Columbia Press: 2357 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring...
Creating a Learning Society
A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with...
The Quest for Security
Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising from the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing...
Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy
Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Industrial policy, once relegated to resource allocation, technological improvements, and the modernization of industries, should be treated as a serious component of sustainability and developmental economics. A rich set of complimentary institutions, shared behavioral norms, and public policies...
The Economists’ Voice 2.0
The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems featured a core collection of accessible, timely essays on the challenges facing today's global markets and financial institutions. The Economists' Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More is the next installment in...
Too Little, Too Late
The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The current approach to resolving sovereign debt crises does not work: sovereign debt restructurings come too late and address too little. Though unresolved debt crises impose enormous costs on societies, many recent restructurings have not been deep enough to provide the conditions for economic recovery...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of...
Designing for Growth
A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: "design thinking," or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind-set, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking,...
The Designing for Growth Field Book
A Step-by-Step Project Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G), Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie showed how design can boost innovation and drive growth. In this companion guide, also suitable as a stand-alone project workbook, the authors provide a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G...
Sustainability Management
Lessons from and for New York City, America, and the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Can we grow our world economy and create opportunities for the poor while keeping the planet intact? Can we maintain our vibrant, dynamic lifestyles while ensuring the Earth stays productive and viable? Aimed at managers, students, scholars, and policymakers, Sustainability Management answers these...
Rescuing Retirement
A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don’t act to fix this broken system, rates of impoverishment for...
Creative Strategy
A Guide for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches what modern neuroscience tells us about how creative ideas form in the human mind. In his new book, Creative Strategy, Duggan offers a step-by-step guide to help...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
More than thirty leading scholars and finance practitioners discuss the theory and practice of using enterprise-risk management (ERM) to increase corporate values. ERM is the corporate-wide effort to manage the right-hand side of the balance sheet-a firm's total liability structure-in ways that enable...