Davis Folsom – Encyclopedia of American Business 2 Vol Set

Description

Praise for the earlier version:
“…an easy-to-use guide to the nuts and bolts of business jargon and business concepts.” Library Journal, Collection Development, Starred Review

“…very straightforward and useful…an excellent resource to begin learning the jargon and ideas of business in an understandable language and would be a solid addition to any reference collection.” American Reference Books Annual

“…outstanding…presents up-to-date, solid, easy-to-understand information…useful…Public libraries as well as academic general collections will want to add it to their collections.” Booklist

Buying, promoting, budgeting, and saving are basic enterprise practices that just about everybody understands on a fundamental stage. From them, extra advanced transactions are derived, and these represent a realm of enterprise that few folks discover simply accessible.

Featuring greater than 800 entries, the two-volume Encyclopedia of American Business, Revised Edition is an up-to-date, easy-to-use information to the nuts and bolts of enterprise jargon. Difficult concepts are defined in simple language to assist non-specialists, college students, and basic readers perceive the advanced and typically complicated ideas and phrases which might be utilized in enterprise. Five basic areas of enterprise are coated: accounting, banking, finance, advertising and marketing, and administration. This encyclopedia focuses on the phrases, ideas, and associations that one is most probably to come across in enterprise, making it an awesome place to start out studying about how companies function and what the first and totally different options of particular business-related capabilities or concepts imply.

Entries embrace:

-Brain drain
-Carbon tax
-Credit default swaps
-Deleveraging
-Fair housing legal guidelines
-Investment fraud
-Micro lending
-Social media
-Subprime lending
-Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).

Recommended for Grades 9 and up.

About the Author

1. Davis Folsom acquired his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and presently teaches on the University of South Carolina. His publications embrace Understanding American Business Jargon: A Dictionary and Understanding NAFTA and Its International Business Implications.