In the past two years, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and social order. Today’s volatile global financial situation highlights the importance of managing risk and the consequences of poor decision making. The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector reveals an underlying paradox of risk management: the better we become at assessing risks, the more we feel comfortable taking them. Using the current financial crisis as a case study, renowned risk expert William Leiss engages with the new concept of “black hole risk” — risk so great that estimating the potential downsides is impossible. His risk-centred analysis of the lead-up to the crisis reveals the practices that brought it about and how it became common practice to use limited risk assessments as a justification to gamble huge sums of money on unsound economic policies. In order to limit future catastrophes, Leiss recommends international cooperation to manage black hole risks. He believes that, failing this, humanity could be susceptible to a dangerous nexus of global disasters that would threaten human civilization as we know it.

Dr Maung Maung (1925-94) was a man of many parts: scholar, soldier, nationalist, internationalist, parliamentarian, and public servant. His life spanned seven decades of political, economic and social turbulence in the country he loved and served, Myanmar. A pioneer amongst post-colonial journalists in Southeast Asia, he was equally at home in the libraries and seminars of universities in the United States, Europe and Australia during the Cold War. As a jurist, Dr Maung Maung knew the law must remain relevant to changing societal requirements. As an author, he wrote weighty scholarly tomes and light-hearted accounts spiced with his wry observations on human foibles. He was a keen observer of human strengths and weaknesses. A loyal friend, he never maligned his critics or denied their merits. As a man of affairs, he was capable of understanding the weaknesses of the institutions that he served and that ultimately failed to live up to their ideals. This book collects together a number of his now obscure but important historical and journalistic essays with a full bibliography of his works.

Assistons-nous et participons-nous à l'invention d'une nouvelle forme de «vivre ensemble»? Sommes-nous en train de perdre ce qu'il nous reste de conscience politique? Pour répondre à ces questions, les auteurs explorent différentes perspectives, de façon à nourrir une réflexion générale et un débat sur notre actualité. Les textes réunis pour cette occasion parlent des possibilités qu'ouvre à la pensée la question de l'espace public à l'ère du divertissement.

Dans cet ouvrage axé sur le droit en vigueur au Québec, l’auteur présente les fondements de l’intervention législative et réglementaire dans le secteur du tourisme et analyse les principales règles de droit qui visent à protéger le consommateur dans le cadre d’une activité touristique. Il établit quelques comparaisons avec des lois d’autres provinces ou d’autres pays et traite des efforts entrepris à l’échelle internationale pour régir les comportements touristiques dans leur ensemble. Une place centrale est accordée à la question de la responsabilité des fournisseurs de services au consommateur. L’auteur énonce et explique aussi les lois protégeant le milieu d’accueil, notamment aux plans environnemental et culturel. Cette troisième édition veut rendre compte des changements importants à la législation et à la réglementation concernant, entre autres, les établissements d’hébergement touristique et les agents de voyages au Québec. On y présente aussi une mise à jour de la jurisprudence, particulièrement en ce qui a trait à la responsabilité des prestataires de services touristiques.

Les auteurs proposent un nouvel outil de conception de processus pouvant s'intégrer à toute stratégie d'affaires électroniques. En plus des types de modélisation classiques comme l'entité-association, la normalisation et le diagramme de flux de données, l'ouvrage inclut une présentation exhaustive des concepts de modélisation-objet et de la conception de systèmes orientée objet en utilisant le standard ULM. Reconnaissant l'importance grandissante de l'implantation de progiciels, cette nouvelle édition traite également de façon détaillée de la sélection et du paramétrage de progiciels. De nombreux exemples et un cas réel illustrent les grandes activités d'un projet, de l'étude préliminaire à la réalisation technique, passant par la conception du nouveau processus et celle du nouveau système d'information.

Dans la foulée de la mise en ouvre de la Loi sur le développement durable du Québec, des spécialistes des milieux gouvernemental, industriel, universitaire, municipal, social et professionnel réfléchissent sur l'incidence de cet enjeu majeur dans toutes les sphères de l'activité humaine. Ils partagent leurs expériences et se penchent sur le rôle central des communications pour favoriser le dialogue et la participation la plus large possible de la population et des organisations à ce vaste projet de société. Au-delà des mots. Pour un véritable engagement.

While endogenous growth theory has claimed success in modeling various factors of growth and providing an analysis of sustainable economic growth, most of the growth models in published work are for closed economies. The omission of international trade, which is often regarded as the engine of growth, greatly reduces their usefulness. The theory of international trade, on the other hand, is characterized by models that are mainly static. While interest in the dynamics of trade has been growing, there is still little work in this area. The success of the newly industrialized economies that have adopted trade-oriented policies suggests how limited present trade theory is in explaining and analyzing the growth of these economies. The work collected here serves to bridge the "old" growth theory and "new" growth theory; merge growth and trade theory; suggest new analysis and techniques of economic growth; and provide analysis of new issues related to growth and trade. The first chapter surveys endogenous growth and international trade and critically reviews the endogenous growth theory with a unified framework, covering the work on both closed and open economies. Three chapters examine the dynamics of some basic trade models; two chapters focus on growth and trade with endogenous accumulation of human and public capital; two chapters on economic growth, technological progress, and international trade; and two chapters on growth and international factor movements. Contributors include Eric W. Bond, Theo S. Eicher, Rolf F-re, Oded Galor, Shawna Grosskopf, Bjarne S. Jensen, Pantelis Kalaitzidakis, Shoukang Lin, Ngo Van Long, Kazuo Nishimura, Koji Shimomura, Kathleen Trask, Stephen J. Turnovsky, Pham Hoang Van, Henry Wan, Jr., Chunyan Wang, and Kar-yiu Wong. Bjarne S. Jensen is Associate Professor of Economics, Copenhagen Business School. Kar-yiu Wong is Professor of Economics, University of Washington, Seattle.

e-Service Journal is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes innovative, peer-reviewed research on the design, delivery, and impact of electronic services using a variety of computing and communication technologies. It combines both private and public sector perspectives on electronic services and bridges e-business and e-government.

In this updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed Economics and Financing of Media Companies, leading economist and media specialist Robert G. Picard employs business concepts and analyses to explore the operations and activities of media firms and the forces and issues affecting them.Picard has added new examples and new data, and he covers such emerging areas as the economics of digital media. Using contemporary examples from American and global media companies, the book contains a wealth of information, including useful charts and tables, important for both those who work in and study media industries. It goes beyond simplistic explanations to show how various internal and external forces direct and constrain decisions in media firms and the implications of the forces on the type of media and content offered today.

The contributors cover a wide range of costly events and delve into the human and economic impacts disasters impose on populations worldwide.