"For readers of Drive, Outliers, and Daring Greatly, a counterintuitive, paradigm-shifting new take on what makes people and companies succeed Most new products fail. So do most small businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal …
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Study of economic development, politics and steady state economy in Africa - discusses the disappointments of independence, democracy and the economic recession; explains the failure of capitalism and the post- colonialism economic implications; looks at political systems and th…
"Why did the Eurozone end up with an unemployment rate more than twice than that of the United States and six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Was crisis in the Eurozone inevitable? What caused the prolonged economic failure experienced by the majority of the world's…
Management, radical interest groups, associations, press (publishing) and voluntary organizations, failure, UK - case study, financing, leadership, decision making. References.
USA. Monograph on the nature of management control over the working class through capitalist work organization - illustrates with historical case studies, the failure to establish workers self management, and social implications of automatic control, monopoly, personnel manageme…
"First published in 1967, Development Projects Observed has been a benchmark in practical thinking about economic development. Now, this classic volume is reissued with a thoughtful new preface by the author." "Albert O. Hirschman, one of the great pioneers in the field, offers …
«Estar dispuesto a fracasar es el primer paso esencial para aplicar las ideas de este libro a la vida cotidiana.» En un mundo cada vez más complejo y cambiante, el economista Tim Harford nos descubre un camino revolucionario para resolver por nosotros mismos los grandes problema…
Monograph on relationships between the agrarian structure and underdevelopment in Pakistan - investigates slow agricultural development, trends (1960-1980), failure of land reforms to alter concentration of land ownership and to reduce landlessness, and production function of ag…
Monograph arguing for market economy and democracy in relation to economic development and human rights, particularly in the USA - gives examples of expansion of government control relating to the 1929 economic recession, tariff policy, inflation monetary policy and price policy…
"The chief aim of Jobs and Fairness is to bring together evidence about the validity of the first hypothesis: about the material benefits which employee ownership may be expected to bring. Accordingly, after an extended discussion of theoretical and background questions, it cons…
Modern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its treatment of major accidents, the book spans the disciplinary gulf between psychological theory and those concerned with maintain…
"Failure" explora la inquietante paradoja de que cuanto más nos fallan los sistemas tecnológicos y financieros, más dependientes nos hacemos de ellos. Wall Street y Silicon Valley -los dos mundos que examina este libro- promueven la ilusión de que la escasez puede y debe ser eli…