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Technology and the search for progress in modern Mexico
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ISBN: 9780520960558 0520960556 9781336029750 1336029757 0520284909 0520284895 9780520284890 9780520284906 9780520284906 9780520284890 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, California

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In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation. Drawing on three detailed case studies-the sewing machine, a glass bottle-blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining-Edward Beatty explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico: while Mexicans made significant efforts to integrate new machines and products, difficulties in assimilating the skills required to use emerging technologies resulted in a persistent dependence on international expertise.


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The sounds of life : how digital technology is bringing us closer to the worlds of animals and plants
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ISBN: 0691240981 0691206287 9780691206288 9780691240985 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life.At once meditative and scientific, The Sounds of Life shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound, interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge. We meet scientists using sound to protect and regenerate endangered species from the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic and the Amazon. We discover the shocking impacts of noise pollution on both animals and plants. We learn how artificial intelligence can decode nonhuman sounds, and meet the researchers building dictionaries in East African Elephant and Sperm Whalish. At the frontiers of innovation, we explore digitally mediated dialogues with bats and honeybees. Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead?The Sounds of Life offers hope for environmental conservation and affirms humanity’s relationship with nature in the digital age. After learning about the unsuspected wonders of nature’s sounds, we will never see walks outdoors in the same way again.

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Bioacoustics --- Landscape ecology. --- Natural history --- Nature sounds --- Noise pollution. --- Sound --- SCIENCE / Acoustics & Sound. --- Research. --- Technique. --- Recording and reproducing. --- Recording and reproducing --- Digital techniques. --- Digital audio --- Digital sound recording --- Digital electronics --- Pollution --- Recording of nature sounds --- Reproducing of nature sounds --- Ecology --- Biological acoustics --- Noise pollution --- Landscape ecology --- Nature --- Son --- Pollution par le bruit. --- Sons --- Enregistrements sonores. --- Enregistrement et reproduction --- Techniques numériques --- SCIENCE / Acoustics & Sound --- SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects --- Nature protection --- Vibrations --- General ecology and biosociology --- Acoustics. --- Activism. --- Analogy. --- Animal echolocation. --- Artificial reef. --- Background noise. --- Beautiful music. --- Beehive fence. --- Beehive. --- Behavior. --- Bioacoustics. --- Biodiversity. --- Biologist. --- Bird. --- Bowhead whale. --- CITES. --- Carl Safina. --- Charismatic megafauna. --- Coastal management. --- Cognitive ethology. --- Collaboration. --- Consciousness. --- Contemporary society. --- Coral reef. --- Cortisol. --- Crustacean. --- Detection. --- Ecology. --- Ecosystem. --- Emerging technologies. --- Environmental noise. --- Environmental protection. --- Ethology. --- Field recording. --- Finding. --- Form of life (philosophy). --- Hatchling. --- Hearing range. --- Honey bee. --- Honeyguide. --- Human intelligence. --- Human voice. --- Human. --- Hydrophone. --- Insect. --- Interactivity. --- Interspecies communication. --- Karaoke. --- Language. --- Larva. --- Lifeway. --- Listening. --- Longevity. --- Loudness. --- Louse. --- Machine learning. --- Mammal. --- Marine biology. --- Marine mammal. --- Microbat. --- Microphone. --- Natural sounds. --- Nutrient. --- Observation. --- Odor. --- Organism. --- Pheromone. --- Phrase (music). --- Physiology. --- Plant. --- Positive feedback. --- Propolis. --- Resonance. --- RoboBee. --- SOSUS. --- Safety in numbers. --- Scientist. --- Seagrass. --- Sense and respond. --- Sensory ecology. --- Shoaling and schooling. --- Social behavior. --- Sociality. --- Sophistication. --- Sound ranging. --- Sound recording and reproduction. --- Soundscape. --- Sparrow. --- Supervisor. --- Technology. --- Turtle. --- Umwelt. --- Vibration. --- Vocal learning. --- Waggle dance. --- Whale vocalization. --- Whaling. --- Wildlife. --- Worker bee. --- Techniques numériques


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Restarting the future : how to fix the intangible economy
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ISBN: 069123602X 0691211582 9780691211589 9780691236025 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,

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"Restarting the Future argues that the big economic challenges facing the world are the result of our failure to deal with the implications of an economy dependent on knowledge, ideas and relationships. It examines why making this transition is so hard, and looks at ways forward in the fields of public policy, business and finance. The troubling state of rich-world economies (low productivity growth, high inequality, populist instability, climate crisis) is significantly the result of the troubled and incomplete shift to a new type of economy - specifically, the move from an economy dependent on tangible capital to one dependent on intangible capital. At the heart of the problem is a significant slowdown in the pace of intangible investment since the financial crisis. (There were some early signs of this at the time the authors were writing their previous book, Capitalism without Capital, but new data now makes the severity and persistence of this slowdown clear.) This slowdown has happened because we lack the right institutions and strategies to encourage intangible investment and channel it effectively. What is more, there are significant groups with an interest in stopping these new institutions emerging. Contrary to the dominant narrative that focuses on the tension between a successful, future-facing "elite" and a mass of low-status "left-behinds", the authors argue that many of the people and organisations with an interest in holding back the future are affluent and high-status, including affluent retirees, established financial institutions and graduate knowledge workers. Haskel & Westlake survey attempts to fix these institutional problems, explaining how they work in the context of the intangible economy, and what the upside to solving them might be. They describe interesting and topical policy experiments and business strategies (such as Preston's Local Economic Strategy, or topical new business models like WeWork and CloudKitchens) and set them in a novel economic context. (Specifically, these sections look at city policy, business finance and investment, public investment, competition policy, monetary policy, mitigating climate change and business strategies for tangible-based firms. The authors close the book with a political programme for how to get over the teething troubles of the new economy"--

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Business planning. --- Intangible property --- Intellectual capital --- Investments. --- Organizational change. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General. --- Economic aspects. --- Management. --- Access IS. --- Advocacy group. --- Agriculture (Chinese mythology). --- Agriculture. --- Anecdotal evidence. --- Angel investor. --- Asset. --- Balance of trade. --- Balance sheet. --- Benjamin Graham. --- Blurred Lines. --- Business model. --- Central bank. --- Certification. --- Cess. --- Circumstantial evidence. --- Commercial bank. --- Credit risk. --- Crowdfunding. --- Customer. --- Debenture. --- Debt. --- Dispute (credit card). --- Donald Trump. --- Douglass North. --- Drug discovery. --- Economic growth. --- Economist. --- Economy. --- Electric field. --- Emerging technologies. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Estimation. --- Financial crisis. --- Financial institution. --- Financial regulation. --- Financier. --- Fiscal policy. --- Funding. --- Further education. --- G. (novel). --- Goodhart's law. --- Goods and services. --- Government bond. --- Government procurement. --- Grow the Pie (phrase). --- Housing association. --- Impurity. --- Income. --- Industry Group. --- Institution. --- Intangible Cost. --- Intangible asset. --- Intellectual property. --- Interest rate. --- Investment. --- Legal monopoly. --- Liberal elite. --- Macroeconomics. --- Magnetic reconnection. --- Nonlinear system. --- Northern Italy. --- Patent thicket. --- Patent troll. --- Payment. --- Personal protective equipment. --- Perverse incentive. --- Physical change. --- Politician. --- Popularity. --- Populism. --- Pricing. --- Real estate appraisal. --- Regulatory reform. --- Research and development. --- Safe Asset. --- Separatrix (mathematics). --- Shareholder value. --- Shareholder. --- Shortage. --- Software. --- Speculation. --- Stagnation point. --- State government. --- Subsidy. --- Technical debt. --- Technology. --- U.S. Steel. --- United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016. --- Value investing. --- Virginia Raggi. --- Wealth. --- When Genius Failed. --- Wide Variety. --- Work–life balance. --- Xerox. --- Year. --- YouTube. --- Zimbabwe. --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Management --- Organization --- Manpower planning --- Investing --- Investment management --- Portfolio --- Finance --- Disinvestment --- Loans --- Saving and investment --- Speculation --- Incorporeal property --- Intangible assets --- Intangibles --- Property --- Business enterprises --- Business plans --- Corporate planning --- Corporate strategy --- Corporations --- Strategy, Corporate --- Planning --- Strategic planning --- Law and legislation --- intangible asset. --- intellectual capital. --- economic conditions. --- investment. --- нематериален актив --- immaterielt aktiv --- activo inmaterial --- activ necorporal --- nematerijalna imovina --- нематеријално средство --- bene immateriale --- ativo intangível --- immateriell tillgång --- aineeton omaisuus --- nematerialusis turtas --- sócmhainn dholáimhsithe --- immateriális javak --- wartości niematerialne i prawne --- immateriaalne vara --- nehmotný majetok --- assi intanġibbli --- neopredmeteno sredstvo --- нематеријална имовина --- immaterieller Vermögenswert --- nemateriālais aktīvs --- nehmotné aktivum --- immateriële activa --- άυλο περιουσιακό στοιχείο --- actif incorporel --- neviditelné aktivum --- immateriális eszköz --- capitale intangibile --- ativo invisível --- netaustāmais aktīvs --- aineeton tuote --- bene intangibile --- nematerialna sredstva --- propriété incorporelle --- ass inviżibbli --- bien immatériel --- нематериално благо --- usynligt aktiv --- nehmotný majetek --- intangible good --- ativo incorpóreo --- immaterielt gode --- netaustāmais pamatlīdzeklis --- proprjetà intanġibbli --- nicht körperlicher Gegenstand --- invisible asset --- nematerijalno vlasništvo --- nehmotné 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οικονομία --- politisk ekonomi --- economía política --- економика --- politinė ekonomija --- Wirtschaftstheorie --- politička ekonomija --- økonomisk teori --- teoria economica --- teoría económica --- politieke economie --- poliitökonoomia --- politiskā ekonomija --- economic science --- théorie économique --- teorie economică --- Volkswirtschaftslehre --- poliittinen taloustiede --- ekonomisk teori --- économie politique --- shkencë ekonomike --- political economics --- ekonomikos teorija --- ekonomická teória --- ekonomická nauka --- political economy --- ekonomická teorie --- majandusteooria --- ekonomikas teorija --- economia politica --- economie politică --- economia política --- gazdaságelmélet --- економска теорија --- národohospodářství --- Nationalökonomie --- maniġment --- poslovodenje --- valdymas --- pārvaldība --- gestione --- johtaminen --- gestión --- ledning --- управување --- zarządzanie --- gestão --- management --- beheer --- пословодство --- διαχείριση --- 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Economic development --- Business management

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