Economic Development Institute
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Development of Top Management Teams [VHS] … |
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Making Sense of Place–Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City $20.00 Many American cities have experienced a persistent crisis of urban decline and the erosion of inner suburbs. Why does this happen? What are the consequences for residents? Can the decline be halted or reversed? These urgent issues are addressed in a provocative new documentary film study of Cleveland, Ohio-once America’s fifth largest city, and today a metropolitan area struggling to reverse t… |
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2008 Global Conference: Generation Next: Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today $29.95 High-level human capital requires continuous attention, from training and coaching to team-building, leadership development and succession planning. How can a company’s smartest people be made smarter? How can firms ensure they are led by world-class teams for decades to come? What role can governments play in grooming the work force of tomorrow? Is there a shortage of talent and, if so, what can … |
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Fair Trade? Its Prospects as a Poverty Solution Fair Trade is an enormously popular idea in Christian and secular circles alike. Who, after all, could be against fairness? Victor V. Claar, however, raises significant economic and moral questions about both the logic and economic reasoning underlying the fair trade movement. In this monograph, Claar suggests that, for all its good intentions, fair trade may not be of particular service to the po… |
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer $11.00 In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth–the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet– Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for prob… |
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Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era $22.25 Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance, benign and affordable, for all, forever.That richer, fairer, … |