5 Economics and Business eBooks

A Lawyer's Guide to Financial Planning: Fundamentals for the Legal Practitioner
Creating and Dominating New Markets
Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life
Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence
The Economics of the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities: A Resource Book

A Lawyer's Guide to Financial Planning: Fundamentals for the Legal Practitioner
English | Apr. 1997 | ISBN: 1570734461 | 233 Pages | EPUB | 2.21 MB
This text is intended to provide helpful information for lawyers on the basics of financial planning. The text should be helpful for a lawyer's own personal needs, as well as being an introductory text for lawyers needing greater understanding of financial planning to assist clients with their estate planning needs. The text considers financial planning in its six most common areas: money management, insurance, investments, income taxation, retirement planning, and estate planning. Each of these planning areas is covered in a separate chapter.

Creating and Dominating New Markets
English | Feb. 1, 2002 | ISBN: 0814406785 | 256 Pages | PDF | 987.93 KB
Finding new markets is the key to eliminating competition and maximizing profits. This title delivers specific strategies for identifying potential new markets, avoiding costly mistakes and managing the expense of opening, growing and maintaining new markets. It includes instructive examples.

Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life
English | Feb. 23, 1996 | ISBN: 0521553067 | 288 Pages | PDF | 3.26 MB
This book provides a critical survey of conventional economic approaches to occupational safety and the analysis of environmental risk in general. The author concludes that unsafe work is not voluntary, that markets do not compensate workers for risk, and that attempts to put a monetary value on life and health are futile. He attributes the shortcomings of economic orthodoxy to its underlying approach to human decision-making and social interaction, and demonstrates that useful alternative approaches are available. The analysis is used to identify policies that combine effective regulation with democratic values.

Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence
English | Sep. 28, 2003 | ISBN: 0262062356 | 403 Pages | PDF | 1.88 MB
In this book, Yi Feng combines political and economic analyses to study the effects of political institutions on economic performance. Traditionally, political scientists disregard details of economic conditions, while economists may not take into consideration a systematic explanation of political regimes. The growing interest in the interplay of political and economic systems, spurred by the political democratization and economic liberalization evident in many countries over the last twenty years, merits this new perspective. The book examines the political determinants of economic growth, and, specifically, the controversial question of the relationship between democracy and quality of life. Feng systematically studies three variables of a political system-political freedom, political stability, and policy certainty-and relates them to economic development. He examines the political factors that may affect patterns of growth directly or indirectly. Combining theory and country-specific case studies, Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance demonstrates that political institutions and conditions do matter in economic growth. After establishing a theoretical foundation, Feng tests it by examining the direct effects of the three key political variables on economic growth and the indirect effects of democracy in terms of other variables (political instability, inflation, investment, education, income distribution, property rights, and population growth). He concludes by considering the policy implications of these results.

The Economics of the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities: A Resource Book
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9241548622 | 133 Pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
In response to the growing concern about equity issues and their implications for overall development, WHO established the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) in 2005, which focused on the "social justice" or human rights arguments for health investments. CSDH investigated the factors involved in the so-called "social gradient in health", which refers to the large observable differences in health outcomes within and between countries that are determined by avoidable inequalities in the access to resources and power. CSDH aimed to further investigate the causes of health inequities, with a deliberate detachment from economic considerations, and provide advice on how to tackle them effectively. CSDH also reviewed evidence for action on a wider scope of interventions than CMH, many of which require intersectoral collaboration or advocacy.
With CMH and CSDH having adopted different but perhaps complementary standpoints, it soon became clear that greater synergies had to be forged between the two. This WHO resource book on the economics of social determinants of health and health inequalities seeks to begin to build a bridge between the two approaches by explaining, illustrating and discussing the economic arguments that could (and could not) be put forth to support the case for investing in the social determinants of health on average and in the reduction in socially determined health inequalities. The resource book has two main objectives:
* to provide an overview and introduction into how economists would approach the assessment of the economic motivation to invest in the social determinants of health and socially determined health inequities, including what the major challenges are in this assessment;
* to illustrate the extent to which an economic argument can be made in favor of investment in three major social determinants of health areas: education, social protection, and urban development and infrastructure.