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The Role of the General Manager in the New Economy: Can We Save People from Technology Dysfunctions?
Artificial intelligence may destroy and transform millions of jobs, possibly exacerbating the shift in power from labor to capital. Low birth rates,...
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The Other Side of the Coin: The Mentees
To identify what mentees want and expect to get from mentoring, we interviewed some young professionals and emerging leaders. Our selection was based...
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Complementary Social and Political Skills
In a final search for code-breaking skills, this chapter turns to social and political skills. While social skills help marginalized and minority...
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Lessons of the Crisis for Eurozone Reform
The euro crisis provides a wealth of lessons that should not be ignored. Financial stability was grossly neglected before the crisis. Completing the...
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Supporting Working-Class Environmentalism
Chapter 8 , which concludes the book, discusses the theoretical, practice and policy implications of this...
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Economic Development, Sustainable Development, and Agriculture
We begin this chapter with the conventional view of economic growth as the driver of economic and social development, and the central role that...
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Introduction
The rise of China to the status of economic super-power has been the dominant narrative of the last three decades. China’s rise as the main feature...
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Comprehensive Crisis Response
By the summer of 2010, it had eventually become clear to virtually everybody that the Eurozone debt crisis was a systemic one, not cyclical or...
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Europe Between the World Wars: A Ferment of Ideas
The third cluster of monetary innovations that followed the cataclysmic destruction of the 1914–18 war took place, initially, not in the market but...
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Basta!: Austerians vs. Spendanigans
“Basta!”—“You need no earphones”, shouted Elisa Ferreira, a socialist member of the European Parliament from Portugal. “You just need to memorize a...
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Immigration and Labour Markets
The increased importance of migration in many developed countries has sparked heated policy debates on its economic effects on immigrant-receiving...
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Democracy and the Rule of Law
President Donald Trump’s cozying up to dictators makes almost daily headlines. He seems comfortable with and anxious to please such strongmen as...
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Inequality and the Digital Economy
This chapter examines the impacts of the digital economy on employment, the drivers of change, and the options to alleviate the emerging problems....
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The Politics of Tech
For a self-driving carSelf-driving cars to learn to drive, it needs to be tested in the real world. Some companies, including UberUber, have not...
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American Culture and the Dollar After World War II
Having immersed myself in the literature, sociology and public debate of the post-war period, the sound that I hear most clearly, from all the noises...
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The Rise and Fall of British Finance
This chapter examines the background to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. It focuses on how since 1979 regulatory and tax policies introduced by...
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A Peripheral Finn in the Capital of Europe
“Who is Olli Rehn?” asked the Belgian Minister Paul Magnette in 2012. He likely was not referring to me personally, but as a representative of the...
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Dystopia and Utopia
This chapter describes five big problems, the dystopia that results if don’t solve them, and the utopia that results if we do. The five problems are...
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Diminished Risk-Taking
Strained mental resources inhibit the capacity for clear analysis and sound judgment. Adaptation to an environment swirling with winds of...
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Neoliberalism
Macpherson’s debt to the views of Karl Polanyi in criticizing the basic ideas of founders of neoliberalism (Ludwig von Hayek and Milton Friedman) as...