Speculations From Political Economy
Speculations from political economy presents a reflective examination of economic ideas through a series of essays intended to provoke thought rather than prescribe rigid doctrine. The work explores how labor efficiency, productivity, and economic organization influence both individual livelihoods and broader social stability. It considers the tension between job preservation and effective work practices, suggesting that resistance to efficiency can unintentionally weaken trades and reduce long term security. Discussions of trade, taxation, land use, and market interaction emphasize the interconnected nature of economic systems and the indirect consequences of policy and practice. Rather than offering fixed solutions, the book encourages careful observation of economic behavior and its outcomes within an evolving industrial society. The essays highlight how economic well being depends on adaptability, rational organization, and a balance between labor interests and commercial vitality. Overall, the work frames political economy as a field shaped by human behavior, practical conditions, and thoughtful inquiry, inviting readers to reassess accepted assumptions about work, value, and progress.
Advanced Economies and Emerging Markets
There is intense competition among emerging markets to capture their share of the global economy. This book addresses questions that are germane to accomplishing this goal. Most important to this end is the study and practice of international business and foreign trade.Undertaking such a study raises many questions which this book will answer: Why are emerging markets and the firms doing business in them internationalizing so aggressively?Why in the past decade has the pace of internationalization accelerated so rapidly?What competitive advantages do these emerging economies enjoy in comparison to advanced economies, such as the G20, and what are the origins of those advantages?Through what strategies are emerging market blocks, such as the BRICs and the CIVETS, building their global presence and expanding their market reach?How are emerging markets rivaling advanced economies and how are they affecting the already established rivalries among those economies?This book answers these and other questions. In doing so, it will address the larger issue of what it all means for mainstream international business theory and its actual practice.
Frontier Nation
Canada stands at a crossroads. After decades of slow growth, regulatory drag, and rising regional inequality, the country faces a fundamental choice: continue along the current path-or build boldly again.In Frontier Nation, Ravi Nair presents a powerful and practical vision for Canada's next century. Blending narrative storytelling with policy insight, the book introduces the concept of Gateway Cities-master-planned, innovation-driven economic hubs designed to unlock growth, expand opportunity, and reconnect Canada to the global economy.Drawing on global precedents and Canadian history, Nair shows how a new generation of gateway regions could combine affordable housing, rapid approvals, Indigenous partnership, modern infrastructure, and disciplined fiscal governance to accelerate industrial diversification and create up to a million new jobs.More than a policy proposal, Frontier Nation is a call to rebuild national confidence. At a time when many Canadians feel distant from decision-making and uncertain about the country's economic future, the book offers a framework for restoring ambition while remaining faithful to Canada's social values and democratic traditions.Both a story and a strategy, Frontier Nation challenges Canadians to imagine a country that builds again-more prosperous, more inclusive, and ready to lead in a rapidly changing world.
If You Can Just Print Money, Why Do I Pay Taxes?
What if the government could fund anything it wanted by simply creating money out of thin air? That's the promise of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a radical economic proposal gaining traction among politicians, activists, and academics. Advocates say that, with the right precautions, governments can create money to end unemployment, fight climate change, and much more - all without raising taxes. In If You Can Just Print Money, Why Do I Pay Taxes?, author Emmanuel Maggiori walks you through MMT in plain language and shows you why its arguments don't hold water. Maggiori debunks MMT step by step, offering compelling, informed, and rigorous counterarguments against all of its foundational claims. The author explains why MMT-inspired "money printing," far from guaranteeing prosperity, could be a recipe for inflation, instability, and stagnation. Inside the book: Why MMT's proposed job guarantee - meant to end unemployment - could backfire How MMT misreads inflation How MMT relates to quantitative easing, the controversial money-creation tool used after the financial crisis and the pandemic How MMT proposes to fight climate change and expand social security - and why the numbers don't add up Perfect for everyone interested in modern economics and policymaking, If You Can Just Print Money, Why Do I Pay Taxes? is an insightful and engaging new take on a topic generating debates around the world - all the way from blogs to the U.S. Senate and the Bank of England.
The Billion Dollar Blindspot
Half the world's population. One of healthcare's largest untapped markets.For decades, women's health has been systematically under-researched, under-measured, and under-capitalized because the system never treated it as a serious market.After two decades inside global wealth management allocating billions in capital, investment strategist Maryann Selfe began noticing a striking pattern: while investors debated the future of healthcare innovation, women's health rarely appeared in investment frameworks or asset-allocation discussions.In The Billion Dollar Blindspot, she uncovers how this oversight created a massive disconnect between women's health needs and where capital flows, and shows readers how this hidden market emerged, why it is now accelerating, and how to recognize the investment opportunities forming as women's health innovation finally begins to catch up.Women's health may be the most overlooked investment opportunity of our time.
Uneven Rewards
'Uneven Rewards' brings together major studies of workplace relations and behaviour from the distinguished labour economist Alison L Booth. Over more than three decades, Booth has forged a distinctive intellectual path combining a strong interest in the role of gender and culture on labour markets with acute expertise in data collection, and cognate social science fields and methods.With her co-authors, Booth examines the effects on men and women of evolving industrial relations' rules and contexts. She studies the changing gendered and culturally-specific nature of labour markets, and analyses the findings of a set of data-rich social experiments to reveal insights about women's and men's behaviour in labour, educational and wider social settings.Finally, Booth shares new conclusions arising from this extensive body of research. She shows how culture and nurture associated with the upbringing of boys and girls can have profound implications for educational and labour market performance and relative outcomes by gender.
Our Next 250 Years
Economic outcomes are shaped by incentives, not intentions. Public policy establishes the rules that govern economic activity, and those rules define how capital is allocated, how businesses operate, and how work is organized. Over time, these structures determine not only what is produced, but who benefits, how stable employment is, and how opportunity is distributed across society. In Our Next 250 Years: Incentives and Jobs, Charles Patton examines the full chain from policy to outcomes. Taxes, regulation, education, trade, and technological change all create the incentives that guide economic decisions. Those incentives influence where capital flows, what businesses prioritize, and how jobs are created, structured, and sustained. Employment is not an isolated result. It is the product of a system shaped by deliberate choices. When incentives are aligned with long-term growth, investment supports innovation, productivity, and expanding opportunity. Businesses compete, workers gain access to more stable and rewarding employment, and the system adapts to changing conditions. When incentives are misaligned, capital shifts toward less productive uses, short-term outcomes are prioritized over long-term stability, and employment becomes more uncertain. These outcomes are not accidental. They follow directly from the structure of the system. This book explores how incentive design affects not only economic performance, but also resilience, adaptability, and the distribution of risk and reward. It examines how policies can unintentionally weaken the very outcomes they aim to improve, and how different approaches to regulation, taxation, and investment shape the long-term trajectory of an economy. By tracing these relationships, the book provides a framework for understanding why some systems sustain growth and opportunity while others struggle to do so. Drawing on economic history, institutional analysis, and practical examples, Incentives and Jobs explains how incentives operate across sectors and over time. It emphasizes the importance of clarity in policy design, the role of tradeoffs, and the need to evaluate outcomes based on how systems function in practice rather than how they are intended to work. Incentives and Jobs is the third volume in the Our Next 250 Years series, which examines how policy, power, and incentives interact to shape economic outcomes and define the long-term direction of a nation.
Latin America
This book discusses the future of Latin America's economic prospects.
Living Standards in the United States
Many economists' pessimistic view of social welfare in the United States is unwarranted.
GODS MUST BE CRAZY! Farmer ↔ Hunter
"In the final sense - a theft." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953.He was a Republican. A warrior. The man who won the last war America actually won. And in 1953, he named the pattern this book maps across thirteen domains: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."We are still ignoring him.GODS MUST BE CRAZY! Farmer ↔ HunterIn the 1980 film, a Coke bottle shatters a society that had never known scarcity. Today, a shinier bottle - American capitalism, AI supremacy, trillion-dollar deficits - has landed on the global village. This book picks it up and reads the bill of materials etched in the glass.On April 2, 2025 - 165 years after Lord Elgin torched Beijing's Old Summer Palace - a president called a tariff order "Liberation Day." Within two trading days, the S&P 500 shed $6.6 trillion. In Beijing, a planner typed: Build new. Faster now.The Hunter pulled a lever. The Farmer read the underground channels.The Farmer (China) plants patient capital across thirteen interlocking domains - backed by a $125-trillion SOE root system and 6,000+ AI seeds - building an unbreachable floor. The Hunter (America) fires magnificent arrows from a bow cracked by $5.3 trillion in buybacks, a $40-trillion Middle Eastern ledger, and algorithmic polarization devouring its own social cohesion. One civilization measures in quarters. The other measures in centuries. A floor cannot be undermined from above.This is not a book about China "winning." It is a book about what happens when two civilizations play different games on the same board - and only one realizes it.Through Marcus Chen (Tesla: $1T for 1.64M vehicles; BYD: $107B for 4.6M - one company's narrative is another's Tuesday) and Sarah Kowalski (whose "Made in Vietnam" ceramics are 65-80% Chinese), trillion-dollar abstractions become human consequences. Each chapter closes with a Boatman's Ledger - readable as narrative, investment thesis, or strategic playbook. Net assessment: Farmer 14, Hunter 15. A one-point margin. Not destiny - a policy variable.This is not anti-American. It is pro-American - the way a doctor is pro-patient when she names the disease. Written by a Fortune 10 insider who walked procurement floors at General Dynamics and Vertex Aerospace inside the machinery Eisenhower warned about.The question is not "Who will win?" The question is: What are you not seeing?The water is shifting. Read the undercurrent.Proceeds support the Missionaries of Charity.
H矇g矇monie, populisme, 矇mancipation
Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014) est reconnu aujourd'hui comme l'un des philosophes politiques principaux pour le XXIe si癡cle. Cet ouvrage poursuit les d矇bats entrepris avec lui, et r矇unit quelques-uns de ses principaux interlocuteurs en France (?tienne Balibar, Toni Negri, Jacques Ranci癡re), aux ?tats-Unis (Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser) et en Argentine (Horacio Gonz獺lez, Leonor Arfuch, Emilio de Ipola, Senda Sferco). Laclau a 矇crit des ouvrages devenus des r矇f矇rences sur l'h矇g矇monie, le populisme et l'矇mancipation. Longtemps ignor矇es par la philosophie institutionnelle et m矇connues du grand public, ses th癡ses originales ont su perturber la sc癡ne contemporaine de la pens矇e politique. Son activit矇 citoyenne en Argentine a fait de lui un intellectuel familier du public hispanophone. Ce que disent ici les penseurs argentins 矇claire d'un jour nouveau la contribution des 矇pist矇mologies du Sud aux d矇bats politiques fran癟ais et europ矇ens, mais aussi au-del?, portant sur la question d'un populisme de gauche que Laclau appelait de ses voeux et qu'il nous laisse en h矇ritage.
Advanced Techniques and Modeling in Business and Economics
This reprint brings together fourteen original contributions that examine the transformative role of advanced analytical techniques in business and economics. Drawing on cutting-edge approaches such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, computational modeling, and digital technologies, the chapters explore how data-driven methods are reshaping decision-making, forecasting, and strategic management in complex economic environments.The reprint highlights the growing importance of advanced modeling and predictive tools for optimizing business processes, improving productivity, and enhancing organizational competitiveness. At the same time, it provides valuable insights into how policymakers and institutions can leverage these techniques to design more effective and evidence-based economic policies. Topics covered include economic trend forecasting, financial risk analysis, consumer behavior modeling, digital transformation, and the application of emerging technologies across finance, management, and policy contexts.By combining methodological innovation with real-world applications, this collection offers a comprehensive perspective on the integration of advanced techniques into contemporary economic and business research. It serves as a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to understand and apply intelligent, data-driven approaches to address current and future challenges in an increasingly complex and digitalized global economy.
The Next Experiment
This book traces the evolution of human systems and introduces a new economic model designed for the realities of the modern world. It begins by honoring the American Experiment and the conditions that once made it successful, then examines how rising complexity, technological acceleration, and global interdependence have pushed the current system beyond its original design.Through clear explanations and a step-by-step structure, the book reveals the deeper forces behind today's pressures and presents the Next Experiment: a contribution-based model built on aligned incentives, honest cost, shared success, and human potential. It outlines how this system strengthens stability, restores agency, and supports a healthier balance between individual freedom and collective well-being.The Next Experiment is ultimately a book about dignity, stability, and human flourishing. It argues that systems must evolve as the world evolves and invites readers to imagine a society where people are free not just to survive, but to live fully.
The Gods Must Be Crazy! DRAGON vs. EAGLE
Two civilizations are building the same technology through entirely different logics. One is gilded and theatrical. The other is turbid and relentless. Most investors are watching only one river.Dragon vs. Eagle is a contrarian strategic forecast that exposes how China's autonomous vehicle manufacturing machine-led by BYD, XPeng, Huawei, and a new generation of pure-play operators like WeRide and Pony.ai-is quietly overtaking the American robotaxi narrative built around Waymo, Tesla, and a $1.5 trillion valuation illusion.Using the proprietary Māyā Meter, this autonomous vehicle investment guide reveals the staggering per-vehicle valuation gap: Waymo at $50 million per vehicle versus WeRide at $3 million. The Dinosaur Meter scores the fragility of legacy automakers-Ford (83.4), Volkswagen (79.1), Toyota (70.6)-against a refinancing wall that the capital markets have not yet priced.At the heart of the analysis is the 'Industrialiser' archetype: how China's state-directed electric vehicle supply chain has driven hardware costs from $150,000 to $150, producing a massive 'Data Monsoon' from BYD's God's Eye ADAS system-now generating 150 million kilometers of driving data per day across 21+ million vehicles. This is not a car story. It is the birth of the first mass-produced embodied intelligence platform.The book maps the Interdependency Web connecting five nodes-autonomous mobility, logistics, robotics, distributed energy, and financial data rails-and provides a complete investment framework: the Quarter-Kelly position-sizing model, the Six Temples taxonomy, and Three Monsoons scenario planning for 2030-2035.For investors navigating the US-China technology war, tariff policy, semiconductor export controls, and the LiDAR cost curve revolution, Dragon vs. Eagle delivers what no other book does: the boatman's manual for reading both rivers at once.From the author of The Gods Must Be Crazy II: A Rooseveltian Renaissance for Trump 2.0, with three decades of Fortune 10 strategic consulting across 40+ countries, Six Sigma Master Black Belt and TOGAF9 credentials, and field expertise spanning the geopolitical risk landscape from BIG4 boardrooms to the ancient ritual traditions of Kerala.
The Fragile Dragon
The Fragile Dragon offers a unique exploration of China's rapid transformation and its evolving commercial relationship with the West.Drawing on the author's experience as president of the American Chamber of Commerce under Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden, the book examines key business and political developments from both Western and Chinese perspectives.The narrative intertwines the story of his family -- including an opium addict, an American codebreaker, and a Chinese revolutionary -- with broader geopolitical themes. As an American businessman of Chinese ancestry, the author had firsthand access to leaders on both sides and provides insightful analysis on why tensions between the US and China have escalated, threatening global commerce and stability.Finally, the author offers guidance on how business people can think about China, and what it takes to succeed, whether it's navigating the narrow corridor between what China wants and what the US will allow, partnering with rather than competing against local players, or structuring businesses to minimize risk if a catastrophic event takes place, as appears more and more likely.
The Globalization Trap
The Globalization Trap exposes how decades of free trade, outsourcing, and economic dogma hollowed out the American middle class-and why the promised gains of globalization never arrived for millions of workers.Economists once claimed that free trade would raise wages and living standards. Instead, globalization triggered a race to the bottom, forcing U.S. workers to compete with low-wage labor worldwide. The result: stagnant wages, shrinking opportunities, and a collapsing middle class-especially for workers without college degrees.The book also dismantles the myth of the "post-industrial service economy." Cheap imports and service-sector jobs were supposed to deliver prosperity. They didn't. For most workers, lower prices and imports failed to offset rising living costs and flat pay, leaving economic insecurity in their wake.But this is not just a diagnosis-it's a blueprint. As globalization fractures and global trade blocs re-emerge, The Globalization Trap outlines a realistic path to renewed prosperity. The plan focuses on rebuilding U.S. manufacturing, reducing trade deficits, protecting critical technologies, and restoring wage growth through targeted tariffs, tax credits, quotas, and workforce training.Clear-eyed, practical, and timely, this book offers a roadmap for reclaiming economic stability and a stronger middle class.
Frontier Nation
Canada stands at a crossroads. After decades of slow growth, regulatory drag, and rising regional inequality, the country faces a fundamental choice: continue along the current path-or build boldly again.In Frontier Nation, Ravi Nair presents a powerful and practical vision for Canada's next century. Blending narrative storytelling with policy insight, the book introduces the concept of Gateway Cities-master-planned, innovation-driven economic hubs designed to unlock growth, expand opportunity, and reconnect Canada to the global economy.Drawing on global precedents and Canadian history, Nair shows how a new generation of gateway regions could combine affordable housing, rapid approvals, Indigenous partnership, modern infrastructure, and disciplined fiscal governance to accelerate industrial diversification and create up to a million new jobs.More than a policy proposal, Frontier Nation is a call to rebuild national confidence. At a time when many Canadians feel distant from decision-making and uncertain about the country's economic future, the book offers a framework for restoring ambition while remaining faithful to Canada's social values and democratic traditions.Both a story and a strategy, Frontier Nation challenges Canadians to imagine a country that builds again-more prosperous, more inclusive, and ready to lead in a rapidly changing world.
Money Laundering and Tax Avoidance for Beginners
Extremism and tribalism are on the rise; the modern world is fracturing. National debts and poverty are increasing. Blame is allocated based on national interests and tribal beliefs. The enemy of all nations knows no boundaries, prays to no God, recognises no social ideology and maintains no national loyalty. It is a single economic entity that carries and spreads throughout the world the significant disease of our time - corruption. The following is a citizen's tale, a warning from one citizen to another - the real threat to our children's future resides within and is maintained by those the citizen has empowered.
The 12 Levers of Business Performance
What drives your company's value?Are you a business owner, wondering what its true worth is? If you wanted to sell, what is the ultimate price you could get? Do you know how to achieve that price?This isn't just another business book; it's your definitive compass to mastering EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization)-the vital metric investors use to assess a company's true worth.In The 12 Levers of Business Performance, seasoned expert Andreas Gfesser, drawing from over 35 years of experience transforming businesses into powerhouses, reveals the strategies crucial for growth and profitability. Through a practical, step-by-step approach, guided by the relatable journey of fictional CEO Bob, you will discover: The 12 Value Levers that will systematically enhance your business operations and financial performance, preparing your company for its highest possible valuation.The Closed-Loop Value Enhancement Process, a proven framework for continuous improvement that aligns every aspect of your business for lasting success.How to build your own EBITDA Integration Strategy, a comprehensive guide that captures your company's historical trajectory and outlines its future strategy for maximizing returns.Whether you want to sell, attract investors, or simply optimize your company's financial health, this book provides insights and actionable tools to elevate your business. Learn to think like an investor, leverage strategic planning, and achieve the sustained profitability you deserve.It's time to unlock your business's full potential. Your journey to maximizing EBITDA value begins here.
Inside the Metaverse
This book examines the metaverse as an emerging digital ecosystem shaped by the convergence of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, virtual worlds, and augmented and virtual reality. It explains how digital economies operate within virtual environments, covering foundational concepts such as decentralized platforms, NFTs, blockchain gaming, digital ownership, and the technological infrastructure that supports immersive online experiences. The content places the metaverse within a broader historical and economic context, outlining how it builds on earlier internet models while introducing new forms of interaction, value exchange, and digital identity. The book is intended for general readers, students, and professionals who want a clear and structured understanding of the metaverse without requiring advanced technical knowledge. It adopts an explanatory and descriptive approach, combining conceptual analysis with real-world examples, project overviews, and discussions of risks, challenges, and use cases, providing an educational overview of how virtual worlds and digital economies function and evolve.
Beyond the Paycheck
"Beyond the Paycheck" is a leadership book focused on empowering leaders to create business environments that foster personal and professional growth. Written by Veronica Williams, this book blends her academic background in psychology and public administration with years of leadership experience to offer a powerful guide on building purpose-driven work cultures.At its core, the book explores how people-centered leadership can transform workplace culture. Williams emphasizes the importance of leadership communication in driving positive change, offering actionable insights on how leaders can shift from traditional, control-focused leadership models to ones that promote trust, empowerment, and autonomy.The book is particularly focused on helping organizations create a human-centered workplace, where employees are not just viewed as workers but as individuals with potential, dreams, and aspirations. Through practical tools and case studies, Williams demonstrates how leaders can foster employee engagement, create thriving teams, and nurture a culture of meaningful work by aligning professional growth with the organization's goals.Drawing on the principles of leadership psychology, the book outlines the importance of emotional intelligence leadership. Leaders are encouraged to lead with empathy and to foster relationships that empower employees to take ownership of their work. Through this, leaders can not only meet the basic needs of their employees but also elevate them to higher levels of fulfillment and self-actualization, creating a purpose-driven work environment.With an emphasis on team empowerment strategies, Williams highlights how leaders can shift from micromanagement to coaching, creating space for autonomy and growth. The book aims to inspire leaders to embrace a modern leadership approach, where the human side of leadership is central to organizational success.In addition to employee engagement, thriving teams, and purpose-driven work, the book offers deep insights into the importance of meaningful work culture and the role of leaders in cultivating such an environment. It calls on leaders to embrace the holistic development of their teams, which ultimately leads to long-term organizational success.Whether you're a seasoned leader or an aspiring one, "Beyond the Paycheck" offers a practical guide to transforming your leadership approach and your workplace. With a focus on people first leadership and human-centered workplace strategies, this book is an essential read for anyone committed to creating a thriving, engaged, and empowered workforce.
Realistic Optimism
In the age of AI, leadership does not follow technology. It shapes its trajectory. Artificial intelligence holds extraordinary potential. Yet without thoughtful stewardship, that promise risks being wasted or misused in ways that erode trust, destabilise systems, and harm people. The question is not whether AI will transform our world, but how leaders choose to shape that transformation. How do we harness AI in ways that are powerful yet people-centred? How do we move at pace without sacrificing trust, cultural readiness, or Inclusive AI by Design? Grounded in enterprise experience and lived insight, Jamal D. Sakara Hamidu offers a practical guide for leaders determined to act with urgency, not haste; to lead with inclusion by intention, not exception; and to embed ethics, culture, and sustainable value at the core of AI transformation. Drawing on deeply transformational work with global organisations, from EY to Deutsche Bank, and on his experience building Barika Intelligence, he presents a compelling alternative to hype-fuelled manifestos and fear-driven narratives. At the heart of this book is The RAPP Way(R), a future-ready methodology designed to help organisations confront the real challenges of AI adoption: ethical complexity, evolving regulation, cultural resistance, workforce readiness, the emotional cost of change that accompanies transformation, and the short-term pressures that too often derail long-term success. Realistic Optimism offers a bold and balanced path forward for executives and policymakers seeking to lead with purpose, foresight, and integrity in the competitive age of AI.
Realistic Optimism
In the age of AI, leadership does not follow technology. It shapes its trajectory. Artificial intelligence holds extraordinary potential. Yet without thoughtful stewardship, that promise risks being wasted or misused in ways that erode trust, destabilise systems, and harm people. The question is not whether AI will transform our world, but how leaders choose to shape that transformation. How do we harness AI in ways that are powerful yet people-centred? How do we move at pace without sacrificing trust, cultural readiness, or Inclusive AI by Design? Grounded in enterprise experience and lived insight, Jamal D. Sakara Hamidu offers a practical guide for leaders determined to act with urgency, not haste; to lead with inclusion by intention, not exception; and to embed ethics, culture, and sustainable value at the core of AI transformation. Drawing on deeply transformational work with global organisations, from EY to Deutsche Bank, and on his experience building Barika Intelligence, he presents a compelling alternative to hype-fuelled manifestos and fear-driven narratives. At the heart of this book is The RAPP Way(R), a future-ready methodology designed to help organisations confront the real challenges of AI adoption: ethical complexity, evolving regulation, cultural resistance, workforce readiness, the emotional cost of change that accompanies transformation, and the short-term pressures that too often derail long-term success. Realistic Optimism offers a bold and balanced path forward for executives and policymakers seeking to lead with purpose, foresight, and integrity in the competitive age of AI.
Philosophy and Finance: A Love Story
Philosophy and Finance is a timely and deeply personal exploration of two worlds too often kept apart. Drawing on the author's journey from global capital markets to ancient philosophy, this book bridges ethics and economics, inner life and institutional systems. From Aristotle and the Stoics to modern impact investing and sustainable finance, it argues that capital is never neutral--it reflects the values of those who allocate it. True transformation, the author contends, begins within but must extend outward into the companies, markets, and economies we shape. Blending intellectual rigor with lived experience, this is not a technical manual but a reflective guide for professionals, investors, entrepreneurs, and changemakers seeking to align capital with conscience. In an age of acceleration and uncertainty, it offers a powerful reminder: finance guided by wisdom can become a force for human flourishing.
Bitcoin vs. Banks
A struggle over the rules of value is unfolding in plain sight. On one side sit institutions that manage risk through hierarchy; on the other, a neutral network that clears value without permission. This book explains what is at stake when bitcoin vs banks becomes more than a slogan: it becomes a question about citizenship, autonomy, and the architecture of trust. Clear, grounded chapters unpack central banking history, the mechanics of banking power structures, and why a decentralised currency can both empower and expose. Readers seeking perspective on institutional adoption and the regulation of bitcoin will find a practical lens rather than hype. You will learn how incentives shape custody, how narratives move boardrooms, and how design choices hardwire rights into payment rails. For investors of ideas, policy watchers, and builders, this is a field guide to economic sovereignty and the future of money. It offers language to debate monetary policy debate with confidence and tools to imagine financial system reform without naive promises. The result is clarity: who gains control, who bears risk, and how your money's pathways define your freedom.
Crypto Crises
Markets do not merely rise and fall; they teach. This book shows how crypto's greatest booms and busts reveal crypto market cycles driven by market psychology as much as code. It is for readers who want fewer sleepless nights and better decisions, not hot tips. Across crisp case studies and calm explanations, you will learn to spot common tells in exchange risk, understand stablecoin design, and read investor behavior without getting lost in jargon. You will see how defi risks often bundle leverage in friendly packaging, why scam detection begins with incentives, and how to build risk management habits that travel from bitcoin history to newer experiments. The result is a practical way to create a long term strategy you can actually follow. No forecasts, no promises, just a clearer mental model for volatile assets and a simple operating manual for the next cycle.
Credit Score Soar!
He lived it. He fixed it. He lived it again. He fixed it again. Ken Fleming the author of, Make America's Credit Great Again has been through "the ringer" and has seen it all when it comes to credit problems. He survived and thrived. You can too!This book will show you how to: SIGNIFICANTLY RAISE YOUR CREDIT SCORES, fix your credit problems and just as importantly show you how to not end up in the same position again. It will reveal the interests of the mysterious credit bureaus and the deceptive collection agencies. Are they on your side? Is that their real name? Is your credit report really free? Do you know who can see it? Why would a potential or current employer want to review your credit report? Do you know what "building credit" is? Did you know that every credit bureau has been sued by private citizens and lost?The answers to your questions regarding credit scores are in this book. Answers to questions that you have not even thought of are in this book!Question: Is it not ridiculous that we were not taught how to manage money and credit issues when we were in high school? Is that by design? Is it not advantageous for the unscrupulous in the lending and financial industry to have an ill-informed public? It has already been proven and revealed that some industry "leaders" have benefitted enormously from a misled public.Fact: Credit problems can cause you to have to emotionally deal with what got you there. Let's face it: It is difficult to face credit issues because they are usually linked to very negative things that have happened in your life. Note: They know it. They know how you tick. They know you're stressing. They know you don't want to deal with it. And they were ready for you long before you came into the picture.This book will help you.
Credit Score Soar!
He lived it. He fixed it. He lived it again. He fixed it again. Ken Fleming the author of, Make America's Credit Great Again has been through "the ringer" and has seen it all when it comes to credit problems. He survived and thrived. You can too!This book will show you how to: SIGNIFICANTLY RAISE YOUR CREDIT SCORES, fix your credit problems and just as importantly show you how to not end up in the same position again. It will reveal the interests of the mysterious credit bureaus and the deceptive collection agencies. Are they on your side? Is that their real name? Is your credit report really free? Do you know who can see it? Why would a potential or current employer want to review your credit report? Do you know what "building credit" is? Did you know that every credit bureau has been sued by private citizens and lost?The answers to your questions regarding credit scores are in this book. Answers to questions that you have not even thought of are in this book!Question: Is it not ridiculous that we were not taught how to manage money and credit issues when we were in high school? Is that by design? Is it not advantageous for the unscrupulous in the lending and financial industry to have an ill-informed public? It has already been proven and revealed that some industry "leaders" have benefitted enormously from a misled public.Fact: Credit problems can cause you to have to emotionally deal with what got you there. Let's face it: It is difficult to face credit issues because they are usually linked to very negative things that have happened in your life. Note: They know it. They know how you tick. They know you're stressing. They know you don't want to deal with it. And they were ready for you long before you came into the picture.This book will help you.
Economic Governance Technology
Economic Governance Technology was written with not only the belief, but also a sense of certainty, that insights and tools provided by modern science and technology, combined with basic human values and basic logic, will allow the creation of a new economic governance technology. This technology will make it possible to build efficient and productive economies, ensuring full employment and a fair distribution of wealth - all without having to go through depressions, major recessions, or large fluctuations in the interest rate. Moreover, all this can be done even amid major shifts in technology, natural disasters, and epidemics. Peter G. Hammerschlag, a mechanical engineer with a large variety of experience in the real economy of making goods and providing services, in large companies and in small companies, outlines such a technology in this book. He does so using basic, practical language that even the lay person can grasp. The ideas he presents can be viewed initially as an additional branch of economics. However, they will eventually make substantial parts of present-day economics obsolete. This new technology, when fully developed, will make it possible to monitor, guide and, when needed, control an economy for the benefit of all, ensuring productivity, full employment, a fair distribution of wealth, and sufficient allocation of resources to public services and preparations for the future.
Teen Investing Complete Guide
This book provides an introductory overview of investing concepts designed for teenagers and young beginners approaching personal finance for the first time. It explains how money works, why investing early matters, and how different financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, index funds, and exchange-traded funds function within the broader financial system. Core economic ideas including risk, return, diversification, compound interest, inflation, and market behavior are presented in clear, accessible language to support foundational financial understanding. The content is intended for teens, students, and young adults, as well as parents or educators seeking a structured resource for financial education. The book follows a practical and educational approach, combining explanations of financial theory with real-world examples, basic money management guidance, and step-by-step introductions to portfolio building, long-term investing strategies, and common mistakes to avoid, without assuming prior financial knowledge.
The Age of Global Change
The Age of Global Change provides an in-depth examination of the major forces reshaping societies in the twenty-first century, by referring to themes of demography, globalization, cultural change, inequality, governance, health, and sustainability.It highlights how rapid population growth, urbanization, migration, and shifts in religious and linguistic patterns are transforming the social fabric worldwide. At the same time, globalization has brought about profound cultural shifts, fostering individualism, gender equality, and diversity discourses, while also provoking nationalist and populist reactions.This book discusses the emergence of a global culture defined by hyperconnectivity, symbolic consumption, and the post-truth condition, alongside the rise of contested phenomena such as wokeism that reflect deeper struggles over identity and values. In international affairs, the book situates these changes within a broader geopolitical realignment, where the decline of Western dominance is matched by the ascent of multipolar power centers, particularly in Asia. Economic inequality and corporate concentration of power are shown to exacerbate global divides, fueled by financialization, tax evasion, and crony capitalism. Health and sustainability are positioned as defining challenges of the century.From pandemics to mental health crises, and from climate change to ecological degradation, these issues highlight the vulnerabilities and interdependencies of an interconnected world. The author argues that humanity is undergoing a paradoxical transformation, marked by both fragmentation and integration, the persistence of traditions amid modernization, and escalating risks accompanied by new possibilities. Ultimately, the century will be shaped not only by crises but also by opportunities for innovation, cultural synthesis, and collective action.
Economic Governance Technology
Economic Governance Technology was written with not only the belief, but also a sense of certainty, that insights and tools provided by modern science and technology, combined with basic human values and basic logic, will allow the creation of a new economic governance technology. This technology will make it possible to build efficient and productive economies, ensuring full employment and a fair distribution of wealth - all without having to go through depressions, major recessions, or large fluctuations in the interest rate. Moreover, all this can be done even amid major shifts in technology, natural disasters, and epidemics. Peter G. Hammerschlag, a mechanical engineer with a large variety of experience in the real economy of making goods and providing services, in large companies and in small companies, outlines such a technology in this book. He does so using basic, practical language that even the lay person can grasp. The ideas he presents can be viewed initially as an additional branch of economics. However, they will eventually make substantial parts of present-day economics obsolete. This new technology, when fully developed, will make it possible to monitor, guide and, when needed, control an economy for the benefit of all, ensuring productivity, full employment, a fair distribution of wealth, and sufficient allocation of resources to public services and preparations for the future.
Demographics and Regional Economic Development
This Reprint examines the complex interplay between demographic trends and regional economic development. Persistent regional inequalities, population decline, low fertility, and aging populations pose significant challenges to social cohesion, economic sustainability, and long-term development. Using contemporary demographic analysis and regional science methods, this research highlights the structural and socio-economic drivers of demographic change and explores their implications for policy design. Case studies span Greece, Italy, the United States, Thailand, and the Middle East, providing insights into global patterns of demographic and regional disparities.
Climate Capital
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFramework to design a real, sustainable, and non-harmful approach to our global economy Seeing economics for the design discipline it truly is, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future, leverages the decades of experience of Tom Chi as a physicist and designer to offer a realistic, grounded perspective on the fact that our current economic systems simply don't work with our world's physical reality in the long-term. The comprehensive, holistic approach in this book cuts through the noise of so many conversations happening at the intersection of climate change, economics, sustainability, and our global future, providing insights on: Possibilities for our collective future using science and hard evidence, avoiding the extremes of unbridled optimism or complete doom and gloom The 4Cs--Critical Thinking, Creativity, Compassion, and Community--as a framework to design a sustainable, non-harmful approach to our global economy Using nature, the best-designed system out there, instead of economic pseudoscience, as a guide to move beyond fear for our future to a place of empowerment for individuals and communities alike Part toolkit, part history, and part demonstration, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future provides tangible strategies for venture capitalists, sophisticated individual investors, pragmatic policy wonks, and ardent environmental activists to create a sustainable economic future that no longer destroys the planet.
The Cost of Cool
The city of Austin consistently leads lists of fastest-growing and most-desirable places to live--a simultaneous source of pride and anxiety for residents. In The Cost of Cool: Austin's Tech Growth and the People Left Behind, author Jon Roberts and his contributors investigate Austin's evolving identity and tackle a question posed repeatedly by community and business leaders nationally: How did Austin, Texas, become a global tech leader? More broadly, this book focuses on economic development and policy dilemmas faced by growing cities while maintaining both social equity and the elusive qualities of "place" that attract creative and innovative talent.Echoing themes raised by other urbanist scholars, Roberts and his collaborators do not shy away from the controversial aspects of tax incentives, environmental issues, cultural loss, and economic exclusion. While tackling the problems raised by unbridled growth, they also address concerns of younger workers who are increasingly prioritizing "place" over "job."Finally, and perhaps most importantly, The Cost of Cool emphasizes the centrality of vision: for growth (as Austin's population doubles every twenty years); for openness (often driven by the influence of the South by Southwest conference and Austin's music scene); and for the future of the tech industry (including the implications of forty years of commitment to semiconductors, software, and social media). The Cost of Cool informs the ongoing debate over how to foster economic growth without degrading the quality-of-life characteristics that help make it possible.
Foundations of Macroeconomics
This book presents an integrated framework for understanding macroeconomics by linking economic theory, policy analysis, and real-world practice within a unified analytical structure. It examines how aggregate output, employment, inflation, and growth emerge from the interaction of households, firms, markets, and institutions, with particular attention to the microeconomic foundations that shape macroeconomic outcomes. Core topics include macroeconomic measurement, labor and capital markets, expectations, fiscal and monetary policy, and the conditions under which economic systems function efficiently or experience prolonged periods of underperformance. The book is intended for students, academics, and readers with an interest in economics who seek a rigorous yet structured treatment of macroeconomic analysis beyond introductory surveys. It adopts a theoretical and analytical approach, supported by formal reasoning, graphical analysis, and selected mathematical tools, while emphasizing the integration of classical and non-classical perspectives to clarify policy choices in both short-run stabilization and long-run economic performance.
The Truth about the German Nation
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How to Think Like an Economist
This book will leave the reader not just smarter - but wiser. -- Professor Erik Angner, Stockholm University, author of How Economics Can Save the World We live in the economy - and we are part of it. Living through a pandemic, governments had to work out how to put economies into a deep freeze without destroying them. Avoiding climate catastrophe means changing economies so that they don't bake the world. In explaining how economic thinking is indispensable to tackling these huge problems, this book is a sure-footed guide, spanning Aristotle's ideas about restraining consumption, Adam Smith's thinking about the importance of moral character for sustained economic development, and Esther Duflo's ongoing work to help the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty. It shows how the greatest economic thinkers - Karl Marx, Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek, among many others - have enabled us to see the world differently, and how we can make it better. It shows that economic thinking emerged, long before there were economists - and that good economics is about much more than the economy, so everyone should understand these vital ideas. Entertaining and educational, you'll soon be rethinking what you know about economics, especially when the book shows how women found a place in the development of ideas even when discrimination denied them any formal role.
The Coherent Nation
Why do some nations thrive in economic disruption while others stagnate? The answer isn't more policy-it's better architecture.THE COHERENT NATION reveals a neuroeconomic blueprint for national competitiveness in the age of AI, intangibles, and radical uncertainty.Dr. Hesham Gabr worked for FORA, a research and analysis unit under the Danish Ministry of Economic & Business Affairs, advising on innovation policy at the highest levels-from the Danish Prime Minister's Globalization Council to OECD working groups shaping international strategy. As a Chief Strategy Officer, he drove +200% growth by applying systems thinking to complex organizations. This book applies those same principles to the ultimate complex system: the nation-state.What You'll Learn: The Intangibles Economy: Why traditional economic metrics fail to capture the true drivers of 21st-century wealth-and what to measure instead.The Coherence Framework: A systems architecture for aligning policy, institutions, and human capital toward sustainable competitive advantage.The AI Transformation Map: How artificial intelligence reshapes labor markets, industry structures, and the very nature of economic value creation-and how nations can position themselves to win.The Resilience Imperative: Building adaptive capacity for a world of accelerating disruption, geopolitical shifts, and technological discontinuity.The Innovation Ecosystem: Engineering the conditions for breakthrough innovation-from education and research to entrepreneurship and capital formation.This book is for policymakers, economists, business leaders, and citizens who sense that the old playbooks no longer work-and seek a coherent framework for national prosperity in an incoherent world.Stop managing decline. Start engineering coherence. The future belongs to coherent nations.
The 8 Laws of Employee Experience
Organizations around the world have lost their way. It's time to get back to basics and focus on what really drives people and performance. In chasing talent, organizations have turned employee experience into an entitlement culture - lavishing perks without accountability, lowering standards in the name of empathy, and confusing short-term fixes with long-term solutions. The result? Performance suffers, leaders are scared to lead, and culture drifts. The 8 Laws of Employee Experience is a reset, a new framework to build a future-ready organization in an AI driven world. Best-selling author and professionally trained futurist Jacob Morgan shows that employee experience must return to its core: a value exchange where employees contribute, grow, and lead, and where organizations enable them to thrive. Based on over 100 CHRO interviews at companies like Verizon, Delta, Hilton, IBM, and LVMH, Morgan lays out eight unshakeable laws that form the new operating system for the future of work. This book isn't just about where we are today - it's about where employee experience is going over the next decade, and how leaders can design the future instead of being dragged into it. After reading this book you'll learn how to: Separate signal from noise in an era of trend-chasing with the STEEPLE methodology Discover the eight laws required to build a future-ready organization and how to implement them Use futurist frameworks like the Cone of Possibilities to map out multiple employee experience scenarios Conduct a future-ready audit to see where your company stands today and where it must go next Explore the five potential futures of employee experience and how to steer your organization towards the right one Challenge the myth that employee experience is about making people happy Combining insights from CHROs who are collectively leading millions of people around the world with a futurist framework, The 8 Laws of Employee Experience: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization offers a blueprint to design organizations that don't just adapt to the future but build it. You'll see what works, what fails, and what the future demands.
