The Price is Wrong
Title | The Price is Wrong PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Maxwell |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2007-12-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0470226196 |
Fair pricing is an issue that affects us all, whether we?re consumers or merchants. Throughout her career, Sarah Maxwell has seen how pricing practices?across a variety of different areas, from mobile phones and airline tickets to prescription drugs and gasoline?impact our everyday lives. Now, with The Price Is Wrong, Maxwell shares her deepest insights on this issue and examines both the psychological and sociological basis of fair pricing.
Cost under the unfair practices acts
Title | Cost under the unfair practices acts PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Tannenbaum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Equal Is Unfair
Title | Equal Is Unfair PDF eBook |
Author | Don Watkins |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2016-03-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 125008444X |
Argues that the solution to increasing income inequality in the United States is not to increase taxes on the rich, but to phase out welfare programs and create a culture of achievement.
The Unfair Advantage
Title | The Unfair Advantage PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Harold L. Arnold Jr. |
Publisher | CLC Publications |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2016-09-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1619582333 |
Cost Under the Unfair Practices Act
Title | Cost Under the Unfair Practices Act PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Tannenbaum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Competition, Unfair |
ISBN |
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Title | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lewis |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2004-03-17 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0393066231 |
Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers?numbers!?collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. What these numbers prove is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information had been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
Captive Audience
Title | Captive Audience PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Crawford |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2013-01-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0300167377 |
Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price of broadband. This steady slide backward not only deprives consumers of vital services needed in a competitive employment and business market—it also threatens the economic future of the nation. This important book by leading telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explores why Americans are now paying much more but getting much less when it comes to high-speed Internet access. Using the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal as a lens, Crawford examines how we have created the biggest monopoly since the breakup of Standard Oil a century ago. In the clearest terms, this book explores how telecommunications monopolies have affected the daily lives of consumers and America's global economic standing.