Bottleneckers

Author : William Mellor,Dick M. Carpenter II
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594039089

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Bottleneckers by William Mellor,Dick M. Carpenter II Pdf

Bottlenecker (n): a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic advantage without providing a benefit to consumers. The Left, Right, and Center all hate them: powerful special interests that use government power for their own private benefit. In an era when the Left hates “fat cats” and the Right despises “crony capitalists,” now there is an artful and memorable one-word pejorative they can both get behind: bottleneckers. A “bottlenecker” is anyone who uses government power to limit competition and thereby reap monopoly profits and other benefits. Bottleneckers work with politicians to constrict competition, entrepreneurial innovation, and opportunity. They thereby limit consumer choice; drive up consumer prices; and they support politicians who willingly overstep the constitutional limits of their powers to create, maintain, and expand these anticompetitive bottlenecks. The Institute for Justice’s new book Bottleneckers coins a new word in the American lexicon, and provides a rich history and well-researched examples of bottleneckers in one occupation after another—from alcohol distributors to taxicab cartels—pointing the way to positive reforms.

Author : Bertram Myron Gross,United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Industries
ISBN : UIUC:30112087876626

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Small Business Problems by Bertram Myron Gross,United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business Pdf

Author : Regina Blessa
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781491756355

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No-Fail Retail by Regina Blessa Pdf

This book presents a practical approach to ensuring your retail store’s success with consumers. It explores topics, such as merchandising and display techniques, retail promotions, consumer perception and behavior, impulse buying, store environment and operations, visual merchandising, customer care, and the promotional work force. Simple, practical, and illustrated with real photos taken in many countries, this book allows even a small store with a limited budget to stay ahead of global retailers with limitless resources. Learn how to: • pick the best location to locate a store; • make your exterior design inviting; • set up an ideal atmosphere for purchasing; • understand about gondola arrangement and planograms; • analyze your customers • conduct different types of promotions.

Author : Tim Fields
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136135422

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Distributed Game Development by Tim Fields Pdf

Take control of your global game development team and make successful AAA game titles using the 'Distributed Development' model. Game industry veteran Tim Fields teaches you how to evaluate game deals, how to staff teams for highly distributed game development, and how to maintain challenging relationships in order to get great games to market. This book is filled with interviews with a broad spectrum of industry experts from top game publishers and business owners in the US and UK. A supplementary web site provides interviews from the book, a forum where developers and publishers can connect, and additional tips and tricks. Topics include:

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345457936

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Transcendent by Stephen Baxter Pdf

“Breathtaking . . . brilliantly conducted . . . Far-future philosophic space opera and near-future eco-thriller combine effectively.”—Locus It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is mourning the death of his beloved wife and doubting his own sanity. But he must stave off a looming catastrophe: vast reservoirs of toxic gases lie beneath the melting poles, threatening to contaminate the atmosphere and destroy all life on Earth. Though born five hundred thousand years after the death of Michael Poole, Alia knows him intimately. Every person in Alia’s world is entrusted with Witnessing one life from the past by means of a technology able to traverse time. Alia’s subject is Michael Poole. Chosen to become a Transcendent, a member of the group mind that is shepherding humanity toward an evolutionary apotheosis, Alia discovers a dark side to the Transcendent’s plans. Somehow, Michael holds the fate of the future in his hands, and to save that future, Alia must undertake a desperate journey into the past. “Stunning . . . engaging . . . a contrasting mix of Baxter’s customary skill at presenting a very realnear future, and his talent for high-level hardscience fiction.”—Starburst

Author : Dan Trevor
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0515108308

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Terminate by Dan Trevor Pdf

Encouraged by the success of the Night Whistlers, workers in Tenement Valley cut back production, hitting the dictatorial empire where it hurts--the profit margin. Trans Global retaliates with a savage assassin, and the freedom fighters must defeat the murderer quickly before innocent people lose their lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Alcoholic beverage industry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924059750160

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Market Watch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew C. McCarthy
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641771238

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Ball of Collusion by Andrew C. McCarthy Pdf

The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues—the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066191193

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Reiman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470674123

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As Free and as Just as Possible by Jeffrey Reiman Pdf

Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of America's foremost intellectuals conceives a revised definition of justice that recognizes the harm inflicted by capitalism's hidden coercive structures. Maps a new frontier in moral philosophy and political theory Distills a new concept of justice that recognizes the iniquities of capitalism Synthesis of elements of Marxism and Liberalism will interest readers in both camps Direct and jargon-free style opens these complex ideas to a wide readership

Author : Pete Prown
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780760377758

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Ultimate Heavy Metal Guitars by Pete Prown Pdf

Ultimate Heavy Metal Guitars profiles 80+ heavy metal guitarists from the 1970s to today, featuring performance photography and an authoritative text detailing the careers and gear of each.

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 4288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473217126

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Xeelee Sequence by Stephen Baxter Pdf

Beginning with RAFT in 1991, Stephen Baxter's epic sequence of Xeelee novels introduced readers to perhaps the most ambitious fictitious universe ever created. Beginning with the rise and fall of sub-quantum civilisations in the first nano-seconds after the Big Bang and ending with the heat death of the universe billions of years from now the series charts the story of mankind's epic war against the ancient and unknowable alien race the Xeelee. Along the way it examines questions of physics, the nature of reality, the evolution of mankind and its possible future. It looks not just at the morality of war but at the morality of survival and our place in the universe. This is a landmark in SF. And now, for the first time, all ten titles comprising the Xeelee sequence are collected together in one volume. Includes: Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring, Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendent, Resplendent, Vacuum Diagrams, Xeelee: Endurance

Author : STACY PHILLIPS
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610658768

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Complete Dobro Player by STACY PHILLIPS Pdf

Stacy Phillips is an internationally acclaimed soloist and author on Resonator Guitar. This comprehensive book took years to produce and is the culmination of Stacy's many years of playing the instrument, studying new Resonator techniques and interviewing other Resonator greats. This book achieves the following objectives: 1. to present an in-depth survey of the styles in which well-rounded lap guitarist should be competent. 2. to examine the playing styles and techniques of some of the world's greatest Resonator guitarists. 3. to catalog many of the licks that are lingua franca in the world of Resonator guitarists. 4. to indicate some of the underlying relationships between notes, keys, and chords by introducing some basic music theory as it relates specifically to the six-string guitar in G tuning. 5. to gain insights into the world of Resophonic guitar stylings and performance through interviews with some of the top players. 6. to demonstrate unconventional concepts in order to stimulate fresh approaches to playing the instrument. Tablature included.The double-CD set presents more than 90 minutes of stereo recording featuring Stacy Phillips on Dobro and Paul Howard on guitar. Play-along tracks are included for several of the tunes.

Author : Mirjam Müller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197767207

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Global Sweatshops by Mirjam Müller Pdf

Sweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatshops of the garment industry are women, many of them migrant women. This book develops an intersectional feminist critique of the working conditions in sweatshops by analysing the role of gender, race, and migration status in bringing about and justifying the exploitation of workers on factory floors. Based on this analysis, the book argues that sweatshop workers are structurally vulnerable to exploitation in virtue of their position as gendered, racialized, and migrant workers within global supply chains. While this exploitation benefits powerful actors along global supply chains, it also creates spaces of resistance and structural transformation.

Author : Chelsey L. Owens
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781973647225

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Because His Heart Was Strong by Chelsey L. Owens Pdf

“That was the moment, the turning point. That was the moment I fully understood the depth of Daddy’s love for me. Similar to the love of Christ, I knew his lack of consciousness—or even more realistically, the hostility of death’s doorstep—could not interfere with my father’s matchless love for his only daughter. While Christ’s suffering made me realize His love for me, my daddy’s suffering made me realize my love for him.” Losing a parent is never easy. Losing a good parent is even crueler. But losing an admirable parent comparable to Christ, it’s an extremely bitter truth to accept. Written from the viewpoint of an undeniable Daddy’s girl, Because His Heart was Strong entwines the captivating journey of Rick Owens’ final decade of life through her own story, including the remarkable courage he demonstrated amidst prolonged suffering and the sheer legacy he imparted in death, highlighting the faith he placed in his Savior through it all.