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The must-read summary of Lars Tvede's book: "Supertrends: Winning Investment Strategies for the Coming Decades".
This complete summary of the ideas from Lars Tvede's book "Supertrends" shows that in order to be highly successful as an investor, there's no point looking at projected profits for investments in the next twelve months alone. Instead, you need to take into account the big picture and the underlying long-term trends to make astute investment...
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In a time when the one-percenters seem to have it all, author Munir Moon builds a case for the average Joe in his eye-opening new book, The Middle Class Comeback. So take heart and take control of your fears with Moon's informative-and ultimately inspiring-look at the middle class.
Moon, a former financial-industry executive and current business owner, uses his years of expertise to paint a portrait of the middle class that is not nearly, as grim...
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Essays from Generation Y, or Millennials, around the globe on what it's like for them to try to make it in the real world after graduation.
America stands at a precipice; limitless consumption, reckless economics, and disregard for the environment have put the country on a collision course with disaster. It's up to a younger generation to rebuild according to new forms of organization, and Share or Die is a collection of messages from the front lines.
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Spooner, an intellectual activist and later a philosophical anarchist, was one of 19th century America's most profound minds. He produced some of the finest constitutional arguments ever devised against slavery. He was equally concerned with the subtle subjugation of free citizens by a governmental system which he saw becoming increasingly restrictive of personal rights. Spooner had a genius for opposing the government. His protests were not limited...
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"Winner of the 2014 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by chosen by Bjorn Wahlroos" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013" "A "Best Business Book of the Year for 2013" selected on LinkedIn by Matthew Bishop, Economics Editor of The Economist"
Edmund Phelps was the 2006 Nobel Laureate in economics....
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The aging of the boomer generation has unleashed a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. In The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith counters the catastrophic predictions with a far more optimistic scenario.
Drawing on evidence that most baby boomers plan on working long past age sixty-five, Goldsmith argues that they will have a constructive impact on society. By assuming...
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"One of Project Syndicate's Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kermal Dervi )" Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. Her books include The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being and Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires.
How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating...
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If you could wave a magic wand and make one or two policy or institutional changes to brighten the U.S. economy's long-term growth prospects, what would you change and why? That was the question asked to the 51 contributors to this volume. These essays originally appeared in conjunction with a conference on the future of U.S. economic growth held at the Cato Institute in December 20014. Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research at the Cato Institute...
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Lee J. Alston is the Ostrom Chair, professor of economics and law, and director of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, as well as research associate at the NBER. Marcus André Melo is professor of political science at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Bernardo Mueller is professor of economics at the University of Brasília. Carlos Pereira is professor of political science at the Brazilian School of Administration at the Getúlio...
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Companies and industries rise and fall...fortunes are made and lost...jobs are created and destroyed by the millions. These are the headline-grabbing dramas of modern economic life. But, residing beneath the booms and busts is a more deeply consequential drama: the long-term growth of real gross domestic product (GDP). Often only apparent years after happening, shifts in long term growth rates are as momentous as they are subtle.
This new ebook examines...
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From international best-selling author and futurist Doug Stephens, Resurrecting Retail is not just a riveting story of the unprecedented crash of an industry but a roadmap for its rebirth.
Few crises in modern history have so completely disrupted every aspect of daily life as the Covid-19 pandemic. Every market, industry, profession, service, and category of product was in some way rocked by its impact.
Researched in real time from inside the crisis,...
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Since 1998, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Rajasthan have partnered to bring sustainable development to the cities and towns of Rajasthan, in northwest India. Through the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP), extensive work has been undertaken to address urban challenges such as widespread poverty, inadequate infrastructure, and a harsh climate. This publication reflects on Rajasthan's development issues and...
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That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves.
The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Even many full-time and professional jobs are experiencing this precarious shift. Within a decade, a near-majority of the 145 million...
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The must-read summary of Kenichi Ohmae's book: "The Invisible Continent: Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jenichi Ohmae's book "The Invisible Continent" shows that the discovery of a new continent has always created substantial opportunities to create wealth. According to Ohmae, the same opportunities are arising today, not because of the discovery of a new physical continent but due to the emergence...
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How the Coming Global Crash Will Create a Historic Gold Rush demonstrates the causal relationship between a deep economic crisis and a historical increase in the price of gold... Jimmy Carter struggled with the legacy of the OPEC oil embargo causing large lines at the gas pump to pay surging gasoline costs. After the 1973 embargo, the price of oil quadrupled, forcing the United States into a deep recession that lasted into 1975... In 1980... gold...
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What was the Great Depression? What caused it and how was it addressed? This educational resource dives deep into the economic problems and solutions prevalent during the Great Depression. It also includes lessons on the new economic deals, which have been designed to counter the negative effects of the Depression. Encourage your child to read and learn. Grab a copy today.
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Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force...
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Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations. Today, practically everything we buy, everywhere we shop, and every service we secure comes from a heavily concentrated market.
This is a world where four major banks control most of our money, four airlines shuttle most of us around the country, and four major cell phone...
260) When Capitalism Ran Amok and Brought the Capitalist Economy to the Brink of Collapse, Socialism W
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Unrestricted and unchecked American capitalism has run amok and 2 times brought the USA economy to the brink of collapse: "The Great Depression of the 1930s," and a Financial Crisis of 2008.
The 1st time capitalism ran amok was in the 1930s. It resulted in a national crisis called "The Great Depression of the 1930s," 1929–1939, that devastated the nation. Socialism was called to rescue the economy.
The 2nd time capitalism ran amok was in 2008,...