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Book SynopsisDesigned as a companion to The Economist Style Guide, the best-selling guide to writing style, The Economist Numbers Guide is invaluable for everyone who has to work with numbers, which in today's commercially focussed world means most managers. In addition to general advice on basic numeracy, the guide points out common errors and explains the recognised techniques for solving financial problems, analysing information of any kind, forecasting and effective decision making. Over 100 charts, graphs, tables and feature boxes highlight key points, and great emphasis is put on the all-important aspect of how you present and communicate numerical information effectively and honestly. At the back of the book is an extensive A-Z dictionary of terms covering everything from amortisation to zero-sum game. Whatever your business, whatever your management role, for anyone who needs a good head for figures The Economist Numbers Guide will prove invaluable.

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Book SynopsisNow in this bestselling book, he shares the most intriguing - and bizarre - questions and the economic principles that answer them to reveal why many of the most puzzling parts of everyday life actually make perfect (economic) sense.Trade ReviewFascinating ... provides the answers to some of life's quirkiest conundrums * Daily Mail *Explains how cold, hard cash really does make our world go round * Independent *Can be returned to again and again like one of those all-you-can-eat buffets * New York Times *Don't miss this addictive book. As Robert Frank and his students figured out dozens of everyday puzzles together, they produced ideas that are charming, curious, educational and lots of fun. Wonderful stuff. * Tim Harford, author of 'The Undercover Economist' and 'The Logic of Life' *Fascinating, mind-expanding, and lots of fun * Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Economics""One of the Financial Times' Readers' Best Books of 2019""One of Business Insider's Richard Feloni's best books of 2019 on how we can rethink today's capitalism and improve the economy""A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019""The result is nothing less than a crisis theory of law. Law as it currently functions is, for Pistor, constitutive of the order that creates and perpetuates inequality, opacity, dysfunction, and crisis, and ultimately puts at risk the legitimacy of the rule of law as such."---Adam Tooze, New York Review of Books"Almost anybody who reads this book will benefit; a must-read for corporate lawyers, investment bankers, capital providers."---Rahul Saikia, Financial Times"Those of us concerned with inequality should be focusing a great deal of attention on the basics of valuation, which means looking hard at the way law makes money."---Roy Kreitner, LPEblog"The wealth drawn from both the digital darkness and the dark pools of Wall Street exists only by virtue of the law’s encasement. . . . [Pistor's] metaphors allow us to see how, by ceding democratic control of law, we’ve 'depoliticized critical questions of self-governance,' preserving mobility for some and blocking it for others."---Quinn Slobodian, Boston Review"So much discussion around wealth and inequality involves gawking at statistics people don’t understand. Katharina Pistor offers a fascinating argument as to why inequality is increasing, and does so without having to construct class identities, as Marxists feel compelled to do, or to make heroic assumptions about the rationality of human beings, as rational choice theorists would have it."---David Murphy, Open Letters Review"Through extensive case studies, Pistor demonstrates that no one deliberately set out to construct the ‘empire of law.’ Rather, it is the result of a decentralized, unplanned process in which individual private lawyers helped individual clients protect their assets through the use of pre-existing legal constructs."---Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate"The Code of Capital is a welcome interdisciplinary contribution which attaches fresh dimensions to debates on the political economy of wealth and inequality. . . .it is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to grapple with the formidable nature of global capital."---Juvaria Jafri, LSE US Centre"Pistor has exploded the belief of most people that financial instruments traded across the world are creatures of law of sovereign states and are secure . . . . [The Code of Capital is] a truly remarkable book bringing out clearly one of the major causes of periodic financial crisis."---Madras Sivaraman, International Journal of Environment Studies"In possibly one of the most important non-fiction books of the decade, Pistor shines a clear and sharp light on how legal codes – increasingly determined in private law offices in New York and London – shape the contours of economic activity, ownership, and control under contemporary global capitalism"---Jayati Ghosh, Project Syndicate"A thought-provoking read." * Business & Management *

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Book SynopsisIn Volume Two of this arresting and powerful manifesto for economic change, Jon Moynihan analyses the UK's decades-long stagnant economy and looks at what can be done to resuscitate it.

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Book SynopsisWith a new foreword by Paul Kelly 'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of political philosophy' â Sir Karl Popper 'This promises to be the crowning work of a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to thinking about society and its values. The entire work must surely amount to an immense contribution to social and legal philosophy' - Philosophical Studies Law, Legislation and Liberty is Hayek's major statement of political philosophy and one of the most ambitious yet subtle defences of a free market society ever written. A robust defence of individual liberty, it is also crucial for understanding Hayekâs influential views concerning the role of the state: far from being an innocent bystander, he argues that the state has an important role to play in defending the norms and practices of an ordered and free society. His arguments had a profound iTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition Consolidated Preface Introduction Volume I Rules and Order 1.Reason and Evolution 2. Cosmos and Taxis 3. Principles and Expediency 4. The Changing Concept of Law 5. Nomos: The Law of Liberty 6. Thesis: The Law of Legislation Notes Volume 2 The Mirage of Social Justice 7. General Welfare and Particular Purposes 8. The Quest for Justice 9. 'Social’ or Distributive Justice 10. The Market Order or Catallaxy 11. The Discipline of Abstract Rules and the Emotions of the Tribal Society Notes Volume 3 The Political Order of a Free People 12. Majority Opinion and Contemporary Democracy 13. The Division of Democratic Powers 14. The Public Sector and the Private Sector 15. Government Policy and the Market 16. The Miscarriage of the Democratic Ideal: A Recapitualation 17. A Model Constitution 18. The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics Epilogue: The Three Sources of Human Values Notes Index of Authors cited in Volumes 1-3 Subject index to Volumes 1-3

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Book SynopsisBy the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER comes a reissue of the definitive and hugely entertaining book about America and Japan.Trade ReviewPraise for LIAR'S POKER: 'An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time' * Punch *Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . . * The Sunday Times *Immense verve and wit * 20/20 Magazine *A highly immoral book * Daily Mail *Wickedly funny * Daily Express *As traders would say, this book is a buy * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisPhil Thornton is lead consultant at Clarity Economics, a consultancy and freelance writing service he set up after a 15-year career as a newspaper journalist. Before founding Clarity Economics he was Economics Correspondent at the Independent newspaper, a post he held for eight years. Phil is an award winning journalist, with a strong platform. His awards include Feature Journalist of the Year award in the Work World Media Awards, 2010 and Print Journalist of the Year Work World Media Awards, 2007Table of ContentsAbout the Author Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 – Adam Smith – the ‘founding father’ of economics Chapter 2 – David Ricardo – from immigrant to gentleman Chapter 3 – Karl Marx – the fallen hero? Chapter 4 – Alfred Marshall – microeconomics arrives Chapter 5 – John Maynard Keynes – the rise, fall, rise … and fall Chapter 6 – Friedrich Hayek – the archetypal libertarian Chapter 7 – Milton Friedman – father of monetarism Chapter 8 – Paul Samuelson – the neoclassical economist synthesist Chapter 9 – Gary Becker – economics in the real world Chapter 10 - Daniel Kahneman – economic psychologist

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Book SynopsisThis rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott develop the basic methods of recursive analysis and illustrate the many areas where they can usefully be applied.Trade ReviewThe book is a tour de force. The authors present a unified approach to the techniques and applications of recursive economic theory. The presentations of discrete-time dynamic programming and of Markov processes are authoritative. There is a wide-ranging series of examples drawn from all branches of the discipline, but with special emphasis on macroeconomics. In the short run, the book will be a vital reference in any advanced course in macroeconomic theory. In the long run, it may help to remove the traditional boundaries between microeconomic theory and macroeconomic theory. -- Andrew Caplin, Columbia UniversityThis book is a wonderful collection of results on the techniques of dynamic programming with great applications to economics written by giants in the field. -- Sanford J. Grossman, University of PennsylvaniaA magnificent work that is bound to have immense influence on the ways economists think about dynamic systems for many years to come. My own guess is that this book will eventually acquire the stature, say, of Hicks’s Value and Capital or Samuelson’s Foundations. -- Thomas J. Sargent, The Hoover InstitutionTable of ContentsI. THE RECURSIVE APPROACH 1. Introduction 2. An Overview 2.1 A Deterministic Model of Optimal Growth 2.2 A Stochastic Model of Optimal Growth 2.3 Competitive Equilibrium Growth 2.4 Conclusions and Plans II. DETERMINISTIC MODELS 3. Mathematical Preliminaries 3.1 Metric Spaces and Normed Vector Spaces 3.2 The Contraction Mapping Theorem 3.3 The Theorem of the Maximum 4. Dynamic Programming under Certainty 4.1 The Principle of Optimality 4.2 Bounded Returns 4.3 Constant Returns to Scale 4.4 Unbounded Returns 4.5 Euler Equations 5. Applications of Dynamic Programming under Certainty 5.1 The One-Sector Model of Optimal Growth 5.2 A "Cake-Eating" Problem 5.3 Optimal Growth with Linear Utility 5.4 Growth with Technical Progress 5.5 A Tree-Cutting Problem 5.6 Learning by Doing 5.7 Human Capital Accumulation 5.8 Growth with Human Capital 5.9 Investment with Convex Costs 5.10 Investment with Constant Returns 5.11 Recursive Preferences 5.12 Theory of the Consumer with Recursive Preferences 5.13 A Pareto Problem with Recursive Preferences 5.14 An (s, S) Inventory Problem 5.15 The Inventory Problem in Continuous Time 5.16 A Seller with Unknown Demand 5.17 A Consumption-Savings Problem 6. Deterministic Dynamics 6.1 One-Dimensional Examples 6.2 Global Stability: Liapounov Functions 6.3 Linear Systems and Linear Approximations 6.4 Euler Equations 6.5 Applications III. STOCHASTIC MODELS 7. Measure Theory and Integration 7.1 Measurable Spaces 7.2 Measures 7.3 Measurable Functions 7.4 Integration 7.5 Product Spaces 7.6 The Monotone Class Lemma

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Book SynopsisBased on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colourful examination of why people do what they do – and how effective incentives can spur people to change their behaviour and achieve more. Uri Gneezy and John List are a little like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying people in their native environments. But rather than acting as impartial observers, these two intrepid economists have set out to study the ways people act in order to try to solve major problems in society, such as the gap between rich and poor students and the violence plaguing inner city schools; the real reasons people discriminate; and the continuing pay disparity between men and women. Their field experiments in the factories, communities, and shops where real people live, work, and play show how incentives can change outcomes. Their results will change the way you think about and take action on both small and large problems, and force us as a society to stop making assumptions and to rely instead upon the evidence of what really works.Trade ReviewTrue trailblazers in one of the greatest innovations in economics of the last fifty years. -- Stephen Levitt, author of Freakonomics and SuperfreakonomicsJohn List and Uri Gneezy are among the foremost behavioral economists in the world. This book about their groundbreaking research is a true pleasure to read. -- Daniel Gilbert, author of the international bestseller Stumbling on HappinessUri Gneezy is a pioneer whose work tears down the wall between the lab and the field. -- Alvin E. Roth, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic SciencesJohn List’s work in field experiments is revolutionary. -- Gary Becker, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' wealth and entire economies. Yet whenever and wherever a bubble begins to form, we're told that this time things are different, that there are sound reasons to continue to invest and to presume that prices will continue to rise steadily forever.Kindleberger's achievement is to use the critical thinking skill of evaluation to examine this strange mindset and the arguments advanced in support of it. He harshly judges the acceptability of the reasons used to create such arguments, and highlights the issues of relevance and adequacy that give us every reason to doubt them. Kindleberger also uses his powers of reasoning to effect an unusual achievement – writing a work soundly rooted in economics that nonetheless engages and convinces a non-specialist audience of the correctness of his arguments.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was Charles P. Kindleberger? What does Manias, Panics and Crashes say? Why does Manias, Panics and Crashes matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisFintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. Michael R. King explains the customer focus, innovation strategy, business model, and valuation of leading fintechs in cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi), crowdfunding and online lending, robo-advice and digital wealth management, payments and insurtech, digital banking, and bigtech. The book profiles the successes and failures of over thirty high-profile fintechs, combining insights from founders, early-stage investors, financial incumbents, and other stakeholders in this dynamic ecosystem. Combining clear descriptions and case studies with the latest findings from academic research, Fintech Explained provides a complete course for educating undergraduate and graduate students, executives, and interested professionals.Table of ContentsSection One: Fintech Toolbox 1. Foundations of Fintech 2. Fintech Economics, Strategies, and Business Models 3. Funding of Early-Stage Fintech Companies 4. The Valuation of Fintech Companies Section Two: Fintech Products and Services 5. Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies 6. Ethereum and Decentralized Finance 7. Alternative Finance, Online Lending, and Crowdfunding 8. Digital Banking and the Response of Incumbents 9. Robo-advisors and Digital Wealth Management 10. Payments and Insurtech 11. Techfins and Bigtechs in Financial Index

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Book SynopsisLabor Economics, ninth edition by George J. Borjas provides a modern introduction to labor economics, surveying the field with an emphasis on both theory and facts. Labor Economics is thoroughly integrated with the adaptive digital tools available in McGraw-Hill's Connect, proven to increase student engagement and success in the course. All new Data Explorer questions using data simulation to help students grasp concepts  Materials are fresh and up to date by introducing and discussing the latest research studies where conceptual or empirical contributions have increased our understanding of the labor market.  The book has undergone Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion reviews to implement content around topics including generalizations and stereotypes, gender, abilities/disabilities, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, diversity of names, and age. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Labor Supply Chapter 3: Labor Demand Chapter 4: Labor Market Equilibrium Chapter 5: Compensating Wage Differentials Chapter 6: Education Chapter 7: The Wage Distribution Chapter 8: Labor Mobility Chapter 9: Labor Market Discrimination Chapter 10: Labor Unions Chapter 11: Incentive Pay Chapter 12: Unemployment Mathematical Appendix: Some Standard Models in Labor Economics

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTony Atkinson, in many ways the father of modern inequality research, has [written] a terrific new book. -- Paul Krugman * New York Times *[Atkinson] does not mind speaking uncomfortable truths. Among them: that the comfort and opportunity provided by wealth matter just as much as the consumption that wealth affords; that holding down a job may not be enough to provide most workers with a standard of living that keeps up with economic growth; and that economic power helps protect itself in subtle and pervasive ways which might well demand an interventionist government response. Sir Anthony’s answer might not be the right one. But if his book reminds the reader how far out of fashion the policies of the post-war decades have fallen, it also conveys how skewed the economy of today might look to an observer from the not so distant past—or, perhaps, from the not so distant future. * The Economist *Like it or loathe it, this is ambitious stuff. -- Tim Harford * Financial Times *Atkinson’s book is magisterial. It is the definitive analysis of inequality in Britain and how to reduce it, as viewed through the standard professional economics prism of Utilitarianism. While grounded in sophisticated theory and state-of-the-art quantitative evidence, the book carries through to specific policy recommendations on standard matters such as tax rates, benefits and tax reliefs. -- Paul Collier * Times Literary Supplement *Provides us with the broad outlines of a new radical reformism… [Atkinson] sets forth a list of concrete, innovative, and persuasive proposals meant to show that alternatives still exist, that the battle for social progress and equality must reclaim its legitimacy, here and now… Witty, elegant, profound, this book should be read: it brings us the finest blend of what political economy and British progressivism have to offer… This is a book written by an optimist and a citizen of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the world: the broad sense it conveys of a more just economy is one of its many appealing qualities. It will stand as a model whatever the outcome of one election or another. -- Thomas Piketty * New York Review of Books *Atkinson is a first-rate economist who long ago mastered the orthodoxy, and so is well-placed to take it to bits. Patiently, he explains why excessive profits may not be competed away, and why laissez-faire cannot be relied on to get the most out of every resource… Atkinson also has a keen sense of history. He explains how anti-trust laws in the U.S., nowadays narrowly justified in efficiency terms, were originally born out of concerns about fairness. He highlights, too, how the course of industrial technology has often been set by the planners’ guiding hand. All this helps him break out of the frighteningly narrow terrain that economists concede to public policy. -- Tom Clark * The Guardian *Though it has not attracted the celebrity attention, in many respects Atkinson’s [Inequality] is more important than Thomas Piketty’s pathbreaking Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and is the perfect sequel. Where Piketty explained the tendency of wealth and income to concentrate, Atkinson digs deeper into what drove this shift and why conventional remedies will not reverse the trends. He has a far surer grasp than Piketty of the political dynamics that made possible the anomalous egalitarian era of the 30 glorious years after World War II. -- Robert Kuttner * American Prospect *Atkinson knows his stuff. He understands arguments used by free marketeers (largely successfully) to marginalize inequality as a front-and-center issue… This is why Atkinson devotes much space in Inequality to rebutting these arguments and asserting that tackling the rich–poor divide should, and can, be a priority… By presenting a strategic combination of new and established ideas, Atkinson shows why addressing the growing pervasiveness of inequality in the twenty-first century requires a sustained attack on many fronts. It also requires seeing economics not just as a debate about numbers but as a debate about people… Atkinson shows what might be possible if we stretch our collective imagination and focus on innovative ways to address what is emerging as the defining issue of our time. -- Mark Triffitt * Australian Book Review *One of the world’s leading economists, mentor of Piketty and associate of Stiglitz, has written this accessible overview of why inequality matters, and why we need a series of urgent policies to tackle it. You don’t need to be an economist to appreciate this impressive synthesis of his life’s thinking and work. -- Mike Savage * Big Issue *Inequality is a real accomplishment. It represents the first comprehensive, realistic, and detailed proposal for countering growing economic inequality—and it’s done not by some energetic graduate student but by a seasoned economist who’s been working on these issues for more than forty years. -- Daniel K. Finn * Commonweal *Atkinson has done a very good job by making suggestions that are actually being professed, albeit hesitantly, by governments. By taking head-on the basic apprehensions of doing so, he shows that if we do not employ these solutions, we are probably making excuses and do not want to shake the present equilibrium due to vested interests. For one who agrees with Piketty, this book will get a big nod, and for those who are not sure, it should probably remove some doubt. -- Madan Sabnavis * Financial Express *[An] important contribution… Those who desire a thought-provoking guide to policy options [to address inequality] in advanced countries should grapple with Atkinson’s work. -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times *The best of the new crop of books [on income inequality] is Anthony B. Atkinson’s Inequality: What Is to Be Done? Not unrelatedly, it is also the most solutions-oriented. -- Drew Nelles * Globe and Mail *Atkinson is a pioneer of the study of the economics of poverty and inequality. His latest work, Inequality: What Can Be Done?, is an uncomfortable affront to our reigning triumphalists. His premise is straightforward: inequality is not unavoidable, a fact of life like the weather, but the product of conscious human behavior. -- Owen Jones * The Guardian *Inequality: What Can Be Done?, is an effort to keep the issue of inequality on the agenda of politicians, economists, and citizens alike… [It] is explicitly solutions-oriented… The book offers a number of original policy suggestions… [Atkinson’s] mastery of detail and comfort with costings mean that his proposals seem not only imaginative but also practically feasible… Inequality is now an issue that political parties, on all parts of the ideological spectrum, cannot dismiss. And that is partly because of the work of academics such as Thomas Piketty and Anthony Atkinson… The books by Piketty and Atkinson have prompted renewed attention to matters of economic distribution, and have strengthened a public movement that has put pressure on governments to tackle inequality… Atkinson’s Inequality: What Can Be Done? deserves credit for contributing considerable intellectual resources to that important struggle. -- Max Harris * New Statesman *Atkinson thinks that the division between inequality of outcome and inequality of opportunity is largely false. He believes that tackling inequality of outcome is a very good way to tackle inequality of opportunity. (If you help a grownup get a job, her kids will have a better chance of climbing out of poverty, too.) Above all, he disagrees with the widespread assumption that technological progress and globalization are responsible for growing inequality. That assumption, he argues, is wrong and also dangerous, because it encourages the belief that growing inequality is inevitable. -- Jill Lepore * New Yorker *There have been countless books on inequality in the recent past—some arguing that it is a pressing problem and others arguing that it is not—but Atkinson’s stands above the crowded field. By pairing quantitative economic analysis with a clear moral argument, he provides lay readers with a bracing and accessible guide to the current inequality debates… Atkinson’s book represents the best case an economist can make on these issues… The fact that we even understand inequality as a real problem with nuanced constraints is something we owe to Atkinson, who helped make it the serious focus of inquiry it is today. This book is a forceful summary of that body of work, and stands as the best introduction to the concerns that will hang over all of our discussions of the economy in the 21st century. -- Mike Konczal * Pacific Standard *Inequality has replaced house prices as a fashionable topic for discussion. But anyone looking for a serious treatment of the problem, rather than just a dinner party conversation, should turn to [this] book by [an] eminent economist who [has] made the study of inequality [his] life’s work… [Inequality] sets out a range of policies for bringing about a significant reduction in inequality. -- Paul Collier * Prospect *When he publishes a book, one should pay attention: Atkinson is the best expert on the topic of inequality, mastering the theory and the empirics as well as the relevant politics… This is a book that all concerned with growing inequalities and interested in policy ideas should read. Its general philosophy is that it is not easy to delineate the contours of a ‘just society’ and perhaps illusory to set out to achieve it, but that it is definitely possible to determine a direction of improvement and to find levers that can realistically move us in the right direction. It aims at stimulating and enriching the policy debate, and there is no doubt that it will. -- Marc Fleurbaey * Science *When a giant among UK economists such as Sir Tony Atkinson publishes a book in which he gives prescriptions based on the work of a lifetime, it deserves to be taken very seriously indeed… The work is rich in ideas and practical proposals. -- Michael Pinto-Duschinsky * Standpoint *Atkinson takes a position that is in some ways more radical than Piketty… It will surely influence debate as the presidential campaign heats up… Atkinson has researched inequality and poverty for nearly 40 years, using rigorous quantitative analysis to assess the impact of tax rates and other 6policy measures on inequality and growth. [Inequality] focuses on the United Kingdom, but it’s easy to extrapolate his ideas to the U.S.… His book will embolden those who are tired of nibbling at the edges of the problem and skeptical of the argument that rising inequality is the inevitable result of globalization and technical advance. It should stimulate creative and bold thinking as the presidential candidates put their proposals before the public. -- David Brodwin * U.S. News & World Report *Atkinson, a long-time expert on [economic inequality], seeks to lay bare the underlying issues in a manner accessible to non-economists. After covering the landscape of inequality measurement and theories of economic inequality, of both outcomes and opportunity, the author outlines a set of 15 fairly radical proposals to curb runaway inequality (assuming inequality needs curbing). These proposals include a minimum inheritance for all, a global tax on wealth, and a governmental role in influencing the direction of technological progress away from the kind that exacerbates inequality. They are bold and fresh proposals, but they have little chance of ever being adopted—at least not in today’s U.S. But that is beside the point. Inequality has long been believed to be an inevitable outcome of capitalism; the author rightly begs to differ. -- J. Bhattacharya * Choice *Tony Atkinson is the godfather of modern research on the distribution of income and wealth. Combining the statistical rigor of Simon Kuznets and the radical reformism of William Beveridge, he has been a role model for entire generations of scholars. -- Thomas Piketty, Paris School of EconomicsTony Atkinson has done more than anyone else in helping us to understand the meaning of inequality, why it is important, how it has changed over time, and how it can be influenced. He is one of the great scholars of our time. -- Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Book SynopsisA book explaining the history of economics; including the powerful and vested interests which moulded the theories to their financial advantage; as a means of understanding modern economics.

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating and robust introduction to economics principles, the fourteenth edition of Lipsey and Chrystal''s established textbook continues to provide complete coverage for those new to micro and macroeconomics. The authors help students to understand the subject matter through a combination of lucid explanation and supportive learning features which encourage independent thought. The principles are examined through a theoretical lens before empirical examples demonstrate how the concepts work in practice. The applied nature of the models is further emphasised by case studies from around the world, which encourage students to develop and contextualise their understanding of the key themes. Suitable for beginners, the authors provide in-depth explanations of key theoretical concepts which relate to a wide range of applied material. End-of-chapter questions give students the opportunity to test their knowledge and advance their critical thinking skills.Economics undergraduates studyTrade ReviewLipsey & Chrystal have been breaking boundaries for decades. The pairing of theory and examples is excellent. * Professor Parviz Dabir-Alai, Professor of Economics, Richmond University *A title which all economists should have on their shelves: an accessible and reliable companion for a lifetime. * Professor João Sousa Andrade, Professor of Economics, University of Coimbra *Table of ContentsMicroeconomics Part 1: Markets and Consumers 1: Economic issues and concepts 2: Demand and supply 3: Elasticity of demand and supply 4: Consumer choice: indifference theory Part 2: Markets and Firms 5: The cost structure of firms 6: Perfect competition 7: Monopoly 8: Imperfect competition Part 3: Markets for Inputs 9: Demand and supply of inputs 10: The labour market 11: Capital, investment, and new technology 12: Risk, uncertainty, and finance Part 4: Government and the Market 13: Successes and failures of markets 14: The role of government Macroeconomics Part 5: Macroeconomics: Issues and Framework 15: Macroeconomic issues and measurement 16: A basic model of the determination of GDP in the short term 17: GDP determination with government and trade 18: Money and monetary institutions 19: Money, interest, and GDP: the LM curve 20: Investment, the interest rate, and GDP: the IS-LM Model 21: GDP and the price level: aggregate demand and aggregate supply 22: The determination of GDP with steady inflation 6: Macroeconomics of the Global Economy 23: Business cycles, unemployment, and inflation 24: Exchange rates and the balance of payments 25: Fiscal and monetary policies 26: Economic growth and sustainability 27: International trade

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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 SynopsisWhy successful leaders must embrace simple strategies in an increasingly uncertain and complex world.Making decisions is one of the key tasks of managers, leaders, and professionals. In Smart Management, Jochen Reb, Shenghua Luan, and Gerd Gigerenzer demonstrate how business leaders can utilize heuristics—simple decision-making strategies adapted to the task at hand. In a world that has become increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), the authors make the case against complex analytical methods that quickly reach their limits. This against-the-grain approach leads to decisions that are not only faster but also more accurate, transparent, and easier to learn about, communicate, and teach. Smart Management offers an evidence-based yet practical discussion of how business leaders can use smart heuristics to make good decisions in a VUCA world.Building on the fast-and-frugal heuristics program, Smart Management demons

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Book SynopsisThe exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this book, the author explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation.Trade Review"A provocative and timely critique of the fallacies in the conventional wisdom that we can no longer afford good education and decent health care."—Sir Harold Evans, author of They Made America -- Sir Harold Evans“It’s a testament to Professor Baumol’s lucid prose, though, that economists and noneconomists alike will find it easy to grasp his surprisingly comforting argument for why we shouldn’t panic. . . .This book is a quick read, packed with charts and case studies. But it is the author’s command of storytelling that makes it not just digestible but also enjoyable.”—Amy Wallace, The New York Times -- Amy Wallace * The New York Times *“Health-care costs are huge, and still rising. Based on current trends, in 2105 US health care will consume 62% of our national income. And this is nothing to worry about. How can this be? Relying primarily on simple logic and storytelling, NYU economist William J. Baumol lays out the answer in his new book.”—Kyle Smith, New York Post -- Kyle Smith * New York Post *

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Book SynopsisA case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty yearsTrade Review“It is regionalisation, not globalisation, that explains the mechanics of prosperity. . . . If hope truly does lie in thought, we need to take our thinking about the world a lot more seriously than we do today.”—Richard Horton, The Lancet“Regionalization is quickly becoming the new globalization. Shannon O’Neil’s The Globalization Myth deftly explains why the key to America’s continued industrial competitiveness lies neither in ‘America alone’ reshoring nor in laissez faire offshoring, but in nearshoring. An important corrective to a broken public policy debate.”—Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group“Shannon O’Neil’s call for ‘more NAFTAs and fewer America Firsts’ is timely, constructive, and pragmatic. With her deep knowledge of the Americas and of the politics of regional integration, she makes a practical case for an American economic strategy which would work in a world dividing more into blocs. I urge our elected officials to open their minds to O’Neil’s compelling argument.”—Adam S. Posen, president, Peterson Institute for International Economics“This is a phenomenal book about regionalization. Global markets are consolidating into three regional hubs. The US needs to act on that, or it will get left behind. I found this a gripping read!”—Ann E. Harrison, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisRoger Perman is Senior Lecturer in Economics, Strathclyde University. His major research interests and publications are in the field of applied econometrics and environmental economics. Michael Common is Professor in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Strathclyde University. His major research interests are the development of ecological economics and policies for sustainability. Yue Ma is Associate Professor in Economics, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Adjunct Professor of Lingnan College, Zhongshan University, China. His major research interests are international banking and finance, as well as environmental economics for developing countries. David Maddison is Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham The late James McGilvray was Professor of Economics at Strathclyde University. He made important contributions in the fields of input-outpTable of ContentsChapter 1: An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics Chapter 2: The origins of the sustainability problem Chapter 3: Ethics, economics and the environment Chapter 4: Welfare economics and the environment Chapter 5: Pollution control: targets Chapter 6: Pollution control: instruments Chapter 7: Pollution policy with imperfect information Chapter 8: Economy-wide modelling Chapter 9: International environmental problems Chapter 10: Trade and the Environment Chapter 11: Cost-benefit analysis Chapter 12: Valuing the environment Chapter 13: Irreversibility, risk and uncertainty Chapter 14: The efficient and optimal use of natural resources Chapter 15: The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources Chapter 16: Stock pollution problems Chapter 17: Renewable resources Chapter 18: Forest resources Chapter 19: Accounting for the environment

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Book Synopsis* The very best letters from Tim Harford's celebrated Financial Times 'Dear Econonmist' column, collected herewith NEW letters for the paperback editionTrade ReviewTim Harford is a riveting expositor of the field, lively and fair minded, and his books The Undercover Economist and its macroeconomic companion piece The Undercover Economist Strikes Back are excellent places to start, both because they are so interesting in themselves and also because they give a good initiation in how economists think and study these sorts of questions -- John Lanchester

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Book SynopsisLearn to apply economic concepts to the world around you as ECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE, 17E highlights current economic conditions. Reader-friendly coverage analyzes and explains the latest economic activity, from the recession of 2008-2009 to the 2020 economy shutdown from the COVID-19 pandemic. This edition dispels common economic myths with economic insights that clarify current issues and controversies.You examine the importance of entrepreneurship while an emphasis on public choice provides a unique economic perspective on the political process and why government actions sometimes fail to deliver desired outcomes. You also learn how to apply economic concepts to relevant topics, such as student loans, and how events, such as the Great Suppression of 2020, affect opportunities. You study the importance of international trade as a source of economic growth and higher living standards. Most importantly, you learn how to use economics to make better decisions in your career,Table of ContentsPart I: THE ECONOMIC WAY OF THINKING. 1. The Economic Approach. 2. Some Tools of the Economist Part II: MARKETS AND GOVERNMENT. 3. Demand, Supply, and the Market Process 4. Supply and Demand: Applications and Extensions 5. Difficult Cases for the Market, and the Role of Government 6. The Economics of Political Action Part III: CORE MACROECONOMICS. 7. Taking the Nation���s Economic Pulse 8. Economic Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation 9. An Introduction to Basic Macroeconomic Markets 10. Dynamic Change, Economic Fluctuations, and the AD--AS Model 11. Fiscal Policy: The Keynesian View and the Historical Development of Macroeconomics 12. Fiscal Policy: Incentives, and Secondary Effects 13. Money and the Banking System 14. Modern Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy 15. Macroeconomic Policy, Economic Stability, and the Federal Debt 16. Creating an Environment for Growth and Prosperity 17. Economic Development Part IV: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS. 18. Gaining from International Trade. 19. International Finance and the Foreign Exchange Market. Part V: CORE MICROECONOMICS. 20. Consumer Choice and Elasticity. 21. Costs and the Supply of Goods. 22. Price Takers and the Competitive Process. 23. Price-Searcher Markets with Low Entry Barriers. 24. Price-Searcher Markets with High Entry Barriers. 25. The Supply of and Demand for Productive Resources. 26. Earnings, Productivity, and the Job Market. 27. Investment, the Capital Market, and the Wealth of Nations. 28. Income Inequality and Poverty. Part VI: APPLYING THE BASICS: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ECONOMICS. Special Topic 1. Government Spending and Taxation. Special Topic 2. The Economics of Social Security. Special Topic 3. The Stock Market: Its Function, Performance, and Potential as an Investment Opportunity. Special Topic 4. Keynes and Hayek: Contrasting Views on Sound Economics and the Role of Government Special Topic 5. The 2020 COVID-19 Recession: Cause, Response, and Implications for the Future Special Topic 6. The Crisis of 2008: Causes and Lessons for the Future Special Topic 7. Lessons from the Great Depression Special Topic 8. The Economics of Health Care Special Topic 9. Earnings Differences Between Men and Women Special Topic 10. Do Labor Unions Increase the Wages of Workers? Special Topic 11. The Question of Resource Exhaustion Special Topic 12. Difficult Environmental Cases and the Role of Government Appendix A. General Business and Economics Indicators for the United States. Appendix B. Answers to Selected Critical Analysis Questions

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Book SynopsisAuthors Pride/Hughes/Kapoor believe that success is measured not only by the grade you receive in this course, but also by how the information in this book helps you build a foundation for a better life. That's what FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS, 7E is all about. Updates highlight the specific challenges facing businesses and individuals, particularly following the global pandemic. The latest content, real examples and powerful new cases show you how to become a better employee, more informed consumer and successful business owner. You examine issues within the economy, business ownership, management, human resources, marketing, social media, e-commerce, management information systems, accounting and finance. You also learn how cultural diversity, ethics and social responsibility, small business and entrepreneurship and environmental concerns impact both the nation's economy and you, as an individual consumer. MindTap and Infuse digital resources are also available.Table of ContentsPart I: THE ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS. 1. Exploring the World of Business and Economics. 2. Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business. 3. Global Business. Part II: BUSINESS OWNERSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP. 4. Choosing a Form of Business Ownership. 5. Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Franchises. Part III: MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION. 6. Understanding the Management Process. 7. Creating a Flexible Organization. 8. Producing Quality Goods and Services. Part IV: HUMAN RESOURCES. 9. Attracting and Retaining the Best Employees. 10. Motivating and Satisfying Employees. Part V: MARKETING. 11. Building Customer Relationships Through Effective Marketing. 12. Creating and Pricing Products That Satisfy Customers. 13. Distributing and Promoting Products. Part VI: INFORMATION, ACCOUNTING, AND FINANCE. 14. Exploring Social Media and e-Business. 15. Using Management and Accounting Information. 16. Mastering Financial Management. Online Chapters 17. Understanding Personal Finances and Investments. 18. Enhancing Union-Management Relations. Online Appendices Appendix A Careers in Business. Appendix B Risk Management and Insurance. Appendix C Business Law, Regulation, and Taxation.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Education and Economics explores the multiple ways in which the field of education and schooling has become closely aligned with economic imperatives and interests, and the impact of this on learning and teaching. In particular, the increasing influence of economic arguments, economic ideologies and government involvement in education have made apparent that there is a need to reflect and talk about economic influences and trends in education. Drawing on the expertise of educationalists around the world, the book articulates key debates and theoretical perspectives which can give both students and staff across several courses within the study of education a framework for discussing and analysing how economics defines and shapes the nature and purposes of education. The chapters offer discussions and reflections on key issues, including: the historical developments that led to the creation of a formal education system in England and Wales; the ways in which neoliberalism underpins education, including the coercion of education to serve economic needs; the economics of the university as an institution. Addressing philosophical, sociological, historical, psychological and social issues in education and encouraging readers to pose questions about the nature of education, this book is a valuable resource for students and staff alike and will allow them to broaden perspectives on what education could be for, and what it should be for.Table of Contents1. Introduction: How can we Make Sense of the Influence of Economics in Education? 2. Economics: Introducing key concepts and economics education 3. Elementary Education and Child Labour: From economic to ecological histories of modern childhood 4. Authority and Trust beyond Neoliberalism: A critical reflection on education as useful for the economy 5. Illusions of 'Choice' in Education: Shaping the neoliberal subject in the United Kingdom 6. An Exploration of Human Capital Theory and its Impact on the World of Education 7. Inequalities, Precariousness and Education: Schooling precarious workers 8. The Economics of the University: Knowledge, the market and the state 9. Education as a practice of freedom: negotiating knowledges at a Pakistani women's organisation 10. Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Criticality in Uncertain Times

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Book SynopsisThe unconscious dynamics that surface in groups when authority is exercised are of paramount importance in Group Relations Conferences; this volume addresses these considerations through research findings and speculation on the future of Group Relations both within conferences and outside of them. This is the sixth instalment in a series of books based on Tavistock Group Relations Conferences and contains a collection of papers presented at the sixth Belgirate conference. Combining chapters on theory and practice, this volume delivers a meditation on the relationships between the physical spaces we inhabit or co-create, the psychic, inner or spiritual space and the liminal space in-between. Group Relations provides a window of understanding into why inequity and intergroup hostilities pervade the modern world alongside a method that illuminates how people consciously and unconsciously contribute to these tensions, whether personally, in groups or in organisations. ThisTrade Review'For some years now, Belgirate has been the place to gather for the most innovative thinking in the area of group relations. Based on a highly engaging conference at Belgirate, this volume brings together some of the foremost innovators and thinkers in the field. It makes for fascinating reading, and I whole-heartedly recommend it.'Mark Stein, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Leadership and Management, University of Leicester and Associate Lecturer in Consultation and Organisation, Tavistock Clinic London, UK'This book serves as a transitional space ship, for exploring new territories of Group Relations life, thinking and methodology. Various aspects of (the relationship between) outer physical and inner psychic worlds are being studied thoughtful and reflective. The crew skillfully guides you in crossing several boundaries, (re)visiting conceptual planets, shows comets of practice, bright stars of experience and also leaves enough black holes to grapple with yourself. Fasten your seatbelts for this inspiring flight.'Martijn van der Spek, Senior Organisational Consultant and Program Leader Inside Dynamics in Organisations, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Unbounded Worlds - A Challenge for Group Relations? 2. Transforming the World -Transforming Ourselves: crafting space for activism and spirituality in Group Relations work 3. The Invitation of the Unknown Known: A Collective Consciousness Conversation 4. A nomadic state of mind: In search of a place to live 5. The Place Where Psychoanalysts Live: Introducing Group Relations to Psychoanalytic Institutes 6. Polyglossia or Babel: Working across Languages, Traditions, and Identities in Group Relations Conferences 7. LFA: When Action is not the opposite of Thinking: Living in a temporary community as a space for experiential learning 8. In the Shadow of Envy: Shame in Group Relations Conferences 9. At Home At Work and Vice Versa: Exploring the dynamics of dual/special relationships in group relations conferences and organizational life 7. Yantras, Mantras and Organizational Designs: Creating, Changing and Managing the Unseen 8. Nothingness: A group phenomenon or a seventh(?) Basic Assumption Does it really matter? Does anything matter at all? 9. Immigration, Adaptation and Dynamics of Destruction: Effects on “The Place We Live” 10. Exploring Differences in The Places Where We Live 11. Post-Conference Reflections

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Book SynopsisOrganizations and societies are facing extreme challenges that require action (IPCC, 2021). The UN's sustainability goals, demographic change, and the green shift are knocking on the door, while traditional education, and ways of leading and managing this development, often fail to keep up. Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics challenges leadership orthodoxy, assumptions, and myths currently preventing the further development of theory and practice. It encourages intelligent disobedience in support of greater leadership capabilities and capacity in organisations and societies.As such, the book is written for everyone who wants to be MAD â to Make A Difference - students, scholars, and practitioners alike.Chapter 5 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licenseTrade Review"Responsible leadership requires thoughtful awareness of the motives and consequences of one’s actions. This book is fodder for such thoughtfulness." –Jonathan Gosling, Emeritus Professor of Leadership, University of Exeter, UK"Rune By, Bernard Burnes and Mark Hughes have produced an essential text featuring the work of leading thinkers on change, leadership and ethics. This is state-of-the-art work on the organizational challenges of the first half of the 21st century." - Bill Cooke, FBAM FAcSS PhD, Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, The York Management School, University of York"In their challenge to how organizational leadership and change are researched and taught, the editors of this volume are posing questions that our world, which is being transformed by the two massive upheavals of the past three years, needs to be asking. How we form the leaders of tomorrow is at stake." - David Coghlan, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin"This book is a provocative and enthusiastic tour-de-force. Challenging traditional views of ethical change leadership, the authors exhort leaders and followers to rise up with intelligent disobedience, be inspired to be MAD (Make a Difference) and navigate the new complexity in the collective pursuit of purpose. In a polluted landscape, this agenda is a breath of fresh air." - Professor Richard Badham, John Grill Institute for Project Leadership, Sydney UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Ethical Change Leadership 2.0 Part I CONTEXT AND THEORY Chapter 1: Leadership Ethics and Organizational Change: Sketching the Field’s Challenges Chapter 2: Perceptions and Development of Ethical Change Leadership Chapter 3: Mission leadership: a key enabler for an emerging leadership model, planned and emergent change and ethical clarity Chapter 4: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethical Quality of Leadership Chapter 5: Leadership as care-ful co-directing change: A processual approach to ethical leadership for organizational change Chapter 6: Leadership: the collective pursuit of delivering on purpose Chapter 7: Making Purpose the Core Work of Business Leadership: A Guiding Framework Part II ISSUES AND CHALLENGES Chapter 8: Courage to strive: Hypocrisy monitoring, integrity striving, and ethical leadership Chapter 9: “How do we make sure they don’t get fat and lazy?” Utopian change and the erosion of compassion Chapter 10: Leadership narcissism, ethics, and strategic change: Is it time to revisit our thinking about the nature of effective leadership? Chapter 11: Organizational Leadership and Change in the Context of Conflict Chapter 12: Leadership for sustainable futures Chapter 13: A Dualities Approach to Sustainable Organizational Change Leadership Part III CONCLUSIONS Chapter 14: Leadership, Sustainability and Ethics: Looking Back to Move Forward Chapter 15: Teaching Organizational Change Leadership and Ethics Chapter 16: Towards Intelligent Disobedience: Academics Leading by Example

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Book SynopsisFemale presence and involvement on boards improves firm performance, transforms corporate governance and leads to the transition towards more responsible business.Corporate boards are essential bodies for governance and management and their efficiency determines a companyâs performance. The board is a crucial element of the corporate governance structure and its efficiency and performance determines the success of the operation and monitoring of the company. The board is viewed as the liaison between providers of capital (shareholders) and managers who use this capital to create value. The board role is to represent, formulate and fulfill the interests and expectations of shareholders as the owners of the companies. The discussion surrounding female participation in business inevitably needs to refer to their presence on corporate boards. It is also a reliable indicator of a gender equality policy and advancement, adopted by countries and companies.The boTable of ContentsPart I Overview; Introduction (Maria Aluchna and Guler Aras); Part II Concepts and Models; Chapter 1 Women on Corporate Boards: Backgrounds, Drivers and Mechanisms (Maria Aluchna and Tomasz Szapiro); Chapter 2 Gender Diversity on Boards in Norway and the UK: A Different Approach to Governance or a Case of Path Dependency? (Rita Goyal, Nada Korac Kakabadse, Filipe Morais and Andrew P. Kakabadse); Chapter 3 Regulation of the Gender Composition of Company Boards in Europe: Experience and Prospects (Kevin Campbell and Leszek Bohdanowicz); Part III Regulation and Compliance; Chapter 4 Gender Balance in Australian Boardrooms: The Business Case for Quotas (JF Corkery, Madeline Elizabeth Taylor and Melanie Hayden); Chapter 5 Women on Corporate Boards in Poland and Estonia in the Context of the EU Gender Equality Policy (Marta Pachocka, Aleksandra Szczerba-Zawada and Diana Eerma); Chapter 6 Socio-Economic Perspective on Women on Boards: An African Perspective (Justina Mutale and Anna Masłoń-Oracz); Chapter 7 Women's Experiences in Top Management Teams (TMTs): The Case of Israeli National Majority and National Minority Women (Helena Desivilya Syna, Michal Palgi and Maha Karkabi-Sabbah); Part IV Business Practice; Chapter 8 Female Entrepreneurship and Boardroom Diversity: The Case of Russia (Irina Tkachenko and Irina Pervukhina); Chapter 9 Female Representation on Swedish Corporate Boards (Gunnar Rimmel, Petra Inwinkl, Anna Lindstrand and Ida Ohlsson); Chapter 10 Females on Corporate Boards: French Perspectives: Towards More Diversity? (Nabyla Daidj); Chapter 11 The 2017 New Zealand Stock Exchange Directors’ Network Analysis and the Effect of ‘Soft’ Reporting Regimes on Board Diversity (Rosanne Hawarden); Chapter 12 Women on Boards: Perspectives from BRIC and Turkey (Güler Aras and Ozlem Kutlu Furtuna); Part V Conclusion; Conclusion: Woman on Boards: What Will be the Next Step? (Güler Aras and Maria Aluchna)

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of the Building Regulations Pocket Book has been fully updated with recent changes to the UK Building Regulations and Planning Law. This handy guide provides you with all the information you need to comply with the UK Building Regulations and Approved Documents. On site, in the van, in the office wherever you are  this is the book you'll refer to time and time again to check the regulations on your current job. Part 1 provides an overview of the Building Act. Part 2 offers a handy guide to the dos and don'ts of gaining the Local Council's approval for Planning Permission and Building Regulations Approval. Part 3 presents an overview of the requirements of the Approved Documents associated with the Building Regulations. Part 4 is an easy-to-read explanation of the essential requirements of the Building Regulations that any architect, builder or DIYer needs to know to keep their work safe and compliant on both domeTable of ContentsPART 1: Background information 1.1 What is the Building Act 1984? 1.2 What does the Building Act 1984 contain? 1.3 What are the Supplementary Regulations? 1.4 What are ‘Approved Documents’? 1.5 How are buildings classified? 1.6 Who polices the Building Act? 1.7 What to comply with the Building Regulations 1.8 What are the duties of the Local Authority? 1.9 What are the powers of the Local Authority 1.10 What is the ‘Building Regulations Advisory Committee’? 1.11 Who are Approved Inspectors? 1.12 Does the Fire Authority have any say in Building Regulations? 1.13 What Notices and Certificates are required? 1.14 Are there any exemptions to the Building Regulations? 1.15 Can appeals be made against a Local Authority’s ruling? 1.16 What about dangerous buildings? 1.17 What about defective buildings? 1.18 What are the rights of the owner or occupier of the premises? PART 2: Requirements for Planning Permission and Building Regulations approval 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Additional storeys/extending upwards 2.3 Advertising and signs 2.4 Aerials, satellite dishes and flagpoles 2.5 Basements 2.6 Biomass-fuelled Appliances 2.7 Ceilings and floors 2.8 Central heating and boilers 2.9 Change of use 2.10 Conservatories 2.11 Conversions 2.12 Decoration and repairs inside and outside a building 2.13 Demolition 2.14 Doors and windows 2.15 Drains and sewers 2.16 Electrical work in the home and garden 2.17 Extensions 2.18 External walls 2.19 Fascias 2.20 Fences, gates and garden walls 2.21 Flats and maisonettes 2.22 Flues, chimneys and soil and vent pipes 2.23 Fuel tanks 2.24 Garages and carports 2.25 Hardstanding for cars, caravans and boats 2.26 Heat pumps 2.27 Hedges 2.28 Home energy generation 2.29 Hydroelectricity 2.30 Insulation 2.31 Internal walls 2.32 Kitchens and bathrooms 2.33 Loft conversions 2.34 Micro combined heat and power Microgeneration Certification Scheme 2.35 New homes and self-build homes 2.36 Outbuildings 2.37 Patios, decking and driveways 2.38 Paving your front garden 2.39 Plumbing 2.40 Porches 2.41 Roofs 2.42 Security lighting 2.43 Shops 2.44 Solar panels 2.45 Structural alterations - inside 2.46 Swimming pools 2.47 Trees 2.48 Underpinning 2.49 Warehouses and industrial buildings 2.50 Wind turbines 2.51 Working from home PART 3: Requirements of the Approved Documents 3.1 Introduction 3.2 A - Structure 3.3 B - Fire safety: Volume 1: Dwellings and Volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings 3.4 C - Site preparation and resistance to contaminants and moisture 3.5 D - Toxic substances 3.6 E - Resistance to the passage of sound 3.7 F - Ventilation 3.8 G - Sanitation, hot water safety and water efficiency 3.9 H - Drainage and waste disposal 3.10 J - Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems 3.11 K - Protection from falling, collision and impact 3.12 L - Conservation of fuel and power: Volume 1: Dwellings and Volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings 3.13 M - Access to and use of buildings: Volume 1: Dwellings and Volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings 3.14 O - Overheating 3.15 P - Electrical safety: Design and installation of electrical installations 3.16 Q - Security in dwellings 3.17 R - High-speed electronic communication networks 3.18 S - Infrastructure for the charging on electric vehicles 3.19 Regulation 7 - Materials and workmanship PART 4: Meeting the requirements of the Building Regulations 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Foundations 4.3 Ventilation 4.4 Drainage 4.5 Cellars and basements 4.6 Floors 4.7 Walls 4.8 Ceilings 4.9 Roofs 4.10 Chimneys and fireplaces 4.11 Stairs 4.12 Windows 4.13 Doors 4.14 Access routes 4.15 Corridors and passageways 4.16 Sanitary accomodation, bathrooms and showers 4.17 Electrical safety 4.18 Combustion appliances 4.19 Hot water storage 4.20 Liquid fuel storage 4.21 Kitchens and utility rooms 4.22 Loft conversions 4.23 Extensions and additions to buildings 4.24 Conservatories

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes surrounding luxury brand management and the core issues faced by luxury firms today. The luxury industry has undergone a series of dynamic changes in the past twenty years. Economic trends, digital transformation, and changing consumer habits are creating a new competitive landscape where traditional strategies will not necessarily provide continued growth and profitability.Approaching luxury from a realistic brand management perspective, this book works step-by-step through a typical luxury course structure, covering sustainability, heritage, emerging brands, digital marketing and analytics, curation, intellectual property, and start-ups. Each chapter is illustrated by a relevant international case study and further examples, as well as reflective questions to help gain insight from contemporary practice.With additional PowerPoint slides and a test bank of questions available online, this comprehensive textTrade Review"A very useful text for any luxury brand management student, or luxury practitioner, interested in increasing their knowledge in contemporary luxury issues and the evolving luxury consumer" - Debbie Pinder, University of Southampton, UK"A good blend of practical and theoretical focus with new conceptual ideas to provide a multi-angle and comprehensive examination of the challenges of current luxury strategies." - Nastaran N Richards-Carpenter, Programme Director of Luxury Brand Management, Richmond University, UKTable of ContentsSECTION 1: PEOPLE AND HISTORY Chapter 1: Luxury Throughout History Chapter 2: Luxury Start-Ups Chapter 3: Contemporary People Issues in Luxury Brand Management SECTION 2: LUXURY PRODUCTS Chapter 4: Legal Protection for Luxury Goods and the Counterfeiting Challenge Chapter 5: The Case of the Wine Experience Chapter 6: Luxury and Sustainability SECTION 3: DIGITAL BUSINESS Chapter 7: Social Media Marketing in Luxury Brand Management Chapter 8: Digital Marketing and Analytics for Luxury Brands Chapter 9: The Future of Commerce with Digital Business

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Book Synopsis“I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”—Steven LevittTrade Review"It is an easy read and is written in a lively tone-which is not something I particularly recall from my lectures in the 1980s. Long live economics!" John Burns, The Times Higher Education "Unlike most of the ranks of management advice books which pad out bookshop business sections, here is one which is rigorous, fun and extremely useful all at the same time." The Economist

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Book Synopsis“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New YorkerTrade Review"As we face off against the Great Recession, the only book you need to understand the debate raging in the streets today: economic freedom versus government intervention. An essential primer on the two men who shaped modern finance." "I heartily recommend Nicholas Wapshott's new book, Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics... Many books have been written about Keynes, but nobody else has told the story properly of his relationship with Hayek. Nick has filled the gap in splendid fashion, and I defy anybody-Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted-to read his work and not learn something new." -- John Cassidy "Nicholas Wapshott's new book, Keynes Hayek, does an excellent job of setting out the broader history behind this revival of the old debates. Wapshott brings the personalities to life, provides more useful information on the debates than any other source, and miraculously manages to write for both the lay reader and the expert at the same time. Virtually every page is gripping, and yet even the professional economist will glean some insight..." -- Tyler Cowen "Mr. Wapshott has written an important book. It is compelling not only as a history of two distinctive thinkers and their influence, but also as a narrative of political decision-making and its underlying priorities. Underlying Mr. Wapshott's analysis are vital questions for this moment in American history: What kind of society do we want? And what do we owe to our fellow citizens and our collective future?" -- Nancy F. Koehn "Nicholas Wapshott's Keynes Hayek is a smart and absorbing account of one of the most fateful encounters in modern history, remarkably rendered as a taut intellectual drama. Wapshott brilliantly brings to life the human history of ideas that continue to mold our world." -- Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy "Nicholas Wapshott brings the Keynes-Hayek fight of the twentieth century back to life, making the clash both entertaining and highly relevant for understanding economic crises of the twenty-first century." -- John B. Taylor, Stanford University, Getting Off Track "In the fluency of his writing and his ability to make complex financial questions easily comprehensible, Nicholas Wapshott has done economics itself a great service, by opening the subject up to the general reader, as seen through the prism of one of the most important intellectual gladiatorial contests of modern times." -- Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

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Book SynopsisNaked Economics gives you the tools to engage with pleasure and confidence in the deeply relevant, not so dismal science.Trade Review"I recommend this book to anyone who wants to gain an understanding of basic economics with little pain and much pleasure." -- Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Prize winner in Economics

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of Contents1 PREAMBLE: THE ECONOMIC COST OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACK AMERICANS Part I Poverty, inequality and public policy 2 MYRDAL’S CUMULATIVE HYPOTHESIS: ITS ANTECEDENTS AND ITS CONTEMPORARY APPLICATIONS 3 GHETTO POVERTY: BLACK PROBLEM OR HARBINGER OF THINGS TO COME? 4 IS THERE A NEW BLACK POVERTY IN AMERICA? LESSONS FROM HISTORY 5 A FRAMEWORK FOR ALLEVIATION OF INNER CITY POVERTY 6 ARE THE CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST? STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN YOUTH UP-FRONT OR DEBILITATING COST AT THE REAR 7 GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION POLICY, AND THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS 8 IN THE MATTER OF RACE AND HOUSING 9 THE THEORY OF RESTITUTION: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CASE 10 DONOR POLICIES IN AFRICA: A REVIEW OF THE PAST, A LOOK TO THE FUTURE Part II Historical perspectives on race, economics and social transformation 11 THE EAST AFRICAN COAST DURING THE AGE OF EXPLORATION 12 TRADE AND MARKETS IN PRECOLONIAL WEST AND WEST CENTRAL AFRICA: THE CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS TRADITION 13 “OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND”: THE STRUGGLE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS AGAINST THE INVISIBILITY OF THE SLAVE[RY] TRADE IN WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY 14 PROMOTING BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: THE NATIONAL NEGRO CONVENTION, 1830–60 Part III Theory and method 15 UNRAVELING THE PARADOX OF DEEPENING URBAN INEQUALITY: THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS, RESEARCH DESIGN, AND PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM A MULTICITY STUDY 16 SOME HETERODOX MODELS OF INEQUALITY IN THE MARKET FOR LABOR POWER 17 A THEORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 18 INSTABILITIES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: THE ROLE OF EXPORT PRICE INSTABILITY 19 MACROECONOMIC POLICY, CYCLICAL FLUCTUATION, AND INCOME INEQUALITY: SOME COINTEGRATION RESULTS

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Book SynopsisThis broad-ranging collection assesses the links between targets and central bank independence, accountability and the transparency of monetary policy. Renowned experts contribute to this original and comprehensive text which will be of great value to professional economists and students of economics and banking alike.Monetary Policy Frameworks in a Global Context was named Book of the Year, 2000 by Central Banking journalTable of ContentsGeneral introduction PART I Key issues in the choice of monetary policy framework 1 Introduction 2 A historical examination of inflation stability under alternative monetary frameworks 3 The use of explicit targets for monetary policy: practical experiences in 93 economies in the 1990s 4 The devil in the detail of monetary policy frameworks: issues and measures of monetary framework characteristics 5 The devil in the detail of monetary policy frameworks (2): interpreting measures of framework characteristics 6 What does independence mean to central banks? 7 Redesigning the monetary policy framework: practical Considerations; 8 Conclusions and summary PART II Monetary policy strategies; Monetary policy objectives in emerging markets in light of the Asian crisis; The role of the Monetary Policy Committee: strategic considerations; Establishing a reputation for dependability by means of inflation; Targets; PART III Transmission mechanisms and monetary frameworks; Modelling the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in the Czech Republic; Setting monetary policy instruments in Uganda; Monetary policy in a dollarised economy: the case of Peru; The Balassa-Samuelson effect and monetary targets PART IV Country experiences with different monetary strategies; Lessons from the Bundesbank on the occasion of its early retirement; What can inflation expectations and core inflation tell us about monetary policy in Japan? Inflation and money goals: the recent experience of monetary policy in Mexico; Inflation targets and stabilisation in Chile; Monetary policy and disinflation in Israel; Inflation targeting in the Czech Republic PART V Specifying and using targets; Core inflation as an indicator in monetary policy rules Specifying an inflation target: the case of administered prices and other candidates for exclusion Exchange rate considerations in a small open economy: a critical look at the MCI as a possible solution

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Book SynopsisExamines policy design when the policy maker in imperfectly informed, focusing on cases where the regulated firm possesses better information about its technology than the regulator.Table of Contents1. Background: History and Related Literature 2. Adverse Selection 3. Auditing 4. Regulation and Moral Hazard 5. Multiperiod Models of Regulation and Information 6. Intertemporal Commitment 7. Interfirm Comparisons 8. Extensions and Future Directions

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1985, Thomas Sowellâs book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marxâs own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowellâs research and thought on the philosophical and economic doctrines of Karl Marx.Its central theme is that Marxian philosophy must be understood before Marxian economics can be defined. The book discusses Marxâs ideas, including his philosophy of history, concept of capitalist exploitation, morality and business cycle theory. The authorâs treatment is balanced, though often critical and displays a mastery of Marxâs own writings which are liberally extracted throughout the text. Trade Review‘Among the best short accounts of Marxism ever, whatever the reader’s own politics are. I found it a real pleasure to read, clear and tight, full of both common sense and intellectual rigour.’ – Bernard Crick‘Very readable … The non-Marxist Mr Sowell is distinctly successful in opening up the scope and brilliance of Marx’s very interesting mind.’ – Brigitte Berger, New York Times Book ReviewTable of Contents1. Economics and Philosophy 2. The Dialectic Approach 3. Philosophic Materialism 4. The Marxian Theory of History 5. The Capitalist Economy 6. Marxian Economic Crises 7. Marxian Value 8. Political Systems and Revolution 9. Marx the Man 10. The Legacy of Marx

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Book SynopsisThe revised edition of this highly acclaimed work presents crucial lessons from Japan's recession that could aid the US and other economies as they struggle to recover from the current financial crisis. This book is about Japan's 15-year long recession and how it affected current theoretical thinking about its causes and cures.Trade ReviewReviews from the previous edition "...provide fascinating insights into the problems of Japan...interesting thesis" (Wilmott.com/blogs, August 2009) "…the Japanese policymakers who told everyone the US was in danger of falling into a prolonged period of economic weakness were right. To understand why this is true, you need to read a brilliant book by Richard Koo of the Nomura Research Institute." (Financial Times, January 2009) "…the definitive book on Japan's decade-long recession in the 1990s." (USA Today, March 2009) "Books about the current global economic crisis are being written and published by the truckload. But few – perhaps none – are worth reading… Richard Koo, chief economist at the Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo, a think tank attached to Japan's biggest investment bank, watched Japan's 'lost decade' from an excellent vantage point: he was close enough to understand the detail, data and ways in which both corporate and political decisions were made, and independent enough to be able to analyse what happened in a reasonably detached and cool way." (Survival, May 2009) "A must-read to an understanding of what Japan went through and what the United States and Europe may experience is Koo's latest book The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession." (The Edge Financial Daily, December 2008)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface xi Chapter 1 Japan’s Recession 1 Chapter 2 Characteristics of Balance Sheet Recessions 39 Chapter 3 The Great Depression was a Balance Sheet Recession 85 Chapter 4 Monetary, Foreign Exchange, and Fiscal Policy During a Balance Sheet Recession 125 Chapter 5 Yin and Yang Economic Cycles and the Holy Grail of Macroeconomics 157 Chapter 6 Pressure of Globalization 185 Chapter 7 Ongoing Bubbles and Balance Sheet Recessions 221 Chapter 8 World in Balance Sheet Recession 253 Appendix: Thoughts on Walras and Macroeconomics 295 References and Bibliography 309 Index 321

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants One of Bloomberg View's Great History Books of 2016 One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016 One of Foreign Affairs' Editors' Picks 2016 One of The Economist's Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016 One of The Wall Street Journal's "The 20 Books That Defined Our Year" 2016 One of Bloomberg View's "Five Books to Change Conservatives' Minds," chosen by Cass Sunstein #36 on Bloomberg's "50 Most Influential" List One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 in History One of the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2016 in Economy One of the Washington Post's Best Economics Books 2016 Shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award One of The NewYorker.com Page-Turner blog's "The Books We Loved in 2016" Longlisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University "The Rise and Fall of American Growth... is the Thomas Piketty-esque economic must read of the year."--Rana Foroohar, Time "This is a book well worth reading--a magisterial combination of deep technological history, vivid portraits of daily life over the past six generations and careful economic analysis... [The Rise and Fall of American Growth] will challenge your views about the future; [and] it will definitely transform how you see the past."--Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review "[An] authoritative examination of innovation through the ages."--Neil Irwin, New York Times "Robert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries... The book is without peer in providing a statistical analysis of the uneven pace of growth and technological change, in describing the technologies that led to the remarkable progress during the special century, and in concluding with a provocative hypothesis that the future is unlikely to bring anything approaching the economic gains of the earlier period... If you want to understand our history and the economic dilemmas faced by the nation today, you can spend many a fruitful hour reading Gordon's landmark study."--William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books "Mr. Gordon uses exhaustive historic data to buttress his thesis."--Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal "[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is full of wonder for the miraculous things that America has accomplished."--Edward Glaeser, Wall Street Journal "A masterful study to be read and reread by anyone interested in today's political economy."--Kirkus "Normally, these kinds of big-think books end with a whimper, as the author totally fails to identify solutions to the problem he is writing about. But Gordon's conclusion offers some admirably definitive policy advice."--Matthew Yglesias, Vox "Magnificent... Gordon presents his case... with great style and panache, supporting his argument with vivid examples as well as econometric data... Even if history changes direction... this book will survive as a superb reconstruction of material life in America in the heyday of industrial capitalism."--Economist "Every presidential candidate should be asked what policies he or she would offer to increase the pace of U.S. productivity growth and to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers in the economy. Bob Gordon's list is a good place to start."--David Wessel, WSJ.com's Think Tank blog "[W]hat may be the year's most important book on economics has already been published... What Gordon has provided is not a rejection of technology but a sobering reminder of its limits."--Robert Samuelson, Washington Post "Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an extraordinary work of economic scholarship... Moreover, this is one of the rare economics books that is on the one hand deeply analytical ... And on the other a pleasure to read... [A] landmark work."--Lawrence Summers, Prospect "Ambitious... The hefty tome, minutely detailed yet dauntingly broad in scope, offers a lively portrayal of the evolution of American living standards since the Civil War."--Eduardo Porter, New York Times "Two years ago a huge book on economics took the world by storm. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century ... became a surprise bestseller... Robert Gordon's tome on American economic growth stretches to 768 pages and its central message is arguably more important."--David Smith, Sunday Times "A landmark new book."--Gavin Kelly, The Guardian "Looking ahead, judging presidents by policies rather than outcomes may be all the more important. In a new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the economist Robert Gordon argues that we are in the midst of an era of meager technological change. Yes, we now have smartphones and Twitter, but previous generations introduced electric lighting, indoor plumbing and the internal combustion engine. In Mr. Gordon's view, technological change is just not what it used to be, and we had better get used to slower growth in productivity and incomes."--N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times "The Rise and Fall of American Growth is likely to be the most interesting and important economics book of the year. It provides a splendid analytic take on the potency of past economic growth, which transformed the world from the end of the nineteenth century onward... Gordon's book serves as a powerful reminder that the U.S. economy really has gone through a protracted slowdown and that this decline has been caused by the stagnation in technological progress."--Tyler Cowen, Foreign Affairs "[A]n important new book."--Martin Ford, Huffington Post "[A] lightning bolt of a new book."--Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect "So powerful and intriguing are the facts and arguments marshaled by Gordon that even informed critics who think he is wrong recommend that readers plow through his The Rise and Fall of American Growth, with its 60 graphics and 64 tables spread over more than 700 pages. You don't need to be an economist to appreciate or understand the book. His thesis is straightforward."--David Cay Johnston, Al Jazeera America.com "What is novel about Gordon's approach to this problem is that he doesn't try to find political causes for our economic woes... [E]xhaustive and sweeping in scope, and novel in its thinking about growth."--Chris Matthews, Fortune.com "[A] fascinating new book."--Jeffrey Sachs, Boston Globe "One of the most important books of recent years... Powerful and impressive."--Cass R. Sunstein, Bloomberg View "This is a tremendous, sobering piece of research, which does a lot to explain the febrile, nervous state of modern Western democracies."--Marcus Tanner, The Independent "A new book by economist Robert Gordon--The Rise and Fall of American Growth--is causing quite a stir."--City A.M. "If he's right, and one links this with growing income inequality, our would-be leaders will have difficulty in making the case for achieving the American dream through steady incremental progress achieved through collaboration and political compromise."--Michael Hoffmann, Desert Sun "Robert Gordon's new book on productivity in the U.S. economy, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is masterful... Gordon skillfully lays out myriad information about the history and trends of productivity. One can learn a great deal."--Edward Lotterman, St. Paul Pioneer Press "[I]mpressive."--Peter Martin, Sydney Morning Herald "In his unsettling new book, Gordon, who teaches at Northwestern, weighs in on the role of technology in the U.S. over the past century-and-a-half. He does so forcefully, so forcefully, in fact, as to wipe the smiles off the faces of most techno-optimists, myself included."--Peter A. Coclanis, Charlotte Observer "[A] thoughtful new book."--David D. Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is this year's equivalent to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century: an essential read for all economists, who are unanimously floored by its boldness and scope even if they don't agree with its conclusions."--Adam Davidson, New York Times Magazine "Gordon makes a compelling case for why the era of fast growth in America ended around 1970 and will not return in the foreseeable future, if ever."--Dick Meyer, DecodeDC "Gordon argues that we are not going to get another surge soon and that there are several headwinds that are going to work against faster growth, including income inequality, education as a differentiator and not an equalizer, the debt overhang, and demography."--John Mason, TheStreet.com "[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] challenges every political claim, and every pundit's remedy, regarding how to get the lackluster American economy to boom again in the decades ahead, as it once did a half-century or more ago... [The book] represents the culmination of Gordon's many years of investigation into this key economic question of our age, namely: 'Why is it that the American economy has never been able to return to the happy boom years of our grandparents' time?' Why is it that, decade after decade, administration after administration, annualized productivity growth has only been about one-half to one-third that of the age of Truman and Eisenhower?"--Paul Kennedy, Tribune Content Agency "[M]asterful... Gordon skillfully lays out information about the history and trends of productivity. One can learn a great deal... The Rise and Fall of American Growth is a rare example of a work with solid economics that can be understood, and enjoyed, by nearly any lay person."--Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman "As an economic historian, Gordon is beyond reproach."--Edward Luce, Financial Times "Provocative."--Associated Press "The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is a deep dive into the past with an eye to the future... [The book] is part of a fascinating debate about future prospects for the American economy."--Knowledge@Wharton "[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] has set the wonky world of economics aflame."--Ryan Craig, TechCrunch "Magisterial."--John Kay, Financial Times "[A] contentious new book."--Margaret Wente, The Globe & Mail "[A] fabulous new book... [I]mpressive."--Dr. Mike Walden, Morganton News Herald "Northwestern Bob Gordon's new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, offers a deeper explanation for the underlying mechanics behind slowed economic growth."--Jon Hartley, Forbes.com "So much of what the presidential candidates and the American people want to accomplish over the next four years and beyond depends on the U.S. economy growing faster, and more inclusively, than it has in recent years. This year's hot economics book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by one of America's most distinguished macroeconomists, Robert Gordon, casts a pall on whether this is possible, arguing that the U.S. had a golden century of increasing innovation from roughly 1870 to 1970, but this was unique."--Robert Litan, Fortune.com "Gordon's book offers the definitive account of how the many technological innovations between 1870 and 1940 dramatically improved life in the United States."--Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution's Defining Ideas blog "[M]agiserial... The Northwestern University professor lays out the case that the productivity miracle underlying the American way of life was largely a one-time deal."--Matt Phillips, Quartz "Robert Gordon's new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth has taken the economics world by storm this winter."--Myles Udland, Business Insider "[M]assive."--Ben Casselman, FiveThirty Eight "[G]roundbreaking."--Zeeshan Aleem, Mic "With a painstaking--and fascinating--historical analysis of American productivity, [Gordon] argues that the innovations of today pale in comparison to earlier in our history and that we might actually be entering a period of prolonged stagnation. He may very well be right."--Greg Satell, Forbes.com "[P]rovocative."--Barrie McKenna, The Globe & Mail "[I]nfluential."--Martin Neil Baily, Fortune.com "[A] stimulating book."--George Will, Washington Post "Compulsive reading."--Andrew Hilton, Financial World "Gordon is not an alarmist, far from it. His is a sober voice of concern, of caution, which needs to be heard by those in the helm in America. And a fascinating lesson for ambitious and growing countries like India."--Dr R Balashankar, Sunday Guardian "[A] fascinating convergence of green and mainstream thought."--Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay Journal "[T]his panoramic book makes good reading."--Shane Greenstein, Harvard Magazine "The book's great contribution is the tapestry it weaves of all the innovations that changed most Americans' lives beyond recognition in the century from 1870 to 1970."--Martin Sandbu, Financial Times "The Rise and Fall of American Growth is unquestionably an important book that raises fundamental questions about the United States' economy and society."--New Criterion "[A] masterpiece."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "[An] impressive book... Gordon's book provides sufficient ammunition to show the colossal problems facing capitalism."--Socialism Today "Rich with detailed information, meticulous observations, and even anecdotes and stories ... a fascinating read."--Ricardo F. Levi, Corriere della Sera "The Rise and Fall of American Growth is essential reading for anyone interested in economics."--Choice "In an important new book, economist Robert Gordon makes the case for pessimism. He believes that technologies like smartphones, robots, and artificial intelligence aren't going to have the kind of big impact on the economy that earlier inventions--like the internal combustion engine and electricity--did."--Timothy B. Lee, Vox "Robert Gordon has written an engaging economic-based history of America... Gordon is to be commended for helping to stimulate a national debate on the current low level of economic productivity."--Allan Hauer, Innovation: The Journal of Technology & Commercialization "If you want to see how far we have come and how tough life was a century and a half ago, read Gordon's book."--David R. Henderson, Regulation "A fantastic read."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes "The book is well written, and one can only be in awe of Gordon's mastery of the factual history of the American standard of living."--Robert A. Margo, EH.net "Monumental."--John Cassidy, NewYorker.com "Zeitgeist-defining."--Myles Udland, Business Insider "[A] magisterial treatise."--Nick Gillespie, Reason.com "[A]n essential read for anyone interested not only in US economic history but also American economic prospects ... a tremendous achievement."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist "A comprehensive history of American economic growth."--Eric Rauchway, American Prospect "Professor Robert J. Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is a magisterial volume that will benefit any serious student of economics, demographics or history."--Wendell Cox, New Geography "A wonderful new book."--Jeff Sachs, Boston Globe "The most important economics book of 2016."--Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune "This spectacular history traces the rise and the plateau of the American economy since industrialization."--Jay Weiser, Weekly Standard "[A] landmark book... An impressive history of how the American people progressed in their standards of living and productivity in the 'golden century' of 1870-1970."--Stephen M. Millett, Strategy & Leadership "Gordon's encyclopedic The Rise and Fall of American Growth, a new history of modern U.S. economic life, [is] perhaps the best yet written."--Jonathan Levy, Dissent "One of our greatest economic historians... Gordon's exhaustive research program ... has knocked me back on my intellectual heels."--J. Bradford DeLong, Strategy + Business "This is the most important book on economics in many years."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth set out a thesis of technological diminishing returns that does much to explain an age of economic pessimism."--Lorien Kite, Financial Times "In the course of Gordon's book, a vivid picture of everyday life as our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents lived it emerges... What lingers in my mind, alongside these ideas, is a new, weightier sense of the past, and of what the people who lived in it ate, touched, heard, saw, and did. Reading The Rise and Fall of American Growth, I thought a lot about my grandparents. Gordon's book has made their lives more real to me."--Joshua Rothman, NewYorker.com's Page-Turner blog "Magisterial... While the book has gotten attention because of its bold projection of slow growth in the future, this is actually just one small element of a magnificent and detailed presentation of how our economy has changed since 1870. Most people don't fully appreciate what life was like in the past and Gordon gives a blow-by-blow description of how people lived in America from 1870 on. In addition, he carefully explains how each new innovation was created and how its adoption changed people's lives."--Stephen Rose, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas "Gordon constructs a strong case using conventional economic principles and exacting data measurement."--Don Pittis, CBC News "Gordon's genius is to weave together economic history with the story of the technology, know-how, politic, demographics and medicine that made the astonishing progress of the US perhaps the most remarkable ever."--Sean O'Grady, The IndependentTable of ContentsPreface ix 1. Introduction: The Ascent and Descent of Growth 1 PART I. 1870-1940-THE GREAT INVENTIONS CREATE A REVOLUTION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOME 25 2. The Starting Point: Life and Work in 1870 27 3. What They Ate and Wore and Where They Bought It 62 4. The American Home: From Dark and Isolated to Bright and Networked 94 5. Motors Overtake Horses and Rail: Inventions and Incremental Improvements 129 6. From Telegraph to Talkies: Information, Communication, and Entertainment 172 7. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death 206 8. Working Conditions on the Job and at Home 247 9. Taking and Mitigating Risks: Consumer Credit, Insurance, and the Government 288 Entr'acte. The Midcentury Shift from Revolution to Evolution 319 PART II. 1940-2015-THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE EARLY WARNINGS OF SLOWER GROWTH 329 10. Fast Food, Synthetic Fibers, and Split-Level Subdivisions: The Slowing Transformation of Food, Clothing, and Housing 331 11. See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above 374 12. Entertainment and Communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone 409 13. Computers and the Internet from the Mainframe to Facebook 441 14. Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the Evolution of Health and Medicine 461 15. Work, Youth, and Retirement at Home and on the Job 498 Entr'acte. Toward an Understanding of Slower Growth 522 PART III. THE SOURCES OF FASTER AND SLOWER GROWTH 533 16. The Great Leap Forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: What Set of Miracles Created It? 535 17. Innovation: Can the Future Match the Great Inventions of the Past? 566 18. Inequality and the Other Headwinds: Long-Run American Economic Growth Slows to a Crawl 605 Postscript: America's Growth Achievement and the Path Ahead 641 Acknowledgments 653 Data Appendix 657 Notes 667 References 717 Credits 741 Index 745

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Book SynopsisThe book provides a tool kit for managers tasked with raising performance and sustaining motivation. Organisations are being judged by the way in which they accommodate the needs of the individual in work and life-style terms. In this context, the âsmartâ employer will not only be looking to develop policies that retain talent through recognising their work-life issues, they will be equipping their managers to manage that talent in ways which maximise the contribution that individual can make.The text introduces managers to techniques largely drawn from Brief Therapy (De Shazer & Berg). Brief Therapy is used in the UK, but primarily by social workers, psychologists and counsellors. It's application to work settings is now growing. The attraction of a Solution Focussed approach to coaching is that it offers pragmatic tools that help managers structure helping conversations.The book presents the principles of solution focussed thinking in a language that is readily understandable by managers, and shows how those principles can be applied to a range of issues which managers may find themselves facing as willing or enforced coaches. The book places coaching as an activity which can be done as part of the daily process of management.Trade Review"..Packed with strategies and insights that would make even a professional coach shine, it offers a practical, focused toolkit capable of giving every manager effective coaching skills.” John Lees, career strategist and author of Take Control of Your CareerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Coaching – why all the attention now?; 2 The Coach in You; 3 Before You Assess Others Assess Yourself; 4 Getting STARTED; 5 Set Up; 6 Tangibles; 7 Assumptions; 8 Reality Bites; 9 Targeting; 10 Emergent Solutions; 11 Delivery; 12 Leadership and Coaching; Index

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