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Author:

Biran, Shraga F.

Title:

Opportunism : how to change the world-- one idea at a time / Shraga F. Biran ; edited by Lawrence Malkin ; translated from the Hebrew by Dan Gillon.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

209 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Opportunity.
Opportunity--Social aspects.
Opportunity--Economic aspects.
Entrepreneurship--Social aspects.

Other Titles:

Be-shivḥe ha-oporṭunizm. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index. Translation of: Be-shivḥe ha-oporṭunizm.

Contents:

Opportunity has never had an opportunity -- How opportunism got a bad name -- Creative opportunity -- Assets and opportunities, new and old -- Opportunity as property -- Property, equality, and democracy -- The end of private property -- The new framework of property -- The transformation of capitalism -- When the expected actually happens -- Thinking about intellectual property -- Reforming intellectual property -- An opportunity for change.

ISBN:

0374175780
9780374175788

OCLC:

(OCoLC)648922950

LCCN:

2010036010

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)