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  • Pictures of a Gone City

    Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

    Serier serie Spectre
    The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism—the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. It has been generating jobs, spawning new innovation, and spreading ideas that are changing lives everywhere. It boasts of being the Left Coast, the Greenest City, and the best place for workers in the USA. So what could be wrong? It may seem ... Læs mere

    78,52 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Læs mere

    85,13 kr.

  • Revolutionary Wealth

    Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the ... Læs mere

    58,48 kr.

  • The New Geography of Jobs

    "A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them—and how policymakers can learn from that." —Barack ObamaWe're used to thinking of the United States in opposing terms: red versus blue, haves versus have-nots. But today there are three Americas. At one extreme are the brain hubs—cities like San Francisco, Boston, and Durham—with workers ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Complacent Class

    The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

    af Tyler Cowen ...
    A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller"Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, is the first thing I read every morning. And his brilliant new book, The Complacent Class, has been on my nightstand after I devoured it in one sitting. I am at round-the-clock Cowen saturation right now."--Malcolm GladwellSince Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American ... Læs mere

    84,61 kr.

  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Læs mere

    83,49 kr.

  • Time to Start Thinking

    America in the Age of Descent

    af Edward Luce ...
    This look at the crisis facing the United States "explores the gaping disconnect between elite optimism and popular bewilderment, anger, and despair" ( Foreign Affairs)."Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking." —Sir Ernest RutherfordIn a book destined to spark debate among both liberals and conservatives, journalist Edward Luce advances a carefully constructed argument, ... Læs mere

    84,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Digital Disconnect

    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

    Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world.McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society ... Læs mere

    134,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Future Perfect

    The Case For Progress In A Networked Age

    What connects the "miracle on the Hudson" to the planning of the French railway system, or the mysterious outbreak of strange smells in downtown Manhattan to the invention of the Internet? With his characteristic flair for multidisciplinary storytelling, Steven Johnson shows in Future Perfect that what lies behind these and many other fascinating human stories is the concept of networked thinking ... Læs mere

    85,75 kr.

  • The Givers

    Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age

    An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad.While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and ... Læs mere

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  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Læs mere

    144,86 kr.

  • Cornered

    The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction

    af Barry C. Lynn ...
    "A manifesto for our times."—Thomas Frank, Wall Street JournalBarry C. Lynn, one of the most original and surprising students of the American economy, paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector ... Læs mere

    120,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus