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E. Lonergan and M. Blyth, "Angrynomics" (Agenda...
How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?
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B. J. Pine II and J. H. Gilmore, "The Experienc...
How is the retail sector going to be best able to survive the Amazon juggernaut?
45 min
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Tyler Cowen, "Big Business: A Love Letter to an...
You mean big business is good, contributes to our general welfare, and is not generally guilty--with notable exceptions--of all of the charges made against it?
26 min
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Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Mo...
Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..
68 min
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Thomas Yarrow, "Architects: Portraits of a Prac...
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise?
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Richard Robb, "Willful: How We Choose What We D...
Tired of the mechanical, narrowly rational human behavior of the Chicago school, but not exactly comforted by the emphasis on irrational activity in behavioral economics?
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Howard Kunreuther, "The Future of Risk Manageme...
This book highlights past research, recent discoveries, and open questions written by leading thinkers in risk management and behavioral sciences...
33 min
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Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin, "Routledge Ha...
Lough and Guerin bring together forty different authors to survey the status of women's sports in 2019.
75 min
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Philip Grant, "Chains of Finance: How Investmen...
The authors make points that professionals already know and that end-investors ought to know: that there are a lot of cooks in the investment kitchen...
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John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Ma...
Trying to follow the key macroeconomic debates that are swirling around DC, CNBC, the WSJ and the NYT?
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Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind, "Big is Beaut...
Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught?
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Ekaterina Svetlova, "Financial Models and Socie...
Svetlova looks at how quantitative models are actually used by investors and finds a whole space where human judgment, intuition and non-model based factors come into play as to when and how and to what degree financial models are actually implemented...
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Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hu...
Vague sees the rise and fall of private sector debt as the key factor explaining the cycle of economic crises experienced by developed and major developing economies over the past two centuries...
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Raul Espejo, "Cybernetics and Systems: Social a...
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Greg McKeown, "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pu...
Essentialism is a systematic discipline designed to support making life decisions that help you to make your highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter...
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Jan English-Lueck, "Cultures@SiliconValley: Sec...
Silicon Valley is understood to be one of the most fast-paced regions on earth, where innovation and upheaval are part and parcel of daily life...
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Ian D. Gow and Stuart Kells, "The Big Four: The...
You mean accounting has a history? Yes, it does, and it should matter to you, because the accounting profession, and the audit function that it serves, affects all the companies in your 401(k) program...
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Byron Reese, “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Con...
In his new book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity (Simon & Schuster, 2018), futurist, technologist, and CEO of Gigaom, Byron Reese makes the case that technology has reshaped humanity just three times in his...
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Daniel Peris, “Getting Back to Business: Why Mo...
Of what use is history, particularly for economists and people in finance? If you’ve ever wondered about this, you should read Daniel Peris‘s book Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors and How You Can Bring Common Sense ...
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Rob Dekkers, “Applied Systems Theory” (Springer...
As Reader in Industrial Management in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, Rob Dekkers is well positioned to survey the currents of the vibrant systems tradition in the United Kingdom. In his book, Applied Systems Theory,
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Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, “Meltdown:...
How can we learn from large system failures? In their new book Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Penguin Press, 2018), Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik explore system failures and what we can learn from them.
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Toby Cosgrove, “The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lesso...
American healthcare is in crisis. It doesn’t have to be. Dr. Toby Cosgrove‘s The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World’s Leading Health Care Organizations (McGraw-Hill Education,
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Halee Fischer-Wright, “Back to Balance: The Art...
In this highly engaging, thoroughly persuasive book, Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright presents a unique prescription for fixing America’s health care woes, based on her thirty years of experience as a physician and industry leader. The problem,
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Joshua Clark Davis, “From Head Shops to Whole F...
In From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs (Columbia University Press, 2017), historian Joshua Clark Davis offers an unconventional history of the 1960s and 1970s by uncovering the work of activist entrepreneurs.
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Nicholas A. John, “The Age of Sharing” (Polity ...
In his new book The Age of Sharing (Polity Press, 2016), the sociologist and media scholar Nicholas A. John documents the history and current meanings of the word sharing, which he argues, is a central keyword of contemporary media discourse.
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