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Essays on inequality, knowledge economy and financial development in Africa
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ISBN: 9789089941985 Year: 2019 Publisher: Antwerpen Universiteit Antwerpen

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Narrative economics : how stories go viral and drive major economic events
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ISBN: 9780691182292 0691182299 9780691189970 Year: 2019 Publisher: New Jersey Princeton University Press

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From Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a new way to think about how popular stories help drive economic eventsIn a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies? In this groundbreaking book, Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller offers a new way to think about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of historical examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that affect individual and collective economic behavior -what he calls "narrative economics"- has the potential to vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises, recessions, depressions, and other major economic events.Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move markets -whether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up, that housing prices never fall, or that some firms are too big to fail. Whether true or false, stories like these - transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social media - drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that by laying the foundation for a way of understanding how stories help propel economic events that have had led to war, mass unemployment, and increased inequality.The stories people tell - about economic confidence or panic, housing booms, the American dream, or Bitcoin - affect economic outcomes. Narrative Economics explains how we can begin to take these stories seriously. It may be Robert Shiller's most important book to date.Bron : http://www.acco.be


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Een stralende toekomst : een radicaal pleidooi voor menselijkheid
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ISBN: 9789403166506 Year: 2019 Publisher: Amsterdam De Bezige Bij

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Onder invloed van het vrijemarktdenken hebben oude idealen als burgerschap, moraal en individuele autonomie moeten plaatsmaken voor zelfzucht, hiërarchie en consumentisme. Volgens Paul Mason bevinden we ons op dit moment op een kantelpunt. Onze op humanistische grondslagen gebouwde wereld wordt ernstig bedreigd: de democratie ligt onder vuur, autocratische regimes zijn in opkomst en de waarheid wijkt voor fake news. Bovendien gaat ons denken ten gronde aan fatalisme: we zien onszelf als wezens die gestuurd worden door ons brein en onze genen, door mechanismen van de markt of door de algoritmen van Big Tech.In Een stralende toekomst roept Paul Mason op tot een humanistische revolutie, waarin de mens - geïnspireerd door de ideeën die ons sterk maakten - het heft in eigen hand neemt op weg naar een stralende, menselijke toekomst.


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Blockchain et actifs numériques
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ISBN: 9782711030491 2711030490 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris LexisNexis

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Blockchain, bitcoin, bientôt libra, jetons numériques, ICOs. Ces mots envahissent progressivement notre quotidien. Ils conservent toutefois leur part de mystère. C'est que les mécanismes concernés sont de prime abord délicats à appréhender. Il s'agit en effet de pures créations digitales, abstraites par nature. Pourtant, on prédit à la blockchain et à ses différentes applications un bel avenir. Tous les secteurs de l'économie peuvent être concernés. La finance au premier chef mais aussi l'énergie, la santé, la distribution alimentaire. La blockchain, il ne faut pas non plus le dissimuler, présente cependant des risques qu'il convient d'apprécier. Le premier but de cet ouvrage est, de manière aussi didactique que possible, de présenter le fonctionnement de la blockchain et de ses principales applications. Il faut d'abord comprendre avant de pouvoir analyser.Le second objectif est de présenter les principales questions juridiques soulevées par l'avènement de cette nouvelle technologie.Enfin, il convient de présenter les principales règles juridiques applicables. La loi Pacte a en effet consacré les actifs numériques, encadré les ICOs et proposé un statut pour de nouveaux acteurs, les prestataires de services d'actifs numériques. Après avoir lu cet ouvrage, le lecteur pourra se faire sa propre opinion au sujet de cette technologie qui, au même titre que l'IA, se donne pour ambition de changer le monde !


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La fiscalité et l'impératif de développement du Centrafrique
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ISBN: 9782343180298 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

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Le financement du développement d'un Etat reste tributaire de la performance des ressources fiscales et douanières. La politique fiscale a un rôle important à jouer à ce propos. Car, l'outil essentiel de tout politique de financement adéquat du développement est la fiscalité, véritable instrument de politique économique et sociale. La fiscalité est avant tout un outil au service de la politique de développement dont il faut explorer toutes les dimensions. Les pouvoirs publics doivent mettre en pratique une politique fiscale proactive en totale cohérence avec les politiques publiques.


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Ace essential grammar
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ISBN: 902899727X 9789028997271 Year: 2019 Publisher: Kalmthout Pelckmans


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Small cities with big dreams : creative placemaking and branding strategies
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ISBN: 9780815391661 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY Routledge


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Economie in rechte lijn
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ISBN: 9789030692317 Year: 2019 Publisher: Antwerpen De Boeck

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Het boek is een toegankelijke benadering van zowel de micro als de macro-economie. Elk hoofdstuk gaat van start met concrete situaties (situatieschets) en cases gebaseerd op de actualiteit. Die brengen de nodige componenten aan voor het aanbrengen van de te verwerven kennis. Ze worden aangevuld met vragen die een begeleidingstraject uitmaken voor het concrete lesgebeuren. Dit is een ondersteuning om het lesgebeuren vanuit een actieve werkvorm met zelfwerkzaamheid voor de student te laten verlopen. Een tweede onderdeel van elk hoofdstuk bestaat in de theorie die weergegeven wordt op een didactisch toegankelijk niveau met voorbeelden. Wiskundige benaderingen worden opgenomen in de mate waarin zij voor de doelgroep relevant zijn. Elk hoofdstuk eindigt met een lijst van te kennen begrippen die in de leerdoelen van het opleidingsonderdeel economie vervat zitten. Een derde deel bevat oefeningen en opdrachten zodat de student de materie kan inoefenen.Bron : http://ww.vanin.be


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The technology trap : capital, labor, and power in the age of automation
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ISBN: 9780691172798 069117279X 0691191956 9780691191959 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society's members. As Carl Benedikt Frey shows, the Industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating for large swaths of the population. Middle-income jobs withered, wages stagnated, the labor share of income fell, profits surged, and economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends, Frey documents, broadly mirror those in our current age of automation, which began with the Computer Revolution.Just as the Industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. But Frey argues that this depends on how the short term is managed. In the nineteenth century, workers violently expressed their concerns over machines taking their jobs. The Luddite uprisings joined a long wave of machinery riots that swept across Europe and China. Today's despairing middle class has not resorted to physical force, but their frustration has led to rising populism and the increasing fragmentation of society. As middle-class jobs continue to come under pressure, there's no assurance that positive attitudes to technology will persist.The Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but few grasped its enormous consequences at the time. The Technology Trap demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.


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Russia's crony capitalism : the path from market economy to kleptocracy.
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ISBN: 9780300243093 030024309X Year: 2019 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism. Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia's economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.

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