If the consumer economy had a sex, it would be female.If the business world had a sex, it would be male. And therein lies the pickle.Women are the engine of the global economy, driving 80 percent of c
Joseph Pine and Jim Gilmore’s classic The Experience Economy identified a seismic shift in the business world: to set yourself apart from your competition, you need to stage experiences—memorable even
Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses and record l
Just as the Industrial Revolution in Britain suggested a promise of abundance, David Ricardo, Robert Malthus, and their colleagues formalized classical political economy with its emphasis on scarcity, self-interest, and private accumulation of capital. At the same time, Robert Owen took a different path arguing that the new technologies open a new world. In effect, his ideas turn classical political economy on its head. Building this new social science, Owen emphasizes abundance, public spiritedness, and communal accumulation of capital. Although the history of the cooperative movement is well documented, the social psychology, architecture, and logic of its economics stand in need of reappraisal. This book describes, often restates, and in places reconstructs the social science of British cooperative writers-from Robert Owen, through William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler, J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, the Christian Socialists, the consumer cooperative movement, the Women's Coop
Deliver Valuable Service to a New World of CustomersAs the economy globalizes, customers are becoming more and more diverse making your job harder than ever. Regardless of differences in values, age,
The authors (a senior fellow and a research analyst with the Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economic) examine the theory and empirical evidence concerning exchange rate policy in the adv
With globalization continuing apace, the world economy continues to experience dramatic change and development. This third edition builds on the popular format of its predecessors to provide the best
In The Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of capitalism, conceived as a singular world-system. The essays include discussions of the relationship of class and ethnonational consciousness, clarification of the meaning of transition from feudalism to capitalism, the utility of the concept of the semi peripheral state, and the relationship of socialist states to the capitalist world-economy. This book is the first in a three volume collection of Wallerstein's essays. The Politics of World-Economy (1984) elaborates on the role of states, the antisystemic movements and the civilizational project. Geopolitics and Geoculture (1991) analyses both the events leading up to the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and the subsequent process of perestroika in the light of Wallerstein's own interpretations
This book studies the strategic interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the world economy. The world economy consists of two regions, say Europe and America. The policy makers are the cen
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a global statistical initiative to collect comparative price data to estimate Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) of the currencies of the world’s economies.
2008年下半年開始爆發的經濟大衰退（the Great Recession）讓數百萬美國人及全球民眾失去了自己的家園以及工作，也讓「新經濟」的幻夢完全破滅。它迫使我們必須重新審視許多長久以來被奉為圭臬的想法。近四分之一個世紀以來，自由市場學說主導了一切，本書要討論的是經濟理論之間的戰爭，包括某些理論如何導引出了失敗的政策、引發經濟危機。本書將為大家說明，一些錯誤的思維如何讓政府決策者對不斷惡化的
In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, the authors bring to life international trade and its actors—merchants and bankers, pirates and privateers, sailors and slaves, traders and tree tapper
Key facts and figures for 204 countries World Economic Factbook 2012 brings together key data on the economy and politics of countries around the world. The book has 204 complete country profiles. Dat
