Public Finance

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development - for both rich and poor - in the 21st century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities.

Why do some governments turn public money into lasting prosperity while others create debt, waste, and economic instability?The Fiscal Blueprint offers a clear and practical introduction to how governments collect, spend, borrow, and manage money. Without complicated formulas or political jargon...

In The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the pioneers of the industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in and transforming their portfolio companies. Based on original interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories on the subjects that most matter to the high-level investor, such as selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private equity principles to non-profits, and much more.

How fiscal and economic policy choices reflect moral points of view How much of your hard-earned money is it fair for the state to tax? What public services should the state finance with that money? Surveys show that people care more about fairness than efficiency in fiscal and economic matters...

More than 10,000 mergers and acquisitions occur annually in the US, many among small and mid-sized companies. These complex transactions can be an effective growth strategy, but they carry significant risk. Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z helps guard against costly mistakes. Expert advice, case studies, checklists, and sample documents walk you through every step of the process - from valuation to securities laws to closing and successful integration. 

 Fundamentals of Corporate Finance develops the key concepts of corporate finance with an intuitive approach while also emphasizing computational skills, enabling students to develop the critical judgments necessary to apply financial tools in real decision-making situations. The fourth edition offers a level of rigor that is appropriate for both business and finance majors. 

Corporate finance is one of the most important parts of the finance domain as to whether the organization is big or small they raise and deploy capital in order to survive and grow...This practical glossary compiles a list of 150 most common terms you’re likely to encounter in alphabetical order. Every corporate finance term is explained in detail, with clear and concise article style description and practical examples.

Hard work isn’t enough to become wealthy in today’s world. The key to extraordinary wealth is to leverage the resources at your disposal to multiply your outcomes. The 18 Laws of Leverage is your guide to implementing strategies that create exponential results. This book will teach you how to: Leverage the capital and skill sets of others to multiply your output. (Laws Two through Four) Monetize your reputation through partnerships, sponsorships, and endorsements. (Law Five) Buy your victories instead of working for them.

A behind-the-scenes tour of the high-stakes world of IPOs and how a visionary band of startup executives, venture capitalists, and maverick bankers has launched a crusade to upend the traditional IPO as we know it. GOING PUBLIC is a character-driven narrative centered on the last five years of...

In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable to financial disaster than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but has 25% less discretionary income to cover living costs.

ISSAI, IPSAS, and Public Financial Accountability: A Guide for Auditors and Finance Professionals is a practical and professional guide for anyone involved in public sector auditing, government accounting, financial reporting, internal control, and public financial management. Public institutions manage resources collected, borrowed, received, and held on behalf of citizens. Such resources require lawful use, reliable records, clear reporting, independent audit, and verified correction when weaknesses arise. Poor financial reporting hides liabilities, weak asset management, unpaid ...

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization.

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike. That's why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. Along the way, she points out how we can break our addiction to growth; redesign money, finance, and business to be in service to people; and create economies that are regenerative and distributive by design.

From the award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy, an inspiring call to solve our deepest challenges—from inequality to climate change—by embracing a radical new approach to economics and the economy. Whether it’s the water crisis, widespread poverty, or the...

Stop Losing Retirement Income You Spent Decades Earning! Discover When To Claim Social Security, Avoid Costly Medicare & Tax Mistakes, Keep More Of Every Monthly Check & Maximize Every Dollar Of Lifetime Benefits You've Earned Starting Today.

Want to know who is covertly manipulating the financial markets behind the scenes? Then follow the money! INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$: The Global Banking Elite Exposed and the Case for Restructuring Capitalism, by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance Morcan, identifies who is responsible for the gigantic financial gulf that separates the top 1% of the population from the common people, or the 99%. The financial overlords illuminated in this book include the powerbrokers at Wall Street banks, European central banks, the US Federal Reserve and the Vatican Bank, ...

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.

In the American Revolution’s aftermath, the fight was no longer only on battlefields. It moved into pamphlets, courtrooms, cabinet rooms, and the very architecture of the new republic. Alexander Hamilton was the sharpest, most relentless voice in that fight. From a Alexander Hamilton was not born into power. He was born outside the line, in the Caribbean, with little inheritance beyond intelligence, hunger, and a desperate need to prove himself. From the counting-houses of St. Croix to the battlefields of the American Revolution, from George Washington’s staff to the Treasury Department...

The Compounders introduces remarkable companies to a wider audience for the first time. Discover a select group of high-performing conglomerates, led by exceptional capital allocators. These firms, operating decentralized structures in fragmented markets, redefine acquisitive growth. Unlike conventional roll-ups or turnarounds, they target smaller private businesses, often family owned, with a precise, data-driven acquisition process. And while private market investors, they are publicly listed — avoiding the usual constraints of private equity.

THE BOOK WHOSE PUBLICATION CANDOVER AND ARLE CAPITAL TRIED TO STOP In 2008, the world of private equity experienced the worst crisis in its history. What can explain why sophisticated fund managers did not see the Credit Crunch coming? Or if they did, why didn’t they act accordingly to prepare themselves and avoid losing billions of dollars of their investors’ capital? Private Equity’s Public Distress gives a unique account of the practices and principles applied by LBO funds in the years leading up to the financial crisis. From stapled financing, public-to-privates and vendor due ...