Move Up  -  Clotaire Rapaille, Andrés Roemer

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As the age old-proverb goes, 'Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive. But what they hide is vital.' Move UPuncovers what has until now been conservatively hidden, exposing the real, surprising biological, social and psychological reasons why some cultures do well and some don't. Forget everything you thought you knew. As Rapaille and Roemer show, it's not about GDP or average income. With their pioneering R2 index, they evaluate 71 countries and offer a new way of understanding upward mobility. They demonstrate that our reptilian brain is most dominant. They make the case for letting our more basic instincts influence high-level decision-making. They discuss entrepreneurship, sex, investment in the arts and the fundamental biological differences between genders. The result shows how we can determine which countries are moving UP, which aren't, and which we should be a part of. This is not an academic text. It's not about the financial development of countries. It's about the reasons behin...
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2015 Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0241186994 ISBN-13: 9780241186992
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