Tag: Book review
Critique of Capitalism – The Limits to Growth
Capitalism doesn’t make it particularly difficult for its critics: the market liberalizations of the 1980s resulted in tax-financed state liability for banks that had gambled away. The ideology of open…
Some time out: book tips for the summer
Summertime Enjoy the beautiful weather and just switch off – the best way to do this is with the right book between your fingers. Summer is here. Time to relax…
What the farmer of the past has over modern man
A farmer on a tractor Farming has changed a lot as a result of industrialization. (Photo: mauritius images / Cavan Images) Dusseldorf For a long time, rural agriculture was a…
AI is becoming a threat to our elections
san francisco Next year the US will elect its president. Frances Haugen warns that artificial intelligence (AI) will turn out to be a powerful tool for disinformation and the targeted…
The History of the West – The Turn for the Worse
G7 Summit At a meeting of the G7 in Japan, the West was united. (Photo: dpa) Bonn The British historian Timothy Garton Ash, born in London in 1955, has been…
Raw materials and energy from space
Dusseldorf The countdown is on: Mankind is in a new race for the best places in the near-Earth Universe. Above all, the big yellow ball in the night sky promises…
Wealth is more than a full bank account
Luck The car Niclas Lahmers found the formula for happiness: Wealth equals prosperity plus health plus positive relationships. (Photo: Getty Images [M]) Dusseldorf Did you learn anything in school about…
Review: The sky, fiery red – The earth on the brink of catastrophe
Munich Jimmy Carter, 98, is perhaps the most underrated US President of the past 100 years. In 1977, in his second year in office, the head of state promised to…
The best reads about war and peace
For a long time, a war in the middle of Europe seemed unthinkable. But with Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine, the unthinkable has become a bloody reality – and has…
German Business Book Prize 2022: call for entries has started
book Fair Handelsblatt, Goldmans Sachs and the Frankfurt Book Fair are awarding the Business Book Prize this year. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The world is in crisis. After three years of…
This is how you lead a company out of a crisis
companies in transition There are various ways to strategically reposition a company – but mostly it requires a “radical change”. (Photo: IMAGO/MASKOT) Dusseldorf Many of the business models that companies…
Ex-“Bild” boss Diekmann reveals this about Springer
Dusseldorf No one has been editor-in-chief of Europe’s largest tabloid as long as he has. The former head of the “Bild” newspaper Kai Diekmann published his memoirs on Thursday. “I…
Communicate more clearly with these terms
business meeting Whether at work or in private: we always communicate. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) san francisco Language determines social interaction. A team of researchers from Harvard University underscored this with…
Gauck settles accounts with Merkel’s Russia policy
You’re always smarter afterwards, they say, slightly mockingly. On the other hand, it is never too late to understand history. And: Aren’t lessons best learned with a little time lag?…
France has criticized Finance Minister Le Maire’s new novel
Bruno Le Maire The French Economy and Finance Minister has already published 13 books. (Photo: Reuters) Paris France’s finance and economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, has published his second novel…
A new relationship between man and machine
Dusseldorf Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world – scientists, business leaders and politicians are increasingly in agreement on this. Accordingly, there are a large number of books on the…
In Döpfner’s brain: How libertarian people think
Hamburg Springer boss Mathias Döpfner, Tesla pioneer Elon Musk and tech investor Peter Thiel: three influential men who repeatedly attract attention with political statements that are disturbing by German standards.…
Key novel about abuse of power at Axel Springer? It’s in the Stuckrad-Barre book
Dusseldorf Such a secret was very seldom made about a book. Usually, journalists get insights in advance when they want to write a review. Not so with “Still awake?”, the…
Key novel about abuse of power at Axel Springer? It’s in the Stuckrad-Barre book
Dusseldorf Such a secret was very seldom made about a book. Usually, journalists get insights in advance when they want to write a review. Not so with “Still awake?”, the…
How consultants have made themselves irreplaceable for the state and companies
Dusseldorf It is a professional group that fascinates: the consultants. According to the industry association BDU, there are just 173,000 consultants in Germany. That’s not even half a percent of…