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This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan
Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal
contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley's work cannot be
easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a
critical examination (along both ethical and analytical lines) of
conventional neoclassical economic theory, particularly involving
general equilibrium theories of value and money. Foley was a
pioneer of complexity economics as well, which adopts approaches to
these questions drawn from natural sciences, so the collection
therefore has an interdisciplinary quality that will interest a
wide variety of readers. Some of the chapters are intellectual
biographies that contextualize and identify Foley's contributions
to Keynesian macroeconomics, Marxian value theory, and complexity
theory in economics. The topics covered include the economics of
complexity; the ethics of general equilibrium theory; the economics
of climate change; applications of Keynesian, Marxian and Ricardian
political economy; and money and financial crises. The collection
should be useful to scholars who work in various economic
traditions critical of the currently dominant free-market approach,
but it also speaks to scholars of critical theory in various
disciplines beyond economics such as the mathematicians,
physicists, and other natural scientists who are interested in
understanding the complexity of social processes using their
analytical frameworks. This book should also appeal to graduate
students in economics who are working in these traditions, as well
as scholars (including current graduate students in orthodox
programs) who are dissatisfied with the current state of economic
theory and would like to satisfy their intellectual curiosity by
sampling the contributions of critical theorists.
This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan
Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal
contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley's work cannot be
easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a
critical examination (along both ethical and analytical lines) of
conventional neoclassical economic theory, particularly involving
general equilibrium theories of value and money. Foley was a
pioneer of complexity economics as well, which adopts approaches to
these questions drawn from natural sciences, so the collection
therefore has an interdisciplinary quality that will interest a
wide variety of readers. Some of the chapters are intellectual
biographies that contextualize and identify Foley's contributions
to Keynesian macroeconomics, Marxian value theory, and complexity
theory in economics. The topics covered include the economics of
complexity; the ethics of general equilibrium theory; the economics
of climate change; applications of Keynesian, Marxian and Ricardian
political economy; and money and financial crises. The collection
should be useful to scholars who work in various economic
traditions critical of the currently dominant free-market approach,
but it also speaks to scholars of critical theory in various
disciplines beyond economics such as the mathematicians,
physicists, and other natural scientists who are interested in
understanding the complexity of social processes using their
analytical frameworks. This book should also appeal to graduate
students in economics who are working in these traditions, as well
as scholars (including current graduate students in orthodox
programs) who are dissatisfied with the current state of economic
theory and would like to satisfy their intellectual curiosity by
sampling the contributions of critical theorists.
In times of networking and the growing importance of platform
economies, how can products and services be developed that inspire
people? Which development methods and organisational forms are
promising for this? Leaders and developers will find answers to
these questions in this book. With their holistic approach, the
authors look at the changing leadership roles that arise in the
development of products and services: Is it, for example, about
translating new ideas or unknown technologies into high-quality
products? Or is it about working efficiently together in an
international development alliance? The procedures and models were
discussed and further developed in more than 10,000 theoretical and
practical workshops with managers at Bosch worldwide. At its core
is a leadership model that facilitates discussion and combines the
skills needed to master technical issues with those needed to lead
people. After an introductory chapter on fundamental questions such
as the organization's purpose, values, and strategic goals, key
elements of leadership in systems design are introduced, including
requirements engineering, architecture design, and model-based
development. The following chapters discuss concrete approaches and
strategies to - Convert quality attributes, - to reduce risks, - to
introduce a review culture, - manage complexity - Process conflicts
- Define roles - to build teams. The structure of the book follows
the process of developing and implementing strategic goals.
However, each chapter can also be read on its own, as it forms a
self-contained unit. This book makes the leadership task
understandable, discussable and learnable for developers. It thus
helps managers to shape change in their own field of work or to
grow into a new role.
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