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Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of “Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.
How engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability. The growing movement toward corporate social responsibility (CSR) urges corporations to promote the well-being of people and the planet rather than the sole pursuit of profit. In Extracting Accountability, Jessica Smith investigates how the public accountability of corporations emerges from the everyday practices of the engineers who work for them. Focusing on engineers who view social responsibility as central to their profession, she finds the corporate context of their work prompts them to attempt to reconcile competing domains of accountability—to formal guidelines, standards, and policies; to professional ideals; to the public; and to themselves. Their efforts are complicated by the distributed agency they experience as corporate actors: they are not always authors of their actions and frequently act through others. Drawing on extensive interviews, archival research, and fieldwork, Smith traces the ways that engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries accounted for their actions to multiple publics—from critics of their industry to their own friends and families. She shows how the social license to operate and an underlying pragmatism lead engineers to ask how resource production can be done responsibly rather than whether it should be done at all. She analyzes the liminality of engineering consultants, who experienced greater professional autonomy but often felt hamstrung when positioned as outsiders. Finally, she explores how critical participation in engineering education can nurture new accountabilities and chart more sustainable resource futures.
Salary Versus Dividends & Other Tax Efficient Profit Extraction Strategies 2015/16 by Nick Braun Pdf
Salary versus Dividends is essential reading for ALL company owners and directors. The 15th edition has just been published (April 2015) and is completely up to date. The new edition contains ALL the relevant tax changes announced in the March 2015 Budget and December 2014 Autumn Statement. You'll find out exactly how much tax-free salary and dividend income you can withdraw in 2015/16 and how to pay less tax if you want to extract more money. There's also a new chapter explaining how company owners can now extract up to 5,000 of tax-free interest each plus updated information on all the other profit extraction techniques: director's loans, getting your company to pay you rent or pension contributions and splitting income with family members. There's also new information on dividend waivers, the new transferable personal allowance for married couples and how to pay less tax when you wind up your company."
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners. The federal government guaranteed urban mortgages in an attempt to overcome resistance to lending to Black buyers – as if unprofitability, rather than racism, was the cause of housing segregation. Bankers, investors, and real estate agents took advantage of the perverse incentives, targeting the Black women most likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure, multiplying their profits. As a result, by the end of the 1970s, the nation's first programs to encourage Black homeownership ended with tens of thousands of foreclosures in Black communities across the country. The push to uplift Black homeownership had descended into a goldmine for realtors and mortgage lenders, and a ready-made cudgel for the champions of deregulation to wield against government intervention of any kind. Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.
Salary Versus Dividends & Other Tax Efficient Profit Extraction Strategies 2021/22 by Nick Braun Pdf
Publication date: June 2021 - Plain English guide with dozens of examples and tax planning tips. Now in its 22nd edition, Salary versus Dividends is essential reading for ALL company owners and directors. It tells you everything you need to know about paying yourself the most tax efficient mix of salary and dividends. This year's edition contains full details of the corporation tax increase and the new company tax rules announced in the March 2021 Budget. We explain how these new rules will affect your tax planning. The guide also contains fully updated information on the best alternative profit extraction techniques: Directors loans - how they can be used to defer tax for an extra two years and sometimes to avoid tax altogether. Pension contributions - Why company pension contributions are better than dividends. And why you should consider postponing them. Rental income - Why rent is now better than dividends in many cases. Interest income - How company owners can pay themselves up to £6,000 tax-free. Cars and motoring costs - a Plain English guide to the tax rules. Charity - Who should donate: you or the company? Capital Gains - How to pay 10% tax when you sell or wind up your company; How to pay 0% tax when you sell your company to an employee ownership trust. These alternative techniques will become a lot more attractive when corporation tax increases. There's also information on splitting income with your spouse and children and other tax saving strategies.
Future Resources and World Development by Paul Rogers Pdf
Human ecology, the study of the interrelationships between man and his environment, is necessarily in interdisciplinary study. An aim of this series is to demonstrate the importance of appreciating the viewpoints of different disciplines on problems of the human environment when attempting solutions to those problems. It also aims to emphasise the cru
W. Kip Viscusi,Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.,David E. M. Sappington
Author : W. Kip Viscusi,Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.,David E. M. Sappington Publisher : MIT Press Page : 1001 pages File Size : 44,6 Mb Release : 2018-08-14 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 9780262038065
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition by W. Kip Viscusi,Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.,David E. M. Sappington Pdf
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting the key principles underlying sound regulatory and antitrust policy. Regulation and antitrust are key elements of government policy. This new edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy explains how the latest theoretical and empirical economic tools can be employed to analyze pressing regulatory and antitrust issues. The book departs from the common emphasis on institutions, focusing instead on the relevant underlying economic issues, using state-of-the-art analysis to assess the appropriate design of regulatory and antitrust policy. Extensive case studies illustrate fundamental principles and provide insight on key issues in regulation and antitrust policy. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, reflecting both the latest developments in economic analysis and recent economic events. The text examines regulatory practices through the end of the Obama and beginning of the Trump administrations. New material includes coverage of global competition and the activities of the European Commission; recent mergers, including Comcast-NBC Universal; antitrust in the new economy, including investigations into Microsoft and Google; the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the Dodd-Frank Act; the FDA approval process; climate change policies; and behavioral economics as a tool for designing regulatory strategies.
Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.
Extracting Reconciliation by Myra J. Hird,Hillary Predko Pdf
Extracting Reconciliation argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources. Making use of two historical case studies concerned with the intersection of resource extraction, Crown/Inuit relations, and waste legacies in Nunavut, Canada, the authors illuminate the mechanisms of colonial and neoliberal governance globally that promise reconciliation while delivering the status quo. Through Indigenous and non-Indigenous anticolonial and posthuman concepts and theories, the book engages with the inhuman politics of settler colonial extractivism and explores the socio-ethical social justice dimensions, political possibilities, and environmental implications of a much more challenging and accountable reckoning between (settler) colonialism and Indigenous land rights. This book is of interest to students and scholars in gender studies, postcolonial studies, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and politics.
Author : David Frederick Schloss Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons ; London : Williams and Norgate Page : 324 pages File Size : 45,8 Mb Release : 1892 Category : Cooperation ISBN : UOM:35128000992931
Summary & Study Guide - The Finance Curse by Lee Tang Pdf
How global finance is making us all poorer. This book is a summary of “The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer,” by Nicholas Shaxson. As a country’s financial sector develops, it improves the nation’s economic well-being and quality of life—but only up to a point. After that point, it reduces economic growth and inflicts much damage. We call this the finance curse. The United States, Britain, and many other Western economies passed this optimal point long ago. The 2008 Great Recession was part of the damage. As an economy becomes financialized, there is a massive growth in the financial, insurance, and real estate sectors, but not in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. Rather than creating wealth, the goal of finance becomes extracting value from the underlying economy. This way of thinking also becomes internalized into the economy, society, and culture, generating economic discrimination that underpins all discriminations—racial, gender, sexual, and geographical. This book documents the story of how finance got a stranglehold on society and reveals how we might release ourselves from its grasp. This guide includes: * Book Summary—helps you understand the key concepts. * Online Videos—cover the concepts in more depth. Value-added from this guide: * Save time * Understand key concepts * Expand your knowledge
