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The Financial Analyst's Guide to Monetary Policy approaches monetary policy in a straightforward manner. In each chapter, a particular monetary policy problem is addressed and analyzed. Then it considers the practical implications and strategies that are important to the business executives, financial analysts, portfolio managers, and investors in general.

?Carmoy and Story are well qualified to write on general trends in the states of Western Europe since WW II. They use a historical and state-oriented approach with particular emphasis on economics, money, and defense.... The book would be most useful to the graduate student seeking to understand broad changes in Western Europe in the last 40 years.?-Choice

?A strong descriptive reference work and analytical survey of taxation from czarist times to the present--the first American book-length study in 30 years. Newcity examines past and present Soviet internal practices and current regulations governing foreigners doing business with the Soviet Union. Although such diversity prevents full treatment of these complex subjects, good charts, references, and bibliography point readers toward the releva...

?Parchomenko seeks to determine Soviet leaders' perceptions of dissent and how those perceptions may shape policy. Through examination in detail of two dissident case histories (Vladimir Shelkov, a religious dissenter, and Yuri Orlov, a founder and leader of the Soviet Helsinki Watch Committee), the author seeks to determine the extent to which official perceptions of each dissident's activities seem accurate.... He concludes that Soviet image...

The financing of graduate medical education is likely to change significantly in the near future as third party payers are already pressuring hospitals to discontinue paying for graduate medical education through patient care. The Medicare System of Prospective Payment Implications for Medical Education and Practice isolates significant implications of prospective payment systems, and deals with each one in detail. Besides providing a theoreti...

The mining industry traditionally has not incorporated behavioral science concepts in its organizational philosophy. Using it as a case study, "Organization and Development in the Mining Industry" describes organization development in action, reviews principles and lessons from short -- and long-term programs of intervention, and presents case studies which illustrate the process of organizational change.

This work analyzes the activities and influence of professional economists in international agencies exploring: what positions economists occupy, including the role they play in policy decisions, how economists are recruited and trained, and how cultural and ideological backgrounds influence their assimilation into the agency. Focusing on the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, GATT, and COED, Economists in International Agencies ...

?"Stone one of Jamaica's leading political commentators, is well qualified to write on Jamaican politics and society. In recent years there have been two opposing views concerning Jamaica. In the view promoted by the Reagan administration, Jamaica is an excellent example of democracy and free enterprise working for the benefit of the people, the opposing Marxist viewpoint is that Jamaica is an example of capitalist exploitation, political mani...

Swortzell has selected six plays representative of the repertory of the children's theatre productions of the FTP and reprinted them in their entirety. An extensive introduction details the history and goals of the children's theatre unit.

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In the past two decades, there has been a number of nonformal education programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, among them literacy programs, community development, technical/vocational training, cooperatives, agricultural assistance, and popular education. Nonformal Education and the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean is a comprehensive overview of these programs--their goals, methods, and actual accomplishments. The book also asses...

Relying heavily on case studies, Japanese-U.S. Business Negotiations is a cross-cultural study of both the psychologies and linguistics involved. It gives practical advice on how to better understand the Japanese negotiators, and shows how to translate this understanding into greater success at the negotiating table.

?Karns brings together twelve of the best essays presented at the 1985 meetings of the International Studies Association. The book opens with two fine chapters on international relations theory, paying particular attention to problems of values and dilemmas in quantitative versus qualitative assessments of world politics. Part 2 examines critical theoretical questions of conflict and violence. Special attention is paid to war in essays on fore...

?Krout successfully organizes and analyzes the sociological and demographic literature on rural elderly collected in his previous work, The Rural Elderly: An Annotated Biblioraphy of Social Science Research. Written in a clear and concise manner, Krout competently reviews the social science literature in demography, social work, gerontology, and sociology. He provides chapters on demographic and economic trends, attitudes and values, physical ...

Labor-Management Cooperation in a Public Service Industry outlines the historical aspects of labor-management cooperation and the characteristics of the transit industry which made it conducive to this cooperation. The second chapter discusses different cooperative programs such as employee input programs, safety programs, performance incentive programs, and training programs. Administrative considerations are examined in chapter three, along ...

?Herbicidal Warfare is an organizational history of the 12th Air Commando Squadron that flew the airplanes that dropped chemical defoliants on South Vietnam. Cecil, a retired USAF officer, not only flew on the missions, but was able to gain access to official papers and to interview more than 1, 200 veterans for his work. The book describes the operations of Ranch Hand, 'i.e., how chemicals were loaded, stored, and used during the war. Conclud...