Книга: Солодушкина К. А. «Economics Is Your Choice»

Пособие предназначено, главным образом, для тех, кто стоит на пороге выбора профессии, а также для тех, кто на данном этапе своей жизни изучает общеэкономические дисциплины и хочет расширить свой кругозор, а также свой словарный запас профессиональной лексики.
В пособии представлены материалы, подобранные в основном из современных периодических изданий США и Великобритании. Имеющиеся в пособии разделы дают возможность читателю понять и прочувствовать те насущные проблемы в области бизнеса и экономики, решение которых может оказать огромное влияние на повседневную жизнь людей.
"Economics Is Your Choice" может быть использовано как на занятиях с абитуриентами, так и со студентами I-II курсов экономических вузов. Оно может заинтересовать и тех читателей, кто хочет быть в курсе современных проблем в сфере экономики и бизнеса.

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ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ...... 3 INTRODUCTION...... 11 BUSINESS GIANTS...... 19 Introduction...... 19 Henry Ford(1863-1946)...... 22 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (1876-1966)...... 30 Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914-1993)...... 33 William H. Gates III (1955)...... 37 Russian Rockefellers...... 44 CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES...... 56 The Values Americans Live By...... 56 Summary...... 81 Tips on Work Etiquette in ... SEOUL...... 82 A Study of Cultural Differences...... 83 Negotiating with the Japanese...... 87 BUSINESS IN THE USA...... 97 The USA - a Highly Developed Industrial Country...... 97 Economy of the USA...... 98 Economic Problems of the USA...... 100 The US and the World Economy...... 106 The World of American Business...... 110 International Interdependence...... 115 US Corporations and Other Business Structures...... 117 Labor Organisations and Labour Laws in the US...... 123 R & D in the US. Its Strengths and Challenges...... 127 Government Support of Day Care Urged...... 130 Personal Characteristics Affecting Consumer Behavior...... 131 GENERAL BUSINESS PROBLEMS...... 135 The Set-Up of British Companies...... 135 How to Save the Family Business...... 137 A Balance of Work, Rest and Play...... 141 Women Still Facing Prejudice at Their Work, Survey Shows...... 144 Selection at Toyota...... 147 Profit Motives...... 150 What Is Hot Money?...... 152 What Are Exchange Rates?...... 156 The Safety Circle...... 157 The Long March Against Graft (Corruption in China)...... 159 Freedom of Access to Information...... 162 Shopping (Oh, Ecstasy of Ecstasies, Peach-skin Jeans!)...... 163 The Disadvantages of Maturity (a New Style for Japanese Management)...... 165 Family-Owned Businesses...... 166 EMPLOYMENT...... 172 Starting Work...... 172 Job Security...... 174 The People Aspects of Managing...... 178 Why Start Your Own Business?...... 179 Steps to Career/Life Planning Success...... 180 INTERNATIONAL TRADE. GLOBALIZATION...... 187 International Trade...... 187 How Does International Trade Function?...... 189 How Is Wealth Determined Around the World?...... 190 What Is NAFTA?...... 192 What Is the World Trade Organization?...... 195 What Are the Roots of Third World Poverty?...... 198 What Are the Origins of the Third World Debt?...... 200 Globalization (Concerted Action for a Global Problem)...... 202 Globalization (Forging Ever-Closer Links Is an Essential Part of Successful Globalization)...... 205 Financing for Development...... 208 The Economy of Japan...... 211 China (Economic Miracle)...... 214 Sweden...... 217 RUSSIA (Economy, Ecology)...... 222 General Facts...... 222 The Present Day Economic Situation...... 225 Ecology...... 226 Oil and Gas Underpinning the Russian Economy...... 230 Investment in Russia: Opportunities and Pitfalls...... 232 What Russia Wants (These Days)...... 236 ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS...... 249 Survival Code...... 249 Greenhouse Effect...... 250 Don't Waste It Exchange It...... 255 Greenpeace...... 256 Dirty Business (China's Environmental Problems)...... 257 MANAGERS. MANAGEMENT...... 260 What Managers Actually Do...... 260 The Process of Management...... 261 Assessing What the Manager Is...... 264 A Distillation of Functions the Manager Performs...... 266 When a Manager Reaches Middle Age...... 270 What to Do When Your Boss Is a Woman...... 275 Every Manager Is a Forecaster...... 276 Elimination of the Superior-Subordinate Relationship...... 279 Communication...... 280 How to Invest in Social Capital...... 283 The Role of the Entrepreneur in the Economy...... 285 Teamwork...... 286 DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS...... 292 The Luxury of Longer Life...... 292 STORIES...... 312 Sharing Out the Job...... 312 A Beggar in New York...... 313 A Second-Hand Car...... 316 A Miser...... 318 A Job in Mexico...... 321 When God Created Mothers...... 323 "Merry Christmas" ...... 324 INTERESTING FACTS...... 331 Did You Know?...... 331 Murphy's Law or Coincidence?...... 332 It Makes Parts - But Can It Make Happy Operators?...... 335 Pay Now and Live Later...... 337 Harvey Mackay's Short Course in Salesmanship...... 338 London's Financiers Reject the "Old Boy" Traditions...... 340 Feeling Shy...... 343 Mindspring...... 345 How Your Privacy Is Being Stripped Away...... 348 Seita Found Link in Smoker's Death...... 350 The Future of Mind Control...... 355 TEXT ORGANIZERS (Connectors and Sequence Markers)...... 360 EXERCISES (Textual Connectors and Sequence Markers)...... 386 KEYS...... 411 REFERENCES...... 413

Издательство: "Антология" (2005)

ISBN: 5949621069