For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all 00 bills circulate outside the United States. The dol…
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"The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of…
Covers the best-practices on IT outsourcing, offshoring, business process outsourcing, and netsourcing.
Australia once had extremely high levels of trade union participation, yet since the 1970s the number of union members has been falling dramatically. This book gives the clearest picture yet of why people do or do not belong to unions and, in a sophisticated way, examines the re…
Research report on the future of the automobile and the motor vehicle industry in OECD countries - describes the historical framework; examines energy costs, air pollution and infrastructure constraints, and trends in Innovation and in the supply and demand of automobiles; discu…
"Author Marc Rosenberg discusses the technological issues but, more importantly, assesses the dramatic strategic, organizational, and political issues involved in the process of making e-learning a reality. Written for professionals responsible for leading the revolution in work…
Rifkin argues that we are entering a new phase in history characterized by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs, as sophisticated computers, robotics, telecommunications, and other cutting-edge technologies replace human beings in virtually every sector and industry -- from…
This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events ' such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics ' which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly fun…
