All models are wrong, but some are useful. 2 Acknowledgements The authors of this guide would like to thank David Warde-Farley, Guillaume Alain and Caglar Gulcehre for their valuable feedback. Special thanks to Ethan Schoonover, creator of the Solarized color scheme, 1 whose colors were used for the figures. Feedback Your feedback is welcomed! We did our best to be as precise, informative and u...

Max Weber claimed that while Protestantism provided the proper ethos necessary to spur capitalism, Eastern religions did not. Japan’s economic success has belied his hypothesis, and while there have been various theories explaining its rise, perhaps Weber’s own claims regarding the connection between embeddedness and capitalism best explain Japan’s rise. Simply put, Japanese capitalism was born...

Islamic obligatory cleansing known as sertu in Malay language is one of the essential elements to ensure halal integrity products including pharmaceuticals [1], [2]. It an islamic required be conducted when tools and equipment production facility are contaminated with severe najs (Naj Mughallazah) which pork or dog-based contaminant. law has prescribed way cleanse Naj Mughallazah by using time ...

Profit Sharing and Training We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firmspecific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the returns to training, 3) a common payment for the whole workforce leads to p...

Prior to 2003, the biggest news in the E-grocery sector had been the dramatic implosion of high-profile operators. Silicon Valley and Wall Street saw “dot.bombs” in many sectors during the 1990s, but failings in the grocery business seemed magnified due to unique supply chain relationships and, most importantly, strong consumer expectations about product and service quality that do not disappea...