Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death

by Mary Nyquist, Steven D. Peterson

For all courses in construction accounting and construction finance, and for courses in engineering economics taught in construction management programs.

This book helps construction professionals and construction management students master the principles of financial management, and adapt and apply them to the challenge of profitably managing construction companies. It integrates content that has traditionally been taught through separate accounting, finance, and engineering economics texts. Students learn how to account for a construction companyes financial resources; how to manage its costs, profits, and cash flows; how to evaluate different sources of funding a companyes cash needs; and how to quantitatively analyze financial decisions. Readers gain hands-on experience through 220 example problems and over 390 practice problems, many of them based on situations actually encountered by the author. This edition adds more than 100 new discussion questions, and presents financial equations and accounting transactions more visually to support more intuitive learning.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

281 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Neal Spadafora · Rating 5 out of 5]

This work studies the developmental distinction in Western thought between political slavery and chattel slavery, especially as this difference emerges in c17 English literature. Often, political slavery is denounced in the same breath that chattel slavery is upheld. Thus, Nyquist investigates how early modern anti-political slavery, descending from the anti-tyranny classical Greek discourses, at times upholds chattel slavery while denouncing political slavery. Further, Nyquist portrays how, strangely enough, absolutist discourses, such as Bodin and Hobbes, denounce chattel slavery precisely because they are absolute monarchists.