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The Consumption of Revenge

Author : Monesha Bartley

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 72 pages

File Size : 17,18 MB

Release : 2011-05-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1462858066

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Lacey, unable to deal with family circumstances, decides to leave her hometown for another, where she meets Dino and his wife Carmella. Seeing a young girl in desperate need and vulnerable, Dino and Carmella introduce Lacey to a life of prostitution. Tired of the physical and emotional abuse by Dino and Carmella, Lacey devises a plan to make both of them pay for the hurt they have caused her and try to return home to sort out her differences. After seeing her plans happen as expected, Lacey forgets the true motives of her plan and becomes very vengeful to anyone who comes in her path. Lacey will soon discover that revenge is harmful to everyone involved, but will it be too late for her to change her ways and forgive the ones who have hurt her? Hearts are broken, and lives are warped while these three sort out their differences. The Consumption of Revenge demonstrates how revenge will lead to many other problems if one cannot restrain his or her animosity and move past hurtful state of affairs.



Maynard's Revenge

Author : Lance Taylor

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 399 pages

File Size : 31,4 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0674050460

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It is now widely agreed that mainstream macroeconomics is irrelevant and that there is need for a more useful and realistic economic analysis that can provide a better understanding of the ongoing global financial and economic crisis. Lance Taylor’s book exposes the unrealistic assumptions of the rational expectations and real business cycle approaches and of mainstream finance theory. It argues that in separating monetary and financial behavior from real behavior, they do not address the ways that consumption, accumulation, and the government play in the workings of the economy. Taylor argues that the ideas of J. M. Keynes and others provide a more useful framework both for understanding the crisis and for dealing with it effectively. Keynes’s basic points were fundamental uncertainty and the absence of Say’s Law. He set up machinery to analyze the macro economy under such circumstances, including the principle of effective demand, liquidity preference, different rules for determining commodity and asset prices, distinct behavioral patterns of different collective actors, and the importance of thinking in terms of complete macro accounting schemes. Economists working in this tradition also worked out growth and cycle models. Employing these ideas throughout Maynard’s Revenge, Taylor provides an analytical narrative about the causes of the crisis, and suggestions for dealing with it.



Goliath's Revenge

Author : Todd Hewlin

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 42,27 MB

Release : 2019-01-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1119541905

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Harness your company’s incumbent advantages to win the digital disruption game Goliath’s Revenge is the practical guide for how executives and aspiring leaders of established companies can run the Silicon Valley playbook for themselves and capitalize on digital disruption. Technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, internet of things, blockchain, and immersive experiences are changing the basis of competition in every industry. New competitors are emerging while traditional ones are falling behind. Periods of intense change provide remarkable opportunities. Goliath’s Revenge delivers an insider’s view of how industry leaders like General Motors, NASA, The Weather Channel, Hitachi, Mastercard, Proctor & Gamble, Penn Medicine, Discovery, and Cisco are accelerating innovation, building new skills, and disrupting themselves to come out stronger in this post-digital age. Learn how to leverage your company’s scale, reach, data, and expertise to launch breakthrough offerings that fend off attackers and secure your position as a future industry leader. Using real success cases and recommendations, this invaluable resource shows how to realign your business model, reset your talent development priorities, and retake market share lost to digital-ready competitors. Drawing from extensive experience in digital transformation, leadership development, and strategic planning, the authors show how established companies can switch from defense to offense to thrive in this new digital environment. Learn the six new rules that separate winners from losers in the age of digital disruption Prioritize your innovation investments to rebuild your competitive moat Employ smart cannibalization to defend your core business Deliver step-change customer outcomes to grow into adjacent markets Reframe your purpose and make talent the centerpiece of your digital innovation strategy Goliath’s Revenge is a must-read for business leaders and innovators in small, mid-sized, and large organizations trying to win the digital disruption game. This book helps you reset both your company strategy and professional development priorities for long-term success.



Consumer Perception of Product Risks and Benefits

Author : Gerard Emilien

Publisher : Springer

Page : 600 pages

File Size : 35,51 MB

Release : 2017-03-14

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3319505300

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This book reflects the current thinking and research on how consumers’ perception of product risks and benefits affects their behavior. It provides the scientific, regulatory and industrial research community with a conceptual and methodological reference point for studies on consumer behavior and marketing. The contributions address various aspects of consumer psychology and behavior, risk perception and communication, marketing research strategies, as well as consumer product regulation. The book is divided into 4 parts: Product risks; Perception of product risks and benefits; Consumer behavior; Regulation and responsibility.



Revenge of the Domestic

Author : Donna Harsch

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 378 pages

File Size : 48,56 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780691059297

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International Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets with Innovation and Imitation

Author : Eugen Kováč

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,20 MB

Release : 2015

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The competition between firms from developed (DC) and less developed countries (LDC) is typically in vertically differentiated products. We consider a model of price competition between DC and LDC firms with quality choice and imitation, and study the effects of ex post tariffs. The government faces a choice between commitment to free trade and imposing a tariff. Tariffs can lead to change in the rank of qualities compared to free trade. We identify conditions under which this quality reversal takes place, and show that quality reversal is necessary for trade policy to be superior to free trade in welfare terms.



The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey

Author : Alexander C. Loney

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 21,70 MB

Release : 2019-01-25

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0190909676

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This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge plot of the Odyssey --Odysseus' surprise return to Ithaca after twenty away and his vengeance on Penelope's suitors -- is the act for which he is most celebrated. This story forms the backbone of the Odyssey. But is Odysseus' triumph over the suitors as univocally celebratory as is often assumed? Does the poem contain and even suggest other, darker interpretations of Odysseus' greatest achievement? This book offers a careful analysis of several other revenge plots in the Odyssey -- those of Orestes, Poseidon, Zeus, and the suitors' relatives. It shows how these revenge stories color one another with allusions (explicit and implicit) that connect them and invite audiences to interpret them in light of one another. These stories -- especially Odysseus' revenge upon the suitors -- inevitably turn out to have multiple meanings. One plot of revenge slips into another as the offender in one story becomes a victim to be avenged in the next. As a result, Odysseus turns out to be a much more ambivalent hero than has been commonly accepted. And in the Odyssey's portrayal, revenge is an unstable foundation for a community. Revenge also ends up being a tenuous narrative structure for an epic poem, as a natural end to cycles of vengeance proves elusive. This book offers a radical new reading of the seemingly happy ending of the poem.



Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama

Author : Chris McMahon

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 25,75 MB

Release : 2012-11-27

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1136496289

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In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Plays set for close study are The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Malcontent and The Duchess of Malfi. The plays are read as unique events occupying positions in historical process concerning the privatisation of the family (by means of symbolism and concrete household strategies such as budgeting and surveillance) and the subsequent appropriation of the family and its methods by the state. The effect is that family becomes an unofficial organ of the state. This process, however, also involves the reform of the state along lines demanded by the private family. McMahon’s critical method, derived from the theory of Bourdieu, Bataille, and Girard, maps capital transactions to reveal emotionally charged, often idiosyncratic responses to issues of shared concern. Such issues include state corruption, the management of women, the performance of roles according to gender, the uses of surveillance, and the ethics of sacrifice.



Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama

Author : Chris McMahon

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 26,76 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Drama

ISBN : 0415807751

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This book considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Exploring whether or not the plays see revenge as justified, McMahon argues that they suggest the private family should become an informal state apparatus, and considers the pertinence of this conclusion for contemporary politics. By mapping transactions of capital in and around the plays, this book discovers new ways of looking at traditional problematics. Considerations of plays such as The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, and The Revenger's Tragedydepart from the tradition of moral criticism by taking an anthropological stance, mapping capital transactions to come to a better understanding of the plays in all their brilliance and complexity. McMahon responds to deconstructionist, Marxist, and feminist readings as he studies symbolic and material forms of capital in exemplary Early Modern plays.



Marx's Revenge

Author : Meghnad Desai

Publisher : Verso Books

Page : 593 pages

File Size : 34,91 MB

Release : 2020-05-05

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1789609453

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In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed. Capitalism, as Marx understood it, would only reach its limits when it was no longer capable of progress. Desai argues that globalization, in bringing the possibility of open competition on world markets to producers in the Third World, has proved that capitalism is still capable of moving forwards. Marx's Revenge opens with a consideration of the ideas of Adam Smith and Hegel. It proceeds to look at the nuances in the work of Marx himself, and concludes with a survey of more recent economists who studied capitalism and attempted to unravel its secrets, including Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek.