Authors:Ellen M. Pint, Marygail K. Brauner, John R. Bonda
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: incentives, army, logistics, decisions, financial, improve, price, fair, credit, criteria, right
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 0833029525
ISBN-13: 9780833029522

Under the Army’s financial management system for spare parts, logistics customers receive budgets to buy spare parts from the supply system and receive credits for returning parts to the supply system, either for repair or because they are no longer needed in local inventories. The Army’s wholesale inventories of spare parts are financed by a stock fund, which uses its income from the sale of parts, net of credits issued to customers, to pay for repairs and procurement of replacement parts. Some installation-level, or retail, inventories are also financed by stock funds. During fi

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: times, difficult, reforming, business, doing
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2009-09-10
ISBN-10: 0821379615
ISBN-13: 9780821379615

Doing Business 2010 is the seventh in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies--from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe--and over time. Regulations affecting 10 stages of a business’s life are measured: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, e

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: business, doing
Number of Pages: 185
Published: 2008-09-12
ISBN-10: 0821376098
ISBN-13: 9780821376096

Doing Business 2009 is the sixth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 181 countries, measuring regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business: starting a business dealing with licenses employing workers registering property getting credit protecting investors paying taxes trading across borders enforcing contracts closing a business The 2009 edition of Doing Business updates all sets of indicators, ranks countries on their overall ease of doing business, and analyzes reforms to business regulation by identifying which countri

Authors:Richard S. Marken, William W. Taylor, John A. Aus
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: role, advanced, simulator, pilots, fighter, developing, qualified, absorbing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041541
ISBN-13: 9780833041548

What does an individual need to be considered an experienced fighter pilot? The current formal definition is based on how many flying hours a person has, but in practice, the question is more complex and sometimes subjective because an individual requires different kinds of experience for combat positions and staff positions. The authors surveyed training experts to discover practical bases for judgments about the experience needed for different jobs. For flying positions, they found that time in advanced simulators is now also considered to be an important component of experience. Upgrade lev

Author: Charles Siegel
Publisher: Preservation Institute
Keywords: living, simple, politics
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN-10: 0978872827
ISBN-13: 9780978872823

This book calls for a new politics of simple living, and it describes specific policies, such as: Work-Time Choice: Today, most people have no choice but to take full-time jobs, because most part-time jobs have lower hourly pay and no benefits. We need policies that let us choose part-time work, so people have the option of consuming less and having more free time. Neighborhood Choice: Since World War II, federal freeway policies and local zoning laws forced most American cities to be rebuilt as low-density sprawl where people cannot leave their houses without driving. We need to build walkabl

Author:
Publisher:
Keywords: socialism, inflation, science, pseudo, market, enemies, free
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 1572462086
ISBN-13: 9781572462083

This is a "new" book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer but as a speaker of enormous erudition and power. There are nine lectures in this book: Economics and its Opponents; Pseudo-Science and Historical Understanding; Acting Man and Economics; Marxism, Socialism, and Pseudo-Science; Capitalism and Human Progress; Money and Inflation; The Gold Standard: Its Importance and Restoration; Money, Credit, and

Author: Murray Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: banking, mystery
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2008-09-10
ISBN-10: 1933550287
ISBN-13: 9781933550282

Talk about great timing. Rothbard’s extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: what is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can’t last. His explanation is clear enough for anyone to follow and yet precise and rigorous enough to be the best, textbook for college classes on the topic. This is because its expositional clarity--in its hitosry and theory--is essentially unrivaled. Most notably, he uses the T account method of explaining the relationship between deposits and loans, showing the inherent instability of fractional reserve banking a