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A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis
Author Spyros Lapatsioras , John Milios , Dimitris P Sotiropoulos
The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Africa: The Tenth Largest Economy in the World
Author Vijay Mahajan
This Element is an excerpt from Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think (ISBN: 9780132339421) by Vijay Mahajan. Available in print and digital formats.The surprising numbers: why Africa is a larger market than you ever realized.If ....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Agenda for a New Economy, 2nd Edition
Author David C. Korten
Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and our leaders in Washington lack the will to make desperately needed fundamental changes to the econom....
Release Date 2010/08 -
Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy
Author Kevin Mellyn
"I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn's Broken Markets on their nightstands. . . . Mellyn's work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning Your Business in the Global Economy
Author Olivia Parr Rud
Praise for Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning your business in the Global Economy"Olivia Parr Rud does a remarkable job of weaving together many topics in a strategic way. As 'quants,' we're fascinated with data and fact-based decision-maki....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Author Stian Westlake , Jonathan Haskel
The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&a....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Career Skills for the New Economy
Author Bruce Tulgan
This pocket guide provides all employees a gameplan for succeeding in the modern, fast changing economy. Teaches how to learn and accumulate marketable skills that will transfer to different jobs and different companies. The underlying assumption of Career Skills fo....
Release Date 2000/01 -
Author Xiaodong Lee , Dominic Barton , Winston Ma
Explore the world-changing digital transformation in ChinaChina's Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom is a cutting-edge text that spotlights the digital transformation in China. Organised into three major areas of ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Chinese Counterfeiting and Piracy: Real Dangers to Your Health and Our Economy
Author Peter Navarro
This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.China’s massive commercial piracy and counterfeiting industries: how they work and....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Communication Networks Economy
Author Daniel Battu
In an increasingly interconnected world, "Communication Networks Economy" provides the rational understanding necessary to provide universal access to communication means in an efficient way. This book presents the principal elements of the economics of a network a....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Crushing the IT Gender Bias: Thriving as a Woman in Technology
Author Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
Conscious and unconscious bias, societal pressures, and discomfort with women’s ambition are issues that women are confronted with in any male-dominated setting, and tech is no exception. Statistically, women are a disproportionately small percentage of the technol....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy
Author Morris Altman
This book provides a theoretical framework to better understand how firms, economies and labor markets have evolved. This is done in a reader-friendly fashion, without complex mathematical arguments and proofs. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy shows how hig....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Brajesh Kumar , Arshad Noor Siddiquee , Zahid A. Khan
Engineering Economy is meant as an introductory course for undergraduate students, and it explains and demonstrates the principles and techniques of engineering economic analysis as applied in different fields of engineering.
Release Date 2012/03 -
External Dimension of an Emerging Economy, India
Author Byasdeb Dasgupta
This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation. External dimensions of Indian economy signify her inter-relation with the rest of the world in terms of trade and financial flows and how ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes
Author Andrew J. Schiff , Peter D. Schiff
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andr....
Release Date 2010/05 -
How the Information Revolution Remade Business and the Economy
Author Apek Mulay
Tremendous technological progress in the last half century has exponentially grown productivity as well as increased automation to reduce the costs of operation for businesses. On one hand, ever-growing productivity has reduced requirements for manual labor through....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Jayanta Sarkar
Since Independence, India has been pursuing economic policies and programmes which unwittingly or knowingly are turning out to be copies or adaptations of what is being followed elsewhere, sometimes without any effort to customise them to local conditions, ethos ....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Managing the Matrix: The Secret to Surviving and Thriving in Your Organization
Author Dawn Metcalfe
A comprehensive guide to excelling in a complex matrix organizationDebra was not in a good mood as she entered Johann's office for their third meeting. One of her colleagues had just been promoted and, although the guy who got it was good, she didn't think he was ....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Manufacturers Can Also Win in the Sharing Economy
Author Frieda Klotz
The sharing economy isn’t all bad news for manufacturers of big-ticket items such as cars. Research suggests that in some circumstances, manufacturers can charge higher prices to customers who are planning to rent out those goods. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Market Economy and Urban Change
Author Roger Zetter , Mohamed Hamza
Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of 'market enablement' and stru....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies
Author Paul Mladjenovic
Tired of the 9-to-5 grind and want a way to earn or to supplement your income? Easy.The media has named the growing trend toward micro-entrepreneurship "the Rise of the Creative Class," "the Gig Life," or "the freelance economy." All of those refer to the nearly 4 m....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work
Author Tamara Erickson
They make up nearly one-third of all Americans living today. Born after 1980, they're now pouring into the work world with values, aspirations, and approaches that differ markedly from their parents--and coworkers. They're Generation Y.In Plugged In, Tamara Ericks....
Release Date 2008/11 -
Red Yellow Green: What Color is Your Money? The survival manual for gig workers and consultants
Author Noah Gift
This is the book your boss does NOT want you to read!Learn to escape corporate America. We live in a new era of disruption. It is possible to start a business with a laptop and an internet connection. As a long time consultant and entrepreneur, I have come up with a frame....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy
Author Ph.D. Gregory Salsbury
“A superb introduction to the necessary financial planning no American over 40 can afford to ignore.”Publishers Weekly“It’s time for many individual investors to make some hard choices. Baby Boomers are learning to deal with the fact that they really can’t have it a....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Serving Workers in the Gig Economy
Author Elizabeth Woyke , Nick Grossman
It’s difficult to ignore the effects of the "great unbundling" today. The digital revolution has already changed the nature of media, personal health, finance, and other economic and industrial sectors in recent years. As this O’Reilly report reveals, the modern wo....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Seven Steps to a Rewarding Transitional Career: Getting Work in a Tough Economy
Author Richard J. Pinsker
This tough job market has evolved from the current global financial sector melt down and the resulting economic restructuring, and is likely to continue for a number of years. To thrive in it, one must first recognize that on-going career transitions will be more pr....
Release Date 2009/01 -
The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
Author John C. Beck , Thomas H. Davenport
In today's information-flooded world, the scarcest resource is not ideas or even talent: it's attention. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Davenport and John Beck argue that unless companies learn to effectively capture, manage, and keep it--both internally and ....
Release Date 2001/04 -
The Conscience Economy: How a Mass Movement for Good Is Great for Business
Author Steven Overman
A generation of people around the world, from Boston to Bangkok, from New York to New Delhi, are making everyday choices in ways that defy traditional logic. They are judging where and how their clothes were made, not just how they fit. They are thinking global but ....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Don Tapscott
“Twenty years of hindsight prove how deeply Tapscott understood the impact the Internet would have on the way we live, work, play and learn. This important book, now updated, is just as relevant today as it was then.”John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, CiscoWith a new ....
Release Date 2014/10