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Shifting paradigms : growth, finance, jobs, and inequality in the digital economy /

Zia Qureshi, Editor ; Cheonsik Woo, Editor | [S.l.] : Brookings Institution Press | 2022

"The future is arriving faster than expected. Long-accepted paradigms about economic growth and distribution are changing as digital technologies transform markets and nearly every aspect of business and work. Change will only intensify as artif[...]

Capital and ideology

Thomas Piketty, Author ; Arthur Goldhammer | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press | 2020

"Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the i[...]

Enhancing industrial space competitiveness (SpacEst) : global trends and local positioning

Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 2019

The Grand Est region has potential to participate and contribute to the global space economy and should take a proactive role to support and accelerate its contribution to the space industry, for the benefit of the people in this region of Franc[...]

E-resource

Growth : From Microorganisms to Megacities /

Vaclav Smil, Author | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press | 2019

Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of [...]

Constellations of inequality : space, race, and utopia in Brazil

Sean Mitchell, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | 2017

In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened wi[...]

Local economies and global competitiveness

Bruno Dallago, Author ; Chiara Guglielmetti, Author | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | 2011

The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors. This edited volume addresses local-global nexuses via case studies of global interactions in developed and developing areas, and of particular firms' approaches to these issue[...]

Threats, risks, and sustainability : answers by space

Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Editor ; Charlotte Mathieu, Editor ; Agnieszka Lukaszczyk, Editor | [S.l.] : SpringerWienNewYork | Studies in space policy | 2009

How countries compete : strategy, structure, and government in the global economy /

Richard H. K. Vietor, Author | [S.l.] : Harvard Business School Press | 2007

As the world has globalized, countries develop strategies to compete for the markets, technologies, and skills that will raise their standards of living. These government strategies can make - or break - a nation's efforts to drive and sustain g[...]

International political economy and globalization

Syed Javed Maswood | [S.l.] : World Scientific | 2002

The marketing of nations : a strategic approach to building national wealth

Philip Kostler ; Somkid Jatusripitak ; Suvit Maesincee | [S.l.] : The Free Press | 1997

"This is a pathbreaking contribution -at the frontier and interstices of economic development, international economics and national marketing strategies for optimal economic performance. A great accomplishment." Subbiah Kannapan, Professor of Ec[...]