Introduction -- Entrepreneurship, its origins and recent experience -- Overview of the global aviation industry 1903 to 1945 -- Entrepreneurial aviators -- The earliest days in the United States : the Wright brothers, Glenn H. Curtiss, Allan Lockheed and Glenn L. Martin -- The French connection...

Introduction -- Grounded dual contingency model of leadership effectiveness -- Creating a caring and safe environment -- Transformation from hidden to visible leadership -- Transformation from inflexible to receptive leadership -- Transformation from intuitive to deliberate leadership --...

Foundations -- The evolution of the post-staggers rail industry and rail policy / by Mark Burton and Paul Hitchcock -- Economic foundations for 21st century freight rail rate regulation / by John W. Mayo and Robert D. Willig -- Railroads in an increasingly interrelated economy -- International...

Capitalism in crisis -- Accountancy: capitalism's handmaiden -- The deplorable state of accountancy practice -- The reform of capitalism: the stakeholder theory of the firm -- The reform of accountancy: stakeholder reporting -- Sustainability reporting: the GRI's initiative -- Integrated...

A few years ago, Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn't encountered before: huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world's three major reserve currencies. Here Dalio brings readers along for his study of the...

Introduction. The social significance of official statistics -- The BLS and the underestimation of unemployment -- The CDC and the overestimation of life expectancy -- The FBI and the miscalculation of crime -- The census bureau and the decennial undercount -- Why official statistics matter.