Wednesday, September 17, 2008

random points

  • transfer pricing = an accounting procedure usually designed to lower total taxes paid by multinational corporations in which intra-corporate sales and purchases of goods and services are artificially invoiced so that profits accrue to the branch offices located in low-tax countries (tax havens) while offices in high-tax countries show little or no taxable profits (Source: Todaro)
  • outsourcing = subcontracting work to contractors outside the firm;
    it is called offshoring if subcontracted to a firm in another country
    (e.g. call center, medical transcription)
  • The Roots of Crisis: A Neocolonial State = http://www.bulatlat.com/news/4-40/4-40-roots.html

DS 100

1. "unholy alliance" 2. power and control 3. development 4. value-free Social Science 5. social situatedness when the DS Program w...