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...Power and Progress: Our Thousand Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Basic Books/PublicAffairs) Listen to the technorati of Silicon Valley and you would believe...
...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire, by James Stewart and Rachel Abrams is the no-holds-barred tale of the brutal succession battle that broke out over media mogul Sumner Redstone’s...
...This makes Power and Progress (Basic Books £25/Public Affairs $32), written by MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, a timely read....
...Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles That Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future by Isabel Hardman (Viking)Published in the NHS’s 75th anniversary year, Fighting For Life tells the history of the...
...And I’ve done some work with Daron Acemoğlu and Nicolaj Mühlbach on what makes a job age-friendly. Age-friendly jobs are ones where there’s a lot of flexibility around time. You have a lot of autonomy....
...All these areas are, in his view, open to battles....
...“Certification is a good process to make the vehicle safe, but when you end up with disruption, it’s really difficult to replace it,” said Daron Gifford, who runs the automotive division at consultancy Plante...
...Nissan lost time, and time is critical for the automotive industry,” said Daron Gifford, head of automotive consulting at Plante Moran in Michigan....
...Daron Pearce has been promoted to replace Mr Kablawi as chief executive of asset servicing for the region....
...Whether he is worth $20bn or $28bn, as Bloomberg estimates, his will prove a losing battle in the long term – these days, there is always another billionaire contender....
...ECONOMICS Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Profile Books, RRP£25 This is a bold, ambitious, fascinating book....
...POLITICS Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Profile, RRP£25, 464 pages A much-discussed and influential new study takes on one of the...
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