The Globotics Upheaval
Title | The Globotics Upheaval PDF eBook |
Author | Richard E. Baldwin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | 0190901764 |
"Digital technology will bring globalisation and robotics (globotics) to previously shielded professional and service sectors. Jobs will be displaced at the eruptive pace of digital technology while they will be replaced at a normal historical pace. The mismatch will produce a backlash - the globotics upheaval"--
The Globotics Upheaval
Title | The Globotics Upheaval PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Baldwin |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-01-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 147460904X |
'A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity' THE SUNDAY TIMES We stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our world on a par with the Industrial Revolution. Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives quickly - but digital disruption goes much further than we realize. Richard Baldwin, one of the world's leading globalization experts, argues that the inhuman speed of this transformation threatens to overwhelm our capacity to adapt. But while the changes are now inevitable, there are strategies that humanity can use to adapt to this new world, employing the indispensable skills that no machine can copy: creativity and independent thought. THE GLOBOTICS UPHEAVAL will help each of us prepare for the oncoming wave of the advanced robotic workforce.
Shaping the Future of Work
Title | Shaping the Future of Work PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas A. Kochan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2020-11-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1000206742 |
This book provides a clear roadmap for the roles workers and leaders in business, labor, education, and government must play in building a new social contract for all to prosper. It is a call to action for a collaborative effort to develop both high-quality jobs and strong, successful businesses while simultaneously overcoming the deep social and economic divisions that are all too apparent in society today. Written by two leading and trusted experts in the field of employment and work from MIT and Cornell University, this book is a practical, action-oriented guide. Readers will feel empowered to take actions needed to shape a better future of work for themselves, their employees, their co-workers, and others they may represent. It emphasizes the need to fix America's broken social contract and reimagine a new one. The most important message of this book is that we have the ability to shape the work of the future by harnessing the power of new technologies. The book is essential reading for business executives, labor leaders and workforce advocates, government policy makers, politicians, and anyone who is interested in using emerging knowledge and technologies to drive innovation, creating high-quality jobs, and shaping a more broadly shared prosperity.
The Great Convergence
Title | The Great Convergence PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Baldwin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2016-11-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 067466048X |
From 1820 to 1990 the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from 20% to 70%. That share has recently plummeted. Richard Baldwin shows how the combination of high tech with low wages propelled industrialization in developing nations, deindustrialization in developed nations, and a commodity supercycle that is petering out.
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Globalization: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred B. Steger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 185 |
Release | 2020-05-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0192589326 |
We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence millions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, and in which complex social forces intersect across continents. This is globalization. In the fifth edition of his bestselling Very Short Introduction Manfred B. Steger considers the major dimensions of globalization: economic, political, cultural, ideological, and ecological. He looks at its causes and effects, and engages with the hotly contested question of whether globalization is, ultimately, a good or a bad thing. From climate change to the Ebola virus, Donald Trump to Twitter, trade wars to China's growing global profile, Steger explores today's unprecedented levels of planetary integration as well as the recent challenges posed by resurgent national populism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Fiber
Title | Fiber PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Crawford |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2019-01-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0300240643 |
The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts of data we’ll be able to send and receive through fiber optic connections will enable a degree of virtual presence that will radically transform health care, education, urban administration and services, agriculture, retail sales, and offices. Yet all of those transformations will pale compared with the innovations and new industries that we can’t even imagine today. In a fascinating account combining policy expertise and compelling on-the-ground reporting, Susan Crawford reveals how the giant corporations that control cable and internet access in the United States use their tremendous lobbying power to tilt the playing field against competition, holding back the infrastructure improvements necessary for the country to move forward. And she shows how a few cities and towns are fighting monopoly power to bring the next technological revolution to their communities.
The Willing World
Title | The Willing World PDF eBook |
Author | James Bacchus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 529 |
Release | 2018-07-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108428215 |
Explains how to grow and govern the global economy in ways that will work economically and environmentally for sustainable development.