Artist Management for the Music Business and Greenspans Fraud

Artist Management for the Music Business

Author: Paul Allen

Artist Management for the Music Business provides clear in depth information on what to do as an artist manager and how to do it. The book looks at the application of classic management theory to artist management, includes profiles of successful artist managers as well as offering skill development for planning, coaching, and leading. Taking an in-depth look at the revenue streams available to an artist and an essential, fully detailed and exclusive career plan template for an artist, it concludes with a directory of major artist management firms.

Artist Management for the Music Business is designed record industry employees who want to know both what to do as a professional artist manager and how to do it as well as for all students studying music business or industry programs.

* Fully cited text from literature, personal interviews, and personal experience of the author.
* The application of classic management theory to artist management.
* Career and business planning for the artist manager.
* Profiles of successful artist managers.
* Skill development for planning, coaching, and leading.
* The application of ethics to the profession.
* An in-depth look at the revenue streams available to an artist.
* An Internet primer for using the web as a tool to help manage an artist.
* A fully detailed and exclusive career plan template for an artist.
* A directory of major artist management firms.
* A companion web site to add updated reference materials for use until the second and third editions are published (domain name is reserved)

Table of Contents:

Introduction,Considering artist management as a profession; Principles of management for the artist manager; Preparing for a career in management; Lessons in artist management: Colonel Parker to Sharon Osbourne; The artist management contract; Planning: A primer; The artist professional support group; Preparing the artist for publishing and recording; The Revenue Streams; Conducting Business for the Artist; Managing the Business of the Artist; The detailed business plan for the recording artist; Managing the business of the manager; Appendix I: Directory of major artist management firms; Appendix II:Contracts

Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy

Author: Ravi Batra

For two decades Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has held reign over economic policy, outlasting three presidents. His long tenure has had a profound effect on global economics and on individuals. In this hard-hitting exposé, international bestselling author Ravi Batra takes sharp aim at Greenspan's policies since he came into power. Greenomics, Batra argues, has extracted trillions of dollars from the American middle class and sharply benefited the rich, while protecting big business. Batra proves that Greenomics has also been responsible for periods of irrational exuberance, and exposes the wild inconsistencies in his social security plans. Greenspan's Fraud explores Greenspan's influences and motivations and the discrepancies between his words and actions, while revealing how his policies have national and global impact.

Publishers Weekly

In 1987, Alan Greenspan was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Batra had a bestseller predicting a depression deeper than the Great Depression, lasting from 1990 to 1996. Batra's second book, two years later, predicting the crash of 1990 did less well, and his books predicting disaster in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 found fewer readers, lucid as they were. Batra did correctly predict a stock market downturn in 2000, but erred by blaming the Y2K computer bug and forecasting high inflation and deep, long lasting negative growth. Now Batra has switched from predicting the future to criticizing the past. Readers expecting sensational charges will be disappointed. "This is not fraud in the legal sense," the author reassures us. Instead, Greenspan has "seriously afflicted the finances of millions of families." Batra faults Greenspan's views on social security, minimum wage, taxes and the trade deficit. As always, his economi c arguments are expressed elegantly. Missing is a direct link to Greenspan, who had only a peripheral advisory role in these issues (his job is setting interest rates, financial policy and bank regulation) and voices only highly modulated views when he does give opinions. The misplaced focus weakens the sound economic arguments, and the title is sensationalized at best. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. (May 9) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The author of a number of sensationalist books, such as The Great Depression of 1990, Batra (economics, Southern Methodist Univ.) here attacks Alan Greenspan as both economic advisor to President Reagan (for the 1981 income tax cut and for the 1983 Social Security tax hike) and Federal Reserve chair since 1987. Though he spends too much time arguing that Greenspan has aided wealthy friends and politicians, Batra does make many important points. He shows that since 1981, taxes have increased proportionately for middle- and low-income U.S. workers while decreasing for the wealthiest and that wage growth for the average worker has been stagnant despite increases in worker productivity. Because lower-income workers have less disposable income, theorizes Batra, the country has experienced low economic growth and a high level of debt-debt that is now propping up the U.S. stock market and economy. Batra also gives a good explanation of t he persistent U.S. trade deficit, which he says results from a combination of currency manipulation by foreign nations and the collapse of domestic manufacturing. Batra's criticisms of Greenspan may be exaggerated, but his economic insights recommend this book to most public and academic libraries.-Lawrence R. Maxted, Gannon Univ., Erie, PA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1	The two faces of Alan Greenspan	1
2	The Social Security fraud	11
3	Greenomics : free profits define free markets	47
4	Greenspan's intellectual fraud	73
5	Greenspan and the globe	123
6	What causes a stock market bubble and its crash?	141
7	The income tax rate and our living standard	169
8	Does the minimum wage create unemployment?	183
9	Greenspan and the galloping trade deficit	195
10	The legacy of Greenomics	217
11	Economic reform	235