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Tarzan economics : eight principles for pivoting through disruption / Will Page.
Lippincott Library HB171 .P185 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, Will, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics.
- Markets.
- Business planning.
- Organizational change.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Strategic planning.
- Genre:
- Business & Economics / Decision Making & Problem Solving.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First North American edition.
- Other Title:
- Tarzan economics
- Eight principles for pivoting through disruption
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
- Summary:
- Taking the lessons learned from his years studying the rise and fall of the modern music industry, Spotify's Chief Economist Will Page gives us the tool set to both recognize and adapt to disruption in any industry. 'Tarzan Economics' is a rare book of economics that offers actionable takeaways in easy to understand language, and is a must read for anyone looking to failsafe their business.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Music matters because it got there first
- There was economics long before there were economists
- Reading across not down
- 1. Tarzan Economics: Let's Party Like It's 1999
- Globalisation But Not As We Know It
- 2. Paying Attention
- We're All In Competition With Pyjamas
- 3. Drawing a Crowd
- Emotional Contagion
- How Imdb Serves Veganomics
- 4. Make or Buy
- How Do We Know When The Price Is Right?
- Patronage And The Pickwick Papers
- 5. Self-Interest v Common Good
- 6. Pivotal Thinking
- 7. Judging the State We're In
- 8. Big Data, Big Mistakes
- The fog of data
- Conclusion: Builders and Farmers
- Let Investors Pay To Deliver You That Meal
- Build and They Will Come
- Specialising or Optimising
- Quality or Quantity
- Having the Guts to Go it Alone
- `Communism with a Touch of Capitalism'
- Why We Need Two Competition Authorities
- What Matters Most is Being Measured Least
- Conjectures and Refutations
- Annex: Groucho Marxism Maths
- Skyscanner Applies Marxism Maths to Scan All of the Skies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780316427395
- 031642739X
- OCLC:
- 1252731799
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