by Carla Mooney (2015)
Provides an introduction to the government agency that provides assistance during and after disasters, describing the history of the organization and examples of the type of help they provide.
James D. Torr
Provides an overview of our nation's attack-preparedness efforts and describes the different roles that first responders, as well as agencies at all levels of government, would play in responding to the next terrorist attack on America.
Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija
"To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is often forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. [This book] bridges the gap between the oversimplified and the arcane, presenting the key issues clearly and without a political agenda. [The authors lay out] what is known and not known about how taxes affect the economy and offer guidelines for evaluating tax systems -- both the current tax system and proposals to reform it. This fifth edition has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest data, empirical evidence, and tax law. It offers new material on recent tax reform proposals, expanded coverage of international tax issues, and the latest enforcement initiatives. Offering historical perspectives, outlining the basic criteria by which tax policy should be judged (fairness, economic impact, enforceability), examining proposals for both radical change (replacement of the income tax with a flat tax or consumption tax) and incremental changes to the current system, and concluding with a voter's guide, the book provides readers with enough background to make informed judgments about how we should tax ourselves."--
Deborah Lucas
This text contains new research, both empirical and methodological, on the measurement and management of the costs and risks that the US government faces in providing credit and assuming risk through direct activities.
Constance E. Bagley
This paper explores the value of actively managing the legal dimensions of business. It draws on the dynamic capabilities approach and postulates that "legal astuteness" defined here as the ability of the top management team to communicate effectively with counsel and to work together to solve complex problems is a valuable dynamic capability. This paper posits that law and the tools it offers are an enabling force legally astute management teams can use to manage the firm more effectively. In particular, it proposes that legally astute management teams can, inter alia, use formal contracts as complements to relational governance to define and strengthen relationships and reduce transaction costs; create options; protect and enhance the realizable value of knowledge assets and certain other resources - and convert regulatory constraints into opportunities.