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Not since the Great Depression have Wall Street and Main Street been so gripped in fear. The lives of those who lived through the Great Depression in the 1930s
were forever changed. Only two generations of almost unbroken prosperity since the 1960s…

Great bodies of men who cared intensely for a definite creed found that expression for it was lacking, even if
this creed (as in France) were that of a very large majority in the State. The "organs of opinion" professed a
genteel ignorance of that…

Several changes have taken place in the past three decades in the U.S.
capital markets. An important one among them is the reduction in
the direct holdings of corporate equities by individual investors and a
corresponding increase in institutional…

n the economically developed world, the majority of all jobs, often more than 75 per cent,
involve some form of service work (Bryson et al., 2004b). Furthermore, some 9 in 10 of
all new jobs are also in services, particularly in Europe, North…

This ground-breaking empirical study involving the application of Kozai Group's
Global Competency Index (GCI) with 86 Chinese Students in Japan elucidates the
importance of certain personality traits that modulate ability to succeed in…

This book was first planned as a revised edition of my What You
Should Know About Inflation, first published in 1960. But inflation,
not only in the United States but throughout the world, has since
then not only continued, but spread and…

It was Italy. I was in love. It was divine and I was discontented.
What exactly is discontentment? It is the restless longing
for better circumstances—and I was definitely restless.
Almost all entrepreneurs are at times and that is actually…

I would like to thank John Maclean for his extensive and insightful
comments as well as for his guidance and supervision during my years at
the University of Sussex. Without him this book would not have been
possible. I also owe a debt of…

To discover where the action is in psychology, look to social psychology. In recent years, the field of social psychology has emerged as central in psychology's quest to understand human thought, feeling, and behavior. Thus, we see the…