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St. Martin's Press No Ego
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Princeton University Press The Curse of Cash
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers Selected for Canada's Financial Post Best Personal Finance and Economics Books of 2016 One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016 Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016 "In a brilliant and lucid new book, The Curse of Cash, the Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff gives a fascinating and thorough account of the argument against cash."--John Lanchester, New York Times Magazine "An excellent book on the history and the origins of cash, which also goes into much depth on the issue of cash constraining monetary policy."--Jon Hartley, Forbes.com "The great accomplishment of his book is that his arguments are convincing... It's clear and coherent, and even if you disagree with him in the end, chances are you'll think a little bit differently about something of which most of us give no thought whatsoever."--Bethany McLean, Washington Post "Convincing... It's clear and coherent, and even if you disagree with Rogoff in the end, chances are you'll think a little bit differently about something to which most of us give no thought whatsoever."--Bethany McLean, Washington Post "[A] fascinating economic manifesto... [An] absorbing exploration of the uses, and misuses, of currency, and its intractability in controlling modern economies."--Publishers Weekly "Economist Rogoff, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, offers a detailed case for eliminating paper money... For both the elimination of paper money and the employment of negative interest rates to combat deflationary recessions, Rogoff painstakingly presents both the advantages and the drawbacks... Provocative."--Library Journal "In a witty new book, The Curse of Cash, economist Kenneth Rogoff argues the human race would be better off without paper money. He's onto something."--Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe "[The Curse of Cash] makes the case for encouraging the U.S. government to drastically scale back on $100 bills in circulation. The book ... offers a thought-provoking theory for phasing out paper money, not eliminating it."--Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press "Meticulously written, [The Curse of Cash] covers everything needed for such a monetary reform. But the book is not excessively polemical. Rogoff details almost all the arguments against tinkering with paper currency, then labors to refute or defuse them."--Peter Garber, Finance & Development "Rogoff is always worth listening to... Where Rogoff is on very solid ground is when he says the process of weaning us further off cash should begin with the abolition of high-denomination notes."--David Smith, Sunday Times "Rogoff is always worth listening to... [He] is on very solid ground ... when he says the process of weaning us further off cash should begin with the abolition of high-denomination notes."--David Smith, Sunday Times "Rogoff makes a compelling case for the crime-fighting power of his idea."--David Nicklaus, St. Louis Post Dispatch "[Rogoff] understands that getting rid of cash ... is not exactly an easy sell. So Rogoff builds the case against cash, loading up on all the things wrong with paper money... Rogoff's case against cash is so cogently argued that it's hard to believe that we haven't already gotten rid of paper bills and coins--or at least larger bills."--Mark Gimein, Strategy+Business.com "An illuminating, provocative and fact-packed work that does make you wonder why on earth we allow so much cash to slosh around. It also exposes some well-worn pub truths as urban myths."--Patrick Hosking, The Times "An illuminating, provocative and fact-packed work that does make you wonder why on earth we allow so much cash to slosh around."--Patrick Hosking, The Times "Ken Rogoff, the Harvard economist, who argues in [his] new book that we should start to phase out cash is, for me, on the money."--Ben Chu, Independent "This book is a rare bird indeed: accessible, absorbing and often deadpan funny."--Brian Bethune, Maclean's "[The Curse of Cash] is a fascinating contribution to the debate about what might be done to help get many wealthy countries out of an economic funk."--Clancy Yeates, Sydney Morning Herald "Lively and clearly written."--Geoffrey Wood, Central Banking Journal "Recommended for readers who seek a greater understanding of negative interest rates and the possibility of eliminating cash."--Choice "You may not have any in your wallet, but $100 bills make up an astonishing 80 percent of the U.S. currency in circulation. In his new book, The Curse of Cash, Kenneth Rogoff ... proposes a plan to phase out most paper currency in the United States and other economically advanced nations, keeping only low-denomination notes to create what he terms a 'less-cash' society."--MIT Technology Review "Like a chess player playing many opponents simultaneously, Rogoff views 'the curse of cash' through several prisms, and offers a compelling rationale of the merits of a 'less cash' economy."--Venky Vembu, The Hindu "The Curse of Cash is a well-argued book and Rogoff is a good economist."--Pierre Lemieux, RegulationTable of ContentsPreface ix 1 Introduction and Overview 1 PART I: The Dark Side of Paper Currency: Tax and Regulatory Evasion, Crime, and Security Issues 2 The Early Development of Coins and Paper Currency 15 3 Size and Composition of Global Currency Supplies, and the Share Held Abroad 31 4 Holdings of Currency in the Domestic, Legal, Tax-Paying Economy 48 5 Currency Demand in the Underground Economy 58 6 Seigniorage 80 7 A Plan for Phasing Out Most Paper Currency 92 PART II: Negative Interest Rates 8 The Cost of the Zero Bound Constraint 119 9 Higher Inflation Targets, Nominal GDP, Escape Clauses, and Fiscal Policy 147 10 Other Paths to Negative Interest Rates 158 11 Other Possible Downsides to Negative Nominal Policy Rates 175 12 Negative Interest Rates as a Violation of Trust and a Step Away from Rule-Based Systems 182 PART III: International Dimensions and Digital Currencies 13 International Dimensions to Phasing Out Paper Currency 199 14 Digital Currencies and Gold 208 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 217 Final Thoughts 237 Acknowledgments 241 Appendix 245 Notes 253 References 277 Index 293
£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Stretch
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWe rarely have as much of anything as we want, but we can learn to do more with it. Scott Sonenshein is a gifted thinker whose insights have sharpened my work for over a decade, and his fascinating debut book reveals how resourcefulness is a skill that's waiting to be learned. Get ready to unleash your inner MacGyver. -- Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take I always appreciate a book that challenges me, forces me to think, and creates constructive discomfort. And I especially value such a book when its key conclusions have a base of research. Dr. Sonenshein has accomplished all this with Stretch, and I am thankful for the chance to grow from reading his work. -- Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great and Great by Choice It's easy to feel like we never have enough time, resources, or money. Scott Sonenshein's surprising and entertaining book inspires and instructs us to make the most out of what we already have. The result is more-more creativity, more engagement, and more satisfaction. -- Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of To Sell is Human and Drive Stretch is a masterpiece. Whether you want to build a better life or a better business, Scott Sonenshein reveals how the power of constraints sets you free and why the lust for more is bad for your mental health and-ironically- your personal success and the success of your business. I love the stories, rigorous research, and especially, how Sonenshein's warmth and wisdom fill every page and make Stretch a joy to read -- Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of the The No Asshole Rule Well-informed and frequently enlightening...Sonenshein is an amiable guide to attaining the benefits of stretching. A convincing argument within a compelling narrative-recommended for business managers and resourceful individuals alike. -- Kirkus In Silicon Valley successful entrepreneurs value constraints to help define both the problem and solution. In Stretch, Scott Sonenshein explains how to turn limitations into valuable assets, helping us achieve our goals both at work and at home. -- Ann Doerr, Chairman, Kahn Academy A smart yet accessible book that will appeal to readers interested in simplifying their careers and lives. -- Library Journal
£19.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Yes And
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I know one of these guys, so at least half of this book is pretty good. Yes, And is for anyone looking to be more creative in their work and in their life." -- Stephen Colbert "If one phrase can capture the essence of the creative mindset then 'yes, and' might just be it. If one book can inspire you to apply that creative mindset then Yes, And is most certainly that book." -- --Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and author of Change By Design "Yes, And takes you behind the curtain of Second City to reveal deep insights and practical tips about how to lead a creative life. If you want to flourish in the new world of work, this book is an essential read." -- --Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive "You'll learn, you'll laugh, and you'll immediately test out the rich set of practical exercises at the office-and the dinner table." -- --Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take "Accepting and building on what others have initiated, Yes, Andis the best teamwork advice for the stage or the boardroom." -- --Dick Costollo, CEO of Twitter "An excellent guide to the lessons that have bubbled up in Second City's improv workshops. It sounds crazy that a comedy troupe should have anything to say about how you should lead your life. Trust me: it isn't." -- Vanity Fair
£25.23
The Do Book Co Do Disrupt
Book SynopsisIn Do Disrupt, brand consultant Mark Shayler delivers authoritative advice on how to be a strategic, bold, and decisive change maker. Full of tried-and-true tips plus rousing quotes from history's most notable innovators, this book gives anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit the tools they need to make their big idea a reality.
£8.99
Random House USA Inc Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Leveraged Finance
Book SynopsisLeveraged finance is an often discussed topic and includes coverage of loans, bonds, collateralized loan obligations, and portfolio credit products such as synthetics. This is a rich and comprehensive guide to the instruments financing most of corporate America (bonds and loans) and their derivatives.Trade Review"…a resource that will be invaluable to traditional and nontraditional investors long after the market recovers." (The Investment Professional)Table of ContentsPreface xiii About the Authors xv Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Part One: The Cash Market 2 Part Two: The Structured Markets 3 Part Three: The Synthetic Markets 4 Part Four: How to Trade the Leveraged Finance Market 5 Part Five: Default Correlation 6 Part One The Cash Market 9 Chapter 2 The High-Yield Bond Market 11 The Reasons Companies Are Classified as High-Yield Issuers 11 Size and Growth of the Cash Market 13 Types of Structures 21 A Look at Ratings 22 Risk and Return for Bonds 26 What’s Priced In? 31 How About Recoveries? 35 Summary 37 Chapter 3 Leveraged Loans 39 A Tale of Two Loans 39 Introduction to Leveraged Loans 42 An Overview of Loan Terms 56 Loan Recovery Rates 65 Loan Default Rates 73 Summary 79 Part Two Structured Market 81 Chapter 4 Collateralized Loan Obligations 83 Understanding CLOs 83 Elaborations and Details 92 Summary 104 Chapter 5 CLO Returns 105 Default and Recovery Scenarios 105 Distressed Loan Prices, Overflowing Triple-C Buckets, and CLO Returns 119 Summary 129 Chapter 6 CLO Portfolio Overlap 133 Collateral Overlap in U.S. CLOs 134 Collateral Vintage vs. Deal Vintage 142 Favorite CLO Credits 142 Single-Name Risk and Tranche Protections 146 Excess Overcollateralization and Excess Overcollateralization Delta 150 Senior and Subordinate Excess OC Deltas 151 Equity Tranches and Distressed Tranches 157 Summary 157 Part Three Synthetic Markets 159 Chapter 7 Credit Default Swaps and the Indexes 161 What Are Credit Default Swaps? 162 Who Uses Protection, and for What? 168 Growth of the Market 168 Marking-to-Market: SDV 01 170 Credit Default Swaps Indexes 172 Contrasting the LCDX and CDX Indexes 177 Beta: A Study of Movement 178 Summary 183 Chapter 8 Index Tranches 185 Basic Mechanics of the Tranche Market 185 Loan Tranches 195 Summary 199 Part Four How to Trade the Leveraged Finance Market 201 Chapter 9 Recessions and Returns 203 Broad Market Performance 204 Sector Performance 207 Performance by Rating 207 Summary 210 Chapter 10 Framework for the Credit Analysis of Corporate Debt 211 Approaches to Credit Analysis 211 Industry Considerations 216 Financial Analysis 220 Quantitative Models 232 Summary 233 Chapter 11 Trading the Basis 235 The Basic Basis Package 236 Constructing the Basic Package 236 Moving Away from the Basic Model 240 Adding Positive Convexity 249 Negative Convexity 254 A More Complex Basis Package 255 Hedge Ratios for CLO Hedging 259 Summary 260 Chapter 12 How Much Should You Get Paid to Take Risk? 263 Single-Name Credit Risk 263 Curve Risk 267 Basis Risk 269 Capital Structure Risk 274 Summary 281 Part Five Default Correlation 283 Chapter 13 Default Correlation: The Basics 285 Default Correlation Defined 285 Default Probability and Default Correlation 291 Summary 309 Chapter 14 Empirical Default Correlations: Problems and Solutions 311 Empirical Results 311 Problems with Historical Default Correlations 315 Proposed Solutions 318 Summary 333 Index 335
£54.75
McGraw-Hill Education Auditing Assurance Services ISE
Book SynopsisAs auditors, we are trained to investigate beyond appearances to determine the underlying factsin other words, to look beneath the surface. Whether evaluating the Enron and World-Com scandals of the early 2000s, the financial crisis of 20072008, the Wirecard fraud in 2020 or present-day issues and challenges related to significant estimation uncertainty, understanding the auditor's responsibility related to fraud, maintaining a clear perspective, probing for details, and understanding the big picture are indispensable to effective auditing. With the availability of greater levels of qualitative and quantitative information (Big Data), the need for technical skills and challenges facing today's auditor is greater than ever. The Louwers, Bagley, Blay, Strawser, and Thibodeau team has dedicated years of experience in the auditing field to this new edition of Auditing & Assurance Services, supplying the necessary investigative tools for future auditors.
£55.79
John Wiley & Sons Inc Leadership Lessons From a Chef
Book Synopsis"Chef Charles Carroll has answered our prayers and delivered a book, a bible, a life's journal shared by a real chef in today's modern kitchen. " Chef John Folse, CEC, AAC "From time to time, I buy motivational books for my managing partners and chefs, and this book is my all-time favorite gift.Table of ContentsForeword vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii About the Author xv Chapter 1 What Makes You Tick? 1 Chapter 2 Testing the Kitchen Atmosphere 14 Chapter 3 How Is Your Attitude? 25 Chapter 4 Build Your Leadership Team First 35 Chapter 5 What Is Your Mission? 53 Chapter 6 The Principles That Guide Us 61 Chapter 7 Program Survival: Living It! 65 Chapter 8 Educational Environment 71 Chapter 9 Fostering Success 84 Chapter 10 How to Get People to Want to Work for You 93 Chapter 11 Hire Right the First Time 101 Chapter 12 Incentive Programs 111 Chapter 13 Discipline and Competition 119 Chapter 14 Did You Listen Well the First Time? 125 Chapter 15 Forms to Help You 130 Chapter 16 Why Do It? 134 Appendix A Certificates and Forms 140 Appendix B Life and Work Tips from Chef Carroll 157 Appendix C A Collection of Quotations 159 Glossary 167 Index 173
£36.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Profit with Options
Book SynopsisWhether the markets are moving up or down, options remain one of the most attractive instruments for investors. This beginner's guide to trading options starts with a basic explanation of terminology, and then explains trading methodologies with chapters on direct and contrary indicators, protecting a stock portfolio, and trading volatility.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Options as Direct Indicators. Options as Contrary Indicators. System Trading. Protecting a Stock Portfolio. Trading Volatility. Buy Low and Sell High--Volatility, That Is. Answers to Review Questions. Glossary. Index.
£28.49
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Hedge Fund Edge
Book SynopsisAchieve higher returns with lower risk and take your profits globally. A leading hedge fund trader offers a solid and profitable trading approach to the world markets. This is the best stock market book that I have read in a long time. Boucher lays it out clearly, concisely, and in a most interesting manner. A ''must read'' for anyone who invests in the equities market. -Dan Sullivan Editor, The Chartist A leading practitioner offers rich theoretical insights and sound practical advice based on years of successful trading. Mark Boucher is that rare investment analyst who knows what really works in trading and can communicate it with authority and grace. -Nelson Freeburg Editor and Publisher, Formula Research, Inc. The Hedge Fund Edge is an indispensable guide for any investor or trader who wants to consistently profit from the markets without having to undergo huge risks. Mark Boucher, hedge fund manager and well-known speaker on trading, provides reTable of ContentsThe Risk of Traditional Investment Approaches. Liquidity-The Pump that Artificially Primes Investment Flows. Index Valuation Gauges-Do Not Ignore the Price You Pay. Macro Technical Tools-Making Sure the Tide Is Moving in the Right Direction. Containing Risk-Sound Strategy and Money Management Methods and the Principles of Character Necessary to Achieve Them. The Essence of Consistent Profits-Understanding. Equity Selection Criteria Long and Short-How Profits Are Magnified. Other Asset Classes and Models to Exploit Them. Asset Allocation Models and Global Relative Strength Analysis-Constructing a Portfolio. Appendices. Index.
£70.50
Ebury Publishing The Spider Network
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year!Will snare you in its web of deceit ... A brilliant investigative exposé' - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author Reads like a fast-paced John le Carré thriller, and never lets up' - New York Times book review The Spider Network is the almost-unbelievable and darkly entertaining inside account of the Libor scandal one of the biggest, farthest-reaching financial scams since the global financial crisis written by the only journalist with access to Tom Hayes before he was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Full of exclusive details, and with ramifications that stretch right across the British establishment, this is a gripping, real-life story of outlandish characters and reckless greed in the City of London. By turns a rollicking account of the scandal and also a provocative examination of a financial system that was crooked throughTrade ReviewAnyone with an interest in financial services and in what has gone wrong will find The Spider Network compelling. -- Daniel Finkelstein * The Times *a surprisingly human narrative … truly memorable … a vivid depiction of the ethos of the core financial institutions upon which the global economy depends * New York Times *a model of investigative financial writing... a more satisfying read than THE BIG SHORT by Michael Lewis * Literary Review *will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colourful characters. [a] brilliant investigative exposé * Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author *supremely gripping ... a thrilling tour de force of reporting, revelation and reasoning ... unmissable * Iain Martin, bestselling author of MAKING IT HAPPEN: FRED GOODWIN, RBS AND THE MEN WHO BLEW UP THE BRITISH ECONOMY *An incredibly entertaining, globe-straddling inside account of how one trader turbocharged a greedy cabal that scammed savers and borrowers everywhere. A must read if you want to understand how big banks and traders really work * Marcus Brauchli, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post and Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal *Equally entertaining and illuminating … Enrich’s brilliant depiction … owes to deep reporting, deft writing, and a nuanced approach that characterizes the entire book… First-rate. * John Helyar, bestselling author of BARBARIANS AT THE GATE *how did a socially awkward English math whiz mastermind manipulation of lending rates on a global scale? And was Tom Hayes truly the mastermind, or just a cog in a corrupt banking system? In David Enrich’s gripping tale, the characters have nicknames worthy of the Mafia, and their ethical compasses aren't much better * Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of CRASH COURSE *gripping and disturbing ... It reads like a thriller and has some hilarious moments, whilst raising important questions about the nature of our financial and judicial systems * Ian Fraser, journalist and author of SHREDDED: INSIDE RBS, THE BANK THAT BROKE BRITAIN *David Enrich is a masterful story teller ... Michael Lewis has a new rival * Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC and president of Washington College *An absorbing read that provides both a meticulous dissection of an immense scandal as well as a fascinating human story * Bethany McLean, bestselling author of THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM: THE AMAZING RISE AND SCANDALOUS FALL OF ENRON *For years, David Enrich has chased down the inside story of one the biggest financial frauds in history and was even threatened with jail by a British court if he printed what he knew. Now, in his blockbuster book The Spider Network, all of the secrets come spilling out…With an unerring eye for detail, Enrich shows in this masterful work how a toxic stew of greed, arrogance and a lust for power led to a criminal scheme of unparalleled dimensions. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the dirty underbelly of the financial world. * Kurt Eichenwald, Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE INFORMANT *This dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scams in the history of markets. * Andrew Lo, Professor of Finance at MIT *In the hands of journalist David Enrich, the true tale of former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes becomes a page-turning crime drama that engages – and educates – readers from beginning to end. * The Charlotte Observer *A gripping narrative ... impressive reporting and writing chops are on full display ... reads like a fast-paced John le Carré thriller, and never lets up * New York Times book review *a feat of reporting, and much of it reads like a novel -- Leigh Gallagher * Washington Post *a remarkable read -- John Arlidge * Sunday Times *jaw-dropping * Financial Times *a gripping financial thriller * Daily Mail *
£14.24
John Wiley & Sons Inc Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts
Book SynopsisFollowing in the footsteps of author Thomas Bulkowski's bestselling Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns -and structured in the same way-this easy-to-read and -use resource takes an in-depth look at 103 candlestick formations, from identification guidelines and statistical analysis of their behavior to detailed trading tactics.Trade Review"This book is a handy reference for beginners to advanced Technical Analysts. It contains statistical data for the performance of over 100 Candlestick patterns in both bull and bear markets, offers identification guidelines, and explores the performance of tall versus short candles and shadows. Of particular interest are the chapters which delve into important discoveries and those which explain each Table entry in detail and discuss the methodologies behind them. A useful addition it the visual index. Overall the easy to read makes this book a welcome addition to most Technical Analysis bookcases." —IFTA JournalTable of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1 Findings 8 2 Statistics Summary 20 3 8 New Price Lines 27 4 10 New Price Lines 38 5 12 New Price Lines 49 6 13 New Price Lines 60 7 Abandoned Baby, Bearish 70 8 Abandoned Baby, Bullish 80 9 Above the Stomach 89 10 Advance Block 98 11 Below the Stomach 108 12 Belt Hold, Bearish 118 13 Belt Hold, Bullish 127 14 Breakaway, Bearish 137 15 Breakaway, Bullish 141 16 Candle, Black 146 17 Candle, Short Black 154 18 Candle, Short White 162 19 Candle, White 170 20 Concealing Baby Swallow 178 21 Dark Cloud Cover 182 22 Deliberation 191 23 Doji, Dragonfly 202 24 Doji, Gapping Down 211 25 Doji, Gapping Up 221 26 Doji, Gravestone 230 27 Doji, Long-Legged 239 28 Doji, Northern 248 29 Doji, Southern 257 30 Doji Star, Bearish 266 31 Doji Star, Bullish 276 32 Doji Star, Collapsing 285 33 Downside Gap Three Methods 289 34 Downside Tasuki Gap 299 35 Engulfing, Bearish 308 36 Engulfing, Bullish 317 37 EveningDojiStar 326 38 Evening Star 335 39 Falling Three Methods 344 40 Hammer 348 41 Hammer, Inverted 356 42 Hanging Man 365 43 Harami, Bearish 374 44 Harami, Bullish 383 45 Harami Cross, Bearish 392 46 Harami Cross, Bullish 400 47 High Wave 409 48 Homing Pigeon 418 49 Identical Three Crows 427 50 In Neck 436 51 Kicking, Bearish 444 52 Kicking, Bullish 452 53 Ladder Bottom 459 54 Last Engulfing Bottom 470 55 Last Engulfing Top 479 56 Long Black Day 488 57 Long White Day 496 58 Marubozu, Black 504 59 Marubozu, Closing Black 512 60 Marubozu, Closing White 520 61 Marubozu, Opening Black 528 62 Marubozu, Opening White 536 63 Marubozu, White 544 64 Mat Hold 552 65 Matching Low 561 66 Meeting Lines, Bearish 570 67 Meeting Lines, Bullish 579 68 Morning Doji Star 588 69 Morning Star 598 70 On Neck 607 71 Piercing Pattern 616 72 Rickshaw Man 625 73 Rising Three Methods 633 74 Separating Lines, Bearish 642 75 Separating Lines, Bullish 651 76 Shooting Star, One-Candle 660 77 Shooting Star, Two-Candle 668 78 Side-by-Side White Lines, Bearish 676 79 Side-by-Side White Lines, Bullish 685 80 Spinning Top, Black 694 81 Spinning Top, White 702 82 Stick Sandwich 710 83 Takuri Line 720 84 Three Black Crows 728 85 Three Inside Down 738 86 Three Inside Up 747 87 Three-Line Strike, Bearish 756 88 Three-Line Strike, Bullish 765 89 Three Outside Down 774 90 Three Outside Up 782 91 Three Stars in the South 790 92 Three White Soldiers 794 93 Thrusting 803 94 Tri-Star, Bearish 812 95 Tri-Star, Bullish 820 96 Tweezers Bottom 829 97 Tweezers Top 837 98 Two Black Gapping Candles 845 99 Two Crows 853 100 Unique Three-River Bottom 861 101 Upside Gap Three Methods 870 102 Upside Gap Two Crows 879 103 Upside Tasuki Gap 888 104 Window, Falling 898 105 Window, Rising 903 Bibliography 907 Glossary and Methodology 909 Visual Index 919 Subject Index 929
£95.25
John Wiley & Sons Inc Visual Meetings
Book SynopsisUse eye-popping visual tools to energize your people! Just as social networking has reclaimed the Internet for human interactivity and co-creation, the visual meetings movement is reclaiming creativity, productivity, and playful exchange for serious work in groups.Trade ReviewPraise for Visual Meetings “David Sibbet is the father of visual facilitation. This book finally lets us see meetings as he sees them—as eye-opening opportunities to discover what people really think. David’s approach to visually recording and visually facilitating meetings will help you become a better meeting leader and participant, see a whole new side of business—and a whole new side of yourself.” –Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin “I have experienced the transformative power of David’s pioneering visual methods and tools. Open this book and you will get a clear vision of collaboration in the future—groups inspired and energized, tapping into their collective wisdom to create sustainable solutions: the global brain at work.” –Meryem Le Saget, Meryem Le Saget Consulting, Paris “David Sibbet is a genius. Buy this book, and study it, not only for better meetings, but for better organizations, better teams, and a better future.” –Alan M. Webber, co-founder of Fast Company magazine “This amazing book shows you how visualization can bring clarity to the growing complexity around us.” –Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future “This book is like David’s workshops—fun and fruitful. Time and again, I have seen the principles and processes described in this book yield a rich harvest among audiences in Singapore.” –Dawn Yip, Soulbreath Consulting Singapore “Visual Meetings is an elegant and immensely practical guide to transforming group productivity. It provides novices with a fast start to making the most of scarce group time.” –Paul Saffo, Technology Forecaster Visiting Scholar, Stanford Media-X Network “’What If Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive?’ Can you imagine? Visual meetings master David Sibbet has done it—put all the competency, wisdom, language, technique, resources, tools, everything you need in one delightful book?” –Robert E. Horn, author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century Table of ContentsIntroduction xiThe Power of Visual Meetings I: Just Imagine What if Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive? 1 1. Visualization is Worth 80 IQ Points 3Tapping Energy, Intelligence, & Creativity 2. Everybody Knows Graphic Language 19It’s Gesture with a Pen 3. Four Easy Ways to Get Started 37Personal Visualization, Napkins & Flipcharts, Graphic Templates, & Getting Others to Draw II: Engaging Groups & Building Rapport Why Visual Listening is So Compelling (and Easy!) 51 4. Getting People Involved 53Using Pictures to Interact 5. Presentation without PowerPoint 69Simple Drawings & Graphic Templates 6. Consulting & Selling with Graphics 81Drawing Out Customer Interests 7. Hands-On Information 89Sticky Notes & Dot Voting 8. Using Images & Interaction 97Collage & Picture Cards III: Graphics for Visual Thinking Mapping Ideas & Finding Key Patterns 107 9. Group Graphics 109Seven Ways to Write on the Wall 10. Problem Solving 133Getting Unstuck & Thinking around Corners 11. Storyboarding & Idea Mapping 147How Innovators & Designers Work 12. Visual Planning 157Using Graphic Templates to See the Big Picture 13. Multiple Meetings & Gallery Walks 173Making Sense of Things over Space & Time 14. Digital Capture 183Extending Your Meeting with Visual Documentation 15. Visualizing at a Distance 189Using Tablets in Web Meetings IV: Graphics for Enacting Plans Visuals for Teams, Projects, & Getting Results 195 16. Supporting Team Performance 197Visualizing Goals, Roles, & Action Plans 17. Decision-Making Meetings 205Aligning on Agreements & Getting Commitments 18. Project Management Meetings 209Mapping Progress with Pictures 19. Facilitating Innovation & Change 215Playing with Prototypes 20. Training & Workshops 223Leveraging Action Learning V: Seeing It All Come Together Tools for the Seriously Hooked 229 21. The Path to Visual Competency 231Learning from the Groups You Lead 22. The Future is Visible Now! 237Seeds of a Real Revolution in Meetings 23. Resources & Networks 247Grove Tools, Web Resources, Bibliography Index 255
£18.39
John Wiley & Sons Inc Get Rich with Options
Book SynopsisThere are too many "theory -type" option books out there that just list all the available option trading strategies without giving any meat to their uses. Conversely, this book draws upon Lee Lowell's real world experience to lay the groundwork for what options really are, are how to use them most effectively.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition ix Acknowledgments xiii Part One: The option basics 1 CHAPTER 1: It’s All about the Calls and Puts 3 CHAPTER 2: How Options are Priced 15 CHAPTER 3: Option Volatility 27 CHAPTER 4: Stocks versus Options 47 CHAPTER 5: Option Selling Is Your Key to Success 57 Part Two: The strategies 69 CHAPTER 6: Buy All the Stock You Want for Half the Price 71 CHAPTER 7: Getting Paid to Buy Your Favorite Stock 93 CHAPTER 8: Option Credit Spreads: The All-Star Strategy 121 CHAPTER 9: A Day in the Life of the Market Maker 173 CHAPTER 10: Put Your Stocks to Work—Sell Covered Calls 185 CHAPTER 11: A Bonus Strategy: Ratio Option Spreads 205 Part Three: Getting Ready to Trade 227 CHAPTER 12: Tools of the Trade 229 CHAPTER 13: Brokers and Commissions 235 Conclusion 243 Index 247
£29.25
John Wiley & Sons Inc Plumbers and Visionaries
Book SynopsisCrossing Frontiers is a story about the settlements industry in Europe, with an emphasis on cross border, influenced by the developments and business in the US and bound up with the Americanization of securities markets, all the while relating the impact on Europe.Trade Review"...will interest specialists, general readers and fans of detective fiction... grippingly relevant to current economic circumstances" (Financial Times, Monday 7th January 2008) "virtually the only book to cover this arcane subject comprehensively, it is an essential complement for any financial market’s library." (Financial World, February 2008) "...a comprehensive and exhaustively researched study.." (Speed, Vol. 2) “Norman has produced a history of EU clearing and settlement systems” (European Voice, Thursday 14th February 2008) “...deserves to become compulsory reading for regulators and policy makers everywhere." (Global Custodian, Spring 2008)Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ix Preface xi Part I New problems. New solutions 1 1 Settling Securities Across Borders 3 1.1 Turnover in the trillions 3 1.2 Process and players 9 2 The Eurobond Market and the New York Settlement Crisis 17 2.1 Autostrade shows the way 17 2.2 Foreign dollar bonds and their settlement 19 2.3 From Autostrade to the New York settlement crisis 20 2.4 The AIBD 23 2.5 Settlement services in Luxembourg 25 3 The ICSDs – Euroclear and Cedel 29 3.1 Closings in Brussels 29 3.2 The creation of Euroclear 31 3.3 Establishing Cedel in Luxembourg 35 3.4 Cedel’s success 37 3.5 The wider settlement picture 39 4 Euroclear Fights Back 43 4.1 The sale of Euroclear to its users 43 4.2 Difficult days 45 4.3 Commitment to investment 48 4.4 Euclid 51 4.5 Securities lending and borrowing 52 4.6 The Bridge 54 4.7 Prospering in difficult times 55 Part II Winds of Change 61 5 New Markets, New Tensions 63 5.1 Caviar and champagne 63 5.2 The 1980s – Deregulation and securitisation 66 5.3 Diversification at Euroclear 72 5.4 The Belgian cooperative 76 6 After the Crash 79 6.1 Strengthening cooperation and national systems 79 6.2 European considerations 82 6.3 American influences 84 6.4 Central bankers push for DvP 87 7 The Coming of the Euro 91 7.1 A world transformed 91 7.2 Beyond G30 92 7.3 The EMI and Lamfalussy 94 7.4 The growth of repo activity 97 7.5 The ECB and securities settlement 100 Part III An Industry in Ferment 105 8 The Rivals 107 8.1 Euroclear and the boom in domestic markets 107 8.2 Lussi and the revival of Cedel 116 9 Change at the Exchanges and CSDs 123 9.1 Investment and consolidation 123 9.2 Seifert in Frankfurt – a story of vertical integration 125 9.3 Th´eodore in Paris – innovation through IT 129 9.4 Taurus and CREST – a horizontal system by accident 133 9.5 The Swiss Value Chain 135 9.6 Different blueprints 136 10 Corporate Manoeuvrings 141 10.1 Pressure for change 141 10.2 A European clearing house? 143 10.3 A meeting of minds in Marrakech 144 10.4 Dark days for Euroclear 146 10.5 The fight back begins 147 10.6 The French defect 149 11 Euroclear Transformed 151 11.1 Euroclear separates from Morgan 151 11.2 The creation of Euronext 156 11.3 Euroclear acquires Sicovam 158 12 Seifert’s Silo 163 12.1 A flurry of initiatives 163 12.2 Lussi’s fortunes ebb 165 12.3 Lussi’s downfall 167 12.4 The banks change tack 170 12.5 Seifert secures Clearstream 171 13 Europe with Two Settlement Models 175 13.1 Euroclear acquires CREST 175 13.2 A sub-optimal outcome 179 13.3 Embedding the vertical and horizontal models 182 13.4 LCH and Clearnet merge 184 13.5 Fair & Clear 186 13.6 Changes in structures and governance 187 Part IV An Issue for Europe 191 14 The EU Reacts 193 14.1 The Lisbon Agenda 193 14.2 The Lamfalussy Committee of Wise Men 194 14.3 The Giovannini Reports 196 14.4 The cost of fragmentation 200 14.5 The Commission responds 201 14.6 The Andria Report 203 14.7 The ESCB/CESR standards 203 14.8 The G30 and EFR Reports 205 14.9 MiFID 206 14.10 The Commission’s second communication 207 14.11 The arrival of McCreevy 208 15 Setting Parameters 213 15.1 Algorithms and exchanges 213 15.2 Seifert and the law of unintended consequences 215 15.3 Exchange consolidation: an unpredictable catalyst 217 15.4 Competition authorities turn against silos 218 15.5 Competition and interoperability 220 15.6 For and against a single CCP 222 15.7 User discontent 224 15.8 Change at Euroclear 227 16 Work in Progress 233 16.1 Euroclear’s domestic market for Europe 233 16.2 Cesame and dismantling the Giovannini barriers 238 17 Frameworks for the Future 243 17.1 Two solutions at once 243 17.2 The code of conduct 244 17.3 Target2-Securities 250 17.4 T2S – the follow-up 254 17.5 Questions and more questions 259 18 Conclusions and Reflections 265 Appendices 271 A References and bibliography 271 B Key dates for the securities settlement industry in Europe 279 C Who’s who in the history of European securities settlement 291 D Glossary of technical terms 311 E Postscript 329 Index 333
£51.75
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Dynamics of Conflict
Book SynopsisSuitable for those who work with people in conflict, this title explores the theoretical underpinnings of conflict as it relates to cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions. It includes personal stories and examples that provide practical skills in communication and negotiation, including how to deal with power and cross-cultural issues.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition: A Reflective Approach to Conflict vii Part One: Conflict 1 1 The Nature of Conflict 3 2 How People Approach Conflict 33 3 Power and Conflict 67 4 Culture and Conflict 92 Part Two: Engagement and Intervention 121 5 Resolving Conflict 123 6 Engaging Conflict 146 7 Communication 182 8 Negotiation 211 9 Working with Impasse 245 10 Mediation 269 11 Other Approaches to Conflict Intervention 301 12 Why We Intervene in Conflict 333 References 345 About the Author 353 Index 355
£46.80
University of California Press Disenchanted Night
Book SynopsisTells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. This title reveals the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. It discusses a range of subject including the political symbolism of street lamps, the rise of night-life and the shop window, and more.
£22.06
Taylor & Francis Dynamics of International Business
Book SynopsisThe Dynamics of International Business offers a comparative, chronological overview of the strategic and structural evolution of international firms.Organized around eras of global economic development, the text synthesizes research on the internationalization of firms, highlighting crucial turning points in the evolution of the international economy. A particular emphasis is placed on the relationship between historical evidence and the theoretical frameworks available for its interpretation. Each period is illustrated by a selection of short case studies from a variety of industry sectors, including the Levant Company, NestlÃ, Singer, Saint Gobain and NEC.An essential textbook for courses in business and economic history, this book will also be a valuable resource for scholars and students of international business more generally. Trade Review'A profound overall picture of the long-term development of international business ... [that] can be recommended to all historians interested in long-term trends in international business.' - Jarkko Keskinen, International Small Business Journal 'A splendid history of the multinational enterprise from medieval Europe to present day business. Practically every chapter has a case study illustrating the theme of the chapter. Colli shows with great skill how the organizational and administrative forms of multinational enterprise have altered through time. His book puts the multinational enterprise into the context of the changing world order.' - Mira Wilkins, Professor, Florida International University, USA'A convincing presentation of the historical roots of today’s most dynamic economic actor: International business. Colli understood to combine major trends with illustrative detail. A masterpiece on economic history.' - Harm G. Schröter, Professor, University of Bergen, Norway'This is the textbook I was looking for when I set up a new history course on International Business and Nation States. It gives the students a much needed long-term perspective on the development of international business.' - Ben Wubs, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands'An innovative book which brings together the role of markets, firms and entrepreneurs to explain the past and current challenges and dynamics of international business in the global economy. It will be of great interest to those studying or teaching international business and its history.' - Teresa da Silva Lopes, Professor, University of York, UK'Intelligently integrates theories and case studies to illuminate key periods of change in world business history. A welcome, much needed contribution that should be required reading in any international business history course.' - Paloma Fernández Pérez, Senior Lecturer, University of Barcelona, SpainTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. International Business before the Industrial Revolution 1.1 The Adventures of Pietro Querino 1.2 Long-distance Trade before the Industrial Revolution: Relevance 1.3 Long-distance Trade before the Industrial Revolution: Geographies 1.4 Risk Management in Pre-Industrial International Business 1.5 Avoiding, Preventing and Mitigating Risk 1.6 Transaction and Information Costs in Long-distance Trade before the Industrial Revolution 1.7 The Persistence of Market Exchange in the Pre-industrial Period 2. The Age of Companies 2.1 New Organisational Devices 2.2 Nature and Rationales 2.3 Structural Features 2.4 Organisational Structures 2.5 Internalising International Competitive Advantages: Opportunities and risks 3. International Business in the First Industrial Revolution (1800-1870) 3.1 Eighteen-Thirty-Three A.D. 3.2 International Business in the First Industrial Revolution: Migrating entrepreneurship 3.3 The Information and Communication Revolution 3.4 Global Migration in a Global World 3.5 Input Mobility 3.6 Forms of Enterprise in the First Global Economy: Merchants and Traders 3.7 Forms of Enterprise in the First Global Economy: Free-standing companies 4. Enterprises and Entrepreneurs in an Age of Globalisation (1870-1914) 4.1 A Nineteenth-Century Born Global 4.2 The Second Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Big Business 4.3 Big Business and the ‘Modern Multinationals’ 4.4 Integrating Backward 4.5 Integrating Forward 4.6 Why Produce Abroad? 4.7 Where to Invest, and How? 4.8 Varieties of Multinationals 5. International Entrepreneurship between Crisis and Rebirth (1914-1954) 5.1 The Clay Pot Breaks 5.2 The Wars: Stimulating internationalisation 5.3 The War: The negative effects 5.4 The End of Globalisation 5.5 Global Entrepreneurship in the Interwar Years 5.6 International Cartels and Co-Operative Agreements 5.7 Governance and Organisation 6. International Entrepreneurship in a New Global Economy (1945-1990) 6.1 Rebuilding the Global Economy: opportunities and threats 6.2 The Unstable Framework after the Second World War 6.3 The Origins of American Supremacy 6.4 The Recovery of the Global Economy 6.5 The European Challenge 6.6 The Japanese Challenge 7. Epilogue: The Last 25 Years in the Light of the Past 7.1 Foreign Investments in the New Global Economy 7.2 Multinational strategies in the New Global Economy 7.3 Corporate Architectures in the New Global Economy
£43.69
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Book SynopsisA New York Times Bestseller!2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change.A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence. Trade Review“Peter Zeihan is the Nostradamus of the twenty-first century. Using geography as his analytical foundation, he’s able to explain why nations behave the way they do today, and predict with astounding accuracy how they’ll behave tomorrow. Nowhere will you find a more objective and logical examination of geopolitical currents. A masterful blend of economics, demographics, environmental factors, cultural propellers, and realpolitik. The world is changing, especially America’s role in it, and Peter navigates this journey with clarity, rigor, and wit. If your passion is politics, investing, energy, technology, international relations or just being interesting at parties, read Peter’s book.” — Jesse Watters “Peter Zeihan’s latest work projects a future that will challenge your assumptions on how the world works, what nations are best postured to prosper, and which are fragile. The world he envisions is fraught with danger as powers rise and ebb, but not without opportunity. A worthy read to flesh out your worldview.” — Major General Patrick Donahoe, commanding general, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence “I’ve never been so upbeat about the end of the world. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and well written. Zeihan stitches together insights from economic geography, demography, and history to give us an original yet intuitive theory of geopolitics.” — Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group “From time to time, we hear how ‘everything is going to change.’ None of us ever believe it. Now I do.” — Bill Owens, former governor of Colorado “Peter Zeihan has done it again! The End of the World Is Just the Beginning offers a glimpse of the future by looking to the past. The geopolitics and demography that gave us our ‘perfect moment’ in history is passing. What is in store for us and generations to come? Move Zeihan’s latest to the top of your stack and find out.” — Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL sniper and number one New York Times bestselling author of In the Blood “I found Peter Zeihan’s description of the future to be both plausible and provocative. Regardless of the details of how the next decades unfold, Zeihan’s book convinced me that it is at our own peril that we assume the future will look just like the present. Now more than ever, all our children—regardless of race—need to be equipped with a portable and flexible skill set that will enable them to adapt to circumstances and opportunities that we can’t even imagine right now.” — Robert L. Woodson Sr., founder and president of the Woodson Center, 1776 Unites, Voices of Black Mothers United
£21.25
WW Norton & Co The Elephant and the Dragon
Book Synopsis"A comprehensive primer on the development of these Asian tigers."—Noam Lupu, San Francisco Chronicle
£12.34
Penguin Books Ltd Its Not About You
Book Synopsis''A manifesto for twenty-first-century leadership packaged in a fun and engaging story. Buy this book and get it in the hands of everyone in your company'' Darren Hardy, publisher, Success magazineBen is a young manager who has been charged with persuading 500 employees to agree to a merger. Facing an impossible battle, he seeks the advice of an old friend, who introduces him to eccentric Aunt Elle.In the week leading up to the crucial employee vote, Aunt Elle teaches Ben about the power of influence and positive persuasion. Ben also meets with the company''s top executives, coming back with a new leadership lesson each time. Ben finally learns the critical principle so many people in power fail to grasp: it''s not about me, it''s about you.Written with a light touch and filled with practical advice, this book will resonate with all who aspire to influential leadership.Trade ReviewIt really isn't about you. It's about your team, your customers, your community, and your legacy. Share this book with those you care about -- Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author of LinchpinA manifesto for twenty-first-century leadership packaged in a fun and engaging story. Buy this book and get it in the hands of everyone in your company -- Darren Hardy, publisher, Success magazineThis book captures the essence of life and leadership -- John C Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
£10.44
Bookwell Publications Management Consulting: A Guide to the Profession
Book SynopsisDescribes the consulting approaches and methods applied to various types of management and business problems, organizations and environments.
£41.79
Harvard University Press The Race between Education and Technology
Book SynopsisThis book provides an historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and U.S. wage structure through the 20th century. During the first 80 years of the 20th century, the increase of educated workers was higher than demand for them. This boosted income for most and lowered inequality. The reverse has been true since about 1980.Trade ReviewOne of the most important books of the year. -- Nicholas D. Kristof * New York Times *Essential reading...Goldin and Katz give a broad historical view of the role of education in economic growth in the U.S. They make the case that, after a century of leading the world in supplying the educated workers needed to serve technology, the U.S. has fallen behind in education. -- Thomas F. Cooley * Forbes *Goldin and Katz's book is excellent. -- Jim Manzi * New Republic *This is the most important book on modern U.S. inequality to date. -- Tyler Cowen * marginalrevolution.com *If you want to understand the causes of the innovation deficit, I’d recommend adding one serious book to your summer reading list: The Race Between Education and Technology. -- David Leonhardt * New York Times *[Goldin and Katz] tackle the most important U.S. economic trend, and, hence, most critical domestic issue--growing income inequality...[America] now has the most unequal income and wage distributions of any high-income nation...Goldin and Katz's careful documentation of the changes in income distribution is an important public service. This alone would make their book essential reading. Yet they also offer a powerful explanation for what has driven changes in income inequality and point to solutions for addressing it...The good news is that if Goldin and Katz are right, the cure for income inequality is one most Americans would intuitively support: improving mass education. Mr Obama's spin-doctors should start translating Goldin and Katz's book into a campaign slogan at once. -- Chrystia Freeland * Financial Times *Masterful...As the book's title suggests, whether inequality increases or not is best thought of as an ongoing race between education and technology. Combining this simple but appealing idea with a deep knowledge of the histories of the U.S. labor market and educational institutions, Goldin and Katz conclude that whereas education was winning the race for most of the 20th century, technology caught up in the 1970s and has since prevailed. The authors' most insightful point is that the root cause of the recent growth in inequality is not faster technological progress during the past three decades but rather the surprising stagnation in the level of education of young Americans. -- Thomas Lemieux * Science *A staggering achievement of historical research and analysis and required reading for anyone who's tired of glib, ideologically-inspired, trendy prescriptions for how to fix America's education system. -- Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful MindClaudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz have produced a definitive economic history of American education...[It's] tightly reasoned and easy to grasp by anyone who cares about the country's educational history. -- Peter H. Lindert * eh.net *This book represents the best of what economics has to offer, combining a broad theoretical perspective, careful consideration of data, detailed lessons from economic history, and a close look at the present. -- Alan Krueger, Princeton UniversityA masterful work by two leading economists on some of the biggest issues in economics: economic growth, human capital, and inequality. There are fundamental insights in the book, not just about our past but also our future. Rigorous but not overly technical, this beautifully written book will appeal to educated lay people and economists alike. -- Steven D. Levitt, University of Chicago, co-author of FreakonomicsThe Race Between Education and Technology will stand as the definitive treatment of changes in income distribution and their causes, as well as of possible countervailing policies towards rising inequality. This is empirical economic scholarship at its finest. -- Lawrence Summers, Harvard UniversityAn impressive combination of extensive historical research, careful empirical analysis, and thoughtful commentary on one of the most important questions of the day: to what extent does increasing inequality in incomes stem from our failure to increase educational attainment? -- William G. Bowen, President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe Race Between Education and Technology is a most important study, both for what it teaches us about the past and also in presenting policies for the future if America is to regain its world leadership in education. -- Stanley Engerman, University of RochesterThe Race Between Education and Technology contains many tables, a few equations and a powerfully told story about how and why the United States became the world's richest nation--namely, thanks to its schools...Beginning in the 1970s, however, the education system failed to keep pace, resulting, Ms. Goldin and Mr. Katz contend, in a sharply unequal nation...It is nice to be reminded, in a data-rich book, that greater investments in human capital once put Americans collectively on top of the world. -- Stephen Kotkin * New York Times *Goldin's and Katz's thesis is that the 20th century was the American century in large part because this country led the world in education. The last 30 years, when educational gains slowed markedly, have been years of slower growth and rising inequality. -- David Leonhardt * New York Times Magazine *Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz establish a clear link between the number of high school and college graduates produced in any modern society and its economic growth. -- Thomas D. Elias * Appeal-Democrat *[Goldin and Katz] combine an acute sense of history with a skillful use of statistics. -- Andrew Hacker * New York Review of Books *During the 20th century both technology and education raced forward in the US, generating massive economic expansion and rising standards of living. Throughout the century, technological changes increased the relative demand for skilled labor, while the rapid expansion of first high schools and then higher education simultaneously increased the relative supply of skilled labor. Goldin and Katz carefully examine the historical and economic forces behind this expansion in education, extracting crucial evidence from the remarkable Iowa State Census of 1915, and they argue very plausibly that the relative demand for skilled labor grew at a fairly constant rate over the century. They conclude that "education ran faster" than technology "during the first half of the century," causing a considerable drop in economic inequality, but that "technology sprinted ahead of limping education in the last 30 years," leading to the recent upsurge in inequality. The rate of return on educational investments has become, once again, very high. Why have education levels increased so sluggishly in the face of these massive rewards? The answers are not entirely clear, nor are the optimal public policies, but the authors offer much food for thought. A must read. -- R. M. Whaples * Choice *The general brilliance of illumination makes this book a feast of provocation. -- Trevor Butterworth * Forbes.com *One of the most comprehensive analyses of the spread of the American educational system throughout the 20th century. -- Eduardo Porter * New York Times *Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz’s magnum opus…[An] impressive work…Enlightens us to rethink the social-economic and cultural environment of education, the close relationship between education and technology, and the fundamental aims of education. -- Shiyu Xu * Beijing International Review of Education *Table of Contents* Introduction Part I: Economic Growth and Distribution * The Human Capital Century * Inequality across the Twentieth Century * Skill-biased Technological Change Part II: Education for the Masses in Three Transformations * The Origins of the Virtues * Economic Foundations of the High School Movement * America's Graduation from High School * Mass Higher Education in the Twentieth Century Part III. The Race * The Race between Education and Technology * How America Once Led and Can Win the Race for Tomorrow * Appendix A * Appendix B * Appendix C * Appendix D * Notes * References * A Note on Sources * Acknowledgments * Index
£18.86
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Person You Mean to Be
Book SynopsisThrough the compelling stories Dolly shares and the surprising science she reports, Dolly guides each of us closer to being the person we mean to be.Trade Review“Finally: an engaging, evidence-based book about how to battle biases, champion diversity and inclusion, and advocate for those who lack power and privilege. Dolly Chugh makes a convincing case that being an ally isn’t about being a good person—it’s about constantly striving to be a better person.” — Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg “Dolly Chugh helps us identify our ‘platform of privilege’ and guides us on how we can use this and other tools to create positive change. She encourages us to accentuate our strengths and to manage our weaknesses, and forces us to focus on being better and stronger in everything we do.” — Billie Jean King, social justice pioneer and tennis champion “Dolly Chugh has written the most important and actionable book on reducing bias that I have read. Using powerful and enduring findings from research on bias, she explains the reasons we fail to be the person we mean to be and provides prescriptions for managing the pitfalls of our humanness. This deeply personal book is a must-read.” — David Thomas, president of Morehouse College and author of Leading for Equity and Breaking Through “Dolly Chugh applies the power of a growth mindset to work on equity and inclusion at a time when it is much-needed. The Person You Mean to Be is essential reading.” — Carol Dweck, bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success “This is a book for anyone who thinks of themselves as a pretty decent human being but who knows, deep in their heart, they could be better. A cocktail of stories and science that gets you thinking and, more important, gets you acting.” — Angela Duckworth, founder and CEO of Character Lab, and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance “In authoritative yet accessible prose, social psychologist Dolly Chugh outlines how we can all make the indispensable shift from being ‘believers’ who live under the ideal of inclusion to being ‘builders’ who live up to that ideal. This book is both guide and gift.” — Kenji Yoshino, author of Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial; Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law “Never has an author made it so easy to see our blind spots and the downsides of our best intentions. Dolly Chugh’s brilliant lens reveals the invisible, uncomfortable truths of ordinary privilege, yet offers a light that inspires and guides each of us to be the moral, inclusive leader we hope to be.” — Liz Wiseman, New York Times bestselling author of Multipliers and Rookie Smarts
£18.00
Harvard University Press Our Secret Discipline Yeats and Lyric Form
Book SynopsisAccording to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one’s quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one’s quarrel with oneself. This is where Vendler begins in Our Secret Discipline. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poet's mind.Trade ReviewThis new monumental study of the technical (and, ultimately, emotional) accomplishment in Yeats's poems represents something close to a life's work: it will surely attract international attention...Vendler's careful book will likely advance the way experts see Yeats, but she also speaks to all the readers who care about the Irish Nobelist's body of poetry, which looks more complex, and more delightful, through Vendler's lens. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Helen Vendler has entirely consumed William Butler Yeats...As she leads us by the hand through some of the best-known poems in the English language, we discover how little we knew about them after all, and how hard the poet worked to make them sound...inevitable. Our Secret Discipline is so much an intellectual feast. -- John Leonard * Harper's *Vendler can be as charming a tour guide through Yeats as she is a learned one. And her frame of examining Yeats's external and internal lyric structures offers a new, insightful, and often revelatory map of Yeatsian terrain. -- Tess Taylor * Barnes and Noble Review *Is there any critic more thorough than Helen Vendler?... Her carefulness, her attention to minutiae, is a rare quality, particularly when set against the current mores of poetry criticism, which, for all its highly technical vocabulary, has been for many years an enterprise largely impressionistic...Any serious reader of English poetry should be delighted that, in Our Secret Discipline, she has turned her attention to the question of form in W.B. Yeats's poetry. -- Sam Munson * New York Sun *A book whose value may exceed anything [Vendler] has hitherto produced. It is the first exhaustive account of Yeats's lyric styles as they revealed themselves in 50 years of verse forms as "the necessary and skilled embodiment of the poet's moral urgency." Vendler is the ideal close reader and listener to undertake the very large task of coming to terms with Yeats's poetry...The great merit of Vendler's approach is that she never rests content with merely identifying and describing Yeats's formal choices but goes on to consider how such forms are employed in the service of moral and human content...She is intrepid and only occasionally over-ingenious...Readers who have assumed they were familiar, even intimate, with his body of lyric verse will read Vendler's pages and find their eyes have been opened, in Hart Crane's words, to "new thresholds, new anatomies." -- William H. Pritchard * Boston Globe *[A] superb study of Yeats's uses of lyric form...Vendler offers much astute description of the architecture of Yeats's poems, but also considers the way in which his forms reflected his cultural vision...It certainly helps enormously to have a critic as expert as Vendler describe in slow motion, frame by frame, so to speak, her understanding of the effects of each choice the poet makes. Her shrewd, tightly focused commentaries encourage us to take each poem slowly, on its own terms, and to pay attention in particular to tbe ways in which it either conforms to or confounds the expectations it fosters...Vendler's study of his uses of lyric form is an indispensable guide to anyone interested in the means whereby Yeats transfigured into "masterful images" the random contingencies of life. -- Mark Ford * New York Review of Books *[Vendler's] chapters on Yeats's "Byzantium" lyrics, his courtly ottava rima poems and his blank verse are all filled with sensitive, compelling insights that will be critical guideposts for years to come. -- Anthony Cuda * Washington Post Book World *
£26.31
Harvard University Press Black Rice
Book SynopsisRice was a major plantation crop during the first 300 years of settlement in the Americas. It accompanied slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern U.S. Carney reveals how racism has shaped our historical memory and neglected this critical African contribution to the making of the Americas.Trade ReviewExploring crops, landscapes and agricultural practices in Africa and America, [Carney] demonstrates the critical role Africans played in the creation of the system of rice production that provided the foundation of Carolina’s wealth… This detailed study of historical botany, technological adaptation and agricultural diffusion adds depth to our understanding of slavery and makes a compelling case for ‘the agency of slaves’ in the creation of the South’s economy and culture. -- Drew Gilpin Faust * New York Times Book Review *Judith A. Carney’s Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas…describes how the South Carolina rice industry was built not only on slave labor but on the agricultural and technological knowledge brought over by the Africans… [It] changes our understanding of the black contribution to American life. -- Barry Gewen * New York Times Book Review *Black Rice sets out to discredit for good an old Southern recipe for history that depicts slaves as mere laborers who dumbly performed work their masters conceived. Carney tells it the other way around. After years visiting West African rice fields, then digging in archives on both sides of the Atlantic, she has emerged with evidence that early slave traders sought and seized Africans who had the abilities to grow a specific African rice… Black Rice might be called an agricultural detective story. The historical crime—and that’s clearly how Carney sees it—is the relative lack of attention given to African rice. -- Allan M. Jalon * Los Angeles Times *Contrary to common belief, [Carney] explains, rice was not brought by Europeans to the Americas by way of Asia, but rather was introduced here by Africans and cultivated by African-American slaves, particularly in South Carolina, where rice crops proved to be one of the most profitable plantation-based economies. Though this is a scholarly work, Carney’s clear, uncluttered prose invites a wider readership. * Publishers Weekly *Black Rice is an original, knowledgeable, exciting, and important addition to the literature of the making and remaking of the Atlantic world. Judith Carney demonstrates how the trans-Atlantic transfer of rice cultivation marked not simply the movement of an important crop across the Atlantic, but also the relocation of an entire culture. -- Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaAmong the very finest examples of what African Diaspora Studies should be: multidisciplinary, multilingual, broad in geographic scope, and focused on Africa and Africans as vital, active contributors to the technology and culture of the Americas. -- Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth CenturyIf there were a field of ‘Trans-Atlantic Subaltern Studies,’ Black Rice would represent both a foundation stone of the edifice and one of its most impressive achievements. -- James C. Scott, Yale UniversityBlack Rice is a luminous, brilliant account of innovation, resistance, and identity linking Old and New Worlds. Carney has unearthed a compelling, and hitherto neglected, aspect of Africa’s contribution to the agrarian history of the Americas. A magisterial geographical history of the Black Atlantic. -- Michael Watts, University of California, BerkeleyAn intrepid and observant researcher who links African rice to North and South America in fresh and convincing ways, Judith Carney’s work is wide-ranging, provocative, and clear. Black Rice is a wonderfully rich and creative book about an amazing crop and the people who labored to grow it. You will never look at a bowl of rice—or the entire Atlantic basin—in quite the same way again. -- Peter H. Wood, author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono RebellionWith a fusion of highly original geographic, ethnographic, and historical analysis, Carney powerfully traces the provenance and provisioning of rice in the Americas, the profound role that it played in defining gender roles, and the myriad ways that slave labor altered the once hidden political ecology of rice landscapes. -- Karl Zimmerer, author of Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian AndesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Encounters 2. Rice Origins and Indigenous Knowledge 3. Out of Africa: Rice Culture and African Continuities 4. This Was "Woman's Wuck" 5. African Rice and the Atlantic World 6. Legacies Notes References Index
£24.26
Island Press Don't Be Such a Scientist, Second Edition:
Book SynopsisIn Don’t Be Such a Scientist, Randy Olson recounts the lessons from his own hilarious—and at times humiliating—evolution from science professor to Hollywood filmmaker, sharing the secrets of talking substance in an age of style. The key, he argued, is to stay true to the facts while tapping into something more primordial, more irrational—and ultimately more human. Now, in this second edition of his provocative and groundbreaking book, Olson builds upon the lessons and storytelling of Don’t Be Such a Scientist, providing an epilogue to each chapter for the current times, and adding a fresh introduction and new chapter on the importance of listening for science communicators (and beyond).Don’t Be Such a Scientist, Second Edition is a cutting and irreverent manual to speaking out and making your voice heard in an age of attacks on science.Invaluable for anyone looking to break out of the boxes of academia or research, Olson’s writing will inspire readers to “make science human”—and to enjoy the ride along the way.
£20.45
John Wiley & Sons Inc Inspired
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition xvii Part I Lessons From Top Tech Companies 1 Chapter 1 Behind Every Great Product 5 Chapter 2 Technology-Powered Products and Services 7 Chapter 3 Startups: Getting to Product/Market Fit 9 Chapter 4 Growth-Stage Companies: Scaling to Success 11 Chapter 5 Enterprise Companies: Consistent Product Innovation 13 Chapter 6 The Root Causes of Failed Product Efforts 15 Chapter 7 Beyond Lean and Agile 23 Chapter 8 Key Concepts 25 Part II The Right People 31 Product Teams 32 Chapter 9 Principles of Strong Product Teams 33 Chapter 10 The Product Manager 41 Chapter 11 The Product Designer 53 Chapter 12 The Engineers 59 Chapter 13 Product Marketing Managers 63 Chapter 14 The Supporting Roles 67 Chapter 15 Profile: Jane Manning of Google 71 People @ Scale 74 Chapter 16 The Role of Leadership 75 Chapter 17 The Head of Product Role 79 Chapter 18 The Head of Technology Role 87 Chapter 19 The Delivery Manager Role 91 Chapter 20 Principles of Structuring Product Teams 93 Chapter 21 Profile: Lea Hickman of Adobe 103 Part III The Right Product 107 Product Roadmaps 108 Chapter 22 The Problems with Product Roadmaps 111 Chapter 23 The Alternative to Roadmaps 115 Product Vision 121 Chapter 24 Product Vision and Product Strategy 123 Chapter 25 Principles of Product Vision 129 Chapter 26 Principles of Product Strategy 133 Chapter 27 Product Principles 135 Product Objectives 137 Chapter 28 The OKR Technique 139 Chapter 29 Product Team Objectives 143 Product @ Scale 146 Chapter 30 Product Objectives @ Scale 147 Chapter 31 Product Evangelism 151 Chapter 32 Profile: Alex Pressland of the BBC 155 Part IV The Right Process 159 Product Discovery 161 Chapter 33 Principles of Product Discovery 165 Chapter 34 Discovery Techniques Overview 171 Discovery Framing Techniques 175 Chapter 35 Opportunity Assessment Technique 179 Chapter 36 Customer Letter Technique 183 Chapter 37 Startup Canvas Technique 187 Discovery Planning Techniques 191 Chapter 38 Story Map Technique 193 Chapter 39 Customer Discovery Program Technique 195 Chapter 40 Profile: Martina Lauchengco of Microsoft 205 Discovery Ideation Techniques 208 Chapter 41 Customer Interviews 211 Chapter 42 Concierge Test Technique 215 Chapter 43 The Power of Customer Misbehavior 217 Chapter 44 Hack Days 221 Discovery Prototyping Techniques 223 Chapter 45 Principles of Prototypes 227 Chapter 46 Feasibility Prototype Technique 229 Chapter 47 User Prototype Technique 233 Chapter 48 Live-Data Prototype Technique 235 Chapter 49 Hybrid Prototype Technique 239 Discovery Testing Techniques 241 Chapter 50 Testing Usability 243 Chapter 51 Testing Value 251 Chapter 52 Demand Testing Techniques 253 Chapter 53 Qualitative Value Testing Techniques 259 Chapter 54 Quantitative Value Testing Techniques 265 Chapter 55 Testing Feasibility 273 Chapter 56 Testing Business Viability 277 Chapter 57 Profile: Kate Arnold of Netflix 283 Transformation Techniques 286 Chapter 58 Discovery Sprint Technique 287 Chapter 59 Pilot Team Technique 291 Chapter 60 Weaning an Organization Off Roadmaps 293 Process @ Scale 295 Chapter 61 Managing Stakeholders 297 Chapter 62 Communicating Product Learnings 305 Chapter 63 Profile: Camille Hearst of Apple 307 Part V The Right Culture 309 Chapter 64 Good Product Team/Bad Product Team 311 Chapter 65 Top Reasons for Loss of Innovation 315 Chapter 66 Top Reasons for Loss of Velocity 319 Chapter 67 Establishing a Strong Product Culture 323 Acknowledgments 327 About the Author 329 Learning More 331 Index 333
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Princeton University Press Introduction to Modern Economic Growth
Book SynopsisGives graduate student's tools to analyze growth and related macroeconomic problems, and also perspective needed to apply those tools to the big-picture questions of growth and divergence. In this title, the author introduces economic and mathematical foundations of modern growth theory and macroeconomics in a rigorous and easy to follow manner.Trade Review"It's hard not to be impressed by Acemoglu's mastery of the subject and for a handful of top graduate programs this is clearly the book for the next generation."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "Beyond coursework, this is a book that should be compulsory reading for any PhD student in macroeconomics, even for those whose thesis does not specifically focus on growth. [S]elected materials from this book, and Part I in particular, could also be included in the reading list of an undergraduate course in advanced macroeconomics... This book will be an inseparable and precious companion ... for many years to come."--Fabrizio Carmignani, Economic RecordTable of ContentsPreface xv Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Economic Growth and Economic Development: The Questions 3 1.1 Cross-Country Income Differences 3 1.2 Income and Welfare 7 1.3 Economic Growth and Income Differences 9 1.4 Origins of Today's Income Differences and World Economic Growth 11 1.5 Conditional Convergence 15 1.6 Correlates of Economic Growth 18 1.7 From Correlates to Fundamental Causes 19 1.8 The Agenda 21 1.9 References and Literature 23 Chapter 2: The Solow Growth Model 26 2.1 The Economic Environment of the Basic Solow Model 27 2.2 The Solow Model in Discrete Time 34 2.3 Transitional Dynamics in the Discrete-Time Solow Model 43 2.4 The Solow Model in Continuous Time 47 2.5 Transitional Dynamics in the Continuous-Time Solow Model 51 2.6 A First Look at Sustained Growth 55 2.7 Solow Model with Technological Progress 56 2.8 Comparative Dynamics 67 2.9 Taking Stock 68 2.10 References and Literature 69 2.11 Exercises 71 Chapter 3: The SolowModel and the Data 77 3.1 Growth Accounting 77 3.2 The Solow Model and Regression Analyses 80 3.3 The Solow Model with Human Capital 85 3.4 Solow Model and Cross-Country Income Differences: Regression Analyses 90 3.5 Calibrating Productivity Differences 96 3.6 Estimating Productivity Differences 100 3.7 Taking Stock 105 3.8 References and Literature 106 3.9 Exercises 107 Chapter 4: Fundamental Determinants of Differences in Economic Performance 109 4.1 Proximate versus Fundamental Causes 109 4.2 Economies of Scale, Population, Technology, and World Growth 112 4.3 The Four Fundamental Causes 114 4.4 The Effect of Institutions on Economic Growth 123 4.5 What Types of Institutions? 136 4.6 Disease and Development 137 4.7 Political Economy of Institutions: First Thoughts 140 4.8 Taking Stock 140 4.9 References and Literature 141 4.10 Exercises 143 Part II: Toward Neoclassical Growth Chapter 5: Foundations of Neoclassical Growth 147 5.1 Preliminaries 147 5.2 The Representative Household 149 5.3 Infinite Planning Horizon 156 5.4 The Representative Firm 158 5.5 Problem Formulation 160 5.6 Welfare Theorems 161 5.7 Proof of the Second Welfare Theorem (Theorem 5.7) * 168 5.8 Sequential Trading 171 5.9 Optimal Growth 174 5.10 Taking Stock 176 5.11 References and Literature 176 5.12 Exercises 178 Chapter 6: Infinite-Horizon Optimization and Dynamic Programming 182 6.1 Discrete-Time Infinite-Horizon Optimization 182 6.2 Stationary Dynamic Programming 185 6.3 Stationary Dynamic Programming Theorems 187 6.4 The Contraction Mapping Theorem and Applications * 190 6.5 Proofs of the Main Dynamic Programming Theorems * 194 6.6 Applications of Stationary Dynamic Programming 201 6.7 Nonstationary Infinite-Horizon Optimization 211 6.8 Optimal Growth in Discrete Time 215 6.9 Competitive Equilibrium Growth 219 6.10 Computation 221 6.11 Taking Stock 221 6.12 References and Literature 222 6.13 Exercises 223 Chapter 7: An Introduction to the Theory of Optimal Control 227 7.1 Variational Arguments 228 7.2 The Maximum Principle: A First Look 235 7.3 Infinite-Horizon Optimal Control 240 7.4 More on Transversality Conditions 250 7.5 Discounted Infinite-Horizon Optimal Control 253 7.6 Existence of Solutions, Concavity, and Differentiability * 259 7.7 A First Look at Optimal Growth in Continuous Time 268 7.8 The q-Theory of Investment and Saddle-Path Stability 269 7.9 Taking Stock 274 7.10 References and Literature 275 7.11 Exercises 278 Part III: Neoclassical Growth Chapter 8: The Neoclassical Growth Model 287 8.1 Preferences, Technology, and Demographics 287 8.2 Characterization of Equilibrium 293 8.3 Optimal Growth 298 8.4 Steady-State Equilibrium 300 8.5 Transitional Dynamics and Uniqueness of Equilibrium 302 8.6 Neoclassical Growth in Discrete Time 305 8.7 Technological Change and the Canonical Neoclassical Model 306 8.8 The Role of Policy 312 8.9 Comparative Dynamics 313 8.10 A Quantitative Evaluation 315 8.11 Extensions 317 8.12 Taking Stock 317 8.13 References and Literature 318 8.14 Exercises 319 Chapter 9: Growth with Overlapping Generations 327 9.1 Problems of Infinity 328 9.2 The Baseline Overlapping Generations Model 329 9.3 The Canonical Overlapping Generations Model 335 9.4 Overaccumulation and Pareto Optimality of Competitive Equilibrium in the Overlapping Generations Model 336 9.5 Role of Social Security in Capital Accumulation 339 9.6 Overlapping Generations with Impure Altruism 342 9.7 Overlapping Generations with Perpetual Youth 345 9.8 Overlapping Generations in Continuous Time 348 9.9 Taking Stock 353 9.10 References and Literature 354 9.11 Exercises 355 Chapter 10: Human Capital and Economic Growth 359 10.1 A Simple Separation Theorem 359 10.2 Schooling Investments and Returns to Education 361 10.3 The Ben-Porath Model 363 10.4 Neoclassical Growth with Physical and Human Capital 367 10.5 Capital-Skill Complementarity in an Overlapping Generations Model 371 10.6 Physical and Human Capital with Imperfect Labor Markets 374 10.7 Human Capital Externalities 379 10.8 The Nelson-Phelps Model of Human Capital 380 10.9 Taking Stock 382 10.10 References and Literature 384 10.11 Exercises 384 Chapter 11: First-Generation Models of Endogenous Growth 387 11.1 The AK Model Revisited 388 11.2 The AK Model with Physical and Human Capital 393 11.3 The Two-Sector AK Model 395 11.4 Growth with Externalities 398 11.5 Taking Stock 402 11.6 References and Literature 404 11.7 Exercises 404 Part IV: Endogenous Technological Change Chapter 12: Modeling Technological Change 411 12.1 Different Conceptions of Technology 411 12.2 Science and Profits 414 12.3 The Value of Innovation in Partial Equilibrium 416 12.4 The Dixit-Stiglitz Model and Aggregate Demand Externalities 422 12.5 Individual R&D Uncertainty and the Stock Market 428 12.6 Taking Stock 429 12.7 References and Literature 430 12.8 Exercises 431 Chapter 13: Expanding VarietyModels 433 13.1 The Lab-Equipment Model of Growth with Input Varieties 433 13.2 Growth with Knowledge Spillovers 444 13.3 Growth without Scale Effects 446 13.4 Growth with Expanding Product Varieties 448 13.5 Taking Stock 452 13.6 References and Literature 453 13.7 Exercises 453 Chapter 14: Models of Schumpeterian Growth 458 14.1 A Baseline Model of Schumpeterian Growth 459 14.2 A One-Sector Schumpeterian Growth Model 468 14.3 Innovation by Incumbents and Entrants 472 14.4 Step-by-Step Innovations * 479 14.5 Taking Stock 489 14.6 References and Literature 490 14.7 Exercises 491 Chapter 15: Directed Technological Change 497 15.1 Importance of Biased Technological Change 498 15.2 Basics and Definitions 500 15.3 Baseline Model of Directed Technological Change 503 15.4 Directed Technological Change with Knowledge Spillovers 514 15.5 Directed Technological Change without Scale Effects 518 15.6 Endogenous Labor-Augmenting Technological Change 519 15.7 Generalizations and Other Applications 522 15.8 An Alternative Approach to Labor-Augmenting Technological Change* 523 15.9 Taking Stock 526 15.10 References and Literature 527 15.11 Exercises 529 Part V: Stochastic Growth Chapter 16: Stochastic Dynamic Programming 537 16.1 Dynamic Programming with Expectations 537 16.2 Proofs of the Stochastic Dynamic Programming Theorems * 544 16.3 Stochastic Euler Equations 549 16.4 Generalization to Markov Processes * 552 16.5 Applications of Stochastic Dynamic Programming 554 16.6 Taking Stock 561 16.7 References and Literature 561 16.8 Exercises 562 Chapter 17: Stochastic Growth Models 566 17.1 The Brock-Mirman Model 567 17.2 Equilibrium Growth under Uncertainty 571 17.3 Application: Real Business Cycle Models 579 17.4 Growth with Incomplete Markets: The Bewley Model 583 17.5 The Overlapping Generations Model with Uncertainty 586 17.6 Risk, Diversification, and Growth 588 17.7 Taking Stock 603 17.8 References and Literature 604 17.9 Exercises 605 Part VI: Technology Diffusion, Trade, and Interdependences Chapter 18: Diffusion of Technology 611 18.1 Productivity Differences and Technology 611 18.2 A Benchmark Model of Technology Diffusion 613 18.3 Technology Diffusion and Endogenous Growth 619 18.4 Appropriate and Inappropriate Technologies and Productivity Differences 623 18.5 Contracting Institutions and Technology Adoption 630 18.6 Taking Stock 642 18.7 References and Literature 643 18.8 Exercises 644 Chapter 19: Trade and Growth 648 19.1 Growth and Financial Capital Flows 648 19.2 Why Does Capital Not Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? 653 19.3 Economic Growth in a Heckscher-Ohlin World 655 19.4 Trade, Specialization, and the World Income Distribution 663 19.5 Trade, Technology Diffusion, and the Product Cycle 674 19.6 Trade and Endogenous Technological Change 678 19.7 Learning-by-Doing, Trade, and Growth 680 19.8 Taking Stock 684 19.9 References and Literature 685 19.10 Exercises 687 Part VII: Economic Development and Economic Growth Chapter 20: Structural Change and Economic Growth 697 20.1 Nonbalanced Growth: The Demand Side 697 20.2 Nonbalanced Growth: The Supply Side 703 20.3 Agricultural Productivity and Industrialization 715 20.4 Taking Stock 719 20.5 References and Literature 720 20.6 Exercises 721 Chapter 21: Structural Transformations and Market Failures in Development 725 21.1 Financial Development 726 21.2 Fertility, Mortality, and the Demographic Transition 729 21.3 Migration, Urbanization, and the Dual Economy 736 21.4 Distance to the Frontier and Changes in the Organization of Production 744 21.5 Multiple Equilibria from Aggregate Demand Externalities and the Big Push 752 21.6 Inequality, Credit Market Imperfections, and Human Capital 758 21.7 Toward a Unified Theory of Development and Growth? 764 21.8 Taking Stock 768 21.9 References and Literature 769 21.10 Exercises 771 Part VIII: The Political Economy of Growth Chapter 22: Institutions, Political Economy, and Growth 781 22.1 The Impact of Institutions on Long-Run Development 781 22.2 Distributional Conflict and Economic Growth in a Simple Society 784 22.3 The Canonical Cobb-Douglas Model of Distributional Conflict 792 22.4 Distributional Conflict and Competition 793 22.5 Subgame Perfect versus Markov Perfect Equilibria 799 22.6 Inefficient Economic Institutions: A First Pass 802 22.7 Heterogeneous Preferences, Social Choice, and the Median Voter * 805 22.8 Distributional Conflict and Economic Growth: Heterogeneity and the Median Voter 814 22.9 The Provision of Public Goods: Weak versus Strong States 817 22.10 Taking Stock 822 22.11 References and Literature 823 22.12 Exercises 825 Chapter 23: Political Institutions and Economic Growth 831 23.1 Political Regimes and Economic Growth 832 23.2 Political Institutions and Growth-Enhancing Policies 834 23.3 Dynamic Trade-offs 837 23.4 Understanding Endogenous Political Change 850 23.5 Taking Stock 856 23.6 References and Literature 857 23.7 Exercises 858 Epilogue: Mechanics and Causes of Economic Growth 861 What Have We Learned? 861 A Possible Perspective on Growth and Stagnation over the Past 200 Years 864 Many Remaining Questions 872 Part IX: Mathematical Appendixes Appendix A: Odds and Ends in Real Analysis and Applications to Optimization 877 A.1 Distances and Metric Spaces 878 A.2 Mappings, Functions, Sequences, Nets, and Continuity 880 A.3 A Minimal Amount of Topology: Continuity and Compactness * 885 A.4 The Product Topology * 889 A.5 Absolute Continuity and Equicontinuity * 891 A.6 Correspondences and Berge's Maximum Theorem 894 A.7 Convexity, Concavity, Quasi-Concavity, and Fixed Points 898 A.8 Differentiation, Taylor Series, and the Mean Value Theorem 900 A.9 Functions of Several Variables and the Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems 904 A.10 Separation Theorems * 907 A.11 Constrained Optimization 910 A.12 Exercises 915 Appendix B: Review of Ordinary Differential Equations 917 B.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors 917 B.2 Some Basic Results on Integrals 918 B.3 Linear Differential Equations 920 B.4 Solutions to Linear First-Order Differential Equations 921 B.5 Systems of Linear Differential Equations 924 B.6 Local Analysis and Stability of Nonlinear Differential Equations 926 B.7 Separable and Exact Differential Equations 927 B.8 Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions 929 B.9 Continuity and Differentiability of Solutions 930 B.10 Difference Equations 930 B.11 Exercises 932 Appendix C: Brief Review of Dynamic Games 934 C.1 Basic Definitions 934 C.2 Some Basic Results 937 C.3 Application: Repeated Games with Perfect Observability 941 C.4 Exercises 942 Appendix D: List of Theorems 944 Chapter 2 944 Chapter 5 944 Chapter 6 944 Chapter 7 945 Chapter 10 945 Chapter 16 945 Chapter 22 946 Appendix A 946 Appendix B 947 Appendix C 947 References 949 Name Index 971 Subject Index 977
£49.50
Princeton University Press The Dollar Trap
Book SynopsisArgues, the financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and US policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar's importance. This book examines how the dollar came to have a central role in the world economy and demonstrates that it will remain the cornerstone of global finance for the foreseeable future.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2014, chosen by Martin Wolf One of China Business News' Financial Books of the Year for 2014 "Thoughtful."--Jeff Sommer, New York Times "[A] surprising argument... [L]ucid."--David Wessel, Wall Street Journal "Richly detailed study of global finances, examining how and why the dollar became the favored currency of international trade."--Kirkus "To understand how the world of international finance works, what the agendas are and what is at stake, this work is indispensable."--Henny Sender, Financial Times "In his authoritative new book on the dollar, Eswar Prasad ... argues that China and other foreign countries that own around half the outstanding US federal government debt are trapped in a risky game where the US may be tempted to renege on its debt obligations by printing more dollars."--John Plender, Financial Times "A lively and compelling analysis on currency wars in the wake of the financial crisis--and the likely persistence of the U.S. dollar as the world's pre-eminent currency."--Harold James, Central Banking Journal "Highly recommended especially for those interested in understanding the paradigm shifts that happened in the international monetary regime in the 1970s and 1980s."--Mehmet Kerem Caban, Asian Journal of Public AffairsTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi PART ONE Setting the Stage 1. Prologue 3 2. What Is So Special about the Dollar? 11 PART TWO Building Blocks 3. The Paradox of Uphill Capital Flows 31 4. Emerging Markets Get Religion 47 5. The Quest for Safety 63 6. A Trillion Dollar Con Game? 89 PART THREE Inadequate Institutions 7. Currency Wars 125 8. Seeking a Truce on Currency Wars 158 9. It Takes Twenty to Tango 171 10. The Siren Song of Capital Controls 188 11. Safety Nets with Gaping Holes 201 PART FOUR Currency Competition 12. Is the Renminbi Ready for Prime Time? 229 13. Other Contenders Nipping at the Dollar's Heels 262 14. Could the Dollar Hit a Tipping Point and Sink? 283 15. Ultimate Paradox: Fragility Breeds Stability 299 Appendix 309 Notes 317 References 375 Acknowledgments 393 Index 395
£25.50
BIS Publishers B.V. Don’t/Do This - Game: Thought Experiments for
Book SynopsisWhatever kind of creative person you are, this thought experiment game will get you out of your comfort zone. How? It stimulates creativity through limitation. Boundaries push you to think beyond the usual solutions and send you in different directions. That’s exactly how you end up with unexpected and extraordinary ideas. How to play You take 3 “Do” cards that define a unique imaginary project. You need to come up with a solution for this project. But you also get 3 “Don’t” cards, which give you a set of rules. For Example Do: Create clothing that is also a landmark For two persons To become more productive Don’t: Don’t use straight shapes Don’t make the size static Don’t use non-recyclable material The “Do” and “Don’t” cards make you think differently than you normally would. In the beginning, the rules might feel like a big obstacle. But once you start playing, you will see that limitations also give you possibilities. Rules make you think about loopholes. Play the game by yourself to get inspired, use it as a conversation starter or play it in teams to find out who comes up with the most surprising solution. The outcome could even be the beginning of a real project!
£16.19
Princeton University Press Social and Economic Networks
Book SynopsisNetworks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers "Jackson's review of diffusion models is excellent, as tight an overview of these models as I have seen anywhere... Social and Economic Networks is a must-read for all those steeped in the traditional social network analysis paradigm. Economists will find Jackson offers them a superb and accessible introduction to network questions and models. And for others from any social science background curious about social networks, I recommend a careful read of the book."--David Krackhardt, Science "This book deserves the highest recommendations for all readers interested in networks and interdependence. It is written clearly, and could be used both as a starting textbook for a journey to the world of networks and also as an expert guide for scientists studying social and economic networks."--Karoly Takacs, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation "I strongly recommend this book to any scholar or student interested in networks, not only in economics but in any connected field such as sociology, physics, and applied mathematics. Matthew Jackson's guided tour of the literature on economic and social networks is superb."--Joan de Marti Beltran, Regional Science and Urban Economics "[T]his is a valuable book that raises crucial questions for today's sociologist interested in social networks."--Paola Tubaro, SociologyTable of ContentsPreface xi PART I: BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS OF NETWORK ANALYSIS Chapter 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Why Model Networks? 3 1.2 A Set of Examples 4 1.3 Exercises 17 Chapter 2: Representing and Measuring Networks 20 2.1 Representing Networks 20 2.2 Some Summary Statistics and Characteristics of Networks 30 2.3 Appendix: Basic Graph Theory 43 2.4 Appendix: Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues 49 2.5 Exercises 51 Chapter 3: Empirical Background on Social and Economic Networks 54 3.1 The Prevalence of Social Networks 55 3.2 Observations on the Structure of Networks 56 PART II: MODELS OF NETWORK FORMATION Chapter 4: Random-Graph Models of Networks 77 4.1 Static Random-Graph Models of Random Networks 78 4.2 Properties of Random Networks 86 4.3 An Application: Contagion and Diffusion 105 4.4 Distribution of Component Sizes 107 4.5 Appendix: Useful Facts, Tools, and Theorems 110 4.6 Exercises 121 Chapter 5: Growing Random Networks 124 5.1 Uniform Randomness: An Exponential Degree Distribution 125 5.2 Preferential Attachment 130 5.3 Hybrid Models 134 5.4 Small Worlds, Clustering, and Assortativity 141 5.5 Exercises 150 Chapter 6: Strategic Network Formation 153 6.1 Pairwise Stability 154 6.2 Efficient Networks 157 6.3 Distance-Based Utility 159 6.4 A Coauthor Model and Negative Externalities 166 6.5 Small Worlds in an Islands-Connections Model 170 6.6 A General Tension between Stability and Efficiency 173 6.7 Exercises 179 PART III: IMPLICATIONS OF NETWORK STRUCTURE Chapter 7: Diffusion through Networks 185 7.1 Background: The Bass Model 187 7.2 Spread of Information and Disease 189 7.3 Search and Navigation on Networks 209 7.4 Exercises 221 Chapter 8: Learning and Networks 223 8.1 Early Theory and Opinion Leaders 224 8.2 Bayesian and Observational Learning 225 8.3 Imitation and Social Influence Models: The DeGroot Model 228 8.4 Exercises 253 Chapter 9: Decisions, Behavior, and Games on Networks 257 9.1 Decisions and Social Interaction 258 9.2 Graphical Games 269 9.3 Semi-Anonymous Graphical Games 273 9.4 Randomly Chosen Neighbors and Network Games 279 9.5 Richer Action Spaces 286 9.6 Dynamic Behavior and Contagion 293 9.7 Multiple Equilibria and Diffusion in Network Games 297 9.8 Computing Equilibria 304 9.9 Appendix: A Primer on Noncooperative Game Theory 308 9.10 Exercises 319 Chapter 10: Networked Markets 327 10.1 Social Embeddedness of Markets and Exchange 328 10.2 Networks in Labor Markets 334 10.3 Models of Networked Markets 353 10.4 Concluding Remarks 365 10.5 Exercises 366 PART IV: METHODS, TOOLS, AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSES Chapter 11: Game-Theoretic Modeling of Network Formation 371 11.1 Defining Stability and Equilibrium 372 11.2 The Existence of Stable Networks 377 11.3 Directed Networks 383 11.4 Stochastic Strategic Models of Network Formation 388 11.5 Farsighted Network Formation 395 11.6 Transfers and Network Formation 399 11.7 Weighted Network Formation 402 11.8 Agent-Based Modeling 406 11.9 Exercises 407 Chapter 12: Allocation Rules, Networks, and Cooperative Games 411 12.1 Cooperative Game Theory 412 12.2 Communication Games 416 12.3 Networks and Allocation Rules 419 12.4 Allocation Rules When Networks Are Formed 425 12.5 Concluding Remarks 430 12.6 Exercises 430 Chapter 13: Observing and Measuring Social Interaction 434 13.1 Specification and Identification 435 13.2 Community Structures, Block Models, and Latent Spaces 443 13.3 Exercises 457 Afterword 459 Bibliography 461 Index 491
£38.25
Penguin Books Ltd A Pelican Introduction Economics
Book SynopsisWhat is economics?What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter?Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which was a no.1 bestseller, 'a witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy.' He won the Wassily Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought, and is a vocal critic of the failures of our current economic system.Trade ReviewPage turning... A fascinating, hurtling explanation of everything... You could use it as a primer, a reference book, a brief history; it is all these things... It reflects the urgent generosity of a thinker whose depth of understanding is matched by a desire to see us all understand... Ha-Joon Chang's wealth is in his knowledge, perceptiveness, insight and vision. And he can't give it away fast enough. It flies off him like the seeds of a dandelion -- Zoe Williams * The Guardian *Brilliant... Chang's lightness of touch makes often dry subject matter very readable... The first section is a page-turning history, the second a call to arms about how to apply economics in the real world using simple, everyday examples * Financial Times *
£11.69
Pluto Press The Liberal Virus Permanent War and the
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the American model is being imposed on the world, and outlines its economic and political consequences.Trade Review"Amin is both a real-world social scientist and a revolutionary socialist." Review of Radical Political EconomyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Liberal Vision of Society 2. The Ideological and Para-Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism 3. The Consequences: Really-Existing Globalized Liberalism 4. The Origins of Liberalism 5. The Challenge of Liberalism Today Works Cited in the Text Index
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Penguin Books Ltd Subscribed Why the Subscription Model Will Be
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARDNetflix, Spotify, and Salesforce are just the tip of the iceberg for the subscription model. The real transformation--and the real opportunity--is just beginning---Today''s consumers prefer the advantages of access over the hassles of ownership. It''s not just internet services like Netflix and Spotify; even industrial firms like GE and Caterpillar are reinventing themselves as solutions providers. Whether you sell software, clothes, insurance, or industrial machines, you need to master the transition to the subscription model.Adapting to the subscription economy takes more than just deciding to sell subscriptions instead of products. You''ll have to reinvent your company from the inside out -- from your accounting to your entire IT architecture. No matter how large or small your company, Subscribed gives you a practical, step-by-step framework to reTrade ReviewThis book is ostensibly about subscription models, but it's ultimately about the future of business. In Subscribed, you'll learn from the masters of this business model and fundamentally change the way you think about your product, customers, growth, and talent -- no matter what industry you're in -- Aaron Levie * CEO and Founder of Box *Tien Tzuo, who I was lucky enough to hire as my eleventh employee at Salesforce, has written the definitive playbook for anyone navigating the most important business model shift of our time. The subscription model is exploding everywhere, and nobody knows how to steer through this shift better than Tien -- Marc Benioff * Chairman & CEO of Salesforce *Tien Tzuo is the godfather of the subscription economy and now he shares his unparalleled wisdom in this book. A must read for anyone who wants to have a breakout company. -- Maynard Webb * Author of Rebooting Work *Tzuo dissects the building blocks of what may be the greatest shift in business in the last twenty years; the move to a recurring revenue/subscription based model. For any business looking to break the chains of episodic, transactional commerce, Tien's book is a must-read -- Scott Galloway * Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern, author of The Four *Subscribed shows you how to keep customers coming back for more. The implications for product design are enormous -- Nir Eyal * author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products *All in all, Tien's book is spot-on. It has just the right blend of background information about the Subscription Economy and best practices -- Tom Taulli * Forbes *
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Random House USA Inc Behind the Beautiful Forevers
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Pan Macmillan Side Hustle: Build a Side Business and Make Extra
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of $100 Startup comes this accessible guide to building a side business from scratch – without having to give up your day job.Side Hustle is about much more than just making some extra cash; it’s about freedom and job security in today’s unstable business environment. That’s because when you receive income from multiple different sources, you are no longer dependent on the whims of a single employer. It affords you choices and options.In the style of $100 Startup, full of practical exercises and peppered with inspiring stories, Chris Guillebeau's Side Hustle shows readers how to brainstorm, choose, implement, launch and refine their side business in just 27 days – with little to no budget and without having to quit their current job.Trade ReviewChris Guillebeau is back with another book that will teach you not just how to earn more, but ultimately how to live better ... You can establish your own side hustle in just 5 weeks — with a minimal amount of money and with skills you already have. Which raises a question: What’s stopping you? -- Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and To Sell is Human Straightforward, and packs in lots of tips . . . An ideal guide * Financial Times *The essential guide for anyone who wants to create more freedom, opportunity, and security ... Packed with practical tips and strategies — illustrated by compelling stories of real-life hustles — that will inspire readers to start their side hustles now -- Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness ProjectThere's a great temptation to assume that side hustles are just for "special people," like artists, dreamers, and 17-year-old computer geniuses. But Guillebeau deftly proves everyone can (and should) have a side hustle -- Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Do OverHobbies cost you money, legit side businesses make money. If you want to get on the road to financial freedom and enjoy more passion and choice in your life, Side Hustle can help you take the first critical steps -- Jessica Herrin, CEO and Founder, Stella and DotA Side Hustle isn’t about making a few extra bucks selling lemonade to your neighbors. Chris Guillebeau has created a step-by-step methodology for imagining, building, and launching side projects that can earn real, serious cash. In my years investing on Shark Tank, I’ve seen firsthand how side hustles can take off and grow into some major profits. Whether you want to supplement your pay check, or jumpstart a full-fledged business, Guillebeau will show you how to get your hustle going in just 27 days flat. -- Daymond John, star of ABC’s Emmy Award winning business show Shark Tank
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McGraw-Hill Education Bring Your Human to Work 10 Surefire Ways to
Book SynopsisWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERThe secret to business success? Get REAL and be HUMAN!As human beings, we are built to connect and form relationships. So, it should be no surprise that relationships must also translate into the workplace, where we spend most of our time! Companies that recognize this will retain the most productive, creative, and loyal employees, and invariably seize the competitive edge. The most successful leaders are those who actively form quality relationships with their employees, who honor fundamental human qualitiesâauthenticity, openness, and basic politenessâand apply them day in and day out. Paying attention and genuinely caring about the effects people have on one another other is key to developing a winning culture where people perform at the top of their game and want to work.As a workplace strategist and business coach, Erica Keswin has spent over 20 years working with top business Table of ContentsIntroduction: Getting Started on This Human BusinessChapter One: Be Real: Speak in a Human VoiceChapter Two: Play the Long Game: True Sustainability Is a State of MindChapter Three: The Sweet Spot: Finding That Special Something Between Tech and ConnectChapter Four: Mind Your Meetings: Honoring Relationships with Purpose, Presence, and ProtocolsChapter Five: Well-Being at Work: Finding the Human Side of WellnessChapter Six: Give Back: You've Got Nothing to Lose, Only Inspired Employees to GainChapter Seven: Disconnect to Reconnect: Where There's a Will, There's a WayChapter Eight: Space Matters: Curating Connection Starts with the Water CoolerChapter Nine: Take Professional Development Personally: Empower Employees to Be Their Best SelvesChapter Ten: Say Thank You: It's a Human Thing to DoAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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WW Norton & Co Nomadland
Book Synopsis “People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book.” — Rebecca Solnit Trade Review"Stirring reportage." -- O Magazine"A remarkable book of immersive reporting... Bruder is an acute and compassionate observer." -- Margaret Talbot - The New Yorker" Bruder is a poised and graceful writer." -- Parul Sehgal - The New York Times"[A] devastating, revelatory book." -- Timothy R. Smith - The Washington Post"Stunning and beautifully written... brilliant and haunting…" -- Arlie Russell Hochschild - The New York Times Book Review"A first-rate piece of immersive journalism." -- San Francisco Chronicle"At once wonderfully humane and deeply troubling, the book offers an eye-opening tour of the increasingly unequal, unstable, and insecure future our country is racing toward." -- Astra Taylor - The Nation"This [Nomadland] is not some lookie-loo movie, condescendingly imagining the poor: Zhao and McDormand did the legwork—as did journalist Jessica Bruder, whose book inspired the film—entering communities and engaging with them in order to better tell their stories." -- Vanity Fair"I thought the book [“Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” by Jessica Bruder] was a very important document." -- David Strathairn - Los Angeles Times"Bruder’s lively, thoroughly reported book of the same name..." -- AO Scott - The New York Times"Ms. Zhao based her screenplay on Jessica Bruder’s 2018 book of the same name, an exceptional piece of nonfiction that emphasized social and economic upheaval in the wake of the Great Recession... Ms. Bruder’s book staked out the territory and brought its shifting population to life with calm, empathetic reporting." -- The Wall Street Journal
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Little, Brown Book Group Good Boss Bad Boss How to Be the Best and Learn
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule''I am frequently asked, Tom, my brother/sister/friend is taking on a new leadership role. What should they read? I always respond the same way, by recommending one and only one book: Bob Sutton''s Good Boss, Bad Boss'' - Tom Peters, New York Times bestselling author of In Search of Excellence.Good Boss, Bad Boss was inspired by the thousands of emails, calls and conversations that Robert Sutton received after publishing his bestseller The No Asshole Rule - he found that most of the stories and cries for help he received revolved around one central figure in every workplace: THE BOSS.Sutton''s subsequent research showed that the success of every boss depended heavily on how well (or badly) they managed those they worked with and in Good Boss, Bad Boss he demonstrates this by weaving together the best psychological and management secrets witTrade ReviewI am frequently asked, 'Tom, my brother/sister/friend is taking on a new leadership role. What should he read?' I always respond the same way: by recommending one and only one book: Bob Sutton's Good Boss, Bad Boss
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Columbia University Press Expectations Investing
Book SynopsisMost investment books try to assess the attractiveness of a stock price by estimating the value of the company. Expectations Investing provides a powerful and insightful alternative to identifying gaps between price and value.Trade ReviewAs I read the new edition of the book, it is clear that Al and Michael are writing a book for the times that we are in, with much more attention paid to disruption, and the value it creates and destroys, and user/subscriber platforms, which can be exploited for gain and thus provide optionality. -- from the foreword by Aswath DamodaranIn Expectations Investing, Michael Mauboussin and Al Rappaport break down investing into its component parts, explaining what makes for good companies and attractively priced stocks. Which isn’t to say they make it easy. This is second-level thinking: a graduate-level course in intelligent investing. -- Howard Marks, cofounder and cochairman, Oaktree Capital Management, and author of The Most Important Thing Illuminated and Mastering the Market CycleMauboussin and Rappaport’s approach to corporate valuation is as relevant and intelligent today as ever. Understanding expectations, assessing competitive strategy, appreciating optionality, and a laser focus on cash flow will make you a more effective investor in private or public markets. -- Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark CapitalIn Expectations Investing, Michael Mauboussin and Al Rappaport build off the simple yet powerful observation that a company’s stock price embeds expectations. They then offer investors a rigorous method to identify gaps between what the price reflects and what is likely to happen. Truly a must have in any investor’s library. -- Annie Duke, author of Thinking in Bets and How to DecideOne of the few investing books that gave me an 'ah-ha' moment and changed how I think about investing. -- Morgan Housel, Partner, The Collaborative Fund, and author of The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and HappinessExpectations Investing was one of the first books that sparked my interest in investing. The core idea is as powerful as any, and the authors explain it in a way that makes it unforgettable. This excellent update to the original classic is must reading for all investors. -- Patrick O'Shaughnessy, CFA, CEO, O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, and author of Millennial Money: How Young Investors can Build a FortuneIn this book Mauboussin and Rappaport teach readers how to achieve an investing edge by inverting a conventional investing process. The market’s expectations as implied by the current stock price are assessed before an analysis about how that price might change in the future. This method is straight up Charlie Munger-style inversion. Since margin of safety can be restated as a discount to expected value, understanding this process is invaluable. -- Tren Griffin, author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for EntrepreneursThis book is a special one. It’s a classic that … has been revised for modern time[s]. If you have been in the investmentverse, Michael Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport don’t need an introduction. They are both pillars in investment research. Mr. Mauboussin is known for his top-notch research and knowledge. Al Rappaport is professor emeritus at Kellogg School of Management and one of the most respected experts on markets. Most financial textbooks share three things in common: massive, boring and expensive. Not this one. Expectations Investing is 272 pages of wisdom. * Brian Langis blog *A revised and updated Expectations Investing by Michael Mauboussin and Al Rappaport was released in 2021 by Columbia University Press and it's the best investing book I've ever read! Period. * The Motley Fool *A must-read if you are pondering the best way to value certain start-up and technology companies. * Enterprising Investor *A 'top personal finance book' selection. Investors will be able to evaluate companies’ stocks more effectively after reading this book and gain useful insights from the examples and case studies too. * Top Best in Singapore *Mauboussin is a prolific researcher but also a gifted writer, and he puts those abundant talents to good use in [Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns] with [Alfred] Rappaport. Laden with examples and checklists and thoughtfully organized, it is a good and very readable manual for experienced and novice analysts alike. * Morningstar's Recommended Reading List *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Case for Expectations InvestingPart I. Gathering the Tools2. How the Market Values Stocks3. The Expectations Infrastructure4. Analyzing Competitive StrategyPart II. Implementing the Process5. How to Estimate Price-Implied Expectations6. Identifying Expectations Opportunities7. Buy, Sell, or Hold?8. Beyond Discounted Cash Flow9. Across the Economic LandscapePart III. Reading Corporate Signals and Sources of Opportunities10. Mergers and Acquisitions11. Share Buybacks12. Sources of Expectations OpportunitiesNotesIndex
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Elliott & Thompson Limited The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes
Book SynopsisHow we pay is so fundamental that it underpins everything - from trade to taxation, stocks and savings to salaries, pensions and pocket money. Rich or poor, criminal, communist or capitalist, we all rely on the same payments system, day in, day out. It sits between us and not just economic meltdown, but a total breakdown in law and order. Why then do we know so little about how it really works?; As you read this, technology is dismantling payment barriers and governments are erecting them; cash is on the way out, and crypto and BigTech are fighting their way in. The Europeans are heavily regulated, the Americans oddly backward, and the Chinese hoping to lead the way forward. Challenging our understanding about where financial power really lies, The Pay Off shows us that the most important thing about money is the way we move it.; Leibbrandt and De Terán shine a light on the hidden workings of the humble payment - and reveal both how our payment habits are determined by history as well as where we go from here. From national customs to warring nation states, geopolitics will shape the future of payments every bit as much as technology.Trade Review"Payments are the most important things most people have probably never even thought about. Banks, tech companies, Central Banks, crypto firms and crooks all know that if you control payments, you may also control critical data and ultimately the world. The Pay Off cleverly dissects the workings and future of this geopolitical and technological war. A must read for anyone in business." - Bob Wigley, Chair, UK Finance, and author of Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted Generation"a long overdue, highly readable and authoritative account of the uses and occasional abuses of the systems on which we all rely, and how they are still rapidly changing, that both specialists and the general reader will find informative and entertaining." – Mark Yallop, Chair, FICC Markets Standards Board, Former External Member, Prudential Regulatory Committee at the Bank of England, Former External Member, Financial Market Infrastructure Board at the Bank of England"Whenever you buy or sell something, you use a payments system but, do you ever wonder how that system works? It's like plumbing or electricity maybe, but it is actually far more complex as it is changing fast thanks to technology. You used to pay with cash, then with a click, now with a swipe or with a touch. What's next? How does all of this work? The Pay Off provides a wonderful deep-dive into the subject [...]. In this book, you find so many useful insights about the past, present and future of payments that anyone who is vaguely interested in the politics, economics and world of finance should pick it up and read it. NOW!" --Chris Skinner, author, commentator and troublemaker“An excellent and important book. Payments are transforming our society and our lives, and yet few people understand what’s driving the change, or what the consequences could be, for good or ill. Hugely engaging and accessible, “The Pay Off" demystifies this critical subject for the layperson and policy makers alike” - Natalie Ceeney CBE, Chair, Access to Cash review“The world of payments is complex and confusing, but hugely important. The authors have produced a comprehensive, authoritative and even, at times, amusing, guide. I have read nothing better on a subject which increasingly preoccupies both commercial and central banks.” - Howard Davies, Chairman of the NatWest group, and former chairman of the FSA “The Pay Off sounds like a thriller and it reads like one. The authors succeed in demonstrating ‘networks are an inexhaustibly interesting subject’ with wit and panache. The book was written with a twinkle in the eye and brought a twinkle to mine. Accessible and erudite, entertaining and enriching, The Pay Off delivers.” - Tim Frost, former director of the Bank of England and chair of Cairn Capital“The global payment system is the biggest thing that people generally know nothing about. The authors have managed to explain it in a way which is both engaging and intriguing, and it is hard to imagine anyone, from financial professional to general reader, not finding it fascinating. As technology begins to revolutionise payments, this book has never been more sorely needed.” - Simon Gleeson, author of The Legal Concept of Money“The Pay Off will change the way we read and think about payments. Fascinating, thrilling, intriguing and well written, with deep inside knowledge and understanding of the world of payments, Gottfried and Natasha are taking us to a future with endless possibilities never losing sight of possible risks and wrong turns.” --Jochen Metzger, Payments Executive, Frankfurt am Main“Lucid and stimulating – this book sheds light on the scale [and pace] of the digital-money revolution that we are living through” - Huw van Steenis, author Bank of England Future of Finance report [or Chair Sustainable Finance UBS]“An accessible, thorough primer on the money technologies that make our world go round but few really people understand” - Lana Swartz, author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media“A really interesting book, going through the history of how we have paid for things in the past, as well as looking at how payments could change in the future. If you have never thought about the plumbing system that guides all our payments to the places they need to reach, then this may be an eye-opener” --Baroness Ros Altmann, life peer and political campaigner on pensions"The Pay Off is excellent reading" - Professor Alistair Milne
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC More Money Than God
Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind: a fascinating and entertaining examination of hedge funds todayShortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award''An enormously satisfying book: a gripping chronicle of the cutting edge of the financial markets and a fascinating perspective on what was going on in these shadowy institutions as the crash hit'' ObserverWealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-find managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge funds. This is the inside story of their origins in the 1960s and 1970s, their explosive battles with central banks in the 1980s and 1990s, and finally their role in the financial crisis of 2007-9.Hedge funds reward risk takers, so they tend to attract larger-than-life personalities. Jim Simons began life as a code-breaker anTrade Review‘The best account ever published of the economics, politics and adrenalin of these amazing firms. It shows why hedge funds dominate the world of finance and why the politicians who rail against them end up making them more powerful' * Anatole Kaletsky *‘A warts-and-all history of hedge funds...a splendid account of the ups and downs of an industry in which few of the twenty-something hedge-fund wannabes know their history. They, and meddling politicians, should read this book before they are condemned to repeat it' * Financial Times *An enormously satisfying book: a gripping chronicle of the cutting edge of the financial markets and a fascinating perspective on what was going on in these shadowy institutions as the crash hit * Observer *‘A superbly researched history of hedge-fund heroes stretching back to the 1950s, it is a fascinating tale of the contrarian and cerebral misfits who created successful, flexible businesses in an otherwise conventional financial world' * Economist *
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Quantitative Portfolio Management
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction 3 1 Market Data 9 1.1 Tick and bar data 9 1.2 Corporate actions and adjustment factor 10 1.3 Linear vs log returns 11 2 Forecasting 13 2.1 Data for forecasts 14 2.1.1 Point-in-time and lookahead 15 2.1.2 Security master and survival bias 16 2.1.3 Fundamental and accounting data 16 2.1.4 Analyst estimates 17 2.1.5 Supply chain and competition 18 2.1.6 M&A and risk arbitrage 18 2.1.7 Event-based predictors 18 2.1.8 Holdings and flows 19 2.1.9 News and social media 20 2.1.10 Macroeconomic data 21 2.1.11 Alternative data 21 2.1.12 Alpha capture 21 2.2 Technical forecasts 22 2.2.1 Mean reversion 22 2.2.2 Momentum 24 2.2.3 Trading volume 24 2.2.4 Statistical predictors 25 2.2.5 Data from other asset classes 25 2.3 Basic concepts of statistical learning 27 2.3.1 Mutual information and Shannon entropy 28 2.3.2 Likelihood and Bayesian inference 32 2.3.3 Mean square error and correlation 33 2.3.4 Bias-variance tradeoff 35 2.3.5 PAC learnability, VC dimension, and generalization error bounds 36 2.4 Machine learning 40 2.4.1 Types of machine learning 41 2.4.2 Overfitting 43 2.4.3 Ordinary and generalized least squares 44 2.4.4 Deep learning 46 2.4.5 Types of neural networks 48 2.4.6 Nonparametric methods 51 2.4.7 Cross-validation 54 2.4.8 Curse of dimensionality, eigenvalue cleaning, and shrinkage 56 2.4.9 Smoothing and regularization 61 2.4.9.1 Smoothing spline 62 2.4.9.2 Total variation denoising 62 2.4.9.3 Nadaraya-Watson kernel smoother 63 2.4.9.4 Local linear regression 64 2.4.9.5 Gaussian process 64 2.4.9.6 Ridge and kernel ridge regression 67 2.4.9.7 Bandwidth and hypertuning of kernel smoothers 68 2.4.9.8 Lasso regression 69 2.4.10 Generalization puzzle of deep and overparameterized learning 69 2.4.11 Online machine learning 74 2.4.12 Boosting 75 2.4.13 Randomized learning 79 2.4.14 Latent structure 80 2.4.15 No free lunch and AutoML 81 2.4.16 Computer power and machine learning 83 2.5 Dynamical modeling 87 2.6 Alternative reality 89 2.7 Timeliness-significance tradeoff 90 2.8 Grouping 91 2.9 Conditioning 92 2.10 Pairwise predictors 92 2.11 Forecast for securities from their linear combinations 93 2.12 Forecast research vs simulation 95 3 Forecast Combining 97 3.1 Correlation and diversification 98 3.2 Portfolio combining 99 3.3 Mean-variance combination of forecasts 102 3.4 Combining features vs combining forecasts 103 3.5 Dimensionality reduction 104 3.5.1 PCA, PCR, CCA, ICA, LCA, and PLS 105 3.5.2 Clustering 107 3.5.3 Hierarchical combining 108 3.6 Synthetic security view 108 3.7 Collaborative filtering 109 3.8 Alpha pool management 110 3.8.1 Forecast development guidelines 111 3.8.1.1 Point-in-time data 111 3.8.1.2 Horizon and scaling 111 3.8.1.3 Type of target return 112 3.8.1.4 Performance metrics 112 3.8.1.5 Measure of forecast uncertainty 112 3.8.1.6 Correlation with existing forecasts 112 3.8.1.7 Raw feature library 113 3.8.1.8 Overfit handling 113 3.8.2 Pnl attribution 114 3.8.2.1 Marginal attribution 114 3.8.2.2 Regression-based attribution 114 4 Risk 117 4.1 Value at risk and expected shortfall 117 4.2 Factor models 119 4.3 Types of risk factors 120 4.4 Return and risk decomposition 121 4.5 Weighted PCA 122 4.6 PCA transformation 123 4.7 Crowding and liquidation 124 4.8 Liquidity risk and short squeeze 126 4.9 Forecast uncertainty and alpha risk 127 5 Trading Costs 129 5.1 Slippage 130 5.2 Impact 130 5.2.1 Empirical observations 132 5.2.2 Linear impact model 133 5.2.3 Impact arbitrage 135 5.3 Cost of carry 135 6 Portfolio Construction 137 6.1 Hedged allocation 137 6.2 Single-period vs multi-period mean-variance utility 139 6.3 Single-name multi-period optimization 140 6.3.1 Optimization with fast impact decay 141 6.3.2 Optimization with exponentially decaying impact 142 6.3.3 Optimization conditional on a future position 143 6.3.4 Position value and utility leak 145 6.3.5 Optimization with slippage 146 6.4 Multi-period portfolio optimization 148 6.4.1 Unconstrained portfolio optimization with linear impact costs 149 6.4.2 Iterative handling of factor risk 150 6.4.3 Optimizing future EMA positions 151 6.4.4 Portfolio optimization using utility leak rate 151 6.4.5 Notes on portfolio optimization with slippage 152 6.5 Portfolio capacity 152 6.6 Portfolio optimization with forecast revision 153 6.7 Portfolio optimization with forecast uncertainty 156 6.8 Kelly criterion and optimal leverage 157 6.9 Intraday optimization and execution 160 6.9.1 Trade curve 160 6.9.2 Forecast-timed execution 161 6.9.3 Algorithmic trading and HFT 162 6.9.4 HFT controversy 166 7 Simulation 169 7.1 Simulation vs production 170 7.2 Simulation and overfitting 171 7.3 Research and simulation efficiency 172 7.4 Paper trading 173 7.5 Bugs 173 Afterword: Economic and Social Aspects of Quant Trading 179 Appendix 183 A1 Secmaster mappings 183 A2 Woodbury matrix identities 184 A3 Toeplitz matrix 185 Index 187 Questions index 195 Quotes index 197 Stories index 199
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Book SynopsisGroundbreaking call to action by Donella Meadows, the bestselling author of Thinking in Systems! Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse the Guardian The updated edition of the groundbreaking classic that kickstarted the movement for environmental and ecological reform! Perfect for fans of The Uninhabitable Earth and There is No Planet B It is no unknown fact that at the present rate of climate change, population growth and capitalistic expansion, we are over-exceeding our planet’s resources. We’re stretched pretty thin and if we continue at the present rate we’ll soon be headed towards irreversible consequences as a result of unchecked growth on a finite planet. Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows, three imminent environmental leaders, foresaw the early signs of wear and tear on our planet. They come together in Limits to Growth to offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use and assess a variety of possible outcomes. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet. In many ways, the message contained in Limits to Growth is a warning. Rampant resource exhaustion cannot be sustained without collapse. But as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of the damage to Earth if we reduce inefficiency and waste. Limits to Growth is a work of stunning intelligence that has exposed the critical line between human growth and human development.Trade ReviewJohn N. Cooper, for AxisofLogic.com- This is a wonderful book. Originally published in 1972 as Limits to Growth and refreshed in 1992 in Beyond the Limits, the authors have now issued a 30-year appraisal [Chelsea Green Publishing, ISBN 1-931498-58-X], in which they examine the progress made both in their understanding of the mechanisms underlying the impact of humanity on the world ecology and of steps taken toward remediating the accelerating approach to trainwreck that is mankind's ill-managed and uncontrolled 'footprint' on this planet's environment. Briefly, humanity has overshot the limits of what is physically and biologically sustainable. That overshoot WILL lead to the collapse of the planetary environment's ability to support not only our species but much of the rest of the biosphere if we do not act rapidly and effectively to reduce our footprint. These conclusions provide reasons for both optimism and alarm: optimism because humanity has demonstrated its capacity to act appropriately in one specific instance; and alarm because thirty years have been largely wasted since the consequences of our failing to act were detailed. There is still time but the need to act quickly and effectively is urgent. The authors demonstrate that the most critical areas needing immediate attention are: population; wasteful, inefficient growth; and pollution. They show how attention to all three simultaneously can result in returning the human footprint on the environment to manageable, sustainable size, while sharply reducing the disparity between human well-being and fostering a generous quality-of-life worldwide. Absent this, the prospects are grim indeed. The book is divided into three sections, the first outlining in principle the authors' systems analytical approach to understanding the planet's ecology. Their presentation is clear and comprehensible with an abundance of charts and figures that make visualizing the concepts easy. They successfully avoid the pitfalls of many technical presentations by using familiar analogies and largely avoiding professional jargon. As a result readers come away with insights not just into global interconnectedness of inputs, outputs, accumulation and feedback but also the significance of such dynamics in local, even personal, situations. The second section deals with the authors' updated and revised modeling program, World3, which they utilize to test the plausible effects of changes in human political, economic and social behavior on the environment. Their discussion of World3 focuses on the assumptions for, and results of, a variety calculational scenarios. Details of their latest programming revisions are reserved for an index. Repeatedly they emphasize that their results are NOT prescriptive, but merely descriptive in general terms of likely consequences of humanity's failure or success in rising to meet the issues cited. Again excellent graphics for the various scenarios allow the reader to see at a glance what different approaches toward rectifying past, present and future environmental damage may have. The final chapters describe options open to humanity that the authors believe have the best chance of avoiding social, economic and probably political collapse in the next century or so. We have a choice: the human experiment, possibly even the biological experiment, that is life on this planet can yet succeed and persist in a sustainable way. But to do so will require our species as whole consciously and deliberately to take immediate, remediating steps, now, seriously and adequately to address the issues we have so far failed to do so effectively. It IS up to us. © Copyright 2005 by AxisofLogic.com. -- John N. Cooper"In 1972, The Limits to Growth was published as a clarion call to begin changing the way the world worked so we safely made it to 2050-2070. The authors were clear that the path of change needed to begin "now" so we made a course correction within the next 30 years. Sadly, the message they wrote got badly misunderstood and by 30 years later, scores of critiques to the book claimed the authors warned that the world would run out of oil and other scare resources by 1990 or 2000. It is time for the world to re-read Limits to Growth! The message of 1972 is far more real and relevant in 2004 and we wasted a valuable 30 years of action plans by misreading the message of the first book."--Matthew R. Simmons, energy analyst and founder, Simmons & Company International, The world's largest energy investment banking practiceTable of Contents1. Overshoot 2. The driving force: exponential growth 3. The limits: sources and sinks 4. World3: the dynamics of growth in a finite world 5. Back from beyond the limits: the ozone story 6. Technology, markets, and overshoot 7. Transitions to a sustainable system 8. Tools for the transition to sustainability
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Bilanzen erstellen und lesen für Dummies
Book SynopsisEine Bilanz muss kein Buch mit sieben Siegeln sein, im Gegenteil: Wer versteht, was sie aussagt, kann viel aus ihr ablesen. Dieses Buch erläutert, wie eine Bilanz, eine Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung oder die wichtigsten Berichte für den Anhang und Lagebericht erstellt werden und wie man Bilanzpolitik betreibt. Es zeigt leicht verständlich, wie diese gelesen und interpretiert werden können, um so versteckte Risiken entdecken zu können. Die Bestseller-Autoren Michael Griga und Raymund Krauleidis legen in ihrem Buch den Schwerpunkt auf die Analyse von Bilanzen. Die Leser erfahren unter anderem, was sich hinter Begriffen wie Finanzierungs- und Investitionsanalyse, Liquiditätsanalyse oder Erfolgsanalyse verbirgt und was der Unterschied zwischen qualitativer und strategischer Bilanzanalyse ist. Die gewohnte Prise Humor fehlt natürlich ebenso wenig wie anschauliche Beispiele aus dem prallen Leben, Übungen, um das Erlernte gleich anzuwenden und Erläuterungen der unterschiedlichen gesetzlichen Grundlagen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd How to Do Relevant Research: From the Ivory Tower
Book SynopsisAmidst rapid and fundamental shifts in the economic, geo-political, technological, and societal landscape, this cutting-edge book makes the timeless case that research can be informed by problems in the 'real world' and make important contributions to theory and practice.Throughout the book, the authors argue that there is a 'sweet spot' where both scholarly and practical research can be done simultaneously. It offers readers insightful and rich examples of how this can be achieved, including frameworks, examples, ideas, and tools which will guide researchers in the lifelong task of defining themselves as researchers and crafting their own unique research practice. It also features critical insights into careers oriented toward having impact on practice, reflective questions that make the principles personal and relevant, and a framework to help develop the network of connections required for research to impact practice.Speaking to the graduate student in all of us, How to Do Relevant Research will greatly benefit Ph.D. students and early career academics who gravitate towards this kind of research but worry about its feasibility and instrumentality, mid-to-late career scholars who do research for practice and teach young scholars how to do it, and to researchers in a think-tank or consultancy who want their work to be scientifically sound and practically useful.Trade Review‘This book is a very powerful statement of how management research can be relevant for management practice and why that is important. I used a preprint with my doctoral students to enable them to think about how their scholarship can be both rigorous and relevant. The reflective questions scattered throughout the book are an added bonus that guide students to reflect for themselves about what matters to them about research. I strongly recommend this book for academics pondering their links with practice.’ -- Jean M. Bartunek, Boston College, US‘Minimizing the rigor-relevance trade-off is the holy grail not only of management research but for all the social sciences. This ingenious and timely book is full of actionable insights and wisdom on what its authors call “sweet spot research” as organizations confronting pervasive disruption need the research of business schools more than ever.’ -- Geoffrey Garrett, The University of Southern California, US‘How to Do Relevant Research shows how to achieve both rigor and relevance by building a solid bridge between academics in the ivory tower and practitioners in the world. It inspires meaning, purpose and action in a community of scholars where research is often void of societal relevance and filled with instrumental careerism. It provides a compelling explanation of why sweet spot research is responsible research, why it is good for everyone, and how it can inspire a collective dream of making the world a better place for all people. This book is a wonderful gift to all current and aspiring scholars, not only those in management but in all professional disciplines.’ -- Anne S. Tsui, Co-founder, Responsible Research in Business and Management (www.rrbm.network) 67 President, Academy of Management (www.aom.org); Founding President, International Association for Chinese Management Research (www.iacmr.org)‘This book is a treasure. Mirvis, Mohrman and Worley have named and confronted head-on the challenges and struggles of the research philosophies and practices in our field. Through erudite summaries, penetrating questioning and reflective exercises they have built an integrating framework that can be a transformational force in the future of organizational scholarship. This is a book, not only to be read, but also to be subjected to deep reflection and application.’ -- David Coghlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland‘Mirvis, Mohrman and Worley have written the definitive primer on how to do research that matters to both academics and practitioners. For those early in the journey of doing relevant research, the book is a “must read.” Clear, informative, and useful. For those with experience doing relevant research, the book is a “thankful read.” Illuminating, evocative, confirming.’ -- Thomas G. Cummings, The University of Southern California, US‘At last a book that is philosophically sound and demonstrates there is no tradeoff between rigor and relevance. How to Do Relevant Research needs to be required reading for every management and business school professor and graduate student. It gives us lots of examples of how to do research that makes a difference. This will be the saving grace of business schools – if people pay attention.’ -- R. Edward Freeman, University of Virginia, US‘If you want to make a difference to practice and theory, How to do Relevant Research by Mirvis, Mohrman and Worley is on target. I wish I had the wisdom in this book when I was a doctoral student or in early career – it would have helped me accelerate my contributions to theory and practice.’ -- Michael Beer, Harvard Business School; Co-founder TruePoint; Co-Founder Center for Higher Ambition Leadership‘This is an indispensable guide for scholars and practitioners. Mirvis, Mohrman, and Worley offer decades of exceptional experience. Their practical frameworks and vivid examples show practitioners how to tap the vast trove of useful evidence produced by scholars, and show scholars how to connect and ground their research in the pivotal issues, values, and decision frameworks used by practitioners.’ -- John Boudreau, University of Southern California, US‘An important and engaging contribution to doing research that enhances practice. More than a “how to” guide, Mirvis, Mohrman, and Worley’s years of experience in engaged research compel us to pay attention to the necessity of relevant scholarship. If you aren’t already doing and communicating useful, relevant research, this elegant book should inspire you to act. And if you are, then this exploration should energize you to build and connect.’ -- – Gavin M. Schwarz, University of New South Wales Business School, Australia‘At a time when executives seek evidence-based insight into effective practice, academics pursue opportunities for thought leadership, and accrediting bodies and funding agencies call for greater impact from research, this book guides scholars about how to best balance theory, rigor, and relevance. I strongly recommend this book to practitioner scholars and academics who are seeking to elevate their engaged scholarship and potential impact.’ -- John Mooney, Pepperdine University, US‘This is an important book on relevant and useful research that should be read by any scientist who is interested in making a difference to both practice and the academy. Based on decades of work, Mirvis, Mohrman and Worley provide a coherent roadmap for the complex and exciting journey into the borderland between academy and industry.’ -- Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, California Polytechnic State University, US and Co-Author of Collaborative Inquiry for Organization Development and Change‘Many organizational scholars, including Presidents of the Academy of Management, have urged us to do research that is both rigorous and relevant. This book shows us HOW to do this – at all academic career-phases. Coming from world-renowned scholars who have done this (and still do), this book’s refreshingly reflective and authentic tips promise to inspire and enable more organizational scholars to rigorously conduct relevant research thereby exponentially increasing the reach and impact of organizational science. This is needed now more than ever!’ -- Debra L. Shapiro, University of Maryland, US and Past President, Academy of Management (2016)‘This excellent book is must reading for anyone who wants to conduct relevant research that advances knowledge for theory and practice. It finds the sweet spot between contributing to theory and producing knowledge relevant to the problems faced in management and organizational practice. It suggests practical and proven ways to engage in a network of activities and relationships that enable relevant research.’ -- Andrew H. Van de Ven, University of Minnesota, US‘A most welcome and well written guide to practical scholarship that is both rigorous and useful. For those stuck in the ivory tower, it’s also a liberatory call to action research!’ -- Hilary Bradbury, Editor in Chief, Action Research Journal, Curator, Foundation AR+‘This book offers a time-tested methodology on how to execute research that delivers relevant knowledge for practice. It resonates with the CEEMAN Manifesto on excellence and relevance in education and research and answers the question of professors and their doctoral students: “How do you do it”?!’ -- Danica Purg, President of IEDC-Bled School of Management, Bled, Slovenia and President of CEEMAN, The International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies‘This book is timely given the current global crisis and potential ones that businesses will likely face. Social science researchers have a role to play in solution making but are often missing from the solution making space occupied by managers. Mirvis, Mohrman and Worley provide concrete guidance to researchers to get to the ‘sweet spot’ where knowledge produced is both relevant and rigorous. They ask us to reflect on our research paradigms and professional identity, and to find inspiration in the many examples of research-practice collaborations that they share in the book. A must-read for researchers at any stage of their career seeking to produce research insights that impact practice.’ -- Garima Sharma, Georgia State University, US‘This book is long overdue. With examples of relevant research all over the world, it enables scholars to smell the aroma of practice and practitioners to taste the cooking of academics. I recommend this work to academics around the globe. For practitioners who are venturing into the scholarly world (i.e., getting doctoral degrees), this is must have book.’ -- Baniyelme D. Zoogah, President; Africa Academy of Management; Xavier University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface and acknowledgements PART I WHAT AND WHY 1. Theory-driven, practice-driven, and “sweet spot” management research 2. Developing your research philosophy 3. Creating value in organizational research: a relational view 4. Relevant research: yesterday and today PART II HOW 5. Theorizing and practice 6. Research and practice 7. Communicating research to scholars and practitioners 8. Managing research relationships in the field 9. Being a sweet spot researcher Index
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