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Capitalism without Capital

The Rise of the Intangible Economy

By: Jonathan Haskel,Stian Westlake

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Capitalism without Capital

The Rise of the Intangible Economy

By: Jonathan Haskel,Stian Westlake

Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success. But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the larger economic changes of the past decade, including the growth in economic inequality and the stagnation of productivity. Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake explore the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment and discuss how an economy rich in intangibles is fundamentally different from one based on tangibles. Capitalism without Capital concludes by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies.

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Princeton University Press

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0691183295

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9780691183299

Restarting the Future

How to Fix the Intangible Economy

By: Jonathan Haskel,Stian Westlake

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Restarting the Future

How to Fix the Intangible Economy

By: Jonathan Haskel,Stian Westlake

From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economy The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has happened to the future they were promised. Restarting the Future reveals how these problems arise from a failure to develop the institutions demanded by an economy now reliant on intangible capital such as ideas, relationships, brands, and knowledge. In this groundbreaking and provocative book, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that the great economic disappointment of the century is the result of an incomplete transition from an economy based on physical capital, and show how the vital institutions that underpin our economy remain geared to an outmoded way of doing business. The growth of intangible investment has slowed significantly in recent years, making the world poorer, less fair, and more vulnerable to existential threats. Haskel and Westlake present exciting new ideas to help us catch up with the intangible revolution, offering a road map for how to finance businesses, improve our cities, fund more science and research, reform monetary policy, and reshape intellectual property rules for the better. Drawing on Haskel and Westlake’s experience at the forefront of finance and economic policymaking, Restarting the Future sets out a host of radical but practical solutions that can lead us into the future.

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Princeton University Press

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0691236038

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9780691236032

Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah

By: Jonathan Dauber

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Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah

By: Jonathan Dauber

In Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah, Jonathan Dauber offers a fresh consideration of the emergence of Kabbalah against the backdrop of a re-evaluation of the relationship between Kabbalistic and philosophic discourse.

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BRILL

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9004234276

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9789004234277

Freaks of Fortune

The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America

By: Jonathan Levy

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Freaks of Fortune

The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America

By: Jonathan Levy

Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions-insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets-while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk's rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one's own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name "financial services industry." Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortuneis one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.

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Harvard University Press

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0674067207

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9780674067202

Get Capone

The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wante

By: Jonathan Eig

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Get Capone

The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wante

By: Jonathan Eig

The real story of how the federal government finally apprehended and convicted America’s most notorious criminal, Al Capone. Drawing on recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation’s most infamous criminal in rich new detail. From the moment he arrived in Chicago in 1920, Capone found himself in a world with limitless opportunity. Within a few years Capone controlled an illegal bootlegging business with annual revenue rivaling that of some of the nation’s largest corporations. Along the way he corrupted the Chicago police force and local courts while becoming one of the world’s first international celebrities. Legend credits Eliot Ness and his “Untouchables” with apprehending Capone, but Eig shows that this wasn’t so. In Get Capone, the man known as “Scarface” emerges as a complex man, doomed as much by his ego as by his vicious criminality. This is the real Al Capone.

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498

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Simon and Schuster

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1439199892

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9781439199893

Foreign Direct Investment and the Regional Economy

By: Jonathan Jones,Colin Wren

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Foreign Direct Investment and the Regional Economy

By: Jonathan Jones,Colin Wren

The 'boom' in foreign direct investment (FDI) since the mid-1980s, continues to be paramount in policy interest. This book reviews the literature on the nature of FDI and reports the recent results on the performance of FDI plants in order to show the implications for regional economic development. It presents new evidence on the nature and performance of these plants, using a unique dataset that has been constructed and rigorously analyzed by applying econometric techniques. The role of FDI in economic development has long been poorly understood and this book contributes to improving understanding, and is of direct policy relevance. An examination is made of the generation, theory and location of FDI, as well as its implications for regional and national development. In addition to this, analysis is made of the issues at the project and plant levels, related to investment, employment and firm survival.

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Routledge

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1317134052

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9781317134053

The Comic Book Story of Video Games

The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution

By: Jonathan Hennessey

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The Comic Book Story of Video Games

The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution

By: Jonathan Hennessey

A complete, illustrated history of video games--highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion-dollar industry/artform--told in a graphic novel format. Author Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan present the first full-color, chronological origin story for this hugely successful, omnipresent artform and business. Hennessey provides readers with everything they need to know about video games--from their early beginnings during World War II to the emergence of arcade games in the 1970s to the rise of Nintendo to today's app-based games like Angry Birds and Pokemon Go. Hennessey and McGowan also analyze the evolution of gaming as an artform and its impact on society. Each chapter features spotlights on major players in the development of games and gaming that contains everything that gamers and non-gamers alike need to understand and appreciate this incredible phenomenon.

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Ten Speed Graphic

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0399578900

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9780399578908

Mudville Madness

Fabulous Feats, Belligerent Behavior, and Erratic Episodes on the Diamond

By: Jonathan Weeks

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Mudville Madness

Fabulous Feats, Belligerent Behavior, and Erratic Episodes on the Diamond

By: Jonathan Weeks

The extent to which remarkable things can happen on a baseball field is virtually limitless. Bats break, balls carom wildly, personalities clash, and playing fields are invaded by uninvited guests. Mudville Madness is for baseball fans who seek something beyond the standard boxscores—something new or rarely encountered. This book is a jaunt into the realm of the extraordinary and (at times) outright bizarre. The most uncommon events in three centuries of baseball history are recounted here in glorious detail, beginning with the game’s earliest days when the rules were in their infancy, through the deadball years, right up to the 2013 season. The epic brawls, bizarre plays, and landmark achievements covered in this book will leave you shaking your head in disbelief.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1589799577

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9781589799578

The Jews of China: v. 2: A Sourcebook and Research Guide

By: Jonathan Goldstein

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The Jews of China: v. 2: A Sourcebook and Research Guide

By: Jonathan Goldstein

An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949.

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1317456017

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9781317456018

The Jews of China: v. 1: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

By: Jonathan Goldstein,Benjamin I. Schwartz

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The Jews of China: v. 1: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

By: Jonathan Goldstein,Benjamin I. Schwartz

This interdisciplinary study examines patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately AD 1100 to 1949.

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1317456041

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9781317456049

The Oxford Handbook of Business History

By: Geoffrey Jones,Jonathan Zeitlin

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The Oxford Handbook of Business History

By: Geoffrey Jones,Jonathan Zeitlin

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of research in business history. Business historians study the historical evolution of business systems, entrepreneurs and firms, as well as their interaction with their political, economic, and social environment. They address issues of central concern to researchers in management studies and business administration, as well as economics, sociology and political science, and to historians. They employ a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. The Oxford Handbook of Business History has brought together leading scholars to provide a comprehensive, critical, and interdisciplinary examination of business history, organized into four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. The Handbook shows that business history is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, generating compelling empirical data, which has sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested widely-held views in management and the social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Business History is a key reference work for scholars and advanced students of Business History, and a fascinating resource for social scientists in general.

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OUP Oxford

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0191555770

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9780191555770

Merely Players?

Actors' Accounts of Performing Shakespeare

By: Jonathan Holmes

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Merely Players?

Actors' Accounts of Performing Shakespeare

By: Jonathan Holmes

This brings together for the first time the diverse voices of actors writing about their experiences of playing Shakespeare.

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Psychology Press

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0415319587

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9780415319584

The Common Man's Guide to Uncommon Riches

By: John Hildreth Atkins,Jonathan G. Rundy

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The Common Man's Guide to Uncommon Riches

By: John Hildreth Atkins,Jonathan G. Rundy

Besides teaching you to win online auctions, how to buy and sell antiques and collectibles for top dollar, I tell you where to buy a home for under $10,000. with little or zero down. Own your own home in under a year. Isn't that the ultimate in the Great American dreams! Too many people are getting depressed paying a thirty year mortgage on a home they will never own. Why not buy two or three, fix them up, then rent them out? Or sell them for a profit. This is real. And it doesn't cost you hundreds of dollars and/or hours enduring some stupid seminar. You owe it to yourself to get out of the rut you are in. And don't forget, I will also teach you about selling (or buying) antiques and collectibles online, in regular auctions, newspapers, etc. How much is that worth? Opportunity knocks. What are you waiting for? As long as you sincerely want to get ahead, you can. So stop playing games with your future and make it happen. What excuse will you use now?

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Lulu.com

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1430310960

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9781430310969

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

By: Jonathan Bonnitcha,Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen,Michael Waibel

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The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

By: Jonathan Bonnitcha,Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen,Michael Waibel

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is growing and some developed and developing countries are beginning to revisit their investment treaty policies. The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime synthesises and advances the growing literature on this subject by integrating legal, economic, and political perspectives. Based on an analysis of the substantive and procedural rights conferred by investment treaties, it asks four basic questions. What are the costs and benefits of investment treaties for investors, states, and other stakeholders? Why did developed and developing countries sign the treaties? Why should private arbitrators be allowed to review public regulations passed by states? And what is the relationship between the investment treaty regime and the broader regime complex that governs international investment? Through a concise, but comprehensive, analysis, this book fills in some of the many "blind spots" of academics from different disciplines, and is the first port of call for lawyers, investors, policy-makers, and stakeholders trying to make sense of these critical instruments governing investor-state relations.

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340

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Oxford University Press

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0192529838

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9780192529831

The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education

By: Jonathan B. Krasner

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The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education

By: Jonathan B. Krasner

The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education

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UPNE

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1611682932

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9781611682939

To Heal the World?

How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel

By: Jonathan Neumann

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To Heal the World?

How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel

By: Jonathan Neumann

Offers a critique of Jewish left wing activism and its use of the concept of tikkun olam, or 0́healing the world, 0́+ to justify its agenda of transformative change, arguing that the concept has no real Biblical basis and is harmful to Judaism.

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