During man’s relatively brief existence on this planet,he has relied on the bounty of its flora and fauna for his existence. He has harvested wildlife for food, clothing, shelter, medicines, beasts of burden, pets, and companionship. Over most of this period, this harvesting and...

Max Hartwell’s paper gives us a picture of the good old days. Hav- ing just paid my taxes, or at any rate the federal-income-taxportion of them, Jam not inclined to view favorablyanyleveloftaxesother than none at all. Still, the paper portrays the closest we’ve come in modern times...

Since the early 1870s, when John D. Rockefeller began assembling Standard Oil of New Jersey, the large, usually American-owned and -managed, oil companies have been the most famous and con- troversial business enterprises in the United States as well as throughout most of the world.’ Even...

There are about 1,605,000 acres in about 300 barrier islands and spits in the United States.’ They rim the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Cape Cod to the Mexican border and vary from small units of 50 acres or less to islands of more than 100,000 acres. Some are lit- tle more than elevated...

Western governments usually are sent about 30% of GDP for social purposes. Financing is carried out due to tax payments through the system of taxes from current revenue (hereinafter - PAYGO, pay-as-you-go). How effective such transfers, and whether the market or other mechanisms to improve this...

Study of problems of contemporary legal education is still an actual task for improvement of academic work and reforming of educational activity of national higher school in general. The most perspective direction in methodical support of training process in legal education is a transfer to the...

Western governments usually are sent about 30% of GDP for social purposes. Financing is carried out due to tax payments through the system of taxes from current revenue (hereinafter - PAYGO, pay-as-you-go). How effective such transfers, and whether the market or other mechanisms to improve this...

This paper studies the role played by several bank specific financial indicators in determining the process of bank failure in Argentina after the Mexican crisis known as the quot;tequila effectquot;. Due to the relative scarcity of previous studies, this paper priorizes the use of...