How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by ‘world cities’ and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomeration? This book addresses the challenges of ...smaller cities trying to put themselves on the map, attract resources and initiate development. Placemaking has become an important tool for driving urban development that is sensitive to the needs of communities. This volume examines the development of creative placemaking practices that can help to link small cities to external networks, stimulate collaboration and help them make the most of the opportunities presented by the knowledge economy. The authors argue that the adoption of more strategic, holistic placemaking strategies that engage all stakeholders can be a successful alternative to copying bigger places. Drawing on a range of examples from around the world, they analyse small city development strategies and identify key success factors. This book focuses on the case of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a small Dutch city that used cultural programming to link itself to global networks and stimulate economic, cultural, social and creative development. It advocates the use of cultural programming strategies as a more flexible alternative to traditional top-down planning approaches and as a means of avoiding copying the big city. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of ...economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what it must do to help policymakers solve the world's crises, from pandemic recovery and inequality to slow growth and the climate emergency.Mainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are "cogs"—self-interested, calculating, independent agents interacting in defined contexts. But the digital economy is much more characterized by "monsters"—untethered, snowballing, and socially influenced unknowns. What is worse, by treating people as cogs, economics is creating its own monsters, leaving itself without the tools to understand the new problems it faces. In response, Coyle asks whether economic individualism is still valid in the digital economy, whether we need to measure growth and progress in new ways, and whether economics can ever be objective, since it influences what it analyzes. Just as important, the discipline needs to correct its striking lack of diversity and inclusion if it is to be able to offer new solutions to new problems.Filled with original insights, Cogs and Monsters offers a road map for how economics can adapt to the rewiring of society, including by digital technologies, and realize its potential to play a hugely positive role in the twenty-first century.
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"A magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review
"Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times
In the aftermath of recent ...financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. InMoney Changes Everything, leading financial historian William Goetzmann argues the exact opposite-that the development of finance has made the growth of civilizations possible. Goetzmann explains that finance is a time machine, a technology that allows us to move value forward and backward through time; and that this innovation has changed the very way we think about and plan for the future. He shows how finance was present at key moments in history: driving the invention of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, spurring the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome to become great empires, determining the rise and fall of dynasties in imperial China, and underwriting the trade expeditions that led Europeans to the New World. He also demonstrates how the apparatus we associate with a modern economy-stock markets, lines of credit, complex financial products, and international trade-were repeatedly developed, forgotten, and reinvented over the course of human history.
Exploring the critical role of finance over the millennia, and around the world, Goetzmann details how wondrous financial technologies and institutions-money, bonds, banks, corporations, and more-have helped urban centers to expand and cultures to flourish. And it's not done reshaping our lives, as Goetzmann considers the challenges we face in the future, such as how to use the power of finance to care for an aging and expanding population.
Money Changes Everythingpresents a fascinating look into the way that finance has steered the course of history.
From a Nobel Prize–winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why "green thinking" could cure many of the world's most serious problems—from global warming to ...pandemics Solving the world's biggest problems—from climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance—requires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us. For carbon emissions and other environmental damage, this means ensuring that those responsible pay their full costs rather than continuing to pass them along to others, including future generations. In The Spirit of Green, Nobel Prize–winning economist William Nordhaus describes a new way of green thinking that would help us overcome our biggest challenges without sacrificing economic prosperity, in large part by accounting for the spillover costs of economic collisions.In a discussion that ranges from the history of the environmental movement to the Green New Deal, Nordhaus explains how the spirit of green thinking provides a compelling and hopeful new perspective on modern life. At the heart of green thinking is a recognition that the globalized world is shaped not by isolated individuals but rather by innumerable interactions inside and outside the economy. He shows how rethinking economic efficiency, sustainability, politics, profits, taxes, individual ethics, corporate social responsibility, finance, and more would improve the effectiveness and equity of our society. And he offers specific solutions—on how to price carbon, how to pursue low-carbon technologies, how to design an efficient tax system, and how to foster international cooperation through climate clubs.The result is a groundbreaking new vision of how we can have our environment and our economy too.
Analizam s področja urbane ekonomije se na globalnem jugu namenja le malo pozornosti. Zaradi pandemije COVID-19 in njenih posledic, vidnih zlasti na mestnih območjih, je postala urbana ekonomija spet ...pomembnejša, pri čemer bi bilo treba raziskati, kako so se njena načela dejansko uporabljala. Med drugim bi bilo treba proučiti, kako so o afriškem gospodarstvu, ki je med vrhuncem pandemije pritegnilo veliko pozornosti, razpravljali ekonomisti. Ali so pozornost namenili tudi mestnim gospodarstvom v Afriki? Kako podrobno so jih analizirali? Ali predlagane politike gospodarskega okrevanja izražajo realnost mestnih gospodarstev v Afriki? Ker odgovorov na navedena vprašanja v ekonomski literaturi ni mogoče najti, je avtor v članku proučil in analiziral vsebino več kot 500 člankov o pandemiji COVID-19, objavljenih v reviji The Economist. Izsledki raziskave so pokazali, da se je večina ekonomskih analiz osredotočala na države ali regije, le malo pa se jih je nanašalo na afriška mestna gospodarstva. Tudi če so članki obravnavali afriška mesta, so bili pod vplivom prevladujoče urbane ekonomije precej zavajajoči. Navedeni izsledki odpirajo nekatera pomembna vprašanja glede politik gospodarskega okrevanja (mest), predlaganih v The Economistu. Raziskava je pokazala, da nekateri vidiki prevladujoče urbane ekonomije omejujejo njen potencial.
This book explores examples of the circular economy in action. Unlike other books that provide narrow perceptions of wide-ranging and highly interconnected paradigms, such as supply chains, ...recycling, businesses models and waste management, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the circular economy from various perspectives. Its unique insights into the approaches, methods and tools that enable people to make the transformation to a circular economy show how recent research, trends and attitudes have moved beyond the "call to arms" approach to a level of maturity that requires sound scientific thinking.
The old discussion about ‘Market or State’ is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let ...the market go its own way in order to create as much welfare possible for everyone? What is the responsibility of the government in creating welfare? These are difficult questions. But they are also the only interesting questions. That is why they are analysed in this book. The desired mix of market and state is anything but easy to bring about. It is a difficult and sometimes destructive process that is constantly in motion. There are periods in history in which the market gains in importance. During other periods the opposite occurs and the government is everywhere more dominant. The turning points in this pendulum swing typically seem to coincide with disruptive events that test the limits of market and state. Why we experience this dynamic is an important theme in this book. Will the market, which today is allocated a greater and greater role thanks to globalization, run up against its limits? Or do the financial crisis and growing income inequality show that we have already reached those limits? Do we have to brace ourselves for a rejection of the capitalist system? Are we returning to an economy in which the government is running the show? These are important questions this book seeks to answer.
ZAŠTO POKRENUTI SOCIJALNO PREDUZEĆE? Novaković, Nenad; Macura, Rajko; Novakovic, Nikola
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Bosnu i Hercegovinu karakteriziraju niska ekonomska aktivnost, velika nezaposlenost, nekonkurentna radna snaga, veliki odljev radne snage u reproduktivnoj dobi, a sve navedeno rezultira velikom ...socijalnom isključenošću, nepovoljnom dobnom strukturom, strukturnom nezaposlenošću i siromaštvom. Cilj ovog rada je stvoriti učinkovit model za smanjenje socijalnih problema koji opterećuju BiH. Fokus rada su socijalna poduzeća, kao učinkovit model organizacije potpore marginaliziranim skupinama, kao i zapošljavanje pripadnika teže zapošljivih kategorija, čija je nezaposlenost uzrokovana nedostatkom kompetencija, invaliditetom i slično. Ni razvijene zemlje nisu u stanju pružiti materijalnu pomoć socijalno isključenima koja će zadovoljiti njihove osnovne životne potrebe. Autori su koristili rezultate svojih istraživanja i analizirali socijalnu ekonomiju u drugim zemljama te primjere uspješne prakse. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na važnost pokretanja socijalnih poduzeća koja su značajno doprinijela smanjenju nezaposlenosti i broja ljudi u stanju socijalne potrebe. Neophodna je podrška vlade i društva u cjelini. Ovaj rad nastoji dokazati da je moguće poboljšati sustav socijalne zaštite i potaknuti razvoj poduzetništva primjenom odgovarajućih modela koji će povezati gospodarske sektore i socijalnu zaštitu.
