“robert w mcgee”

Many business ethics books take a basically collectivist approach to the subject. They speak in terms of collective rights and interests, the public interest, social justice, the greatest good for the greatest number, and so forth. If individualism is mentioned at all, it is mentioned disparagingly.... More

"Corporate Governance in Transition Economies" will appeal to a wide segment of the academic market including accounting and finance professors and students because the main theme of the book deals with accounting and financial system reform. Economists in the subfields of transition economics and d... More

"Business success or failure is often determined by decisions made in establishing selling prices for products and services. . . . In this clear and readable work, the authors present a good summary of the literature on pricing policy, emphasizing the relevance of costs. They propose a system that i... More

The editor has assembled a stellar group of experts to write about their areas of expertise. Topics include accounting reform in Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Armenia, Serbia, China and Spain; accounting education in several transition economies; development of the accounting profession in several trans... More

This book is not a stand-alone. It is the sixth book in the Springer series on transition and developing economies. The other five volumes in the series dealt with financial reporting and tax issues or corporate governance issues in transition economies. This book addresses corporate governance issu... More

Much has been written about the economic and political problems of countries that are in the process of changing from centrally planned systems to market systems. Most studies have focused on the economic, legal, political, and sociological problems these economies have had to face during the transi... More

Most public finance books are texts, which are aimed at undergraduate or graduate students. They are overly technical in nature and appeal only to a narrow range of bureaucrats and academics. Books on taxation are written for tax practitioners and usually emphasize either what the law is or how to m... More

The editor has assembled a stellar group of experts to write about their areas of expertise. Topics include bureaucracy, corruption and tax compliance; public finance in developing economies; taxation in several former Soviet republics, Eastern Europe and China; taxation in the enlarged European Uni... More

Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's "Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the East Asian story as a vindication of free market principles and of those who attri... More