Columbia University Press: 2355 books
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...
The Mutual Fund Industry
Competition and Investor Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth, are sure to be more critical in the future. Because the size of fees paid by investors to mutual fund advisers can strongly affect the return on investment, these fees have become a contentious...
by William Tabb
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Rapid growth, reduced poverty, and stable societies: the announced benefits of the world economy celebrated by neoliberal proponents of "the Washington consensus" have failed to materialize. What does this failure mean for future world order and the U.S. role as global hegemon? Addressing...
Buddhism and Science
Breaking New Ground
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
Buddhism and Science brings together distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists to examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Eastern spirituality. This compilation was inspired by a suggestion made by His Holiness the Dalai...
A Brief History of Entrepreneurship
The Pioneers, Profiteers, and Racketeers Who Shaped Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs often butt up against processes, technologies, social conventions, and even laws. So they circumvent, innovate, and violate to obtain what...
Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks
One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic guest, he learned firsthand from the monks as they grew an incredibly...