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Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there

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It may seem that the Bay Area has the best of it in Trump's America, but there is a dark side of success.

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To achieve peace, the authors stress the avoidance of repressive government and civil conflict. They show that countries tend to enjoy all three pillars of prosperity when they have evolved cohesive political institutions that promote common interests, guaranteeing the provision of public goods.

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Provides a framework for analyzing, choosing, and implementing e-business enterprises. This book describes eight atomic business models. It introduces the e-business model schematic and shows how leaders can assess their business models, identify the models that suit them, and combine those models to create value propositions for customers.

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Reveals how Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, and companies including Palm and NTT DoCoMo, have orchestrated industry innovations to support their products - and, in the process, established dominant market positions. This book shows how firms can orchestrate innovation to ensure their own competitive futures, and drive the evolution of their industry.

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It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing markets characterized by growing uncertainty, together with the advent of new competitors, are further complicating the task of valuing acquisitions. Too often, managers rely on flawed valuation models or their intuition and exper

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Argues that we must restore genuine decision-making to our financial planning. Presenting a financial model that uses probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory, this title challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about risk management.

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The focus of this book is how developing nations can learn to compete successfully in the global economy by applying the principles of competitive analysis. Seven key patterns of underperformance are identified and principles and practices are offered for overcoming them.

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Recommends a useful agenda for CEOs - one that not only require them to rebuild their tarnished reputations, but to partner with government in charting a course. It contains understandings for anyone who wants to understand better the context for the changes sweeping over our country. and our world, and the role private enterprises must play.

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Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.

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Presents an overview of financial risk modeling, with a focus on practical applications, empirical reality, and historical perspective. Covering the mean-variance analysis and the capital asset pricing model, this title offers an account of factor models, which are the key to successful risk analysis in every economic climate.

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Helps you kick habits such as trying too hard to please, acting up to get attention, or playing the brown-nosing game. The author's proven framework identifies four "power types" and the family systems that generate them, and then using stories from her clients shows the best ways to think about your interactions with peers, and bosses.

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"Previously published in hardcover in 1999 by Career Press...Originally published as Secrets of Power Negotiating for Salespeople."--Title page verso.

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For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. This title examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of Africa in the 1430s to America's conflicts in the Middle East.

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Describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century - fueled by coal and steam engines - redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world.

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To be effective, managers have to be skilled at acquiring power - and using that power to persuade others to get things done. This guide offers methods for commanding attention, changing minds, and influencing decision-makers up and down the organizational ladder.