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Conscious Business Development: How Business Owners and Leaders Can Become the Engines That Create Value and Drive WealthSustainable development is an elusive prize for many businesses. Too often owners and executives spend most of their time involved in the day-to-day activities of the business and not enough time developing and executing a strategic business development strategy. Sustainable business development is a...
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Ei Impact: Emotional Intelligence Coaching & TrainingThis iceberg model for leadership effectiveness is a good visual to explain the hidden dimensions that make a leader successful.Impact is what people see, and what your desired outcome is; everything underneath is what is required to have a bold and consistent impact. These...
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California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental LeaderA political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the present Over the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy...
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Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in ChinaHow individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted cities Over the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal...
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The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational OrganizationsHow one global organization's lingua franca mandate shaped the lives of its employees around the world For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border business, yet studies on global language strategies have been scarce. Providing a rare behind-the-scenes look at...
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The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of CapitalismA fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lens What's wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted in utilitarian terms, the critique of capitalism...
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Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes WrongA revealing look at the common causes of failures in randomized control experiments during field reseach--and how to avoid them All across the social sciences, from development economics to political science, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the...
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A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial FragilityHow investor expectations move markets and the economy The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession...
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How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and FutureA powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuan At first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power's currency--the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and...
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern WorldHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D....
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Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible EconomyThe first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in...
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Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New EconomicsWhy economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiency One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible...
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Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn'tA timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeed--and those that don't Fiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits have to be tackled aggressively at all times and...
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RobustnessThe standard theory of decision making under uncertainty advises the decision maker to form a statistical model linking outcomes to decisions and then to choose the optimal distribution of outcomes. This assumes that the decision maker trusts the model completely. But what should a...
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The Social Life of MoneyA reevaluation of what money is--and what it might be Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of...
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Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom UpHow ideas in complexity can be used to develop more effective public policy Complexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck...
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Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban EconomyHow educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations In today's new economy--in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based--many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status...
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The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off - Updated EditionJustin Yifu Lin's groundbreaking account of how developing countries can help themselves--now fully updated How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for...
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The Paradox of Vulnerability: States, Nationalism, and the Financial CrisisWhy are small and culturally homogeneous nation-states in the advanced capitalist world so prosperous? Examining how Denmark, Ireland, and Switzerland managed the 2008 financial crisis, The Paradox of Vulnerability shows that this is not an accident. John Campbell and John Hall argue that a...
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Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional ChangeBrazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did...
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