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A Free Workbook and Reader About Communicating More Cooperatively by Dennis Rivers, M.A

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments.

Definitions and information on the staffing process

Business plan software and sample business plans

Sound business guidance, how-to advice, and tax laws for small business

Skills tests

For minority-business beginners

Although this site appears to be supported by an individual with no institutional connections; it is a very effective tutorial on researching company information

Helpful websites and information for small businesses

Guarding against theft, disasters, etc., and about fire protection, etc

SCORE(Service Corps of Retired Executives)gives advice on establishing and maintaining a successful business: business plans, trade shows,and disaster advice. Links to calculators, confidential counseling by e-mail for locating investors and setting goals, over 600 skills represented

Where you can find the nearest small-business-development center

Springboard is a national non-profit organization accelerating women's access to the equity markets

Basic guide to management and supervision

Definitions and information on the staffing process

Whether your organization is a one-person volunteer operation or a multi-program giant with dozens of staff, it needs a management plan to make sure that it operates smoothly and gets everything done

Ensuring well designed and arranged resources

Complete, highly integrated library for nonprofits and for-profits

Human resource management (HRM, or simply HR) is the management process of an organization's workforce

Occupational guide from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Guarding against theft, disasters, etc., and about fire protection, etc

Getting ready for an interview isn't what it used to be. Now you must contend with many different kinds of questions and formats. Here are three types of interviews you may face and how to prepare for them.

Quotes from the movie Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Whether a business is an established global brand or a start-up, effective advertising and marketing can be the key to its success

Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data

You will often find that many people confuse marketing with advertising or vice versa. While both components are important they are very different. Knowing the difference and doing your market research can put your company on the path to substantial growth

A GREAT place to start. Here are demographic statistics you will need for your business plan and your marketing strategy. Most of what you find will be full-text, however the site may direct you to documents at the library

Consumer Expenditure Survey provide information on the buying habits of American consumers

An ethics toolkit for managers

Fostering global business practices that promote equitable economic development, resource sustainability, and just forms of government

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The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics offers several resources on current ethical issues in business

Ethix is a magazine for subscription, but the site has readable articles and conversations mostly concerning technology

Financial Planning Toolkit. The information you need for investment, tax, insurance, retirement, and estate planning.

An Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting A Business in Indiana Business Services Division

For minority-business beginners

Find policy updates and analysis to understand what matters to small businesses nationally and on the state level

The Business Services Division administers all business-related responsibilities for the Secretary of State including registering of new businesses, filing of commercial liens, and issuance of trademarks, notaries public and summonses

Where you can find the nearest small-business-development center

Springboard is a national non-profit organization accelerating women's access to the equity markets

The Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF) collects information on small businesses (fewer than 500 employees) in the United States''

Help with problems regarding banks or financial institutions

BEA seeks to strengthen the understanding of the U.S. economy and its competitive position by providing the most accurate and relevant GDP and economic accounts data in a timely and cost-effective manner

A Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, access economic trends nationally

The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, was founded by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system

An index to Federal Reserve economic research

Collection in one place of a large number of significant texts in the history of economic thought

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) has replaced the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system

Ten major principles

A collection of a large number of significant texts in the history of economic thought

Stanford Encyclopedia biography of Auguste Comte, founder of positivism

Many people have often wondered what it would be like to create a nation based solely on their political and economic beliefs. Imagine: no opposition, no political rivals, no compromise of morals. Only a "benevolent dictator," if you will, setting up society according to your ideals. The Chicago School of Economics got that chance for 16 years in Chile, under near-laboratory conditions

An article on classical economics

This course covers the history of economic thought up until the "Marginal Revolution" in the 1870s and features a video for each chapter of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations." The videos will answer important questions such as: Who were the first economic thinkers?

Schools of economic theory, theorists, and timeline

This web site serves as a repository of collected links and information on the history of economic thought

You can page through the embedded document by clicking on the arrows that appear when you move your cursor over the sides of the window. The table of contents has active links: click on an entry, and the document will advance to the appropriate article

A Wikipedia article on Keynesian Economics

Information on the different schools of economic theory

A Wikipedia explanation of the founding of the Bank of Sweden Prize. A list of winners from 1969 to 2014

Six Nobel Prizes are awarded each year, one in each of the following categories: literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, and physiology & medicine. Notably absent from this list is an award for Mathematics

Ethics case studies, International resources, and ethic articles

The Center for Ethics, Capital Markets and Political Economy is a non-profit organization established in 1994 to provide a discussion forum and information resource for persons who believe that moral concerns should be taken into account in economic and political thinking

EthicSA is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organisation. We serve as a resource, facilitate ethics initiatives, and work in partnerships with private and public institutions, as well as individuals

Creating a code of ethics for your organization. Essays, sample codes of ethics

Workplace ethics are significant to your business and provide numerous benefits

Macroeconomic analysis broadly focuses on three things: national output (measured by the GD), unemployment and inflation

"New classical macroeconomics" "(NCM) uses the standard principles of economic analysis to understand how a nation's total output (gross domestic product, or GDP) is determined."

Linking development and business

Purchasing-power parity theory. A theory which states that the exchange rate between one currency and another is in equilibrium when their domestic purchasing powers at that rate of exchange are equivalent

An economic theory that estimates the amount of adjustment needed on the exchange rate between countries in order for the exchange to be equivalent to each currency's purchasing

Microeconomics is generally the study of individuals and business decisions, macroeconomics looks at higher up country and government decisions

The project is divided into four categories. Rise of Monopolies explores the development of monopolies in three industries: railroads, computer hardware, and computer software. Government Regulation of Monopolies delves into the government's past and present role in curbing monopolies and ensuring free and competitive markets. Fears of Monopolistic Power deals with some of the dangers of monopolies with specific historical and current examples. Benefits, Exceptions, and Ethics explores the rationale behind certain monopolies, the potential benefits of a single company's market dominance, and the larger ethical issues involved

The Perfect Competition application first draws and explains the origins of (a) the average cost curve, (b) the marginal cost curve, (c) the demand curve, and (d) the marginal revenue curve

Definition of 'Aggregate Supply' is the total supply of goods and services produced within an economy at a given overall price level in a given time period. It is represented by the aggregate-supply curve

External costs and benefits,competition, monopoly, market equilibrium model, elasticity and revenue, entry principle

Glossary includes definitions, links to definitions, and wherever appropriate links to other sites and documents that may provide additional information

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