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1) Jump-starting America: how breakthrough science can revive economic growth and the American dream
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again. - publisher's website.
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Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This blend of authoritative historic overview and human interest stories recounts one of the most important eras in American history. This educational activity book introduces young readers to the Industrial Revolution through the people, places, and inventions of the time, from the incredibly wealthy Rockefellers and Carnegies and the dingy and dangerous factories of the day to the creation of new forms of transportation and communication. By recounting...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A cofounder of the popular makerspace TechShop discusses the growing maker movement, describing how ordinary individuals are using previously unavailable tools and technologies to create innovative products and successful businesses.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The director of MIT's Media Lab and a contributor to "Wired" present a set of working principles for adapting and thriving in the face of the twenty-first century's rapidly changing and unpredictable digital environments.
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds,...
Author
Publisher
Square One Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
What makes a global company great? For the past few decades, more than 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies have either failed or been significantly downgraded in size, influence, or governance structures. In New World companies, author and corporate consultant Bruce Piasecki examines this sobering reality and explains why certain twenty-first century companies are likely to thrive while others fall short.-- cover.
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Language
English
Description
"There are few industrialists in history who could match Elon Musk's relentless drive and ingenious vision. A modern alloy of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs, Musk is the man behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity, each of which has sent shock waves throughout American business and industry. More than any other executive today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that...
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Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Native rural Virginian and now Chief technology officer at Microsoft, Kevin Scott, discusses the future of AI and how it can be realistically used to promote growth even as the job landscape shifts"--There are two prevailing stories about AI: for heartland low- and middle-skill workers, a dystopian tale of steadily increasing job destruction; for urban knowledge workers and the professional class, a utopian tale of enhanced productivity and convenience....
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two market experts explain why the five leading tech giants, which account for approximately twenty-five percent of the S&P 500’s market capitalization, are expanding to unimaginable scale and power, and how, through online policy changes, this can be reversed. While many distrust the Big-Tech Barons, the prevailing belief is that innovation is thriving online. It isn’t. Rather than disruptive innovations that create significant value, we are...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future. Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers—writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians—are threatened by accelerating advances in...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation , the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise, is now-at last-a book. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In today's volatile business landscape, adaptability and creativity are more crucial than ever. It is no longer possible-or even desirable-to learn one set of job skills and to work your way up the ladder. At the same time, entrepreneurs with great ideas for new products or technologies that could change the world often struggle to capture the attention of venture capital firms and incubators; finding the funding necessary to launch a start-up can...
20) The innovation delusion: how our obsession with the new has disrupted the work that matters most
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For forty years, innovation has been the hottest buzzword in business. But what if the benefits of innovation have been exaggerated, and our obsession with the new has distracted us from the work that matters most? It's hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it's a new technology or a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel...
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