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The Public Wealth of Cities

How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity

by Dag Detter, Stefan Folster ...

How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of citiesCrumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term investments necessary for future generations.It doesn't have to be this way. This book by two internationally ... Read more

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How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of citiesCrumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term investments necessary for future generations.It doesn't have to be this way. This book by two internationally
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The Public Wealth of Nations

How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth

by Dag Detter, Stefan Fölster ...

We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the ... Read more

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We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the
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Public Net Worth

Accounting – Government - Democracy

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As individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems - from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war. Funding this activity, and managing the required finances sustainably, is difficult – and getting more so.But governments don't provide – or use – basic financial information that ... Read more

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As individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems - from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war. Funding this activity, and managing the required finances sustainably, is difficult – and getting more so.But governments don't provide – or use – basic financial information that
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Supercapitalism

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From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which ... Read more

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From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which
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GDP

A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition

by Diane Coyle ...

How GDP came to rule our lives—and why it needs to changeWhy did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s chief statistician charged with treason in ... Read more

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Rethinking Money

How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity

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This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity.In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These ... Read more

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This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity.In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These
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SuperHubs

How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule our World

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**A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018FOREWORD BY NOURIEL ROUBINI**SuperHubs is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the global financial system and the powerful personal networks through which it is run, at the centre of which sit the Elites - the SuperHubs.Combining an insider's knowledge with principles of network science, Sandra Navidi offers a ... Read more

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Fixer-Upper

How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

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Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.Fixing systemic problems that arose ... Read more

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SUPERHUBS

How the Financial Elite and their Networks Rule Our World

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An international bestseller, SUPERHUBS offers a startling new perspective on how the world's elite make the decisions that impact all our lives.A BLOOMBERG Best Book of the YearWinner, Silver Medal, Axiom Business Book Awards 2018FOREWORD BY NOURIEL ROUBINI$UPERHUBS is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the world's most powerful titans, the "superhubs," pull the levers o... ... Read more

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globalization

n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job

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In Globalization, authors Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn cut through the myths surrounding globalization and look more closely at its real impact, presenting a more accurate picture of the present status of globalization and its future consequences. Page by page, they uncover the real facts about globalization and answer the most important questions it raises, including: Will globalization increase ... Read more

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In Globalization, authors Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn cut through the myths surrounding globalization and look more closely at its real impact, presenting a more accurate picture of the present status of globalization and its future consequences. Page by page, they uncover the real facts about globalization and answer the most important questions it raises, including: Will globalization increase
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SPIN-FREE ECONOMICS

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With technology and globalization advancing at breakneck speed, the world economy becomes more complex by the day. Activists, politicians, and media enablers—conservative and liberal, left and right, informed and just plain wrong—consistently seize this opportunity to present woefully simplistic explanations and hype the latest myths regarding issues affecting the economy. Their purpose is not to ... Read more

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With technology and globalization advancing at breakneck speed, the world economy becomes more complex by the day. Activists, politicians, and media enablers—conservative and liberal, left and right, informed and just plain wrong—consistently seize this opportunity to present woefully simplistic explanations and hype the latest myths regarding issues affecting the economy. Their purpose is not to
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Economorphics

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Are you ready for the next two decades? Over the next 20 years, the world as we know it will change in innumerable ways. Economic trends will shift, turning losers into winners, haves into have-nots, and creating chaos for those who aren’t prepared. Think of a giant chessboard. Now imagine how hard it would be to play if all of the pieces changed shape, color, and position. Oh, and someone changed ... Read more

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Are you ready for the next two decades? Over the next 20 years, the world as we know it will change in innumerable ways. Economic trends will shift, turning losers into winners, haves into have-nots, and creating chaos for those who aren’t prepared. Think of a giant chessboard. Now imagine how hard it would be to play if all of the pieces changed shape, color, and position. Oh, and someone changed
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