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Leadership PQ
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
IQ and EQ (Emotional Intelligence) are not enough. Creating profit, growth and a better future for society is the new leadership challenge. In a shared power world, no single organization is in control or can deliver alone. Leadership PQ is for leaders working with multiple stakeholders to achieve...
by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2008
This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an economic,...
by D. J. Summers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Despite the unique culture surrounding cannabis, this new industry follows the same economic principles as does any other agricultural product—that is, it would if the federal government allowed it to. Four distinct challenges prevent the cannabis industry from becoming fully legal and federally...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened...
World War 3.0
Microsoft, the US Government, and the Battle for the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are...
More Human
Designing a World Where People Come First
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
People feel angry and let down by their leaders, as well as by the institutions that dominate their lives: political parties, government bureaucracy, and corporations. Yet the cause of this malaise, according to political–advisor–turned–tech–CEO Steve Hilton, is not being addressed by politicians...
American Monopology
A Study of American Business and Monopolies
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In this study, author Jayson Reeves examines the role that monopolies and market-controlling businesses play in the United States, considering the good, bad, and more complex aspects involved.
Drawing on his experiences as a former partner in a civil engineering firm, he takes a birds-eye view...
by John B. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Leading economist John B. Taylor’s straightforward plan to rebuild America’s economic future by returning to its founding principles.
Mired in a crippling economic slump and hamstrung by partisan political debates, America faces substantial economic challenges, from widespread unemployment...
by Kenneth E. Scott, George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book examines the dangers of continuing government bailouts and offers alternative strategies designed to produce growth based on the vigor of the private sector with inflation under control. The expert authors show that it is indeed possible to explain the causes of the crisis in understandable...
Bailouts
Public Money, Private Profit
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive bailouts...
How You Got Screwed
What Big Banks, Big Government, and Big Business Don't Want You to Know—and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
If you’re like most people, you want nothing more than a fair shot in life: a chance to seek out opportunities, work hard, and make your own way in this world. But as author Allen Marshall explains in How You Got Screwed, the game has been rigged, making it almost impossible for you to win.
How...
by Peter Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
In the 1950s, the USA was the most powerful and successful nation on earth. In this book, the author categorically explains what happened and what caused this once great nation’s decline.What's Wrong With America examines the major problems facing America today, including a fact-filled...
Money, Markets, and Government
The Next 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The 2008-2009 financial crisis and Great Recession have vastly increased the power and scope of the Federal Reserve, and radically changed the financial landscape. This ebook, an edited volume of papers presented at the Cato Institute’s 30th Annual Monetary Conference, examines those changes and considers...
Uber-Positive
Why Americans Love the Sharing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Entire industries are being transformed, consumers have more power than ever before, and people are finding new ways to earn a living-even in today’s slow economic recovery. All of these improvements stem from the rise of the so-called sharing economy.
Even in the face of these benefits,...