Evolution or Revolution

Evolution or Revolution
Author: Olivier Blanchard,Lawrence H. Summers
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262351287

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Leading economists discuss post–financial crisis policy dilemmas, including the dangers of complacency in a period of relative stability. The Great Depression led to the Keynesian revolution and dramatic shifts in macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy. Similarly, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the adoption of the natural rate hypothesis and to a major reassessment of the role of macroeconomic policy. Should the financial crisis and the Great Recession lead to yet another major reassessment, to another intellectual revolution? Will it? If so, what form should it, or will it, take? These are the questions taken up in this book, in a series of contributions by policymakers and academics. The contributors discuss the complex role of the financial sector, the relative roles of monetary and fiscal policy, the limits of monetary policy to address financial stability, the need for fiscal policy to play a more active role in stabilization, and the relative roles of financial regulation and macroprudential tools. The general message is a warning against going back to precrisis ways—to narrow inflation targeting, little use of fiscal policy for stabilization, and insufficient financial regulation. Contributors David Aikman, Alan J. Auerbach, Ben S. Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Lael Brainard, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Marco Buti, Benoît Cœuré, Mario Draghi, Barry Eichengreen, Jason Furman, Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Andrew G. Haldane, Philipp Hildebrand, Marc Hinterschweiger, Sujit Kapadia, Nellie Liang, Adam S. Posen, Raghuram Rajan, Valerie Ramey, Carmen Reinhart, Dani Rodrik, Robert E. Rubin, Jay C. Shambaugh, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Jeremy C. Stein, Lawrence H. Summers

Evolution Revolution

Evolution Revolution
Author: Ervin Laszlo,Rubin Goetsky
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781000517606

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Originally published in 1971 Evolution – Revolution is an interdisciplinary volume examining inquiry around the central topic of evolution and revolution. Containing contributions from a number of eminent academics of the time, the book addresses the meaning and application of evolution and revolution in the context, not of what things are, or even how they behave, but how they become. The broad interdisciplinary range of essays explores this concept through the idea of development and change and argues that both change, and development must be measured against concepts of flux and that which endures. The editors of the book suggest that these are the ‘invariants’ which contemporary thinkers are beginning to accept as the process-counterparts of Platonic ‘immutables’. Thus this volume examines the two ‘immutables’ of evolution and revolution. The book covers the concept through essays in science, philosophic concepts of rationalism and existentialism, art and religion.

The Evolution of Revolutions

The Evolution of Revolutions
Author: Patrick J. Howie
Publsiher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781616142834

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Patrick Howie's book artfully and engagingly tackles arguably the most important force underpinning our individual and collective wellbeing, namely the process of innovation. By weaving together an analysis of a wide range of innovations in the sciences, economics, and political history, he is able to provide key insights into how and why some innovations succeed and others do not. The story he tells is both educational and entertaining.--Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody's Economy.com and author of Financial Shock: A 360° Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion and How to Avoid the Next Financial CrisisForeword by F. Stewart Debruicker, Ph. D., former professor of marketing, Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaHow can entrepreneurs predict what the next revolution will be? How does a new idea, product, or service spread throughout a social system to spark the next big thing?In this unique blend of historical analysis and how-to knowledge, leading researcher and economist Patrick J. Howie provides clear guidance on how to identify and foster innovations that will lead to revolutions. Based on analysis of more than two-dozen revolutions in business, sports, science, and politics, he offers a wide-ranging understanding of the revolutionary process.What separates a fad from a true revolution? The author's illustrative case studies demonstrate that in order for an innovation to successfully create a revolution, it must pass through three stages: resistance, clarification, and elaboration. True revolutions result from a long evolutionary development process and an extensive adoption and expansion of the initial innovation.Howie-who holds a patent for analyzing the effectiveness of marketing strategies-describes important methods that can be used to create innovations as well as recognize and capitalize on emerging revolutions. In the spirit of The Tipping Point, Howie contends that change and revolution occur constantly and affect even the smallest things. In any industry today, there are multiple revolutions occurring. By understanding the process of innovation and how innovations throughout history have sparked lasting revolution, readers will learn how to create revolutions of their own.The Evolution of Revolutions offers a wealth of research and sound methodology for navigating today's dynamic business environment, where change is the only constant.Patrick J. Howie (Maple Glen, PA) has dedicated his career to understanding the process by which innovations become adopted in social systems. His work has been cited and published in numerous publications, including Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Fortune magazine. He has successfully applied his research for various organizations, including ABetterGuess.com, which he founded; TargetRx, a venture-backed start-up, where he is head of product development and management; and as an energy and regional economist. He holds a patent for a unique method and system of analyzing the effectiveness of marketing strategies.

Evolution Versus Revolution

Evolution Versus Revolution
Author: Melvyn L. Fein
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781351521352

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Revolutionary and evolutionary theorists have very different views about change; Fein writes in favour of evolution. He proposes an integrated model of social evolution, one that accounts for the complexity, inconclusiveness, and impediments that characterize social transformations.This multi-dimensional approach recognizes that change is always saturated in conflict. Major changes are rarely initiated by conscious decisions that are automatically implemented; power and morality generally control the direction that significant alterations take. Fein explains how the social generalist dilemma places our need for both flexibility and stability in opposition to each other such that non-rational mechanisms are needed to produce a solution. He also describes how an "inverse force rule" dictates that small societies are bound together by strong social forces, whereas large ones are secured by weak forces. This suggests that social roles are likely to become professionalized over time.If social change is, in fact, analogous to natural rather than artificial selection, we may be in the midst of an only partially predictable middle class revolution. Indeed, the current impasse between liberals and conservatives may be evidence that we are in the consolidation phase of this process. Should this be the case, a paradigm shift, not a classical revolution, is in our future.

The Evolution Revolution

The Evolution Revolution
Author: Long
Publsiher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2013-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780522863925

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3.8 billion years ago life evolved. 540 million years ago came the first complex animals. 380 million years ago fish had evolved fins with arm bones that humans have today. So are humans a case study for or against evolution? The Evolution Revolution takes you on a rollicking ride through the past 3.8 billion years of life on Earth exploring the complex and often controversial issue of evolution. Join two of Australia's most accomplished popular science writers, palaeontologists Ken McNamara and John Long, on field trips that unearth some of the world's most significant fossils, from microbes to mighty mammals, including the feathered dinosaurs that make the link between reptiles and birds. The authors take us through the dramatic transition from fins to limbs, how the first insects flew, why dinosaurs got so big and how life has evolved into nearly every nook and cranny on Earth. The major fossil discoveries of the past decade they have documented comprehensively debunk the notion of intelligent design. Like it or not, along with dinosaurs, donkeys and dahlias we too came from bacteria that swam in the primordial soup. Impeccably researched, remarkably readable and punctuated with good humour, The Evolution Revolution puts a human face on the enterprise of palaeontology. It is essential reading for anyone interested in fossils and the big events in life history.

Revolution and Evolution

Revolution and Evolution
Author: James Boggs,Grace Lee Boggs
Publsiher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780853453536

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"This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnamese revolutions, and examines the various currents of Marxism active in the revolutions of our times. A second section is devoted to the United States, and provides a survey of the class forces in American history as well as the authors' ideas on the objects and means of an American Revolution."--Publisher's web-site

Evolution Revolution

Evolution Revolution
Author: Robert Winston
Publsiher: DK Children
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Evolution
ISBN: 1465451374

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Explores the history of evolution and the evolution of the future.

The Evolutionary Revolution

The Evolutionary Revolution
Author: Lily K. Hoang
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 1934254142

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Fiction. What if evolution was decided by committee and revolution by mere chance? What if man was a subspecies? What if man, as a subspecies, was woman, with tiny red wings on her thighs and pasted shut eyes? What if she flew in the sky or slept on the moon, and what if the earth was a saltless water world filled with forgetful, vengeful two-headed mermen? Welcome to THE EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION, a fabulist story of sense-making for the 21st century. In this twinning tale of freak shows and prophets, tract homes and impending doom, award-winning author Lily Hoang collapses time and narrative into a brilliant novel of beginnings and ends, where sentences undo each other and opposites don't cancel each other out. As Anna Joy Springer notes in the book's introduction, "In literature, as sometimes in life, it's a scary kind of fun to be manipulated by a pretty girl, who changes the game on a whim."