2010, ISBN: 9787119031170

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Viva Books, 2010. First edition. Softcover. New. Contents: When firms started • Oldest family firms • Oldest newspapers still in circulation â&… Altro …

Viva Books, 2010. First edition. Softcover. New. Contents: When firms started • Oldest family firms • Oldest newspapers still in circulation • The business press • The world’s biggest firms • America’s biggest firms • America’s biggest bankruptcies • Big firms, big facts • Big bucks • Big bail-outs • Behind the corporate name • Business blunders • Board styles • Roles directors play • Games directors play • The world’s most valuable brands • The world’s most admired companies • Britain’s most admired companies • What companies say about themselves • The most effective websites • Business friendliness • Offshore attractions • How competitive? • Easy money? • Business cycles • Business start-ups and failures • Bribery and corruption • Business ratios • Entrepreneurial activity • Business costs • The changing workforce • Days lost in strikes and lockouts • Labour union strength • Changes in working hours • Biggest business employers • Chief executive pay • Disappearing CEOs • Big payouts to CEOs • Best paid hedge fund managers in the US • International pay comparisons • Leading law firms • Leading accountancy firms • Women in business • Spending on advertising • Some famous advertising slogans • Some business giants of the past • The world’s richest people • Europe’s richest people • Philanthropy in America and Britain • Wealth and philanthopy in China • Central bankers since 1900 • Quotable quotations • Bad boys • Leading management thinkers • Some management styles • The oldest stock exchanges • Leading stockmarkets • Some stockmarket indices explained • Stockmarket performance • Stockmarkets: the best and worst of times • Stock exchange trading activity • Clocking the stockmarkets • Investment formulas • Private equity • Hedge funds • Bonds • Bubbles that burst • Oil reserves and price • Gold reserves and price • Gold facts • Rich producers • Diamond and platinum facts • Behind the currency name • Notes and coins in circulation • Euros printed • The life of $ and £ notes • Exchange rates • Exchange rate pegs • The world economy • Leading traders • How the world economy has changed • Sovereign wealth funds • Foreign direct investment • Sending money home • Interest rates • The tax take • Corporate tax rates • How taxing for top earners? • Wealth and debt • Great business books • Latin that lawyers like to use • What’s in a word? • Brand names that entered the language • Business jargon • Six rules for good writing • Alpha e-mail • Business laws and principles • Top business schools • Business school costs and rewards • From PCs to PDAs • Chip power • Computer processing costs • The impact of software piracy • Spam and e-mail • Pod facts • Internet suffixes • Internet usage • Internet growth • Blogs away • Telecommunications • The corporate highlife • Busiest airports • Pedal power • Ship ahoy • Rail popularity • Business creativity and research • Inventors and inventions • Some notable patents • Business etiquette Printed Pages: 272., Viva Books, 2010, 6, Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 1972. cloth, met stofomslag, 33 x 27 cm, 217 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations. English and Chinese. Cond.: goed / good. ., Foreign Language Press, 1972, 2.5, Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 2002, 5<