Author : Brian Carter
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0789751364
'The Like Economy' offers a complete, start-to-finish plan for making money on Facebook. Brian Carter demonstrates step-by-step techniques and practical lessons to help companies build their online revenue.
Author : Brian Carter
Publisher : Que Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0789749068
'The Like Economy' offers a complete, start-to-finish plan for making money on Facebook. Brian Carter demonstrates step-by-step techniques and practical lessons to help companies build their online revenue.
Author : Greg Ip
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118391578
An accessible, thoroughly engaging look at how the economy really works and its role in your everyday life Not surprisingly, regular people suddenly are paying a lot closer attention to the economy than ever before. But economics, with its weird technical jargon and knotty concepts and formulas can be a very difficult subject to get to grips with on your own. Enter Greg Ip and his Little Book of Economics. Like a patient, good-natured tutor, Greg, one of today's most respected economics journalists, walks you through everything you need to know about how the economy works. Short on technical jargon and long on clear, concise, plain-English explanations of important terms, concepts, events, historical figures and major players, this revised and updated edition of Greg's bestselling guide clues you in on what's really going on, what it means to you and what we should be demanding our policymakers do about the economy going forward. From inflation to the Federal Reserve, taxes to the budget deficit, you get indispensible insights into everything that really matters about economics and its impact on everyday life Special sections featuring additional resources of every subject discussed and where to find additional information to help you learn more about an issue and keep track of ongoing developments Offers priceless insights into the roots of America's economic crisis and its aftermath, especially the role played by excessive greed and risk-taking, and what can be done to avoid another economic cataclysm Digs into globalization, the roots of the Euro crisis, the sources of China's spectacular growth, and why the gap between the economy's winners and losers keeps widening
Author : Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674044647
In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.
Author : Aaron Hurst
Publisher : Elevate Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 193749845X
A series of shifts are happening in our economy: Millennials are trading in conventional career paths to launch tech start-ups, start small businesses that are rooted in local communities, or freelance their expertise. We are sharing everything, from bikes and cars, to extra rooms in our homes. We now create, buy and sell handcrafted products in our local communities with ease. Globally recognized entrepreneur, founder of Taproot Foundation and CEO of Imperative, Aaron Hurst, argues in his latest book that while these developments seem unrelated at first, taken together they reveal a powerful pattern that points to purpose as the new driver of the American economy. Like the Information Economy, which has driven innovation and economic growth until now, Hurst argues that our new economic era is driven by connecting people to their purpose. It's an economy where value lies in establishing purpose for employees and customers through serving needs greater than their own, enabling personal growth and building community. Based on interviews with thousands of entrepreneurs, Hurst shows this new era is already fueling demand for a whole host of products and services and transforming how millennials view their careers. A new breed of startups like Etsy, Zaarly, Tough Mudder, Kickstarter, and Airbnb are finding new ways to create value by connecting us with our local communities. At the same time, companies like Tesla and Whole Foods are making the march from just appealing to affluent buyers to becoming mainstream brands. Hurst calls these companies, along with the pioneering entrepreneurs who founded them, the Purpose Economy's taste-makers. This book is at once a personal memoir of Aaron Hurst’s own awakening as a purpose driven entrepreneur, when he left a well-paying tech job in 2001 to launch Taproot, creating a pathway for millions of professionals and Fortune 500 companies to volunteer for nonprofits. It's also a blueprint for a new economic era that is transforming companies, markets and our careers to better serve people and the world.
Author : Shane Claiborne
Publisher : House Studio
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834125575
"In this five-week study, unpack what the patterns of God's kingdom look like compared to the patterns of our world. What is the value of enough, and how do we become more like the God who is close to the poor, the hungry, the meek, and the merciful? Economy of Love will challenge individuals to join in community, journeying together as they begin to consider a new standard of living -- a personal economic threshold oriented not around the size of a monthly paycheck, but around the value of enough. Here's what's inside: 5 video sessions with Shane Claiborne; commentary and discussion questions to help you explore each topic; the story of Relational Tithe by co-founder Darin Peterson.
Author : Sara Calvo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317387767
This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of a section of the economy, which is often referred to as the ‘social and solidarity economy’ (SSE); and highlight some of the current issues in the field, how they are being addressed and some of their future implications. Using case studies from around the world, this book ‘Social and Solidarity Economy: The World’s Economy With a Social Face’ provides an up-to-date account of the strengths and weaknesses of these initiatives across four continents including issues that have not been researched sufficiently before (e.g. circular economy, social propaganda and its dangers, social enterprise as a panacea for NGOs in developing countries, and ‘new’ social movements). There is growing interest in SSE initiatives among policymakers, foundations, researchers and academic institutions around the world. Despite this interest, SSE related research remains scarce. There are concerned that SSE initiatives, which contribute significantly to their local communities’ development, need to be more widely disseminated amongst the general public. The Social and Solidarity Economy: The World’s Economy With a Social Face will help promote the ground-breaking work being done by organisations and individuals but which remain undocumented and help to raise awareness of such initiatives as well as contribute to academia with a critical approach to the sector covering issues that have not been covered much before, such as the circular economy and the dangers of social propaganda. Aimed at researchers, academics and policy makers in the fields of Social Enterprise, CSR, Tourism, International Economics as well as supporting disciplines ‘Social and Solidarity Economy: The World’s Economy With a Social Face’ looks to establish and help define the field.
Author : Adam Davidson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0385353537
The brilliant creator of NPR's Planet Money podcast and award-winning New Yorker staff writer explains our current economy: laying out its internal logic and revealing the transformative hope it offers for millions of people to thrive as they never have before. Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson—one of our leading public voices on economic issues—the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories of average people doing exactly this—an accountant overturning his industry, a sweatshop owner's daughter fighting for better working conditions, an Amish craftsman meeting the technological needs of Amish farmers—as well as the latest academic research, Davidson shows us how the twentieth-century economy of scale has given way in this century to an economy of passion. He makes clear, too, that though the adjustment has brought measures of dislocation, confusion, and even panic, these are most often the result of a lack of understanding. The Passion Economy delineates the ground rules of the new economy, and armed with these, we begin to see how we can succeed in it according to its own terms—intimacy, insight, attention, automation, and, of course, passion. An indispensable road map and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future.
Author : Martin L. Weitzman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674805835
Discussion of profit sharing as a means of combating cyclical unemployment and inflation (stagflation) in market economies - argues that profit sharing will produce full employment without inducing inflation; discusses marginal value economic theory of wages and its effect on the labour market; briefly examines advantages of profit sharing, employee Motivation, etc., and the need for accompanying tax reform. Bibliography.
Author : B. Joseph Pine
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780875848198
This text seeks to raise the curtain on competitive pricing strategies and asserts that businesses often miss their best opportunity for providing consumers with what they want - an experience. It presents a strategy for companies to script and stage the experiences provided by their products.
