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With the recent nomination by President-elect Trump of Rex Tillerson to Secretary of State, this book became even more timely as a window into how large corporations interact with both the US and foreign governments to achieve their ends and how that might influence a Sec. A critical takeaway is that viewing ExxonMobil, and likely any corporation its size, as a monolithic entity that is 'good' or 'bad' is deeply flawed. And the assumption that they and the US government have aligned interests at all times is as well. Rather than looking to USA foreign policy as a guide, it is better to understand the past actions, current motivations, and overall culture of a company. This will give a better picture of how it's CEOs and others will act in other environments rather than dragging in preconceived notions that may be wholly inaccurate.

Trentmann, a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, eschews moral judgments. But in the book’s second half he appears to question the value of fair trade and other 20th century, quasi-Christian consumer movements. Affluent consumers in the west are made to feel virtuous by buying Oxfam coffee and tea. (“Those so inclined can be buried in a fair trade bamboo coffin made in Bangladesh,” he adds.) At any rate, citizen-consumers in the west have the luxury of ethical consumption, while others do not. Consumerism (from the Latin consumere, “use up”) has an overtone of waste. A century after Marx, the Italian writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini divined a “fascist” element in consumerism.

You can even create some quick, canned copy and do a series of targeted Instagram DMs to try to recruit freelance designers you love and follow. If you don’t have the funds to do the above, you can download helpful apps like Canva and Planoly . These platforms provide out-of-the-box, sharp templates and color combos for IG Stories, grid posts, presentations, and more. They quite literally put a digital designer at your fingertips. In chapters of sparkling prose and sympathetic insight, Ronald traces Nast’s life from his birth in New York in 1873 (and his life-long reaction against the wastrel ways of his profligate father) to his early start in the magazine world ...

Again the philosophy proposed by Adam Smith got its importance among intellects in Britain "Colonization is not such a profitable venture after all". Before leaving India there were few strategies that led to doubt the British Intentions,One such policy was to divide India on the basis of religious majority. Although it was proposed as the demands of Muslims through its leader Mr Jinnah ,to create a new Muslim state separate from India.

Where author Crystal Russell, an attorney, shines is in her clear and succinct explanations of legal issues. If only she had brought such clarity to all other aspects of the story. "A sparkling set of essays, uniformly interesting, readable and useful."

The first half of Empire of Things chronicles the “global advance of goods” in the 15th century to the resurgence of markets in Asia today. From 1700 to 1808, sugar, the end product of British slavery, became so profitable a commodity that the prosperity of English slave ports such as Bristol and Liverpool was derived from commerce in what historian Sidney Mintz called the “tropical drug food”. A typical slave ship carried trading goods, such as beads, rifles and gunpowder, from England to Africa, then slaves from Africa to the Caribbean, and finally sugar, coffee, cotton, rice and rum back to England. It was one of the most nearly perfect commercial systems of modern times, a flawless loop of supply and demand, says Trentmann. G Ballard’s last published novel, Kingdom Come, unfolds in a fictional London suburb called Brooklands, where a vast shopping mall fosters a bovine social docility.

Make your company a LinkedIn page, and then put your company name, title, and launch date on your personal account. If your co-workers or bosses find out, remember that it isn’t illegal to have a side project (as long as it isn’t directly competitive with your full-time employer), and pacify them by stressing it’s something you do in your god-given free time. Make sure you use any and every opportunity to document that fact. Becoming Facebook provides a thoroughly intriguing look at Facebook behind the headlines. This is the Facebook most never see, but as some may envision it to be.

That’s how he comes across in the print version, too, very inspirational and also funny. I listened to an abridged version of this fairly recently , and it was so Empire of Business interesting. What I particularly liked was Akala’s honesty and forthright tone. He came across as very open and authoritative and yet compassionate too – such an inspirational speaker.