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  A Macat Analysis of John Maynard...

  John Collins

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  Classical economics suggests that market economies are self-correcting in times of recession or depression, and tend toward full employment and output. But English economist John Maynard Keynes disagrees.
  
  In his groundbreaking 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, Keynes argues that traditional economics has misunderstood the causes of unemployment. Employment is not determined by the price of labor; it is directly linked to demand in the economy. Keynes believes market economies are by nature unstable, and so require government intervention. Spurred on by the social catastrophe of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Keynes sets out to revolutionize the way the world thinks about and understands economics—and in this he succeeds.
  
  In the latter half of the twentieth century, Keynesian economics became mainstream policy for most Western governments. Although his ideas fell out of fashion, the global market turmoil in the opening decade of the twenty-first century once again saw interventionist government fiscal and monetary policy based on Keynesian thinking.

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  A Macat Analysis of Thomas...

  Nick Broten

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  Does capitalism have a natural tendency towards a just and reasonable distribution of wealth? The French economist Thomas Piketty thinks not.
  
  In his bestselling 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Piketty takes issue with the idea that—despite the odd bump along the way, not least the 2007–08 global financial crisis—inequality (the gaps in income and wealth between rich and poor) tends to decline as capitalism matures.
  
  Piketty spent 15 years building an unparalleled database on wealth and income in France, the United States, and a number of other countries. He uses this data to argue that the opposite is true. Capitalism’s natural tendency is, he says, to move toward ever-greater inequality. Piketty’s solution? A global wealth tax—even if he admits it has little chance of becoming a reality.
  
  Capital has attracted impassioned responses, both positive and negative. But it has single-handedly shifted the goalposts of economic thinking and re-kindled discussion of the problem of inequality.

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  Gandhi CEO - 14 Principles to...

  Alan Axelrod

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  Fourteen lessons to instruct, inspire, and encourage, drawn from the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s true leaders. 
   
  Gandhi, a CEO? Absolutely—and an incomparable example for our uncertain times, when we need leaders we can trust and admire. Not only was he a moral and intensely spiritual man, but also a supremely practical manager and a powerful agent for change, able to nurture the rebirth of an entire nation.  
   
  To achieve this goal, he mastered the elements of personal leadership and institutional management. In this enlightening book, historian and bestselling business writer Alan Axelrod looks at this much-studied man in a way nobody has before, employing his engaging, conversational style to bring each lesson to life through quotes and vivid examples from Gandhi’s life.

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  Agile Product Management Box...

  Paul VII

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  Agile Product Management Just Got Easier In this audiobook you will be given proven methods to create, maintain and manage your requirements using user stories as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this audiobook, as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of agile user stories for managing product requirements. I then walk you step by step through everything involved in managing requirements using user stories including writing, combining, and splitting complex user stories. Following this I give you a complete overview of epics and themes and how they can be used to capture and group complex requirements in any team or business. Along the way I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for working with user stories within agile scrum. In this audiobook you will learn: What user stories are and why they are so powerful for capturing requirements in complex projects How to feel confident in writing user stories for any project What a requirements spec is and why it is less flexible than a product backlog built with agile user stories What the three Rs rule, acceptance criteria, the INVEST principle, the three Cs principle, and edge cases are and how they will make you a better user story writer or agile practitioner How and when to split and amalgamate stories Techniques to help you to split user stories when working in the real world The difference between epics and themes and when each is used Who is responsible for writing user stories in agile and scrum So let's get started, and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management.

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  James March's "Exploration and...

  James March, Macat

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  Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth.March’s work promotes the preservation of companies’ competitiveness and sustainability in the fluctuating market environment by maintaining a balance between exploration and exploitation processes. He explicates that this balance depends on the interchange between the adaptive capability of the company, predictability and consistency, competition, anticipations, level of risk, learning, socialization dynamics within the organization, and the overall environmental turbulence. These intricacies make March’s text invaluable.

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  How to Win in a Winner-Take-All...

  Neil Irwin

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  From New York Times best-selling author and senior economic correspondent at The New York Times, how to survive — and thrive — in this increasingly challenging economy.Every ambitious professional is trying to navigate a perilous global economy to do work that is lucrative and satisfying, but some find success while others struggle to get by. In an era of remarkable economic change, how should you navigate your career to increase your chances of landing not only on your feet but ahead of those around you?In How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World, Neil Irwin, senior economic correspondent at the New York Times, delivers the essential guide to being successful in today’s economy when the very notion of the “job” is shifting and the corporate landscape has become dominated by global firms. He shows that the route to success lies in cultivating the ability to bring multiple specialties together — to become a “glue person” who can ensure people with radically different technical skills work together effectively — and how a winding career path makes you better prepared for today's fast-changing world. Through original data, close analysis, and case studies, Irwin deftly explains the 21st-century economic landscape and its implications for ambitious people seeking a lifetime of professional success.Using insights from global giants like Microsoft, Walmart, and Goldman Sachs, and from smaller lesser known organizations like those that make cutting-edge digital effects in Planet of the Apes movies or Jim Beam bourbon, How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World illuminates what it really takes to be on top in this world of technological complexity and global competition.

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