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Book Synopsis Against the Profit Motive by : Nicholas R. Parrillo
Download or read book Against the Profit Motive written by Nicholas R. Parrillo and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America today, a public official's lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently authorized officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a cut of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. The list goes on. This book is the first to document American government's "for-profit" past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officials' relationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers-by banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary-transformed that relationship forever.
Download or read book Profit Motive written by Charles Sauer and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most businesses are driven to maximize profit, but what does this drive really mean in action? In Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do economist Charles Sauer makes the case that identifying your own and others’ “Profit Motives” provides the foundation for running a successful business, being an effective leader, a good consumer, and getting what you really want out of life. In this highly praised new treatise on economic behavior, Sauer examines how businesses make decisions in pricing and employment and how the search for long-term profit can mean adopting practices that may seem contrary to fundamental capitalist principles. But the Profit Motive analysis goes well beyond the realm of finance and corporate decision-making to explain how gaining a profit, or a benefit, is the motivating force behind an endless array of choices made by everyone from large organizations to individuals and their families―and everything in between.
Download or read book War is a Racket written by Smedley Butler and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.
Download or read book The Profit Motive written by Antony Flew and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Profit Motive and Patient Care by : Bradford H. Gray
Download or read book The Profit Motive and Patient Care written by Bradford H. Gray and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this penetrating analysis, Bradford Gray tackles the thorny issues surrounding the question of to whom and for what our physicians and hospitals are accountable. This book provides a careful evaluation of the mechanisms of accountability that have developed along with a growing profit orientation of health care, and it alerts us to keep a sharp eye focused on who is looking out for the interests of the patient.
Book Synopsis The Profit Motive in Education by : James B. Stanfield
Download or read book The Profit Motive in Education written by James B. Stanfield and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK government in common with the governments of many Western countries is in the midst of implementing policies to reform education. However, the government has, as a matter of principle, decided that profit-making schools cannot provide state-funded education even if they would lead to substantial improvements in quality. This monograph makes the case for widespread acceptance of the profit motive in education. It does so not by presenting statistics that demonstrate that profit-making organisations could drive up quality there is already a substantial literatureon this. Instead, the authors show how profit-making organisations could create an entirely new dynamic of entrepreneurship and innovation. As well as improving quality and reducing costs within existing models, such an approach could lead to the development of completely new ways ofproviding education. The authors of this monograph have a range of international experience. Many of them have run profit-making schools in countries more accepting of the profit motive than the UK, suchas Sweden. Others have struggled against the odds to participate in education reform programmes in the UK. Overall, this collection makes an important contribution to the international debate about education reform
Book Synopsis Risk, Uncertainty and Profit by : Frank H. Knight
Download or read book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit written by Frank H. Knight and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless classic of economic theory that remains fascinating and pertinent today, this is Frank Knight's famous explanation of why perfect competition cannot eliminate profits, the important differences between "risk" and "uncertainty," and the vital role of the entrepreneur in profitmaking. Based on Knight's PhD dissertation, this 1921 work, balancing theory with fact to come to stunning insights, is a distinct pleasure to read. FRANK H. KNIGHT (1885-1972) is considered by some the greatest American scholar of economics of the 20th century. An economics professor at the University of Chicago from 1927 until 1955, he was one of the founders of the Chicago school of economics, which influenced Milton Friedman and George Stigler.
Book Synopsis The Profit Motive by : Percy Whiting Brown
Download or read book The Profit Motive written by Percy Whiting Brown and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Profit Motive by : Industrial Research Group
Download or read book The Profit Motive written by Industrial Research Group and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Profit Motive a Lack of Morality in Economics: Wrong Or Right by : Leif P. Damstoft
Download or read book The Profit Motive a Lack of Morality in Economics: Wrong Or Right written by Leif P. Damstoft and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PROFIT MOTIVE/THE PROPHET'S MOTIVE is aligned with the Occupy Movement's concerns even though it was not specifically written for or about the movement. The book focuses on the main cause of economic disparity-the profit motive-and about bringing morality into the current world economic system-the prophet's motive-to change economic disparity. The unique flip-book design reflects the opposite nature of these two concepts. The profit motive says that the underlying reason for business is to make a profit, by nearly any means possible. And therein lies the problem of capitalism: It's a selfish system, and any system that's based on selfishness is bound to be either terribly unbalanced or fail entirely, just as in personal relationships. On the flip side is the prophet's motive. True prophets do not believe in profiting from what they perceive is a gift given them by God to share with the rest of the world. Prophets are more concerned with the human condition of the individual's soul or heart, and the prophet's motive is based on the Golden Rule: . "Do unto others as you would want others to do unto you." Unfortunately, this basic premise is often perverted to "He who has the gold rules." The Ten Commandments are based on the Golden Rule, as are so many of our laws, but this all goes out the window when it comes to finance. We have failed to intertwine morality and finance because we have embraced the profit motive rather than the prophet's motive. With colorful stories, both fictional and real, and practical steps for solutions to the problems we all face today, The Profit Motive/The Prophet's Motive is truthful, entertaining, serious, funny, controversial, enlightening, and challenging to our own perceptions of reality. The author, Leif P. Damstoft, wrote this book "as a way to help direct the conversation of our nation and the world's current issues towards a more positive ends by using positive means. It's time for each of us to think about our part in this system and whether or not we can continue supporting this kind of injustice." ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leif P. Damstoft Sr. has lived in nNortheast Ohio all of his life. He has always been active in writing and in politics. Heand ran as a Democrat for the State Senate twice. He is also an accomplished guitarist and songwriter and has self-produced several CDs. He runs a sound and lighting company for local and national acts, and most recently his production company was used for the Music Is Art Festival in downtown Warren. He has two children, Leif Jr. and Katarina, and two grandchildren. Leif and his second wife, Jeanette, have been married a little over a year.
Book Synopsis The Cyclical Profit Motive by : David Russell
Download or read book The Cyclical Profit Motive written by David Russell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the American administrative state is one in which public officials carry out their day-to-day tasks in return for a salary. However, as Nicholas Parrillo argued in his well-regarded book, Against the Profit Motive, the early American administrative state functioned quite differently -- “[j]udges charged fees for transactions in the cases they heard...Tax investigators received a percentage of the evasions they discovered...Clerks deciding immigrants' applications for citizenship took a fee for every application...Even diplomats could lawfully accept a 'gift' from a foreign government upon finalizing a treaty.”This prior system of compensation could be thought of as “profit seeking" -- a system of administration whereby public officials carry out their duties in return for payment on a task-by-task basis. This system assumedly contrasts with today's salary compensating, or “nonprofit seeking” system. In fact, it is generally accepted that, as to the profit/nonprofit seeking transition, at a certain point a confluence of factors made profit seeking no longer tenable within the administrative state, ultimately securing nonprofit seeking's supremacy. But, is this assertion really true?This paper challenges the currently accepted understanding of the administrative state's profit/nonprofit seeking transition -- as unidirectional and permanent one. Instead, clear evidence exists to prove that profit/nonprofit seeking transitions operate cyclically -- it is more often the case that given areas of administrative law swing between profit seeking and nonprofit seeking based on each system's utility. Furthermore, the cyclicality of these transitions has huge implications for how we think about statutory administration and that the private sector's role in it is significantly larger that currently understood.
Download or read book Drive written by Daniel H. Pink and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
Download or read book Capitalism written by Anwar Shaikh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by imperfect competition. But this only ties them to the notion of perfect competition, which remains as their point of departure and base of comparison. There is no imperfection without perfection. In Capitalism, Anwar Shaikh takes a different approach. He demonstrates that most of the central propositions of economic analysis can be derived without any reference to standard devices such as hyperrationality, optimization, perfect competition, perfect information, representative agents, or so-called rational expectations. This perspective allows him to look afresh at virtually all the elements of economic analysis: the laws of demand and supply, the determination of wage and profit rates, technological change, relative prices, interest rates, bond and equity prices, exchange rates, terms and balance of trade, growth, unemployment, inflation, and long booms culminating in recurrent general crises. In every case, Shaikh's innovative theory is applied to modern empirical patterns and contrasted with neoclassical, Keynesian, and Post-Keynesian approaches to the same issues. Shaikh's object of analysis is the economics of capitalism, and he explores the subject in this expansive light. This is how the classical economists, as well as Keynes and Kalecki, approached the issue. Anyone interested in capitalism and economics in general can gain a wealth of knowledge from this ground-breaking text.
Book Synopsis The Twilight of the Profit Motive by : Theodore Levitt
Download or read book The Twilight of the Profit Motive written by Theodore Levitt and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Profit Motive by : Stephen M. Bainbridge
Download or read book The Profit Motive written by Stephen M. Bainbridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Profit Motive offers a legal and economic defense of shareholder capitalism against proponents of corporate social responsibility.
Book Synopsis The Profit Motive by : Harry Frederick Ward
Download or read book The Profit Motive written by Harry Frederick Ward and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A People's Guide to Capitalism by : Hadas Thier
Download or read book A People's Guide to Capitalism written by Hadas Thier and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-06-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. “Thier’s urgently needed book strips away jargon to make Marx’s essential work accessible to today’s diverse mass movements.” —Sarah Leonard, contributing editor to The Nation “A great book for proletarian chain-breaking.” —Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley “Thier unpacks the mystery of capitalist inequality with lucid and accessible prose . . . . We will need books like A People’s Guide to help us make sense of the root causes of the financial crises that shape so many of our struggles today.” —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership “Ranging from exploitation at work to the operations of modern finance, this book takes the reader through a fine-tuned introduction to Marx’s analysis of the modern economy . . . . Thier combines theoretical explanation with contemporary examples to illuminate the inner workings of capitalism . . . . Reminds us of the urgent need for alternatives to a crisis-ridden system.” —David McNally, author of Blood and Money
