Future Economics

In the face of unprecedented global change, New York Times best-selling author Alec Ross proposes a new social contract to restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business.

David Rowan travels the globe in search of the most exciting and pioneering start-ups building the future. He’s got to know the founders of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Spotify, Xiaomi, Didi, Nest, Twitter and countless other ambitious entrepreneurs disrupting businesses in almost every sector. And yet too often the companies they’re disrupting don’t get it. They think they can innovate through jargon: with talk of change agents and co-creation gurus, ideas portals and webinars, make-a-thons and hackfests, paradigm shifts and pilgrimages to Silicon Valley.

As machines are trained to "think", many tasks that previously required human intelligence are becoming automated through artificial intelligence. However, it is more difficult to automate emotional intelligence, and this is where the human worker's competitive advantage over machines currently lies. This book explores the impact of AI on everyday life, looking into workers' adaptation to these changes, the ways in which managers can change the nature of jobs in light of AI developments, and the potential for humans and AI to continue working together.

Dale Pollak believes that the car business - and the dealers who make their living in it - are in more trouble than anyone cares to admit. After four decades and three best-selling books, Pollak has witnessed the trials and triumphs of the retail automotive industry from a vantage point that few get. While car dealers are making good money, he warns that the industry is at a critical turning point, with too few paying attention to how inefficiency and lack of transparency are sapping the industry’s true potential.

Introducing "The Future of Quality Control" - a groundbreaking eBook that delves into the ever-expanding world of sustainability within the realms of business and industry! Are you an entrepreneur striving to make your mark in today's competitive market, or a forward-thinking manager committed to making a difference in the world of quality control? If the answer is a resounding "Yes!", then this transformative eBook is just what you need to redefine and reshape your understanding of sustainable practices and quality control. The Future of Quality Control offers an insightful journey through...

Want to give your child essential money skills early on? Struggling to make financial literacy fun? You're not alone. Many parents want their kids to be financially confident but don’t know where to start. That’s where Financial Literacy for Kids Unlocked comes in! Designed for ages 7-12, this audiobook makes learning about money fun, simple, and practical.

Unlock the Future of Finance with Quantum Money: The Ultimate Guide to the Quantum-Secure Digital Economy Imagine a world where digital transactions are not only lightning-fast but also virtually unhackable. Welcome to the era of Quantum Money, where quantum technology and digital finance converge to revolutionize the financial landscape. "Quantum Money: The Future of Digital Economy" delves deep into this transformative shift, offering a comprehensive guide to understanding and navigating the next frontier in financial technology. What You'll Discover: Quantum Computing Fundamentals: Start...

In The Good Ancestor, leading popular philosopher and best-selling author Roman Krznaric shows just how crucial long-term thinking is, not just for ordinary people but across political, economic, environmental and business worlds. From the personal to the political, Krznaric identifies the flaws of today’s short-term mindset. Drawing on ideas from a wide range of perspectives including neuroscience, cultural history, politics, economics, art and religion, he offers eight key approaches as a road map for the future of long-term thinking and planning.

Introducing Crypto, CBDCs and FedNow: Changes in Our Economy, What You Need to Know is a must-listen for anyone who is interested in understanding the future of money and how their actions can influence consumer trends.When looking at important new currencies and technologies, it's important to avoid discarding the valuable along with the unnecessary. Sure, there are some that have tarnished the term cryptocurrency, but the concept of decentralized financial reserves should not be dismissed.

Uncertainty pervades the big decisions we all make in our lives. How much should we pay into our pensions each month? Should we take regular exercise? Expand the business? Change our strategy? Enter a trade agreement? Take an expensive holiday? We do not know what the future will hold. But we must make decisions anyway. So we crave certainties which cannot exist and invent knowledge we cannot have.

America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays; rather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy. Many Americans have forgotten the evils of socialism and the predations of the American Great Society's welfare-state programs.

We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Long Depression of the late 19th century, in terms of the crisis and pain they cause. But history teaches us that these great crises also represent opportunities to remake our economy and society and to generate whole new eras of economic growth and prosperity.

As we enter the fourth great leap forward in technology with robots and AI, we face the first services revolution. The power balance will again shift massively to companies as new technologies drive productivity increases in the service industry, much as the last three industrial revolutions transformed manufacturing. What lessons can we learn from the past three industrial revolutions and the current state of the labor market?

Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), spent four years traveling the country and asking economists, futurists, labor leaders, CEOs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and political leaders to help envision the US economy 25 to 30 years from now. He vividly reports on people who are analyzing and creating this new economy - such as investment banker Steve Berkenfeld; David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell International; and Andy Grove of Intel.

This book, "AIconomics," explores the intricate relationship between artificial intelligence and economic systems. It looks into how AI technologies are reshaping economic processes, markets, and decision-making from individual firms to global economies. The book covers a comprehensive range of topics, including: The Definition and Scope of AIconomics: Understanding this emerging field that merges technological innovation with economic thought. The Economics of AI Implementation: A detailed look at the cost-benefit analysis, ROI calculations, and hidden costs associated with adopting AI. AI...

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected - a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness. Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to one of the world’s most influential companies. Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas and a former adviser to secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.

Demokratie und Wohlstand, ein längeres Leben, mehr Gleichberechtigung und Bildung: Der Kapitalismus hat viel Positives bewirkt. Zugleich ruiniert er jedoch Klima und Umwelt, sodass die Menschheit nun existenziell gefährdet ist. "Grünes Wachstum" soll die Rettung sein, aber Wirtschaftsexpertin und Bestsellerautorin Ulrike Herrmann hält dagegen: Verständlich und messerscharf erklärt sie in ihrem neuen Hörbuch, warum wir stattdessen "grünes Schrumpfen" brauchen. Die Klimakrise verschärft sich täglich, aber konkret ändert sich fast nichts.

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life and offer solutions to them, too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: the Midwest USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them and the processes that shape their lives, their families, and their futures. He shows how economics uncovers these processes, finds explanations for them, and how it forms policies and solutions.

National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's 20 years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes listeners on this journey, he also takes them through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future.

Praise for: Solving Global Warming Will Kill the Fossil Fuel Industry Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner … an urgent and thorough exploration of what happens when one of the world's most powerful industries meets its inevitable decline. The book isn't just about climate change, it's about the economic, social and geopolitical political tremors that will follow the fall of fossil fuels. Miezejeski takes readers through the science of energy and history of industrialization and the strategies that oil and gas companies are using to cling to relevance. This is more than just a warning ...