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Book SynopsisThe West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the modern world has defined happiness in terms of material gain. Homo economicus has cast aside its rivals, homo ethicus and homo empathicus, and spread its neo-Darwinian logic far and wide. Yet, instead of bringing happiness, homo economicus traps human beings in a world devoid of any ideals. We are left feeling empty and dissatisfied.Today more and more people are beginning to recognize that competition and material gain are not the only things that matter in life. The central paradox of our era is that we look to the economy to give direction to our world at the very time when social needs are migrating toward sectors that arTrade Review"What are we losing, as we are increasingly pressured to define the pursuit of happiness in narrowly economic terms? That is the question Daniel Cohen asks – and indeed answers – with frequently piercing new insights in this thought-provoking combination of ancient history, sociology, psychology and alternative economics." Colin Crouch, University of Warwick "The economy is the driving force of our world but to what end? In a fascinating book, the economist Daniel Cohen offers a long-term perspective on the relation between the search for individual happiness and the market. He shows how the market, in imposing its own model and valuing competition above everything else, has disrupted the relations between human beings. The emergence and eventual triumph of Homo Economicus has led to the collapse or stagnation of the indicators of wellbeing in the most advanced countries." Libération "Find happiness, or try to achieve it: a topic addressed often in the past by literature or philosophy is now a topic for economics. In Homo Economicus, the economist Daniel Cohen shows how our ultra-competitive societies have disrupted social relations and undermined all the indicators of wellbeing. He starts from a sombre fact: never before has so much wealth been created, never have people had access to so many goods, and yet they are not happier – if anything they are less happy. Why?" Le Monde "A highly readable, thought-provoking critique." Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi Introduction 1 1 Gross Domestic Happiness 5 2 Work: A Diminishing Value 20 3 The Decline of Empire 34 4 De-Centring the World 54 5 The Great Western Crisis 76 6 Darwin's Nightmare 91 7 The Postmodern Condition 106 Conclusion 124 Notes 127 Index 145

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Book Synopsis* A robust and unflinching account of the ongoing take-over of politics by global corporations * Lifts the lid on the world of lobbying, trade negotiations and treaties, in particular the controversial TTIP and its likely ramifications for national sovereignty in Europe and in the US.Trade Review"Susan George�s work has provided deep understanding of the world in which we live. Shadow Sovereigns carries these insights further to the carefully hidden core of global decision-making, a matter of prime significance for those who hope to take their fate into their own hands in times when critical decisions will determine the future of the human experiment."Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Driven by a virulent strain of neoliberalism, the global corporate assault on democracy has now reached unprecedented and planet-cooking extremes. Nobody is better qualified than Susan George to document and dissect the inner workings of this process. The result is a book will galvanize those new to the subject while providing veteran opponents with renewed urgency and fresh insights." Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine "Susan George has found and revealed the blueprint that transnational corporations are using to conquer our political system. In this vital book, written with characteristic rigor and flair, she lifts the veil on the many mechanisms through which corporations buy politicians, manipulate global policy, and in the process render our democracy a farcical pantomime. Most importantly, Shadow Sovereigns hauls corporations out of the dark where they like to operate and shows them to be the frontline troops in the neoliberal assault on public life. George�s diagnosis that the grand Enlightenment tradition is being fatally corrupted by what she calls the Great Neoliberal Regression is chilling. But by shining a light on our new silent rulers and telling us how they work, George replenishes the intellectual armory we need to fight back." Matt Kennard, author of Irregular Army and The RacketTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Lobbies, Mega-Lobbies and How To Join Them Chapter Two: Transnational Treaties: Tailored By and For Transnational Corporations Chapter Three: “Regulatory Cooperation”: More Danger Ahead Chapter Four: Corporate Troops Invade the United Nations Chapter Five: Davos: Designer Of The Future? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFor the appendixes mentioned in the book, Click Here.In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi critically analyzes the processes leading to the rise of the West since the sixteenth century to its current position as the most prosperous and powerful group of nations in the world. Integrating the history of armed conflict with the history of competition for trade, investment, and markets, Bagchi explores the human consequences for people both within and outside the region. He characterizes the emergence and operation of capitalism as a system driven by wars over resources and markets rather than one that genuinely operates on the principle of free markets. In tracing this history, he also charts what happened to the people who came under its sway during the last five centuries. Bagchi thus broadens our understanding of the nature and history of capitalism and challenges the fetishism of commodities that limits the perspective of most economic historians. The book also challenges the Eurocentrism that still underlies the conceptual framework of many mainstream historians, joining earlier narratives that chronicle the history of human beings as living persons rather than as puppets serving the abstract cause of economic growth. His unflinching examination of the human costs of developmentnot only in the colonial periphery but in the core nationsincludes not only economic processes and issues of inequality within and among nations but also the intertwining of economics and war-making on a world scale. The book also contributes to our knowledge of how and in what sequence human health has been shaped by public health care, sanitation, modern medicine, income levels and nutrition. Written with extraordinary range and depth, Perilous Passage will change the ways in which we think about many of the largest issues in world history and development.Trade ReviewA good deal that we have seen before is still or again relevant to today's global capitalism, and Bagchi usefully reminds us of how many of these parallels are harrowing rather than hopeful; one hopes this book will reach the people who believe the stories Bagchi debunks and enrich a vital set of debates. -- Kenneth L. Pomeranz, University of Chicago * Economic and Political Weekly *Explores the numerous ways the armed ascendancy of European capital has impacted the human development of the nonwhite dependencies of Europe and the Europeans themselves. Discusses human development and capitalist growth; capitalist competition and human development in Europe; the world beyond Europe in the age of the emergence of European dominance; and the antisystemic struggles, wars, and challenges to global capital. * Journal of Economic Literature *This stimulating synthesis . . . has an excellent bibliography, incorporates recent specialist work in global economic history, and is genuinely erudite. A valuable reference for all world historians . . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A hard-headed examination in facts and figures of how capitalism has insidiously but inexorably destroyed human happiness and ravaged our ecological system. . . . A compelling and thoughtful account with the lucidity of argument of someone compressing the essence of a lifetime's research into a philosophical framework. * The Statesman *Magisterial. . . . [Bagchi] presents a comprehensive comparative picture of the historical economic development of China, India, and Japan, and their relation to what happened in Europe and North America. It is hard to suggest another work that does this in as small a space, so clearly, and based on such extensive acquaintance with the empirical literature. . . . It is refreshing to have Bagchi’s voice added to the rather small list of important works on the origins and development of the modern world. . . . One can only hope that the book will have a wide international reading public. -- Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center, Yale University * Monthly Review *Bagchi has written a great book, a history of human development as he calls it, which offers a fascinating account of global capitalism as it evolved over a period of four centuries. . . . Writing a 'grand history' as Bagchi has done will inevitably create controversy . . . but this does not in any way diminish the significance of this monumental history of the human costs of economic growth. * Development and Change *An ambitious work that essays to rethink the extent to which the transition to capitalism did not accomplish significant human development until well into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . Bagchi's 'human development' frame is one that stimulates and appropriately outrages. * Journal of World History *An impressive book that, in the tradition of world systems analysis and dependency theory, challenges Eurocentric understandings of capitalism. . . . This book makes an important contribution to that struggle. * Science & Society *[Bagchi] challenges Eurocentric views on the rise of capitalism and argues that Europeans gained a decisive advantage over China and India thanks only to the maturing of the machine-based Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. * International Review Of Social History *Amiya Kumar Bagchi's Perilous Passage is a book that deserves our attention in this historical moment. It is born of our moment and offers us crucial intellectual resources in our attempts to understand the beast we must confront. Perilous Passage is a global history and in many respects perhaps one of the first truly global histories of our epoch to appear. . . . Bagchi's Perilous Passage is a weapon in the intellectual arsenal of social justice activists everywhere. . . . Perilous Passage may contribute to the development of a newer kind of understanding that will allow us to begin undoing the layers of injustice, ecological destruction, and human immiseration such ascendancy has created. * Labour *A combative and spirited book telling the story of the economic emergence of the contemporary world in a radically different way from the standard accounts. It will not end debates, but begin them in a robust way, which surely is the function of fine 'alternative history.' -- Amartya Sen, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Conceptual Issues: Human Development and Capitalist Growth Chapter 1: The History of Human Development as the Subject of History Chapter 2: The Construction of the European Miracle Chapter 3: Profit Seeking under Actually Existing Capitalism and Human Development Part II: Capitalist Competition and Human Development in Europe Chapter 4: Combat for Dominance Among the Western European Countries Since the Sixteenth Century Chapter 5: Population Growth and Mortality Between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A First Look Chapter 6: The Netherlands: Rise and Fall of a Hegemonic Power Chapter 7: The Delayed Transition of Europe and North America to a Low-Mortality Regime Chapter 8: Literacy in Western Europe Since the Sixteenth Century Part III: Non-European Peoples in the Age of Emergence of European Dominance Chapter 9: Economic Development and the Quality of Life in China Between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chapter 10: India under Mughal Rule and After Chapter 11: Conducting Trade in Asia Before and After the European Advent Chapter 12: Reconsidering Japanese Exceptionalism Chapter 13: Capitalist Competition, Colonialism, and the Physical Well-Being of Non-European Peoples Chapter 14: The Civilizing Mission and Racialization: From the Native Americans to the Asians Chapter 15: The Civilizing Mission in Lands Taken by the European Settlers from the Original Inhabitants Chapter 16: Intercontinental Resource Flows Sustaining the Ascent of the European Powers Chapter 17: Colonial Tribute and Profits, 1870s Onward Chapter 18: Demographic Disasters in the Colonies and Semi-Colonies in the High Noon of European Colonialism Part IV: The Twentieth Century: Anti-Systematic Struggles, Wars, and Challenges to Global Capital Chapter 19: Setting the Stage for Megawars Chapter 20: Revolution, Nazism, Japanese Militarism and the Second World War Chapter 21: Imperialism and Wars in the Late Twentieth Century Chapter 22: Capitalism and Uneven Development in the Twentieth Century Chapter 23: Destruction and Renewal in the Global Order of Imperialism and Neoliberalism Chapter 24: Contradictions, Challenges, and Resistance

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Book SynopsisExplains what has happened in Europe following the financial crash of 2008 as a case of neo-liberal economic shock doctrine.Trade Review'Narrates this war for the European Union's integrity and basic values and devastates the vicious claim that 'there is no alternative' to our present march toward collective misery' -- Yanis Varoufakis, Finance Minister in Greece's Syriza government'Everyone should read Piketty's book, of course. But Thomas Fazi's book, The Battle for Europe, deserves an equally high place in the charts' -- Henk de Vos, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Groningen'The book really is very, very good. I am particularly grateful for Thomas Fazi analysis, and placing on record the development of the crisis in Europe and its causes. But I am also grateful for the author's insistence that the Left must rise to give political leadership to a new reformed, Europe' -- Ann Pettifor, director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)'Combines the best tradition of investigative journalism with profound scholarly insight and splendid writing. I was myself drifting to saying goodbye to the EU altogether but reading Fazi's book convinced me that the progressive option must be followed instead' -- Kees van der Pijl, Fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex'A must-read' -- Steve McGiffen, Assistant Professor, American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy (AGSIRD)'A solid, well argued 'political economy' of the current crisis. It enriches left debates about the crisis and the possible exits. Its particular strength lies in its capacity to demonstrate the class-politically motivated project of austerity based on a economic analysis' -- Walter Baier, economist and coordinator the network transform! Europe'Takes us to the front line in the struggle for progressive change in Europe. Those seeking pedestrian half-measures for reform will not find them in this book. Fazi goes to the heart of sickness of the European Union and proposes the fundamental changes required to achieve a Europe fit for working people. This is an essential book for anyone seeking an escape from the current dysfunctional austerity policies' -- John Weeks, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of London'Thomas Fazi's compelling history shows how flawed institutions, a weak tax system and bank-friendly financial codes produced the Eurozone crisis, and then how that debacle was transformed, country by country, into a crisis of public debts and an assault-by-bailout on Europe's social model' -- James Galbraith, senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute and chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security'A timely and valuable addition to the existing literature on the crisis of the Euro Zone. Fazi offers us a lucid and tightly argued explanation of the roots of the crisis and its evolution, culminating in a call to action' -- David Lizoain, economist and former economic advisor to the Cabinet of the President of Catalonia'Fascinating ... delves deeper into the real causes of the crisis' -- Ronald Janssen, Economic advisor, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), TransferTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface 1. The Financial Crisis 2. The Coup 3. The Real Causes of the Euro Crisis 4. From Economic Crisis to Economic Shock 5. Brave New Europe 6. Another Europe Is Possible! Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this enormously influential book, Jurgen Habermas examines the deep tensions and crisis tendencies which underlie the development of contemporary Western societies and develops a powerful analysis of the legitimation problems faced by modern states.Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction. Preface. Part I: A Social - Scientific Concept of Crisis:. 1. System and Life = World. 2. Some Constituents of Social Systems. 3. Illustration of Social Principles of Organization. 4. System Crisis Elucidated Through the Example of the. Liberal-Capitalist Crisis Cycle. Part II: Crisis Tendencies in Advanced Capitalism:. 1. A Descriptive Model of Advanced Capitalism. 2. Problems Resulting from Advanced - Capitalist Growth. 3. A Classification of Possible Crisis Tendencies. 4. Theorems of Economic Crisis. 5. Theorems of Rationality Crisis. 6. Theorems of Legitimation Crisis. 7. Theorems of Motivation Crisis. 8. A Backward Glance. Part III: On the Logic of Legitimation Problems:. 1. Max Weber's Concept of Legitimation. 2. The Relation of Practical Questions to Truth. 3. The Model of the Suppression of Generalizable Interests. 4. The End of the Individual?. 5. Complexity and Democracy. 6. Partiality for Reason. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface xvii Introduction xxv Part I Systems Thinking in the Disciplines 1 1 Philosophy 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Kant 4 1.3 Hegel 8 1.4 Pragmatism 9 1.5 Husserl and Phenomenology 10 1.6 Radical Constructivism 11 1.7 Conclusion 12 2 The Physical Sciences and the Scientific Method 15 2.1 Introduction 15 2.2 The Scientific Method and the Scientific Revolution 16 2.3 The Physical Sciences in the Modern Era 19 2.4 The Scientific Method in the Modern Era 21 2.5 Extending the Scientific Method to Other Disciplines 24 2.6 Conclusion 25 3 The Life Sciences 27 3.1 Introduction 27 3.2 Biology 27 3.3 Ecology 35 3.4 Conclusion 40 4 The Social Sciences 43 4.1 Introduction 43 4.2 Functionalism 44 4.3 Interpretive Social Theory 49 4.4 The Sociology of Radical Change 52 4.5 Postmodernism and Poststructuralism 56 4.6 Integrationist Social Theory 59 4.7 Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory 62 4.8 Action Research 67 4.9 Conclusion 68 Part II The Systems Sciences 71 5 General Systems Theory 75 5.1 Introduction 75 5.2 von Bertalanffy and General System Theory 75 5.3 von Bertalanffy’s Collaborators and the Society for General Systems Research 79 5.4 Miller and the Search for Isomorphisms at Different System Levels 80 5.5 Boulding, Emergence and the Centrality of “The Image” 82 5.6 The Influence of General Systems Theory 85 5.7 Conclusion 86 6 Cybernetics 89 6.1 Introduction 89 6.2 First‐Order Cybernetics 91 6.3 British Cybernetics 95 6.4 Second‐Order Cybernetics 102 6.5 Conclusion 108 7 Complexity Theory 111 7.1 Introduction 111 7.2 Chaos Theory 112 7.3 Dissipative Structures 117 7.4 Complex Adaptive Systems 119 7.5 Complexity Theory and Management 125 7.6 Complexity Theory and Systems Thinking 136 7.7 Conclusion 144 Part III Systems Practice 147 8 A System of Systems Methodologies 151 8.1 Introduction 151 8.2 Critical or “Second‐Order” Systems Thinking 152 8.3 Toward a System of Systems Methodologies 155 8.3.1 Preliminary Considerations 155 8.3.2 Beer’s Classification of Systems 155 8.3.3 The Original “System of Systems Methodologies” 157 8.3.4 Snowden’s Cynefin Framework 160 8.3.5 A Revised “System of Systems Methodologies” 162 8.4 The Development of Applied Systems Thinking 166 8.5 Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity 169 8.6 Conclusion 169 Type A Systems Approaches for Technical Complexity 171 9 Operational Research, Systems Analysis, Systems Engineering (Hard Systems Thinking) 173 9.1 Prologue 173 9.2 Description of Hard Systems Thinking 175 9.2.1 Historical Development 175 9.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 177 9.2.3 Methodology 179 9.2.4 Methods 182 9.2.5 Developments in Hard Systems Thinking 184 9.3 Hard Systems Thinking in Action 188 9.4 Critique of Hard Systems Thinking 191 9.5 Comments 196 9.6 The Value of Hard Systems Thinking to Managers 197 9.7 Conclusion 197 Type B Systems Approaches for Process Complexity 199 10 The Vanguard Method 201 10.1 Prologue 201 10.2 Description of the Vanguard Method 203 10.2.1 Historical Development 203 10.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 206 10.2.3 Methodology 209 10.2.4 Methods 211 10.3 The Vanguard Method in Action 212 10.3.1 Check 213 10.3.2 Plan 215 10.3.3 Do 216 10.4 Critique of the Vanguard Method 220 10.5 Comments 224 10.6 The Value of the Vanguard Method to Managers 225 10.7 Conclusion 226 Type C Systems Approaches for Structural Complexity 227 11 System Dynamics 229 11.1 Prologue 229 11.2 Description of System Dynamics 231 11.2.1 Historical Development 231 11.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 233 11.2.3 Methodology 241 11.2.4 Methods 244 11.3 System Dynamics in Action 247 11.4 Critique of System Dynamics 249 11.5 Comments 258 11.6 The Value of System Dynamics to Managers 258 11.7 Conclusion 259 Type D Systems Approaches for Organizational Complexity 261 12 Socio‐Technical Systems Thinking 263 12.1 Prologue 263 12.2 Description of Socio‐Technical Systems Thinking 264 12.2.1 Historical Development 264 12.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 268 12.2.3 Methodology 276 12.2.4 Methods 279 12.3 Socio‐Technical Systems Thinking in Action 280 12.4 Critique of Socio‐Technical Systems Thinking 281 12.5 Comments 288 12.6 The Value of Socio‐Technical Systems Thinking to Managers 289 12.7 Conclusion 289 13 Organizational Cybernetics and the Viable System Model 291 13.1 Prologue 291 13.2 Description of Organizational Cybernetics 296 13.2.1 Historical Development 296 13.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 299 13.2.3 Methodology 311 13.2.4 Methods 317 13.3 Organizational Cybernetics in Action 320 13.4 Critique of Organizational Cybernetics and the Viable System Model 325 13.5 Comments 337 13.6 The Value of Organizational Cybernetics to Managers 339 13.7 Conclusion 340 Type E Systems Approaches for People Complexity 341 14 Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing 343 14.1 Prologue 343 14.2 Description of Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing 346 14.2.1 Historical Development 346 14.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 348 14.2.3 Methodology 353 14.2.4 Methods 355 14.3 Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing in Action 357 14.4 Critique of Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing 360 14.5 Comments 365 14.6 The Value of Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing to Managers 366 14.7 Conclusion 367 15 Interactive Planning 369 15.1 Prologue 369 15.2 Description of Interactive Planning 371 15.2.1 Historical Development 371 15.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 375 15.2.3 Methodology 379 15.2.4 Methods 382 15.3 Interactive Planning in Action 384 15.4 Critique of Interactive Planning 388 15.5 Comments 394 15.6 The Value of Interactive Planning to Managers 395 15.7 Conclusion 395 16 Soft Systems Methodology 397 16.1 Prologue 397 16.2 Description of Soft Systems Methodology 401 16.2.1 Historical Development 401 16.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 404 16.2.3 Methodology 411 16.2.4 Methods 420 16.3 Soft Systems Methodology in Action 427 16.4 Critique of Soft Systems Methodology 431 16.5 Comments 441 16.6 The Value of Soft Systems Methodology to Managers 442 16.7 Conclusion 443 Type F Systems Approaches for Coercive Complexity 445 17 Team Syntegrity 447 17.1 Prologue 447 17.2 Description of Team Syntegrity 449 17.2.1 Historical Development 449 17.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 450 17.2.3 Methodology 455 17.2.4 Methods 458 17.3 Team Syntegrity in Action 459 17.4 Critique of Team Syntegrity 462 17.5 Comments 468 17.6 The Value of Team Syntegrity to Managers 470 17.7 Conclusion 470 18 Critical Systems Heuristics 471 18.1 Prologue 471 18.2 Description of Critical Systems Heuristics 473 18.2.1 Historical Development 473 18.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 476 18.2.3 Methodology 479 18.2.4 Methods 484 18.3 Critical Systems Heuristics in Action 485 18.4 Critique of Critical Systems Heuristics 490 18.5 Comments 502 18.6 The Value of Critical Systems Heuristics to Managers 508 18.7 Conclusion 509 Part IV Critical Systems Thinking 511 19 Critical Systems Theory 515 19.1 Introduction 515 19.2 The Origins of Critical Systems Theory 516 19.2.1 Critical Awareness 517 19.2.2 Pluralism 519 19.2.3 Emancipation or Improvement 522 19.3 Critical Systems Theory and the Management Sciences 524 19.4 Conclusion 528 20 Critical Systems Thinking and Multimethodology 531 20.1 Introduction 531 20.2 Total Systems Intervention 540 20.2.1 Background 540 20.2.2 Multimethodology 541 20.2.3 Case Study 545 20.2.4 Critique 553 20.3 Systemic Intervention 558 20.3.1 Background 558 20.3.2 Multimethodology 559 20.3.3 Case Study 562 20.3.4 Critique 565 20.4 Critical Realism and Multimethodology 568 20.4.1 Background 568 20.4.2 Multimethodology 570 20.4.3 Case Study 572 20.4.4 Critique 572 20.5 Conclusion 576 21 Critical Systems Practice 577 21.1 Prologue 577 21.2 Description of Critical Systems Practice 579 21.2.1 Historical Development 579 21.2.2 Philosophy and Theory 581 21.2.3 Multimethodology 593 21.2.4 Methodologies 601 21.2.5 Methods 604 21.3 Critical Systems Practice in Action 607 21.3.1 North Yorkshire Police 607 21.3.2 Kingston Gas Turbines 617 21.3.3 Hull University Business School 621 21.4 Critique of Critical Systems Practice 632 21.5 Comments 637 21.6 The Value of Critical Systems Practice to Managers 638 21.7 Conclusion 638 Conclusion 641 References 645 Index 679

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Book SynopsisEmployees around the world are deprived of honest objective feedback, and the higher you go in the organisation, the less feedback you are going to get. Researchers confirmed that the less facetime employees have with their managers, the more impact seeking and receiving feedback will have on their performance. Gorbatov and Lane propose a simple, systematic approach to giving fair and honest feedback, in ways that improve performance and prove that, if done properly, feedback simultaneously improves performance while engaging and developing employees.

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Book SynopsisThe market in listed options and non-equity option products provides investors and traders with a wealth of new, strategic opportunities for managing their investments. This updated and revised Fifth Edition of the bestselling Options as a Strategic Investment gives you the latest market-tested tools for improving the earnings potential of your portfolio while reducing downside risk—no matter how the market is performing. Inside this revised edition are scores of proven techniques and business-tested tactics for investing in many of the innovative new options products available. You will find: •Buy and sell strategies for Long Term Equity Anticipation Securities (LEAPS) •A thorough analysis of neutral trading, how it works, and various ways it can improve readers’ overall profit picture •Detailed guidance for investing in Preferred Equity Redemption Cumulative Stocks (PERCS) and how to hedge them with common and regular options •An extensive overview of futures and futures options Written especially for investors who have some familiarity with the option market, this comprehensive reference also shows you the concepts and applications of various option strategies -- how they work, in which situations, and why; techniques for using index options and futures to protect one’s portfolio and improve one’s return; and the implications of the tax laws for option writers, including allowable long-term gains and losses. Detailed examples, exhibits, and checklists show you the power of each strategy under carefully described market conditions.

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Book SynopsisThis outstanding reference has already taught thousands of traders the concepts of technical analysis and their application in the futures and stock markets. Covering the latest developments in computer technology, technical tools, and indicators, the second edition features new material on candlestick charting, intermarket relationships, stocks and stock rotations, plus state-of-the-art examples and figures. From how to read charts to understanding indicators and the crucial role technical analysis plays in investing, readers gain a thorough and accessible overview of the field of technical analysis, with a special emphasis on futures markets. Revised and expanded for the demands of today's financial world, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in tracking and analyzing market behavior.

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Book SynopsisDiagnosing the modern business like the human body, this fun compendium of business diseases looks at such disorders as 'Youngitis- creating only for millennials' (risk group: marketing teams); 'Social media denial syndrome' ('related diseases: 'Meeting syndrome'); and 'Compulsive email disorder' (cure: zero inbox). In a hilarious look at organisational hierarchies, generational disconnects and general office foibles, this pocket book will enable you to see the mistakes of your own business and guide you safely to decontagion and cure.

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Book SynopsisAre you struggling to juggle multiple projects? Do you often lose control of your budget? Does communicating your progress to the rest of your team cause you undue stress? Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done in any organisation, and is absolutely critical for anyone leading strategic change. In Lead Successful Projects, the Penguin Business Expert guide, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez introduces a simplified but strategic approach to project management developed over the last 20 years coaching executives, managers and MBAs.Learn how to break down your project into manageable elements, define smart goals and meet them in this concise and practical guide to project success.Trade ReviewUnderstanding and leading projects has never been more important or such a vital personal and organisational skill. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is the world's best equipped guide to the new project-driven reality * co-founder Thinkers50 *In today's project economy, organizations and individuals are faced with an increased number of projects. Antonio has gathered an impressive amount of stories and data to support his view that all leaders are, to a certain extent, project managers * Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers *The era when everything is a project and everybody is a project manager has arrived * Founder and managing editor of PMR, China largest project management magazine *Antonio is one the world's leading thinkers in project management and as you read his principles you will realize as I did that they just work * Global expert in strategy and digital implementation and bestselling author of Excellence in Execution *This book gives structured solutions alongside practical tools in answer to frustrations and problems any project manager will be familiar with. Great for those who are new to managing projects or those wanting to take a step back and reset in the midst of a demanding project * Young Project Professional of the Year, APM Project Management Awards 2016 *

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Book SynopsisIn The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. Time and again, Soll reveals, good and honest accounting has been a tool to build successful companies, states and empires. Yet when it is neglected or falls into the wrong hands, accounting has contributed to cycles of destruction that continue to this day. Combining rigorous scholarship and fresh storytelling, The Reckoning traces the surprisingly powerful influence of accounting on financial and political stability, from the powerful Medici bank in the 14th century Italy to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Book SynopsisThe perfect companion for those extremely hardworking colleagues, who like to pull sickies . . .''Lawrence and Ben are enjoying a bout of imaginary food poisoning.Food poisoning is always good because it''s over quickly and nobody likes to hear stories about toilets.''__________''When Jesse gets home from a very big party, he phones his manager and leaves a message. Now he does not have to get up early to call in sick.''Calling the office at 3:07am is exactly what someone with a real cold would do,'' Jesse thinks to himself as he falls asleep on his stairs with a kebab for a pillow.''__________This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught

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Book SynopsisTells the history of how the United States government, along with private philanthropies like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the hearts and bodies of rural Asia in the post World War II decades by crafting strategies to develop and modernize agriculture and the peasant's way of life.Trade ReviewBrilliant… Admirable… The Hungry World is an immensely important book… [Cullather] has performed a tremendous service, and written a book not just of interest but of lasting value in showing in detail and with great discernment just how new, and also how radical, development was when it first began to transform the ways powerful nations thought about everything from the specifics of warfighting (it is where the ‘hearts and minds’ doctrine was born, after all) to the broadest questions of national interest… If Cullather is right…then his account requires us to rewrite the diplomatic history of the second half of the twentieth century. The Hungry World is the invaluable beginning of that rewriting. -- David Rieff * The Nation *Cullather’s book amounts to a thorough, gracefully written debunking of what might be called the green revolution master narrative… Cullather’s brilliant, concise early chapter on the Green Revolution’s birth in Mexico anchors his broader argument… By the end of the Mexico chapter, Cullather has already shattered the green revolution myth and exposed it as something like a lunge, and a not very well thought-out one, to replace other societies’ farming systems with our own highly problematic one. -- Tom Philpott * Mother Jones *[This] is an utterly fascinating story—partially about the economics of famine, but mostly about the irrepressible postwar generation who genuinely believed American technology could win the battle for Asian hearts and minds, and stop communism in its tracks. -- Paul Grant * Books & Culture *The Hungry World furnishes a striking vantage on development policy, as well as on the decidedly mixed outcomes of American engagement with Asian politics. -- Katherine Maher * Bookforum *Nick Cullather’s exploration of the critical linkages between power politics, scientific and technical assistance, famine alarms and schemes to increase food production is one of the most original and engaging books to date on the impact of the cold war on the emerging states of the developing world. -- Michael Adas, author of Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing MissionNick Cullather’s pathbreaking book takes readers on a journey of understanding about the failures of the ‘development’ model so beloved by American policymakers from before the Cold War to the present. It may well become famous as a turning point about how to think about world poverty and to stimulate new answers to it. -- Lloyd Gardner, author of Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East after World War IIA pioneering and transformative work that tracks the politics of hunger from the invention of the calorie to Asia’s Cold War ideological battlegrounds, The Hungry World explores, with a sharp, lively sense of irony, American scientists’ and policy-makers’ relentless and often futile efforts to transmute the conflictual politics of rural deprivation into a technocratic politics of agricultural production. -- Paul A. Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the PhilippinesFacing insurgencies, U.S. officials and expert advisers want to fight famine, alleviate hunger, and ameliorate the conditions on which terrorism thrives. Nick Cullather’s new book—thoughtful, erudite, provocative—is a vivid and timely explication of the hopes and disappointments of past efforts to modernize and develop. -- Melvyn Leffler, author of For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association""Essential reading for economic historians."---Anne McCants, Journal of Economic History"[A] compendious history. . . . The geographic breadth and temporal length of [Ogilvie's] coverage make The European Guilds unique."---Marc Levinson, Wall Street Journal"The new and highly comprehensive book by Sheilagh Ogilvie . . . . likely to stand as one of the more important works of economic history from the last decade."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"A major contribution to economic history and institutional economics."---Mark Koyama, The Review of Austrian Economics"A comprehensive study of European guilds."---Steven A. Epstein, H-France Review"Ogilvie has re-galvanised the debate on guilds."---Richard Goddard, Medieval Archaeology"A learned and comprehensive study of an institution that stood at the heart of the European non-agricultural economy for over seven centuries."---Jan de Vries, EH.net"Ogilvie’s wide-ranging and scrutinous analysis of craft guilds is an essential and stimulating read for all scholars interested in guilds and institutions."---Arie van Steensel, Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History"Ogilvie’s arguments are so well established in empirical terms, and so thoroughly designed, that all those who harbor more friendly attitudes toward guilds will have serious difficulties refuting her conclusions. . . . A unique contribution to the history of guilds.—Josef Ehmer, Renaissance Quarterly"

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Book Synopsis Published in 1776, in the same year as the Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith’s celebrated defense of free market economies was written with such expressive power and clarity that the first edition sold out in six months. While its most remarkable and enduring innovation was to see the whole of economic life as a unified system, it is notable also as one of the Enlightenment’s most eloquent testaments to the sanctity of the individual in his relation to the state. 

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Book SynopsisWhen we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s because we aren’t seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. That’s what “high conflict” does. It’s the invisible hand of our time. And it’s different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That’s good conflict, and it’s a necessary force that pushes us to be better people. High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. In this state, the brain behaves differently. We feel increasingly certain of our own superiority, and everything we do to try to end the conflict, usually makes it worse. Eventually, we can start to mimic the behavior of our adversaries, harming what we hold most dear. In this “compulsively readable” (Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author) book, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free. Our journey begins in California, where a world-renowned conflict expert struggles to extract himself from a political feud. Then we meet a Chicago gang leader who dedicates his life to a vendetta—only to realize, years later, that the story he’d told himself about the conflict was not quite true. Next, we travel to Colombia, to find out whether thousands of people can be nudged out of high conflict at scale. Finally, we return to America to see what happens when a group of liberal Manhattan Jews and conservative Michigan corrections officers choose to stay in each other’s homes in order to understand one another better, even as they continue to disagree. All these people, in dramatically different situations, were drawn into high conflict by similar forces, including conflict entrepreneurs, humiliation, and false binaries. But ultimately, all of them found ways to transform high conflict into good conflict, the kind that made them better people. They rehumanized and recatego­rized their opponents, and they revived curiosity and wonder, even as they continued to fight for what they knew was right. People do escape high conflict. Individuals—even entire communities—can short-circuit the feedback loops of outrage and blame, if they want to. This is an “insightful and enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) book—and a mind-opening new way to think about conflict that will transform how we move through the world.Trade Review"Insightful and enthralling...with a scrupulous eye for scientific evidence that is rare in a book this entertaining, Ripley also explains how it is possible for hardened combatants to leave behind the conflicts that once defined the core of their identity." — New York Times Book Review"Amanda Ripley has combined skilled reporting, deep research, and riveting storytelling into a stellar work about an urgent topic. At a moment when too many Americans are at each other’s throats, this is the book our country needs." – Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell is Human "Rarely have I read a book as downright clairvoyant as High Conflict. While most of us were raging at the rage in our culture, Amanda Ripley composed a lucid, compulsively readable roadmap to a world in which we can live with one another again. Honestly, I’ll never argue the same way again." – Evan Osnos, National Book Award winning author of Joe Biden “Ripley brilliantly illuminates the forces driving us to build impenetrable walls between ourselves and differing others, as well as the forces empowering us to build bridges over those walls. The lessons couldn’t be more captivating or timely.” — Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion “This is one of the most important books that will be published in 2021. The COVID vaccine will soon free humanity from a biological pandemic, and this book, if widely read, could free humanity from an equally deadly scourge— high conflict.” – Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU-Stern School of Business, author of The Righteous Mind, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind “The unforgettable stories in this book show how even people who disagree profoundly can still connect with one another and make progress. A book to give you confidence in the future.” – Omar Epps “A brilliant book that reveals how poisonous showdowns work. But more than just highlighting the problems, Ripley's book also provides solutions. Equally valuable in our personal lives, as in navigating the polarized time we’re living in.” – Jonah Berger, New York Times bestselling author of The Catalyst and Contagious "Amanda Ripley shows that the same minds that get us into bitter tribal battles can get us out of them. Via riveting stories in diverse settings—urban gangland, a war-torn central American nation, fractious municipal politics—Ripley proves that happy endings can happen in real life." – Robert Wright, New York Times bestselling author of Why Buddhism is True "The fascinating stories, global history, and dialogue from local politics Ripley includes keep the book moving at a brisk pace... Readers interested in conflict management and negotiation and the decision-making process will be intrigued as Ripley thoughtfully explains the intensities and nuances of conflict, and the crux of high conflict in any setting." — Booklist "A revealing study of 'high conflict,' the intractable sort that seems to be running like a virus through American society... Ripley’s observations are provocative, and she introduces us to ideas of mediation and problem-solving that would make many people less miserable if put into practice... Students of mediation, social psychology, and conflict resolution will find much of value here."— Kirkus Reviews "Illuminating. Amanda takes us around the world to understand how people learn to stop demonizing the other side and start agreeing to disagree productively. I think it should be required reading for everyone in politics and the media—and for anyone who’s had a squabble with a colleague or a blowup at a family gathering." — Adam Grant (LinkedIn)

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Book SynopsisHoneybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. This book reveals that these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. It presents an account of scientific discovery. It investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years.Trade ReviewOne of Financial Times (FT.com)'s Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Science & Environment list for 2010 "Dr. Seeley is an engaging guide. His enthusiasm and admiration for honeybees is infectious. His accumulated research seems truly masterly, doing for bees what E.O. Wilson did for ants."--Katherine Bouton, New York Times "Although the details are complicated, Seeley's explanations are remarkably clear. The text is abundantly illustrated with figures that are cleverly simplified in comparison to how they might appear in scientific journals. For readers who may be less passionate about the particulars of honeybee life, Seeley also reveals parallels between the way swarms make decisions and how the human brain sorts through conflicting neuron signals to reach decisions. He also provides a few pointers on how rules of honeybee democracy may be applied to decision-making in human groups, with minimal dependence on a leader, vigorous competition among a diversity of viewpoints, and a method for determining a majority-based resolution."--May Berenbaum, Times Literary Supplement "Seeley's work--extended over years and summarized clearly and engagingly here--is a model of biological research that builds bridges to the social sciences, and to the practical arts of institutional design for humans."--Adrian Vermeule, New Republic's The Book "[S]plendid."--John Whitfield, Nature "[E]ngaging and fascinating... Seeley writes with infectious enthusiasm... Honeybee Democracy offers wonderful testament to his career of careful investigation of a remarkable natural phenomenon. The breadth and depth of the studies reported in it should inspire all students of animal behavior."--Science "To illustrate bee decision making, Seeley details how swarms choose a new home. Seeley presents his material with charm, and the bees' system of house-hunting becomes surprising and awe-inspiring."--Science News "In Honeybee Democracy, Seeley carefully narrates his many seasons of experiments using plywood next boxes that could be moved and modified at will. He discovered what bees like in a home, how scouts measure the dark interiors of these boxes and most of all, how the swarm 'votes' to decide which nest to occupy... Honeybee Democracy is a brilliant display of science at work, with each experiment explained and illustrated."--New Scientist "[I]t is a book well worth studying. Within its pages we find out about an important aspect of the life of the honeybee (with some practical implications for beekeepers), how researchers work both in the field and in the laboratory, the objective way in which the experiments are carried out but, most of all, how in the seeking of a new home bees provide us with a model of true democratic behaviour which any group could use to its advantage. Indeed, the last chapter alone, 'Swarm Starts' would make an excellent minibook for anyone who is involved in decision making no matter what position they hold."--Beekeepers Quarterly "Rather than presenting a dry review of his findings, Seeley intertwines them with his thought processes, anecdotes and generous appraisals of students and fellow scientists. His skill in writing a book with so much science in such simple language is admirable. Even a non-beekeeper can understand what he is trying to convey. The photographs are beautiful and the illustrations elegant."--Zachary Huang, Times Higher Education "The year's most enchanting science book."--Financial Times (FT Critics Pick 2010) "Honeybee Democracy, by Thomas D. Seeley, will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about one of the world's most beneficial insects... Seeley, a biologist and beekeeper, presents his excellent understanding of what makes the bees' society work for the survival of the species."--Washington Post "His argument is seductive... [R]eading Honeybee Democracy is a delightful way to spend an evening."--National Post "[O]ne cannot help but be inspired by the beauty of Seeley's hypothesis-driven experimental work. The book is beautifully presented with illustrations, photographs, charts and anecdotes, and succeeds in making the whole field of investigation accessible to the non-specialist... [O]ne is swept away by Thomas Seeley's enthusiasm for a subject that is clearly his passion."--Philippine Rudolf, British Politics and Policy "Seeley shares his 35-plus years of experience working with bees. He presents a very interesting treatise about his research (as well as that of other scientists) on these eusocial insects and their fast and accurate group decision making when choosing the colony's new dwelling place. This very well-written book is also beautifully illustrated, highly informative, and educational."--Choice "[T]his work makes an important contribution to a growing body of literature in disciplines removed from political science or sociology (such as biology in this case). It is felt that this may help us to understand what this enigmatic term or concept 'democracy' might actually be. To finish, this book comes highly recommended to any interested in learning about a new non-human democratic typology."--Jean-Paul Gagnon, Journal of Democratic Theory "Princeton University Press is to be congratulated in producing a book that is great value for the money and beautifully produced. The author is to be congratulated in writing a book that in its content and voice will reach and satisfy both scientists and nonscientists, both bee people and those not yet bitten (or stung). Honeybee Democracy is both easy and enjoyable to read."--Francis L. W. Ratnieks, Animal Behaviour "Seeley writes in an engaging and entertaining style. He also manages to explain complicated facts in easily understandable prose without compromising on the scientific information, and his comparisons with human behaviour and democratic practices are telling... The author aimed to bolster, 'an appreciation of these little creatures'. Mission accomplished. It's hard to not be fascinated by the, 'little six-legged beauties.'"--Uli Ernst, Lab Times "[Honeybee Democracy is] an exceptional combination of memoir, entomology, and political philosophy."--Carl Zimmer, DiscoverMagazine.com's The Loom blog "Reading Tom Seeley's book will give you an understanding of bees which will help your beekeeping... Like all the author's books and papers, this one is worth a place in your bee library."--Adrian Waring, Bee CraftTable of ContentsPrologue 1 Chapter 1: Introdu ction 3 Chapter 2: Life in a Honeybee Colony 20 Chapter 3: Dream Home for Honeybees 43 Chapter 4: Scout Bees' Debate 73 Chapter 5: A greement on Best Site 99 Chapter 6: Buildi ng a Consensus 118 Chapter 7: Initiating the Move to New Home 146 Chapter 8: Steering the Flying Swarm 175 Chapter 9: Swarm as Cognitive Entity 198 Chapter 10: Swarm Smarts 218 EPILOGUE 233 Notes 237 Acknowledgments 261 Illustration Credits 265 Index 271

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Book SynopsisWhat does economics have to do with law? Offering a defense of the economic view of law, this book clarifies the relationship between law and economics.Trade Review"An interesting and lively introduction to the economic analysis of law... It lays out the principles and values of economic analysis of law, and then proceeds to illustrate and defend that approach in a lively and competent manner. It may not convince every reader that economics provide the key to understanding law, but it makes the case competently and energetically."--Joseph L. Smith, The Law and Politics Book Review "A thoroughly entertaining, creative, and provocative addition to the law and economics literature."--Choice "David Friedman is lively, cheerful, and a bit of a tease... Friedman's book is, in the best sense of the word, extremely dense... At the same time, he is cautious and does not try to prove too much. The evidence he provides is impressive and impressively presented."--John Griffith, Times Literary Supplement "[Friedman] explains what economics has to do with law and why it matters... Applying economics to law matters because it yields efficient outcomes. In a world of finite resources and a world in which the political process controls the distribution scheme, increasing the size of the societal pie will increase the size of the slice we all can expect."--Dennis J. Callahan, The Federal LawyerTable of ContentsIntroduction 3 1. What Does Economics Have to Do with Law? 8 2. Efficiency and All that 18 3. What's Wrong with the World, Part 1 28 4. What's Wrong with the World, Part 2 36 5. Defining and Enforcing Rights: Property, Liability, and Spaghetti 47 6. Of Burning Houses and Exploding Coke Bottles 63 7. Coin Flips and Car Crashes: Ex Post versus Ex Ante 74 8. Gaines, Bargains, Bluffs, and Other Really Hard Stuff 84 9. As Much as Your Life Is Worth 95 Intermezzo. The American Legal System in Brief 103 10. Mine, Throe, and Ours: The Economics of Property Law 112 11. Clouds and Barbed Wire: The Economics of Intellectual Property 128 12. The Economics of Contract 145 13. Marriage, Sex, and Babies 171 14. Tort Law 189 15. Criminal Law 223 16. Antitrust 244 17. Other Paths 263 18. The Crime/Tort Puzzle 281 19. Is the Common Law Efficient? 297 Epilogue 309 Index 319

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) Shortlisted for the 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society One of Flavorwire's 10 Must-Read Academic Books for 2015 One of HistoryBuff.com's 10 Can't-Miss History Books of 2015 "Superb."--Armand Marie Leroi, New York Times "In the late fourth century B.C., Aristotle and his students collected the constitutions of more than 150 [...] city-states. The scholar who would today follow in Aristotle's footsteps has to deal with a far more formidable mass of data. Few of today's scholars control more of this data, or write about it more insightfully, than Josiah Ober. [T]hose willing to put in the effort will learn much from the deep meditations of an expert historian and political philosopher."--James Romm, Wall Street Journal "[T]his could turn out to be Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for classical Greece."--Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire "Ober marshals a wealth of new data to make the case for a much different view of Greek history ... there was something distinct about the Greek world, he argues. What set the Greeks apart, he says, was their choice of a particular kind of order--and the cultural attitudes that went with it. Citizen self-government. Equality of standing among persons. Fair and open institutions. These ideas, unusual in history, were well developed in the Greek world, Ober notes. If we care about them, he says, we should pay attention."--Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education "[Ober's] central argument is that the achievements of Greek civilization were rooted in its prosperity, and that was the result of a rough economic and political equality... [He] ranges over a half millennium of Greek history, from the 8th to the 3rd centuries BCE, seeking the roots of Greek "efflorescence"--its material and cultural flourishing... [The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece] is rife with parallels to the present."--Brian Bethune, Macleans "An attractive, informative, and timely picture of Greece from Homer to Aristotle... It's an absorbing story full of excitement, drama and hope."--Evaggelos Valiantos, Huffington Post "A sharp and insightful economic history."--Daisy Dunn, History Today [The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece] is by far [Ober's] most ambitious work to date, a magisterial tour of the successes and failures of various city-states throughout the Greek world from the archaic through the Hellenistic periods... The thrust of the book is not just provocative but persuasive."--Adriaan Lanni, The New Rambler "This book is a groundbreaking examination of what Ober (political science, Stanford) calls the 'efflorescence' of ancient Greece, which, divided into some 1,100 city-states as it was, developed a unified, dominant culture."--Choice "His narrative history of Greek efflorescence is engaging and full of insights."--Richard Seaford, Literary Review "A thought-provoking book with great depth. As the great political theorists of the modern era have always known, the ancient Greek experience provides immense empirical material to mine for insights into political science: how we design rules of politics to secure human freedom and well-being. We ignore the experience of classical civilization to our own disadvantage."--Jason Sorens, The American Conservative "This challenging book is like no other history of the ancient world... [Ober] produces some engaging and striking analyses of familiar historical episodes."--American Historical Review "Intriguing... [Y]ou can think of this book as how an economist might think about ancient Greece."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "[Ober's] work will be of interest to anyone who is serious about the history of political economy, or who wants to know more about the relationship between democracy, economic growth, and human flourishing, whether in the ancient or modern world... The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece ... will richly reward a serious lay reader. One of its most appealing qualities is its multidisciplinary approach, which is the fruit of Ober's extensive and generously acknowledged collaboration with scholars from around the world as well as with his Stanford colleagues in a number of fields, including the sciences. In this respect, it points in a direction that future humanities scholars will need to go if they, too, wish to flourish."--David Wharton, Weekly Standard "A fresh and vigorous account about the roots of democracy."--Brian A. Pavlac, Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsList of Images and Tables xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxi Abbreviations xxv 1 The Efflorescence of Classical Greece 1 2 Ants around a Pond: An Ecology of City-States 21 3 Political Animals: A Theory of Decentralized Cooperation 45 4 Wealthy Hellas: Measuring Efflorescence 71 5 Explaining Hellas' Wealth: Fair Rules and Competition 101 6 Citizens and Specialization before 550 BCE 123 7 From Tyranny to Democracy, 550-465 BCE 157 8 Golden Age of Empire, 478-404 BCE 191 9 Disorder and Growth, 403-340 BCE 223 10 Political Fall, 359-334 BCE 261 11 Creative Destruction and Immortality 293 Appendix I: Regions of the Greek World: Population, Size, Fame 317 Appendix II: King, City, and Elite Game, Josiah Ober and Barry Weingast 321 Notes 329 Bibliography 367 Index 401

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Book SynopsisConcept stores are about discovery and experience. In a world of options, these stores pull together products from different lines and brands, odds and ends, to weave a story or cultivate a way of living that inspires. To keep it fresh and interesting, regular updates and narrative display help purvey this attitude, and a well-designed branding scheme solidifies their philosophy. In recognising the true power of design, the 60 concept stores and pop-ups featured in BRANDLife: Concept stores & pop-ups demonstrate how fashionable graphic identities and interiors help put forward lifestyle ideas beyond what their products are originally designed for. The showcase will examine retail settlements with diverse focuses, from food and fashion to a total lifestyle, that trades utilitarian products and cultural offerings.

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Book SynopsisTailored to the needs of applied econometricians and social scientists, this work emphasizes nonparametric techniques suited to the rich array of data types - continuous, nominal, and ordinal - within one coherent framework. It also covers the various material necessary to understand and apply nonparametric methods for real-world problems.Trade Review"Overall, the text is a must for graduate students undertaking research in this area; the large number of exercises at the end of each chapter makes it very suitable for a graduate class on nonparametric and semiparametric techniques. In addition, because the coverage of the book is very comprehensive and up-to-date, it constitutes an excellent reference for researchers applying these techniques. Therefore, it can satisfy the needs of both audiences with a solid background in theoretical econometrics and more applied audiences."--Margarita Genius, European Review of Agricultural Economics "This book is ideal for a specialised graduate course. Li and Racine have done a fantastic job of bringing together all the latest developments in non-parametric estimation and treating them in a unified, accessible way. In particular, recent developments on using mixed continuous and discrete data, research to which Li and Raci have contributed immensely, are well covered."--Economic RecordTable of ContentsPreface xvii PART I: Nonparametric Kernel Methods 1 Chapter 1: Density Estimation 3 1.1 Univariate Density Estimation 4 1.2 Univariate Bandwidth Selection: Rule-of-Thumb and Plug-In Methods 14 1.3 Univariate Bandwidth Selection: Cross-Validation ZMethods 15 1.3.1 Least Squares Cross-Validation 15 1.3.2 Likelihood Cross-Validation 18 1.3.3 An Illustration of Data-Driven Bandwidth Selection 19 1.4 Univariate CDF Estimation 19 1.5 Univariate CDF Bandwidth Selection: Cross- Validation Methods 23 1.6 Multivariate Density Estimation 24 1.7 Multivariate Bandwidth Selection: Rule-of-Thumb and Plug-In Methods 26 1.8 Multivariate Bandwidth Selection: Cross-Validation Methods 27 1.8.1 Least Squares Cross-Validation 27 1.8.2 Likelihood Cross-Validation 28 1.9 Asymptotic Normality of Density Estimators 28 1.10 Uniform Rates of Convergence 30 1.11 Higher Order Kernel Functions 33 1.12 Proof of Theorem 1.4 (Uniform Almost Sure Convergence) 35 1.13 Applications 40 1.13.1 Female Wage Inequality 41 1.13.2 Unemployment Rates and City Size 43 1.13.3 Adolescent Growth 44 1.13.4 Old Faithful Geyser Data 44 1.13.5 Evolution of Real Income Distribution in Italy, 1951-1998 45 1.14 Exercises 47 Chapter 2: Regression 57 2.1 Local Constant Kernel Estimation 60 2.1.1 Intuition Underlying the Local Constant Kernel Estimator 64 2.2 Local Constant Bandwidth Selection 66 2.2.1 Rule-of-Thumb and Plug-In Methods 66 2.2.2 Least Squares Cross-Validation 69 2.2.3 AICc 72 2.2.4 The Presence of Irrelevant Regressors 73 2.2.5 Some Further Results on Cross-Validation 78 2.3 Uniform Rates of Convergence 78 2.4 Local Linear Kernel Estimation 79 2.4.1 Local Linear Bandwidth Selection: Least Squares Cross-Validation 83 2.5 Local Polynomial Regression (General pth Order) 85 2.5.1 The Univariate Case 85 2.5.2 The Multivariate Case 88 2.5.3 Asymptotic Normality of Local Polynomial Estimators 89 2.6 Applications 92 2.6.1 Prestige Data 92 2.6.2 Adolescent Growth 92 2.6.3 Inflation Forecasting and Money Growth 93 2.7 Proofs 97 2.7.1 Derivation of (2.24) 98 2.7.2 Proof of Theorem 2.7 100 2.7.3 Definitions of Al,p+1 and Vl Used in Theorem 2.10 106 2.8 Exercises 108 Chapter 3: Frequency Estimation with Mixed Data 115 3.1 Probability Function Estimation with Discrete Data 116 3.2 Regression with Discrete Regressors 118 3.3 Estimation with Mixed Data: The Frequency Approach 118 3.3.1 Density Estimation with Mixed Data 118 3.3.2 Regression with Mixed Data 119 3.4 Some Cautionary Remarks on Frequency Methods 120 3.5 Proofs 122 3.5.1 Proof of Theorem 3.1 122 3.6 Exercises 123 Chapter 4: Kernel Estimation with Mixed Data 125 4.1 Smooth Estimation of Joint Distributions with Discrete Data 126 4.2 Smooth Regression with Discrete Data 131 4.3 Kernel Regression with Discrete Regressors: The Irrelevant Regressor Case 134 4.4 Regression with Mixed Data: Relevant Regressors 136 4.4.1 Smooth Estimation with Mixed Data 136 4.4.2 The Cross-Validation Method 138 4.5 Regression with Mixed Data: Irrelevant Regressors 140 4.5.1 Ordered Discrete Variables 144 4.6 Applications 145 4.6.1 Food-Away-from-Home Expenditure 145 4.6.2 Modeling Strike Volume 147 4.7 Exercises 150 Chapter 5: Conditional Density Estimation 155 5.1 Conditional Density Estimation: Relevant Variables 155 5.2 Conditional Density Bandwidth Selection 157 5.2.1 Least Squares Cross-Validation: Relevant Variables 157 5.2.2 Maximum Likelihood Cross-Validation: Relevant Variables 160 5.3 Conditional Density Estimation: Irrelevant Variables 162 5.4 The Multivariate Dependent Variables Case 164 5.4.1 The General Categorical Data Case 167 5.4.2 Proof of Theorem 5.5 168 5.5 Applications 171 5.5.1 A Nonparametric Analysis of Corruption 171 5.5.2 Extramarital Affairs Data 172 5.5.3 Married Female Labor Force Participation 175 5.5.4 Labor Productivity 177 5.5.5 Multivariate Y Conditional Density Example: GDP Growth and Population Growth Conditional on OECD Status 178 5.6 Exercises 180 Chapter 6: Conditional CDF and Quantile Estimation 181 6.1 Estimating a Conditional CDF with Continuous Covariates without Smoothing the Dependent Variable 182 6.2 Estimating a Conditional CDF with Continuous Covariates Smoothing the Dependent Variable 184 6.3 Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Quantile Functions 189 6.4 The Check Function Approach 191 6.5 Conditional CDF and Quantile Estimation with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Covariates 193 6.6 A Small Monte Carlo Simulation Study 196 6.7 Nonparametric Estimation of Hazard Functions 198 6.8 Applications 200 6.8.1 Boston Housing Data 200 6.8.2 Adolescent Growth Charts 202 6.8.3 Conditional Value at Risk 202 6.8.4 Real Income in Italy, 1951-1998 206 6.8.5 Multivariate Y Conditional CDF Example: GDP Growth and Population Growth Conditional on OECD Status 206 6.9 Proofs 209 6.9.1 Proofs of Theorems 6.1, 6.2, and 6.4 209 6.9.2 Proofs of Theorems 6.5 and 6.6 (Mixed Covariates Case) 214 6.10 Exercises 215 PART II: Semiparametric Methods 219 Chapter 7: Semiparametric Partially Linear Models 221 7.1 Partially Linear Models 222 7.1.1 Identification of 222 7.2 Robinson's Estimator 222 7.2.1 Estimation of the Nonparametric Component 228 7.3 Andrews's MINPIN Method 230 7.4 Semiparametric Efficiency Bounds 233 7.4.1 The Conditionally Homoskedastic Error Case 233 7.4.2 The Conditionally Heteroskedastic Error Case 235 7.5 Proofs 238 7.5.1 Proof of Theorem 7.2 238 7.5.2 Verifying Theorem 7.3 for a Partially Linear Model 244 7.6 Exercises 246 Chapter 8: Semiparametric Single Index Models 249 8.1 Identification Conditions 251 8.2 Estimation 253 8.2.1 Ichimura's Method 253 8.3 Direct Semiparametric Estimators for 258 8.3.1 Average Derivative Estimators 258 8.3.2 Estimation of g() 262 8.4 Bandwidth Selection 263 8.4.1 Bandwidth Selection for Ichimura's Method 263 8.4.2 Bandwidth Selection with Direct Estimation Methods 265 8.5 Klein and Spady's Estimator 266 8.6 Lewbel's Estimator 267 8.7 Manski's Maximum Score Estimator 269 8.8 Horowitz's Smoothed Maximum Score Estimator 270 8.9 Han's Maximum Rank Estimator 270 8.10 Multinomial Discrete Choice Models 271 8.11 Ai's Semiparametric Maximum Likelihood Approach 272 8.12 A Sketch of the Proof of Theorem 8.1 275 8.13 Applications 277 8.13.1 Modeling Response to Direct Marketing Catalog Mailings 277 8.14 Exercises 281 Chapter 9: Additive and Smooth (Varying) Coefficient Semiparametric Models 283 9.1 An Additive Model 283 9.1.1 The Marginal Integration Method 284 9.1.2 A Computationally Efficient Oracle Estimator 286 9.1.3 The Ordinary Backfitting Method 289 9.1.4 The Smoothed Backfitting Method 290 9.1.5 Additive Models with Link Functions 295 9.2 An Additive Partially Linear Model 297 9.2.1 A Simple Two-Step Method 299 9.3 A Semiparametric Varying (Smooth) Coefficient Model 301 9.3.1 A Local Constant Estimator of the Smooth Coefficient Function 302 9.3.2 A Local Linear Estimator of the Smooth Coefficient Function 303 9.3.3 Testing for a Parametric Smooth Coefficient Model 306 9.3.4 Partially Linear Smooth Coefficient Models 308 9.3.5 Proof of Theorem 9.3 310 9.4 Exercises 312 Chapter 10: Selectivity Models 315 10.1 Semiparametric Type-2 Tobit Models 316 10.2 Estimation of a Semiparametric Type-2 Tobit Model 317 10.2.1 Gallant and Nychka's Estimator 318 10.2.2 Estimation of the Intercept in Selection Models 319 10.3 Semiparametric Type-3 Tobit Models 320 10.3.1 Econometric Preliminaries 320 10.3.2 Alternative Estimation Methods 323 10.4 Das, Newey and Vella's Nonparametric Selection Model 328 10.5 Exercises 330 Chapter 11: Censored Models 331 11.1 Parametric Censored Models 332 11.2 Semiparametric Censored Regression Models 334 11.3 Semiparametric Censored Regression Models with Nonparametric Heteroskedasticity 336 11.4 The Univariate Kaplan-Meier CDF Estimator 338 11.5 The Multivariate Kaplan-Meier CDF Estimator 341 11.5.1 Nonparametric Regression Models with Random Censoring 343 11.6 Nonparametric Censored Regression 345 11.6.1 Lewbel and Linton's Approach 345 11.6.2 Chen, Dahl and Khan's Approach 346 11.7 Exercises 348 III Consistent Model Specification Tests 349 Chapter 12: Model Specification Tests 351 12.1 A Simple Consistent Test for Parametric Regression Functional Form 354 12.1.1 A Consistent Test for Correct Parametric Functional Form 355 12.1.2 Mixed Data 360 12.2 Testing for Equality of PDFs 362 12.3 More Tests Related to Regression Functions 365 12.3.1 Hardle and Mammen's Test for a Parametric Regression Model 365 12.3.2 An Adaptive and Rate Optimal Test 367 12.3.3 A Test for a Parametric Single Index Model 369 12.3.4 A Nonparametric Omitted Variables Test 370 12.3.5 Testing the Significance of Categorical Variables 375 12.4 Tests Related to PDFs 378 12.4.1 Testing Independence between Two Random Variables 378 12.4.2 A Test for a Parametric PDF 380 12.4.3 A Kernel Test for Conditional Parametric Distributions 382 12.5 Applications 385 12.5.1 Growth Convergence Clubs 385 12.6 Proofs 388 12.6.1 Proof of Theorem 12.1 388 12.6.2 Proof of Theorem 12.2 389 12.6.3 Proof of Theorem 12.5 389 12.6.4 Proof of Theorem 12.9 391 12.7 Exercises 394 Chapter 13: Nonsmoothing Tests 397 13.1 Testing for Parametric Regression Functional Form 398 13.2 Testing for Equality of PDFs 401 13.3 A Nonparametric Significance Test 401 13.4 Andrews's Test for Conditional CDFs 402 13.5 Hong's Tests for Serial Dependence 404 13.6 More on Nonsmoothing Tests 408 13.7 Proofs 409 13.7.1 Proof of Theorem 13.1 409 13.8 Exercises 410 PART IV: Nonparametric Nearest Neighbor and Series Methods 413 Chapter 14: K-Nearest Neighbor Methods 415 14.1 Density Estimation: The Univariate Case 415 14.2 Regression Function Estimation 419 14.3 A Local Linear k-nn Estimator 421 14.4 Cross-Validation with Local Constant k-nn Estimation 422 14.5 Cross-Validation with Local Linear k-nn Estimation 425 14.6 Estimation of Semiparametric Models with k-nn Methods 427 14.7 Model Specification Tests with k-nn Methods 428 14.7.1 A Bootstrap Test 431 14.8 Using Different k for Different Components of x 432 14.9 Proofs 432 14.9.1 Proof of Theorem 14.1 435 14.9.2 Proof of Theorem 14.5 435 14.9.3 Proof of Theorem 14.10 440 14.10 Exercises 444 Chapter 15: Nonparametric Series Methods 445 15.1 Estimating Regression Functions 446 15.1.1 Convergence Rates 449 15.2 Selection of the Series Term K 451 15.2.1 Asymptotic Normality 453 15.3 A Partially Linear Model 454 15.3.1 An Additive Partially Linear Model 455 15.3.2 Selection of Nonlinear Additive Components 461 15.3.3 Estimating an Additive Model with a Known Link Function 463 15.4 Estimation of Partially Linear Varying Coefficient Models 466 15.4.1 Testing for Correct Parametric Regression Functional Form 471 15.4.2 A Consistent Test for an Additive Partially Linear Model 474 15.5 Other Series-Based Tests 479 15.6 Proofs 480 15.6.1 Proof of Theorem 15.1 480 15.6.2 Proof of Theorem 15.3 484 15.6.3 Proof of Theorem 15.6 488 15.6.4 Proof of Theorem 15.9 492 15.6.5 Proof of Theorem 15.10 497 15.7 Exercises 502 PART V: Time Series, Simultaneous Equation, and Panel Data Models 503 Chapter 16: Instrumental Variables and Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Models 505 16.1 A Partially Linear Model with Endogenous Regressors in the Parametric Part 505 16.2 A Varying Coefficient Model with Endogenous Regressors in the Parametric Part 509 16.3 Ai and Chen's Efficient Estimator with Conditional Moment Restrictions 511 16.3.1 Estimation Procedures 511 16.3.2 Asymptotic Normality for 513 16.3.3 A Partially Linear Model with the Endogenous Regressors in the Nonparametric Part 515 16.4 Proof of Equation (16.16) 517 16.5 Exercises 520 Chapter 17: Endogeneity in Nonparametric Regression Models 521 17.1 A Nonparametric Model 521 17.2 A Triangular Simultaneous Equation Model 522 17.3 Newey-Powell Series-Based Estimator 527 17.4 Hall and Horowitz's Kernel-Based Estimator 529 17.5 Darolles, Florens and Renault's Estimator 532 17.6 Exercises 533 Chapter 18: Weakly Dependent Data 535 18.1 Density Estimation with Dependent Data 537 18.1.1 Uniform Almost Sure Rate of Convergence 541 18.2 Regression Models with Dependent Data 541 18.2.1 The Martingale Difference Error Case 541 18.2.2 The Autocorrelated Error Case 544 18.2.3 One-Step-Ahead Forecasting 546 18.2.4 d-Step-Ahead Forecasting 547 18.2.5 Estimation of Nonparametric Impulse Response Functions 548 18.3 Semiparametric Models with Dependent Data 551 18.3.1 A Partially Linear Model with Dependent Data 551 18.3.2 Additive Regression Models 552 18.3.3 Varying Coefficient Models with Dependent Data 553 18.4 Testing for Serial Correlation in Semiparametric Models 554 18.4.1 The Test Statistic and Its Asymptotic Distribution 554 18.4.2 Testing Zero First Order Serial Correlation 555 18.5 Model Specification Tests with Dependent Data 556 18.5.1 A Kernel Test for Correct Parametric Regression Functional Form 556 18.5.2 Nonparametric Significance Tests 557 18.6 Nonsmoothing Tests for Regression Functional Form 558 18.7 Testing Parametric Predictive Models 559 18.7.1 In-Sample Testing of Conditional CDFs 559 18.7.2 Out-of-Sample Testing of Conditional CDFs 562 18.8 Applications 564 18.8.1 Forecasting Short-Term Interest Rates 564 18.9 Nonparametric Estimation with Nonstationary Data 566 18.10 Proofs 567 18.10.1 Proof of Equation (18.9) 567 18.10.2 Proof of Theorem 18.2 569 18.11 Exercises 572 Chapter 19: Panel Data Models 575 19.1 Nonparametric Estimation of Panel Data Models: Ignoring the Variance Structure 576 19.2 Wang's Efficient Nonparametric Panel Data Estimator 578 19.3 A Partially Linear Model with Random Effects 584 19.4 Nonparametric Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects 586 19.4.1 Error Variance Structure Is Known 587 19.4.2 The Error Variance Structure Is Unknown 590 19.5 A Partially Linear Model with Fixed Effects 592 19.6 Semiparametric Instrumental Variable Estimators 594 19.6.1 An Infeasible Estimator 594 19.6.2 The Choice of Instruments 595 19.6.3 A Feasible Estimator 597 19.7 Testing for Serial Correlation and for Individual Effects in Semiparametric Models 599 19.8 Series Estimation of Panel Data Models 602 19.8.1 Additive Effects 602 19.8.2 Alternative Formulation of Fixed Effects 604 19.9 Nonlinear Panel Data Models 606 19.9.1 Censored Panel Data Models 607 19.9.2 Discrete Choice Panel Data Models 614 19.10 Proofs 618 19.10.1 Proof of Theorem 19.1 618 19.10.2 Leading MSE Calculation of Wang's Estimator 621 19.11 Exercises 624 Chapter 20: Topics in Applied Nonparametric Estimation 627 20.1 Nonparametric Methods in Continuous-Time Models 627 20.1.1 Nonparametric Estimation of Continuous-Time Models 627 20.1.2 Nonparametric Tests for Continuous-Time Models 632 20.1.3 Ait-Sahalia's Test 632 20.1.4 Hong and Li's Test 633 20.1.5 Proofs 636 20.2 Nonparametric Estimation of Average Treatment Effects 639 20.2.1 The Model 640 20.2.2 An Application: Assessing the Efficacy of Right Heart Catheterization 642 20.3 Nonparametric Estimation of Auction Models 645 20.3.1 Estimation of First Price Auction Models 645 20.3.2 Conditionally Independent Private Information Auctions 648 20.4 Copula-Based Semiparametric Estimation of Multivariate Distributions 651 20.4.1 Some Background on Copula Functions 651 20.4.2 Semiparametric Copula-Based Multivariate Distributions 652 20.4.3 A Two-Step Estimation Procedure 653 20.4.4 A One-Step Efficient Estimation Procedure 655 20.4.5 Testing Parametric Functional Forms of a Copula 657 20.5 A Semiparametric Transformation Model 659 20.6 Exercises 662 A Background Statistical Concepts 663 1.1 Probability, Measure, and Measurable Space 663 1.2 Metric, Norm, and Functional Spaces 672 1.3 Limits and Modes of Convergence 680 1.3.1 Limit Supremum and Limit Infimum 680 1.3.2 Modes of Convergence 681 1.4 Inequalities, Laws of Large Numbers, and Central Limit Theorems 688 1.5 Exercises 694 Bibliography 697 Author Index 737 Subject Index 744

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Book SynopsisLooks at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents. This title provides insights into why some public initiatives work while others are hobbled by pitfalls, and offers suggestions for how public ventures should be implemented.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2010 Gold Medal Book Award in Entrepreneurship, Axiom Business Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers "[S]uperb."--Edward L. Glaeser, New York Times' Economix blog "Lots of governments would like to promote high-tech entrepreneurship and venture capital in their regions--but many don't know how to do it effectively. In his new book Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Josh Lerner ... examines which types of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture capital tend to work--and which don't. Lerner supports his carefully researched analysis with numerous examples chosen from around the globe."--MIT Sloan Management Review "Can governments spark start-up activity and job creation by getting into the venture capital business? Or do they just waste taxpayer money whenever they try? Those are the two questions that animate the new book from Harvard Business prof Josh Lerner, Boulevard of Broken Dreams... [W]hile the stories of failures are entertaining, what's most useful about Boulevard are the examples of governments that have gotten it right... [A] really readable collection of data, anecdotes, and thoughtful arguments."--Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe blog "Innovation Economy" "Today, calls for more innovation and entrepreneurship are more fashionable than ever, especially within government, where politicians and bureaucrats wastefully attempt to manufacture, via policy and subsidies, fresh batches of master agents and adventurers. But can government policy trigger entrepreneurship and subsequent growth? The title of a new book suggests not, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, by Harvard professor Josh Lerner. Much of Broken Dreams is a first-rate handbook for policy makers keen to avoid interventions that have proven track records as disasters. Lerner produces example after example of bad program design, bad implementation and plain dumb, even corrupt, policy making."--Terence Corcoran, National Post "Mr. Lerner provides more than a dozen rules of thumb for effective government intervention in the private sector."--Harry Hurt III, New York Times "[A] useful book."--David Brooks, New York Times "During economic turmoil, many look to the government to boost the economy by investing in entrepreneurship. But is that a good idea? Josh Lerner wrestles with that question in Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which considers the history of the public sector's involvement in entrepreneurship and venture capitalism--what's worked, from Silicon Valley to Singapore, and what's gone horribly awry... This book aims to steer policymakers in the right direction."--BizEd Magazine "The book is instructive, well researched and contains some wise lessons from the past in terms of the government's role in promoting entrepreneurship and growth businesses... [T]ake note, politicians and mandarins: this book can provide much-needed advice and perhaps a shortcut to developing more effective policies... [R]ecommended reading to any local economic development practitioner who takes an interest in the big policy questions of today, and [it has] direct relevance to local economic development."--Glenn Athey, Local EconomyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 PART ONE: CAN BUREAUCRATS HELP ENTREPRENEURS? 23 CHAPTER TWO: A Look Backwards 25 CHAPTER THREE: Why Should Policymakers Care? 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Things Get More Complicated 65 PART TWO: THREADING THE NEEDLE 87 CHAPTER FIVE: The Neglected Art of Setting the Table 89 CHAPTER SIX: How Governments Go Wrong: Bad Designs 111 CHAPTER SEVEN: How Governments Go Wrong: Bad Implementation 137 CHAPTER EIGHT: The Special Challenges of Sovereign Funds 162 CHAPTER NINE: Lessons and Pitfalls 181 Notes 193 Index 219

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Book SynopsisWhat can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? This title tells how other nations aggressively encouraged their citizens to save by means of special savings institutions and savings campaigns.Trade Review"Garon makes a powerful case that savings isn't about culture. It's policy... You'll think about savings policies differently after [you] pick up a copy of Beyond Our Means."--Christopher Farrell, economics editor of Marketplace Money "Professor Garon offers brilliant scholarship, engaging reading, and some practical insights for dealing with our current financial crisis worldwide. An insightful and provocative book that ... will be a unique and important volume for historians, policymakers, and the general public."--Claude Ury, San Francisco Book Review "How the Anglo-world came to live 'beyond their means ... while the world saves' is the big question of Sheldon Garon's fascinating book. It could not be more timely. Readers who worry that it might be too technical, do not fear. This is a history of flesh and blood, as Garon reclaims the topic from the economists. Facts and figures are surrounded by real people and rich illustrations that convey how passionate societies came to be about saving. Postal saving has never been so sexy."--Frank Trentmann, BBC History Magazine "Garon's policy recommendations could help shift the national trend towards saving more and position Americans towards greater financial health."--Worth "[O]ne of the world's leading authorities on the history of saving."--Joshua Rothman, Boston Globe "[A] fascinating new book... Garon believes the tide can turn, and offers some levelheaded policy suggestions for how America can restore a lasting balance between spending and saving."--Larry Cox, King Features Weekly Service "[A] very important book for critics of capitalism... Garon explains in an ambitious book that roams across centuries and continents ... why much of Europe and Asia embraced, and stuck with, a savings culture while the US first adopted and then abandoned one. It's intriguing social history."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "Garon's story is interesting and informative when focused on the history of small saving and is a recommended read."--Thomas F. Cargill, Pacific Affairs "This book is a model for how historians might re-engage with matters of economy and business using the insights and tools developed during the cultural turn."--American Historical Review "This book is a model for how historians might re-engage with matters of economy and business using the insights and tools developed during the cultural turn."--Kenneth Lipartito, American Historical Review "Garon has provided an account that shows, as with the study of consumption, the limitations of economic understandings of this routine aspect of human behaviour. It is doubtful that there will now be a scholarly turn to savings on a level equal to the outpouring of work on consumer society that has occurred over the last thirty years. But should there be so, then Beyond Our Means would be an excellent place to start."--Matthew Hilton, Social History "Transnational history at its most compelling, Beyond Our Means reveals why some nations save so much and others so little."--World Book Industry "Beyond Our Means is a big book that is very engagingly written, and it deserves a wide general readership. It concerns modern international history in general, though it grows out of work in Japanese history... The kind of constructive reaching out to wider audiences shown in this book is a model for scholars in the various fields of Japan studies."--Mark Metzler, Journal of Japanese Studies "[A] historian of modern Japan, driven by his concerns for America's financial future, has devoted years of research to writing a global history of saving, and he has produced a superb book... [A] timely history book of great contemporary relevance [that] has already embarked on a journey in new directions for public policy and global historical studies."--Elya J. Zhang, Reviews in American HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1: The Origins of Saving in the Western World 17 Chapter 2: Organizing Thrift in the Age of Nation-States 48 Chapter 3: America the Exceptional 84 Chapter 4: Japanese Traditions of Diligence and Thrift 120 Chapter 5: Saving for the New Japan 143 Chapter 6: Mobilizing for the Great War 168 Chapter 7: Save Now, Buy Later: World War II and Beyond 194 Chapter 8: "Luxury is the Enemy": Japan in Peace and War 221 Chapter 9: Postwar Japan's National Salvation 255 Chapter 10. Exporting Thrift, or the Myth of "Asian Values" 292 Chapter 11. "There IS Money. Spend It": America since 1945 317 Chapter 12. Keep on Saving? Questions for the Twenty-fi rst Century 356 Acknowledgments 377 Appendix 381 Abbreviations 383 Notes 385 Selected Bibliography 435 Index 449

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2016 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the 2016 Silver Medal in Career (Job Search, Career Advancement), Axiom Business Book Awards One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs is an academic book with the requisite references to gender theory and Marxist concepts of inequality. But read it carefully and it becomes something far more useful--a guide on how to join the global elite."--Economist "[Rivera's] richly described account is mesmerising--and horrifying."--Gillian Tett, Financial Times "[Pedigree] provides an insider look at how top-notch places hire, and explores how their processes serve those with the most privileged and affluent backgrounds."--Bouree Lam, The Atlantic "Forget Hollywood. Forget the American Dream. In Pedigree, Lauren Rivera discloses the harsh reality of landing a job on Wall Street... In this valuable book, [she] sheds light on [the] selection process, homing in on how employers contribute to elite reproduction. The outcome is a highly informed analysis of class and cultural capital."--Angelia Wilson, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi 1 Entering the Elite 1 2 The Playing Field 29 3 The Pitch 55 4 The Paper 83 5 Setting the Stage for Interviews 113 6 Beginning the Interview: Finding a Fit 135 7 Continuing the Interview: The Candidate's Story 147 8 Concluding the Interview: The Final Acts 183 9 Talking It Out: Deliberating Merit 211 10 Social Reconstruction 253 11 Conclusion 267 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 287 Appendix A Who Is Elite? 291 Appendix B Methodological Details 295 Appendix C List of Interviews 311 Notes 319 References 351 Index 369

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to future-proofing public sector communication and increasing citizen satisfaction How to communicate with the citizens of the future? Why does public sector communication often fail? Public Sector Communication combines practical examples from around the world with the latest theoretical insights to show how communication can help bridge gaps that exist between public sector organizations and the individual citizens they serve. The authorstwo experts in the field with experience from the public sectorexplain how public entities, be they cities, governments, foundations, agencies, authorities, municipalities, regulators, military, or government monopolies and state owned businesses can build their intangible assets to future-proof themselves in a volatile environment. The book examines how the recent digitalization has increased citizen expectations and why one-way communication leaves public sector organizations fragile. To explain Table of ContentsPart I 1 1 What Is Changing in Public Sector Communication? 3 1.1 The Change: Identifying the Gaps with Citizens 3 1.1.1 What Is Changing? 3 1.1.1.1 Change in Everyday Practice 3 1.1.1.2 Answering the Most Important Question 4 1.1.1.3 Changing Values? 5 1.1.2 Changes in Individuals: Citizens, Stakeholders, Customers, and Partners 5 1.1.2.1 Changes in Citizens’ Demands and Expectations 6 1.1.2.2 Citizen Communication Practices 6 1.1.2.3 Citizen Diversity 6 1.1.2.4 Changing Citizen Roles 7 1.1.3 The Traditional Gaps that Citizens Perceive When Assessing the Public Sector 7 1.1.3.1 Citizens Are from Venus, Public Authorities Are from Mars? 7 1.1.3.2 Gap 1: Speed: Bureaucracy versus Postbureaucracy 8 1.1.3.3 Gap 2: Privacy: Public versus Private Communication 8 1.1.3.4 Gap 3: Viewpoints: Process versus Answers 8 1.1.3.5 Gap 4: Context: Single Events versus General Attitude 9 1.1.3.6 Gap 5: Perceptions: Perception versus Performance 9 1.1.3.7 Gap 6: Roles: Obligations versus Rights 10 1.1.3.8 Gap 7: Media Use: Controlled versus Real Time 10 1.2 Framework for the Book 11 1.2.1 What Has Been Done on Public Sector Communication? 11 1.2.1.1 Earliest Works 11 1.2.1.2 Little Development despite the Relevance of the Topic 11 1.2.1.3 Nomenclature 12 1.2.1.4 Mapping Contributions from Different Fields to the Study of Public Sector Communication 12 1.2.2 The Three Pillars of this Book 16 1.2.2.1 The Intangible Nature of Public Sector Management 16 1.2.2.2 Knowledge for Practice, Practice for Knowledge 17 1.2.2.3 Considering Public Sector Communication from an International Perspective 17 1.2.3 Plan of the Book 17 References 18 2 What Is So Special about Public Sector Communication? 25 2.1 What Is the Public Sector? 25 2.1.1 Initial Basic Definitions 25 2.1.2 Is This Public or Private? 26 2.1.3 Scholarly Approaches to Establishing Criteria of Publicness 27 2.1.4 The Rings of Publicness 28 2.1.5 The Publicness Fan 28 2.2 Defining Public Sector Communication 30 2.2.1 Mapping Scholarly Definitions 30 2.2.2 Some Insights from Practice 32 2.2.3 Our Definition of Public Sector Communication 33 2.3 Looking at Public Sector Communication from the Publicness Fan 33 2.3.1 Different Communication? 33 2.3.2 How Public Is This and Hence How Should Intangibles and Communication be Managed? 35 2.3.2.1 Funding and Profit 36 2.3.2.2 “Ownership” and “Employees” 37 2.3.2.3 Control and Accountability 38 2.3.2.4 Purpose and Values 39 References 40 3 Fragile Public Sector Organizations 45 3.1 A Brief History of Public Sector Organizations’ Development 45 3.2 Global Trends in Public Sector Management: An Overview 46 3.3 Is There a Need for Intangible Assets? 47 3.3.1 From New Public Management to New Public Service 47 3.3.2 From Management to Public Value 48 3.4 The Fragility of Public Sector Organizations 50 3.4.1 Distrust 50 3.4.2 Services and Experiences 51 3.4.3 Bureaucracy 52 3.4.4 The Political Dimension 52 3.4.5 A Tactical Approach 53 3.5 Expectations as a Cause for Public Sector Fragility 54 3.5.1 How Citizen Expectations Are Changing 54 3.5.2 Expectations through Experiences 56 3.5.3 Unmet Expectations 56 References 57 4 Antifragile Communication: Closing the Gap through Intangible Assets 65 4.1 Defining “Intangible Asset” 65 4.1.1 What Is an Intangible Asset About? 65 4.1.2 Pinning Down Intangibility 66 4.1.3 The Features of an Intangible Asset 67 4.2 Types of Intangibles 67 4.2.1 Accounting Categorizations 67 4.2.2 Relationships and Perceptions as the Basis for Intangible Assets that Aim to Build Competitive Advantage 69 4.3 Why Are Intangibles Different in the Public Sector? 70 4.3.1 What Is the Value of Intangibility in the Public Sector? 72 4.3.2 Building Intangible Assets: Is It Possible? 73 4.4 Different Intangible Assets in the Public Sector 74 4.5 Avoiding Fragility through Intangible Assets 74 4.5.1 Antifragile Communication: Taking the Citizen Point of View 75 4.5.2 The Steps toward Antifragility 76 4.6 Intangible Assets in this Book 77 4.6.1 Definition of Intangible Asset in the Public Sector 77 4.6.2 Different Intangible Assets and the Relationships between Them 78 References 79 Part II 83 5 Satisfaction 85 5.1 What Is Satisfaction? 85 5.2 Experiences and Satisfaction 86 5.3 Why Should Public Organizations Care About Citizen Satisfaction? 87 5.4 Communication and Satisfaction 88 5.5 Measuring Citizen Satisfaction 89 5.5.1 The Purpose of Measuring 89 5.5.2 Do Measurement Tools from the Private Sector Suit the Public Sector? 91 5.6 Summary of Citizen Satisfaction 92 5.7 Case Study on Citizen Satisfaction 93 5.8 Route Guide to Building Citizen Satisfaction 96 References 97 6 Organizational Culture 101 6.1 Organizations’ Invisible Cultures 101 6.2 Defining Organizational Culture 103 6.3 What Benefit Does Organizational Culture Bring? 104 6.4 Public Sector Organizational Culture 105 6.5 Subcultures 106 6.6 Communication and Public Sector Culture 107 6.6.1 Gaps that Public Sector Culture Can Fix 107 6.6.2 What to Measure in Practice? 110 6.7 Changing Organizational Culture 110 6.8 Criticism of Organizational Culture 112 6.9 Summary of Organizational Culture 112 6.10 Case Study on Organizational Culture 113 6.11 Route Guide to Changing Organizational Culture 116 References 117 7 Reputation 121 7.1 What Is the Logic behind Organizational Reputation? 121 7.2 How the Digital Environment Shapes Reputation 122 7.3 Organizational Reputation Defined 124 7.4 The Benefits of a Good Reputation 125 7.5 Public Sector Organizations and Reputation 126 7.5.1 Reputation in a Context of Lower Competition 126 7.5.2 Neutral Reputation as Ideal for Public Sector Organizations 127 7.6 Measuring Public Sector Reputation 128 7.7 Two Examples of Measuring Reputation 131 7.8 Summary of Public Sector Reputation 133 7.9 Route Guide to Building Organizational Reputation 135 References 136 8 Legitimacy 139 8.1 Conferring Legitimacy upon Public Sector Organizations: What Does It Mean? 139 8.2 The Legitimacy Judgment: What Confers Organizational Legitimacy in the Public Sector? 141 8.2.1 Achievements versus Procedures 141 8.2.2 Typologies of Legitimacy 141 8.2.3 Moral Legitimacy 142 8.3 Resources Generated by Legitimacy 143 8.4 Communication and Legitimacy Building 144 8.4.1 Being Acknowledged as Legitimate 145 8.4.2 Legitimacy Building as Sense Making 145 8.5 How Legitimacy Typologies Help Legitimacy Builders 146 8.6 Building Legitimacy 147 8.7 Critical Issues and Further Research 149 8.8 Summary of Legitimacy 151 8.9 Case Study on Legitimacy 151 8.10 Route Guide to Building Legitimacy 154 References 155 9 Intellectual Capital 159 9.1 What Intellectual Capital Is About 159 9.1.1 Definition 159 9.1.2 What Has Been Done So Far on Intellectual Capital in the Public Sector? 160 9.2 Why is Intellectual Capital Needed? 161 9.3 What Resources Does Intellectual Capital Generate? Measuring Intellectual Capital 163 9.3.1 What Does Intellectual Capital Tell Us About? The Dimensions of IC 163 9.3.2 Measuring Intellectual Capital in the Public Sector 164 9.4 Communicating Intellectual Capital 166 9.4.1 Does Communication Play a Role in the Acknowledgement of Intellectual Capital? 166 9.4.2 Intellectual Capital Management and Communication Management 167 9.5 Critical Issues, Unanswered Questions, and Future Research 168 9.6 Summary of Intellectual Capital 169 9.7 Case Study on Intellectual Capital 170 9.8 Route Guide to Building Intellectual Capital 174 References 175 10 Engagement 179 10.1 What Citizen Engagement Is About 179 10.1.1 Looking at Engagement from the Citizen Side 179 10.1.2 Engagement from the Organization Side: The Role of Public Administrations in Engaging Citizens 180 10.2 Going Deeper into Public Sector Engagement 181 10.2.1 Governmental Efforts to Involve Citizens 182 10.2.2 Deepening Engagement: The Coproduction Perspective 182 10.3 Why Is Engagement Needed? 185 10.3.1 The Context for an Increasing Concern with and Practice of Citizen Engagement 185 10.3.2 What Specific Gaps Does Engagement Help to Bridge? 185 10.4 Outcomes of Engagement: Calibrating Its Value as an Intangible Asset 186 10.4.1 A General Positive Assessment of the Impact of Engagement 186 10.4.2 More Mixed Evidence that Cannot Be Disregarded 187 10.4.3 Engagement Effects for the Organization: The Managerial Side 188 10.4.4 Benefit for Both Sides: The Cobenefit of Coproduction 188 10.5 Building and Communicating Engagement 189 10.6 Summary of Engagement 190 10.7 Case Study on Public Sector Engagement 191 10.8 Route Guide to Building Engagement 196 References 197 11 Social Capital 201 11.1 Theory of Social Capital 201 11.2 What Kind of Value Does Social Capital Produce? 203 11.3 What Kind of Gaps Does Social Capital Help to Bridge? 205 11.4 Communicating Social Capital 206 11.5 What Does This Mean for Public Sector Organizations’ Communication Management? 207 11.6 Measuring Social Capital 209 11.7 Are All Networks Real? 210 11.8 Closing the Gap through Social Capital 211 11.9 Future Research on Social Capital 212 11.10 Summary of Social Capital 213 11.11 Case Study on Social Capital in the Public Sector 213 11.12 Route Guide to Building Social Capital 216 References 216 12 Trust 221 12.1 Why Does Trust Matter? The Intangible and Tangible Value of Trust 221 12.2 What Is Trust? 223 12.2.1 What is Trust About? 223 12.2.2 Can There Be Trust in Public Sector Organizations? 224 12.3 Trust in the Public Sector 224 12.3.1 Political Trust, Public Trust, and Trust in Government 225 12.3.2 Trust in Public Administration 226 12.3.3 Going Beyond the Public Administration: Trust in the Public Sector 226 12.4 Sources of Trust: What Generates Trust in the Public Sector? 227 12.4.1 Demographics 228 12.4.2 Political Attitudes as Explainers of Trust 228 12.4.3 The Influence of Events Management 228 12.4.4 Performance as a Source of Trust 228 12.5 Other Intangible Assets as Causes of Trust 229 12.6 Trust and Communication: Building Trust 232 12.7 Critical Issues and Further Research 233 12.7.1 Is There a Trend of Decreasing Trust in Public Sector Organizations? 233 12.7.2 Debated Issues about Measuring Trust 235 12.8 Summary of Trust 236 References 237 13 Closing the Gaps 243 13.1 How Can We Close the Gap between Citizens and Public Sector Organizations? 243 13.1.1 Closing Gap 1: Speed: Bureaucracy versus Postbureaucracy 246 13.1.2 Closing Gap 2: Privacy: Public versus Private Communication 246 13.1.3 Closing Gap 3: Viewpoints: Process versus Answers 246 13.1.4 Closing Gap 4: Context: Single Events versus General Attitude 247 13.1.5 Closing Gap 5: Perceptions: Perception versus Performance 247 13.1.6 Closing Gap 6: Roles: Obligations versus Rights 247 13.1.7 Closing Gap 7: Media Use: Controlled versus Real Time 248 13.2 Expectations Management to Build Intangibles that Bridge Gaps 248 13.2.1 Concluding Remarks 252 References 253 Index 255

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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 Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016 One of Bloomberg's Best 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 "[A] fascinating economic manifesto... [The Curse of Cash] is 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 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 "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 idea is not as crazy as it may sound. In a recent book, The Curse of Cash, Rogoff, says boring old paper (or plastic, in our case) bank notes are a major barrier to monetary policy--changing interest rates--fulfilling its potential. The book ... 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 "[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, Regulation,Table of ContentsPreface ix Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview 1 PART I: The Dark Side of Paper Currency: Tax and Regulatory Evasion, Crime, and Security Issues Chapter 2: The Early Development of Coins and Paper Currency 15 Chapter 3: Size and Composition of Global Currency Supplies, and the Share Held Abroad 31 Chapter 4: Holdings of Currency in the Domestic, Legal, Tax-Paying Economy 48 Chapter 5: Currency Demand in the Underground Economy 58 Chapter 6: Seigniorage 80 Chapter 7: A Plan for Phasing Out Most Paper Currency 92 PART II: Negative Interest Rates Chapter 8: The Cost of the Zero Bound Constraint 119 Chapter 9: Higher Inflation Targets, Nominal GDP, Escape Clauses, and Fiscal Policy 147 Chapter 10: Other Paths to Negative Interest Rates 158 Chapter 11: Other Possible Downsides to Negative Nominal Policy Rates 175 Chapter 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 Chapter 13: International Dimensions to Phasing Out Paper Currency 199 Chapter 14: Digital Currencies and Gold 208 Final Thoughts 217 Acknowledgments 221 Appendix 225 Notes 233 References 257 Index 273

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Book SynopsisFor those in pursuit of commercial real estate opportunities, learn the tools to be successful in this helpful guide by an expert in the industry.Independent commercial real estate broker Michael Reinhard has been leveraging the financial benefits of our strong economy for years. In this practical and insightful guide, he offers advice to help others in their pursuit of commercial real estate endeavors.By providing a thorough overview of commercial mortgage underwriting and credit analysis, Commercial Mortgages 101 teaches you how to: think and speak like a commercial real estate lender; quickly size and under write basic commercial real estate loans; prepare personal cash flow statements; read and interpret lenders’ preliminary loan proposals’; create a Schedule of Real Estate Owned; And prepare a persuasive and professional loan request package. Credit and financing iTable of Contents CONTENTS Acknowlegments Introduction Chapter 1: An Introduction to Commercial Real Estate Loans What Is a Commercial Mortgage? “Mortgage” Defined “Commercial” Defined Types of Commercial Properties Non-Income-Producing Properties Income-Producing Properties Single-Tenant Properties Multitenant Properties Types of Commercial Real Estate Lenders Banks Life Insurance Companies Conduit Lenders Agency Lenders Credit Companies Mortgage Bankers Private Lenders Commercial Mortgage Terms Maturity Period Amortization Period Loan-to-Value Ratios Interest Rates Prepayment Penalty Recourse vs. Nonrecourse Loans Commercial Mortgage Underwriting Sponsorship Property Underwriting Final Underwriting Analysis Chapter 2: Preparing the Loan Request Package Executive Summary Purpose of Loan Request Sources and Uses Property Description and Location Financial Summary Borrower Property Description Location and Demographics Property Economics Financial Statements Financial Analysis Schedule of Income Historical Cash Flow Loan Analysis Supporting Documents Market and Submarket Data Sponsorship Chapter 3: Financial Strength and Creditworthiness Net Worth and Liquidity Assets Non–Real Estate Assets Real Estate Assets, Cash Equity, and Market Equity Cost vs. Market Value Pre-Funding Liquidity Post-Funding Liquidity Lender’s Calculation of Net Worth and Pre-Funding and Post-Funding Liquidity Credit Score and History Five Adverse Conditions Unacceptable to a Commercial Lender Personal Income and Cash Flow Gross Income Self-Employment Income Net Cash Flow and Taxable Net Cash Flow from Rental Income Cash Flow Statement Banking and Credit References Chapter 4: Real Estate Experience Ownership and Management Experience Ownership Experience Management Experience Chapter 5: Real Estate Assets The REO Schedule The REO Schedule and the Balance Sheet Anatomy of an REO Schedule Property Value Section Property Name Property Description Property Address Date of Acquisition Original Cost of the Property Name and Address of Lender Loan Number Ownership Percentage Market Value of the Property Balance of Mortgages Total Equity Net Ownership Equity Cash Flow Section Monthly Rental Income Monthly Operating Expenses Monthly Loan Payments Monthly Cash Flow Net Ownership Cash Flow Chapter 6: Forms of Ownership Borrowers and Borrowing Entities Types of Borrowers and Borrowing Entities Individual Ownership Co-Tenancy and Joint Ownership Partnerships Limited Liability Companies Corporations Trusts Index

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Book SynopsisMost managers, supervisors, and team leaders realize the importance of team-building, but just can''t seem to find the time in their busy schedules. This book provides the solution!More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers contains 50 all-new exercises that can be conducted in 15 minutes or less, and which require no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. Each activity is presented in just a few short pages with all the relevant information including a list of materials needed, the purpose of the exercise, and handy tips for success, all highlighted for easy reference.You will find fun and effective activities for: building new teams and helping teams with new members finding creative ways to work together and solve problems increasing and improving communication keeping competition healthy and productive within the team dealing with change and its effects: angerTable of Contents CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Getting Ready CHAPTER 1. How to Run a Successful Team-Building Activity 7 Step 1. Before: Select a pertinent activity for your team 7 Step 2. Before: Prepare for your team-building activity 8 Step 3. During: Explain the activity to the team 10 Step 4. During: Check for understanding before beginning 12 Step 5. During: Run the activity 13 Step 6. During: Debrief the activity 14 Step 7. After: Reinforce the learning back on the job 16 CHAPTER 2. What Could Go Wrong in a Team-Building Activity 17 Part II. The Activities CHAPTER 3. Welcoming: Introductions and Icebreakers 31 Bet You Didn't Know This 32 Cell Phone Rings 35 Haiku 38 Hangman 40 Heads or Tails 43 Human Poker 46 I am . . . 50 Kids' Stuff 53 Pennies and Dice 56 Scramble 59 Word Count 62 CHAPTER 4. Battling: Games That Teach Healthy Competition 65 Balloon Battle 66 Chopsticks 69 Cotton Balls 72 Higher Lower 75 Marshmallow Dodge Ball 78 Snake Eyes 81 Tablecloth 85 Tall Towers 88 Team Scores 91 Unshuffle 95 CHAPTER 5. Teamwork: Challenges That Require Cooperation 99 Buttermilk Line 100 CONNECTIONS 103 CROSSING THE LINE 106 DOLLAR BILL 109 HOUSE 112 LETTER #27 115 LICENSE PLATES 117 ONE SYLLABLE 120 PUZZLED VISION 123 REACH FOR THE STARS 126 STICK IN THE MIDDLE 128 CHAPTER 6. Creativity: Challenges That Encourage Out-of-the-Box Thinking 131 ABCs 132 FAILURE STRATEGIES 135 FISHBOWL 138 FIST 140 JOB TITLES 143 MONSTERS 146 NEWSPAPER COSTUMES 148 SECRET AGENDA 151 STATUE MAKER 154 THE SWAMP 157 CHAPTER 7. Support: Activities to Appreciate and Help Each Other 161 Anonymous Feedback 162 GARBAGE 166 ONE WORD 169 POSITIVE ENVELOPES 172 SECRET COACH 175 TOMBSTONE 178 TOTEM POLES 181 TROPHIES 184 Index 187 About the Author 191

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book demonstrates that to be a good communicator and therefore an effective manager, a person must have five qualities in order to be viewed as totally crediblecompetence, character, composure, sociability, and extroversion. While some executives seem to possess all these qualities and be born with savvy communication skills, Weiner shows how anyone can find ways to make measurable improvements in how they present themselves that will enhance their credibility.Table of ContentsForeword vii Don Robert Introduction xi 1. The Look and Sound of Credibility 1 2. So Smart, But Can’t Tailor the Message to the Audience 13 3. So Smart, But Doesn’t Get It 33 4. So Smart, But Sounds Like She Lacks Executive Presence 49 5. So Smart, But Looks Like He Lacks Executive Presence 73 6. So Smart, But Thinks He Knows It All 89 7. So Smart, But Isn’t a People Person 109 8. So Smart, But Lacks Energy and Passion and Drive 121 9. So Smart, But Has It Out for Some People: How Management Styles Can Cause Compliance Issues 127 with Lloyd Loomis 10. Assessing Your Own Credibility: www.essessnet.com 141 11. Sixteen Mind-Sets: And Five Seminars You Shouldn’t Take 147 12. Parting Thoughts 175 Appendix A: Essessnet Question Sets 177 Appendix B: The Test for Machiavellianism 191 References 193 Acknowledgments 195 The Author 199

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Book SynopsisThere are few career relationships as pivotal as the one with a mentor. This title deals with the under acknowledged significance of mentoring.Trade Review"...provides a useful snapshot of the issues, dramas and special challenges women and minorities face in the modern workplace..." (getAbstract, August 2006)Table of Contents1 Introduction to Power Mentoring 1 Who Are Our Power Mentors and Protégés? 3 The Changing Career Landscape 13 Overview of the Book 21 2 The Many Faces of Power Mentoring 26 Classic Versus Contemporary Approaches to Mentoring 28 The Many Types of Power Mentoring 45 Conclusion 64 3 Mentoring as a Two-Way Street: 67 Benefits of Giving and Receiving Give-and-Take in Power Mentoring Relationships 68 Road Map to This Chapter 70 Meet the Power Mentors and Protégés: 71 Stories of Give-and-Take Summary of Benefits for Protégés and Mentors 96 Conclusion 100 4 The Mind of the Mentor 102 Mental Models: The Philosophies of Mentoring 105 The Mentor’s Attraction to the Protégé 116 The Perfect Protégé 121 Tests and Challenges 125 Conclusion 136 5 The Protégé’s Perspective: 138 How to Get and Keep a Power Mentor Initiation and Attraction 140 Developing Trust in the Mentoring Relationship 142 Identifying a Power Mentor 152 Cultivating the Art of Impression Management 155 Developing a Goal-Oriented Attitude 157 Forming Connection Strategies 161 Conclusion 173 6 Unlocking the Secrets of 175 Great Power Mentoring Relationships Building Blocks of Effective Relationships 177 Defining Moments 190 Deepening the Mentoring Relationship 196 Conclusion 208 7 Power Mentoring and You 209 The Relationship Development Plan 210 Conclusion 253 8 Conclusion: What We Have Learned About Mentoring in Today’s Work Environment 255 Turning Everyday Mentoring into Power Mentoring 256 What We Know About Effective Mentoring Relationships 256 What We Are Still Learning About Mentoring Relationships 260 The Lessons of Power Mentoring for Formal Mentoring Programs 262 Getting a Formal Mentoring Program Off the Ground 268 Conclusion 271 Appendix A: The Interviewees 273 Appendix B: Studying Power Mentoring Relationships 303 Notes 313 Acknowledgments 333 The Authors 339 Index 343

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Book SynopsisFrom the best-selling author of The Death of Economics and Butterfly Economics, a ground-breaking look at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most commercial and public policy ventures will not succeed.Paul Ormerod draws upon recent advances in biology to help us understand the surprising consequences of the Iron Law of Failure. And he shows what strategies corporations, businesses and governments will need to adopt to stand a chance of prospering in a world where only one thing is certain.Trade Review"'Engrossing and entertaining... A careful, comprehensible analysis of the limits of human rationality's ability to control the world.' Alasdair Palmer, Sunday Telegraph 'Gripping stuff.' Krishna Guha, Financial Times"

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Book SynopsisHow do we know where we are in the current stock market cycle? Are we in the midst of a new long term bull market or a market rally within an ongoing bear market? This title answers the above questions that are critical to forming an appropriate investment strategy to plan for the future.

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Book SynopsisThis is the most extraordinary time for people with a desire to make thingsSpark for the Fire is for everyone who wants to excel. For the people who are passionate about what they want to do. For those whose imaginations demand to be put to use, in any discipline. it is for the youthful: in age, experience or attitude - and those who want to be - whether to kick-start a career or reignite an established one.Now more than ever, youthful thinking can help spark the fire of creativity. This must-read book reveals how.Featuring among others- Nick Park- Michael Wolff- Lord David Puttnam- Jean Oelwang- Rory Sutherland- Ajaz Ahmed- Jamie Oliver

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Book SynopsisThe third volume of The Collected Works of Israel M Kirzner presents a collection of writings on capital theory that serve both as a discourse in the history of economic thought and as conceptual clarification in one of the most complex subjects in economics. This edition explores the notions of capital and interest in light of the controversies surrounding these topics. The first essay in this volume is Kirzner''s introduction to the 1996 edition. The second essay was published as a stand-alone book in 1966 and presents Kirzner''s capital theory, focusing on multi-period production plans. In the third essay Kirzner offers an interpretation of Ludwig von Mises''s view of capital and interest. The fourth essay, written in the late 1980s, is Kirzner''s attempt to clarify the difficulties found in interest theory. Finally, the fifth essay deals with Sir John Hick''s capital theory in light of Kirzner''s own Austrian position.

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Book Synopsis''The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be lauded as a prophet.'' Observer, Editorial, 1 October 1995''Mr. Connolly''s longstanding proposition that the foisting of a common currency upon so many disparate nations would end in ruin is getting a much wider hearing...'' New York Times, 17 November 2011When first published in 1995, The Rotten Heart of Europe caused outrage and delight - here was a Brussels insider, a senior EU economist, daring to talk openly about the likely pitfalls of European monetary union. Bernard Connolly lost his job at the Commission, but his book was greeted as a profound and persuasive expose of the would-be ''monetary masters of the world.'' His brave act of defiance became headline news - and his book a major international bestseller

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Book SynopsisMoney is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elite can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffling. Above all, the language of money is the language of power - power in the hands of the same economic elite.Now John Lanchester, bestselling author of Capital and Whoops! sets out to decode the world of finance for all of us, explaining everything from high-frequency trading and the World Bank to the difference between bullshit and nonsense.As funny as it is devastating, How To Speak Money is a primer and a polemic. It''s a reference book you''ll find yourself reading in one sitting. And it gives you everything you need to demystify the world of high finance - the world that dominates how we all live now.

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Book SynopsisThe authors argue that corporate law’s rules and practices mimic contractual provisions that parties would reach if they bargained about every contingency at zero cost and flawlessly enforced their agreements. But bargaining and enforcement are costly, and corporate law provides necessary rules and an invaluable enforcement mechanism.Trade ReviewTruly first-rate...Arguably the most important--and most readable--corporate law book ever. A classic...Certain to change the way corporate law is taught, understood, and possibly even made. -- Robert M. Daines and Jon Hanson * Yale Law Journal *An important and provocative contribution to the law and economics literature...Scholars in the field should hold a place for it on their shelves. -- Christopher Grandy * Journal of Economic Literature *This may be the best book ever written about corporate law. * University of Chicago Law Review *Table of Contents* The Corporate Contract * Limited Liability * Voting * The Fiduciary Principle, the Business Judgment Rule, and the Derivative Suit * Corporate Control Transactions * The Appraisal Remedy * Tender Offers * The Incorporation Debate and State Antitakeover Statutes * Close Corporations * Trading on Inside Information * Mandatory Disclosure * Optimal Damages * Acknowledgments * Case Index * Author Index * General Index

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