Government Business category: 2241 books
Ports in a Storm
Public Management in a Turbulent World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In Ports in a Storm a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. Their aims are two: to understand how a public manager might confront that complex undertaking, and to explore the...
Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific
Emerging Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development. However, the emerging policy issues vary greatly across the world.
With 32 contributors, this volume provides a timely, research-based overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the sustainability...
Dealing with China
An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism.
Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a pivotal role...
Conspiracies of the Ruling Class
How to Break Their Grip Forever
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Finally, the truth from a Washington insider: An audacious and desperately needed primer on how America’s Ruling Class have upended the Constitution and taken over our country—and how we must unite to regain control of our liberty.
A Ruling Class have emerged in America against the hopes...
Karl Marx's Das Kapital
A modern-day interpretation of an economic classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
First published in 1876, Das Kapital is Karl Marx’s most important contribution to the world of political economy. Kapital is a critical analysis of capitalism and its practical economic application and also a critique of other related theories. Today it is considered one of the most influential...
The Political Spectrum
The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government’s regulation of the airwaves Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with broadcasting stations blasting powerful signals to drown...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,...
by David Meade
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
We are very close to financial Armageddon regardless of the outcome of the election, but with Hillary Clinton in power there is a very short fuse. You cannot change the world system, but you can make yourself impervious to it, and you can profit tremendously. You must prepare now.If you want to have...
Fear City
New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today
When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible....
The Government of Chronic Poverty
From the politics of exclusion to the politics of citizenship?
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty? Can ‘development beyond neoliberalism’ offer the strategies required to challenge such persistent forms of poverty, particularly through efforts to promote citizenship amongst poor people? Drawing on case-study evidence from Africa, Latin America...
Us National Debt Recovery
A Program Proposal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The United States of America owes trillions of dollars to creditors, and the amount is increasing every day. If the country continues on its current track, it could result in dire consequences for the government and its citizens. But a realistic solution could liberate us from the national debt crisis.
Elias...
Plane Truth
Aviations Real Impact on People and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
As aviation is celebrated as one of the world's fastest growing industries, with passenger numbers and cargo volumes projected to double in the next 20 years, Plane Truth sounds a note of caution.*BR**BR*In addition to the environmental impact of airport expansion, devouring farmland and wildlife...
by Richard Selwyn
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
There is a revolution afoot in Government management, design and leadership.
This is your essential guide to that revolution through systems thinking, commissioning, change management and practical implementation in the public sector.
The story is told through four chapters of development...
Minority Business Success
Refocusing on the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
In Minority Business Success, authors Leonard Greenhalgh and James Lowry chart a path for the full participation of minority businesses in the U.S. economy. Today, minorities are well on their way to becoming the majority of our workforce and a large part of our entrepreneurial endeavors; their full...