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Book Review — The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business by Umair Haque

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Jan 24, 2012

I’ve never been one to conform, and Havas Media Lab Director and HBR blogger, Umair Haque isn’t either. The radical re-imagining of economics and capitalism he proposes in The New Capitalist Manifesto is an idea for the 21^st Century, rising out of the ashes of a still-burning post-Industrial economy. Illustrating his new economics through comparisons between old […]

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Jan 6, 2012

Over the Christmas break, I read Umair Haque’s new book, Betterness. It’s one of the most clear articulations of the way I believe economics and all organisations should function that I’ve come across. Available only as an ebook, just 64 pages in length and at less than US$3, it’s a bargain available through Amazon and […]

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