Labour / income economics Books
The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit Entrepreneurs versus Incumbents: Who Creates the
Book SynopsisWhat are the characteristics of jobs in entrepreneurial firms as compared to jobs in incumbent firms? Even though this question has been addressed by many researchers before us, we provide new evidence to the field since we measure the entrepreneur as the organic new firm. In the literature, the majority of studies have focused on entrepreneurs as measured by small or new firms. By organic new firms, we mean new firms that are not the result of restructurings or organizing existing or additional activities in a formally new firm. Moreover, we distinguish entrepreneurial firms by different types and distinguish between growing and declining industry-region clusters. Our results differ from the findings in the existing literature. Specifically, we find that compared to incumbents, entrepreneurial firms have higher total factor productivity, are more skill intensive, and pay higher wages. The differences are more pronounced in growing clusters. Moreover, the results show important differences between different types of entrepreneurial firms. Specifically, spin-offs are found to enjoy the largest productivity advantage. The wage and skill premiums at the firm level disappear at the job level, as larger incumbents are both more skill intensive and pay higher wages than smaller incumbents.
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The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit Job Quality by Entrepreneurial Spinoffs
Book SynopsisWe study whether entrepreneurial spinoffs are important drivers of industry dynamics. More precisely, we investigate whether the quality of jobs in spinoff entrepreneurs are higher than for other entrepreneurs. We distinguish spinoff firms by different types and distinguish between growing and declining industry-region clusters. We find that spinoffs on average have higher wages, are more skill intensive, have higher sales per worker and are more productive than non-spinoff entrepreneurial firms. The differences are more pronounced in growing clusters. The results even hold when we control for worker heterogeneity and industry and region clusters characteristics. An important feature of the analysis is that we measure the entrepreneur as the organic new firm. By organic new firm, we mean new firms that are not the result of restructurings or organising existing or additional activities in a formally new firm.
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International Labour Office Social dimensions of free trade agreements
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE MAKING OF A CATASTROPHE: The Disastrous
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Oxford University Press Ale Beer and Brewsters in England
Book SynopsisWomen brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London--as well as in many towns and villages--were male, not female.Drawing on a wide variety of sources--such as literary and artistic materials, court records, accounts, and administrative orders--Judith Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) slowly left the trade. She tells a story of commercial growth, gild formation, changing technologies, innovative regulations, and finally, enduring ideas that linked brewsters with drunkenness and disorder. Examining this instance of seemingly dramatic change in women''s status, Bennett argues that it included significant elements of continuity. Women might not have brewed in 1600 as often as they had in 1300, but they still worked predominantly in low-status, low-skilled, and poorly remunerated tasks. Using the experiences of brewsters to rewrite the history of women''s work duringTrade Reviewfascinating facts and figures * Denis Kilcommons, Huddersfield Daily Examiner *This is a stimulating book setting out developments in the brewing industry in a thought-provoking way ... The book is well written, supplied with excellent endnotes testifying to the breadth of the author's scholarly contacts as well as her own researches, and provided with a full bibliography, helpful index and a useful note on pre-decimal currency and medieval liquid measures. * Helen Jewell, Urban History *an original contribution to this history of drinking and brewing in England ... Bennett's original contribution to the field is the study that she has made of the surviving records for breaches of the assize of ale. Bennett's volume will be of considerable interest to scholars and students working in a number of different areas. * The Times Higher Education Supplement *
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Oxford University Press Inc Out to Work
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of women''s work into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.Trade ReviewPraise for the Previous Edition:Impressive and deftly written....An example or two cannot do justice to the variety of materials and ideas the author draws together to explain how women workers have functioned as a low-paid reserve force, and why, as wage work became the rule rather than the exception in the 20th century, they found themselves in marginal jobs stereotyped as feminine. * The New York Times Book Review *Comprehensive and packed with information. * St. Louis Post-Dispatch *Without a doubt the single best survey of transformation of women's paid and unpaid work from the colonial period to the present. * American Historical Review *
£22.79
Oxford University Press The Mighty Experiment
Book SynopsisBy the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pampTrade Review""Seymour Drescher's magnificent book on the British Act of Emancipation of 1833, and many other things besides, explains the role of the eighteenth-century scince of political economy in the anti-slavery movement."-EH-NET
£29.44
Oxford University Press, USA Industrial Organization A European Perspective
Book SynopsisA guide to the main determinants of firm structure, market structure, industrial innovation, and static market performance. It also looks at the policy issues raised by collusion and the behaviour of dominant firms, with reference to EU competition policy, focusing on performance in and policy toward imperfectly competitive international markets.Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Background ; 2. Oligopoly markets: noncooperative behaviour ; 3. Collusion and tacit collusion ; 4. Dominance ; 5. Innovation ; 6. Organization ; 7. Imperfect competition and international trade: I ; 8. Imperfect competition and international trade: II ; 9. Trade policy and competition policy ; 10. Market integration in the European Union ; References
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Oxford University Press Models for Dynamic Macroeconomics
Book SynopsisModels for Dynamic Macroeconomics provides the advanced student with key methodological tools for the dynamic analysis of a core selection of macroeconomic phenomena, including consumption and investment choices, employment and unemployment outcomes, and economic growth. The technical treatment of these tools will enable the student to handle current journal literature, while not assuming any particular familiarity with advanced analytical tools or mathematical notions. As these tools are introduced, they are related to particular applications to illustrate their use. Each chapter includes exercises which propose extensions to the model discussed in the text as well as end of chapter review exercises designed to consolidate learning. All exercise solutions are provided at the end of the book and further reading is discussed at the end of each chapter.By bridging the gap between undergraduate economics and modern microfounded macroeconomic research, this book will be of interest to gradTrade Review'This excellent book, written by two leaders of their field, provides a rigorous introduction to modern dynamic macroeconomics. It provides the modern perspective on consumption, investment and labor markets before putting it all together in models of general equilibrium as well as models of coordination failures. The book provides a much needed stepping stone so that students can cross the gap between undergraduate textbooks and the modern literature. I recommend it highly for serious advanced undergraduate courses, as a basic text for graduate courses, and as a reference text.' * Harald Uhlig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Dynamic Consumption Theory ; 1.1 Permanent Income and Optimal Consumption ; 1.2 Empirical Issues ; 1.3 The Role of Precautionary Saving ; 1.4 Consumption and Financial Returns ; Appendix A1: Dynamic Programming ; Review Exercises ; Further Reading ; References ; 2. Dynamic Models of Investment ; 2.1 Convex Adjustment Costs ; 2.2 Continuous-Time Optimization ; 2.3 Steady-State and Adjustment Paths ; 2.4 The Value of Capital and Future Cash Flows ; 2.5 Average Value Capital ; 2.6 A Dynamic IS-LM Model ; 2.7 Linear Adjustment Costs ; 2.8 Irreversible Investment Under Certainty ; Appendix A2: Hamiltonian Optimization Methods ; Review Exercises ; Further Readings ; References ; 3. Adjustment Costs in the Labor Market ; 3.1 Hiring and Firing Costs ; 3.2 The Dynamics of Employment ; 3.3 Average Long-Run Effects ; 3.4 Adjustment Costs and Labor Allocation ; Appendix A3: (Two-State) Markov Processes ; Review Exercises ; Further Reading ; References ; 4. Growth in Dynamic General Equilibrium ; 4.1 Production, Savings, and Growth ; 4.2 Dynamic Optimization ; 4.3 Decentralized Production and Investment Decisions ; 4.4 Measurement of "Progress": the Solow Residual ; 4.5 Endogenous Growth and Market Imperfections ; Review Exercises ; Further Exercises ; References ; 5. Coordination and Externalities in Macroeconomics ; 5.1 Trading Externalities and Multiple Equilibria ; 5.2 A Search Model of Money ; 5.3 Search Externalities in the Labor Market ; 5.4 Dynamics ; 5.5 Externalities and Efficiency ; Review Exercises ; Further Reading ; References ; Answers to Exercises
£60.80
Oxford University Press The Japanese Employment System
Book SynopsisThe stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan. This comprehensive study looks at how the Japanese employment system is adapting to its new economic environment. Using the latest statistical evidence, the book focusses on the growing use of part-time and other forms of atypical employment relationships and illustrates how this is expressed in several different parts of the labour market. Particular attention is given to the changing situation of women, the decline of the family enterprise, the problems faced by older workers and the poor prospects for recent high school graduates. The recent rise in unemployment, including hidden unemployment is analysed. Relations between management and employees in Japanese corporations are also becoming more individualistic with the introduction of performance-related pay and the declining importance of enterprise unions. As a result of these changes, the future may seTrade ReviewRebick does a masterful job of drawing on a wide range of published statistics and reports to cover major features of employment relations and their recent changes in Japan."The book is amazingly up-to-date and wide ranging in its coverage". * Journal of Japanese Studies *Rebick is to be saluted for his magnificent presentation of so many issuesa superb English-language guide on the Japanese labor market. I recommend it to all readers with an interest in Japanese employment issues. * Social Science Japan Journal *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Japanese employment system ; 3. Changes for regular employees ; 4. Non-standard employment ; 5. Industrial relations ; 6. Unemployment and inequality ; 7. Women ; 8. Older workers ; 9. Youth ; 10. The declining labour force ; 11. Conclusions and prospects
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Oxford University Press, USA Econometric Methods for Labour Economics
Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible presentation of the standard statistical techniques used by labour economists. It emphasises both the input and the output of empirical analysis and covers five major topics concerning econometric methods used in labour economics: regression and related methods, choice modelling, selectivity issues, duration analysis, and policy evaluation techniques. Each of these is presented in terms of model specification, possible estimation problems, diagnostic checking, and interpretation of the output. It aims to provide guidance to practitioners on how to use the techniques and how to make sense of the results that are produced. It covers methods that are considered to be ''standard'' tools in labour economics, but which are often given only a brief and highly technical treatment in econometrics textbooks. It will be a useful reference for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates, researchers embarking on empirical labour market analysis, and for more experienTable of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Use of Linear Regression in Labour Economics ; 2. Further Regression Issues in Labour Economics ; 3. Dummy and Ordinal Dependent Variables ; 4. Selectivity ; 5. Duration Models ; 6. Evaluation of Policy Measures ; Conclusion
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics, the first of its kind, comprises 25 chapters contributed by leading scholars in the field who summarize the state of the art in managerial economics and point the way toward future areas of study for students, researchers and practitioners in all business-related disciplines.Trade ReviewThe Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics is a must-have reference tool for business practitioners, consultants, and scholars. The editors have assembled a distinguished list of expert? * spanning over two-dozen areas of the fiel?to provide readers with a wealth of information and tools not found in basic textbooks.Michael R. Baye, Bert Elwert Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University *Table of ContentsPart 1: Nature, Scope, and Future of Managerial Economics ; 1. Managerial economics: Introduction and overview ; 2. Managerial economics: present and future ; Part 2: Managing Demand and Cost Conditions ; 3. Estimating market power and strategies ; 4. Advances in production and cost frontier analysis of the firm ; 5. Supply chain design and risk management ; 6. Combinatorial Auctions ; Part 3: Analytical Foundations of Modern Managerial Economics ; 7. Game and information theory in modern managerial economics ; 8. Issues in analysis of time, risk, and uncertainty ; 9. Behavioral economics and managerial decision making ; Part 4: Pricing and Marketing Tactics and Strategies ; 10. Advances in pricing strategy and tactics ; 11. Product development and promotion ; Part 5: Strategy and Business Competition ; 12. Market imperfections and sustainable competitive advantage ; 13. The new managerial economics of firm growth: the role of intangible assets and capabilities ; 14. Strategies for network industries ; 15. Internalization theory as the general theory of international strategic management: past, present and future ; 16. Competitive strategy in the nonprofit sector ; Part 6: Firm Boundaries and Organizational Architecture ; 17. Organizational design and firm performance ; 18. Design and implementation of pay for performance ; 19. Vertical merger ; 20. The evolving modern theory of the firm ; Part 7: Financial Structure, Incentives, and Governance ; 21. Financing the business firm ; 22. Corporate governance and organizational performance ; Part 8: Public Policy for Managers ; 23. Managing workplace safety and health ; 24. Merger strategies and antitrust concerns ; 25. On the profitability of corporate environmentalism
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Penguin Books Ltd Limitarianism
Book SynopsisThe best case I''ve read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth' Richard Wilkinson''One of the most talked-about books to the moment Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn't just about saving the poorest from destitution, but about putting a cap on how much the richest are able to own'' SpectatorNo-one deserves to be a millionaire. Not even you. We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn''t change. Or at least, not immediately.In this astonishing, eye-opening intervention, world-leading philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns exposes the true extent of our wealth problem, which has spent the past fifty years silently spiralling out of control. In moral, political, economic, social, environmental and psychological terms, she shows, extreme wealth is not only unjustifiable but harmful to us all - the rich included.In place of our current system, Robeyns offers a breathtakingly clear alternative: limitarianism. The answer to so many of the problems posed by neoliberal capitalism - and the opportunity for a vastly better world - lies in placing a hard limit on the wealth that any one person can accumulate. Because nobody deserves to be a millionaire. Not even you.*Shortlisted for the Socrates Philosophy Prize*Trade ReviewThe best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth. Even the super-rich might be glad if there was a finishing line! -- Richard WilkinsonYou might find yourself, as I did, underlining a sentence or three on every page, and adding exclamation points in the margin -- Tim Adams * Observer *Valuable, intriguing, provocative ... Robeyns poses a question that very rarely gets asked in mainstream politics ... How much is too much? * Guardian *She’s done the maths. We need Limitarianism. Urgently * Irish Examiner *Provocative ... begs an interesting debate about society's future * The Times *A landmark ... gripping, riveting, vivid ... We need to embrace, as Robeyns so compellingly argues, limits on income and wealth. * Inequality.org *Powerful – a must-read -- Thomas PikettyEffortlessly navigating between ethics, political theory, economics and public policy, Ingrid Robeyns’ nuanced and persuasive defence of limitarianism is also a much-needed manifesto for reimagining political institutions -- Lea YpiIs it possible to meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet? Definitely not in a world dominated by extreme wealth, as Ingrid Robeyns powerfully argues. This landmark book combines meticulous logic with compelling personal stories to draw everyone - from the super-rich to the super-riled - into one of the most critical public debates of our times. Read it. -- Kate RaworthA compelling case for limiting extreme wealth, along economic, political and moral lines ... This argument has never been more important, and this book is a persuasive call to action -- Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts AmherstAn urgent, thought provoking treatise that is both a compelling critique of limitless inequality and an imaginative account of a world without the superrich -- Peter GeogheganIngrid Robeyns has written an essential book from a radical point of view. It is high time someone asked the question, "Is there such a thing as having too much money?" Along with its corollary question, 'So what are we going to do about it?' Robeyns tackles both with deep knowledge, experience and empathy -- Abigail Disney, filmmaker, philanthropist, and activistMany people accept that there is a threshold that no one should fall below. But few have thought that there is a threshold that no one should be free to soar above. In this wonderful book, Ingrid Robeyns presents a novel and nuanced set of arguments for just such an upper threshold. This is a model of how to bring rigorous analysis to bear on practical issues, and to do so in an engaging, humane and accessible way -- Debra SatzRobeyns proves that in a true democracy there are no rights without duties – no wealth without limits. Limitarianism offers a way to re-democratise wealth and thus re-socialise the richest 1%. -- Marlene Engelhorn, co-founder of taxmenowGripping ... we need to embrace a limitarian ethos and free our world once and for all from the fabulously rich. -- Sam Pizzigati * Counterpunch *There is a limit beyond which additional wealth can’t do much to enhance its owner’s life or happiness. But our economic system generates fortunes far beyond any such limit. Ingrid Robeyns makes a convincing case that an upper limit on wealth would be good for society as a whole and even for the wealthy themselves -- John QuigginRobeyns’ argument that top heavy wealth is sinking living standards for the many, spreading economic fear that authoritarians exploit is sound and her thoughtful ideas for reining in extreme wealth are provocative -- David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winnerLimiting extreme wealth is an idea whose time has surely come and Ingrid Robeyns makes a powerful case for why this should be a priority for public and political debate. Limitarianism builds on what the epidemiology shows so clearly - inequality damages all of us and it needs to be tackled with the greatest urgency -- Kate PickettA withering critique of the ethical, moral, and fiscal harms of unlimited wealth concentration . . . [This] caustic but balanced attack offers an equitable economic compromise * Kirkus Reviews *Perhaps the most blasphemous idea in contemporary discourse -- George Monbiot
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ABC-CLIO Oil and Labor in the Middle East
Book SynopsisHe explores facets of the expatriate experience that have received little treatment elsewhere: the labor pyramid, the relationship between expatriate and host country labor force, the commercial/industrial environment, bargaining position and risk, and the governments of countries sending labor overseas.Table of ContentsThe Commercial/Industrial Environment The Saudi Labor Market The Labor Pyramid Composition of Work Forces The Make-up of Gross Salary The Value of Savings Employment Agents Productivity, Training, and Saudiization The Saudi Firm Bargaining Position and Risk Home Country Governments Appendixes Bibliography Index
£70.00
Palgrave MacMillan UK Labour Process Theory
Book SynopsisNotes on the Contributors Introduction The Labour Process Debate: A Theoretical Review 1974-1988; C.R.Littler Crawling from the Wreckage: The Labour Process and the Politics of Production; P.Thompson Understanding the Conflict in the Labour Process: The Logic and Autonomy of Struggle; P.K.Edwards Labour and the Labour Process; M.Wardell Managerial Strategies, Activists, Techniques and Technology: Towards a Complex Theory of the Labour Process; A.Friedman A Ghost in the Machine?: The State and the Labour Process in Theory and Practice; D.Strinati Gender and the Labour Process: A Reassessment; J.West Fragmented Labours; G.Burrell Subjectivity, Power and the Labour Process; D.Knights Subjectivity and the Dialects of Praxis: Opening up the Core of Labour Process Analysis; H.Willmott IndexTable of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction The Labour Process Debate: A Theoretical Review 1974-1988; C.R.Littler Crawling from the Wreckage: The Labour Process and the Politics of Production; P.Thompson Understanding the Conflict in the Labour Process: The Logic and Autonomy of Struggle; P.K.Edwards Labour and the Labour Process; M.Wardell Managerial Strategies, Activists, Techniques and Technology: Towards a Complex Theory of the Labour Process; A.Friedman A Ghost in the Machine?: The State and the Labour Process in Theory and Practice; D.Strinati Gender and the Labour Process: A Reassessment; J.West Fragmented Labours; G.Burrell Subjectivity, Power and the Labour Process; D.Knights Subjectivity and the Dialects of Praxis: Opening up the Core of Labour Process Analysis; H.Willmott Index
£161.10
Taylor & Francis Ltd Economic Cooperation in the Gulf Issues in the
Book SynopsisWith global concerns over rising oil prices, this book examines the major issues facing the economies of the Arab Gulf today, covering all six of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC) states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Providing a detailed account of the central features of the economies of the Arab Gulf, this book draws out the critical trends that will shape the region in future years. It includes an in-depth analysis of topical issues such as the AGCC monetary union, intra-AGCC national labour movement, Islamic banking and programmes to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The book: assesses the costs and benefits of the proposed monetary union, assessing whether AGCC economic structures have converged sufficiently, and whether these economies have the internal flexibility necessary to make the union work effectively investigates intra-national labour mobility in the context of the forthcoming monetary union and identifies the most crucial features in a successful common AGCC employment strategy considers the fortunes of the prominent Islamic banks in the region examines the impact on liquidity of the external economic environment and regulatory policy contrasts and compares some of the major SME financing schemes, focusing in particular on SME financing in Oman. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The AGCC Monetary Union 2. Intra-national Labour Mobility between AGCC States 3. Some Aspects of Liquidity of Islamic Banks in Two AGCC States 4. Financing Small and Medium Enterprises in the AGCC States: A Case of Oman 5. Conclusion
£181.72
Basic Books Rise of the Robots Technology and the Threat of a
Book Synopsis"Lucid, comprehensive, and unafraid...an indispensable contribution to a long-running argument." -Los Angeles TimesTrade Review"Of all the moderns who have written on automation and rising joblessness, Martin Ford is the original. His Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future is due out this May... Self-recommending." --Marginal Revolution "Robots, and their like, are on the rise. Their impact will be an important question in the next decade and beyond. Martin Ford has been thinking in this area before most others, so this book deserves very careful consideration." --Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University "It's not easy to accept, but it's true. Education and hard work will no longer guarantee success for huge numbers of people as technology advances. The time for denial is over. Now it's time to consider solutions and there are very few proposals on the table. Rise of the Robots presents one idea, the basic income model, with clarity and force. No one who cares about the future of human dignity can afford to skip this book." --Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget and Who Owns the Future? "Compelling and well-written... In his conception, the answer is a combination of short-term policies and longer-term initiatives, one of which is a radical idea that may gain some purchase among gloomier techno-profits: a guaranteed income for all citizens. If that stirs up controversy, that's the point. The book is both lucid and bold, and certainly a starting point for robust debate about the future of all workers in an age of advancing robotics and looming artificial intelligence systems." --ZDNet "An alarming new book." --Esquire "A thorough look at how far machines have come" --Washington Post, Innovations blog "Ford offers ideas on changes in social policies, including guaranteed income, to keep our economy humming and prepare ourselves for a more automated future." --Booklist "A careful and courageous examination of automation and its possible impact on society." --Kirkus Reviews "In Rise of the Robots, Ford coolly and clearly considers what work is under threat from automation." --New Scientist "Makes clear the need to come to grips with ever more rapidly advancing technology and its effects on how people make a living and how the economy functions." --Pittsburgh Tribune-Review "Whether you agree or not with the policy prescriptions put forward by [Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots and Anne-Marie Slaughter's Unfinished Business] these two well-written books, and quite a few will likely disagree, they are important reads for those wishing to better understand and influence the future." --Bloomberg Business, Mohamed El-Erian "Few captured the mood as well as Martin Ford in The Rise of the Robots, the winner of the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, which painted a bleak picture of the upheavals that would come as ever-greater numbers of even highly skilled workers were displaced by machines." --Financial Times "[A] breathtaking new book on modern economics." --Forbes.com "Lucid, comprehensive and unafraid to grapple fairly with those who dispute Ford's basic thesis, Rise of the Robots is an indispensable contribution to a long-running argument." --Los Angeles Times "If The Second Machine Age was last year's tech-economy title of choice, this book may be 2015's equivalent." --Financial Times, Summer books 2015, Business, Andrew Hill "[Ford's] a careful and thoughtful writer who relies on ample evidence, clear reasoning, and lucid economic analysis. In other words, it's entirely possible that he's right." --Daily Beast "Rise of the Robots is an excellent book. Fair-minded, balanced, well-researched, and fully thought through." --Inside Higher Ed, Learn blog "Surveying all the fields now being affected by automation, Ford makes a compelling case that this is an historic disruption--a fundamental shift from most tasks being performed by humans to one where most tasks are done by machines." --Fast Company "Well written with interesting stories about both business and technology." --Wired/Dot Physics Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A New York Times Bestseller Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes One of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015 "For nonfiction, I tip my hat to Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots, which is vacuuming up accolades and is recommended reading for IIF staff. Ford's analysis, in a somewhat crowded field of similar books, offers a sobering assessment of how technology (robotics, machine learning, AI, etc.) is reshaping labor markets, the composition of growth, and the distribution of income and wealth, and calls for enlightened political and policy leadership to address coming, accelerating disruptions and dislocations." --Bloomberg Business, Timothy Adams "We are in an era of technological optimism but sociological pessimism. Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots captures why these shifts are related and what challenges this might pose to our conventional economic and social infrastructures." --Bloomberg Business, Andy Haldane "Ever since the Luddites, pessimists have believed that technology would destroy jobs. So far they have been wrong. Martin Ford shows with great clarity why today's automated technology will be much more destructive of jobs than previous technological innovation. This is a book that everyone concerned with the future of work must read." --Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, co-author of How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life and author of the three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes "Martin Ford has thrust himself into the center of the debate over AI, big data, and the future of the economy with a shrewd look at the forces shaping our lives and work. As an entrepreneur pioneering many of the trends he uncovers, he speaks with special credibility, insight, and verve. Business people, policy makers, and professionals of all sorts should read this book right away--before the 'bots steal their jobs. Ford gives us a roadmap to the future." --Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor for the Economist and co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think "If the robots are coming for my job (too), then Martin Ford is the person I want on my side, not to fend them off but to construct a better world where we can all--humans and our machines--live more prosperously together. Rise of the Robots goes far beyond the usual fear-mongering punditry to suggest an action plan for a better future." --Cathy N. Davidson, Distinguished Professor and Director, The Futures Initiative, The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn "Mr. Ford lucidly sets out myriad examples of how focused applications of versatile machines (coupled with human helpers where necessary) could displace or de-skill many jobs... His answer to a sharp decline in employment is a guaranteed basic income, a safety net that he suggests would both cushion the effect on the newly unemployable and encourage entrepreneurship among those creative enough to make a new way for themselves. This is a drastic prescription for the ills of modern industrialization--ills whose severity and very existence are hotly contested. Rise of the Robots provides a compelling case that they are real, even if its more dire predictions are harder to accept." --Wall Street Journal "Well-researched and disturbingly persuasive." --Financial Times "[Rise of the Robots is]about as scary as the title suggests. It's not science fiction, but rather a vision (almost) of economic Armageddon." --Frank Bruni, New York Times "As Martin Ford documents in Rise of the Robots, the job-eating maw of technology now threatens even the nimblest and most expensively educated...the human consequences of robotization are already upon us, and skillfully chronicled here." --New York Times Book Review
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John Wiley & Sons Act Like an Owner
Book SynopsisMost workers are conditioned to view themselves as one-dimensional in relation to their companyas a salesperson, or an engineer, or a manager. But imagine the possibilities if everyone in your organization started thinking and acting like entrepreneurslike owners of the business. Imagine if your employees shared the same beliefs, both in their abilities and in the purpose of your business, and focused all their energies on making that business successfulknowing that they, in turn, would become successful as well. That is the power of an ownership culture, and this book will show you how to mobilize human intellect and ingenuity for competitive advantage. Act Like an Owner is an action guide to building a culture of employee ownership within an organization. Authors Blonchek and O'Neill present their business model, Act Like an Owner, which grew out of their experience building information technology service businesses. This model is a roadmap for applying today's mosTable of ContentsPreface ix PART I: THE INTERNAL FRANCHISE 1 1 The Power of an Ownership Culture 9 2 Creating a Workplace Brand 23 3 Modeling Your Business 43 4 Employee or Entrepreneur 69 PART II: THE LAW OF THE HARVEST 85 5 The Seeds or the Soil? 89 6 The Reward of Ownership 119 7 The First Signs of Growth 139 8 Weed and Feed 165 9 The Harvest 181 PART III: AN OWNERSHIP CULTURE AT WORK 197 10 Applying an Ownership Culture 205 11 What Goes Around Comes Around 215 Notes 225 Index 229
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Rlpg/Galleys Gender Work and Harness Racing
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