. John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc‚ 1997. Ross‚ Steven A. The Determination of Financial Structure: The Incentive-signalling Approach‚. The Bell Journal of Economics
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Bibliography: Source: Taleb‚ A.‚ Hebert‚ L. (2011). Bombardier Aerospace: The CSeries Dilemma. London Ontario: Ivey Publishing. Exhibit 1 Source: Taleb‚ A.‚ Hebert‚ L. (2011). Bombardier Aerospace: The CSeries Dilemma. London Ontario: Ivey Publishing. Exhibit 4
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meteorologic‚ geographic and demographic factors. Jordan and Israel are highly dependent upon the Jordan River. Jordan‚ however‚ is facing another environmental problem which increases the state ’s dependency on the water of the Jordan River‚ (Abu-Taleb‚ 1994). The need for water and the continuing hostility between Israel and the surrounding Arab states has placed the Jordan River as a central bargaining chip since Israel ’s establishment in 1948. The Israeli War of Independence was rooted in the
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World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Mário Malý 1.EU/3‚FEŠRR 2012/2013 Contents: 1.About 2.History 3.Members 4.Work of the UNWTO 5.Structure: 5.1.General Assembly 5.2.Regional Commission 5.3.Executive Council 5.4.Committes 5.5.Secretariat 6.Management 7.Funkcion 8. Goals 1.About The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible‚
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increasing causing health and economic concerns among this group. A study by Bennett and Nassim (2005) shows that the birthrate of unmarried American woman giving birth between the ages 15-19 has quadrupled from 1960 to 1992. Thomas and Dimitrov (2007) project that fewer than 25% of American teenagers under the age of 15 have engaged in sexual activity; therefore if teenagers can be
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1. INTRODUCTION General Motors is a motor vehicle company in the United States that started manufacturing in 1915. The purpose of this report is to examine the decisions that were made within the company‚ in the lead up to their financial crisis in 1991. In the years preceding this downfall‚ the CEO Robert Smith made several decisions that contributed to the declining financial status of General Motors. Consequently‚ when Smith retired‚ the Black Swan Event of America’s recession left the next
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For God does not guide those who reject Faith." Near the end of Prophet Muhammad’s blessed life‚ he had been uneasy. There was a potential for disunity in the nascent Muslim community. Muhammad declared his own son-in-law and cousin‚ Ali ibn Abu Taleb‚ as his spiritual and secular heir publicly at God’s command. After declaring Hazrat Ali his successor by raising his hand and calling him the true leader of Muslims after himself‚ Prophet Muhammad called on Muslims to give allegiance to their Imam
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Prior to the international financial crisis (2008)‚ many international banks used a rules based approach to risk management. The failure of this approach to anticipate the affects of the financial crisis has mandated an increase on the focus of risk management since then. The rationale for Kaplan & Mikes risk management framework is that a rules based approach to risk management is not appropriate or sufficient to manage all the risks that an organisation may face. This essay sets out to explain
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The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) (NYSE: FNM)‚ commonly known as Fannie Mae‚ is a stockholder-owned corporation chartered by Congress in 1968 as a government sponsored enterprise (GSE)‚ but founded in 1938 during the Depression. Contrary to some beliefs‚ Fannie Mae does not make home loans directly to consumers‚ but rather functions as an intermediary in the U.S. secondary mortgage market. By purchasing and securitizing mortgages‚ Fannie Mae facilitates liquidity in the primary mortgage
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