Jacobia Tiptree's plans to spend the Christmas holidays renovating her home take a backseat when Faye Anne Carmody is accused of taking an axe to her no-good husband, but when another local citizen turns up dead, Jake begins to suspect a more fiendish murder plot.
Periods of rapid growth caused by shocks to a firm's economic environment represent a potential threat to financial reporting quality by presenting challenges to both the firm and its auditor. Despite the ubiquity of positive economic shocks, little is known of the extent to which these changes affect financial reporting and audit quality. Using exogenous economic shocks to local banks from oil and natural gas discovery and extraction, I find that financial reporting quality, measured by loan loss estimate quality, is lower in a period of rapid bank growth due to management's under-reaction to the positive economic shock. I also find that auditors with a combination of both task-specific and industry-specific expertise are more successful in mitigating the deterioration in financial reporting quality compared to auditors with general, Big 4 or industry-specific expertise alone. The findings suggest that a combination of industry and task-specific auditor expertise is needed to combat deterioration in financial reporting quality resulting from a positive economic shock.
This book contends that mainstream considerations of the economic and social force of culture, including theories of the creative class and of cognitive and immaterial labor, are indebted to historic conceptions of the art of literary authorship. It shows how contemporary literature has been involved in and has responded to creative-economy phenomena, including the presentation of artists as models of contentedly flexible and self-managed work, the treatment of training in and exposure to art as a pathway to social inclusion, the use of culture and cultural institutions to increase property values, and support for cultural diversity as a means of growing cultural markets. Contemporary writers have tended to explore how their own critical capacities have become compatible with or even essential to a neoliberal economy that has embraced art's autonomous gestures as proof that authentic self-articulation and social engagement can and should occur within capitalism. Taking a sociological approach to literary criticism, Sarah Brouillette interprets major works of contemporary fiction by Monica Ali, Aravind Adiga, Daljit Nagra, and Ian McEwan alongside government policy, social science, and theoretical explorations of creative work and immaterial labor.
Take away the liberal media bias and manipulating sound bites, and what you're left with is Sarah Palin Uncut, a collection of rallies, speeches, and calls to action. The powerful yet heartfelt words, in context, leave the reader with the purest impression of the nation's trailblazer and inspiration behind the emergence of the powerful and influential Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin.
A penetrating analysis of how women shaped public and private space in Boston - and how space shaped women's lives in turn - during a period of dramatic change in American cities.
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