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Flow Engineering

Tired of misalignment, friction, and stalled workflow? Flow Engineering is a practical guide to using value stream mapping techniques to align teams, unlock innovation, and optimize performance. Based on foundations from Value Stream Mapping, cybernetics, and the Toyota Production System, Flow Engineering's lightweight and iterative practices build the value, clarity, and flow required for effective collaboration and collective action. Written by Value Stream Mapping experts Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis, Flow Engineering provides a step-by-step guide for running fast-paced mapping workshops that rapidly build shared understanding. Using five key maps to facilitate collaborative “flow conversations,” Pereira and Davis show how teams can surface tangled process dependencies, conflicting priorities, and unspoken assumptions that grind progress to a halt. The result? A clear roadmap owned by the people doing the work to accelerate innovation cycles, optimize workflows, and achieve more effective coordination. Applicable across any industry, Flow Engineering's techniques have helped leading organizations improve critical workflows like customer onboarding, product development, and hiring.It's time to stop trying one-size-fits-all frameworks to find value, clarity, and flow to improve culture and performance. Flow Engineering meets your organization where it's at and shows you how to move it where it needs to go.

Global Sustainable Transition with Inclusion

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This book provides a comprehensive exploration of inclusive, sustainable development, emphasizing the critical need to integrate the perspectives and needs of people with disabilities and marginalized communities into the global sustainability transition to a sustainable future. Through highlighting the intersectionality of identity and the unique challenges faced by these groups, the book addresses a pressing issue: the often-overlooked barriers that hinder their full participation in sustainable transitions. Organized into three parts, the book first contextualizes the relationship between sustainability and inclusion. It delves into the historical and theoretical frameworks that shape our understanding of marginalization, exploring how disability intersects with various social identities. This foundation sets the stage for an in-depth analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ways in which they can be made more inclusive, ensuring that no one is left behind. The second part identifies and examines the myriad barriers to inclusion within sustainable practices. It addresses structural, socioeconomic, and cultural obstacles that perpetuate exclusion while also critiquing existing policy frameworks for their limitations in addressing the needs of marginalized populations. Through case studies, the book highlights successful initiatives and innovative practices that promote accessibility and equity, mainly through the use of assistive technologies and community engagement. In the final section, the book outlines actionable strategies for fostering inclusive, sustainable development. It emphasizes the importance of community engagement, participatory decision-making, and the empowerment of marginalized voices. Additionally, it discusses metrics for monitoring and evaluating the impact of sustainability initiatives on people with disabilities, providing a framework for accountability and continuous improvement.This book aims to bridge the gap between sustainability and social justice, offering a roadmap for stakeholders, policymakers, and practitioners committed to creating a more inclusive world. This book targets academics, policymakers, non-profit societies, and activists working at the intersection of sustainability and social equity and serves as a vital resource for those seeking to understand and promote inclusive practices in the global sustainable transition.

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Business World

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Now more than ever, there is a growing importance for companies to ramp up their focus on social responsibility. An effective CSR program can have a positive impact on companies, employees, and consumers. This new volume, Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Business World: A Conceptual, Regulatory, and Illustrative Framework, covers the parameters of corporate social responsibility around the world, elucidating the concepts, evolution, cultural dimensions, key areas, and disclosure and reporting methods and how CSR is being considered and implemented across the globe. The book also offers a future outlook for CSR.The book begins with a thorough introduction to CSR, covering its meaning and definition along with the principles of CSR for effective implementation, its inherent benefits, and its challenges. It goes on to cover the status of CSR in emerging economies with the emphasis on emerging trends in corporate governance, reporting, indexing, and certification. The volume considers the evolution of CSR from voluntary to mandatory along with the underlining advantages and disadvantages while also giving comparisons of CSR in developed versus developing nations. The book looks at the regulations and legislation around the world pertaining to CSR, such as universal GRI standards and legislative framework of countries like UK, USA, India, Germany, France, Canada, China, and Indonesia that have been sketched out covering expenditures, disclosure, and reporting obligations.The authors share case studies of implemented CSR projects, initiatives, and practices, highlighting several societal and environmental issues either through stakeholder relations and collaborations with NGOs or agencies or by adhering to government regulations for CSR compliance.This book provides a valuable overview of CSR and how effective implementation can lead to a corporation’s contribution to worldwide and regional sustainability and the well-being of society and the environment.

Future of Work and Business in Covid-19 Era

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This proceedings volume explores the disruptive effect of COVID19 pandemic on business leaders and managers. It covers the sweeping changes experienced by all sectors of work and business along with core functional verticals. As organizations institutionalize lessons learned through trial and error, an effort is required to document these efforts. The volume is an amalgamation of papers presented papers at the International Management Conference, 2021 hosted at KIIT University, India in February 2021. The thrust of this conference was to gather a holistic picture of the lessons derived during the pandemic hardship. Selected papers provide readers with an idea of the new normal in various domains of management across industries and organizations. Research papers, from each functional areas of business management, give focus on experiences and best practices.

Copywriting

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Copywriting - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Write Sales Copy, How to Tell a Story and How to Write Non-Fiction1)HOW TO WRITE SALES COPY:7 Easy Steps to Master Copywriting, Marketing Content, Business Writing & Freelance Writing.YOU'LL LEARN:How to determine your sale copy audienceDefining your product purposeHow to develop your sales pagePersuading reader actionHow to tell a storyPlaying on basic human needsHow to develop your rebuttalHow to excite your audiencePresenting a sense of urgencyHow to define a call to actionHow to set your sales copy apartAnd so much more! 2)HOW TO TELL A STORY:7 Easy Steps to Master Storytelling, Story Boarding, Writing Stories, Storyteller & Story Structure.YOU'LL LEARN:Logistics of each element of storytelling (character development, plot development, setting, point of view, theme, conflict)Common storytelling mistakes to avoidBrainstorming exercises to help you choose a story angleHow to create an emotional experience How to develop a positive story outcomeHow to create a shining moment which will stick with your audienceAnd so much more! 3)HOW TO WRITE NON-FICTION:7 Easy Steps to Master Creative Non-Fiction, Memoir Writing, Travel Writing & Essay Writing.YOU'LL LEARN:How to define your genre by understanding the scope of your contentHow to understand the subgenre in your content and how to reflect that in your titleHow to write effective books by using seven simple, but powerful secretsHow to ensure that you captivate your audiences through compelling writingHow to use sources effectively when producing non-fiction contentHow to avoid needless criticism by using effective and credible sourcesHow to ensure that your content is consistent with the narrative you want to portrayHow to produce high-quality content on a consistent basis while keeping things freshHow to ensure you have the right approach in your book while making sure you're addressing your audience properlyHow to make the most of the time and space you have to develop contentAnd so much more! Master Sales Copy, Writing for Marketing, Non-Fiction Content & Become a Copywriter Today!

Business Writing

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Business Writing - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Write Sales Copy, How to Write Content and How to Edit Writing1)HOW TO WRITE SALES COPY:7 Easy Steps to Master Copywriting, Marketing Content, Business Writing & Freelance Writing.YOU'LL LEARN:How to determine your sale copy audienceDefining your product purposeHow to develop your sales pagePersuading reader actionHow to tell a storyPlaying on basic human needsHow to develop your rebuttalHow to excite your audiencePresenting a sense of urgencyHow to define a call to actionHow to set your sales copy apartAnd so much more! 2)HOW TO WRITE CONTENT:7 Easy Steps to Master Content Writing, Article Writing, Web Content Marketing & Blog Writing.YOU'LL LEARN:How to determine your audienceHow to develop a purposeHow to assign purpose to each paragraphHow to develop main ideasHow to write an effective conclusionHow to edit for technical purposesHow to maintain audience engagementHow to define a call to actionHow to determine the correct language to useHow to create a communityAnd so much more! 3)HOW TO EDIT WRITING:7 Easy Steps to Master Writing Editing, Proofreading, Copy Editing, Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation.YOU'LL LEARN:The stages of editing: structural, line editing, and copy editing Necessary conversations to have between writers and editorsThe benefits of reading aloud to yourself and othersHow to separate the smaller elements into manageable chunksHow to maintain consistencyHow to keep readers engagedHow to isolate text in order to determine its purposeHow to engage more deeply with the text in front of youHow to critically evaluate dialogue and general flowHow to monitor pacing and organizationHow to edit in reverseAnd so much more!Master Business Communication, Technical Writing, Report Writing & Write Content Today!

Community Activation for Integral Development

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As mass global and social media communications spread across the globe, we are seeing a need for a change in the way we approach issues of political and economic development. The effects of these growing communications are that, on the one hand, we see the significance of place rising, while on the other, marginalized people clamour to be heard and identities become increasingly threatened. We are quickly realizing that a ‘one-size fits all’ approach is not going to work.Despite more than half a century of attempts to address issues of development, we have seen fairly bleak results. In fact, the rising of economic stars, such as Japan and the Pacific Tigers hitherto, and China and India of late, have little to do with such programs of development or cultural studies, notwithstanding their accomplishment. Typically, such successes have developed top-down, with theories born and bred in the ‘West’ affecting,or maligning, practices in the ‘rest’. The approach taken in this book looks at these developments by turning them on their head: instead, starting bottom-up with an emphasis on what the author terms ‘community activation’. With a selection of case studies, this volume looks at where community activation can be found and explores how it could evolve and be of use in developing societies at large. In the process, he addresses such topics as how to embed development in a particular society, how to generate social and economic solidarity, and how to generate wealth from pre-industrial and post-industrial networks.This book provides a guide for readers on how to build community within their organization-and-society from the ground up.

Superforecasting

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST “The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.”—Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts’ predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight, and Tetlock has spent the past decade trying to figure out why. What makes some people so good? And can this talent be taught? In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive, government-funded forecasting tournament. The Good Judgment Project involves tens of thousands of ordinary people—including a Brooklyn filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer—who set out to forecast global events. Some of the volunteers have turned out to be astonishingly good. They’ve beaten other benchmarks, competitors, and prediction markets. They’ve even beaten the collective judgment of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They are "superforecasters." In this groundbreaking and accessible book, Tetlock and Gardner show us how we can learn from this elite group. Weaving together stories of forecasting successes (the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound) and failures (the Bay of Pigs) and interviews with a range of high-level decision makers, from David Petraeus to Robert Rubin, they show that good forecasting doesn’t require powerful computers or arcane methods. It involves gathering evidence from a variety of sources, thinking probabilistically, working in teams, keeping score, and being willing to admit error and change course. Superforecasting offers the first demonstrably effective way to improve our ability to predict the future—whether in business, finance, politics, international affairs, or daily life—and is destined to become a modern classic.

Understanding a Changing China

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As China becomes the world’s largest economy, so it becomes important to understand the key issues shaping the country’s business environment and the behaviour of Chinese businesspeople.This is difficult because those issues are contested. Is China growing at 3% or 8%? Is the Chinese consumer going to save the world? Are state-owned enterprises national champions or zombies? Have we reached the end of "Cheap China"? Can China innovate? Is business still dominated by personal connections? Are markets or the state in control? Does Chinese culture impede or support organizational effectiveness? Are Chinese dragons at your door? Will the finance and property sectors implode? Is the Chinese model sustainable, or will it end in tears?On all these issues there is ill-informed "noise", and an abundance of partisan interpretations. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to provide an even-handed analysis of the key issues that will shape the threats and opportunities arising from China’s development in the next decade. It cannot resolve the competing claims made. However, it does provide the reader with the ideas and the sources of evidence needed to understand and to make well thought-out judgments as China continues to evolve.

Think and Grow Rich!

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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, promoted as a personal development and self-improvement book. Hill writes that he was inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and later-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. While the book's title and much of the text concerns increasing income, the author insists that his philosophy can help people succeed in any line of work, to do and be anything they can imagine. First published during the Great Depression, the book by Hill's death in 1970 had sold more than 20 million copies. By 2015 more than 100 million copies had been sold worldwide. It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books. BusinessWeek magazine's Best-Seller List ranked it the sixth best-selling paperback business book 70 years after it was published. Think and Grow Rich is listed in John C. Maxwell's A Lifetime "Must Read" Books List. (Source Wikipedia)

Financer la transition énergétique

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Publié sous le co-pilotage de Patrice Geoffron et Christian de Perthuis, professeurs à l’Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, le numéro 155 de la Revue d’économie financière est consacré à « Financer la transition énergétique ». Ce sujet s’inscrit à la croisée de l’urgence climatique et des impératifs de sécurité collective, dans le prolongement du conflit ukrainien et de ses conséquences sur les prix énergétiques. Cela sur fond de contraintes budgétaires drastiques, susceptibles de peser durablement sur l’économie française, et d’entraver l’action publique en soutien à la transition. En gardant à l’esprit que la capacité à financer la transition est non seulement un enjeu environnemental, mais également de compétitivité, comme l’ont rappelé avec force Mario Draghi et Enrico Letta.Réunissant 18 auteurs et autrices et riche de 16 articles, le thème central de ce numéro se décline en 3 chapitres :- L’évaluation des besoins de financement- Les secteurs- Les outilsLa première partie porte sur l’évaluation des besoins de financement de la transition, pour les investissements nécessaires à la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, pour ceux destinés à l'adaptation aux effets du changement climatique et pour amortir ou corriger certains des effets redistributifs associés à ces transformations. Les évaluations disponibles convergeant vers le besoin d’un effort équivalent à 2% du PIB/an, à court et long terme, le financement de la transition est également un défi macroéconomique. La deuxième partie est centrée sur des développements sectoriels, concernant le financement des investissements dans les réseaux électriques, le nouveau nucléaire, les gaz verts (du biométhane à l’hydrogène), la biomasse ou les transports. L’objectif est ici de préciser les besoins de financement de façon plus « granulaire », en illustrant la diversité des problématiques dans quelques secteurs.La dernière partie détaille les mécanismes et la portée de différents schémas de financement, du nouveau système de permis sur les émissions diffuses (l’ETS2, couvrant les secteurs du transport et du bâtiment), aux tarifs d’électricité (dans leur capacité à transmettre des incitations cohérentes aux consommateurs) et jusqu’aux coopératives carbone territoriales (permettant de réunir institutions, entreprises et citoyens dans une gouvernance climatique locale et partagée). L’objectif n’est pas de proposer une revue systématique des outils de finance « verte », mais d’apporter des éclairages sur plusieurs outils ou schémas de financement innovants susceptibles de contribuer à l’objectif.

Barbarians at the Gate

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#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR.A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate is a modern classic—a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship.The fight to control RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was more than just the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age and its repercussions are still being felt. The tale remains the ultimate story of greed and glory—a story and a cast of characters that determined the course of global business and redefined how deals would be done and fortunes made in the decades to come.Barbarians at the Gate is the gripping account of these two frenzied months, of deal makers and publicity flaks, of an old-line industrial powerhouse (home of such familiar products a Oreos and Camels) that became the victim of the ruthless and rapacious style of finance in the 1980s. As reporters for The Wall Street Journal, Burrough and Helyar had extensive access to all the characters in this drama. They take the reader behind the scenes at strategy meetings and society dinners, into boardrooms and bedrooms, providing an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.At the center of the huge power struggle is RJR Nabisco's president, the high-living Ross Johnson. It's his secret plan to buy out the company that sets the frenzy in motion, attracting the country's leading takeover players: Henry Kravis, the legendary leveraged-buyout king of investment firm KKR, whose entry into the fray sets off an acquisitive commotion; Peter Cohen, CEO of Shearson Lehman Hutton and Johnson's partner, who needs a victory to propel his company to an unchallenged leadership in the lucrative mergers and acquisitions field; the fiercely independent Ted Forstmann, motivated as much by honor as by his rage at the corruption he sees taking over the business he cherishes; Jim Maher and his ragtag team, struggling to regain credibility for the decimated ranks at First Boston; and an army of desperate bankers, lawyers, and accountants, all drawn inexorably to the greatest prize of their careers—and one of the greatest prizes in the history of American business.Written with the bravado of a novel and researched with the diligence of a sweeping cultural history, Barbarians at the Gate is present at the front line of every battle of the campaign. Here is the unforgettable story of that takeover in all its brutality. In a new afterword specially commissioned for the story's 20th anniversary, Burrough and Helyar return to visit the heroes and villains of this epic story, tracing the fallout of the deal, charting the subsequent success and failure of those involved, and addressing the incredible impact this story—and the book itself—made on the world.

Les entreprises japonaises

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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Northwest Newsprint, Inc. (B)

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Northwest Newsprint, Inc. is a major producer of newsprint and pulpmills in the Pacific Northwest and Canada from which they supplied various North American markets. In Northwest Newsprint, Inc. (A), product #9A98E035, the assistant controller's supply chain optimization approach leads to the conclusion that Northwest Newsprint, Inc. has far too much manufacturing capacity. This supplemental case addresses the ability of price changes to mitigate supply chain issues and improve supply chain profitability.

Reset

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Trasforma tu vida con pequeños cambios y sin grandes esfuerzosReset te ayudará a dejar atrás viejos hábitos y a romper con la inercia de los patrones de siempre. Heath, basándose en investigaciones psicológicas y entrevistas, te muestra cómo avanzar hacia lo que de verdad importa.Puedes lograr cambios positivos sin tener que invertir más tiempo o dinero. La clave está en identificar esos puntos de apoyo donde un pequeño esfuerzo puede producir un gran impacto.En Reset descubrirás:Por qué la fase intermedia del cambio suele ser la más difícil.Cómo detectar y frenar actividades que malgastan recursos.Por qué se desperdicia la motivación (y cómo evitarlo).Por qué un poco de ineficiencia acelera el progreso.¡Pulsa el botón de RESET!

Place Based Approaches to Sustainability Volume II

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Without respecting and nurturing ‘place’ we cannot achieve a state of ecological sustainability. Place-based organizations are not run on a purely materialistic basis. The non-materialistic features of a place, its aesthetics, cultural heritage, community feelings, transcendence, should be integrated into sustainability management. This far-reaching two-volume work breaks with the economic logic of efficiency and profit maximization, and suggests that organizations should inform their sustainability by encompassing feelings of identity with and attachment to place.According to this vision, the editors have compiled scholarly contributions aimed to support the ecological transformation of humankind by exploring both theoretical and practical models that integrate the sense of the place, ethics and spirituality in new ways of organizing of economic and social life. This second volume takes the theoretical direction, established in the first model, and puts it into practice withcases from business and society. It will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students of sustainability, business ethics and spirituality.Mara Del Baldo is Associate Professor of Accounting and Business Administration, Economics of Sustainability and Accountability at the University of Urbino, Italy, Department of Economics, Society and Politics.Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli is Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Bologna, Department of Management, Rimini Campus, Italy.Elisabetta Righini is Full Professor of Commercial Law and Law of Trade and Financial Markets at the School of Law and the School of Economics of University of Urbino, Italy.

Ford Motor Company and Cruji Management Consulting (A)

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Ford Motor Company was concerned that five tug operators, each costing $100,000 annually over three shifts, was too many. Colin Cruji was hired to look into the tug operators and see if Ford could eliminate one or more of the five positions per shift. A supplement to this case is available, titled Ford Motor Company and Cruji Management Consulting (B), case 9A99E014. (A Microsoft Excel data file is available for use with this case, product 7A99E013.)

Lean Startup

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Der Weg zum eigenen Unternehmen ist nie ohne Risiko. Und bis die Firma sich auf dem Markt etabliert hat, dauert es. Wer doch scheitert, verliert in der Regel viel Geld. Genau hier setzt das Konzept von Eric Ries an. Lean Startup heißt seine Methode. Sie ist schnell, ressourcenfreundlich und radikal erfolgsorientiert. Anhand von durchgespielten Szenarien kann man von vornherein die Erfolgsaussichten von Ideen, Produkten und Märkten bestimmen. Und auch während der Gründungphase wird der Stand der Dinge ständig überprüft. Machen, messen, lernen – so funktioniert der permanente Evaluationsprozess. Das spart enorm Zeit, Geld und Ressourcen und bietet die Möglichkeit, spontan den Kurs zu korrigieren. Das Lean-Startup-Tool hat sich schon zigtausenfach in der Praxis bewährt und setzt sich auch in Deutschland immer stärker durch.

The Changing Face of Management in Thailand

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In the decade following the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, the management of organizations in Thailand has undergone significant change and development. The Changing Face of Management in Thailand examines in-depth the development of management during this pivotal period in the country’s recent history.The book draws together an impressive assortment of scholars, consultants and practitioners, whose experience and expertise significantly enhance our knowledge and understanding of this complex, multi-faceted Asian economy. The book is divided into 3 main sections: an examination of the political, economic, social and technological changes from 1997-2008 specialist chapters that contextualise these developments from the marketing, HR and finance perspectives concluding sections focusing on public sector organizations, women managers, corporate governance, e-communication and the ‘Thailand Brand’. With a wealth of vignettes, anecdotes and illustrative quotations bringing each chapter to life, this volume offers a refreshing, updated and in-depth analysis of this rich, diverse and fascinating nation.

La Consommation des Français (2)

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Dans cet ouvrage en deux tomes, version entièrement refondue et actualisée d'un précédent livre dans la collection Repères, deux des meilleurs spécialistes de la question établissent un bilan rigoureux et accessible des études et recherches sur les grandes tendances et les évolutions de la consommation en France. Le tome 1 est, notamment, consacré à l'alimentation, à l'habillement et au logement.

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