How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any...

Private versus social incentives in cybersecurity : law and economics / Bruce K. Kobayashi -- A model for when disclosure helps security : what is different about computer and network security? / Peter P. Swire -- Peer production of survivable critical infrastructures / Yochai Benkler -- Cyber...

Standard costing, according to various authors, is inconsistent with today'smanufacturing environment (e.g. Monden and Lee, 1993; Ferrara, 1995; Drury, 1999).Instead, to meet the intensely, competitive, global business environment, companiesshould use tools or strategies such as JIT, ABC, TQM, process...

In the typical organization, the procurement of maintenance, repair, operating and production supplies (MROP) represents only about 20% of the total spending for materials, but consumes about 80% of the time, effort and expense involved in the purchasing process. For many reasons, detailed in...