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  • Root-Cause Regulation

    Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century

    Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century of reform, are U.S. workers growing less safe and secure? Comparing U.S. regulatory practices to ... Leer más

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  • Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis

    This book provides a description of a number of institutional features of the U.S. labor market and prompts an analytical debate about the origins of the institutions it describes and their significance for the operation of the U.S. economic system. ... Leer más

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  • Innovation—The Missing Dimension

    Amid mounting concern over the loss of jobs to low-wage economies, one fact is clear: America's prosperity hinges on the ability of its businesses to continually introduce new products and services. But what makes for a creative economy? How can the remarkable surge of innovation that fueled the boom of the 1990s be sustained?For an answer, Richard K. Lester and Michael J. Piore examine innovation ... Leer más

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  • Unemployment and Inflation

    Institutionalist and Structuralist Views

    Edición de Michael J. Piore ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1979, this reader presents an industrialist view of the labour market and economics as they stood at the time in the United States. The essays collated aim to answer macroeconomic questions on this topic as well as exploring issues related closely to employment and inflation. This title will be of interest to students of business and economics. ... Leer más

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    Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those ... Leer más

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  • The Predator State

    How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

    The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to ... Leer más

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  • Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America

    Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book argues that Latin America has a distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets. Over time, institutional complementarities knit features of corporate governance and labor markets together and thus contribute to institutional resiliency. Political systems generally ... Leer más

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  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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    World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Decline of Nations

    Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

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    The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world.[T]his elegant, readable book. . . sets out to explain why economies ... Leer más

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  • Social Innovation

    New Forms of Organisation in Knowledge–Based Societies

    Series series Routledge/Lisbon Civic Forum Studies in Innovation
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  • Six Simple Rules

    How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated

    New tools for managing complexityDoes your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision ... Leer más

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  • Popular Democracy

    The Paradox of Participation

    Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have become more popular, many contend that they have also become less connected ... Leer más

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