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Contemporary Economic Issues in Developing Countries by Baffoe-Bonnie John

Table of Contents: “…Kimenyi Corruption Control in Developing Societies: Lessons from Public Choice by John Mbaku Fiscal and Monetary Policies for Economic Development by James C.W. …”

Interconnections : bridges, routers, switches, and internetworking protocols / by Perlman, Radia

Table of Contents: “…Preface xi Roadmap to the Book xii Acknowledgments xii Essential Networking Concepts 1 (18) Layers 1 (6) Service Models 7 (2) Important Properties of a Network 9 (3) Reliable Data Transfer Protocols 12 (7) Data Link Layer Issues 19 (26) Generic LANs 19 (3) IEEE 802 LANs 22 (1) Names, Addresses, Routes 23 (2) LAN Addresses 25 (2) Multicast versus Unicast Addresses 27 (1) The Broadcast Address 28 (1) Multiplexing Field 29 (3) Bit Order 32 (2) Logical Link Control 34 (1) Issues in 802.3 35 (3) Issues in 802.5 38 (2) Packet Bursts 40 (1) Reasons for Bridges 40 (1) Point-to-Point Links 41 (4) Transparent Bridges 45 (50) The No-Frills Bridge 45 (2) The Learning Bridge 47 (11) Spanning Tree Algorithm 58 (5) Spanning Tree Algorithm Refinements 63 (14) Bridge Message Formats 77 (2) Other Bridge Issues 79 (8) Remote Bridges 87 (8) Source Routing Bridges 95 (32) Pure Source Routing 96 (8) SR-TB Bridges 104 (4) SRT Bridges 108 (1) End-system Algorithms 109 (7) Source Routing versus Transparent Bridging 116 (3) Ideas for Improving Source Route Bridging 119 (8) Hubs, Switches, Virtual LANs, and Fast Ethernet 127 (18) Hubs 127 (5) Faster LANs 132 (2) Virtual LANs (VLANs) 134 (11) Network Interface: Service Models 145 (8) What Is the Network Layer? …”

Microeconomics by Pindyck, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…274 (1) Alternative Forms of Organization 275 (1) Marginal Revenue, Marginal Cost, and Profit Maximization 276 (3) Demand and Marginal Revenue for a competitive Firm 277 (2) Profit Maximization by a Competitive Firm 279 (1) Choosing Output in the Short Run 279 (5) Short-Run Profit Maximization by a Competitive Firm 279 (1) The Short-Run Profit of a Competitive Firm 280 (4) The Competitive Firm's Short-Run Supply Curve 284 (3) the Firm's Response to an Input Price Change 284 (3) The Short-Run Market Supply Curve 287 (5) Elasticity of Market Supply 288 (3) Producer Surplus in the Short Run 291 (1) Choosing Output in the Long Run 292 (7) Long-Run Profit Maximization 293 (1) Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium 294 (3) Economic Rent 297 (1) Producer Surplus in the Long Run 297 (2) The Industry's Long-Run Supply curve 299 (6) Constant-Cost Industry 299 (1) Increasing-Cost Industry 300 (2) Decreasing-Cost Industry 302 (1) The Effects of a Tax 302 (1) Long-Run Elasticity of Supply 303 (2) Summary 305 (1) Questions for Review 306 (1) Exercises 306 (3) The Analysis of Competitive Markets 309 (38) Evaluating the Gains and Losses from Government Policies--Consumer and Producer Surplus 309 (6) Review of Consumer and Producer Surplus 310 (1) Application of Consumer and Producer Surplus 311 (4) The Efficiency of a Competitive Market 315 (4) Minimum Prices 319 (5) Price Supports and Production Quotas 324 (7) Price Supports 324 (1) Production Quotas 325 (6) Import Quotas and Tariffs 331 (4) The Impact of a Tax or Subsidy 335 (7) The Effects of a Subsidy 339 (3) Summary 342 (1) Questions for Review 342 (1) Exercises 343 (4) Part Three Market Structure and Competitive Strategy 347 (236) Market Power: Monopoly and Monopsony 349 (42) Monopoly 350 (11) Average Revenue and Marginal Revenue 350 (2) The Monopolist's Output Decision 352 (1) An Example 353 (1) A Rule of Thumb for Pricing 354 (3) Shifts in Demand 357 (1) The Effect of a Tax 357 (2) The Multiplant Firm 359 (2) Monopoly Power 361 (5) Measuring Monopoly Power 362 (1) The Rule of Thumb for Pricing 363 (3) Sources of Monopoly Power 366 (2) The Elasticity of Market Demand 367 (1) The Number of Firms 367 (1) The Interaction Among Firms 368 (1) The Social Costs of Monopoly Power 368 (5) Rent Seeking 370 (1) Price Regulation 370 (2) Natural Monopoly 372 (1) Regulation in Practice 373 (1) Monopsony 373 (3) Monopsony and Monopoly Compared 376 (1) Monopsony Power 376 (5) Sources of Monopsony Power 377 (2) The Social Costs of Monopsony Power 379 (1) Bilateral Monopoly 380 (1) Limiting Market Power: The Antitrust Laws 381 (6) Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws 383 (1) Antitrust in Europe 384 (3) Summary 387 (1) Questions for Review 387 (1) Exercises 388 (3) Pricing with Market Power 391 (52) Capturing Consumer Surplus 392 (1) Price Discrimination 393 (10) First-Degree Price Discrimination 393 (3) Second-Degree Price Discrimination 396 (1) Third-Degree Price Discrimination 397 (6) Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Peak-Load Pricing 403 (3) Intertemporal Price Discrimination 403 (1) Peak-Load Pricing 404 (2) The Two-Part Tariff 406 (7) Bundling 413 (11) Relative Valuations 414 (4) Mixed Bundling 418 (3) Bundling in Practice 421 (2) Tying 423 (1) Advertising 424 (4) A Rule of Thumb for Advertising 426 (2) Summary 428 (1) Questions for Review 429 (1) Exercises 429 (4) Transfer Pricing in the Integrated Firm 433 (8) Transfer Pricing When There Is No Outside Market 433 (3) Transfer Pricing with a Competitive Outside Market 436 (2) Transfer Pricing with a Noncompetitive Outside Market 438 (1) A Numerical Example 439 (2) Exercises 441 (2) Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly 443 (36) Monopolistic Competition 444 (5) The Makings of Monopolistic Competition 444 (1) Equilibrium in the Short Run and the Long Run 445 (1) Monopolistic Competition and Economic Efficiency 446 (3) Oligopoly 449 (7) Equilibrium in an Oligopolistic Market 449 (1) The Cournot Model 450 (3) The Linear Demand Curve---An Example 453 (2) First Mover Advantage---The Stackelberg Model 455 (1) Price Competition 456 (5) Price Competition with Homogeneous Products--The Bertrand Model 456 (2) Price Competition with Differential Products 458 (3) Competition versus Collusion: The Prisoners' Dilemma 461 (3) Implications of the Prisoners' Dilemma for Oligopolistic Pricing 464 (5) Price Rigidity 465 (1) Price Signaling and Price Leadership 465 (3) The Dominant Firm Model 468 (1) Cartels 469 (6) Analysis of Cartel Pricing 470 (5) Summary 475 (1) Questions for Review 475 (1) Exercises 476 (3) Game Theory and Competitive Strategy 479 (42) Gaming and Strategic Decisions 479 (3) Noncooperative versus Cooperative Games 480 (2) Dominant Strategies 482 (2) The Nash Equilibrium Revisited 484 (6) Maximin Strategies 486 (2) Mixed Strategies 488 (2) Repeated Games 490 (4) Sequential Games 494 (3) The Extensive Form of a Game 495 (1) The Advantage of Moving First 496 (1) Threats, Commitments, and Credibility 497 (6) Empty Threats 498 (1) Commitment and Credibility 498 (2) Bargaining Strategy 500 (3) Entry Deterrence 503 (6) Strategic Trade Policy and International Competition 505 (4) Auctions 509 (8) Auction Formats 510 (1) Valuation and Information 510 (1) Private-Value Auctions 511 (1) Common-Value Auctions 512 (1) Maximizing Auction Revenue 513 (1) Bidding and Colusion 514 (3) Summary 517 (1) Questions for Review 517 (1) Exercises 518 (3) Markets for Factor Inputs 521 (30) Competitive Factor Markets 521 (13) Demand for a Factor Input When Only One Input Is Variable 522 (2) Demand for a Factor Input When Several Inputs Are Variable 524 (2) The Market Demand Curve 526 (3) The Supply of Inputs to a Firm 529 (2) The Market Supply of Inputs 531 (3) Equilibrium in a Competitive Factor Market 534 (5) Economic Rent 535 (4) Factor Markets with Monopsony Power 539 (4) Monopsony Power: Marginal and Average Expenditure 539 (1) Purchasing Decisions with Monopsony Power 540 (1) Bargaining Power 541 (2) Factor Markets with Monopoly Power 543 (6) Monopoly Power over the Wage Rate 544 (1) Unionized and Nonunionized Workers 545 (4) Summary 549 (1) Questions for Review 549 (1) Exercises 550 (1) Investment, Time, and Capital Markets 551 (32) Stocks versus Flows 552 (1) Present Discounted Value 553 (3) Valuing Payment Streams 553 (3) The Value of a Bond 556 (4) Perpetuities 556 (1) The Effective Yield on a Bond 557 (3) The Net Present Value Criterion for Capital Investment Decisions 560 (4) The Electric Motor Factory 561 (1) Real versus Nominal Discount Rates 562 (1) Negative Future Cash Flows 563 (1) Adjustments for Risk 564 (4) Diversifiable versus Nondiversifiable Risk 564 (1) The Capital Asset Pricing Model 565 (3) Investment Decisions by Consumers 568 (2) Investments in Human Capital 570 (3) Intertemporal Production Decisions---Depletable Resources 573 (4) The Production Decision of an Individual Resource Producer 574 (1) The Behavior of Market Price 574 (1) User Cost 575 (1) Resource Production by a Monopolist 576 (1) How Are Interest Rates Determined? …”

Principles of alternative dispute resolution / by Ware, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…Preface Note to teachers Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction 1-1: Overview 1-2: Disputes 1-3: Resolution of disputes 1-4: Processes of dispute resolution 1-5: Definitions of litigation and ADR a: ADR as alternatives to litigation b: Litigation as the default process 1-6: Introductions to major ADR processes a: Negotiation b: Mediation and other processes in aid of negotiation c: Arbitration 1-7: Basic division within ADR: arbitration vs everything else a: All ADR processes can produce binding results 1: Negotiation 2: Mediation and other processes in aid of negotiation 3: Arbitration b: Arbitration is the only ADR process that can produce binding results without a post-dispute contract c: Arbitration or litigation casts the shadow in which negotiation and processes in aid of it occur d: Implications for categorizing and comparing processes 1-8: Broader perspectives on ADR a: ADR diversity b: Cool and warm themes; the cost and quality of dispute resolution c: Lawyers and ADR Chapter 2: Arbitration And Similar Processes A: Overview 2-1: Arbitration defined 2-2: Contractual arbitration and non-contractual arbitration; constitutional right to jury trial 2-3: Arbitration law summarized a: Post-dispute and pre-dispute agreements to arbitrate b: Enforcement of arbitration agreements c: Arbitration process d: Enforcement of arbitrator's decision or "award" B: Sources of contemporary American arbitration law 2-4: Federal law a: Pro-contract b: Court orders to arbitrate; specific performance of arbitration agreements c: Broad applicability 2-5: State law a: Arbitration law b: Non-arbitration law C: FAA preemption of state law 1: Evolution of case law on FAA preemption 2-6: Federal arbitration law as (non-preemptive) procedural law 2-7: Federal arbitration law as (preemptive) substantive law 2-8: FAA creates no federal jurisdiction 2: Preemption of state law impeding contract enforcement 2-9: Generally 2-10: State law prohibiting courts from enforcing arbitration agreements 2-11: State law prohibiting courts from enforcing arbitration agreements with the remedy of specific performance 2-12: State law making arbitration agreements unenforceable with respect to certain claims 2-13: State law making arbitration agreements in certain types of transactions unenforceable 2-14: State law raising the standard of assent for contract formation 3: Choice-of-law clauses 2-15: Introduction 2-16: Volt case 2-17: Mastrobuono case 4: Insurance arbitration 2-18: McCarran-Ferguson and the FAA D: Formation of enforceable arbitration agreements 1: Separability 2-19: Prima paint case 2-20: Buckeye case 2-21: Applications of separability 2: Formation 2-22: Mutual manifestations of assent a: Contract law's objective approach b: Recurring fact patterns 2-23: Consideration 3: Contract law defenses to enforcement 2-24: Defenses subject to separability doctrine 2-25: Unconscionability a: Generally b: FAA's constraint on the scope of the unconscionability doctrine c: Arbitration organizations' policing against unconscionability d: Public policy and child custody 2-26: Waiver of the right to arbitrate 4: Non-contract law defenses to enforcement: federal statutory claims and public policy 2-27: Toward universal arbitrability 2-28: Current in arbitrability a: Simple in arbitrability 1: Labor arbitration 2: Automobile dealers and military personnel b: Arbitrability with strings attached: the effectively vindicate doctrine E: Interpretation of arbitration agreements 1: Contractual arbitrability 2-29: Introduction 2-30: Generally decided by courts 2-31: Contractual and non-contractual approaches 2: Multi-party disputes 2-32: Claims by or against those not party to the arbitration agreement a: Party plaintiff vs non-party defendant b: Non-party plaintiff vs party defendant 2-33: Consolidation of, and stays pending, related proceedings 2-34: Class actions 3: Arbitration procedure 2-35: Overview 2-36: Pre-hearing a: Selection of arbitrator(s) 1: Methods of selection 2: Arbitrator fees 3: Judicial and regulatory constraints on party selection of arbitrator(s) b: Pleadings c: Filing fees (and un-administered arbitration) d: Discovery 2-37: Hearing a: General comparison with trial b: Role of lawyers c: Rules of evidence d: No hearing; dispositive motions e: Written awards; reasoned opinions 2-38: Remedies a: Determined by contract, within limitations 1: Generally determined by contract; the Mastrobuono case 2: Limitations on contract; the book case b: Typical contract terms c: Consequences of limiting remedies in arbitration 4: Governing substantive law, if any 2-39: Substantive law applied in arbitration F: Effect of arbitration award 1: Enforcement of arbitration award 2-40: Confirmation 2-41: Claim preclusion (res judicata) a: Generally applicable b: Labor exception 2-42: Issue preclusion (collateral estoppel) 2: Vacatur of arbitration award 2-43: Introduction a: Vacatur is rare b: Statutory and non-statutory grounds 2-44: Statutory grounds a: Corruption, fraud or undue means b: Evident partiality or corruption c: Fundamentally fair hearing d: Exceeded powers 2-45: Non-statutory grounds a: Error of law, including manifest disregard 1: Narrow ground for Vacatur 2: Recent expansion b: Public policy c: Grounds created by contract 2-46: Federal preemption of state law a: State grounds for Vacatur broader than federal b: State grounds for Vacatur narrower than federal G: International arbitration 2-47: Introduction: public law arbitration and commercial arbitration 2-48: New York convention a: Basic provisions b: Effect of United States ratification c: Significance 2-49: Practice of international commercial arbitration H: Employment arbitration and labor arbitration 2-50: Conventional distinction between "employment" and "labor" 2-51: FAA's exclusion of certain "contracts of employment" 2-52: Employment arbitration 2-53: Labor arbitration a: LMRA rather than FAA b: Practice of labor arbitration 1: Two peculiarities 2: Labor law and CBAs c: Few arbitrable claims 1: Law 2: Union, not employee, controls arbitration 3: Narrowly drafted arbitration clauses d: Interest arbitration I: Processes similar to arbitration 2-54: Private judging ("rent-a-judge") 2-55: Non-contractual, yet binding, arbitration a: Introduction b: Examples 1: Federal programs 2: Government employees-federal 3: Government employees-state and local 4: Railway Labor Act 5: State "lemon" laws 6: State auto insurance laws 7: Attorney fee disputes. 3: Negotiation A: Negotiation contexts 3-1: Dispute negotiation and transactional negotiation 3-2: Dispute negotiation and lawyers; settlement negotiation defined 3-3: Settlement negotiation and the shadow of the law 3-4: Bilateral monopoly of settlement negotiation B: Settlement/litigation choice 3-5: Valuing a case a: Introduction to case valuation b: Factors lawyers and clients should consider in valuing a case c: Timing of the settlement/litigation choice d: Risk aversion and diversification 1: Risk aversion 2: Diversification e: Expected value, BATNA and the bottom line f: Psychological barriers to valuing a case accurately 1: Availability bias 2: Anchoring bias 3: Egocentric biases 4: Overconfidence bias g: Valuation of criminal cases 3-6: Disagreements between lawyer and client about the settlement/litigation choice a: Generally b: Legal fees 1: Hourly billing 2: Contingency fees 3: Retainers and other fixed-fees (especially in criminal practice) 4: Legal fees paid through liability insurance c: Professional responsibility C: Negotiation theory 3-7: Zero-sum and positive-sum 3-8: Zero-sum (distributive) negotiation 3-9: Positive-sum (integrative) negotiation a: Example on the time value of money b: Importance of multiple issues 3-10: Positive-sum (integrative) negotiation is not always worthwhile, or even possible 3-11: Bottom lines and settlement zones a: Case valuations determine bottom lines which determine settlement zones b: Predictions about the results of litigation 1: Predictions that usually (but not always) result in a settlement zone 2: Predictions less likely to result in a settlement zone: cases of over-optimism c: Conclusion 3-12: Settlement zone does not ensure settlement (barriers to settlement) a: Ignorance of settlement zone's existence or boundaries b: Dividing the value created by settlement 3-13: Bottom lines and settlement zones in positive-sum (integrative) negotiation D: Approaches to negotiation 3-14: Terminology 1: Adversarial/competitive approach 3-15: Opening offers 3-16: Few and small concessions 3-17: False concessions 3-18: Concession tricks and escalation tactics 3-19: Deception and information 3-20: Misinformation about bottom lines and the strength of your case a: Generally b: Lying about one's bottom line c: Projecting confidence in one's case and lack of interest in settling d: Effect of misinformation about bottom lines 3-21: Psychological warfare a: Anger, threats, ridicule, accusation and intimidation b: Negotiate on your own turf c: Outnumber your counterparts d: Negotiate when you have time and your counterpart does not e: Lack of authority f: Locked into position g: Feign irrationality h: Wolf in sheep's clothing 3-22: Drawbacks of the adversarial/competitive approach 2: Cooperative approach and the prisoner's dilemma 3-23: Cooperative approach 3-24: Prisoner's dilemma and the importance of reputation a: Prisoner's dilemma b: Importance of reputation and the incentive to cooperate 3-25: Tactics for a cooperative lawyer with an adversarial/competitive counterpart 3: Problem-solving approach 3-26: Overview of problem-solving a: Positive-sum b: Coinciding interests (with a tax law example) c: Logrolling multiple issues d: Tactics listed 3-27: Interests, not positions 3-28: Communicating your side's interests 3-29: Variety of solutions 3-30: Drawbacks of the problem-solving approach 4: Gender, culture, race and ethnicity 3-31: Gender 3-32: Culture, race and ethnicity E: Preparing for negotiation 3-33: Introduction 3-34: Identifying your client's interests, bottom line and specific goals 3-35: Identifying other party's interests, bottom line and specific goals 3-36: Adjusting during negotiation a: Adjusting approaches during negotiation b: Adjusting your bottom line during negotiation 3-37: Specific preparations F: Law governing settlement 3-38: Criminal and tort law; "good faith" in negotiation 3-39: Sales law a: Legal effects of releases and settlement agreements 1: Releases 2: Settlement agreements b: Grounds for non-enforcement 1: Duress and unconscionability 2: Misrepresentation and mistake 3: Requirement of a writing 4: Public policy c: Entering judgment on settlement (consent decree) d: Plea agreements 3-40: Agency law 3-41: Multiple parties: indemnity, contribution and Mary Carter agreements 3-42: Confidentiality a: Generally b: Confidentiality agreements prior to or during litigation c: Rules of evidence and discovery d: Confidentiality clauses in settlement agreements G: Settlement/litigation choice: broader perspectives 3-43: Normative views on the prevalence of settlement 3-44: Resources 3-45: Dispute resolution vs public justice. 4: Mediation And Other Processes In Aid Of Negotiation A: Overview 4-1: Mediation's popularity 4-2: Mediation defined 4-3: Dispute mediation and transactional mediation 4-4: Mandatory mediation and voluntary mediation B: Goals of dispute mediation 4-5: Generally 4-6: Settle cases 4-7: Positive-sum or problem-solving 4-8: Moral growth C: Mediation process 4-9: Goals shape process 4-10: Mediation process generally a: Participants b: Starting to mediate c: Joint sessions, private caucuses and shuttle diplomacy d: Facilitating communication 1: Direct communication 2: Indirect communication e: Settlement offers f: Agreements 4-11: Identifying settlement zones and overcoming barriers to settlement 4-12: Positive-sum a: In general b: Coinciding interests c: Logrolling multiple issues d: Trusted intermediary combining information 4-13: Evaluation by the mediator a: Appeal of evaluation b: Concerns about evaluation 1: Interests vs rights 2: Is "evaluative mediation" an oxymoron? …”