A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics. First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...

An accessible, story-driven look at the future of the global economy, written by a leading expert To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond in his globetrotting book. From a prison in rural Louisiana, where inmates purchase drugs with prepaid cash cards, to the poorest major city on earth, where residents buy clean water in plastic...

The greatest challenge of any startup and growth company is the transition from an early stage startup to a robust organization complete with a driving culture, contemporary leadership, organizational infrastructure and twenty-first-century operating methodologies. Ralf Specht provides inspiration, wisdom, and learnings gleaned from his role and experience in creating and scaling Spark 44, a Jaguar Land Rover joint venture, from concept to an award-...

Google's search engine has made information and education more accessible by putting accurate and relevant information at our fingertips. People of all backgrounds and socio-economic levels are now able to take advantage of academic work that is once reserved for the privileged. A search engine like Google facilitates the spreading of knowledge and the gaining of knowledge, particularly when utilized properly. With the advancement of smart technology,...

Throughout the world, capitalism and democracy are being challenged with great force. The world must change, but it cannot be changed by throwing money at old ideas that no longer work. There needs to be a new path to a new world where inequality is shrinking, where natural resources are regenerated, and people can benefit from shared prosperity. This is the world being created by the Impact Revolution. Pre-eminent international investor, entrepreneur,...

En la última década del siglo xv, los desembarcos de Cristóbal Colón en Guanahaní y de Vasco da Gama en Calicut inauguraron el Primer Orden Mundial de alcance planetario y, también, la globalización. Durante los cinco siglos transcurridos desde entonces, la formación del orden mundial reflejó los cambios en la tecnología y la productividad, sobre cuyas bases se transformaron luego el ejercicio del poder y los sistemas de dominación que...

La expansión de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación y el impulso renovado a la apertura de los intercambios comerciales entre las naciones son datos que parecerían confirmar que la «globalización» del planeta, el paso de escalas nacionales y regionales a una escala global de intercambios y de relaciones, es algo reciente. Sin embargo, a pesar de la magnitud que ha alcanzado, el fenómeno de la globalización no es nuevo....

This special, updated edition includes new bonus material. Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits. Richard...

A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world's second largest economy, have started to crumble. Over the course of a decade spent reporting on the ground in China as a financial journalist, Dinny McMahon gradually came to the conclusion that the widely held belief in China's inevitable economic ascent is dangerously wrong. In this unprecedented deep dive, McMahon shows how, lurking behind the illusion...

The pandemic forced all teams to be distributed. However independent of COVID, in fact, all teams face the challenges of diverse distances - temporal, geographical, cultural, lingual, political, historical, and more. Many forms of distance even affect developers in the same room. The goal of this book is to reconcile two mainstays of modern agility: the close collaboration agility relies on, and project teams distributed across different cities, countries,...