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Book Synopsis''A masterclass in spotting the early signs of a crisis'' Nouriel Roubini''This is the historical perspective we need'' John Kay''A first point of entry for anybody who wants to learn how the world sleep-walked into multiple crashes'' Daron Acemoglu''Fascinating, well-written and authoritative'' Tim Harford-----------------------------------------------------------------The global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in modern financial history. Since America''s Wall Street Crash of 1929, the global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in financial history. From the currency crises of the 1980s, to Japan''s housing meltdown, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial crash and the COVID pandemic, crash after crash has sent shockwaves through our world.The Great Crashes tells the stories of ten of these historic financial events. They serve as a series of cautionary tales, each with their own lessons to be learnt. With clear-eyed analysis, renowned economist Professor Linda Yueh uses these meltdowns to extract a critical three-step framework to help recognise the early signs of a crash, mitigate the effects and even prevent them in the future. There is very little that is certain in economics, except for this: there will be another financial crisis.Combining her in-depth knowledge with compelling storytelling, The Great Crashes is essential reading that offers urgent lessons for the modern world.-----------------------------------------------------------------''An important contribution that can help society anticipate and tackle potential crashes in the future'' Christine Lagarde

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Book Synopsis** During a time of great change, this book will give you everything you need to understand change, to adapt to change, and to inspire others to do the same ** ''To be successful, you have to be able to adapt to change'' - Sir Alex FergusonThe pace of change is greater than ever. We all face new challenges every day in our jobs and in our personal lives. Those who can handle change are the most fulfilled. Those who fear change will find it hardest to thrive.As a head teacher, Richard Gerver famously transformed a failing school into one of the most acclaimed learning environments in the world - in just two years. He inspired staff and teachers to reach their full potential. As a hugely popular speaker and author, he now helps individuals and companies to embrace change.This book is his powerful personal reflection on change. Full of wisdom and practical insights, it will help you in any situation you face. Whether you are leading a company thro

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Book SynopsisWhat''s stopping you from doing the best work of your life?People are sick of the old ways of doing business. Despite the enthusiasm that surrounded the emergence of a hybrid working world, it still takes for ever to get anything done. Meetings and emails are almost belligerently incessant. Bureaucracy and hierarchy continue to stifle creativity and talent. So - after literal decades of management theory, as well as multiple shifts in the technological landscape - why can''t we do better?Aaron Dignan is an expert in modernizing workplaces. He has built a career teaching top-level companies how to change to suit their workforce better and, in doing so, how to foster genuine innovation, loyalty and growth. In Brave New Work, he uses stories and experiences gathered from that career to lay out a fearless manifesto for a new type of work.This book will show you how to transform your team, department or business from the inside out, making wor

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Book SynopsisBeing yourself has never been so important (or so lucrative).The working world has changed. In an era where the cost of living is rising and competition increasing, it''s no longer good enough to have a university degree, a cushy corporate job and a strong work ethic. The once-guaranteed routes to success are leaving employees poorer and undervalued. More and more, people are finding that they have to take alternative paths to their careers - whether that''s by starting a side hustle, or by finding a breakthrough idea at work, or even by quitting the rat race entirely and pursuing their own passion projects.With an increasingly educated and experienced population to contend with, discovering what makes you stand out as an individual is more important than ever - within a corporate structure, a freelance market, a virtual collective or any other workplace. So how do you do it? The answer, according to world-renowned strategy consultant Dorie Clark, is to be Trade ReviewThis isn't another book about marketing. It's a book about how to develop an idea and a voice powerful enough to deserve a powerful following and real influence. It's about how to stand out in the ways that matter * Ryan Holiday, author of The Obstacle is the Way *It's easy to admire a thought leader; it's much harder to become one. Unapologetically You illuminates the path. * Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again and Give and Take *From finding your niche, or big idea, to building your audience, Clark effortlessly guides you through the process to inspire others. * Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and Leading Without Authority *

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Book SynopsisDivided into three sections, this edition explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling the divergent priorities among competing stakeholders. It explains how to build planning support systems to assess conditions, evaluate policy choices, create visions, and compare scenarios.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Riddell shows US sailors struggling for their own emancipation. Especially after 1898, he shows them also as fashioning themselves as white agents of empire. The potential for drama and tragedy is great, and fully realized, in this riveting book.”--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the RightTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Seams of Empire A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900 Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908 Riding the Waves of Empire: Craft Unionism, the La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915, and the Economic Dimensions of U.S. Imperial Power, 1908 -1915 Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919 They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study local voices. At the same time, market factors and regulators' unwillingness to critically examine local media blunt challenges to the status quo. Ali argues that reconciling the places where we live with the spaces we inhabit will point regulators toward effective policies that strengthens local media. That new approach will again elevate local media to its rightful place as a vital part of the public good.Trade Review"Energetically written. . . . Crucial topics for understanding what is actually going on behind the scenes of your local nightly news."--Sante Fe New Mexican"Shines a needed light on the threats that local broadcasters are currently facing. . . . The conversation about media localism is an important one, and this book raises critical questions and posits thought-provoking ideas for a path forward."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly"The book is well researched. . . . The conversation about media localism is an important one, and this book raises critical questions and posits thought-provoking ideas for a new path forward."--American Journalism"It is the detail in Ali's analysis that is impressive. There is much value in it as just a history of media policy-making at the beginning of the 21st century, as Ali looks at key moments in regulatory processes in each of the territories he covers."--Journalism"This book offers a very interesting contribution to reconsider the approach to local media." --CBQ Critical Reviews"Media's woeful lack of localism is matched by lack of definition about what the term really means. Ali's brilliant dissection of localism in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada provides a foundation for developing strategies to restore our vanished local media."--Michael Copps, former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission"This landmark book offers a fascinating and invaluable analysis for anyone seeking a critical understanding of 'the local' in our digital age. With elegance and clarity, Ali draws from comparative case studies and key historical contexts to show why democracy still requires media localism--and why an unfettered market can't support it. This is a must-read for policymakers, journalists, and concerned citizens everywhere."--Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform"Bold and innovative. A scholarly interrogation of significant moves to think through the meaning of community and how various policymakers, politicians, activists, and indeed entrepreneurs have sought to mobilize these concerns."--Des Freedman, author of The Contradictions of Media Power

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Book SynopsisOpinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker ''s history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential questions. Ranging from Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the authors search for common factors in the appearance of labor courts while recognizing the specific character of the creative process in each nation. Their transnational and comparative approach advances a global perspective on the various mechanisms for regulating industrial relations and resolving labor conflicts. The result is the first country-by-country study of its kind, one that addresses a defining shift in law in the first half of the twentieth century. Contributors: Rossana Barragán Romano, Angela de Castro Gomes, David Díaz-Arias, Leon Fink, Frank Luce, Diego Ortúzar, Germán Palacio, Juan Manuel PaTrade Review"This is a fabulous book. As historians and social scientists return to the distributional dimensions of capitalist development, they should look closely at this anthology. It contains insightful studies of national experiences; it also lays out a template for analyzing a central institution in framing class conflict in the modern age: labor courts and the struggle for justice and recognition. This is a wonderful example of connected and comparative history." --Jeremy Adelman, author of Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman"Labor Justice across the Americas can help us to learn from past struggles to think creatively about new ideas for effective labor justice. It is a unique book that deserves to be read by labor historians, legal historians, labor advocates, and quixotic dreamers who want to keep a toe on the ground." --New Labor Forum“An important and necessary first step in assessing the role of the law in twentieth-century capital-labor relations, a valuable contribution greatly enhanced by its comparative focus." --Hispanic American Historical Review"Highly recommended." --Choice"An ambitious transnational project developed around a specialized body of knowledge, this volume has many great strengths. This book artfully presents side-by-side national histories within their hemispheric context and points us toward a sophisticated neo-Boltonian hemispheric labor history founded on deeply researched national case studies." --Labor

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Book SynopsisA long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York's power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city's laundry workers. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor orgTrade Review"Even progressive organizations like the ACWA actively participated in the reproduction of racial and gender hierarchies within labour markets and within their own organizations. It is a sobering finding, albeit one tempered in Carson's account by extraordinary heroism of the laundry workers themselves." --Labour"Grounded in recent scholarship, A Matter of Moral Justice combines structural analysis of the industry with deft mini-biographies and astute assessments of industrial feminism, left organizations, and the CIO itself." --Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"An engaging book on a workforce that has received surprisingly little attention from labor historians. Carson provides a highly readable analysis of how racialized and gendered were job assignments, union organizing campaigns, and labor politics."--Dennis Deslippe, author of Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution"With this beautifully written, emotionally powerful book, Jennifer Carson has rescued the history of organizing among African-American and Afro-Caribbean laundry workers from the shadows. Power laundries were the largest industrial employer of Black women in the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century, but professional historians have paid little attention to these workers' long campaigns for justice. Carson narrates this crucial history with grace and verve, nuance and drama, centering the biographies of the remarkable organizers Dollie Robinson and Charlotte Adelmond and their struggle to bring decent working conditions and union recognition to a labor force made up almost entirely of women of color. As Carson relates struggles between Black women organizers and white male union leaders, fruitful but fraught alliances with Jewish organizers in the Women’s Trade Union League and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, she makes clear again and again how these movements were direct forebears of the Black Lives Matter and Fight for $15 movements. This history and its powerful actors are as relevant in 2020 as they have ever been. Brava."--Annelise Orleck, author of Rethinking American Women's Activism"Carson's book is well worth the read. . . . Carson has done a masterful job making Black working-class women and intersectionality central to US history." --American Historical Review"Carson's compelling study recovers Black women-led civil rights unionism in the North and provides a powerful and understudied history of how Black women workers sought to transform the labor movement, abolish oppressive workplaces, and build a moral and just society." --Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisPullout sections, poster supplements, contests, puzzles, and the funny pages--the Sunday newspaper once delivered a parade of information, entertainment, and spectacle for just a few pennies each weekend. Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele return to an era of experimentation in early twentieth-century news publishing to chart how the Sunday paper became an essential part of American leisure. Transcending the constraints of newsprint while facing competition from other media, Sunday editions borrowed forms from and eventually partnered with magazines, film, and radio, inviting people to not only read but watch and listen. This drive for mass circulation transformed metropolitan news reading into a national pastime, a change that encouraged newspapers to bundle Sunday supplements into a panorama of popular culture that offered something for everyone.Trade Review"Essential for communication collections and for anyone looking at book or literacy history of the period." --Choice"Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele's The Sunday Paper: A Media History presents a narrative of the rise of a new form of media in an existing field of publishing power. . . . This book will be of great value for those scholars researching American newspapers as well as those with a theoretical background for understanding media within changing public spheres of knowledge production." --H-Net Reviews"An engaging and pleasantly readable text, supported by examples, illustrations, and primary sources. . . . The innovation, nurturing, and maturity of the Sunday paper, and its rippling cultural effects, makes for interesting, informative reading for just about everyone." --New York Pennsylvania Collector"With this meticulously researched and smartly written book, Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele have demonstrated the central role Sunday newspapers played in the creation of modern media culture. The Sunday Paper recovers a vibrant interactive multimedia form that historians of both popular culture and journalism have long ignored. This book deserves a place on the short shelf of indispensable media histories."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A History"While sharing much with the newspapers appearing on the other six days of the week, the Sunday paper was a media experience unto itself. These weekly print spectacles were physically heavy, stuffed with supplements, and offered a kaleidoscopic view of modern life. They were meant to be read but also written upon and cut up, and they offered visual and tactile pleasure for millions of people every week. Sunday newspapers were extraordinary media, and Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele have written a book that does justice to their strange and wonderful form and content."--Michael Stamm, author of Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America

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Book SynopsisStarting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military's elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation. Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is the untold story of how Filipino servicepersTrade Review"I greatly enjoyed reading this well-crafted, sophisticated, and deeply moving oral history and enthusiastically endorse its engagement in courses in U.S. history, migration studies, and labor analysis." --Pacific Historical Review"Accessible and sophisticated. Paligutan’s exploration of the recruitment and experiences of Filipino navy men is an excellent illustration of how economic underdevelopment of the Philippines in the interests of US economic and political gain created the first of many pools of cheap Filipino migrant workers. Paligutan has done a fantastic job at weaving in an intersectional analysis of gender, particularly masculinity, throughout the book."--Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age

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Book SynopsisDoes the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class?In Rooted Globalism, Kevin Funk unpacks dozens of ethnographic interviews he conducted with Latin America's urban-based, Arab-descendant elite class, some of whom also occupy positions of political power in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Based on extensive fieldwork, Funk illuminates how these elites navigate their Arab ancestry, Latin American host cultures, and roles as protagonists of globalization. With the term rooted globalism, Funk captures the emergence of classed intersectional identities that are simultaneously local, national, transnational, and global. Focusing on an oft-ignored axis of South-South relations (between Latin America and the Arab world), Rooted Globalism provides detailed analysis of the identities, worldviews, and motivations of this group and ultimately reveals that rather than obliterating national identities,Trade ReviewKevin Funk's Rooted Globalism challenges the ubiquitous claim that leading capitalists have mentally divorced themselves from the nation-state as they congeal into a placeless hegemonic class with a global consciousness. Funk interviewed dozens of leading capitalists in South America and finds that the identities of these global actors intersect with ethnicity, race, family and ancestral ties, migration histories, nationality, and geography to generate an empirical class consciousness that he calls "rooted globalism." Funk concludes that the borderless one-world theme articulated by transnational corporations and corporate elites is more of a political strategy to intimidate state elites than an accurate representation of their empirical class consciousness. This pathbreaking book will interest scholars in Latin American politics and political economy, but it is a must read for anyone interested in the relationship between globalization, class formation, and the state. -- Clyde W. Barrow, author of The Dangerous Class, University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyHas the ruling class of today's global capitalist system really gone global? Do they share a global worldview or consciousness? Critically probing such crucial questions to understanding our contemporary capitalist dystopia, Rooted Globalism obliterates long-held arguments regarding the existence of a nationless capitalist class imbued with a common global identity. In examining what capitalists actually think and say, the book deftly melds fine-grained empirical research with theoretical rigor in new and innovative ways. -- Alexander Anievas, author of Capital, the State, and War, University of ConnecticutCritics of neoliberal capitalism often make a common mistake: imagining elites as global actors, who also understand themselves as such. Rooted Globalism—rich in theoretical insight and drawn from detailed interviews of Latin American elites—destabilizes this assumption. Kevin Funk demonstrates that the lived worlds of elites are not simply extensions of "global" capitalism's material logics. Instead, capitalism is always cultural, elites are rooted in places and states, and capitalism is far from coherently hegemonic. -- Isaac Kamola, author of Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary, Trinity CollegeThe intricacies of class formation in Latin America have been the object of a long tradition of critical scholarship, which tends to focus on the legacies of slavery, indigenous genocide, colonialism, and the weakness of national ruling classes. Kevin Funk brings a breath of fresh air to the field with this very original book about the "rooted globalism" of Arab-Latin American elites. Beyond presenting a wealth of new empirical research on a hitherto relatively neglected social group, the book makes a distinctive theoretical contribution to transnational class studies, challenging commonly held beliefs about the lack of local and cultural roots of transnational elites. -- Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Queen Mary University of LondonRooted Globalism offers an incisive intervention to grasp the complex identity of the international upper class under neoliberal capitalism in the twenty-first century, evinced by unprecedented inequality. In this book Kevin Funk offers an original account of the converging and diverging forces comprising the world's capitalist class. This book uncovers the nature of the global capitalist class and the deepening global divide which threatens humanity. -- Immanuel Ness, author of Organizing Insurgency, City University of New YorkRooted Globalism traces the complicated political entanglements and economic ambitions of a Latin American elite of Arab origin. Relying on direct access to key protagonists, Funk's analysis of these South-South business linkages is nuanced, theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. A key contribution to studies of the networked global capitalist class, Funk's book is also a must read for anyone with interest in the evolution of Latin American-Middle East relations, South-South linkages, and international political economy more broadly. -- Omar Dahi, coauthor of South–South Trade and Finance in the Twenty-First Century, Hampshire CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Capitalism and Class in Global Latin America1. Progress and Lacunae in the Study of the "Global Capitalist Class"2. How Latin America Met the Arab World3. The Tradition of Dead Generations: On the Persistence of Place-Based Longings4. Rootless Globalists? On Denationalization and Globality5. "The Flat Pluralist World of Business Class": On Constructing (and Contesting) Corporate Global ImaginariesConclusion: The Future of Global Imaginaries: Thinking Beyond Nativism and Neoliberal PropagandaBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTakes a fresh view of the culture of consumption. This book examines the interplay of culture and consumer behavior from the anthropologist's point of view and provides new insights into the way we view ourselves and our society.Trade Review"This book compiles and integrates highly innovative work aimed at bridging the fields of anthropology and consumer behavior." - Journal of Consumer Affairs " ... fascinating ... ambitious and interesting ... " - Canadian Advertising Foundation Newsletter " ... an anthropological dig into consumerism brimming with original thought ... " - The Globe and Mail "Grant McCracken has written a provocative book that puts consumerism in its place in Western society- at the centre." - Report on Business Magazine " ... a stimulating addition to knowledge and theory about the interrelationship of culture and consumption." - Choice "[McCracken's] synthesis of anthropological and consumer studies material will give historians new ideas and methods to integrate into their thinking." - Maryland Historian "The book offers a fresh and much needed cultural interpretation of consumption." - Journal of Consumer Policy "The volume will help balance the prevailing cognitive and social psychological cast of consumer research and should stimulate more comprehensive investigation into consumer behavior." - Journal of Marketing Research " ... broad scope, enthusiasm and imagination ... a significant contribution to the literature on consumption history, consumer behavior, and American material culture." - Winterhur Portfolio "For this is a superb book, a definitive exploration of its subject that makes use of the full range of available literature." - American Journal of Sociology "McCracken's book is a fine synthesis of a new current of thought that strives to create an interdisciplinary social science of consumption behaviors, a current to which folklorists have much to contribute." - Journal of American FolkloreTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. HistoryOne. The Making of Modern ConsumptionTwo. "Ever Dearer in Our Thoughts": Patina and the Representation of Status before and after the Eighteenth CenturyThree. Lois Roget: Curatorial Consumer in a Modern WorldPart II. TheoryFour. Clothing as Language: An Object Lesson in the Study of the Expressive Properties of Material CultureFive. Meaning Manufacture and Movement in the World of GoodsPart III. PracticeSix. Consumer Goods, Gender Construction, and a Rehabilitated Trickle-down TheorySeven. The Evocative Power of Things: Consumer Goods and the Preservation of Hopes and IdealsEight. Diderot Unitites and the Diderot Effect: Neglected Cultural Aspects of ConsumptionNine. Consumption, Change, and ContinuityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book Synopsis'Market failure' is a term widely used by politicians, journalists and university and A-level economics students and teachers. However, those who use the term often lack any sense of proportion about the ability of government to correct market failures. This arises partly from the lack of general knowledge -- and lack of coverage in economics syllabuses -- of Public Choice economics. Public Choice economics applies realistic insights about human behaviour to the process of government, and it is extremely helpful for all those who have an interest in -- or work in -- public policy to understand this discipline. If we assume that at least some of those involved in the political process -- whether elected representatives, bureaucrats, regulators, public sector workers or electors -- will act in their own self-interest rather than in the general public interest, it should give us much less confidence that government can 'correct' market failure. This complex area of economics has been

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Book SynopsisIt is clear that many of the desirable features of Scandinavian societies, such as low income inequality, low levels of poverty and high levels of economic growth predated the development of the welfare state. These and other indicators began to deteriorate after the expansion of the welfare state and the increase in taxes to fund it.

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how a system of private banks without a central bank can bring about financial stability through self-regulation. If one bank stretches credit too far, it will be reined in by the others before the system as a whole gets out of control.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions about purchasing goods and services.Contrary to the assumptions of economists, consumers are not always rational actors who make decisions in their own best interests. The new field of behavioral economics draws on the insights of psychology to study non-rational decision making. The newer field of consumer neuroscience draws on the findings, tools, and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make judgments and decisions. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of consumer neuroscience, suitable for classroom use or as a reference for business and marketing practitioners.After an overview of the field, the text offers the background on the brain and physiological systems necessary for understanding how they work in the context of decision making and reviews the sensory and perceptual mechanisms that govern our perception and ex

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Book SynopsisA broad overview of market mechanisms, with an emphasis on the interplay between theory and real-life applications; examples range from eBay auctions to school choice.This book offers an introduction to market design, providing students with a broad overview of issues related to the design and analysis of market mechanisms. It defines a market as a demand and a supply, without specifying a price system or mechanism. This allows the text to analyze a broad set of situations—including such unconventional markets as college admissions and organ donation—and forces readers to pay attention to details that might otherwise be overlooked. Students often complain that microeconomics is too abstract and disconnected from reality; the study of market design shows how theory can help solve existing, real-life problems. The book focuses on the interplay between theory and applications. To keep the text as accessible as possible, special effort has been made to minimize formal

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the use of probability models for analyzing risk and economic decisions, using spreadsheets to represent and simulate uncertainty.This textbook offers an introduction to the use of probability models for analyzing risks and economic decisions. It takes a learn-by-doing approach, teaching the student to use spreadsheets to represent and simulate uncertainty and to analyze the effect of such uncertainty on an economic decision. Students in applied business and economics can more easily grasp difficult analytical methods with Excel spreadsheets. The book covers the basic ideas of probability, how to simulate random variables, and how to compute conditional probabilities via Monte Carlo simulation. The first four chapters use a large collection of probability distributions to simulate a range of problems involving worker efficiency, market entry, oil exploration, repeated investment, and subjective belief elicitation. The book then covers correlation and

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive economic and legal analysis of hub-and-spoke cartels, with detailed case studies.A cartel forms when competitors conspire to limit competition through coordinated actions. Most cartels are composed exclusively of firms that would otherwise be in competition, but in a hub-and-spoke cartel, those competitors (“spokes”) conspire with the assistance of an upstream supplier or a downstream buyer (“hub”). This book provides the first comprehensive economic and legal analysis of hub-and-spoke cartels, explaining their formation and how they operate to create and sustain a collusive environment. Sixteen detailed case studies, including cases brought against toy manufacturer Hasbro and the Apple ebook case, illustrate the economic framework and legal strategies discussed.  The authors identify three types of hub-and-spoke cartels: when an upstream firm facilitates downstream firms to coordinate on higher prices; wh

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Book SynopsisThe updated edition of a widely used textbook that covers fundamental features of bonds, analytical techniques, and portfolio strategy. This new edition of a widely used textbook covers types of bonds and their key features, analytical techniques for valuing bonds and quantifying their exposure to changes in interest rates, and portfolio strategies for achieving a client’s objectives. It includes real-world examples and practical applications of principles as provided by third-party commercial vendors. This tenth edition has been substantially updated, with two new chapters covering the theory and history of interest rates and the issues associated with bond trading. Although all chapters have been updated, particularly those covering structured products, the chapters on international bonds and managing a corporate bond portfolio have been completely revised. The book covers the basic analytical framework necessary to understand the pricing of

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Book SynopsisIn this Wall Street Journal bestseller, why the future of work requires the deconstruction of jobs and the reconstruction of work.Work is traditionally understood as a “job,” and workers as “jobholders.” Jobs are structured by titles, hierarchies, and qualifications. In Work without Jobs, the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau propose a radically new way of looking at work. They describe a new “work operating system” that deconstructs jobs into their component parts and reconstructs these components into more optimal combinations that reflect the skills and abilities of individual workers. In a new normal of rapidly accelerating automation, demands for organizational agility, efforts to increase diversity, and the emergence of alternative work arrangements, the old system based on jobs and jobholders is cumbersome and ungainly. Jesuthasan and Boudreau’s new system lays out a ro

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Book SynopsisWhy it takes more than microloans to empower women and promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth.Nearly one billion women have been completely excluded from the formal financial system. Without even a bank account in their own names, they lack the basic services that most of us take for granted—secure ways to save money, pay bills, and get credit. Exclusion from the formal financial system means they are economic outsiders, unable to benefit from, or contribute to, economic growth. Microfinance has been hailed as an economic lifeline for women in developing countries—but, as Mary Ellen Iskenderian shows in this book, it takes more than microloans to empower women and promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth. Iskenderian, who leads a nonprofit that works to give women access to the financial system, argues that the banking industry should view these one billion “unbanked” women not as charity cases but as a business opportun

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of a widely used introduction to game theory and its applications, with a focus on economics, business, and politics.This widely used introduction to game theory is rigorous but accessible, unique in its balance between the theoretical and the practical, with examples and applications following almost every theory-driven chapter. In recent years, game theory has become an important methodological tool for all fields of social sciences, biology and computer science. This second edition of Strategies and Games not only takes into account new game theoretical concepts and applications such as bargaining and matching, it also provides an array of chapters on game theory applied to the political arena. New examples, case studies, and applications relevant to a wide range of behavioral disciplines are now included. The authors map out alternate pathways through the book for instructors in economics, business, and political science. The book

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Book SynopsisWhy human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make projects succeed.The project is the basic unit of work in many industries. Software applications, antiviral vaccines, launch-ready spacecraft: all were produced by a team and managed as a project. Project management emphasizes control, processes, and tools—but, according to The Smart Mission, that is not the right way to run a project. Human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make projects successful. Projects run on knowledge. This paradigm-shifting book—by three project management experts, all of whom have decades of experience at NASA and elsewhere—challenges the conventional wisdom on project management, focusing on the human dimension: learning, collaboration, teaming, communication, and culture. The authors emphasize three themes: projects are fundamentally about how teams work and learn together to get things done; the local level—not an

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of a leading text on the microeconomic foundations of banking, comprehensively updated with new coverage of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, fintech, and the latest research in banking theory.The banking industry has undergone seismic change in the twenty-first century, from the overhaul of regulation in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis to the digitalization of the economy and the disruption of traditional business models by ascendant tech giants. Now in a comprehensively updated third edition, this essential graduate-level text on the microeconomic foundations of banking provides the rigorous theoretical approach required to understand these new structures and norms, functioning as a user’s guide to recent academic literature. Microeconomics of Banking offers a comprehensive view of the evolution of banking theory and the rapidly changing realm of financial intermediation, examining the central issues and o

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Book SynopsisFrom entry-level to the boardroom, what works to create large-scale change in organizations looking to accelerate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and reap financial benefits.Every leader endeavors to invest in and manage their key asset—talent—to be as high-performing as possible. Like a winning stock, successful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) actions pay back over time. That dividend is paid both to the company—through not only higher performance but also talent acquisition, training, and other savings—and to society in general. In Diversity Dividend, Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio offers a fresh, detailed look at how to realize gender and racial equity along the company-employee pathway—from attracting and interviewing applicants to onboarding, promoting, and sustaining hires—and how to remove systemic barriers at the organizational level that prevent women and underrepresented groups from advancing.

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Book SynopsisA concise but comprehensive introduction to fixed income analysis for undergraduate and graduate students.Offering more concise and less technical coverage of the material featured in the classic text Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies, this streamlined book is rightsized for a one-semester fixed-income course. In accessible terms, Frank Fabozzi describes the sectors of the fixed-income market, details how to value fixed-income instruments, and shows how to measure interest rate risk and how to manage a fixed income portfolio. Key concepts are illustrated with extensive examples and exercises, and end-of-chapter questions invite further research. The result is an incisive but approachable introduction to fixed-income analysisfor undergraduate finance and business students. Comprehensive coverage of fixed-income markets Easy-to-understand framing of mathematical concepts accommodates a wide readership with varying levels of mathematical expertise Extensive illustrations and examples animate analytical chapters Written by an expert with deep experience in the asset management industry and the classroom Pragmatic modular structuring of content enables adaptability to different curricula Instructor resources available

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Book SynopsisThe comprehensively updated sixth edition of a leading textbook that examines the wide range of instruments available in financial markets, with new material on central banks, capital market technology, and financing markets for small businesses.Capital markets are an integral part of the financial system, and their evolution reflects a larger story of global financial change characterized by shifts in regulations, investor behavior, and technological advancements. Now in a comprehensively updated new edition, this widely used textbook examines the wide range of instruments for financing, investing, and controlling risk in today?s financial markets. The book begins with an introduction to financial markets, followed by a detailed examination of risk, including financial risk identification, quantification, and management. It then covers market participants, including a new chapter on central banks; fundraising markets, with a new chapter on financing markets for small businesses; risk and return theories; equity, debt, and derivatives markets; and capital market technologies, in a dedicated new section. Sixth edition highlights: ?Includes new chapters on central banks, capital market technologies, and financing markets for small businesses?Incorporates analysis of the role of technological innovation throughout?Offers broad coverage of all types of financial instruments, including cash and derivative instruments, as well as the risk management dilemmas confronted by major institutional investors ?Features rich pedagogy and resources, including end-of-chapter discussion questions and integrated online appendices

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of a comprehensive state-of-the-art graduate level text on microeconometric methods, substantially revised and updated.The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of two methods used in contemporary econometric research, cross section and data panel methods. By focusing on assumptions that can be given behavioral content, the book maintains an appropriate level of rigor while emphasizing intuitive thinking. The analysis covers both linear and nonlinear models, including models with dynamics and/or individual heterogeneity. In addition to general estimation frameworks (particular methods of moments and maximum likelihood), specific linear and nonlinear methods are covered in detail, including probit and logit models and their multivariate, Tobit models, models for count data, censored and missing data schemes, causal (or treatment) effects, and duration analysis.Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Dat

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to a powerful and flexible network modeling tool for developing and understanding complex systems, with many examples from a range of industries.Design structure matrix (DSM) is a straightforward and flexible modeling technique that can be used for designing, developing, and managing complex systems. DSM offers network modeling tools that represent the elements of a system and their interactions, thereby highlighting the system''s architecture (or designed structure). Its advantages include compact format, visual nature, intuitive representation, powerful analytical capacity, and flexibility. Used primarily so far in the area of engineering management, DSM is increasingly being applied to complex issues in health care management, financial systems, public policy, natural sciences, and social systems. This book offers a clear and concise explanation of DSM methods for practitioners and researchers.

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of a concise and nontechnical but rigorous introductory text that emphasizes fundamental concepts and real-world applications, thoroughly revised and updated.This introductory text offers an alternative to the encyclopedic, technically oriented approach taken by traditional textbooks on macroeconomic principles. Concise and nontechnical but rigorous, its goal is not to teach students to shift curves on diagrams but to help them understand fundamental macroeconomic concepts and their real-world applications. It accomplishes this by providing a clear exposition of introductory macroeconomic theory along with more than 700 one- or two-sentence “news clips,” based on economics media coverage, as illustrations or student exercises. Although the writing is accessible, end-of-chapter questions are challenging, requiring a thorough understanding of related macroeconomic concepts, critical-thinking skills, and an ability to make connections to the real worl

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China''s economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both a broadly focused introduction to China''s economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect a decade of developments in China''s economy, notably the end of the period of “miracle growth” and the multiple transitions it now confronts—demographic, technological, macroeconomic, and institutional. Coverage of macroeconomic and financial policy has been significantly expanded.After covering endowments, legacies, economic systems, and general issues of economic structure, labo

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Book SynopsisA new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming's Out of the Crisis.It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management.”—from The New Economics for Industry, Government, EducationIn this book, W. Edwards Deming details the system of transformation that underlies the 14 Points for Management presented in Out of the Crisis. The Deming System of Profound Knowledge, as it is called, consists of four parts: appreciation for a system, knowledge about variation, theory of knowledge, and psychology. Describing the prevailing management style as a prison, Deming shows applying the System of Profound Knowledge increases productivity, quality, and people's joy in work and joy in learning. Another outcome is short-term and long-term success in th

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Book SynopsisA concise and nontechnical introduction to microeconomics, emphasizing concepts over mathematics, with real-world examples and applications.This concise and nontechnical introduction to microeconomics emphasizes concepts over mathematics. Keeping in mind that sometimes the most accurate model is not very useful in the real world, Microeconomic Essentials balances economics as mathematics with economics as a social process. Microeconomics is part of daily life; gas prices, wage increases, the rising cost of health care, international trade: all are microeconomic topics. Therefore, like its predecessor, Macroeconomic Essentials, this textbook accompanies its explanations with examples and real-world applications.The book covers the basic market model of supply and demand, showing how this “powerhouse” model can explain most price changes in the market. It discusses government intervention in the market; consumer theory and utility maximization,

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