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by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
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3303
In this follow up to their 2007 bestseller, Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Willliams once again use original research to provide new examples of organizations that are successfully embracing the principles of wikinomics to change the world. Find out how in this executive book summary of Macrowikonomics.
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by Thomas Friedman
Item #:
FBR1208
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The world has a problem. It is getting hot, flat, and crowded. That is, global warming, the stunning rise of the middle class all over the world, and rapid population growth have converged in a way that could make our planet dangerously unstable. In just a few years it will be too late to fix things –– unless the United States steps up and takes the lead in a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean ...
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by Alan Greenspan
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FBR0208
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After serving 18.5 years as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan has set pen to paper to bring his fascinating life story to millions of readers. Starting The Age of Turbulence with the tale of his personal life he then moves on to discuss the nature of the past, present and future economy, with the final chapter focused on a forecast for the year 2030.
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by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Item #:
2909
Using the collaborative-software “wiki” concept as their theme, the authors address how the Internet’s social network offers new, decentralized ways to produce content, goods, services and profit.
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by Thomas Friedman
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FBR1006
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Don't tell Christopher Columbus about this book. Pulitzer-Prize winning author Thomas L. Friedman gives an account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightening-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before, creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place.
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by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
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FBR0406
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Freakonomics offers readers the hidden facts buried within the stories they live and see dramatized every day, along with the numbers and statistics that can help them draw sense from the chaos. By justifying the use of strange questions to get at the heart of the matter, the authors show how economists turn collections of facts into unusual theories and then prove them by applying critical analysis.
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by Stan Liebowitz
Item #:
2513
Economist Liebowitz explains why the dot.com bust was inevitable, despite the declarations of many people — from respected academics and risk-conscious venture capitalists to stock brokers and investors — who should have known better. The theme of this summary, however, is not, “I told you so!” but rather “Here’s what will work.” The Internet does offer many incredible business opportunities, Liebowitz writes, as long as businesspeople and their advisors don’t ignore the traditional, fundamental
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