Er was een tijd dat luxe alleen maar bereikbaar was voor koningshuizen en aristocraten. Luxe was meer dan een product: het was een stijl, die stond voor superieure kwaliteit en traditie. Die tijd is voorbij; de markt wordt nu gedomineerd door grote ondernemingen die uitsluitend bezig zijn met groei, zichtbaarheid, merkbewustzijn, reclame en, boven alles, winst. Dana Thomas heeft de wereld rondgereisd en gesproken met directeuren en fabrieksarbeiders, met gewone consumenten en met de wereld van oud geld en oude luxe. In dit boek onthult ze alle duistere geheimen over de luxe-industrie die Prada, Gucci en Burberry liever verborgen zouden houden.

Het milieu stelt ons voor de grootste uitdaging van onze tijd en hoewel iedereen ervan overtuigd is dat we ons gedrag moeten veranderen, is Daniel Goleman de eerste die de oplossing zoekt op het gebied van de psychologie. In Groene intelligentie beschrijft hij niet alleen hoe we ons gedrag moeten veranderen, maar ook wat ervoor nodig is om een mentaliteitsverandering tot stand te brengen. We weten te weinig over de consequentie van ons koop- en consumeergedrag, en het is ook de verantwoordelijkheid van bedrijven om ons daarop te wijzen en erop in te spelen. In het verlengde van sociale intelligentie ligt groene of ecologische intelligentie, want het is te laat om te kopen zonder erbij na te denken.' Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

It has been a brave new world for investors, since the explosion of dot.coms onto the scene. What is their worth? How do you assess them as an investor? How do you apply traditional investment analysis to valueing them and what new analysis tools do you need? And what about companies that blend the old and new economies? How do you assess them as well? These are the frontiers on Valuation.

I learned much from this book I had not previously known. Its cautions for the future should be required reading for all policy makers. - Warren Buffett 2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Hank Paulson reflect on the causes of the crisis, why it was so damaging, and what it ultimately took to prevent a second Great Depression. All three had crucial roles in the government's response- Ben S. Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve; Henry M. Paulson, Jr., as secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush; Timothy F. Geithner as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the Bush years and then Treasury secretary under President Barack Obama. A powerful, warts and all account told with unprecedented clarity; from the flawed human response to the necessity to learn from the past and help firefighters of the future protect economies from the ravages of financial crises. Firefighting is a vital account of a defining moment in modern history and an inspiring lesson on leadership through crisis

The main driver of inequality--returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth--is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty's findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

De mening over de informatie- en communicatietechnologie (ICT) fluctueert al even heftig als de internetaandelen op de beurs: na ongebreideld optimisme komt pessimisme. Betekent de nieuwe ICT een revolutie die economie en samenleving diepgaand zal veranderen? Of is er slechts sprake van een kortstondige hype, van jonge wijn in oude zakken?

Met bijdragen van o.a.: Nout Wellink, Hein Schreuder, Paul Rosenmoller, Lodewijk de Waal en Wim Dik.

Companies like Google and Apple heralded the information revolution, and opened the doors for Silicon Valley to grow into an engine of dazzling technological development, that today champions the free market that engendered it against the supposedly stifling encroachment of government regulation. But is that really the case? In this sharp and controversial expose,The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato debunks the pervasive myth that the state is a laggard, bureaucratic apparatus at odds with a dynamic private sector. Instead she reveals in case study after case study that, in fact, the opposite is true: the state is our boldest and most valuable innovator.

The technology revolution would never have happened without support from the US Government. The breakthroughsGPS, touch-screen displays, the Internet, and voice-activated AIthat enabled legendary Apple products to be smart successes were, in fact, all developed with support from the state. Mazzucato reveals that many successful entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs integrated state-funded technological developments into their products and then reaped the rewards themselves. The algorithm behind Google’s search engine was initially sponsored by NASA. And 75% of NMEsnew, often-ground-breaking drugs not derivative of existing substancestrace their research to National Institutes of Health (NIH) labs. The American government, it turns out, has been enormously successfully at stimulating scientific and technological advancement.

But by 2009, just some months following the Great Recessionthe US government, constrained by austerity measures, started disinvesting from its holdings in research fields like health, energy, electronics. The trend is likely to continue, and the repercussions of these policies could wreak havoc on our technology and science sectors. But Mazzucato remains optimistic. If managed correctly, state-sponsored development of Green technology, for instance, could be as efficacious as suburbanization & post-war reconstruction in the mid-twentieth century, and unleash a wide-spread golden age in the global economy.

The limitations of natural resources and the threat of global warming could become the most powerful driver of growth, employment, and innovation within just one generationbut to be successful, the Green Revolution will depend on the initiatives of proactive governments. By not admitting the State’s role in economic and technological progress, we are socializing only the risks of investing in innovation, while privatizing the rewards in the hands of only a few businesses. This, Mazzucato argues, hurts both future of innovation and equity in modern-day capitalism.

For policy-makers, Silicon Valley start-up founders, venture-capitalists, and economists alike,The Entrepreneurial State stirs up much needed debate and offers up a brilliant corrective to spurious beliefs: to thrive, American businesses have always and will need to depend on the support of our country’s most audacious entrepreneur, the state.

Analyse door de Amerikaanse econoom van de huidige problemen in de wereldeconomie.

An authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and Joseph Stiglitz provides an alternative path forward through his vision of progressive capitalism, with a comprehensive set of political and economic changes.

In De Triple A-econoom betoogt Marcel Canoy dat het denken over de huidige crisis is vastgelopen in een onvruchtbare tweestrijd tussen cijferfetisjisten en cynici. De cijferfetisjisten reduceren economie tot getallen en modellen. Ze worden gehekeld door de cynici, die de bevindingen van de economische wetenschap wegzetten als wereldvreemde abstracties. Canoy introduceert in zijn boek de Triple-A econoom, die met hulp van Aristoteles, Thomas van Aquino en Adam Smith het gedachtegoed van economen in een bredere maatschappelijke context plaatst en oplossingsgericht is. Elk hoofdstuk in het boek wordt ingeleid door een dialoog tussen een uil en een vos. Bekijk hieronder de audiovisuele bewerking van twee dialogen op YouTube. Vos & Uil en de Triple-A dieren Vos & Uil over banken

VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action. Passionately outspoken and tuned to the voices of the oppressed, Varoufakis presents a guide to modern economics, and its threat to democracy, like no other.

Selected from the books And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and Adults in the Room

Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom.In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market , best-selling author John Allen Paulos employs his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles to address every thinking reader's curiosity about the market--Is it efficient? Is it random? Is there anything to technical analysis, fundamental analysis, and other supposedly time-tested methods of picking stocks? How can one quantify risk? What are the most common scams? Are there any approaches to investing that truly outperform the major indexes?But Paulos's tour through the irrational exuberance of market mathematics doesn't end there. An unrequited (and financially disastrous) love affair with WorldCom leads Paulos to question some cherished ideas of personal finance. He explains why "data mining" is a self-fulfilling belief, why "momentum investing" is nothing more than herd behavior with a lot of mathematical jargon added, why the ever-popular Elliot Wave Theory cannot be correct, and why you should take Warren Buffet's "fundamental analysis" with a grain of salt.Like Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street , this clever and illuminating book is for anyone, investor or not, who follows the markets--or knows someone who does.

Kritische analyse van de financiële praktijken die aanleiding gaven tot de wereldwijde kredietcrisis in 2007 en 2008.

Visie van een wiskundige op het beleggen in aandelen.

Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club—these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the “sharing economy,” is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are providing these services to a stranger for money. In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as “crowd-based capitalism”—a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model. As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, how will the economy, government regulation, what it means to have a job, and our social fabric be affected?

Drawing on extensive research and numerous real-world examples—including Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Etsy, TaskRabbit, France's BlaBlaCar, China's Didi Kuaidi, and India's Ola, Sundararajan explains the basics of crowd-based capitalism. He describes the intriguing mix of “gift” and “market” in its transactions, demystifies emerging blockchain technologies, and clarifies the dizzying array of emerging on-demand platforms. He considers how this new paradigm changes economic growth and the future of work. Will we live in a world of empowered entrepreneurs who enjoy professional flexibility and independence? Or will we become disenfranchised digital laborers scurrying between platforms in search of the next wedge of piecework? Sundararajan highlights the important policy choices and suggests possible new directions for self-regulatory organizations, labor law, and funding our social safety net.

Kritisch overzicht van de wantoestanden in de financiële wereld, met name op het gebied van (beleggings)adviezen, aangevuld met tips om onafhankelijk van financieel adviseurs te kunnen beslissen.

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith's contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller. That edition sold out quickly and others followed. Today, Smith's Wealth of Nations rightfully claims a place in the Western intellectual canon.

It is the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. But it is much more than that. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, Smith mixed plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and much else. Few texts remind us so clearly that the Enlightenment was very much a lived experience, a concern with improving the human condition in practical ways for real people. A masterpiece by any measure, Wealth of Nations remains a classic of world literature to be usefully enjoyed by readers today.

Het bedenken van succesvolle nieuwe producten of diensten is lastig. Slechts een op de zes innovatieprojecten haalt de markt. Omdat de klant er niet op zit te wachten, het intern aan draagvlak ontbreekt of omdat het technisch niet haalbaar is. Daarom is de VOORT innovatiemethode ontwikkeld. Met een intern team bedenk je in vijf stappen concrete nieuwe producten, diensten of businessmodellen. In een gestructureerd creatief proces keer je terug met drie tot vijf mini new business cases, vijftien weken na de kick-off. De methode is succesvol omdat je start met een innovatieopdracht, je zelf klantfricties ontdekt, de klant nauw betrokken is, je terugkeert met concrete business cases en je het gezamenlijk met een team doet. Dit zorgt voor intern draagvlak. De VOORT innovatiemethode is voor iedereen bruikbaar. Zowel voor diensten als producten en in business-to-business-of in business-to-consumermarkten. Meer dan dertig bedrijven en organisaties passen de methode toe. Sanoma Media heeft met deze methode de Libelle Academy en Work4Women bedacht en succesvol geïntroduceerd. Deze praktijkcase komt uitgebreid aan bod. Dit boek is een werkboek, bedoeld om de VOORT innovatiemethode zelf toe te passen. Het staat boordevol praktische inspiratie en bruikbare formats. Het bevat ook 35 creatieve technieken om zelf in het ideationproces te gebruiken. Over de auteurs Gijs van Wulfen, grondlegger van de VOORT innovatiemethode, is bedrijfseconoom, marketeer en innovatiefacilitator. Hij werkte in de foodsector en adviseerde bij achtereenvolgens Ernst & Young en Boer & Croon. Eind 2002 startte hij zijn eigen innovatieorganisatie die zich richt op opleiden, en het verspreiden en faciliteren van de VOORT innovatiemethode. Hij is een veelgevraagd spreker over innovatie op internationale congressen, seminars en workshops. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Reconstructie van de overname van ABN Amro door enkele buitenlandse banken in 2007 en de daarna volgende opsplitsing.