"This book provides insights into Japanese production and operations management through the roles and human resource management of Japanese manufacturing engineers and how their roles contribute to efficient manufacturing. The book looks at six industries i.e. automobile, electronics, business...

The Downfall of the American Order? offers penetrating insight into the emerging global political economy at this moment of an increasingly chaotic world. For seventy-five years, the basic patterns of world politics and the contours of international economic activity took place in the shadow of...

A "people's war" and the dawn an "American century" -- Containing communism, advancing "the American system" -- Affluence and angst : the politics and culture of Cold War America -- Through the looking glass : discontent and rebellion in the fifties -- Let us begin : the promise of the early...

List of figures -- List of tables -- Editor biographies -- Contributor biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: teaching public budgeting and finance / Bruce D. McDonald, III and Meagan M. Jordan -- Chapter 2: public budgeting and finance in context / Meagan M. Jordan and Merl Hackbart --...

Zwischen 1961 und 1974 schlossen die Bundesrepublik und die USA acht Offset-Abkommen. Im Rahmen dieser Abkommen erwarb die Bundesrepublik Rüstungsgüter und US-Staatsanleihen, um die Devisenkosten der in der Bundesrepublik stationierten US-Truppen zu kompensieren. Im übergeordneten Sinne...

"The US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have been mixed: firms have preferred to invest in the industrial world and developing-world leaders have not always welcomed foreign investment. Violence and the presence of...

"This volume narrates the financial history of the United States during a period of great upheaval in the early part of the twenty-first century. It is divided into three chronological sections: the first section describes the recovery of financial markets after the Great Recession. It begins...