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Ebook Expanding The Psychoanalytic View of The Intrapsychic: Psychic Conflict in The Inscape

Submitted by antoq on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 06:36

Dissociation theory and psychoanalysis have to some extent emerged as conflicting paradigms to explain mental illness. To the clinician versed in trauma, dissociation and hypnosis, psychoanalysis appears not yet to have figured out what to do with dissociation - continuing to neglect, down play or misinterpret it. At the same time, in dissociation-oriented meetings and literature, there is an expressed appetite for certain psychoanalytic themes such as splitting, enactment, perversion, attachment, narcissism, and transference - countertransference .

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Ebook Adjustment Costs of Quality Price and the Value of Long-Term Contracts: the US Pork Industry Case

Submitted by wulan on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 06:15

The use of long-term contracts has been explained by their function as a safeguard against rent-dissipating activities in the context of relationship specific investments (Williamson, 1975, 1996; Klein, et al., 1978). This transaction cost economics (TCE) explanation on the choice of long-term or formal contracts in procurement practices has also been supported by empirical evidences (Joskow, 1987, for coal industry; Gallick, 1984, for tuna industry; Lyons, 1994, for U.K. engineering subcontracting).

In contrast, Masten’s recent studies of contracting in the U.S. trucking industry reveal that the value of long-term contracts may originate from saving the costs to negotiate a price for each transaction in a series by intertemporal bundling’ of heterogeneous freight transactions (Masten, 2006; Lafontaine and Masten, 2002). Masten claims that the formal contracts’ function of economizing on the cost of pricing heterogeneous transactions may explain a class of contracts that involve little in the way of relationship specific investments, including franchise contracts, equipment lease, distribution and advertising agreements, and software licenses.

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Ebook A Better Deal for Consumers Delivering Real Help Now and Change for the Future

Submitted by puput on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 06:42

This White Paper seeks to address two challenges: first, how to help consumers during the downturn, and second, how to respond to the way consumer markets are changing because of the effects of globalisation, and the increasing use of technology by consumers and business to buy goods and services.

The proposals in this paper are in part a response to an economic downturn that is unlike any other; a global slowdown in growth accompanied by a global contraction in credit available to consumers and business. The Government has acted quickly to restore confidence, through stabilising the banking system to protect savings, get credit flowing, VAT cuts and other changes. But we need to do more for hard-pressed consumers and this paper outlines what help we are providing now for people in financial difficulties, and longer term support for consumers as Britain emerges from the downturn.

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