It’s time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: Las Vegas.In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights Las Vegas, one of seven cities that offers superior landscapes for tech startups.With brand new, city-specific content, an excerpt from Screw the Valley, and a compilation of the dynamic assets and support available to local startup founders and tech advocat ...
What Went Wrong: The Big Picture provides an overview of the in-depth analysis of the full book What Went Wrong.Something has gone seriously wrong: The American economy has experienced considerable growth in the last 30 years, but virtually none of this growth has trickled down to the average American. Incomes have been flat since 1985. Inequality has grown, and social mobility has dropped dramatically. Equally troubling, these policies have bee ...
While most know of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sweeping dream of equality and freedom for all, what many do not realize is just how keenly focused he was on economic issues, particularly in his later years. Without economic opportunity, King often noted man «has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.» It was, in fact, while planning the Poor People's March, a dramatic stand on eco ...
Shopping is our culture’s single most important leisure activity. Everyone does it, everywhere and almost every day. For shopkeepers, their retail market is will be seeing drastic change. Those wishing to stay ahead of ruthless competition will be forced to create a strong brand name and individual identity for their businesses. Branding a Store shows how to make your shop a winner. Retail specialist Ko Floor translates more than 30 years of ret ...
Es stellt sich langst nicht mehr die Frage, ob der Crash kommen wird – sondern lediglich wann. Denn alle Ma?nahmen zur Banken-, Lander- und Eurorettung laufen auf volkswirtschaftliche Schadensmaximierung und den Staatsbankrott Deutschlands hinaus. Die Enteignung der Burger fur diesen Fall wird langst vorbereitet. Staatsanleihen, Renten- und Lebensversicherungen, Konten – das sind die gro?en Verlierer im Falle eines Crashs, der lieber fruher als ...
Feature Writing and Reporting offers a fresh look at feature writing and reporting in the 21st century. Award-winning professor and author Jennifer Brannock Cox teaches students the fundamentals of feature writing and reporting while emphasizing the skills and tools needed to be successful in the digital era. Packed with the best samples of feature writing today, this practical text gives students ample opportunity to practice their writing as ...
Kriminelle Spekulanten und ahnungslose Politiker haben ein nachhaltiges Wirtschaften verdrangt. Der Mensch ist in den Hintergrund geraten und wir mussten erkennen: Finanzkapitalismus ist schlicht und einfach schlechter Kapitalismus. In Kapitalfehler erklart das Bestsellerduo Weick/Friedrich allgemein verstandlich, wie ein vernunftiger Kapitalismus wirklich funktionieren kann, und es scheut sich nicht, Fehlentwicklungen, die verbrecherischen Bank ...
A defining work of Econophysics, republished for the first time since 1983, Laws of Chaos is an attempt to construct a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy. It relies on probabilistic and statistical methods of the kind used in the modern foundations of several other sciences, introducing scientific modelling into economics for the first time. ...
In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union. Drawing on anecdotes from his own long involvement in unions, he looks at the history of trade unions, what they do and how they give a voice to working people, as democratic organisations. He considers the changing world of work, the challenges and opportunities of automation and why being trade unionists can enab ...
