... encourage investment and promote growth. This chapter examines the financialization and commercial banking that have accompanied major periods of economic restructuring, the change in significance of stock options over the neoliberal era, the use of accounting for corporate profits, and the restructuring...

...This chapter examines Dwight D. Eisenhower's ideas about the role of trade and investment in U.S. foreign policy. In inheriting a system of trade restrictions against the Communist bloc, Eisenhower faced a dilemma. He believed in fighting Communism on every front, but he considered the control...

... of low rates of investment and domestic savings: if they do not increase, the country will be doomed to grow at the modest rates observed in recent years. Brazil capital growth economic growth in Latin America GDP investment debt defaults wages external shocks gross fixed capital formation GFCF...

... customer relationships and service business performance fuel costs investment and investment securities price cost and budget consciousness risk value valuation and value creation borrowing debt Shaw Industries Group Inc commodity businesses entrepreneurs in competition and competitive...

... organizational structure management Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries minority interest corporate culture investment investees When Berkshire was negotiating to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Roger Nober, the railroad’s general counsel, observed that Berkshire’s other rail investments could...

... investment entrepreneurship business autonomy family business Annually from 2000 through 2009, among the largest donors listed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy was Lorry I. Lokey. ¹ Lokey founded Business Wire, which Berkshire acquired in 2005 for $600 million. A native...

... switching to functionality economy government investment in green technologies innovations investment Jackson Tim Prosperity without Growth Jackson public investment in green technologies redeployment of public investment technology double externality problem externalities Nordhaus William R...

... require private investment but private capital is waiting on the sidelines. The trepidation among investors can be partially attributed to their uncertainty over the government’s appetite for further regulation. Experience shows that in order to preserve private-sector incentives to invest, especially...

... ABC Carpet and Homes coffee environment shade growing certification systems deforestation food Greenpeace Nestlé orangutans palm oil Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil investors socially responsible investment SRI environmental problems Green Seal nongovernmental group NGO Union...

...This chapter presents the keynote address of James Wolfensohn during the October 2010 conference “Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: A New Form of Capitalism?” held at Columbia University. In it, he considers how one can invest money and have an impact on development, education...

...This chapter provides an overview of the discussion of the panel entitled “The State of Sovereign Wealth Funds.” The studies discussed in this first panel provide a first detailed picture of the universe of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their investment policies. They also highlight important...

... investment Notwithstanding the scope and depth of the global financial crisis, and the debate over the causes and consequences of the crisis, recent years have seen the continued growth and development of SWFs. As these funds indicate, nation-state sponsors have not lost faith with financial markets...

...This chapter explores, from a more practical perspective, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their potential role in helping to form a new form of capitalism, and the benefits that will accrue. It discusses the emergence of a new asset class called impact investing. It is a subset of socially...

...This chapter discusses six trends that sustain the current demand for socially responsible investment (SRI). The first is what some sociologists have called the rise of cultural creative. In middle classes emerging in many poor countries, all people tend to share common values...

...This chapter presents responses to questions raised during the panel on socially responsible investment (SRI). One participant asked about the review process for companies in the portfolio at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM). He wondered whether they considered the various aspects...

...This chapter looks at four broad issues regarding how government macroeconomic and investment policies can help create a learning economy. The first looks at financial and capital market liberalization. It uses an information-theoretic analysis to help explain why such liberalization may...

...This chapter presents the flaws of Value-at-Risk methodology—a statistical technique used to measure the level of financial risk within a firm or investment portfolio over a specific time frame. Value-at-Risk is used by risk managers to measure and control the level of risk which the firm...

... margins and thus high ROCs. The allocator's goal is to identify a few moats, offering high margins and returns on capital while protecting and growing the value of assets and invested capital. firms capabilities moated firms moats moat value moat capabilities nature price share price Walmart...

... for investment. The chapter looks at how more general evolutionary trends can help the allocator identify economic systems that are promising for investment. economic evolution economic networks economic panarchy economies Heraclitus of Ephesius inos macroprocessing organizations clusters adaptive...

...This chapter investigates the practical contributions that outsiders willing to follow the dictates of global justice might make to political change in Myanmar through intercession and investment. It makes a cautious case for discursive intervention. Its core aim is to show how intercession...