Economics : Private and Public Choice. by Gwartney, James D.

Table of Contents: “…government-a potential vehicle for gain; the market and the public sector-two methods of economic organization; conflicts between good economics and good politics; chapter 5. taxes and government spending; what do federal, state, and local governments buy?…”
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The disastrous 1990s in Russia : emulating the West paved the path to Putin / Konstantin Sidorov. by Sidorov, Konstantin (Pseudonym)

Table of Contents: “…On Exclusion and Exclusivity -- 5. Russia's Main Problem -- 6. Cities and Housing -- 7. Russia's Main City and Its Mayor -- 8. …”
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Mali : Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility, Staff Report, Informational Annex, Staff Statement, Press Release on the Executive Board Considerati...

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Formalizing the Shadow Economy in Serbia Policy Measures and Growth Effects / edited by Gorana Krstić, Friedrich Schneider.

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TEDTalks Robert Neuwirth - The Power of the Informal Economy / TED Conferences LLC.

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Winning strategies Hedrick Smith Productions.

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Principles of Public Finance. by Dalton, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Preface to the First Edition; Extract From Preface to the Fifth Edition; Preface to the Ninth Edition; Contents; Part I Introductory; The Nature of Public Finance and the Main Divisions of the Subject; The Principle of Maximum Social Advantage; Public Finance and Private Finance; Part II Public Income; Sources of Public Income; Taxation and Some Distinctions Between Taxes; Some Characteristics of a Good Tax System; The Incidence of Taxation; The Incidence of Taxation (continued); Note to Chapters VII and VIII.…”
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The New Journey of China’s Economic and Social Development edited by Fuzhan Xie, Fang Cai, Xuesong Li.

Table of Contents: “…Experiences Gained from Past 13thFive-Year Plans and Guidelines for Subsequent Plans -- Overall Evaluation and Main Experiences of the Implementation of the 13th Five-Year Plan -- Impacts of Medium and Long-term External Environmental Changes on China and Countermeasures -- Strategic Priorities of Medium and Long-term Economic and Social Development -- Research on Goals and Indicators of Mid-to-Long-Term Economic and Social Development -- Research on Rural Vitalization and Anti-poverty Strategy and Policy -- Mid-to-Long-Term Structural Adjustments of Manufacturing and Cultivation of New Competitive Advantages -- Trends and Policies for Mid-to-Long-Term Development of Service Sectors -- Mid-to-Long-Term Fiscal and Tax Reform and Financial Sustainability -- Research on Several Major Financial Reform Issues in the Medium and Long Term -- Industrial Policy and Competition Policy for Deepening the Process of Industrialization -- Mid-to-long-term Trends and Optimization Policy of the Ownership Composition -- Research on the Strategy and Policy of Constructing a New Open System at a Higher Level -- Research on Future Mid-to-Long-Term New Technologies, Digital Economy Development and Innovation-Driven Development Strategy and Major Policies -- Enhancing Resilience, Maintaining Financial Stability and Innovating macro control in China as a Major Power -- Studies on Urbanization and Regional Development Strategies and Policies -- Research on Strategies and Major Policies of Ecological Environment Protection and Climate Change Response -- Research on the Medium and Long-term Population Development and Aging -- Research on Medium-and Long-Term Employment and Labor Market Development -- Research on Middle- and Long-term Social Development Goals, Strategies and Policies -- Middle- and Long-term Social Security Development Goals, Strategic Priorities and Reform Suggestions -- Goals and Policy Research for Reform of the Public Service Financial Investment System -- Middle- and Long-term Goals and Strategies for Advancing the Rule of Law -- Medium- and long-term Goals, Strategies and Major policies for Developing a Great Socialist Culture in China.…”
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Innovation Policy in a Knowledge-Based Economy Theory and Practice / edited by Patrick Llerena, Mireille Matt. by Llerena, Patrick

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China’s Neighbors Who is Influencing China and Who China is Influencing in the New Emerging Asia.

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Causal inference / Paul R. Rosenbaum. by Rosenbaum, Paul R.

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Judging Bertha Wilson : Law as Large as Life. by Anderson, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History -- FOREWORD: Bertha Wilson -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: The Preparatory Years: Life before the Bench -- 1 Growing Up: Daughter, Sister, and Student -- Family Life -- Church and School -- University Studies: War and Romance -- 2 The Clergyman's Wife -- Macduff: An Education for Living -- Conscience and Compromise -- On the Boundary: Immigration to Canada -- Ottawa on Her Own -- 3 Diligence at Dalhousie -- Sopping It Up: The Law Student as Sponge -- Classroom and Curriculum -- Social Life and Study Group -- Graduation and Articles -- 4 The Osler Innovations -- Establishing a Research Practice -- From Family Firm to Corporate Culture -- Developing Philanthropy: A Conservative Socialist at Work -- Courtroom Strategy: Texas Gulf Sulphur -- The Conscience of the Firm -- Public Commitments, Private Life -- PART TWO: On the Bench: The Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada -- 5 The Ontario Court of Appeal -- Appointment to the Court of Appeal -- On-the-Job Training: Making a Place -- Criminal Law: A Provocative Dissent -- Commercial Law: Consistency and Contextuality -- All in the Family -- The Human Rights Cases -- The Supreme Sacrifice -- 6 A Canadian Philosophy of Judicial Analysis -- Origins and Sources: The Personal and the Public -- Principled Contextuality -- The Charter: Principled Contextuality, National Feeling -- 7 The Supreme Court of Canada -- Inside the Court -- 8 Diversity at the Margins -- Multiculturalism: Theories of Human Rights -- Adverse Effects and Undue Hardship -- Immigration: Liberty and Security of the Person -- Freedom of Religion -- Wrongful Dismissal -- Equality, Citizenship, and Analogous Grounds -- Mandatory Retirement -- Minority Language Rights -- Aboriginal Law Developments.…”
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Fintech Regulation and Supervision Challenges within the Banking Industry A Comparative Study within the G-20 / by Felix I. Lessambo. by Lessambo, Felix I.

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language 15th International Conference, PROPOR 2022, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 21–23, 2022, Proceedings / edited by Vládia Pinheiro, Pablo...

Table of Contents: “…Resources and Evaluation -- UlyssesNER-Br: a corpus of Brazilian legislative documents for named entity recognition -- A test-suite for the evaluation of Portuguese-English machine translations -- MINT - Mainstream and Independent News Text corpus -- Fakepedia Corpus: a flexible fake news corpus in Portuguese -- A targeted assessment of the syntactic abilities of Transformer models for Galician-Portuguese -- FakeRecogna: A new Brazilian corpus for fake news detection -- Implicit opinion aspect clues in Portuguese texts: analysis and categorization -- CRPC-DB A discourse bank for Portuguese -- Challenges in annotating a treebank of clinical narratives in Brazilian Portuguese -- PetroBERT: a domain adaptation language model for oil and gas applications in Portuguese -- SS-PT: A stance and sentiment data set from Portuguese quoted tweets -- Natural Language Processing Tasks -- ZeroBERTo - leveraging zero-shot text classification by topic modeling -- Banking regulation classification in Portuguese -- Automatic information extraction: a distant reading of the Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary -- Automatic recognition of units of measurement in product descriptions from tax invoices using neural networks -- Entity extraction from Portuguese legal documents using distant supervision -- Sexist hate speech: identifying potential online verbal violence instances -- Book genre classification based on reviews of Portuguese-language Literature -- Combining word embeddings for Portuguese named entity recognition -- BERT for sentiment analysis: pre-trained and fine-tuned alternatives -- Fostering judiciary applications with new fine-tuned models for Legal Named Entity recognition in Portuguese -- Natural Language Processing Applications -- Using topic modeling in classification of Brazilian lawsuits -- PortNOIE: A neural framework for Open Information Extraction for the Portuguese language -- Tracking environmental policy changes in the Brazilian Federal Official Gazette -- A transfer learning analysis of political leaning classification in cross-domain content -- Integrating question answering and text-to-SQL in Portuguese -- Named Entity Extractors for new domains by Transfer Learning with automatically annotated data -- PTT5-Paraphraser: Diversity and meaning fidelity in automatic Portuguese paraphrasing -- Speech Processing and Applications -- A protocol for comparing gesture and prosodic boundaries in multimodal corpora -- Forced phonetic alignment in Brazilian Portuguese using time-delay neural networks -- Brazilian Portuguese speech recognition using Wav2Vec 2.0 -- A corpus of neutral voice speech in Brazilian Portuguese -- Comparing lexical and usage frequencies of palatal segments in Portuguese -- Lexical Semantics -- Extracting valences from a dependency treebank for populating the verb lexicon of a Portuguese HPSG grammar -- CQL grammars for lexical and semantic information extraction for Portuguese and Italian -- Drilling Lexico-Semantic Knowledge in Portuguese from BERT -- Short Papers -- The systematic construction of multiple types of corpora through the Lapelinc Framework -- Revisiting CCNET for quality measurements in Galician -- Identifying literary characters in Portuguese: Challenges of an international shared task -- Should I buy or should I pass: e-commerce datasets in Portuguese -- Best MsC/MA & PhD Dissertation -- Abstract meaning representation parsing for the Brazilian Portuguese language -- Enriching Portuguese word embeddings with visual information.-.…”
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Crafting a nation : one craft beer at a time. / Free Mind Productions ; written & directed by Thomas Kolicko ; produced by Thomas Kolicko, Courtney Cobb, Deana McDonald.

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HEAVY! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free—And the Home of the Fat / by Richard B. McKenzie. by McKenzie, Richard B.

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Democracy in action Cambridge Educational (Firm).

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George W. Bush and John Kerry Debate (10/13/2004) ABC News Productions.

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The Age of Unproductive Capital : New Architectures of Power. by Dowbor, Ladislau

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The Cycle of the Gift Family Wealth and Wisdom / Hughes, James. by Hughes, James, Massenzio, Susan, Whitaker, Keith

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