John Y. Campbell, Martin Feldstein, "Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0226092550 | PDF | pages: 509 | 2.0 mb
Our current social security system operates on a pay-as-you-go basis; benefits are paid almost entirely out of current revenues. As the ratio of retirees to taxpayers increases, concern about the high costs of providing benefits in a pay-as-you-go system has led economists to explore other options. One involves "prefunding," in which a person's withholdings are invested in financial instruments, such as stocks and bonds, the eventual returns from which would fund his or her retirement. The risks such a system would introduce-such as the volatility in the market prices of investment assets-are the focus of this offering from the NBER. Exploring the issues involved in measuring risk and developing models to reflect the risks of various investment-based systems, economists evaluate the magnitude of the risks that both retirees and taxpayers would assume. The insights that emerge show that the risk is actually moderate relative to the improved return, as well as being balanced by the ability of an investment-based system to adapt to differences in individual preferences and conditions.

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972 By Eric C. Han
2014 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 067449198X | PDF | 19 MB
Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. Eric C. Han narrates the paradoxical story of how, during periods of war and peace, Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state.This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the construction of Chinese and Japanese identities and on Chinese migration and settlement. Using local newspapers, Chinese and Japanese government records, memoirs, and conversations with Yokohama residents, it retells the familiar story of Chinese nation building in the context of Sino-Japanese relations. But it builds on existing works by directing attention as well to non-elite Yokohama Chinese, those who sheltered revolutionary activists and served as an audience for their nationalist messages. Han also highlights contradictions between national and local identifications of these Chinese, who self-identified as Yokohama-ites (hamakko) without claiming Japaneseness or denying their Chineseness. Their historical role in Yokohama's richly diverse cosmopolitan past can offer insight into a future, more inclusive Japan.

Ripe for the Picking: 30 Delicious Apple Recipes by Nancy Silverman
English | May 4, 2019 | ISBN: 1096830566 | 75 pages | EPUB | 3.16 Mb
With so many varieties grown around the world, apples are regular occupants in fruit bowls and kitchens everywhere. Apples are also packed full of essential vitamins and minerals, inexpensive, easy to source, and are so versatile in flavor and texture that they can be delicious additions to sweet and savory dishes.

Restitution and Equity, Volume 1: Resulting Trusts and Equitable Compensation By Peter Birks (editor), Francis Rose (editor)
2000 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 1859785670 | PDF | 85 MB
The first part of this volume collates papers from the Second Mansfield Symposium, which examined the areas of equity, trusts and restitution. The second part addresses the emerging field of equitable compensation and its implications.

Kenneth Ayotte, Henry E. Smith, "Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law"
English | 2011 | pages: 418 | ISBN: 1847209793 | PDF | 5,9 mb
Leading scholars in the field of law and economics contribute their original theoretical and empirical research to this major Handbook. Each chapter analyzes the basic architecture and important features of the institutions of property law from an economic point of view, while also providing an introduction to the issues and literature.Property rights and property systems vary along a large number of dimensions, and economics has proven very conducive to analyzing these patterns and even the nature of property itself. The contributions found here lend fresh perspectives to the current body of literature, examining topics including: initial acquisition; the commons, anticommons, and semicommons; intellectual property; public rights; abandonment and destruction; standardization of property; property and firms; marital property; bankruptcy as property; titling systems; land surveying; covenants; nuisance; the political economy of property; and takings. The contributors employ a variety of methods and perspectives, demonstrating the fruitfulness of economic modeling, empirical methods, and institutional analysis for the study of both new and familiar problems in property. Legal scholars, economists, and other social scientists interested in property will find this Handbook an often-referenced addition to their libraries.

Lida Citroën, "Reputation 360: Jumpstart your career by building a positive personal brand"
English | ISBN: 098316908X | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
For professionals launching their careers, the hard work begins even before the first job. As the global business becomes increasingly competitive, young professionals and entrepreneurs recognize the importance of building and shaping a powerful and compelling personal brand-online and in person.

Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac 2023
by Towler, Perrin;Fishwick, Mark;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399402668 | 417 pages | True PDF | 21.95 MB

Chunfeng Lin, "Red Tourism in China "
English | ISBN: 1032139609 | 2022 | 202 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book analyzes the phenomenally profitable "Red Tourism" industry in China, in which visitors make pilgrimages to sites of historical significance to the Communist Party of China and the Chinese Revolution.

Sharon M. Harris, "Rebecca Harding Davis: A Life Among Writers"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1946684309 | PDF | pages: 506 | 5.2 mb
2018ChoiceOutstanding Academic Title

Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality by Jay David Bolter
English | November 16, 2021 | ISBN: 0262045125 | 227 pages | PDF | 5.06 Mb
How augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture alongside film and television.