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Superfreakonomics: Enfriamiento global, prostitutas patrióticas y por qué los terroristas suicidas deberían contratar un seguro de vida
by Stephen J. Dubner Steven D. LevittLa explosiva segunda parte de Freakonomics. La economía trata sobre la inflación, los tipos de interés y la bolsa. Superfreakonomics habla de prostitutas, traficantes de droga y luchadores de sumo fracasados. Han sido cuatro años buscando no solo las preguntas más difíciles, sino las más sorprendentes: ¿Es más peligroso conducir borracho o caminar borracho? ¿Por qué se receta la quimioterapia tan a menudo si es tan poco eficaz? ¿Puede un cambio de sexo elevar tu salario? Superfreakonomics desafía nuestra manera de pensar, y explora el lado oculto de las cosas con preguntas como: *¿En qué se parece una prostituta al Papá Noel de unos grandes almacenes? *¿Por qué los médicos se lavan tan poco las manos? *¿Cuán útiles son los cinturones de seguridad? *¿Cuál es la mejor manera de atrapar a un terrorista? *¿Provocó la televisión un incremento del crimen? *¿Qué tienen en común los huracanes, los ataques al corazón y las muertes en carretera? *¿Para el ser humano es innato el altruismo o el egoísmo? *¿Podemos salvar el planeta comiendo canguro? *¿Qué genera más valor añadido, un proxeneta o un agente inmobiliario? Levitt y Dubner combinan una gran inteligencia con la capacidad para contar historias mejor que nadie, ya sea a la hora de buscar una solución al calentamiento global o explicar por qué el precio del sexo oral ha caído de manera tan radical. Al analizar cómo la gente responde a los incentivos, muestran el mundo tal cual es: bueno, malo, feo, y finalmente, superfriki. Muchos han intentado imitar el éxito de Freakonomics, pero solo Superfreakonomics lo supera. Reseña:«Con la que está cayendo, que un libro de economía te haga sonreír de vez en cuando (según la vieja fórmula de enseñar deleitando) es casi un don del cielo.»El País
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by Stephen J. Dubner Steven D. LevittThe highly anticipated, explosive follow-up to the blockbuster "Freakonomics" offers another groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. Don't miss reading the "notes" after the main content, there is more information in that section.
Superfusion
by Zachary KarabellHow China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It
Superheroes and Economics: The Shadowy World of Capes, Masks and Invisible Hands (Routledge Economics and Popular Culture Series)
by Rob Salkowitz Brian O'RoarkAt first sight, superheroes and economics seem to occupy completely different dimensions – but a clash of dimensions is a classic comic book storyline! In this first-of-its kind book, an economist and a business writer assemble an A-team of academic talent to explore the intersection of superhero mythology and economic theory in ten accessible chapters. Superheroes and Economics uncovers basic economic truths that are integral to the comic stories from some of the genres most famous names. The authors of the chapters look at ways that economic principles can add authenticity to imagined universes, and how familiar superhero stories can demonstrate concepts used by economists to forecast the behavior of markets and individuals. If Spider-Man is so smart, why isn’t he rich? What are the economic implications of a tech entrepreneur like Tony Stark actually inventing Iron Man armor? What does the 80-year career of Wonder Woman tell us about the evolving role of women in the workplace? This unique book extends the scope of comics studies to encompass social sciences. It offers a great way to introduce both fans and students to topics like opportunity cost, growth, inflation, and cost benefit analysis, as well as more advanced concepts like moral hazard, utility functions and economic growth. This text can be used to supplement economics courses using colorful examples that any pop culture fan can relate to.
Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Businesses with Artificial Intelligence (Kogan Page Inspire)
by Chris DuffeyArtificial Intelligence (AI) is the new electricity of our times. It is revolutionizing industries the world over, and changing how we fundamentally view and understand work. Superhuman Innovation argues that AI will supercharge the workforce and the world of work, can be harnessed to deliver powerful change to how companies innovate and gain competitive advantage. It is a practical guide to how AI and Machine Learning are impacting not only how businesses, brands, and agencies innovate, but also what they innovate: products, services and content. In a world of product and pricing parity, the delivery of superior service experience has become the new marketing, and the new real competitive edge. With AI companies can harness the power of data, personalization and on-demand availability, at the touch of an intelligent button. Superhuman Innovation discusses how AI will serve the superstar innovators of tomorrow, by enabling them to see deeper insights and set sail for higher goals. It unearths a powerful five-pronged model which describes how AI enables innovation through the offerings of Speed (facilitating work processes), Understanding (revealing and mastering deep insights), Performance (customization of delivery to customers), Experimentation (the iterative process of reinvention and feedback) and Results (tangible, measurable and optimizable results). The book is supported by varied and innovative case studies from a variety of industries.
Superhuman Performance I: Utilizing Your Gifts to Perform at Extraordinary Levels
by Mr. Derrick Miles Mr. Darrayl MilesYour potential extends far beyond your capabilities and skills, exceeding your limited imagination. This book will help you discover your gifts and understand why you come alive, for what purpose. You will learn how to deploy your gifts for lasting success. Deep in your heart you know you were made for more than just a job (just over broke). You were made to create and conquer, to find adventure in your labor and beauty in your craft. You were made to make a difference. Knowing you&’re destined for superhuman success is not enough. You must use your spiritual gifts and that takes courage. This book will help you find the faith to discover your superhuman &“talents&” and unleash their power.
Superhuman Performance II: Utilizing Your Gifts to Perform at Extraordinary Levels
by Mr. Derrick Miles Mr. Darrayl MilesWith compelling insights and practical applications from some of the world’s top entrepreneurs, you will gain a fresh understanding of what it means to live within a cone of excitement, anticipation and purpose. You will learn how to reclaim your sense of wonder, replacing worry with hope, fear with faith. This book weaves the personal insights of today’s top leaders with true-life examples, offering profound wisdom and practical advice for how you can lead a life of adventure and abundance. Now is the time to move beyond the mundane of mediocrity and master your domain. Let your journey begin.
Superhábitos: Construye una Red de Hábitos duraderos que trabajen para ti
by Berto PenaUn método práctico para construir Hábitos transformadores con los que pilotar tu vida. Organizarnos mejor, evitar distracciones, dejar de fumar, aprender un idioma, hacer ejercicio o comer sano son algunos de los muchos propósitos que nos hacemos todos los años. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estas buenas intenciones se quedan solo en eso. ¿Abandonamos por falta de motivación? ¿O tal vez por falta de disciplina? Para Berto Pena, experto en productividad y gestión del tiempo, la respuesta está en la manera de construir esos Hábitos, porque la fuerza de voluntad no funciona. Este libro explica, paso a paso, cómo conseguir que nuestros Hábitos, sean grandes o pequeños, se asienten, y cómo conectarlos y crear una red de Superhábitos con la que lograr el cambio que tanto buscamos. Con un enfoque claramente práctico, estas páginas contienen constantes llamadas a la acción, decenas de ejemplos reales, propuestas de ejercicios y revisiones regulares para que evalúes tu progreso, corrijas errores y consolides cada avance. Reseñas: «Superhábitos es un libro claro, sencillo, en el que Berto comparte cómo la incorporación paulatina de hábitos nos pone en el camino de una transformación permanente que nos reportará grandes beneficios en todos los ámbitos de nuestra vida, tanto profesionales como personales». LOURDES LÓPEZ BRAVO, directora ejecutiva de Investigación Clínica de MSD España y Portugal «Desarrollar una red de hábitos nos permite vivir de forma más plena. Berto nos invita, desde su experiencia, a ponernos en camino». CARLES FARRÉ, vicepresidente global y director general de HP PageWide Industria «Con esta maravilla de libro, Berto me ha ayudado a entender el poder de los hábitos duraderos y a hacer cambios en lo que es importante. ¡Ahora estoy disfrutando poniéndolos en marcha!». PABLO GION FANJUL, director global en SAP para Habilidadesde Venta en Midmarket
Superintendent's Handbook of Financial Management, Revised Edition
by Raymond S. SchmidgallThis book provides golf course superintendents with the necessary tools to manage their daily financial operations by explaining basic accounting principles such as pricing, budgeting, cost control, payroll and cash flow. With chapters on financial statements, golf course operation schedules, breakeven analysis and operating budgets this is an invaluable tool for all owners, operators and managers of golf courses.
Superior Customer Value: Finding and Keeping Customers in the Now Economy
by Art WeinsteinSuperior Customer Value is a state-of-the-art guide to designing, implementing and evaluating a customer value strategy in service, technology and information-based organizations. A customer-centric culture provides focus and direction for an organization, driving and enhancing market performance. By benchmarking the best companies in the world, Weinstein shows students and marketers what it really means to create exceptional value for customers in the Now Economy. Learn how to transform companies by competing via the 5-S framework – speed, service, selection, solutions and sociability. Other valuable tools such as the Customer Value Funnel, Service-Quality-Image-Price (SQIP) framework, SERVQUAL, and the Customer Value/Retention Model frame the reader’s thinking on how to improve marketing operations to create customer-centered organizations. This edition features a stronger emphasis on marketing thinking, planning and strategy, as well as new material on the Now Economy, millennials, customer obsession, business models, segmentation and personalized marketing, customer experience management and customer journey mapping, value pricing, customer engagement, relationship marketing and technology, marketing metrics and customer loyalty and retention. Built on a solid research basis, this practical and action-oriented book will give students and managers an edge in improving their marketing operations to create superior customer experiences.
Superior Customer Value: Strategies for Winning and Retaining Customers, Third Edition
by D. Hank Ellison Art WeinsteinA customer-centric culture provides focus and direction for the organization, ensuring that exceptional value will be offered to customers � this, in turn, results in enhanced market performance. Unfortunately, caught up in the daily economic and competitive pressures of running complex and fast-changing businesses, managers may lose sight of custo
Superior Manufacturing Co.
by Jacob Cohen David F. Hawkins James W CullitonManagement must extract relevant cost data from the company's cost accounting system for product line decisions. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
Supermaker: Crafting Business on Your Own Terms
by Jaime SchmidtSupermaker is a guide to business and career development by Jaime Schmidt: acclaimed entrepreneur, founder of Schmidt's Naturals, and icon of the Maker Movement.In Supermaker, she shares how you too can start or grow your own business with advice on branding, product development, social media marketing, scaling, PR, and customer engagement, all based on her own hard-won mastery.In just seven years, Jaime Schmidt went from making natural products in her Portland, Oregon, kitchen to turning her brand into a household name and selling her company to Unilever—without sacrificing the integrity of her product or her creative vision.• Readers learn how to get ahead on their own terms and while maintaining their commitment to fair and sustainable principles.• A valuable resource to the ever-growing community of business owners and entrepreneurs who want to go from maker to magnate.• Candid advice from an industry disruptor.Following her growth from farmers' market stand to international brand, Jaime's book is a riveting mix of inspiration, the honest airing of mistakes, and indispensable instruction. Supermaker empowers and unites the next generation of entrepreneurs.• A go-to guide for the passion-to-profit journey.• The perfect read for aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, creatives, and anyone with an interest in natural products, selling your products online, retail strategy, and digital marketing.• Great for anyone who enjoyed Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie, Craft, Inc: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco, and The Girls' Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur by Caitlin Friedman.
Supermarket
by Kathleen KrullExplains modern supermarkets and how they work, discussing how they organize, display, and keep track of the items they sell.
Supermarket Retailing in Africa (Routledge Contemporary Africa)
by Felix Adamu Nandonde and John L. StantonThis book surveys the landscape of supermarket retailing in Africa, showing how this expanding part of the retail sector is changing consumerism on the continent. Drawing on research covering retail formats, consumers’ behaviour, strategies, operation research, ICT, relationship marketing and market linkage, the book investigates the many factors impacting the growth of supermarkets in Africa. The contributors employ theories, concepts and methods in order to help us to understand changing consumer behaviour, the strategies used by suppliers to access supermarkets, the role of service suppliers in the growth of the sector, and ultimately how supermarkets can assist in making the market linkage between producers and consumers in Africa. The chapters provide a comprehensive exploration of modern retail, discussing its growth and future, identifying consumers’ preferences, as well as suggesting solutions to the challenges that retailers and suppliers on the continent face in developing the sector. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the retail sector and retail management in Africa.
Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race
by Shane HamiltonThis cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today.Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how their proliferation has shaped our current food system.The widespread appeal of supermarkets contributed to a “farms race” between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, US food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy.
Supermarketing
by Frank J. CharvatThe supermarket today is regarded as an established institution, yet only thirty years ago it was but an embryonic idea. Already, this marketing innovation has left an indelible imprint on most as peets of food manufacturing, processing, wholesaling, and retailing. The lack of a text devoted to a comprehensive appraisal and ana lytical study of the industry has prompted the writing of this book.
Supermercados Disco: Regional Strategy
by David J. Arnold Guillermo D'Andrea Silvina Romero PazThe Disco chain of supermarkets has pursued a successful local niche strategy in Argentina to compete with intense competition from multinational chains. Now Disco considers options for expanding its regional strength.
Superminds: How Hyperconnectivity is Changing the Way We Solve Problems
by Thomas W. MaloneIs Apple conscious? Could a cyber–human system sense a potential terrorist attack? Or make diagnosing a rare and little-known disease routine? Computers are not replacing us: they are enhancing us. Different intelligences are joining together to do things we thought were impossible. Whether it&’s devising innovations to tackle climate change, helping job seekers and employers find one another, or identifying the outbreak of a serious disease, groups of humans and machines are already working together to solve all sorts of problems. And they will do a lot more. The future will be like another world – a place where we&’ll think differently. In many ways, we are already there.
Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
by Thomas W. MaloneFrom the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Malone, the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, shows how groups of people working together in superminds -- like hierarchies, markets, democracies, and communities -- have been responsible for almost all human achievements in business, government, science, and beyond. And these collectively intelligent human groups are about to get much smarter. Using dozens of striking examples and case studies, Malone shows how computers can help create more intelligent superminds simply by connecting humans to one another in a variety of rich, new ways. And although it will probably happen more gradually than many people expect, artificially intelligent computers will amplify the power of these superminds by doing increasingly complex kinds of thinking. Together, these changes will have far-reaching implications for everything from the way we buy groceries and plan business strategies to how we respond to climate change, and even for democracy itself. By understanding how these collectively intelligent groups work, we can learn how to harness their genius to achieve our human goals. Drawing on cutting-edge science and insights from a remarkable range of disciplines, Superminds articulates a bold -- and utterly fascinating -- picture of the future that will change the ways you work and live, both with other people and with computers.
Supermodularity and Complementarity
by Donald M. TopkisThe economics literature is replete with examples of monotone comparative statics; that is, scenarios where optimal decisions or equilibria in a parameterized collection of models vary monotonically with the parameter. Most of these examples are manifestations of complementarity, with a common explicit or implicit theoretical basis in properties of a super-modular function on a lattice. Supermodular functions yield a characterization for complementarity and extend the notion of complementarity to a general setting that is a natural mathematical context for studying complementarity and monotone comparative statics. Concepts and results related to supermodularity and monotone comparative statics constitute a new and important formal step in the long line of economics literature on complementarity.This monograph links complementarity to powerful concepts and results involving supermodular functions on lattices and focuses on analyses and issues related to monotone comparative statics. Don Topkis, who is known for his seminal contributions to this area, here presents a self-contained and up-to-date view of this field, including many new results, to scholars interested in economic theory and its applications as well as to those in related disciplines. The emphasis is on methodology. The book systematically develops a comprehensive, integrated theory pertaining to supermodularity, complementarity, and monotone comparative statics. It then applies that theory in the analysis of many diverse economic models formulated as decision problems, noncooperative games, and cooperative games.
Supermoney
by Adam Smith"Adam Smith continues to dazzle and sparkle! With the passage of time, Supermoney has, if anything, added to its power to inspire, arouse, provoke, motivate, inform, illuminate, entertain, and guide a whole new generation of readers, while marvelously reprising the global money show for earlier fans."?David M. Darst, author of The Art of Asset Allocation Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Individual Investor Group"Nobody has written about the craft of money management with more insight, humor, and understanding than Adam Smith. Over the years, he has consistently separated wisdom from whimsy, brilliance from bluster, and character from chicanery."?Byron R. Wien, coauthor of Soros on Soros Chief Investment Strategist, Pequot Capital ManagementSupermoney may be even more relevant today than when it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. Written in the bright and funny style that became Adam Smith's trademark, this book gives a view inside institutions, professionals, and the nature of markets that has rarely been shown before or since. "Adam Smith" was the first to introduce an obscure fund manager in Omaha, Nebraska, named Warren Buffett. In this new edition, Smith provides a fresh perspective in an updated Preface that contextualizes the applicability of the markets of the 1960s and 1970s to today's markets. Things change, but sometimes the more they change, the more they stay the same.
Supernova Advisor Teams: A Pathway to Excellence
by Robert D. Knapp Curtis C. Brown Jr.Strengthen and unify your Financial Advisor Team Teams are the principle building blocks of the strategy of successful organizations. The focus of your organization may be on service, quality, cost, value, speed, efficiency, performance, or any other similar goals, but teams remain the central methodology of most organizations across sectors. Vertical teams and horizontal teams can transcend organizational silos and boundaries if properly focused and supported. Building collaborative teams can improve the client experience. In Supernova Teams; Effective Team Strategies for Financial Advisors, you’ll discover the macro rationale and justification for teams, as well as the micro benefits of team formation. • Boost your team’s effectiveness • Discover different leadership styles • Write winning team vision statements • Get familiar with communication strategies From on-boarding a new team member to finding effective ways to bolster the ones you already have, this book shows you how to turn any team into a cohesive, productive unit with like-minded goals.
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
by Bob Davis Lingling WeiThe inside story of the US–China trade war, “especially insightful on how the contradictory natures of Trump and Xi have impeded understanding” (The Boston Globe).This book reveals how relations between China and the United States unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, told by two Wall Street Journal reporters—one a Pulitzer Prize winner based in Washington, DC, the other in Beijing—who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.The trade battle between China and the US didn’t start with Trump and won’t end with him, argue Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. The countries have a long and fraught political and economic history, which has become more contentious in recent years—an escalation that has negatively impacted both countries’ economies and the world at large—and holds the potential for even more uncertainty and disruption.How did this standoff happen? How much are US presidents and officials who haven’t effectively confronted or negotiated with China to blame? What role have Chinese leaders, and US business leaders who for decades acted as Beijing’s lobbyists in Washington, played in driving these tensions? Superpower Showdown is the story of a romance gone bad, based on the authors’ hundreds of interviews with government and business officials in both nations over seven years. They explain how we reached this tipping point—and look at where we could be headed. “Essential reading for anyone concerned about America’s economic future.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A must-read for anyone interested in what happened between China and the United States, likely the world’s most important economic relationship.” —Forbes
Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America
by David McCormickDiscover a groundbreaking vision for how to unlock America&’s full potential for greatness from one of the country&’s foremost conservative leaders: David McCormick, the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates. It&’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of our country these days, but as McCormick explains, if the true test of a great country is its capacity for self-renewal, the United States of America stands apart. Our country has continually defeated grave threats and overcome domestic divisions when the odds have been stacked against us. That&’s the American story, and we can do it again. Drawing on decades of leadership in business, the military, and government, McCormick issues a call for visionary, servant leadership and outlines a conservative agenda for American renewal that would expand access to the American Dream, ensure U.S. technological supremacy, confront China, and revive the restless, courageous, and indefatigable spirit that dwells within the American heart. This book is a must read for those who care deeply about the future of America. McCormick, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022, argues the path forward is treacherous and uncertain. It will undoubtedly test our resilience and place in the world. But if we commit ourselves to renewal, America's best days are yet to come.