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Buy good companies. Don't overpay. Do nothing. Some people love to
make successful investing seem more complicated than it really is.
In this anthology of essays and letters written between 2010-20,
leading fund manager Terry Smith delights in debunking the many
myths of investing - and making the case for simply buying the best
companies in the world. These are businesses that generate serious
amounts of cash and know what to do with it. The result is a
powerful compounding of returns that is almost impossible to beat.
Even better, they aren't going anywhere. Most have survived the
Great Depression and two world wars. With his trademark razor-sharp
wit, Smith not only reveals what these high-quality companies
really look like and where to find them (as well as how to discover
impostors), but also: - why you should avoid companies that abuse
the English language - how most share buybacks actually destroy
value - what investors can learn from the Tour de France - why ETFs
are much riskier than most realise - how ESG investors often end up
with investments that are far from green or ethical - his ten
golden rules for investment - and much, much more. Backed up by the
analytical rigour that made his name with the cult classic,
Accounting for Growth (1992), the result is a hugely enjoyable and
eye-opening tour through some of the most important topics in the
world of investing - as well as a treasure trove of practical
insights on how to make your money work for you. No investor's
bookshelf is complete without it.
Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists,
critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the
public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's
multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an
historical approach offers the best answer to the question: "What
is Contemporary Art?"
Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is characterized by
a return to mainstream modernism in the work of such artists as
Richard Serra and Gerhard Richter, as well as the
retro-sensationalism of figures like Damien Hirst and Takashi
Murakami. At the same time, Smith reveals, postcolonial artists are
engaged in a different kind of practice: one that builds on local
concerns and tackles questions of identity, history, and
globalization. A younger generation embodies yet a third approach
to contemporaneity by investigating time, place, mediation, and
ethics through small-scale, closely connective art making. Inviting
readers into these diverse yet overlapping art worlds, Smith offers
a behind-the-scenes introduction to the institutions, the
personalities, the biennials, and of course the works that together
are defining the contemporary. The resulting map of where art is
now illuminates not only where it has been but also where it is
going.
If postmortems of the 2016 US presidential election tell us
anything, it's that many voters discriminate on the basis of race,
which raises an important question: in a society that outlaws
racial discrimination in employment, housing, and jury selections,
should voters be permitted to racially discriminate in selecting a
candidate for public office? In Whitelash, Terry Smith argues that
such racialized decision-making is unlawful and that remedies exist
to deter this reactionary behavior. Using evidence of race-based
voting in the 2016 presidential election, Smith deploys legal
analogies to demonstrate how courts can decipher when groups of
voters have been impermissibly influenced by race, and impose
appropriate remedies. This groundbreaking work should be read by
anyone interested in how the legal system can re-direct American
democracy away from the ongoing electoral scourge that many feared
2016 portended.
NEW PAPERBACK EDITION WITH ADDITIONAL INTRODUCTION AND END NOTE
FROM THE AUTHOR Why, years after the banking crisis, is the global
economy still mired in recession and burdened by enormous debts?
Why have the tried-and-tested economic policies of the past failed
us this time? In Life After Growth, leading City analyst Tim Morgan
sets out a ground-breaking analysis of how the economy really
works. Economists are mistaken, he argues, when they limit their
interpretation of the economy to matters of money. Ultimately, the
economy is an energy system, not a monetary one. From this, it
follows that we need to think in terms of two economies, not one -
a 'real' economy of work, energy, resources, goods and services,
and a parallel, 'financial' economy of money and debt. These two
economies have parted company, allowing the financial economy to
pile up promises that the real economy cannot meet. Starting with
the discovery of agriculture, Tim Morgan traces the rise of the
economy in terms of work, energy and resources. The driving factor,
he explains, has been cheap and abundant energy. As energy has
become increasingly costly to obtain, the potential for prosperity
has diminished, to the point where growth in the real economy has
ceased. An immediate problem is that our commitments - including
debt, investments and welfare promises - cannot be honoured, which
means that we can expect the financial system to be wracked by
value destruction. At the same time, we need to adapt to a future
in which prosperity can no longer be taken for granted.
If postmortems of the 2016 US presidential election tell us
anything, it's that many voters discriminate on the basis of race,
which raises an important question: in a society that outlaws
racial discrimination in employment, housing, and jury selections,
should voters be permitted to racially discriminate in selecting a
candidate for public office? In Whitelash, Terry Smith argues that
such racialized decision-making is unlawful and that remedies exist
to deter this reactionary behavior. Using evidence of race-based
voting in the 2016 presidential election, Smith deploys legal
analogies to demonstrate how courts can decipher when groups of
voters have been impermissibly influenced by race, and impose
appropriate remedies. This groundbreaking work should be read by
anyone interested in how the legal system can re-direct American
democracy away from the ongoing electoral scourge that many feared
2016 portended.
Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy presents a compelling
case for what consumers, customers, employees, and wider society
are now demanding from companies - the development of brands that
deliver profit with purpose, are sustainable, and create mutually
beneficial meaning. It fuses theory-practice-application to
purpose-driven brand strategies in order to develop a unique
approach that has comprehensive theoretical underpinning as well as
practical and thought-provoking lessons from industry. Data-driven
case studies from a broad range of brands and contexts show the
application of this learning-from micro-brands to corporates;
charities to technology companies; retirement villages to aspiring
high-growth start-ups. Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy
is an in-depth analysis of the philosophy and practice behind
creating a purposeful brand.
In Art to Come Terry Smith—who is widely recognized as one of the
world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary
art—traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops
his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing
contemporaneity as both a historical concept and a condition of the
globalized world allows us to grasp how contemporary art exists in
a fluid space of increasing interdependencies, multiple
contemporaneous modernities, and persistent inequalities.
Throughout these essays, Smith offers systematic proposals for
writing contemporary art's histories while assessing how curators,
critics, philosophers, artists, and art historians are currently
doing so. Among other topics, Smith examines the intersection of
architecture with other visual arts, Chinese art since the Cultural
Revolution, how philosophers are theorizing concepts associated
with the contemporary, Australian Indigenous art, and the current
state of art history. Art to Come will be essential reading for
artists, art students, curators, gallery workers, historians,
critics, and theorists.
In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member
of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the
artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of
Conceptual Art and conceptualism. These four essays and a
conversation with Mary Kelly-published between 1974 and
2012-contain Smith's most essential work on Conceptual Art and his
argument that conceptualism was key to the historical transition
from modern to contemporary art. Nothing less than a distinctive
theory of Conceptual and contemporary art, One and Five Ideas
showcases the critical voice of one of the major art theorists of
our time.
In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists,
critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present
and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit
from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and
postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader
social and political currents, as well as important questions about
temporality and change. They also reflect on whether or not broad
categories and terms such as modernity, postmodernity,
globalization, and decolonization are still relevant or useful.
Including twenty essays and seventy-seven images, "Antinomies of
Art and Culture" is a wide-ranging yet incisive inquiry into how to
understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the
contemporary moment.
In the volume's introduction the theorist Terry Smith argues
that predictions that postmodernity would emerge as a global
successor to modernity have not materialized as anticipated. Smith
suggests that the various situations of decolonized Africa,
post-Soviet Europe, contemporary China, the conflicted Middle East,
and an uncertain United States might be better characterized in
terms of their "contemporaneity," a concept which captures the
frictions of the present while denying the inevitability of all
currently competing universalisms. Essays range from Antonio
Negri's analysis of contemporaneity in light of the concept of
multitude to Okwui Enwezor's argument that the entire world is now
in a postcolonial constellation, and from Rosalind Krauss's defense
of artistic modernism to Jonathan Hay's characterization of
contemporary developments in terms of doubled and even
para-modernities. The volume's centerpiece is a sequence of
photographs from Zoe Leonard's "Analogue" project. Depicting used
clothing, both as it is bundled for shipment in Brooklyn and as it
is displayed for sale on the streets of Uganda, the sequence is
part of a striking visual record of new cultural forms and
economies emerging as others are left behind.
"Contributors" Monica Amor, Nancy Condee, Okwui Enwezor, Boris
Groys, Jonathan Hay, Wu Hung, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss, Bruno
Latour, Zoe Leonard, Lev Manovich, James Meyer, Gao Minglu, Helen
Molesworth, Antonio Negri, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Nikos
Papastergiadis, Colin Richards, Suely Rolnik, Terry Smith, McKenzie
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