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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The\princeton Economic History Of The Western World Ser. #94)
by Walter ScheidelThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world?In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquest. It wasn’t until Europe "escaped" from Rome that it launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world.What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away.
Escape from the Staple Trap
by Paul KelloggFrom fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political economists to assume that Canadian economic development has followed a path similar to those of staple-exporting economies in the Global South, ignoring a more fundamental fact: as an advanced capitalist economy, Canada sits in the core of the world system, not on the periphery or semi-periphery.In Escape from the Staple Trap, Kellogg challenges statistical and historical analyses that present Canada as weak and disempowered, lacking sovereignty and economic independence. A powerful critique of the dominant trend in Canadian political economy since the 1970s, Escape from the Staple Trap offers an important new framework for understanding the distinctive features of Canadian political economy.
Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes
by Michael Bremer Brian McKibbenWritten by two experts who have dedicated their careers to quality improvement, Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes separates itself from other improvement books by looking at why most companies rarely achieve anything more than an average level of improvement maturity. They identify five critical ingre
Escape the Law: The Journey from Lawyer to Entrepreneur
by Chad WilliamsThe once gilded path from law school student to wealthy lawyer has all but vanished. More importantly, many lawyers who are &“successful&” by traditional standards are absolutely miserable in the profession and want to find a way out. In Escape the Law, Chad Williams provides engaging and inspiring profiles of nearly 60 individuals who successfully made the transition from law to business. Escape the Law helps aspiring and practicing legal professionals find greater professional satisfaction through entrepreneurship and is an absolute must read for anyone considering law school, in law school, or disenchanted with the profession and seeking a way out.
Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums
by Buck Charles A. Worthing Marcia L.Whether you're bored, burned out, retired, or fired, Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums offers solutions, ideas, and practical tools for shaking up your professional life for the better. Based on real case studies, this smart and practical career guide will help you discover the causes of your professional problems and give you the inspiration and confidence to take action and seize new opportunities. This is the perfect prescription for a new and exciting professional life.
Escape the Middle: Switch on Your Millionaire Mindset and Build Wealth That Outlives You
by Todd PolkeThe usual money rules lead straight to mediocrity. Don't settle for it! You've probably done everything in life that you were told to do: get educated, secure a job, work hard and be careful with money. And where did that lead you? Straight to the middle! But weren't you made for more? Escape the Middle is your roadmap to breaking free — free from financial stress, the nine-to-five grind and the monotony of the ‘middle’ way of living. Inside, investment strategist Todd Polke shares the tried-and-tested techniques he's used to help tens of thousands of people live a life unlimited by income. Escape the Middle reveals how you can grow the mindset you need to align your beliefs, thoughts and actions with your financial goals. You'll discover that the decisions you make and the money habits you master are the real difference between being stuck in the middle and going after something bigger. With this step-by-step guide to building unshakeable wealth and turning on your millionaire mode, you'll find: practical strategies to take control of your personal finances efficient systems to smoothly manage your money flow tips and tactics for getting started with investing methods to build a financial moat and protect yourself while growing wealth the tools you truly need to take back your freedom a healthy money mindset, free of the stress and worry True wealth and financial freedom demand a radical shift — a hard ‘hell no’ to the norms we've been conditioned to accept. This book gives you the step-by-step path to break free, build your financial fortress and leave a secure legacy for your loved ones and the planet. Are you ready to plan your escape?
Escaping Dystopia: Rebuilding a Public Domain
by Stephen McBrideMultiple crises have led many to conclude that the current economic and political system is broken. The present and future look increasingly precarious – if not outright dystopian Stephen McBride calls for radical solutions to these crises to provide a more rational and sustainable future. He critiques other potential responses which would further curtail democracy and increase the inequalities associated with neoliberal globalism. Demonstrating how mainstream ideas, powerful interests and political institutions face major challenges but block progressive alternatives, he argues that for radical transformation to succeed, institutional changes are necessary.
Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
by Lori GarverA former NASA deputy administrator recounts how she battled greed and corruption to revolutionize the agency and usher in a new space age.Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver’s firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls “space pirates.” Their quest to transform NASA put Garver in the crosshairs of Congress, the aerospace industry, and hero-astronauts trying to protect their own profits and mythology within a system that had held power since the 1950s.As the head of the NASA transition team for President-elect Barack Obama and second-in-command of the agency, Garver drove policies and funding that enabled commercial competition just as the capabilities and resources of the private sector began to mature. She was determined to deliver more valuable programs, which required breaking the self-interested space-industrial cycle that, like the military, preferred to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on programs aimed to sustain jobs and contracts in key congressional districts. The result: more efficiency and greater progress.Including insider NASA conversations and insights on how the US space industry has been transformed to become the envy of the world and is ushering in a new space age, Escaping Gravity offers a blueprint for how to drive productive and meaningful change.Praise for Escaping Gravity“Former NASA official Lori Garver offers a front-row seat to the decades-long struggles within and among space bureaucrats and space billionaires. Bring popcorn, as you bear witness to an untold slice of space history.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and author of Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier“We are living at the most exciting time in space exploration since the Apollo era, in part because the world’s largest space agency, NASA, got around to trying something new, the funding of commercial crews. Lori Garver tells it like it is . . . or was for a woman effecting change at NASA despite men of the military industrial complex—and their cost-plus contracts. It wasn’t rocket science, it was much harder than that. Don’t take my word(s) for it; read this book.” —Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society“A scathing memoir that shows the ugly side of NASA while offering hope for a better future for the space agency.” —Kirkus Reviews
Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society)
by Mario J. Rizzo Glen WhitmanThe burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. This book challenges behavioral paternalism on multiple levels, from the abstract and conceptual to the pragmatic and applied. Behavioral paternalism relies on a needlessly restrictive definition of rational behavior. It neglects nonstandard preferences, experimentation, and self-discovery. It relies on behavioral research that is often incomplete and unreliable. It demands a level of knowledge from policymakers that they cannot reasonably obtain. It assumes a political process largely immune to the effects of ignorance, irrationality, and the influence of special interests and moralists. Overall, behavioral paternalism underestimates the capacity of people to solve their own problems, while overestimating the ability of experts and policymakers to design beneficial interventions. The authors argue instead for a more inclusive theory of rationality in economic policymaking.
Escaping Poverty Traps and Unlocking Prosperity in the Face of Climate Risk: Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance (Elements in Development Economics)
by Nathaniel D. Jensen Francesco P. Fava Andrew G. Mude Christopher B. Barrett Brenda Wandera-Gache Anton Vrieling Masresha Taye Kazushi Takahashi Felix Lung Munenobu Ikegami Polly Ericksen Philemon Chelanga Sommarat Chantarat Michael Carter Hassan Bashir Rupsha BanerjeeThis Element outlines the origins and evolution of an international award-winning development intervention, index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), which scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management products and policies across Africa. General insights are provided on i) the economics of poverty, risk management, and drylands development; ii) the evolving use of modern remote sensing and data science tools in development; iii) the science of scaling; and iv) the value and challenges of integrating research with operational implementation to tackle development and humanitarian challenges in some of the world's poorest regions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Escaping Poverty's Grasp: The Environmental Foundations of Poverty Reduction
by David ReedDespite decades of macroeconomic reforms, poverty reduction plans and rural growth strategies, poverty is persistent and environmental degradation is accelerating in the developing world. Though traditional economic indicators have improved in some countries, little has worked to open enduring economic and ecological opportunities to the rural poor. This unacceptable outcome grows, in large part, from the failure to place the needs of the poor at the centre of national development strategies and to link local level changes to urgently needed changes in national development policies. This book is designed to change all of that by showing how change must begin at the local level and, from there, push upwards to change policies and institutions at higher levels to remove political, economic and institutional impediments that stifle opportunities for the rural poor and improved environmental management. This approach challenges the notion that poverty reduction and improved natural resource management can originate with design masters in international organizations or national capitals.Working with teams in China, Indonesia, El Salvador, South Africa and Zambia, WWF devised the revolutionary '3xM' - micro (local), meso (sub-national) and macro (national) - Approach to analysing and intervening to change the poverty dimensions in a country. This approach helps improve the local environment and community livelihoods, and promotes policy and institutional changes at state/provincial and national levels that are essential for the sustainable, equitable development. This book provides both the tools and successful case studies to show practitioners how to adopt the 3xM Approach in diverse developing country contexts. Published with WWF
Escaping Stigma and Neglect: People with Disabilities in Sierra Leone
by Mirey Ovadiya Giuseppe ZampaglionePeople with disabilities in Sierra Leone are disadvantaged in regards to their access to social services and the economic opportunities available to them. Oftentimes, they are marginalized and their rights are ignored. The government of Sierra Leone is taking measures to improve the social and economic situation of people with disabilities in the country. The objective of this note on people with disabilities in Sierra Leone is to: (i) provide a diagnosis on the scale and nature of the problem, (ii) analyze current public policies in support of people with disabilities, (iii) review public and private programs, and (iv) propose policy options to policy makers and development partners. It is meant for policy makers and practitioners in Sierra Leone as well as all those interested in the subject.
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
by Melissa PerriTo stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs.In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You’ll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small.In five parts, this book explores:Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features representHow to set up a product organization that scalesHow product strategy connects a company’s vision and economic outcomes back to the product activitiesHow to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product frameworkHow to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs
Escaping the Governance Trap: Economic Reform in the Northern Triangle
by Neil ShenaiThe COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the global economic landscape, with the smallest and most vulnerable economies particularly hard hit. In the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, the crisis has cost lives and livelihoods. It has impacted both the demand and supply sides of the economy, posing difficult policy tradeoffs. Risks to macroeconomic stability are now growing. Each country will likely exit the crisis with an even greater need for reform. Escaping the Governance Trap: Economic Reform in the Northern Triangle provides a framework for understanding the challenges of those three Central American nations, proposing that the lack of governing capacity in each country is a crucial problem. This book argues that economic reforms can help the Northern Triangle countries escape their governance traps and identifies priority areas of economic reform. Sectors covered include fiscal policy, monetary and exchange rate policy, financial access and deterrence, and structural reforms. It also highlights the role that stakeholders like the United States can play to help in these reform efforts, and how those outcomes affect the United States and the global community. All told, Escaping the Governance Trap provides an accessible, direct account of the Northern Triangle’s economic challenges and how to fix them.
Escaping the Growth Curse: The Path to Stronger Corporate Strategy
by Keeley Wilson Yves DozSustainable company growth isn't just a pipedream. This 3-part blueprint is your guide to avoiding the traps that cause growth to stall.As companies mature, their underlying growth naturally slows—this is called the 'growth curse'. It's a pervasive problem that plagues companies, CEOs, and board members alike. In order to safeguard a company's future, a strategic form of governance in which the board plays a more active role on behalf of all stakeholders, must be activated.This book is comprised of 3 parts. First it shows companies how to identify the traditional traps that hinder growth. The second part provides companies with a blueprint for building their board, defining long-term strategy, and adjustments necessary to serve continued growth. The final part delves into the specific ways that the board and executives must collaborate in relation to strategic renewal.Reimagining the limits of growth and how companies are run as a consequence provides an escape from the 'growth curse' at last.
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
by Charles L. Marohn Jr. Daniel HerrigesHousing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Charles (Chuck) Marohn and Daniel Herriges introduce a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. This is the key insight that’s been missing from the Housing Crisis Conversation; and the insight that can help cities fight back against the crisis from the bottom-up.This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals. Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market. Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-read resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America—and that means everyone. Readers will find: Discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment Explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism A comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis
Escaping the Resource Curse
by Jeffrey D. Sachs Joseph E. Stiglitz Macartan HumphreysThe wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with large endowments of natural resources, such as oil and gas, often do worse than their poorer neighbors. Their resource wealth frequently leads to lower growth rates, greater volatility, more corruption, and, in extreme cases, devastating civil wars. In this volume, leading economists, lawyers, and political scientists address the fundamental channels generated by this wealth and examine the major decisions a country must make when faced with an abundance of a natural resource. They identify such problems as asymmetric bargaining power, limited access to information, the failure to engage in long-term planning, weak institutional structures, and missing mechanisms of accountability. They also provide a series of solutions, including recommendations for contracting with oil companies and allocating revenue; guidelines for negotiators; models for optimal auctions; and strategies to strengthen state-society linkages and public accountability. The contributors show that solutions to the resource curse do exist; yet, institutional innovations are necessary to align the incentives of key domestic and international actors, and this requires fundamental political changes and much greater levels of transparency than currently exist. It is becoming increasingly clear that past policies have not provided the benefits they promised. Escaping the Resource Curse lays out a path for radically improving the management of the world's natural resources.
Escaping the Resource Curse (Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization)
by Jeffrey D. Sachs Joseph E. Stiglitz Eds. Humphreys MacartanThe wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with large endowments of natural resources, such as oil and gas, often do worse than their poorer neighbors. Their resource wealth frequently leads to lower growth rates, greater volatility, more corruption, and, in extreme cases, devastating civil wars. In this volume, leading economists, lawyers, and political scientists address the fundamental channels generated by this wealth and examine the major decisions a country must make when faced with an abundance of a natural resource. They identify such problems as asymmetric bargaining power, limited access to information, the failure to engage in long-term planning, weak institutional structures, and missing mechanisms of accountability. They also provide a series of solutions, including recommendations for contracting with oil companies and allocating revenue; guidelines for negotiators; models for optimal auctions; and strategies to strengthen state-society linkages and public accountability. The contributors show that solutions to the resource curse do exist; yet, institutional innovations are necessary to align the incentives of key domestic and international actors, and this requires fundamental political changes and much greater levels of transparency than currently exist. It is becoming increasingly clear that past policies have not provided the benefits they promised. Escaping the Resource Curse lays out a path for radically improving the management of the world's natural resources.
Escaping the Shackles: Imagining the Future of Management
by Gary Hamel Bill BreenWhen your company is deeply conventional and has been for decades, how do you get the ball rolling? This chapter discusses how to wage war against precedent to encourage breakthrough management thinking. This chapter was originally published as chapter 7 of "The Future of Management."
Esencia de líder: Un encuentro con tu grandeza
by Alejandra Llamas Valeria MatosTodos somos personas extraordinarias, sólo tenemos que descubrir el valor para aceptarlo y encontrar nuestra esencia de líder. Esencia de líder trata sobre mujeres y hombres que tuvieron un fin común: perseguir la libertad. Juana de Arco, Mahatma Gandhi, Isabel I de Inglaterra, Martin Luther King, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela, Eleanor Roosevelt, Simón Bolívar, Irena Sendler y John Lennon. Ellos se atrevieron a perseguir sus sueños, sus voces, y a luchar para encontrar su camino. Alejandra Llamas y Valeria Matos nos invitan a hacer un recorrido por las vidas de estos grandes personajes y a entender a través del coaching cómo los valores que cada uno de ellos representa también están en nosotros. La confianza, la pasión, la fuerza, entre otros, son principios que recorren estas biografías para que tomemos conciencia de que la capacidad de ser extraordinarios no fue exclusiva de ellos; de que en cada uno de nosotros está la oportunidad de transformarnos y transformar lo que nos rodea.
Esencialismo: Logra el máximo de resultados con el mínimo esfuerzo
by Greg MckeownEste libro ofrece una disciplina sistemática que te ayuda a enfocarte en lo que verdaderamente importa. Libro bestseller de The New York Times. ¿Sabes en qué inviertes tu tiempo y energía? Descubre lo que es verdaderamente esencial y obtén los mejores resultados. Esencial no se trata de hacer más cosas en menos tiempo. Se trata de obtener sólo cosas bien hechas. No es una estrategia de gestión del tiempo, o una técnica de productividad. Es una disciplina sistemática para discernir lo que es absolutamente esencial y eliminar todo lo que no es, para que podamos enfocarnos en lo que realmente importa. Al obligarnos a aplicar un criterio más selectivo de lo que es esencial, la búsqueda disciplinada de menos nos da el poder para recuperar el control de nuestras propias decisiones sobre dónde gastar nuestro tiempo y energía, en lugar de dar a otros el permiso de elegir por nosotros. Lo que ha dicho la crítica: "Greg McKeown cree que la respuesta se encuentra en reducir la vida hasta lo esencial. Él no te puede decir lo que es esencial para todos, pero puede ayudarte a darle sentido a tu vida". -Daniel H. Pink, autor de To sell is Human y Drive. "Esencialismo ofrece consejos concisos y elocuentes sobre cómo determinar lo que más te importa, y cómo aplicar tu energía para que al final te dé mayores recompensas". -Reid Hoffman, cofundador y chairman de Linkedin, y autor de The Start-up of You, bestseller de The New York Times. "Esencialismo tiene la clave para resolver uno de los grandes rompecabezas de la vida: ¿Cómo hacer menos y lograr más? Una lectura oportuna y necesaria para cualquiera que se sienta comprometido con el éxito. [...] Así que deja lo que estás haciendo y léelo". -Adam Grant, profesor Wharton y autor del bestseller Give and Take. "Con Esencialismo, Greg McKeownnos da una guía invaluable para triunfar con un proyecto". -Tim Brown, CEO de Brown. "Como soy autoproclamado maximalista que siempre quiere hacerlo todo, este libro me retó y mejoró mi vida. Si quieres trabajar mejor, no sólo más, deberías leerlo también." -Chris Guillebau, autor de The $100 Startup bestseller de The New York Times.
Eskimo Pie Corp.
by Richard S. Ruback Dean MihasIn early 1991, Reynolds Metals, the makers of aluminum products, decided to sell its holding of Eskimo Pie, a marketer of branded frozen novelties. Reynolds had an offer from Nestle to acquire Eskimo Pie. However, Reynolds decided instead to make an initial public offering of Eskimo Pie shares. The case analyzes this decision.
Eskimo Pie Corp. (Abridged)
by Richard S. RubackIn early 1991, Reynolds Metals, the makers of aluminum products, decided to sell its holding of Eskimo Pie, a marketer of branded frozen novelties. Reynolds had an offer from Nestle to acquire Eskimo Pie. However, Reynolds decided instead to make an initial public offering of Eskimo Pie shares.
Eskimos kennen mehr als 100 Wörter für Schnee
by Frank BartelsDie Herausforderung und eigentliche Aufgabe des Verkäufers liegt darin, Produkte oder Dienstleistungen mit dem Kunden zusammenzuführen. Fast alles wird verkauft und so gut wie nichts findet seinen Weg zum Kunden ohne irgendeine Form der Kommunikation. Und was haben nun Schnee und Eskimos damit zu tun? Der Titel steht für die vielen, teils beabsichtigten, Missverständnisse und hohlen Phrasen, die von vielen Verkäufern genutzt werden. Auf die richtige Kommunikation kommt es also an. Frank Bartels zeigt, dass das Verkaufen stets ein vergleichbarer Vorgang, völlig unabhängig vom Produkt, ist. Es spielt keine Rolle, ob Sie nun Nutzfahrzeuge, Versicherungen, Damenhüte oder Leberwurst verkaufen. In dem Buch lernen Sie, was einen erfolgreichen Verkäufer ausmacht, welche Eigenschaften, welche Motivation, welche Tricks und Kniffe notwendig sind, um ebenfalls einer derer zu werden, denen die Aufträge scheinbar nur so zufliegen und wie Sie mit der richtigen Kommunikation eine intensive Beziehung zum Kunden aufbauen.
Esmark, Inc. (A)
by William E. Fruhan Ernesto CruzInvolves the management of a firm with a market value of a going concern that is less than its breakup value. How does management maximize value for shareholders in this environment?