Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts
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Jun 12, 2015

Book on Economy: The Vietnamese Economy and Its Transformation to an Open Market System

Original Title in English
Author: William T. Alpert, Bui Diem
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2005 - Business & Economics - 276 pages
ISBN: 0765606690






About the Book: Incorporating current research and extensive technical analysis by leading economists from both the United States and Vietnam, this collection of original papers seeks to clarify what further steps are needed so that Vietnam can flourish. It analyzes the dramatic transformation of Vietnam's economy during the 1990s and its prospects for the future as the pace of reform has slowed. The three main sections of the book discuss Vietnam's turbulent history, recent economic reforms, and the country'e emerging role in the world economy and geopolitics. Individual chapters examine a myriad of issues, including specific reforms in agriculture, banking, and tax policy, as well as the attempts to create a business-oriented legal structure, the development of foreign trade and a viable balance of payments, and U.S. policy reactions to Vietnam's development in the last decade.

Contents
Toward a Market Economy in Vietnam Economic Reforms and Development 
Strategies for the Twenty first Century, p. 3
Cultural Issues in Vietnams Transition, p. 13
Recent Economic History A Stalled Expansion, p.32
A Profile of Vietnams Land and People, p. 44
Prospects for Fiscal Reform in Vietnam, p. 61
Tax Policy for Vietnam, p. 72
Reforming Vietnams Legal Institutions, p. 128
Foreign Investment and Trade, p. 143
Vietnam in the World of the 1990s, p. 164
Banking Reform in Vietnam, p. 200
Muddling Through US Policy Options in a Straitened Asia, p. 215
About the Editor and Contributors, p. 261
Index, p. 265



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Apr 1, 2015

The Great Economists of Modern Times on Audio Books



A toutes fins utiles, je vous remets 
ci joint les liens aux livres audio selon la liste des auteurs proposés pour le Séminaire "Méthodologie et Epistémologie de la Recherche" à l'Ecole doctorale de Paris-Est. Clicquez sur le lien sous chaque nom pour accéder aux livres audio sur le site audible.fr























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Jun 1, 2014

Recommended Readings: Global Financial Meltdown





The Global Financial Meltdown shows that the risk is real. You may lose everything in just seconds.

Of course the crisis has not happened just like it. It is a result of many flaws in the system. Many researchers and finance specialists have warned us about the risk.

Here is a list of "Survival Guide" readings to educate yourself against some death traps. Could it help really? One thing is for sure, you will learn a lot. BIG LESSON TO RETAIN: Don't live on credit, ever.


1. Original Title in English: 
Financial Armageddon: We Are in a Battle for our Very Survival...
Author: John Hagee

Book Review:

Everything prophesied in the Bible is coming to pass! It is no secret that we are living in a time of global crisis. The financial meltdown of Wall Street, bank failures, the subprime lending crisis, and uncontrollable gasoline prices are creating enormous stress for Americans. And now, we are facing an economic crisis that many are comparing to the events leading up to the...morel



TABLE OF CONTENTS : http://www.armageddonbooks.com/505hagee.html


2. Original Title in English: Crisis Investing (1980)
Author: Douglas R. Casey 

Book Review:

"In 'Crisis Investing', Douglas Casey offers virtually irrefutable evidence that a major crash of the U.S. economy is now inevitable. If Casey is correct, then prudent, thrifty Americans who have prepared for the future in traditional ways will soon be completely wiped out." 





3. Original Title in English:
The Coming Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It: Make a Fortune by Investing in Gold and Other Hard Assets

Authors: James Turk (Author) , John Rubino (Author)





4. Original Title in English: Economics in One Lesson
Author: Henry Hazlitt

Book review: 

This primer on economic principles brilliantly analyzes the seen and unseen consequences of political and economic actions. In the words of F.A. Hayek, there is "no other modern book from which the intelligent layman can learn so much about the basic truths of economics in so short a time."

Download: 

  • http://www.fee.org/library/detail/economics-in-one-lesson-pdf-doc-audio#ixzz2pX5ER700
  • http://www.fee.org/files/doclib/20121116_EconomicsInOneLesson.pdf





5. Original Title in English: 

  • Gold Wars: The Battle Against Sound Money As Seen From A Swiss Perspective  by Author: Ferdinand Lips 
  • The Gold Wars: The Tea Party Economist by Author:  Gary North
Book Introduction: 

There is a war against gold. Politicians hate a rising price of gold. So do centralbankers. A rising price of gold testifies against the politicians, who spend more moneythan they collect in taxes or borrow at interest, and it also testifies against central bankers,whose promises to stop rising prices is a lie that has not come true since about 1939. So, these people do whatever they can to ridicule gold and gold buyers. They dowhatever they can to drive down the price of gold – everything except the one thing thatwould drive it down: cease inflating. 

Download: http://www.garynorth.com/GoldWars.pdf


6. Original Title: 
The Coming Fiat Money Cataclysm and the Case for Gold
Authors: Kevin Dowd, Martin Hutchinson, and Gordon Kerr

Download: 
http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2012/7/v32n2-11.pdf

Definition of 'Fiat Money': 

Currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, but is not backed by a physical commodity. The value of fiat money is derived from the relationship between supply and demand rather than the value of the material that the money is made of. Historically, most currencies were based on physical commodities such as gold or silver, but fiat money is based solely on faith. Fiat is the Latin word for "it shall be".

Investopedia explains 'Fiat Money'Because fiat money is not linked to physical reserves, it risks becoming worthless due to hyperinflation. If people lose faith in a nation's paper currency, like the dollar bill, the money will no longer hold any value. Most modern paper currencies are fiat currencies, have no intrinsic value and are used solely as a means of payment. Historically, governments would mint coins out of a physical commodity such as gold or silver, or would print paper money that could be redeemed for a set amount of physical commodity. Fiat money is inconvertible and cannot be redeemed. Fiat money rose to prominence in the 20th century, specifically after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, when the United States ceased to allow the conversion of the dollar into gold.

Useful readings: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp


7. Original Title: The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures
Author: Richard Duncan
l

Book Description: 

In this updated, second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller, The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, 
Auhor Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy and that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump.

The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts:

  • Part One describes how the US trade deficits, which now exceed US$1 million a minute, have destabilized the global economy by creating a worldwide credit bubble.
  • Part Two explains why these giant deficits cannot persist and why a US recession and a collapse in the value of the Dollar are unavoidable.
  • Part Three analyzes the extraordinarily harmful impact that the US recession and the collapse of the Dollar will have on the rest of the world.
  • Part Four offers original recommendations that, if implemented, would help mitigate the damage of the coming worldwide downturn and put in place the foundations for balanced and sustainable economic growth in the decades ahead.
  • Part Five, which has been newly added to the second edition, describes the extraordinary evolution of this crisis since the first edition was completed in September 2002. It also considers how the Dollar Crisis is likely to unfold over the years immediately ahead, the likely policy response to the crisis, and why that response cannot succeed.The Dollar Standard is inherently flawed and increasingly unstable. Its collapse will be the most important economic event of the 21st Century.
Download: 
http://ebookbrowsee.net/the-dollar-crisis-causes-consequences-cures-pdf-d416491035


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Jun 19, 2011

Contemporary Vietnam: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments



Original Title in English: Contemporary Vietnam: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments
By Author: Ian Jeffries (Swansea University)
Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 0415604001
238 pages






Book Review:
This book provides full details of economic and political developments in Vietnam. Key topics covered include Vietnam's success, in general, in maintaining high rates of growth in the face of problems such as inflation and the financial crisis; continuing economic reforms; foreign trade and investment; battles agains corruption; population growth; the determination of the Communist Party to maintain its hold on power; and Vietnam's response to publich health problems such as AIDS, SARS and bird flu.



About the author:
Ian Jeffries is Honorary Professor in the Department of Economics at Swansea University. His recent publications include two volumes covering Economic and Political Developments in Contemporary China, alongside many books in the Routledge series , Guides to Economic and Political Developments in Asia, covering China, North Korea and Mongolia.



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Jun 2, 2011

ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan, Korea) - Conference in Seoul 2004

Original Title in English: ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan, Korea) - Towards an Economic Union in East Asia?
Edited by Karl Peter Schönfisch and Bernhard Seliger
Publisher: Hanns-Seidel Foundation (HSF) Seoul-Singapore, 
ISBN:89-954964
My ref: ATA-101

Proposed Title in Vietnamese:  
ASEAN cộng 3 (Trung Quốc, Nhật Bản và Hàn Quốc) - Hội nghị Seoul năm 2004

Backcover: Economic integration has come to the forefront of economic policy making in East Asia, finally. After lagging behind in forming a comprehensive regional integration area for various historical, political, cultural and economic reasons, today the discussion ranges from the introduction of bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTA) through currency and financial market cooperation to a full fledged economic community. Heterogeneity of East Asian States and divergences in economic size and economic development are not longer seen purely as obstacles to integration, but also as potential complementarities. In this book, which collects the contributions of two international conferences hold in Seoul in December 2003, authors from the region as well as from Germany explore the future of economic integration in East Asia in a comparative regional perspective.

Contents
1. Introduction - Economic Integration in East Asia and Europe - Bernhard Seliger;
2. The East Asia Economic Community : Prospects and Implications - Pengiran Mashor Pengiran Admad;

Part One: East Asian Integration in the Light of the European Experience - The Valuable Lessons
3.Economic Integration in East Asia and Europe - A Comparison - Werner Pascha;
4. Integration through Competition: The European Experience - Gerhard Prosi;
5. The European Union and East Asian Integration - Lessons from Dealing with the Costs of Success - Jinwoo Choi;
6. Security Cooperation: European Experience and the Asian Way - Sangtu Ko;
7. The Possibility of and Prospects for a China-Japan-South Korea FTA: The Lessons from European Integration - Johgwon Lee;

Part Two: Southeast Asia and the Process of East Asian Economic Integration
8. ASEAN+3 and ASEAN Economic Integration - Jose L. Tongzon;
9. East Asian Economic Integration - A Perspective from Thailand - Nattapong Thongpakde;
10. The East Asian Free Trade Agreement - As ASEAN Perspective - Moh Haflah Piei;
11. East Asian Economic Integration and Implications for the Newer ASEAN Member Countries - Pham Quoc Tru;

Part Three: Towards an East Asian Economic Community
12. East Asian Economic Community and the Scope of East Asian Cooperation - Jae-Seung Lee;
13. Regional Integration in East Asia - Young-Jong Choi;
14. The Theoretical Foundations of ASEAN +3 : Prospects and Limitations  Seokwoo Kim.

Contributors
The Editors


  • Karl-Peter Schönfisch is currently director of the regional representative office of Hans Seidel Foundation in Singapore and director of the regional leadership and management training programme. Before, he worked as director in the liaison office Bonn (Germany) and Brussels (Belgium) of Hanns Seidel Foundation and had been Head of the Southeast Asian and South Pacific Desks at HSS in Munich. He holds a degree in Economics, Geography and Technical Cooperation from Technical University RWTH Aachen (Germany). 
  • Bernhard J. Seliger is currently resident representative of HSF in Seoul. From 1998 to 2002, he was Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Area Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and since 1999 Research Fellow at the Institute for Research Into Culture and Economic Systems, Univ. of Witten /Herdecke (Germany). From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Seliger worked as Assistant Researcher at the Institute for Economic Policy, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel (Germany), where he received a doctorate (Dr. Sc. Pol) in 1998. Dr. Seliger also holds a Master Degree from Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne, France). Among the research interests of Dr. Seliger are Institutional Economics, Economics of Transformation and Integration and the Economic Development of Korea in Northeast Asia.


The Authors

  • Pengiran Mashor Pengiran Ahmad is Deputy Secretary General of ASEAN since August 2003. He is a former ambassador of Brunei Darussalam to Vietnam, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the European Communities. He holds a Degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Royal College in Defence Studies in London and an MA Degree in International Relations and Diplomacy of Tufts University, Boston.
  • Werner Pascha is Professor of Economics and East Asian Economics at the University of Duisburg /Essen. From 1996 to 1998, he was Director at the Institute of East Asian Science in Duisburg University. Since 1999, he is Vice-Chairman of the German Research Institute for the Economic Development of the Pacific Region. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Freiburg University. Among his numerous research grants are an AKS Fellowship at the Academy for Korean Studies in Seoul and a Japan Foundation Fellowship at Kyoto University in Japan. His numerous publications focus on the East Asian region, especially Northeast Asia.
  • Gerhard Prosi is Professor Emeritus of Kiel University, where he had been Director of the Institute for Economic Policy from 1973 to 2001. Currently he is Vice-Chairman of Herrmann Ehlers Foundation. Before, he had been teaching in Princeton University, Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the University of Dallas, Irving. He holds a Ph.D Degree in Economics from Marburg University in Germany. Among his research interests are Competition Policy and Theory, Environmental and Social Policy and Comparative Economic Systems, including European Integration.
  • Jinwoo Choi is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy in Hanyang University of Seoul, as well as Assistant Dean of the College of Social Sciences of Hanyang University. Currently, he is Director General of the Korean Society for Contemporary European Studies. Professor Choi holds a Ph.D Degree in Political Science from University of Washington. He also served in numerous academic associations, among them as Research Director in the Korean Association of International Studies and as Director-General in the Society for European Political Studies.
  • Sangtu Ko is currently Professor of Area Studies at Yonseil University, Seoul. He got his Ph.D in Political Science from Free University of Berlin, was General Secretary of the Korean-German Association for Social Science. His recent publications include: Change of US-Russia Relations after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks, published in the Global Economic Review, vol. 31, no. 2, 2002; The Putin Administration's Policy about North Korea, published in the International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, vol. 11, 2002.  
  • Lee Jongwon is Professor in International Economics at Suwon University. He holds a Ph.D Degree in Economics from the University of Roma. He serves currently as Chairman of the Board of the Korean Society of Contemporary European Studies, where he formerly had been President, and Editorial Director of the Korean International Trade Research Association. He wrote various books and papers regarding International Trade issues and European Integration issues.
  • Jose L. Tongzon is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. He specialises in Trade and Development, focusing on the Economics of Southeast Asia. He has taught Trade and Development-related courses at NUS and has written a number of articles in internationally referred journals and books in the area of Trade and Development, including Port and Maritime issues, with special focus on Southeast Asia. Before joining NUS, Dr. Jose Tongzon was Chief Economist of the Port of Melbourne Authority, Australia, and also worked as an Academic and in the Civil Service for the Australian and Philippine Government for several years working in the area of Trade Policy and Regional Cooperation. Dr. Tongzon is an active member of the Chartered Institute of Transport (CIT), the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), and other associations of professional economists. He has also been a Consultant to a number of governments, private and international organisations.
  • Nattapong Thongpakde is currently Dean of the School of Development Economics at the National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand. Mr Thongpakde is a Senior Consultant in the International Economic Relations Program of the Thailand Development Research Institute. He holds a Degree in Economics from Boston University. His recent publications focused on Trade issues, Thailand's Economic Development and Regional and Bilateral Cooperation in East Asia.
  • Mohd Haflah Piei is currently Deputy Director at the Malaysian Institute of Economics, one of the premier independent think-tanks based in Kuala Lumpur. Prior to joining MIE and since 1975, Dr. Mohr Haflah was Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. Dr Mohd Haflah graduated with a Ph.D Degree in Economics in 1983 from the University of Lancaster, UK. He has worked in and contributed extensively to the field of International Trade, particularly in issues pertaining to International Economic Integration. He has served as Consultant to many international organisations, including World Bank, Asian Development Bank (Manila), Islamic Development Bank (Jeddah), UNDP (Kuala Lumpur), ISEAS (Singapore), East-West Centre (Honolulu), Japan Institute of International Affairs (Tokyo), Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI, Tokyo), IDE (Tokyo), Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Tokyo), ASEAN Secretariat, Asian-Europe Foundation (ASEF, Singapore). Dr. Mohd Haflah was a member appointed by the Government of Malaysia to represent the country on the High Level Task Force on ASEAN-AFTA-CER Free Trade Area of the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta. He has published several books and numerous articles in his field of specialisation.
  • Pham Quoc Tru is currently Deputy Director General of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam. Dr Tru holds a Ph.D and MA Degree in Political Science from Laval University, Canada. He is actively involved in the process of East Asian Integration through his participation in multilateral negotiations. His numerous recent publications and studies focus on Vietnam's role in the World Economy, Regional Integration and Trade issues.
  • Jae-Seung Lee is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Korea. Professor Lee has taught at Yale University, Seoul National University, and many other institutes in Korea. Professor Lee also participated in drafting the EAVG Report and published numbers of books and articles on East Asian Cooperation. His area of expertise also includes European Integration and International Political Economy. Professor Lee holds a B.A. in Political Science from Seoul National University, an M.A. Degree and a Ph. D Degree in Political Science from Yale University.
  • Young-jong Choi is Professor in the Department of International Studies at the Catholic University of Seoul. Dr Choi hold a Ph.D Degree from the University of Washington in Seattle.
  • Seokwoo Kim is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of Seoul. Dr. Kim holds a Ph.D Degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.




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May 28, 2011

Why has Japan Succeeded? Western Technology and the Japanese Ethos

Original Title in English by Author Prof. Michio MorishimaPublisher: Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition in 1982, reprinted 1985, 1988, ISBN 0521 269032
Backcover by Jeremy Hardie, The Times Literary Supplement
This book, by a distinguished Japanese economist now resident in the West, offers a new interpretation of the current success of the Japanese economy. By placing the rise of Japan in the context of its historical development, Michio Morishima shows how a strongly-held national ethos has interacted with religious, social and technological ideas imported from elsewhere to produce highly distinctive cultural traits.
While Professor Morishima traces the roots of modern Japan back as far as the introduction of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism from China in the sixth Century, he concentrates his observations on the last 120 years during which Japan has had extensive contracts in the West. He describes the swift rise of Japan to the status of a first-rate power following the Meiji Revolutin after 1867, in which Japan broke with a long history of isolationism, and which paved the way for the adoption of Western technology and the creation of a modern Western-style nation state; and a similarly meteoric rise from the devastation of the Second World War to Japan's present position. A range of factors in Japan's economic success are analysed: her characteristic dualistic social structure - corresponding to the divide between large and medium/small enterprises - the relations of government and big business, the poor reception of liberalism and individualism, and the strength of Japanese nationalism. Throughout, Professor Morishima emphasises the importance of the role played in the creation of Japanese capitalism by ethical doctrines as transformed under Japanese conditions, especially the Japanese Confucian tradition of complete loyalty to the firm and to the state.
This account, which makes clear the extent to which the economic rise of Japan is due to factors unique to its historical traditions, will be of interest to a wide general readership as well as to students of Japan and its history.
... stands out from the rest not only because of Professor Morishima's exceptional ability as an economist and his intimate native knowledge of Japan; but for the remarkable ambition to do for Japanese economic history what R.H.Tawney did for England in Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. He aims first to show how the distinctive version of Confucianism which took root in Japan helped to create totally different economic conditions from those in China; just as differing interpretations of the same Bible created quite different economic results in Protestant, as compared with Catholic, Europe. But the major part of the book is devoted to showing how Japanese Confucianism provided such as extraordinarily fertile ground for the adaptation and development of Western scientific ideas despite centuries of isolationism and technological neglect.
"His analysis is admirable for the range for the range of its insights and the modesty of its conclusions. It confirms again the necessity for, and the richess of, explanations of economic behaviour in terms of political theory and social change."


About the Author
Contents
Introduction
1. The Taika Reform and after
2. The Meiji Revolution
3. The Japanese Empire (I)
4. The Japanese Empire (II)
5. The San Francisco Regime
Conclusion
Postscript
Extracts:
Conclusion
"There are basically two kinds of religion; firstly, a religion which unites with the governing power in a state, acts as guardian of its legitimacy and whole role is to sanctify the lineage of the ruling tribe or tribes. There is secondly the kind of religion which turns its back on the ruling elements, which permeates those tribes and classes which are ruled, rather than ruling, and those who do not possess superior status, i.e. the religion which tries to bring help to people such as these. The former kind is in many cases the servant of politics; the latter, if not actually critical of the existing system, is at least apolitical. Provided that a religion whose objective is to help the ruled is rational it will be strongly critical of the existing regime, and such religions will deny the deities espoused by the ruling groups. At the same time they will also try to bring together all the non-ruling groups and form either some new, opposing political grouping, or some new spiritual movement. This kind of political or religious cohesion is securely founded on rational principles which transcend any idea of tribe - general, universal principles to which any individual must submit, whatever his tribe; the supreme duty of religions of this kind is help to the individual, not the legitimation of power. However there are also some religions which, while their objective remains the succour of the ruled, are nevertheless irrational and strongly magical and in cases such as these the subject classes are taught to turn their back on politics, to live the life of a mystical recluse, seeking only eternal youth, longevity and other items of physical well-being."
[.... In short
Type I (religion that serves to justify the ruling forces)>>>Confucianism
Type II (rational religion whose objective is to either the ruled or the individual)>>>Puritanism
Type III (the mystical religion whose objective is to assist the individual)>>>Taoism...]
In Japan, which imported both Confucianism and Taoism in China, not only Confucianism but Taoism as well was modified to become a religion of first, pro-government, type. Japanese Confucianism was a far more enthusiastic upholder of the existing regime than was Chinese Confucianism; its role in the Tokugawa period was that of an ideology legitimating the Bakufu regime as one approved by the Emperor; in the Meiji period its role was the justification of the so-called "Emperor regime" (Tennosei).
Shinto, the Japanese version of Taoism, could no longer be called a religion of the third type but was the religion of the imperial family in their role as the ruling clan. Such a transformation must really be regarded as quite natural in view of the fact that the religion had been brought into Japan by members of the ruling tribe or ruling class. Moreover, Japan was inevitably in a position where she was perpetually aware of the overwhelming cultural of technological gap which existed between her and other foreign countries (the Chinese Empire and the countries of the West). This kind of awareness of weakness rendered Japan's ruling classes at the same time both defensive and aggressive, and all the elements which were imported into Japan from elsewhere were modified so that they could be of use in Japan's own protection and development. Even Buddhism in Japan was not exception to this pattern. As far as doctrine was concerned, Buddhism was really split between the second and third types, although it varied depending on the sect. When Buddhism had been introduced into Japan, it has been used as far as possible to demonstrate the glory of the state. Since Buddhism was at the time disseminated throughout Eastern societies an international comparison of the cultural level of each country could be made by comparing the degree to which Buddhism flourished in each country. Behind Shotoku Taishi's attempts to promote Buddhism there lay an attempt to reconcile by means of Buddhism the sharp conflicts which existed within the ruling class at the time, but it cannot be denied that there was also a strong desire to try and raise Japan's cultural position vis-à-vis other countries.
A different reinterpretation of the same sacred texts can lead to the developement of a totally different life among the people at large, as has been made abundantly clear by Max Weber in the case of Western Europe, and the same phenomenon can be clearly perceived in the case of the East as well. In China, which possessed religions of the first and third type, the debauched lifestyle of the upper classes and the poverty and inertia of the lower classes seemed permanent fixtures (until the rise of hte Chinese Communist Party). Society was being stifled, and even when a dynasty changed the change brought no transformation with it. Japan, however, which had modified those same religions possessed by regime, could, after the Meiji Revolution, easily and rapidly put herself in a position where she could manipulate Western technology for the development of the Japanese state.
Japan, however, possessed only this first kind of religion (an ideology providing religious justification for the position of those in power and upholding the status quo) and lacked any religion of the second type (a religion founded on the basis of individuals with the aim of helping humanity). As a result, neither individualism nor internationalism developed and the people had no religion of their own, having become completely non-religious. (Shinshu, the largest sect in Japanese Budhism, must doctrinally be included in our second category of religions, but after the defeat of the Ikko uprising by Nobunaga its adherents did not fight against those in power.) Since this areligiousness of the Japanese people led them to be materialistic, and since they were at the same time on the other hand also nationalistic, they had no hesitation in working together for the material prosperity of Japan as a nation.
Such inclinations meant that the economy in Japan could easily tend towards the right. Since each individual member of the Japanese population was deeply permeated with a nationalist awareness the force of public opinion could (quite democratically) lead to the suppression of all liberalistic economic activity, even without the appearence of a strong leader or autocrat. During the period of the quasi-war regime after 1932 the people desired the appearance of a strong right government. The newspapers and other information media divined this national will, played to public opinion and incited it still further, so much so that the prevailing atmosphere was one desirous of the emergence of fascism. Once the wheels of this process had started there was no way of stopping them, and the economy as well was completely subjected to state control. Even when the liberal economy was, to all appearances, restored after the awr, it was not difficult to secure unity among public opinion. As long as the intentions of those in power were communicated to the people agreement was, in most cases, easily obtained, since the people had been educated in a way which deprived them of the heart to resist. As a result, although the "economic plans" championed by cabinets in the postwar years have had no legal force they have been acknowledged without any problem and people have cooperated in their realisation. If one terms Japan's prewar regime as a democratic fascist regime, then the postwar economy can perhaps be regarded as a kind of 'democratic "planned" economy'. Whatever the case, the modern economy which prospered in Western Europe under religion of the second type - an economy with an industry founded on the techniques of modern science - was in Japan successfully grafted onto a religion of the first type.

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13Phân khúc thị trường 1325
14Từ phân khúc thị trường đến việc xác định khách hàng mục tiêu 415
15Định vị trong thị trường 305
16Phân tích đối thủ cạnh tranh 241
17Nhận diện đối thủ cạnh tranh 217
18Các đặc điểm phân tích 406
19Cơ cấu năm tác động của Porter 161
20Xây dựng thương hiệu 135
21Tạo sự khác biệt cho sản phẩm và dịch vụ thông thường 415
22Các phương pháp tạo sự khác biệt 448
23Tầm quan trọng của việc tạo sự khác biệt 246
24Lựa chọn đối tượng khách hàng thích hợp 164
25Vốn khách hàng 177
26Duy trì khách hàng 285
27Phát triển khách hàng 519
28Phát triển sản phẩm và dịch vụ mới 621
29Hai hình thức sản phẩm mới 392
30Mở rộng dòng sản phẩm sang những phân khúc thị trường mới 538
31Quy trình sản phẩm mới 466
32Vai trò của chuyên gia marketing 380
33Chiến lược sản phẩm mới 1633
34Định giá sản phẩm 768
35Định giá cộng thêm vào chi phí 247
36Định giá “hớt váng” 445
37Khai thác hiệu ứng đường cong kinh nghiệm 268
38Định giá “nhử mồi” 159
39Khuyến mãi bằng giá 651
40Định giá và vòng đời sản phẩm 348
41Truyền thông marketing tích hợp 1001
42Các phương tiện truyền thông 813
43Phối hợp các phương tiện truyền thông 536
44Marketing tương tác 292
45Marketing qua E-mail 216
46Marketing trực tuyến 265
47Marketing toàn cầu 278
48Năng suất hay sự phù hợp thị trường? 112
49Các quyết định về sản phẩm 242
50Hỗ trợ bán hàng 190
51Phân phối 270
52Giá 135
53Kiểm soát các quyết định marketing toàn cầu 195
54Tương lai của marketing 111
55Cam kết giữ đúng lời hứa 107
56Thu hút sự chú ý của khách hàng 308
57Sự phân rã thị trường 99
58Đánh giá và giải trình trách nhiệm 250
59Đạo đức marketing 682

The Art of Negotiation - Kỹ năng thương lượng

Original Title in Vietnamese: Kỹ năng thương lượng
By Author: unknown
Proposed English Translation: The Art of Negotiation
Vietnamese version online, click here
Content

Kỹ năng thương lượng

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1Lời giới thiệu - Kỹ năng thương lượng 781
2Tạo động lực làm việc 1137
3Mục tiêu 433
4Phần thưởng 235
5Mục tiêu và hoạt động 155
6Để việc thúc đẩy động lực làm việc trở nên hiệu quả 393
7Các đặc điểm của mục tiêu hiệu quả 211
8Vượt qua nỗi sợ hãi 700
9Ba sai lầm cần tránh 318
10Trao quyền chứ không quản lý vi mô 306
11Chuyển mục tiêu thành văn bản 247
12Kiểm tra hiệu suất làm việc 150
13Quan sát và thu thập dữ liệu 458
14Chuyển từ quan sát sang thảo luận 111
15Biết lắng nghe 167
16Thiết lập và kiểm tra giả thuyết của bạn 125
17Những yếu tố cơ bản trong công tác huấn luyện 203
18Thảo luận và thống nhất 95
19Huấn luyện chủ động 186
20Cho và nhận thông tin phản hồi 281
21Theo dõi 104
22Để trở thành người huấn luyện hiệu quả 213
23Xây dựng bầu không khí thích hợp 293
24Tránh những sai lầm thường gặp 144
25Thách thức của việc huấn luyện nhóm 226
26Đánh giá chính thức về hiệu suất làm việc 224
27Quy trình tám bước để đánh giá năng lực hiệu quả 373
28Hai vấn đề cần tránh 111
29Phát triển nhân viên 759
30Triển khai kế hoạch 338
31Các chiến thuật cơ bản để phát triển nhân viên 188
32Đào tạo kỹ năng 204
33Phát triển nghề nghiệp 267
34Xử lý những người thực hiện hạng C 118
35Những trở ngại khó khắc phục 101
36Đối phó với những người thực hiện kém 171
37Xem xét tình trạng cạn kiệt nhuệ khí làm việc 115
38Khi tất cả mọi biện pháp khác đều thất bại 151
39Tiếp tục thực hiện công việc 95
40Vai trò của nhà lãnh đạo 446
41Xử lý một trường hợp sa thải 290
42Những gì không nên nói trong cuộc họp sa thải 375

May 22, 2011

Saigon

Original Title in English by Author Anthony Grey
Vietnamese Title:  Trăng Huyết with co-Author Nguyễn Ước
Publisher for English Title: Pan Books, 1983, ISBN-10: 0330280422, ISBN-13: 978-0330280426
About the Authors: 
Anthony Grey is a British journalist and author. As a journalist for Reuters he was detained for 27 months in China from 1967 to 1969. He has written a series of novels and non-fiction books, including several relating to his detention.
Nguyễn Ước is a Vietnamese Author living in Canada. After reading the original version, he has adapted the book with complementary facts on the historical environment and his understanding of Vietnamese culture, making the book a classic for Readers eager to learn about the period from the French colonial era in the early 1920s until the last helicopter left Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.


Other publications by Anthony Grey

  •  A Man Alone (1972)
  • Some Put Their Trust in Chariots (1973)
  • Crosswords from Peking (1975)
  • The Bulgarian Exclusive (1976)
  • The Chinese Assassin (1978)
  •  Saigon (1982)
  •  Prime Minister Was a Spy (1983)
  • Peking: A Novel of Chinas Revolution 1921-1978 (1988)
  • The Bangkok Secret (1990)
  • The Naked Angels (1990)
  •  A Gallery of Nudes (1992)
  • Tokyo Bay (1996)
  • The German Stratagem (1998)
  • Tokyo Imperial (1999)
  •  Hostage in Peking (1970)
  •  Quest for Justice: Towards Homosexual Emancipation (1992)
  • Speaking of Sex: The Limits of Language (1993)
  • The Thoughts of Chairman Grey (2007)
  • Hostage in Peking Plus (2008)
Vietnamese version online, Click here