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Submerging Markets
by Rich MarinoSubmerging Markets examines the analytical history of capital flows among the developed nations and the emerging markets from the 1990s to the current day. In terms of emerging markets, the arguments focus primarily on the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India, China and now South Africa. Within that spectrum, it uses any number of analytical tools to measure capital flows, and capital formation within the context of globalized markets. An analysis of capital flows relative to the emerging markets' GDP growth rates over time determines the expectation of future growth rates. Included in the research design is specific data accumulated from the OECD's new global macroeconomic model. The results found in the analytical history provide the basic framework for a thesis that answers the following questions: will the new increase in financial regulations restrict capital flows to the emerging markets? If so, will this result in lower future growth rates for the BRICs?
Subnational Health Spending and Soft Budget Constraints in OECD Countries
by Adam Leive Thomas Stratmann Ernesto CrivelliA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals x Logic)
by Tim HwangFrom FSGO x Logic: a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundationIn Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched, convincing, and alarming, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet, and its precarious future.FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.
Subprime Crisis and Fair-Value Accounting
by Paul M. Healy Krishna G. Palepu George SerafeimThis case examines the challenges in implementing fair value accounting for mortgage instruments, the role of accounting in the sub-prime crisis, and proposals for revising accounting standards given the crisis.
Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil
by Julio J. RotembergThis case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the US from August to December 2006 as well as their roots in subprime lending. After briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how these mortgages were packaged into securities, and who ultimately came to own these claims and their attendant risk. The case then describes the pain inflicted by raising foreclosures, as well as the financial market ramifications of the rise in mortgage delinquencies. It also chronicles the response of the US and European central banks to the unfolding financial difficulties. Lastly, the case lays policies that have been proposed to deal with either the consequences or the causes of the crisis. These include policies for reforming the supervision of the financial system, changing bankruptcy rules and regulating mortgage finance. Some attention is paid to the role of credit rating agencies in the crisis, and in the financial system as a whole.
Subregional International Economic Integration: Theory and Practice
by Shuanglu LiangThis work uses international economics and space economics theory to study the regional economic integration of China's border areas with the increasing integration of China's border areas, and to realize the theory and countermeasures of economic development across border areas. As China's economy pivots towards neighboring developing countries in Southeast Asia, new economic rhythms come into being; this book seeks to explore the practicalities thereof, in a text that will interest economic researchers, researchers of China's economy, and scholars of international relations.
Subroto Bagchi: On Leadership & Innovation
by Subroto BagchiIndia's bestselling business books author, Subroto Bagchi, writes on two topics of utmost importance in our rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain world. Drawing on stories and experiences of leaders and innovators, both famous and not so well-known, in history and in the corporate world, he writes with characteristic eloquence and wisdom on these topics. This exclusive ebook also features an extract from Bagchi's latest offering, The Elephant Catchers: Key Lessons for Breakthrough Growth.
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by Danny Newman"Buy it, borrow it, steal it, but get your hands on it! If you follow Danny's advice on how to sell tickets, you won't have an unsold seat in the house all season long!"--Ralph Black, American Symphony League
Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It
by Tien Tzuo Gabe WeisertCompanies like Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce are just the tip of the iceberg for the subscription model. The real transformation--and the real opportunity--is just beginning.Subscription companies are growing nine times faster than the S&P 500. Why? Because unlike product companies, subscription companies know their customers. A happy subscriber base is the ultimate economic moat. Today's consumers prefer the advantages of access over the hassles of maintenance, from transportation (Uber, Surf Air), to clothing (Stitch Fix, Eleven James), to razor blades and makeup (Dollar Shave Club, Birchbox). Companies are similarly demanding easier, long-term solutions, trading their server rooms for cloud storage solutions like Box. Simply put, the world is shifting from products to services.But how do you turn customers into subscribers? As the CEO of the world's largest subscription management platform, Tien Tzuo has helped hundreds of companies transition from relying on individual sales to building customer-centric, recurring-revenue businesses. His core message in Subscribed is simple: Ready or not, excited or terrified, you need to adapt to the Subscription Economy -- or risk being left behind.Tzuo shows how to use subscriptions to build lucrative, ongoing one-on-one relationships with your customers. This may require reinventing substantial parts of your company, from your accounting practices to your entire IT architecture, but the payoff can be enormous. Just look at the case studies: * Adobe transitions from selling enterprise software licenses to offering cloud-based solutions for a flat monthly fee, and quadruples its valuation. * Fender evolves from selling guitars one at a time to creating lifelong musicians by teaching beginners to play, and keeping them inspired for life. * Caterpillar uses subscriptions to help solve problems -- it's not about how many tractors you can rent, but how much dirt you need to move. In Subscribed, you'll learn how these companies made the shift, and how you can transform your own product into a valuable service with a practical, step-by-step framework. Find out how how you can prepare and prosper now, rather than trying to catch up later.
Subscriber Models
by Robin Greenwood Mihir A. Desai Lucy White"Most investment projects are valued by first computing the free cash flows generated in each period, then discounting these cash flows back to the present, and finally summing these to give the net present value of the project. Typically, the cash flows used in the valuation come from forecasts of future revenues, combined with forecasts of future costs, by assuming historic margins as a percent of sales. Because forecasted cash flows rely heavily on aggregate sales and ratios relative to sales, this technique is often called the “percent-of-sales” approach to calculating cash flows. <P> The percent-of-sales approach can be useful in a number of settings. In particular, it may apply when unit volume growth is predictable and when the business is characterized by regular but randomly timed sales of manufactured goods. But fewer and fewer businesses can be described this way today. Service businesses, for example, are not always well suited to the percent-of-sales approach because sales are not simply the revenues from randomly timed transactions, but rather repeated interactions with known customers. Common examples in recent years include “Software as a Service”, magazine publishing, and cellular phone service. For these businesses, computing the free cash flows in each period can be difficult, complicated by the fact that customers are coming and going at all times."
Subservience to Purpose: Affect Tolerance--How Great Leaders Channel Intense Emotions into Actions That Ensure Progress
by Justin MenkesGreat leaders, like all human beings, experience a full range of emotional reactions every day. They are not immune to anger, frustration, anxiety, or fear, and this fact is intensified by today's fast-paced environment. But leaders who are subservient to a purpose channel their emotions; they see challenges as stimulating and are able to react to setbacks and unforeseen events in ways that ensure rather than stifle progress. In this chapter, executive assessment expert Justin Menkes shows how you can use this skill--called "affect tolerance"--to help you manage your own emotions in stressful situations. One particular trap some leaders fall into is a sense of their own self-importance when they are challenged: Menkes shows why this is a grave error and how you can learn to manage this reflex. Case study illustrations of prominent leaders--including Jim McNulty (Parsons Corporation), Raymond Milchovich (Foster Wheeler), Chris Van Gorder (Scripps Health System), Fred Smith (FedEx), and Barack Obama--bring these ideas vividly to life. The chapter ends with practical suggestions and an exercise for improving your ability to reframe your strong emotions in a broader, more meaningful context and, in doing so, remain subservient to a higher purpose. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 5 of "Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others."
Subservience to Purpose: Affiliations Based on Shared Dedication--How Great Leaders Form Work Relationships That Generate Peak Performance
by Justin MenkesAlthough realistic optimism is the catalyst that allows great leaders to see and address deficiencies in themselves and the world around them--and thus grow and realize their potential and the potential of others--subservience to purpose gives them the drive to do so. Leaders who demonstrate subservience to purpose put a particular pursuit--such as their company's mission--ahead of their own comfort. But great leaders aren't slavishly devoted to their work at the expense of all else; they have simply made a deliberate choice about the degree of importance they assign to their chosen goal. Psychologist and executive assessment expert Justin Menkes deftly draws you into this chapter with a self-test that lets you quickly evaluate your own level of subservience to purpose. It's a potent introduction to the concept of "affiliations based on shared dedication"--in other words, the importance great leaders place on gathering a team that collectively values the mission of the company as the most important driver of their connection to one another. In short, if you as a leader do not form work relationships characterized by a shared dedication to purpose, you will be unable to realize your own potential, and your people will ultimately fail as well. The chapter illustrates what these relationships look like in practice--and what they don't--through the real-life examples of Miles White, chairman and CEO of Abbott Laboratories, and Ralph Larsen, former chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, among others. The chapter concludes with a section entitled "Traps to Avoid in Work Affiliations," a cautionary tale for anyone who struggles to keep their need to be liked subordinate to their goals as a leader. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 4 of "Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others."
Subsidizing Culture: Taxpayer Enrichment of the Creative Class
by James T. BennettIn the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects, a new policy consensus asserted that by offering financial support to the arts, the federal government was affirming their importance to the nation.Subsidizing Culture examines the development of and controversies surrounding federal programs that directly benefit writers, artists, and intellectuals. James T. Bennett examines four cases of such support: the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects; the vigorous promotion, in the post-World War II and early Cold War eras, of abstract expressionism and other forms of modern art by the US government; the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which has fortified its position as the preeminent arts bureaucracy; and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NEA's less embattled twin, which funnels monies to scholars.Bennett concentrates on the creation of and the debate over these government programs, and he gives special attention to the critics, who are usually ignored. He reminds us that the chorus of anti-subsidy voices over the years has included such disparate figures as writers William Faulkner and John Updike; artists John Sloan and Wheeler Williams; and social critics Jacques Barzun and H.L. Mencken.
Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development
by Jr. Clifton R. WhartonOne of the more perplexing problems of economic development is helping subsistence farmers break away from production simply for home consumption to become commercial farmers, producing more and more for sale in the marketplace. Although subsistence farms occupy 40 percent of the worlds cultivated land and support half of mankind, facts about them and programs to increase their output are scattered. Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development provides a unique overview of these difficulties and their significance to economic development. It is the first book to subject subsistence agriculture to rigorous multi-disciplinary examination and to bring to light new theory and empirical evidence directed toward solving the problem.This volume contains original chapters by forty leading social scientists and agricultural specialists who summarize contemporary theory, fact, and policy on the problems of developing agriculture from subsistence to a commercial basis. Each contributor speaks from one or more of the relevant standpoints of economics, sociology, agronomy, political science, anthropology, and social psychology. There emerges a clear, meaningful picture of the subsistence farmer and the problems involved in changing his attitudes, methods of production, and economic and social environment.Broad in scope, documented with pertinent case studies, and far-reaching in its guidelines for future research and policy, this work should be read by all concerned with increasing food production and with economic development. This is an area of special concern in the uses of food products as the basis for new energy resources - an issue of increasing importance in the advancing use of ethanol as a fuel drawn from corn products.
Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Reconnecting to Work, Nature and Community (Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption)
by Ashley ColbyFocusing on ethnography and interviews with subsistence food producers, this book explores the resilience, innovation and creativity taking place in subsistence agriculture in America. To date, researchers interested in alternative food networks have often overlooked the somewhat hidden, unorganized population of household food producers. Subsistence Agriculture in the US fills this gap in the existing literature by examining the lived experiences of people taking part in subsistence food production. Over the course of the book, Colby draws on accounts from a broad and diverse network of people who are hunting, fishing, gardening, keeping livestock and gathering and looks in depth at the way in which these practical actions have transformed their relationship to labor and land. She also explores the broader implications of this pro-environmental activity for social change and sustainable futures. With a combination of rigorous academic investigation and engagement with pressing social issues, this book will be of great interest to scholars of sustainable consumption, environmental sociology and social movements.
Subsistence Entrepreneurship: The Interplay of Collaborative Innovation, Sustainability and Social Goals (Contributions to Management Science)
by Paul Jones Vanessa Ratten Vitor Braga Carla Susana MarquesThis book focuses on the role of subsistence entrepreneurs in creating social and sustainable business opportunities on the global marketplace. Subsistence entrepreneurs use scarce resources to create new business opportunities, often in developing or emerging economies. In addition, subsistence entrepreneurship is increasingly being used as a way to facilitate market entry for small and medium-sized business enterprises that focus on collaborative innovation. The interdisciplinary contributions gathered here will expand readers’ understanding of the nature and characteristics of subsistence entrepreneurs, as well as the challenges they face. The central connection between subsistence, sustainability and social entrepreneurship is also explored.
Subsistence Whaling: Past History and Contemporary Issues
by Gregory G. Monks Nobuhiro Kishigami James M. SavelleThis book examines the past history, and contemporary status of subsistence whaling. The papers derive from a symposium ‘Aboriginal Whaling and Identity in the 21st Century’ held at the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies in Vienna, Austria in September 2015. Whales, especially large baleen whales, are the largest animals targeted by many societies, prehistoric or modern, and major facets of subsistence, social structure and ideology are still deeply embedded in past and current whaling lifeways. Yet there is probably no other environmental/political issue that has attracted as much attention in the late 20th and early 21st century as whaling practices and policies. Accordingly, the papers address two major themes: 1) the extent and characteristics of major prehistoric and early historic whaling activities, and 2) case studies amongst modern whaling societies, and how these societies are impacted by current political and economic realities and by the anti-whaling movement.
Subsistence under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
by James Murton Dean Bavington Carly DokisThe complex relationship between subsistence practices and formal markets should be a growing matter of concern for those uneasy with the stark contrast between commercial and local food systems, especially since self-provisioning has never been limited to the margins. In fact, subsistence occupies a central space in local and global economies and networks. Bringing together essays from diverse disciplines to reflect on the meaning of subsistence in theory and in practice, in historical and contemporary contexts, in Canada and beyond, Subsistence under Capitalism is a collective study of the ways in which local food systems have been relegated to the shadows by the drive to establish and expand capitalist markets. Considering fishing, farming, and other forms of subsistence provisioning, the essays in this volume document the persistence of these practices despite capitalist government policies that actively seek to subsume them. Presenting viable alternatives to capitalist production and exchange, the contributors explain the critical interplay between politics, local provisioning, and the ultimate survival of society. Illuminating new kinds of engagements with nature and community, Subsistence under Capitalism looks behind the scenes of subsistence food provisioning to challenge the dominant economic paradigm of the modern world.
Subsistence under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
by James Murton Dean Bavington Carly DokisThe complex relationship between subsistence practices and formal markets should be a growing matter of concern for those uneasy with the stark contrast between commercial and local food systems, especially since self-provisioning has never been limited to the margins. In fact, subsistence occupies a central space in local and global economies and networks. Bringing together essays from diverse disciplines to reflect on the meaning of subsistence in theory and in practice, in historical and contemporary contexts, in Canada and beyond, Subsistence under Capitalism is a collective study of the ways in which local food systems have been relegated to the shadows by the drive to establish and expand capitalist markets. Considering fishing, farming, and other forms of subsistence provisioning, the essays in this volume document the persistence of these practices despite capitalist government policies that actively seek to subsume them. Presenting viable alternatives to capitalist production and exchange, the contributors explain the critical interplay between politics, local provisioning, and the ultimate survival of society. Illuminating new kinds of engagements with nature and community, Subsistence under Capitalism looks behind the scenes of subsistence food provisioning to challenge the dominant economic paradigm of the modern world.
Subskriptionsmodelle im Handel: Wie Subskriptionen den Konsum automatisieren (essentials)
by Thomas Rudolph Severin Friedrich BischofKonsumenten wählen im Zuge der Digitalisierung immer öfter Subskriptionen bzw. Abonnements, um ihre Einkäufe zu automatisieren. Im Mittelpunkt des essentials von Severin Friedrich Bischof und Thomas Rudolph stehen Subskriptionen für Konsumgüter, die von Konsumenten in der Vergangenheit in stationären Handelsgeschäften gekauft wurden. Die Autoren beschreiben, welche Arten von Subskriptionen heute eine Rolle spielen und in welchen Branchen diese zukünftig besonders beliebt werden. Sie definieren vier unterschiedliche Subskriptionstypen, die sich hinsichtlich ihres Überraschungs- und Personalisierungsgrades unterscheiden. Das essential hilft, mit passenden Subskriptionsdiensten auf das veränderte Kundenverhalten einzugehen und die Chancen dieses neuen Erlösmodells im Einzelhandel zu nutzen.
Substance Abuse in the Workplace
by Reginald Campbell R. Everett LangfordSubstance Abuse in the Workplace makes a valuable contribution to the national movement to help stem the tide of drug abuse. The book begins with the history of substance abuse, continues with a discussion of how the human body functions normally or under the influence of chemicals, and follows with a toxicological description of the more common ch
Substantive Protection under Investment Treaties
by Jonathan BonnitchaSubstantive Protection under Investment Treaties provides the first systematic analysis of the consequences of the substantive protections that investment treaties provide to foreign investors. It proposes a new framework for identifying and evaluating the costs and benefits of differing levels of investment treaty protection, and uses this framework to evaluate the levels of protection for foreign investors implied by different interpretations of the fair and equitable treatment and indirect expropriation provisions of investment treaties. The author examines the arguments and assumptions of both supporters and critics of investment treaties, seeks to test whether they are coherent and borne out by evidence, and concludes that the 'economic' justifications for investment treaty protections are much weaker than is generally assumed. As such, the 'economic' objectives of investment treaties are not necessarily in tension with other 'non-economic' objectives. These findings have important implications for the drafting and interpretation of investment treaties.
Subsumption of Space: A Theory of Marxist Geography (Contributions to Regional Science)
by Fujio MizuokaThis book takes a Marxist perspective to explore the dynamics of space. By employing dialectical materialist logic, it explains how a heterogeneous spatial configuration emerges through the dialectical process to transcend the contradiction generated by the subsumption (incorporation) of an sich pristine spaces into society, with a particular focus on the context of capitalism. The key concept here is 'subsumption', as presented by Marx in 'The Results of the Immediate Process of Production'. This book is first of its kind that thought-provokingly demonstrates the dialectical logic of the production of space through the application of Marxist logic of subsumption. It succinctly argues that heterogeneous spatial configurations are produced through the society's effort to transcend these contradictions, or the subsumption of space, which transforms pristine space subsumed into a one-point society in formal terms toward a heterogeneous spatial configuration, resulting in an und für sich produced space or space subsumed in real terms. The book also suggests the role of the produced space in potential utilization of space in social struggles. Based on this conceptual framework, this book discusses the built environment, the space embedded in people's minds, and the effects of the capitalist business cycle on space. Ultimately, it presents a compelling case for activists to harness the space produced in their social struggles.
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas
by Michael Watts Hannah Appel Arthur Mason"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."--Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of ShahsThe scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price. As an industry typified by concentrated economic and political power, its operations are obscured by secrecy and security. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that the social sciences typically approach oil as a metonym--of modernity, money, geopolitics, violence, corruption, curse, ur-commodity--rather than considering the daily life of the industry itself and of the hydrocarbons around which it is built. Instead, Subterranean Estates gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts to provide a critical topography of the hydrocarbon industry, understood not solely as an assemblage of corporate forms but rather as an expansive and porous network of laborers and technologies, representation and expertise, and the ways of life oil and gas produce at points of extraction, production, marketing, consumption, and combustion. By accounting for oil as empirical and experiential, the contributors begin to demystify a commodity too often given almost demiurgic power. Subterranean Estates shifts critical attention away from an exclusive focus on global oil firms toward often overlooked aspects of the industry, including insurance, finance, law, and the role of consultants and community organizations. Based on ethnographic research from around the world (Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, the United States, Ecuador, Chad, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Canada, Iran, and Russia), and featuring a photoessay on the lived experiences of those who inhabit a universe populated by oil rigs, pipelines, and gas flares, this innovative volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of this multidimensional world. Contributors: Hannah Appel, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Barry, University College London; Mona Damluji, Wheaton College; Elizabeth Gelber, Columbia University; Jane I. Guyer, The Johns Hopkins University; Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York; Matt Huber, Syracuse University; Leigh Johnson, University of Zurich; Ed Kashi; Hannah Knox, University of Manchester; Mandana E. Limbert, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Arthur Mason, University of California, Berkeley; Douglas Rogers, Yale University; Suzana Sawyer, University of California, Davis; Rebecca Golden, Women's Institute of Houston; Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley; Sara Wylie, Northeastern University; Saulesh Yessenova, University of Alberta; Anna Zalik, York University
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
by Sharon Smith“A concise, well-written history of U.S. working-class struggle and radicalism” from the author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital (Solidarity).Smith explores how the connection between the U.S. labor movement and the Democratic Party, with its extensive corporate ties, has repeatedly held back working-class struggles. And she closely examines the role of the labor movement in the 2004 presidential election, tracing the shrinking electoral influence of organized labor and the failure of labor-management cooperation, “business unionism,” and reliance on the Democrats to deliver any real gains.“Sharon Smith brings that history to life once again, blasting through the myths of the working class that Trump-era narratives cling to in order to connect us once again to the possibility of building broad solidarity.” —Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won’t Love You Back“A veteran worker-intellectual brilliantly addresses the crisis of the labor movement, skewering those who believe that renewal can come from the top down, and encouraging those who are fighting to rebuild it from the bottom up.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums