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Fragile By Design
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Author : Charles W. Calomiris
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-23
Fragile By Design written by Charles W. Calomiris and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Why stable banking systems are so rare Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents. Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.
Societal Dynamics And Fragility
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Author : Alexandre Marc
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Societal Dynamics And Fragility written by Alexandre Marc and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Political Science categories.
Societal Dynamics and Fragility aims to address the social dimensions of fragility. Prepared as a complement to the 2011 World Development Report, this book frames fragility as a problem not only of state capacity, but also of relationships in society. Drawing on analytical work in Liberia, Central African Republic, Yemen, Indonesia (Aceh) and Haiti, it recommends placing social cohesion at the center of development efforts in fragile environments by cultivating an in-depth understanding of the societal dynamics at play in each context and adapting programs to address the sources of division that hinder state building. Specifically, the book advocates a focus on perceptions of injustice at least as much as measurable inequalities, and for creating space to facilitate constructive connections between institutions, especially between customary and state structures as well as often-nascent civil society institutions.
Building Anti Fragile Organisations
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Author : Professor Tony Bendell
language : en
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-07-28
Building Anti Fragile Organisations written by Professor Tony Bendell and has been published by Gower Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Every day human organisations fail. Building Anti-Fragile Organisations explores a powerful alternative framework for risk in the design and management of human systems. Anti-Fragility is a new way of thinking about mitigating risk that builds on earlier work on the characteristics of biological systems that, being more than just robust, actually improve their resilience through being stressed. Professor Bendell explains how applying this concept to the development and management of organisations, services and products, allows us to identify the characteristics that will not only mitigate against the realisation of hazards, but enable growth in protection, strength and anti-fragility over time. In this context, anti-fragility also encompasses flexibility, agility and the exploitation of opportunities. At the organisational level, anti-fragility (or its absence) is determined by the organisational strategy, structure and systems, its people, relationships and culture. The book focuses on establishing the Anti-Fragile concept of the firm, and explores its application in private and public sector organisations of all types. It identifies characteristics relevant to survival in a turbulent world, and how our approaches to risk and governance need to change in order to create and manage anti-fragile organisations. It provides practical insight into the concept of Anti-Fragility and its deployment within human organisations of all types, and give readers the opportunity to start to make sense to applying the concepts within their own worlds.
Darkness By Design
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Author : Walter Mattli
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Darkness By Design written by Walter Mattli and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Business & Economics categories.
"Capital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented into a dizzying array of competing exchanges and trading platforms. Darkness by Design exposes the unseen perils of market fragmentation and 'dark' markets, some of which are deliberately designed to enable the transfer of wealth from the weak to the powerful. Walter Mattli traces the fall of the traditional exchange model of the NYSE, the world's leading stock market in the twentieth century, showing how it has come to be supplanted by fragmented markets whose governance is frequently set up to allow unscrupulous operators to exploit conflicts of interest at the expense of an unsuspecting public. Market makers have few obligations, market surveillance is neglected or impossible, enforcement is ineffective, and new technologies are not necessarily used to improve oversight but to offer lucrative preferential market access to select clients in ways that are often hidden. Mattli argues that power politics is central in today's fragmented markets. He sheds critical light on how the redistribution of power and influence has created new winners and losers in capital markets and lays the groundwork for sensible reforms to combat shady trading schemes and reclaim these markets for the long-term benefit of everyone. Essential reading for anyone with money in the stock market, Darkness by Design challenges the conventional view of markets and reveals the troubling implications of unchecked market power for the health of the global economy and society as a whole"--
A Fragile Inheritance
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Author : Saloni Mathur
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-22
A Fragile Inheritance written by Saloni Mathur and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-22 with Art categories.
Saloni Mathur investigates the radical work of two seminal figures—New Dehli-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur, and her husband, contemporary multimedia artist, Vivan Sundaram—to show how their approach to artistic practice and theory may inform subsequent generations and serve as a model for artistic politics in our time.
Resilient By Design
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Author : Joseph Fiksel
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Resilient By Design written by Joseph Fiksel and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with Business & Economics categories.
"Resilient by design provides managers with a more complete approach to creating lasting success in a changing world. Rich with examples and case studies, it explains how to connect the external systems, stakeholders, communities, infrastructure, supply chains, and natural resources, to create innovative organisations that survive and prosper." --Publisher description.
Antifragile
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Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-11-27
Antifragile written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-27 with Business & Economics categories.
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear. Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it. Praise for Antifragile “Ambitious and thought-provoking . . . highly entertaining.”—The Economist “A bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error . . . It may just change our lives.”—Newsweek
Design As Democratic Inquiry
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Author : Carl Disalvo
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Design As Democratic Inquiry written by Carl Disalvo and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Design categories.
Through practices of collaborative imagination and making, or "doing design otherwise,” design experiments can contribute to keeping local democracies vibrant. In this counterpoint to the grand narratives of design punditry, Carl DiSalvo presents what he calls “doing design otherwise.” Arguing that democracy requires constant renewal and care, he shows how designers can supply novel contributions to local democracy by drawing together theory and practice, making and reflection. The relentless pursuit of innovation, uncritical embrace of the new and novel, and treatment of all things as design problems, says DiSalvo, can lead to cultural imperialism. In Design as Democratic Inquiry, he recounts a series of projects that exemplify engaged design in practice. These experiments in practice-based research are grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. The projects DiSalvo describes took place from 2014 to 2019 in Atlanta. Rather than presume that government, industry—or academia—should determine the outcome, the designers began with the recognition that the residents and local organizations were already creative and resourceful. DiSalvo uses the projects to show how design might work as a mode of inquiry. Resisting heroic stories of design and innovation, he argues for embracing design as fragile, contingent, partial, and compromised. In particular, he explores how design might be leveraged to facilitate a more diverse civic imagination. A fundamental tenet of design is that the world is made, and therefore it could be made differently. A key concept is that democracy requires constant renewal and care. Thus, designing becomes a way to care, together, for our collective future.
Chaos By Design
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Author : Kader Sakkaria
language : en
Publisher: Leaders Press
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Chaos By Design written by Kader Sakkaria and has been published by Leaders Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Business & Economics categories.
You can’t afford NOT to transform! Chaos by Design is a deliberately empowering tool that describes how you can foster the leadership characteristics, mindset, and company values required to successfully implement a ‘digital-first’ approach. DRIVING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION—CULTURE BEFORE TECHNOLOGY. What’s the most important component of a successful digital transformation? It’s not software. It’s not hardware. Spoiler alert: it’s not even technology. It’s your people! But how do you convince and empower those people to follow your North Star? Drawing from nearly 60 years of combined business, technology, and leadership experience, Kader Sakkaria, Imran Karbhari, and Trevor Macomber explore the ways in which successful leaders motivate their teams, drive innovation, and propagate long-lasting digital transformations. Keep reading to uncover … How to harness the power of creative chaos to shift your organization from fragile to agile The secret sauce common to every successful digital transformation (hint: it isn’t barbecue) How the right North Star will orient your company culture in a way that ensures continued longevity Why failure is not an option—it’s a necessity! The critical importance of driving the change from project mindset to product mindset Why the servant leadership style is uniquely suited to transformative processes How unyielding creative disruption promotes flexible, adaptable business models primed for growth How to position your business not just to survive a global crisis, but to thrive in the uncertainty—in other words, chaos by design IDEATE. INNOVATE. ITERATE. REPEAT. EMBRACE THE CHAOS BY DESIGN AND BEGIN YOUR TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY TODAY!
Fragile By Design
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Author : Charles W. Calomiris
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-04
Fragile By Design written by Charles W. Calomiris and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Why stable banking systems are so rare Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents. Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.