Making Ranked Lists of Companies in Lexis Nexis

Here's a great way to rank companies by sales, employees, deposits (if they are banks) or other parameters (including company financials like assets, liabilities, earnings per share, etc.) . 


You will use Lexis Nexis. 

Go to LexisNexis and click on search by content type. You want to choose the following option.




 

Now you get to CREATE A COMPANY LIST and define your parameters: sales, place of incorporation, employees, and more:



After getting some results, choose customize list

Now, you get to choose the way the list is sorted, or, you can do the search and then order your results by clicking on the parameter (employees, sales, etc...) and the database sorts it for you.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is Democracy Bad for Business?

Sometimes corporations and democracy can come into conflict.  The Trans-Pacific Partnership is an example.  The proposed treaty is controversial because it would give corporations the right to overturn national regulations.  This would actually formally elevate corporate power above sovereign democracy.

Basically, democratically elected leaders could no longer regulate their own country.  An unelected, international panel of experts would do that. And if any country manage to pass regulations that impacted a business, it would be assessed a fine.

Those in favor of the TPP argue that it would allow American competitiveness in emerging markets by extending patent laws, among many other details (more info in the links below).  Their overall point is that national regulations are misguided and damage corporate competitiveness which slows economic growth and prevents rising living standards for all.

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Anti-TPP article

Here is a pro-TPP article.

Most Accessed Articles in a Journal

In case you wanted to see the most accessed articles in a particular journal, go to JSTOR and you can select this option. You'll have to do a search first and click on a record and then you'll see this.

Purpose: to see what the greatest hits of economics are!