Reason, Steven Postrel
The book . . . is . . . a piece of serious popular science writing; the author tries to be engaging and clear but is not afraid to use a little mathematics. Krugman's exuberance in describing his work helps get the reader over the rough spots. As a set of lectures aimed at people with backgrounds in economics, it also includes some technical sections that would be hard going for the uninitiated. Fortunately, these can be skipped with little loss of meaning.
. . . Krugman's general approach seems . . . plausible . . . for developing a general understanding of self-organization and complexity, for two reasons. First, he is willing to suppose that there is more than one process going on in the world, as shown by his instability and growth models. It really does seem absurd to suppose that the power law for word-use frequencies in English is generated by the same kind of process that determines earthquakes. SOC, order from instability, and Simon-style growth models appear to be independent explanations for power-law regularities. Second, Krugman starts with a more grounded understanding of the phenomena he studies, so that he knows better what features of reality are lost when he simplifies things in his models.
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Krugman is insightful about difficult questions.......2000-05-03
Paul Krugman stands out again from the poseurs, charlatans and know-it-alls who think they are the first people to have really understood economics. This book has the quality of an occasional piece, of reflections on the subject rather than an in-depth research monograph, but still the insights just keep on coming.
Maybe reviewers who tack on economics and finance at the end of their list of research "specialties" -- "nonlinear dynamics (especially classical mechanics), statistical mechanics, cosmology, superfluids, hydrodynamics and turbulence, porous media, economics and finance" -- understood all the applications of non-linear dynamics and complexity theory to economies, but for the rest of us this little book is a delight.
Self-organized superficiality.......2000-01-09
'Self-Organized' is a widely-used but not precisely defined term. Krugman was inspired by the idea of self-organized criticality made popular by a certain school of physics, but there is nothing original in his book. He has merely lifted notions from another field that he did not invent and, far worse, doesn't understand. For something much better, and which is at least explanatory and seems to make some sense, try his book 'The Return of Depression Economics'. 'The Self-Organizing Economy' is best tossed in the trash can. I confess that the title of my review is not original, but I refuse to divulge the author in order to protect his privacy.
For critical analyses by economists of what is wrong with the basic theory believed by Krugman (and the entire MIT and Chicago schools, the IMF, The World Bank, all so-called neo-classical economics), see Paul Ormerod's 'The Death of Economics'. Like all neo-classical economists, is a utility maximizer, a believer in stable equilibria, but real data (which are always far from equilibrium) show utility maximization to make terribly wrong predictions, not even close to the mark, completely useless except as a way to mislead lawyers and politicians who understand too little to question the results. Also, do not miss reading Mirowski's Machine Dreams-fantastic book!
a popular book of the "dismal science".......1998-11-20
Self-Organising is a well-developped concept in physics and Krugman tries to apply that concept to economics. Despite its interesting title, knowledgable readers will find that there is no real insight offered, other than some common sense discussions. Krugman in the book claimed that before "the visionaries of Santa Fe" economists have tried long ago using "nonlinearity" in modelling economics. Of course nonlinear functions have been used since day one in economics, the question is how to use it CORRECTLY. Krugman's book is just one more example how nonlinearity can be misused.
I still recommend reading this book, at least to understand why the current economics is so boring. Best read together with the two volumes of Santa Fe proceedings (Anderson and Arrow 1987; and B. Arthur et al 1996).
A recent article is revealing on why economics is becoming more and more dismal despite the attempts of putting a new face (like this book): John Cassidy "The decline of economics", The New Yorker Dec.2 1996.
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Six-Figure Consulting: How to Have a Great Second Career
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Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice
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Could there actually be a reason to cheer being downsized? Surprisingly, yes! With the help of Six Figure Consulting, readers can parlay their business experience into a highly rewarding second career.
This upbeat and motivating book explains how attractive the consulting lifestyle can be. It helps readers tap into what they already know -- but didn't think they did -- and outlines skills and attitudes necessary for success. Readers will learn about all aspects of consulting, including:
** the psychology of consulting
** marketing their consulting services
** packaging their know how, and more.
Using the author's action plan, readers will be able to make the transition from company cog to free wheel.
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Practical and Doable Advice.......2003-12-07
To get into the spirit of things, Dr. Goodman starts with a discussion of the lifestyle and credentials of consultants. The energetic and informative way he talks about it is contageous. He does not ignore the downside (every worthwhile venture has one) but he is enthusiastic in talking about all the advantages associated with the work.
From this initial foundation he goes on to talk about marketing one's skills is which perhaps the major challenge faced by consultants new to the enterprise. He offers a number of options on getting one's name known.
This is a book for serious, hands-on people who want to enter the field. For veterans it is a useful reference book. I recommend it highly.
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- A wonderful primer on starting a business with contact information for locating startup funds if necessary.
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How to Start a Business in Mississippi
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Covers the federal, state and local regulations imposed on small businesses. Concise, freindly and up-to-the=minute, the books detail each critical step.
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A wonderful primer on starting a business with contact information for locating startup funds if necessary........2007-03-12
This is a valuable book (resource) for budding entrepreneurs. It seems to try to cover all the bases for starting a small business, but it can't do them all well in the space available between its covers. The book is only 288 pages long. If you are in the planning stages of starting a small business, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. Read it, study it, and outline it. There are helpful checklists to help you grasp the subjects. You will come up with a plethora of keywords and terms that you will want to google to find Web pages giving more detailed (and maybe more current) information.
I am a SCORE counselor (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) who typically does face-to-face counseling sessions three nights a month. It would really be neat if my clients would read this book BEFORE they came to their session with me because they would pretty much be "educated customers" ready to ask educated questions. Our sessions would be so much more beneficial.
My favorite chapters were:
1. Initial business concerns
2. Your business' structure
3. Business start-up details
5. Sources of business assistance (SCORE is mentioned here)
7. Your smart business plan (and a good sample plan is included)
8. Obtaining the financing you need
The book is weak when it comes to how the Internet can be used in corresponding, hiring, and marketing. But this is just one example of how googling keywords and concepts found in the book will make the book more complete. Don't treat the book as authoritative on the law. It isn't. Nor was it ever intended to be. It is light on tax information as it relates to small business.
I was particularly impressed with the material presented in Chapter 2: Choice of Legal Entity. That subject is sorely ignored in most small business books, and it is critically important. It is a subject I regularly must spend a great deal of time discussing at my SCORE sessions. This book does a pretty good job on the topic.
Chapters 4 and 9 through 12 are easy to find fault with. The topic of each could fill a book. But having these topics covered definitely will help a budding entrepreneur know some of the issues they raise.
I would have liked the book more if Chapter 6 (marketing) had been less superficial. When I read it I got the impression that the author was more a public relations expert than a marketing expert. I generally categorize public relations as a subset of marketing. Marketing includes advertising, public relations, and a whole host of other promotion techniques. I did not get this message when I read the book. I also would have liked the book better if the Internet, email, and Web sites had been discussed more. But there are many books on those subjects. Therefore, I can't complain too much about the limited discussion of computers.
When you read this book it may feel a little like it was produced on an assembly line. Maybe it was? There are 51 versions of this book sold; one for each state and the District of Columbia. Content is king, and this book has it. 5 stars!
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How to Incorporate and Start a Business in Mississippi (How to Incorporate and Start a Business Series)
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Over 30 books covering individual states!
How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... covers every essential topic you need to understand to start a business right. Protect yourself and your business with expert knowledge provided in this book. The easy-to-follow steps and worksheets guide you through every aspect of incorporation and starting your own business. This book discusses in detail:
Selecting an operating entity-which one is best for you? Learn the pros and cons of each type:
Sole proprietorships
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Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)
Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)
The five necessary steps to incorporation-five essential moves you must know and follow:
Choose a name: learn the legal ramifications of this simple step
Prepare the Articles of Incorporation
Write the bylaws
Hold the organizational meeting
Issue the stock
Raising Capital-Avoid costly mistakes and financing pitfalls that leave other business owners behind:
Identify potential investors
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Dealing with the law-Legal issues always come up, so be prepared:
Learn how to arm yourself with knowledge
Handle disputes
Tips to keep you out of court
Preparing Contracts and Leases-Learn the tricks of the trade to save you time and money:
Identify the essential elements
Master unique aspects of your business
Negotiate a lease for maximum benefit, minimum risk
Understanding copyrights, trademarks, and patents-How does this apply to you?
Learn how to copyright material
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Navigate the patent process
Mastering your taxes-Save money by following advice outlined in this chapter:
Choose an accounting method
Keep accurate records
Learn what you can deduct, and what you can't
How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... will also each you how to hire the best employees, extend credit to your customer, acquire the proper insurance for your business, and maximize corporate and executive benefits.
Don't be left out in the cold! How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... will guide you past common snares and pitfalls that hamper the efforts of many new business owners. This book contains dozens of profit strategies engineered to maximize your profit and prevent common mistakes. Plus, this book outlines specific laws and procedures you need to be aware of to do business in your state. It's specifically designed for you. How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... is easy to read, informative, and will save your business both time and money. Use its expert advice to get you started and keep you business on the path to success!
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The fact that there are few women occupying top-level positions in corporate America has, for a long time, been blamed on a ubiquitous "glass ceiling." But according to Gail Evans, this is a tired myth implying a woman is a "person-who's-done-to instead of a person-who's-doing." In Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, CNN's ebullient--and successful--executive vice president puts forth a new thesis: women are not in star positions because they haven't yet learned how to play the game.
The game of business is played on a field where males have been comfortable since they were very young, says Evans. It's a game where winning is the obvious (and only) objective and where aggression, self-promotion, a tough skin, and an effective display of power are the signs of a winner. Women, on the other hand, enter the game disadvantaged, having been taught to be cooperative rather than competitive, to enjoy the process rather than simply the result, and to seek approval rather than assume success. In her entertaining, informative, and practical book, Evans sets out to level the playing field by providing instructions on how men play and by teaching women to play smarter and win on their own terms. In one section, where she offers such advice as "Toot Your Own Horn," "Accept Uncertainty," and "Be an Imposter," Evans presents a common business scenario. She shows the typical male and female responses to it, analyzes the problem with the woman's reaction, and offers advice on what to do differently. Writing in light, accessible prose, Evans supports her observations with both personal and professional anecdotes and covers the gamut of women's experiences on the corporate path. Evans's message is inspiring: women can learn to play the game as well as any man and bring with them a unique set of skills and experiences.
It's impossible to ignore a woman who has reached the top of her profession in a tough business and is still prepared to claim that "everything I ever needed to know about business I learned driving the car pool." --S. Ketchum
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Women make up almost half of today's labor force, but in corporate America they don't share half of the power. Only four of the Fortune 500 company CEOs are women, and it's only been in the last few years that even half of the Fortune 500 companies have more than one female officer.
A major reason for this? Most women were never taught how to play the game of business.
Throughout her career in the supercompetitive, male-dominated media industry, Gail Evans, one of the country's most powerful executives, has met innumerable women who tell her that they feel lost in the workplace, almost as if they were playing a game without knowing the directions.
She tells them that's exactly the case: Business is indeed a game, and like any game, there are rules to playing well. For the most part, Gail has discovered, women don't know them.
Men know these rules because they wrote them, but women often feel shut out of the process because they don't know when to speak up, when to ask for responsibility, what to say at an interview, and a lot of other key moves that can make or break a career.
Now, in her book
Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, Gail Evans reveals the secrets to the playbook of success and teaches women at all levels of the organization--from assistant to vice president--how to play the game of business to their advantage.
Sharing with humor and candor her years of lessons from corporate life, Gail Evans gives readers practical tools for making the right decisions at work. Among the rules you will learn are:
• How to Keep Score at Work
• When to Take a Risk
• How to Deal with the Imposter Syndrome
• Ten Vocabulary Words That Mean Different Things to Men and Women
• Why Men Can be Ugly, and You Can't
• When to Quit Your Job
Evans is not saying that every woman has to play exactly by men's rules--not at all. Women bring many inherent traits to the workplace that can provide them with a potential advantage over men, such as a woman's ability to form relationships, or her intuition. But women do need to know the basic rules so that they can understand the full consequences of their every action and how it makes an impact on their career.
An honest and practical handbook that reveals important insights into relationships between men and women and work,
Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, is a must-read for every woman who wants to leverage her power in the workplace.
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THE BEST book on Success in the business arena for Women!.......2007-04-21
I love this book! Easy to read. Easy to understand. Uses real examples of situations and shows you your choice for action. Basic Premise is *Here is the situation* & here are your choices as to how to handle it* ~Make your own decision as to how you want to do it, just be aware of your choices and their implications. I will read this one again!!
Gail Evans is my new hero!.......2007-03-19
The knowledge that men and women function differently isn't new and there are plenty of books on the topic already. Most of the books I've read on the subject do a great job of identifying our differences and how men and women communicate or socialise but aren't so good at discussing anything real about how we behave in the workplace. Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman is all about how we work, how we are perceived and motivating factors for success.
Gail Evans is my new hero on the topic of career success for women. She writes from her own experience with real life anecdotes from other men and women in management roles. Her style is very easy to read, pleasantly candid, and often humourous which really is refreshing for this type of book. I find a lot of books on gender relations to be overly serious and a bit too textbook for my taste. Evans also counsels women to be themselves and not try to be men but to retain uniquely female qualities such as intuition and emotional intelligence, something that can be lacking from women working at executive level these days.
This book is an excellent resource for women in business at any level but particularly useful for new grads or women working in entry level roles who don't have a great deal of experience with the politics and strategy of dealing with men in management roles. This would also be an extremely valuable read for any men working in a classic male dominated heirarchic management structure with a predominantly female workforce (i.e. health, education).
My wife loved it........2007-02-15
I bought this for my wife who works in a male dominated field. She loved this book and she talks about it all the time. I'm shocked she read it! Now I'm looking for my chance to sneak a read of it when she wont notice it missing from her book shelf. Trust me, if MY wife read it and liked it, it must be one damn good book. Maybe I'll buy my own copy and read it - I think I will. Second review to follow...
Also applies to women who own a business or are self-employed.......2006-12-31
Gail Evans provides very practical advice in a very matter of fact way. As a consultant and trainer for Woman Owned Businesses I always look at women's business books from the woman-owned angle. Although the book is written primarily for women that are employees, almost everything in it is applicable to women who own businesses or are self-employed. One of the best parts of the book is the guidance on "getting picked for the Team." The "rules" in this section definantly apply to women business owners in negotiation and especially in marketing their products and services. There are several places in the book where Ms Evans points out that women don't ask, often waiting to be asked. This approach will not work if a woman business owner is seeking financing or selling her products/services. The advice in this section could help make a huge difference for women business owners. The very best advice in the book is about how women can use their relationship orientation and skills wisely and to advantage; women business owners can apply this to running and marketing their business. One other very good section is the explanation about "Yes is Yes." Unfortunately, we women don't always accept a Yes immediately, but continue explaining, seeking reassurance or justifying. I would recommend this book to any of my Woman Owned Business clients and workshop attendees.
Common Sense Reminders.......2006-10-23
Frankly, reading the comments here was almost as much fun as reading the book. A couple of really negative reviews from guys who sound terribly bitter, one bad review from someone who thought she didn't know what she was talking about because he/she disagreed with a particular television report that she had a hand in producting, one negative comment because ... she had gotten too many positive comments before and just needed to be knocked down a notch? Not entirely sure if I got the gist of that one. A couple of middling to negative reviews from people who thought she was dead wrong. And then the majority of positive reviews who seem to think she brought some of these rules down after a chat with a burning bush.
Here's the thing - there are some tidbits of insight in here, but most of it is just common sense. Unfortunately, it's common sense that is easy to forget when you're caught up in the politics of an office. Sometimes the best lessons are the short reminders to get back to basics, and this book certainly does that.
There's nothing BAD in this book - all she says is that if you want to get ahead in a man's world, you at least have to know the rules. You aren't obligated to play by them, but don't get all testy when you don't get what you want. In fact, you don't even have to play at all. But why not use your knowledge of the game to get ahead? Why not take the path of least resistance?
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The receipt of an inheritance--whether it's worth millions or more modest in size--can often prove to be a life-altering experience. Managing Your Inheritance, by investment experts Emily W. Card and Adam L. Miller, is designed to help minimize the upheaval while maximizing the potential. With the aid of numerous charts, checklists, and case studies, it clearly explains the safest and most effective ways to avoid common pitfalls, manage new assets, and develop future plans.
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During the next 20 years, over 60 million Americans will inherit an estimated $8 trillion in an unprecedented shifting of wealth. Most of these new heirs are unprepared to handle the windfall, and Managing Your Inheritance will be a godsend. The authors walk readers through every phase of the inheritance process, and show how to protect family wealth through intelligent saving and investing. Author tour. 25,000 print.
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Inheriting Money Isn't 100% Easy.......2000-03-22
When you receive an inheritance, despite how it sounds, free money isn't free. With it comes sorrow within your family. Family fights can crop up, too. In addition, one has the personal struggle of figuring out how to cope with grief on the one hand and new money on the other. This book helped me see that I wasn't as rich as I thought I was and that I had better guard my inheritance for my retirement.
Excellent reference tool for investing an inheritance!.......1997-05-07
I went to a bookstore to ask them to look for it in the computer- the first book they came up with was Managing your parents. People on line laughed. My reply "I don't need to know how to manage my parents - they're dead. I now need the inheritance
guide." Well they didn't have it- so I read my sister's copy. Great and informative on what to do with it-no matter how small the inheritance is and believe me I am a poor heir but I will definitely use the information to make it grow- No immediate facelifts for me yet. I want a copy to refer to for my financial goals
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Book of air.......2006-04-10
For background, I have significant experience in the airline industry, but have never worked for Delta.
While the author has clearly talked to many people involved with Delta's history, he has done little more than catalog the bitter sentiments of former employees. His criticisms of the management team would have a lot more credibility if they were accompanied by something resembling a practical alternative. For example, while he seems to agree that costs were out of line in the early 90s, he blasts the layoffs as an assault on the Delta Family. How would he have reduced costs without layoffs? The fact is, nearly every legacy airline in North America has gone bankrupt at least once. Running one requires making a lot of tough decisions in the face of criticism from many people that don't know what they're talking about.
This book appears to be nothing more than a large piece of marketing material for his consulting business. If there were more substance included it might be more effective.
If you love DELTA, you must get this book now!.......2004-03-19
I am surprised to see this book available. I am a collector and it is great to see Delta's old (but wonderful) livery still on the front of books. This book is great for airline enthusiasts!
The only Delta Air Line book of this type available........2000-04-05
Buy this book while you still have the opportunity! Most of the Delta fleet has been reduced to the Boeing 7's, but this book is from the days prior to September 11, 2001. Although this book doesn't enter the level of detail for each aircraft in Delta's fleet, it does give a thorough but quick overview of their history. The handy listing of Aircraft type and fleet numbers in the back of the book are a must.
Great Info, But a bit scattered........1999-11-02
Some very interesting stuff, Very informative about the operational aspects of the airline. However, not a whole lot of information or much detail of the aircraft in the it's fleet past and present. But there is a full list of A/C types and thier Reg #'s. Overall pretty good.
Great Book for all Delta Fans!!!.......1999-09-10
This book contains great information about Delta's history, fleet, maintanance, and the Delta Shuttle, Delta Express, and Delta Connection. It also has a listing of every plane in Delta's current fleet. The only downside is the book is 96 pages.
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