Economic Report of the President
Economic Report of the President

Author: United States. President

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780160876646

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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT -- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price -- Provides informaton about the State of the Economy and is the annual report produced by the Council of Economic Advisers. It is an important vehicle for presenting the Adminitration's domestic and internationaal policies as it provides an overview of the nation's economic progress with text and extensive data appendices. American citizens, living in the United States and abroad, economists, corporate executives, small business owners, financial planners, investors, and students majoring in finance, economics, or accounting may be interested in this volume. Related products: Previous year printed volumes for the Economic Report of the President can be found here for comaprisons: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/budget-economy/us-economy-economic-conditions/economic-report-president Previous year print volumes of the United States Federal Budget books can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/budget-economy/federal-budgets-year "

The Economics of Business Valuation
The Economics of Business Valuation

Author: Patrick Anderson

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0804783225

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For decades, the market, asset, and income approaches to business valuation have taken center stage in the assessment of the firm. This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, consisting of nine well-defined valuation principles hailing from the fields of economics, finance, accounting, taxation, and management. It ultimately argues that the "value functional" approach to business valuation avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actual motivations and information set held by stakeholders. Much of what we know about corporate finance and mathematical finance derives from a narrow subset of firms: publicly traded corporations. The value functional approach can be readily applied to both large firms and companies that do not issue publicly traded stocks and bonds, cannot borrow without constraints, and often rely upon entrepreneurs to both finance and manage their operations. With historical side notes from an international set of sources and real-world exemplars that run throughout the text, this book is a future-facing resource for scholars in economics and finance, as well as the academically minded valuation practitioner.

Understanding the Development of Small Business Policy
Understanding the Development of Small Business Policy

Author: Thomas M. Cooney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-29

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1351020323

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It is not widely understood that the importance of small businesses only became apparent with the publication of David Birch’s book The Job Generation Process in 1979. Over the past four decades, governments across the globe have struggled to design, implement and evaluate policies that benefit the development of small firms. Deciding whether macro or micro policies are more appropriate for a given context has usually created an initial challenge for policy-makers. However, a cause for even greater dispute has been determining and agreeing what might be the preferred outcomes of such policies (e.g. more firms, better performing firms, fewer firm failures, job creation, greater productivity, higher levels of innovation, inclusivity of disadvantaged groups). Furthermore, evaluating the impact of specific policies presents a wide range of difficulties since it is impossible to isolate a simple cause-and-effect relationship between policy and its stated goal. This book explores the development of small business policy in five countries across five continents and seeks to develop a deeper understanding regarding how small business policy has evolved in these countries and what we might learn from their experiences. This book was originally published as a special issue of Small Enterprise Research.

Big Is Beautiful
Big Is Beautiful

Author: Robert D. Atkinson

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0262345676

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Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American democracy, and not the champion of job creation. In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity. Small business is not responsible for most of the country's job creation and innovation. American democracy does not depend on the existence of brave bands of self-employed citizens. Small businesses are not systematically discriminated against by government policy makers. Rather, Atkinson and Lind argue, small businesses are not the font of jobs, because most small businesses fail. The only kind of small firm that contributes to technological innovation is the technological start-up, and its success depends on scaling up. The idea that self-employed citizens are the foundation of democracy is a relic of Jeffersonian dreams of an agrarian society. And governments, motivated by a confused mix of populist and free market ideology, in fact go out of their way to promote small business. Every modern president has sung the praises of small business, and every modern president, according to Atkinson and Lind, has been wrong. Pointing to the advantages of scale for job creation, productivity, innovation, and virtually all other economic benefits, Atkinson and Lind argue for a “size neutral” policy approach both in the United States and around the world that would encourage growth rather than enshrine an anachronism. If we overthrow the “small is beautiful” ideology, we will be able to recognize large firms as the engines of progress and prosperity that they are.