Umbrella Corporation

personnes clés » dans une organisation. Ces travaux pionniers sur la comptabilité des ressources humaines donnent lieu à plusieurs tentatives d’application en entreprise dont la plus célèbre est l’expérience animée par W. Pyle au sein de R.G. Barry Corporation. Durant plusieurs années, cette entreprise publie des états financiers dans lesquels les ressources humaines, évaluées à leurs coûts (historiques et de remplacement), sont portées à l’actif du bilan. D’autres expérimentations en entreprise ont lieu

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of Thomas Nelson Page, it seems to me. And from the reader's standpoint it has the advantage--is this not also an author's advantage?--of a more modern setting and treatment. Mr. Hastings is, I have been told, a director in over a dozen large corporations. Let us hope that his business activities will not keep him too much away from the production of literature--for to rank as a piece of literature, something of permanent literary value, Gideon is surely entitled. ALEXANDER JESSUP. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION

one example in particular. It was a cloudy day in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a forecast of rain. When the thought occurred to Skinner early in the morning that it might rain, at that instant—lest he forget when he actually went out—he hung his umbrella on the doorknob so it could not be missed.33 We make a brief excursion now into the way people late in life cope with complaints about short-term memory loss, which are widespread. Gerontologists usually refer to this as working memory, in contrast

levels of business or management (Hartmann and Isajiw, 1980 ; Isajiw, 1991: 260-262). On an internal community level, Ukrainians had also flourished in the postwar period, thereby expanding their postwar institutional structures. In 1960, the umbrella organization UCC counted 25 member organizations, including new members such as the League for the Liberation of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Ukrainian Canadian University Students’ Union, and the new Ukrainian Canadian

presse, à leurs liens avec les personnages publics, leur idéologie et leurs méthodes de travail. Democracy’s Oxygen, de James Winter, est exemplaire à cet égard. L’ouvrage explique par exemple les contacts privilégiés de Paul Desmarais (de Power Corporation) avec les leaders politiques fédéraux – libéraux comme conservateurs – depuis le début des années 1960 et permet de mettre en 18. Certains pourraient arguer que la création de méga-entreprises de presse permet de faire au contraire du journalisme

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press and National Bureau of Economic Research). Groupe des vingt (G-20), 2011, “G-20 Mutual Assessment Process: From Pittsburgh to Cannes,” IMF Umbrella Report, prepared by the staff of the International Monetary Fund (Washington). ———, 2012, “Toward Lasting Stability and Growth: Umbrella Report for G-20 Mutual Assessment Process,” prepared by the staff of the International Monetary Fund (Washington). Fonds monétaire international | Avril 2014 115 PERSPECTIVES

the iron plow, the kite, lacquer, magic mirrors, matches, the mechanical clock, miniature hot-air balloons, negative numbers, paper, parachutes, porcelain, printmaking, relief maps, rudders, seismographs, silk, stirrups, the suspension bridge, the umbrella, the water pump, and the wheelbarrow. Where did Marco Polo come from? Croatia. Marco Polo (or Mark Chicken, in English) was born Marko Pil? c in Korcula, Dalmatia, in 1254, then a protectorate of Venice. We shall probably never know whether he really

the assumptions in the first three chapters and to the raison d'etre of the book. A major concern of my argument is to analyze human motivation at a radical level — one that cuts deeper than the very fashionable clichés about the "interests" of corporations, political players, classes, "calculating man," and so forth. This does not mean that I am blissfully and naively unaware that such interests exist, or unconscious of the practical and ideological force of "interest" in the modern world. It means

Corrigé d. social entrepreneurs Keith Waterman. Sociologist and writer. Just published a book entitled Making Money by Giving it Away. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft; Jeff Skoll, co-founder of eBay. The former built up the most powerful software corporation that ever existed, the latter created the greatest online auction site. Bill Gates has given money away to charity. Jeff Skoll has set up a film company that makes films with a social message. To bring about social change. A social entrepreneur is