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What Is National Wealth? How Is National Wealth Created? Who Creates National Wealth?
SHORT STORY # 37. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The history is full of examples how some nations became great and contributed to the development of civilization—all because they built national wealth. In the last 20 years no national wealth was built in the USA. Why is the creation of national wealth so important? Some examples. Egyptians: pyramids;...
Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung
Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This study focuses on a single Korean "chaebol", the business conglomerate which dominates the Korean economy. Hyundai, the largest chaebol, is examined in the context of Korean history, ancient and modern, and the Confucian value system that permeates all Korean life.
What Stays in Vegas
The World of Personal Data-Lifeblood of Big Business-and the End of Privacy as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone.
In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many...
by G. K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This antiquarian book contains Gilbert Keith Chesterton's 1926 thesis, "The Outline of Sanity". Within this famous book Chesterton explores the subjects of poverty, concentration of wealth, work, agriculture, machinery, and capital gain. Chesterton championed wealth distribution, but was...
by O-O Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Three years ago the world plunged into an economic recession. Unemployment soared, countries struggled to pay their bills and businesses went broke.
But not in one country. Australia didn't have a recession, unemployment remained low and business sailed along smoothly.
Why?
How did they emerge with the highest minimum wages in the western world.
The Age of Access
The New Culture of Hypercapitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2001
Visionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering "the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives" (The Seattle Times).
Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside...
The New World of Economics
A Remake of a Classic for New Generations of Economics Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics would be taught at the introductory and advanced levels of economics for all time. In a very real sense,...
Sustainable Investing
Revolutions in theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A seminal shift has taken place in the world of investing. A clear and overarching reality has emerged which must be solved: financial considerations must factor in sustainability considerations for ongoing societal success, while sustainability issues equally need to be driven by a business case....
by Filip Ilkowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Social Enterprise in Ireland: A People’s Economy? draws together contributions from leading academics as well as practitioners in the social enterprise, finance, and community development sectors in Ireland and Europe.
It aims to examine the concept of social enterprise, and what part it...
Environmental Certification for Organisations and Products
Management approaches and operational tools
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Environmental certification is an effective tool for managing the environmental impact of companies, leveraging their competitive capabilities and ensuring their compliance with environmental principles. A growing number of countries across the world are adopting this practice and the growth of new...
Protests as Events
Politics, Activism and Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal resistance be understood as events?
Within the field of Events Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three categories—culture, sport or business....
Green Scorecard
Measuring the Return on Investment in Sustainability Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Is sustainability sustainable?
Too many organizations are currently caught in a "green slump," struggling to engage in sustainability projects and making far less progress than they should be. Some businesses are striving to lead the way by equipping their facilities with new, energy-saving...
The Food Sharing Revolution
How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn't own his cows, his land, his seed, or even all...