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While Louis D. Brandeis's series of articles on the money trust was running in Harper's Weekly many inquiries came about publication in more accessible permanent form. Even without such urgence through the mail, however, it would have been clear that these articles inevitably constituted a book, since they embodied an analysis and a narrative by that mind which, on the great industrial movements of our era, is the most expert in the United States. The inquiries meant that the attentive public recognized that here was a contribution to history. Here was the clearest and most profound treatment ever published on that part of our business development which, as President Wilson and other wise men have said, has come to constitute the greatest of our problems. The story of our time is the story of industry. No scholar of the future will be able to describe our era with authority unless he comprehends that expansion and concentration which followed the harnessing of steam and electricity, the great uses of the change, and the great excesses. No historian of the future, in my opinion, will find among our contemporary documents so masterful an analysis of why concentration went astray. I am but one among many who look upon jMr. Brandeis as having, in the field of economics, the most inventive and sound mind of our time. While his articles were running in Harper's Weekly I had ample opportunity to know how widespread was the belief among intelligent men that this brilliant diagnosis of our money trust was the most important contribution to current thought in many years.
"Great" is one of the words that I do not use loosely, and I look upon Mr. Brandeis as a great man. In the composition of his intellect, one of the most important elements is his comprehension of figures. As one of the leading financiers of the country said to me, "Mr. Brandeis's greatness as a lawyer is part of his greatness as a mathematician." My views on this subject are sufficiently indicated in the following editorial in Harper's Weekly........
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other people\'s money and how the bankers use it [illustrated]
mergers, acquisitions, and other restructuring activities, fifth edition: an integrated approach to process, tools, cases, and solutions (academic press advanced finance)
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In the 5th edition of this well-known text, Dr. DePamphilis explains the real world of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring based on his academic knowledge and personal experiences with over 30 such deals himself. The CDROM and password-protected website for students is unique in enabling students to download and customize content. Important enhancements unique to the fifth edition: all 99 cases involve real-life deals made or announced within the last 5 years, extensive discussions of all current valuation techniques and their strengths and weaknesses, cross-border transactions analyzed and explained in detail, tax and legal issues covered comprehensively. Student Resource CDROM contains with hundreds of practice problems in interactive tests providing immediate feedback and solutions, chapter outlines, and selected case study solutions. Complete on-line instructor's manual completely updated as well including test bank with hundreds of questions not provided to students, in multiple choice, true false and essay format and all with answers, case study questions and solutions, ppt slides for each lecture, and many other instructor resources. Instructors can load the test bank into their institutions LMS for randomized and scoring tests.
INSTRUCTORS MANUAL
Extensive instructor support material is available on our Elsevier textbooks.com password protected website:
Section 1: Chapter PowerPoint lecture slides. (Note that the Student Resources CDROM accompanying the text contains an identical set of slides.)
Section 2: Test Bank/Solution Set (More than 1500)
? Chapter Learning Objectives/Outcomes (i.e., what the instructor hopes students will master upon completion of each chapter)
? Answers to End of Chapter Discussion Questions
? Solutions to End of Chapter Business Cases
? Solutions to End of Chapter Practice Problems for Chapters 7 and 8
? Examination Questions and Answers:
--True/False
--Multiple Choice
--Short Essay Questions (The author also recommends using end of chapter Discussion Questions
for this purpose)
Section 3: Example Syllabi for teaching the course at various levels:
Undergraduate
advanced undergraduate
MBA and Masters in Finance
Section 4: Examples of Excellent Student Papers
a. Sony Acquires MGM in a Cash for Stock Deal
1. Sony Business Plan
2. Sales by Business Segment __2
3. Sales by Business Segment
4. LTD Analysis
5. Final Financials
b. Lionshare Equity's LBO of Plumtree
1. Revised Model for Plumtree
2. LBO Business Plan
c. K2 Acquires Fotoball in a Stock for Stock Deal
1. K2 Fotoball Worksheet
d. CCF Acquires CPK in a Cash and Stock for Stock Deal
1. Title and Executive Summary
2. Final Version
3. CPK Final Valuation Model
PLUS:
Over 1,500 Question Interactive Test Bank with Multiple Choice Questions and True or False Questions using the Elsevier Learning Interactions Library. Instructors can download these flash files, place them on their university's Learning Management System and students can take the test online. The Test Bank in concert with the LMS enables randomized testing as well. If the university allows for content posting to the LMS, students will be able to post these files without additional instruction.
These tests are are SCORM compliant, so the tests will be automatically scored and scorse can be returned to the LMS for the instructor's review.
STUDENT RESOURCES CDROM INCLUDED WITH THE BOOK
Contents:
1. Acquirer Due Diligence Question List
2. Excel-Based Mergers and Acquisitions Valuation and Structuring Model
3. Excel-Based Leveraged Buyout Valuation and Structuring Model
4. Excel-Based Real Options Valuation Model
5. PowerPoint Slides for each chapter
6. Chapter Summaries
7. Acquisition Process: The Gee Whiz Media Case Study (including discussion
questions and solutions)
8. Examples of Agreements of Purchase and Sale for Asset and Stock Purchases
9. 2005 MCI-Verizon Merger Agreement (actual agreement)
10. Supernormal Growth Model Valuation Example
PLUS:
Interactive Practice Tests using the Elsevier Learning Interactions Library with
Over 750 questions:
--True/False
--Multiple Choice
All run using Flash, and provide immediate feedback on correct answer if answered wrong, and are randomized and timed.
Focuses on the REAL WORLD, not just theory. The 99 case studies span every industry and dozens of countries and show how deals are done rather than just the theory behind them. All cases fully updated for this edition. Cases all involve transactions that have occurred or been announced within the past 3-5 years. All cases have questions and problems and solutions for the instructors on protected website.
Dozens of excel-based models of valuation, cash flows and other key financial aspects of M&A decisionmaking are provided on the Student Resources CDROM. These are all interactive and can be downloaded and customized by the students or within the context of practice cases and tests with instructor provided data. The Interactive Learning Library puts the learning tools into the students hands to they can learn in their way on their time.
Extensive updating and enhanced content provided on reorganization, bankruptcy, and liquidation issues both inside and outside of bankruptcy court.......
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See more technical detailsmergers, acquisitions, and other restructuring activities, fifth edition: an integrated approach to process, tools, cases, and solutions (academic press advanced finance)
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In the 5th edition of this well-known text, Dr. DePamphilis explains the real world of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring based on his academic knowledge and personal experiences with over 30 such deals himself. The CDROM and password-protected website for students is unique in enabling students to download and customize content. Important enhancements unique to the fifth edition: all 99 cases involve real-life deals made or announced within the last 5 years, extensive discussions of all current valuation techniques and their strengths and weaknesses, cross-border transactions analyzed and explained in detail, tax and legal issues covered comprehensively. Student Resource CDROM contains with hundreds of practice problems in interactive tests providing immediate feedback and solutions, chapter outlines, and selected case study solutions. Complete on-line instructor's manual completely updated as well including test bank with hundreds of questions not provided to students, in multiple choice, true false and essay format and all with answers, case study questions and solutions, ppt slides for each lecture, and many other instructor resources. Instructors can load the test bank into their institutions LMS for randomized and scoring tests.
INSTRUCTORS MANUAL
Extensive instructor support material is available on our Elsevier textbooks.com password protected website:
Section 1: Chapter PowerPoint lecture slides. (Note that the Student Resources CDROM accompanying the text contains an identical set of slides.)
Section 2: Test Bank/Solution Set (More than 1500)
? Chapter Learning Objectives/Outcomes (i.e., what the instructor hopes students will master upon completion of each chapter)
? Answers to End of Chapter Discussion Questions
? Solutions to End of Chapter Business Cases
? Solutions to End of Chapter Practice Problems for Chapters 7 and 8
? Examination Questions and Answers:
--True/False
--Multiple Choice
--Short Essay Questions (The author also recommends using end of chapter Discussion Questions
for this purpose)
Section 3: Example Syllabi for teaching the course at various levels:
Undergraduate
advanced undergraduate
MBA and Masters in Finance
Section 4: Examples of Excellent Student Papers
a. Sony Acquires MGM in a Cash for Stock Deal
1. Sony Business Plan
2. Sales by Business Segment __2
3. Sales by Business Segment
4. LTD Analysis
5. Final Financials
b. Lionshare Equity's LBO of Plumtree
1. Revised Model for Plumtree
2. LBO Business Plan
c. K2 Acquires Fotoball in a Stock for Stock Deal
1. K2 Fotoball Worksheet
d. CCF Acquires CPK in a Cash and Stock for Stock Deal
1. Title and Executive Summary
2. Final Version
3. CPK Final Valuation Model
PLUS:
Over 1,500 Question Interactive Test Bank with Multiple Choice Questions and True or False Questions using the Elsevier Learning Interactions Library. Instructors can download these flash files, place them on their university's Learning Management System and students can take the test online. The Test Bank in concert with the LMS enables randomized testing as well. If the university allows for content posting to the LMS, students will be able to post these files without additional instruction.
These tests are are SCORM compliant, so the tests will be automatically scored and scorse can be returned to the LMS for the instructor's review.
STUDENT RESOURCES CDROM INCLUDED WITH THE BOOK
Contents:
1. Acquirer Due Diligence Question List
2. Excel-Based Mergers and Acquisitions Valuation and Structuring Model
3. Excel-Based Leveraged Buyout Valuation and Structuring Model
4. Excel-Based Real Options Valuation Model
5. PowerPoint Slides for each chapter
6. Chapter Summaries
7. Acquisition Process: The Gee Whiz Media Case Study (including discussion
questions and solutions)
8. Examples of Agreements of Purchase and Sale for Asset and Stock Purchases
9. 2005 MCI-Verizon Merger Agreement (actual agreement)
10. Supernormal Growth Model Valuation Example
PLUS:
Interactive Practice Tests using the Elsevier Learning Interactions Library with
Over 750 questions:
--True/False
--Multiple Choice
All run using Flash, and provide immediate feedback on correct answer if answered wrong, and are randomized and timed.
Focuses on the REAL WORLD, not just theory. The 99 case studies span every industry and dozens of countries and show how deals are done rather than just the theory behind them. All cases fully updated for this edition. Cases all involve transactions that have occurred or been announced within the past 3-5 years. All cases have questions and problems and solutions for the instructors on protected website.
Dozens of excel-based models of valuation, cash flows and other key financial aspects of M&A decisionmaking are provided on the Student Resources CDROM. These are all interactive and can be downloaded and customized by the students or within the context of practice cases and tests with instructor provided data. The Interactive Learning Library puts the learning tools into the students hands to they can learn in their way on their time.
Extensive updating and enhanced content provided on reorganization, bankruptcy, and liquidation issues both inside and outside of bankruptcy court.......
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Hayek was not only a leading champion of liberty in the 20th century; as this massive book reveals, he was also a great economist whose elaboration on monetary theory and the business cycle made him the leading foe of Keynesian theory and policy in the English-speaking world.
The theory here is the subject of a massively popular video rap song — one which was oddly accurate! However, to truly understand the nuts and bolts, there is no substitute for Hayek's own works. Together they constitute a complete presentation of Hayekian money and business-cycle theory. Even more, they work together as an excellent elucidation of Austrian macroeconomic theory, which is why this book has already been adopted in some classrooms.
The timing could not be better. The entire world economy is now suffering from the effects of bad monetary policy, and with results that Hayek explains in great detail. With "countercyclical" policy again revealed as unworkable, and politicians plotting to make matters worse, the contents of this book have direct bearing on present and future monetary policy.
Hayek was barely out of his twenties in 1929 when he published the German versions of the first two works in this collection, Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle and "The Paradox of Saving." The latter article was a long essay that was to become the core of his celebrated book and the third work in this volume, Prices and Production, the publication of which two years later made him a world-renowned economist by the age of thirty-two.
But the young Hayek did not pause to savor his success. He was already hard at work on "Reflections on the Pure Theory of Money of Mr. J.M. Keynes," a lengthy critical review of John Maynard Keynes's two-volume Treatise on Money, which had been published in 1930. Hayek's two-part review appeared in late 1931 and 1932.
There followed within a few years the other three works collected in this volume. "The Mythology of Capital" appeared in 1936 and was a response to Frank Knight's hostile criticisms of the Austrian theory of capital. A short article on "Investment That Raises the Demand for Capital" and the monograph "Monetary Nationalism and International Stability" were published in 1937.
These seven works taken together represent the first integration and systematic elaboration of the Austrian theories of money, capital, business cycles, and comparative monetary institutions, which constitute the essential core of Austrian macroeconomics.
These works have profoundly influenced postwar expositions of Austrian or capital-based macroeconomics down to the present day. The creation of such an oeuvre is a formidable intellectual feat over an entire lifetime; it is an absolute marvel when we consider that Hayek had completed it in the span of eight years (1929–1937) and still well shy of his fortieth birthday. Hayek's amazingly precocious intellect and creative genius are on full display in these works.
"The re-publication of these works in a single volume is a magnificent event that fills a yawning gap in the Austrian macroeconomic literature and provides modern Austrians with a model of how to advance economic theory through reasoned debate and criticism."
-Joseph T. Salerno, from the introduction
"I congratulate the Ludwig von Mises Institute for bringing back into print Hayek's writings on business cycles. This collection will be a critical touchstone for future thinking in the area."
-Danny Quah, London School of Economics, from the preface.......
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"Everything Mr. Krugman has to say is smart, important and even fun to read . . . he is one of a handful of very bright, relatively young economists who do everything well." — Peter Passell, New York Times Book Review
In this wonderfully cohesive set of sharp and witty essays, Paul Krugman tackles bad economic ideas from across the political spectrum. In plain English, he enlightens us on the Asian crisis, corporate downsizing, and the globalization of the American economy, among other topics. The writing here brilliantly combines the acerbic style and clever analysis that has made Krugman famous. Imagine declaring New York its own country and you get a better picture of our trade balance with China and Hong Kong. Try reducing the economy to the production of hot dogs and buns and you’ll understand why common beliefs about the impact of production efficiency on labor demand are wrong. This is a collection that will amuse, provoke, and enlighten, in classic Paul Krugman style. "[Paul Krugman] writes better than any economist since John Maynard Keynes." — Rob Norton, Fortune "[Paul Krugman is] probably the most creative economist of his generation." — The EconomistÂWinner of the John Bates Clark Medal.......
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the other america: poverty in the united states
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This powerful account draws on research by sociologists and economists to reveal the depth of the poverty crisis, analyzing why such "invisible" citizens as the elderly, children, and minorities are not given adequate opportunities. Originally published in 1962, Harrington's classic work on the plight of the poor in the midst of plenty remains all too relevant today........
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