Joshua: 1696 books
All the News that Fits in Your Pocket
Handheld Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Journalism is morphing from a brick-and-mortar environment to a handheld phenomenon. IPhones, BlackBerry and other handheld devices are where all of the world's major stories are breaking.
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
An Empiricist's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques address...
by Joshua Knelman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Sweeping and fast-paced, Hot Art is a major work of investigative journalism and a thrilling joyride into a mysterious criminal world.
Hot Art traces Joshua Knelman’s five-year immersion in the shadowy world of art theft, where he uncovers a devious game that takes him from Egypt to Los Angeles,...
by Joshua Malin
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
SMS Marketing - It's the fastest growing marketing channel in America today. Every day, tens of thousands of businesses market to their customers with text messages.Why? Over 96 percent of text messages are read because they’re short, direct, timely and every phone receives them. As...
Gülen
The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The "Hizmet" ("Service")
Movement of Fethullah Gülen is Turkey’s most influential Islamic identity
community. Widely praised throughout the early 2000s as a mild and moderate
variation on Islamic political identity, the Gülen Movement has long been a
topic of both adulation...
Adaptable Autocrats
Regime Power in Egypt and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring. But from the seemingly rapid leadership turnovers in Tunisia and Egypt to the protracted stalemates in Yemen and Syria, there remains a common outcome: ongoing control of the ruling regimes. While...
by Joshua Gans
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Stewart Brand famously declared, Information wants to be free.” Except he didn’t (not really). And it doesn’t.
Information is much more complicated than that. What information really wants-what makes it more valuable, useful, and immediate, Joshua Gans argues-is to be shared.
Using...
Corporate Sovereignty
Law and Government under Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Refinery explosions. Accounting scandals. Bank meltdowns. All of these catastrophes—and many more—might rightfully be blamed on corporations. In response, advocates have suggested reforms ranging from increased government regulation to corporate codes of conduct to stop corporate abuses. Joshua Barkan...
by Joshua Strachan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018
Discipline, hard work, and focus, are the 3 top requirements to become successful in life. These 3 necessities are very important not just in the accumulation of money but also in the provision of a particular change needed in an individual to achieve anything reasonable in life. You have to practice...
Reputation Economics
Why Who You Know Is Worth More Than What You Have
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
As the internet has increasingly become more social, the value of individual reputations has risen, and a new currency based on reputation has been created. This means that not only are companies tracking what an individual is tweeting and what sites they spend the most time on, but they're using...
by Joshua W. Busby
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Why do advocacy campaigns succeed in some cases but fail in others? What conditions motivate states to accept commitments championed by principled advocacy movements? Joshua W. Busby sheds light on these core questions through an investigation of four cases - developing-country debt relief, climate...
by Joshua Gans
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
An expert in management takes on the conventional wisdom about disruption, looking at companies that proved resilient and offering managers tools for survival.
“Disruption” is a business buzzword that has gotten out of control. Today everything and everyone seem to be characterized as disruptive—or,...
Parentonomics
An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
What every parent needs to know about negotiating, incentives, outsourcing, and other strategies to solve the economic management problem that is parenting.
Like any new parent, Joshua Gans felt joy mixed with anxiety upon the birth of his first child. Who was this blanket-swaddled small person...
The Fiscalization of Social Policy
How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight Against Child Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
In 1970, a single mother with two children working full-time at the federal minimum wage in the US received no direct cash benefits from the federal government. Today, after a period of austerity, that same mother would receive $7,572 in federal cash benefits. This money does not come from social...