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Mothering – care and generosity – sits at the core of human society. It is what creates meaningful lives, yet it is often forgotten when it comes to exploring innovation and solutions to our shared and global issues. Mothering Economy is a raw and personal exploration by design strategist and architect Jenny Grettve.…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Ekonomisk teori och filosofi Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Management: beslutsfattande Nationalekonomi Politisk ekonomi
Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives
“She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future.”—New York Times
An award-winning author and leading international economist delivers a…
Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul’s letters and on modern theories of gift exchange through the lens of religion.
The exchange of gifts is a fundamental part of society and a foundational element in Greco-Roman religions. Combining theories of gift exchange, both modern and…
The church in the West is rediscovering the fact that God cares deeply for the poor. More and more, churches and individual Christians are looking for ways to practice economic discipleship, but it’s hard to make progress when we are blind to our own entanglement in our culture’s idolatrous economic beliefs…
Offering an accessible introduction to both the historical roots and the contemporary dynamics of today’s world economy, the extensively revised sixth edition of this bestselling textbook continues to lead the way in equipping students with the knowledge required to make sense of the fast-paced discipline of…
Available for the first time with Macmillan’s new online learning tool, Achieve, Ecology: The Economy of Nature takes students through all of the key concepts of an ecology course. It challenges them along the way with questions that encourage critical thinking, whether about chapter concepts, quantitative tools,…
Can we align global production and consumption systems with sustainability? Can business growth actually lead to a healthier planet? Can companies innovate through the circular economy to create competitive advantage and genuine impact? Waste to Wealth proved that the emerging circular economy advantage exists –…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Management: särskilda områden
This book provides a comprehensive overview of each of the sourcing business model. Readers will master the art and science of strategic sourcing by being able to chart a unique path that fits their capacity to apply more the full continuum of strategic sourcing concepts and tools.
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Management: särskilda områden
This book provides a comprehensive overview of each of the sourcing business model. Readers will master the art and science of strategic sourcing by being able to chart a unique path that fits their capacity to apply more the full continuum of strategic sourcing concepts and tools.
Kategorier: Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
Understand the way in which AI and robots will change the world and the way we live in it.
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and…
Kategorier: Antropologi Kulturantropologi och socialantropologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociologi och antropologi
Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology N.S. 20
This is a Doctoral Thesis in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden 2018
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific feat of aeronautics. They required new forms of collaboration between the public sector (notably, NASA) and private companies. This book asks: what if the same level of boldness – the boldness that set inspirational…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
’Endlessly insightful and full of surprises – exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford’ BILL BRYSON’Entertaining . . .
A lively introduction to some of the most ingenious, yet often overlooked inventions that have changed the way we live’ The Times’Every Tim Harford book is…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
The Double X Economy describes both the shocking gender inequalities built into the global economy, and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to turn these around and combat humankind's most pressing problems. Promoting women's economic empowerment will dramatically boost social, financial and…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live. On one side, appointments are secured, queues are skipped and doors are opened. On the other, people fight for an empty seat on the plane, a place in line at a theme park or even a medical exam. Schwartz shows how business…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
Pick an environmental issue. Maybe air pollution, toxic waste, or deforestation. These all seem like solid choices, but none of these is actually an environmental problem–at least, not at its heart. Deep down, they are economic problems. Nearly all the issues we classify as environmental stem from defects in the…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
Schwartz shows how business innovators have stepped in to exploit the gap between the rich and everyone else, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. The frictionless world of VIP experiences seems like good business, but as this model expands, the costs are…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
Giving female entrepreneurs in Britain equal access to capital would add GBP250 billion to the economy. The global economy’s wealth would be GBP160 trillion higher if gender pay gap were closed. WHEN WE EMPOWER WOMEN, WE ALL WIN IT’S TIME TO UNLOCK THE POWER OF THE DOUBLE X ECONOMY.
The Double X…
Kategorier: Antropologi Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Kulturantropologi och socialantropologi Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Sociologi och antropologi
Based on fieldwork undertaken in Burkina Faso in the mid-1990s, this study investigates the functioning of the domestic economy of smallholder cotton farmers with the overall aim of interrogating female agency. The thesis attempts to answer the following interrelated research questions: How were the smallholder…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
This fully revised fifth edition continues to offer the authoritative introduction to today’s global political economy and its historical context. O’Brien and Williams move beyond the traditional three-paradigm perspective to show how these theories can be applied and their efficacy in tackling key…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
In Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, bestselling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of fifty radical inventions that changed the World.
Now, in this new book, Harford once again brings us an array of remarkable, memorable, curious…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
What is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation’s economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic economy? How has the behaviour of millennials and Generation Z affected the global economy? Find out all this and…
Global Shift is – quite simply – the definitive work on economic globalization. The extensive use of graphics, lack of jargon, and clear definition of terms has made it the standard work for the social sciences. The Seventh Edition has been completely updated using the latest available sources.
It…
The conventional approach to the analysis of structural change is to apply
a horizontal perspective on the economy. This means that sectors are studied
in isolation. By the integration of two strands of literature on structural
change and the role of technology, evolutionary economics and input-output
economics, this…
In Sweden, as in other open economies, financial policymakers must cope with crises originating both at home and abroad. This report documents Sweden’s vulnerability to external shocks.
It analyzes Swedish financial policy during the global financial crisis, including monetary policy, both traditional (lowered repo…
Kategorier: Bankväsen Biografi: allmänt Biografi: näringsliv och industri Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Finansväsen Finansväsen och redovisning Livsstil, hobby och fritid Lokalhistoria, familjehistoria och nostalgi
André Oscar Wallenberg founded Stockholms Enskilda Bank, which has become one of Sweden s major banks, in the mid 19th century. After a banking crisis in 1878 79, two of his sons, Knut and Marcus Sr, managed to restore the family s sphere. When other banks and investment companies had been seriously hit by two world…
Doctoral Thesis in Archaeology at Stockholm University, Sweden 2016
Få vetenskapliga områden har rönt så stor uppmärksamhet som genteknologin. I dagstidningarna kan vi läsa artiklar om embryon som säljs via internet och hur stamceller och gener förvandlas till handelsvaror vid ekonomiska transaktioner. Den mänskliga kroppen presenteras som en guldgruva och biologiska substanser som…
CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMYTyler Cowen”Not only does Professor Cowen carry on and expand research in the fields of public choice, monetary economics, Austrian economics, and public economics, but he also ventures, with great competence, into fields such as culture, the role of fame, and, most recently, animal…
Kategorier: Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor Sociala prognoser och framtidsstudier
Visions of The Future offers a collection of contemplative surveys of the landscape of the future across the fields of conflict, science, work, selfimage, culture, society and economy.
The volume stem from the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation projekt Forum Axess. Some of the texts stem from the Engelsberg…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
THE BIRTH, THE LIFE AND THE DEATH OF FIRMSThe Role of Entrepreneurship, Creative Destruction and Conservative Institutions in a Growing and Experimentally Organized EconomyGunnar Eliasson edBusiness successes and failure are natural features in a growing and experimentally organized economy. The ongoing reorganisation…
Boken behandlar centrala frågeställningar i modern bolagsrätt med nära koppling till det pågående strävandena att harmonisera den europeiska bolagsrätten. Artiklarna fokuserar på fyra sammanhängande teman;– förhållandet mellan bolagsrätt och europeisk ekonomisk integration– förhållandet mellan take…