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In Praise Of Hard Industries
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Author : Eamonn Fingleton
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1999
In Praise Of Hard Industries written by Eamonn Fingleton and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Industries categories.
"In Praise of Hard Industries offers an authoritative and deeply disturbing counterargument to the many unexamined assumptions and glibly misstated facts that are driving our embrace of postindustrialism."--BOOK JACKET.
In Praise Of Hard Industries
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Author : Eamonn Fingleton
language : en
Publisher: Orion
Release Date : 1999
In Praise Of Hard Industries written by Eamonn Fingleton and has been published by Orion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Industries categories.
Eamonn Fingleton argues that any country that adopts the new economy route at the expense of a manufacturing base risks economic enfeeblement. He looks at areas for the wellbeing of an advanced nation a range of jobs, strong exports and world beating wages.
In Praise Of Hard Industries
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Author : Fingleton Eamonn Staff
language : en
Publisher:
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In The Jaws Of The Dragon
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Author : Eamonn Fingleton
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2008-03-04
In The Jaws Of The Dragon written by Eamonn Fingleton and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-04 with Political Science categories.
In recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijing---that the Communist Party's grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values. That popular wisdom was wrong. As Eamonn Fingleton shows in this devastating book, instead of America changing China, China is changing America. Although this process of reverse convergence has been swept largely under the carpet by knee-jerk globalists in the American press, Americans will soon be hearing much more about it. Nowhere is the pattern more obvious than in business. Many top American corporations---Boeing, AT&T, the Detroit automobile companies, among them-openly collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party. In a stunning rejection of Western values, Yahoo! even provided the Chinese secret police with vital evidence that resulted in a ten-year jail sentence for one of its Chinese subscribers, a brave young dissident, under draconian censorship laws. Selling the American national interest short, countless other corporations abjectly do Beijing's lobbying in Congress. This book---the culmination of twenty years of study---also breaks new ground by revealing the secret behind China's phenomenal savings rate. Top leaders literally force the Chinese people to save through a highly counterintuitive---and, to ordinary citizens, virtually invisible---policy called suppressed consumption. This practice, which is to economics roughly what steroids are to sport, is fundamentally incompatible with Western ideas of fair global competition. It is reinforced by an Orwellian system of political control that, as Fingleton reveals, utilizes an ancient bureaucratic tool called selective enforcement---a form of blackmail that instills a silent reign of terror throughout Chinese society. Most worryingly, selective enforcement can readily be unleashed on any American corporation with interests in China---which is to say just about every member of the Fortune 500. While the Chinese people's rising affluence is, of course, an occasion for wholehearted rejoicing, Uncle Sam should give the Chinese power system a wide berth---lest he catch his coattails in the jaws of a dragon.
Natural Capitalism
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Author : Paul Hawken
language : en
Publisher: Earthscan
Release Date : 1999
Natural Capitalism written by Paul Hawken and has been published by Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
The first Industrial Revolution inaugurated 200 years of unparalleled material development for humankind. But the costs and the consequences are now everywhere evermore apparent: the living systems on which we depend are in retreat. Forests, topsoil, grasslands, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, the atmosphere, aquifers, tundra and biodiversity are limiting factrs - the natural capital on which all economic activity depends. And they are all in decline. Add to that a doubling of the world's population and a halving of available per capita resources in the first 50 years of the 21st century and the inevitability of change is clear.This work offers forms of industry and commerce that can not only enhance enormously the wellbeing of the world's growing population, but will reverse the destruction and pollution of nature and restore the natural processes so vital to the future.The book introduces four central and interrelated strategies necessary to perpetuate abundance, avert scarcity and deliver a solid basis for social development. The first of these is: Radical Resource Productivity - getting two, four, or even ten times as much from the same quantities of materials and energy. A revolution in efficiency that provides the most immediate opportunities for businesses to grow and prosper.The second strategy is: Ecological Redesign - eliminating the very idea of waste by designing industrial systems on the model of ecological ones. Instead, for example, of digging merals out of the ground only to return them to landfill at the end of the product cycle, industrial processes will be designed to reuse materials constantly, in closed circles.The third strategy involves creating: A Service and Flow Economy - shifting from an economy of goods and purchases to one of service and flow, and redefining the relationship between producer and consumer. Affluence will no longer be measured by acquisition and quantity, but by the continuous receipt of quality, utility and performance.The final strategy is: Investing in Natural capital - reversing the worldwide ecosystem destruction to restore and expand the stocks of natural capital. If industrial systems are to supply an increasing flow of services in the future, the vital flow of services from living systems will have to be maintained or increased as well.
Blindside
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Author : Eamonn Fingleton
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 1995
Blindside written by Eamonn Fingleton and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
Describes the Japanese economic system. Analyses cultural and political factors determining economic growth. Refers, in particular, to the role of the Japanese Ministry of Finance. Covers employment aspects and labour relations.
In Praise Of Commercial Culture
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Author : Tyler COWEN
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
In Praise Of Commercial Culture written by Tyler COWEN and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favorable attitude toward the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity. Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the capitalist market economy is a vital but underappreciated institutional framework for supporting a plurality of co-existing artistic visions, providing a steady stream of new and satisfying creations, supporting both high and low culture, helping consumers and artists refine their tastes, and paying homage to the past by capturing, reproducing, and disseminating it. Contemporary culture, Cowen argues, is flourishing in its various manifestations, including the visual arts, literature, music, architecture, and the cinema. Successful high culture usually comes out of a healthy and prosperous popular culture. Shakespeare and Mozart were highly popular in their own time. Beethoven's later, less accessible music was made possible in part by his early popularity. Today, consumer demand ensures that archival blues recordings, a wide array of past and current symphonies, and this week's Top 40 hit sit side by side in the music megastore. High and low culture indeed complement each other. Cowen's philosophy of cultural optimism stands in opposition to the many varieties of cultural pessimism found among conservatives, neo-conservatives, the Frankfurt School, and some versions of the political correctness and multiculturalist movements, as well as historical figures, including Rousseau and Plato. He shows that even when contemporary culture is thriving, it appears degenerate, as evidenced by the widespread acceptance of pessimism. He ends by considering the reasons why cultural pessimism has such a powerful hold on intellectuals and opinion-makers.
The Next Hundred Million
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Author : Joel Kotkin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 2011-01-25
The Next Hundred Million written by Joel Kotkin and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-25 with Business & Economics categories.
A visionary social thinker reveals how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform the way we live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate, and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin reveals how this unprecedented growth will take shape-and why it is the greatest indicator of the nation's long-term economic strength. At a time of great pessimism about America's future, The Next Hundred Million shows why the United States will emerge a stronger and more diverse nation by midcentury.
Raw Deal
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Author : Chloe Sorvino
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-12-06
Raw Deal written by Chloe Sorvino and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-06 with Business & Economics categories.
"A shocking and engrossing exposé of the US meat industry, the devastating failures of the country's food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food by the head of Forbes's Food, Drink, and Agriculture division, Chloe Sorvino"--
The Outsiders
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Author : William Thorndike
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Release Date : 2012
The Outsiders written by William Thorndike and has been published by Harvard Business Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
It's time to redefine the CEO success story. Meet eight iconoclastic leaders who helmed firms where returns on average outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 20 times.