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Red Yellow Green: What Color is Your Money? The survival manual for gig workers and consultants
Author Noah Gift
This is the book your boss does NOT want you to read!Learn to escape corporate America. We live in a new era of disruption. It is possible to start a business with a laptop and an internet connection. As a long time consultant and entrepreneur, I have come up with a frame....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Crushing the IT Gender Bias: Thriving as a Woman in Technology
Author Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
Conscious and unconscious bias, societal pressures, and discomfort with women’s ambition are issues that women are confronted with in any male-dominated setting, and tech is no exception. Statistically, women are a disproportionately small percentage of the technol....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Thriving in the Gig Economy: Freelancing Online for Tech Professionals and Entrepreneurs
Author Adam Sinicki
Take an in-depth look into the gig economy to see how tech professionals and entrepreneurs can earn a living as freelancers and contractors. Build your own business. The pros and cons of the lifestyle and what to expect from it are discussed.In this book, author Ad....
Release Date 2018/11 -
Manufacturers Can Also Win in the Sharing Economy
Author Frieda Klotz
The sharing economy isn’t all bad news for manufacturers of big-ticket items such as cars. Research suggests that in some circumstances, manufacturers can charge higher prices to customers who are planning to rent out those goods. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Stian Westlake , Jonathan Haskel
The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&a....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Author Marion McGovern
In the last five years, the world of work has changed dramatically. Thanks to technology companies like Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and Instacart, the new "gig economy; seems to constantly be in the news. But most of the media focus is on the low end of the skill spe....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Author Xiaodong Lee , Dominic Barton , Winston Ma
Explore the world-changing digital transformation in ChinaChina's Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom is a cutting-edge text that spotlights the digital transformation in China. Organised into three major areas of ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
How the Information Revolution Remade Business and the Economy
Author Apek Mulay
Tremendous technological progress in the last half century has exponentially grown productivity as well as increased automation to reduce the costs of operation for businesses. On one hand, ever-growing productivity has reduced requirements for manual labor through....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Diane Mulcahy
From Uber to the presidential debates, the gig economy has been dominating the headlines…and for good reason. Today, more than a third of Americans are working in the gig economy—mixing together short-term jobs, contract work, and freelance assignments. For those w....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Communication Networks Economy
Author Daniel Battu
In an increasingly interconnected world, "Communication Networks Economy" provides the rational understanding necessary to provide universal access to communication means in an efficient way. This book presents the principal elements of the economics of a network a....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Serving Workers in the Gig Economy
Author Elizabeth Woyke , Nick Grossman
It’s difficult to ignore the effects of the "great unbundling" today. The digital revolution has already changed the nature of media, personal health, finance, and other economic and industrial sectors in recent years. As this O’Reilly report reveals, the modern wo....
Release Date 2015/10 -
The Next Revolution in our Credit-Driven Economy
Author Paul Schulte
Go inside the research to see the global consequences of unethical bankingThe Next Revolution in our Credit-Driven Economy: The Advent of Financial Technology integrates market theory and practice to help investors identify growth opportunities, and to help regulat....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Robbie Kellman Baxter
In today’s business world, it takes more than a website to stay competitive. The smartest, most successful companies are using radically new membership models, subscription-based formats, and freemium pricing structures to grow their customer base—a....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Author Don Tapscott
“Twenty years of hindsight prove how deeply Tapscott understood the impact the Internet would have on the way we live, work, play and learn. This important book, now updated, is just as relevant today as it was then.”John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, CiscoWith a new ....
Release Date 2014/10 -
The Conscience Economy: How a Mass Movement for Good Is Great for Business
Author Steven Overman
A generation of people around the world, from Boston to Bangkok, from New York to New Delhi, are making everyday choices in ways that defy traditional logic. They are judging where and how their clothes were made, not just how they fit. They are thinking global but ....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Managing the Matrix: The Secret to Surviving and Thriving in Your Organization
Author Dawn Metcalfe
A comprehensive guide to excelling in a complex matrix organizationDebra was not in a good mood as she entered Johann's office for their third meeting. One of her colleagues had just been promoted and, although the guy who got it was good, she didn't think he was ....
Release Date 2014/05 -
The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications
Author Janet Wasko , Graham Murdock , Helena Sousa
Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of C....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Kimberly Palmer
The biggest trend in business is the microbusiness! Handcrafted jewelry, artisanal eats, life coaching, app development, you name it—entrepreneurial side ventures are everywhere. Weary of pink-slip anxiety and the endless money squeeze, millions of people....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy
Author Courtney Geduldig , John Dearie
A guide to ending America's jobs emergency by accelerating the true engine of job creation—start-upsFour years after the end of the Great Recession, 23 million Americans remain unemployed, underemployed, or have left the workforce discouraged. Even worse, Washingto....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy
Author Morris Altman
This book provides a theoretical framework to better understand how firms, economies and labor markets have evolved. This is done in a reader-friendly fashion, without complex mathematical arguments and proofs. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy shows how hig....
Release Date 2013/06 -
External Dimension of an Emerging Economy, India
Author Byasdeb Dasgupta
This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation. External dimensions of Indian economy signify her inter-relation with the rest of the world in terms of trade and financial flows and how ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis
Author Spyros Lapatsioras , John Milios , Dimitris P Sotiropoulos
The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Market Economy and Urban Change
Author Roger Zetter , Mohamed Hamza
Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of 'market enablement' and stru....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Hermann Scheer
The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption, will run out within decades, causing huge industria....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies
Author Paul Mladjenovic
Tired of the 9-to-5 grind and want a way to earn or to supplement your income? Easy.The media has named the growing trend toward micro-entrepreneurship "the Rise of the Creative Class," "the Gig Life," or "the freelance economy." All of those refer to the nearly 4 m....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy
Author Kevin Mellyn
"I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn's Broken Markets on their nightstands. . . . Mellyn's work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should....
Release Date 2012/06 -
The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge
Author Doc Searls
Caveat venditor—let the seller bewareWhile marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with “big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to:• Control the fl....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Author Brajesh Kumar , Arshad Noor Siddiquee , Zahid A. Khan
Engineering Economy is meant as an introductory course for undergraduate students, and it explains and demonstrates the principles and techniques of engineering economic analysis as applied in different fields of engineering.
Release Date 2012/03 -
The Macroeconomics of the Global Technology Economy
Author Howard A. Rubin
In 2010, global technology spending exceeded $4.2 trillion, equivalent to the world’s fourth largest economy—and its growth rate is substantially outstripping GDP growth in advanced economies. Virtually overnight, a massive “global technology economy” has emerged—an....
Release Date 2012/01