This analysis of poor economic reasoning "weaves together recent articles and addresses, some of them never before published, into a short, compelling narrative on the major issues of the 1990s: unemployment, globalization, economic growth, financial speculation ... corporate do…
Explores the conflict between consumer capitalism and globalization of the economy on the one hand, and the fragmentation of the political landscape into smaller tribal units based on ethnic, religious and racial factors on the other.
In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, The Post-Work Manifesto, provides the framework for a radical reappraisal of work and suggests an alternative organization…
"The dizzying exuberance of the Internet-driven marketplace offers unprecedented opportunities and an ever-expanding choice of deals, products, investments, and jobs - ranging from the merely attractive to the nearly irresistible - for the people with the right talents and skill…
Case study of the lancashire handloom textile workers during a period of major technological change affecting the cotton textile industry in the UK - covers working conditions, standard of living, trade union and strike action, public opinion, social reform, etc., and includes s…
Provides insight into the changes that are affecting politics, business and society itself. Business managers need to be aware of these changes in order to benefit from the opportunities that the future has to offer.
Economic analysis, rice, food, agricultural sector, Asia - cultivation system, production, consumption, labour utilization, productivity, technological change, marketing, trade, research and development, production increase, price policy. Bibliography, graphs, statistical table.
Exposition of the neoclassical economic theory of production and distribution - explores the micro-economic theories of production, cost and derived input demand for both fixed-proportions and variable proportions production functions, and covers the neoclassical theory of aggre…
In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is a new impetus for industrial policy. In Europe and the United States, where the crisis emphasized that markets are by themselves imperfect, industrial policy has re-entered the dialogue about restoring growth. And in emerging …
The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry explores how tourism is defined and examines whether or not tourism can be conceptualized as an industry. Detailed analyses of key sectors of the travel and tourism industry, such as tour operators, airlines and the hotel industry, …
Explores economic, social and political developments in Brazil from the 1950s to the 1990s and discusses whether the country is ready to assume a place among first world nations. Identifies key policy changes to be addressed.
"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating techn…
Comprises nine essays on the impact of age, ethnic origin, social class, cultural and other experiential factors on the role of women as social agents in the late 19th and 20th century.
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something…
"Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation reall…
Monograph on the long term impact of technological change and mechanization on occupational structure and industrial management in the USA - asserts that capitalist development has been associated with alienation, changing working class structure, and a decline in craftsmanship.…
"The Age of Spiritual Machines is no mere list of predictions but a prophetic blueprint for the future. Kurzweil guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain. According to Kurzw…
In this volume, Paul Mason explores how past societies have collapsed or changed, and provides a powerful critique of why our present system of financial capitalism has failed us. Most of all, he shows how, from the ashes of the crisis, we have the chance to create a more social…
