The Macat Library: Great Works for Critical Thinking
About the Book Series
Making the ideas of the world’s great thinkers accessible, affordable, and comprehensible to everybody, everywhere.
With a growing list of over 180 titles across a broad range of subject areas, Macat works with leading academics from the world’s top universities to produce new analyses that focus on the ideas and the impact of the most influential works ever written. By setting them in context – and looking at the influences that shaped their authors, as well as the responses they provoked – Macat encourages readers to look at these classics and game-changers with fresh eyes.
An Analysis of Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Rebecca Pohl
September 17, 2018
Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics. Until Haraway’...
An Analysis of David J. Teece's Dynamic Capabilites and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth
1st Edition
By Veselina Stoyanova
July 31, 2018
Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management is a pioneering book in business studies, one of the most succinct and in-depth examinations of dynamic capabilities, explaining both their foundations and the strategic implications they hold for both academics and practitioners in the field of ...
An Analysis of Pankaj Ghemawat's Distance Still Matters: The Hard Reality of Global Expansion
1st Edition
By Alessandro Giudici, Marianna Rolbina
May 14, 2018
"Distance Still Matters" is an influential Harvard Business Review article. In this work, Ghemawat proposes the CAGE distance framework that allows firms to consider four dimensions of international distance (cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic) when planning global expansion. Then, ...
An Analysis of Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined
1st Edition
By Elise Klein
May 11, 2018
Amartya Sen’s Inequality Re-Examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality. By asking the question, ‘equality of what’?, Sen shows that (in)equality should be assessed as human freedom; for people to have the ability to pursue and achieve goals they ...
An Analysis of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics
1st Edition
By Gary Slater, Andreas Vrahimis
May 11, 2018
Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the most important and influential books in Western philosophy by virtue of its uncompromisingly direct arguments about the nature of God, the universe, free will, and human morals. ...
An Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street
1st Edition
By Nicholas Burton
May 11, 2018
Burton Malkiel’s 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel’s text remains an indispensable contribution to the world of investment strategy – one that...
An Analysis of Chris Argyris's Integrating the Individual and the Organization
1st Edition
By Stoyan Stoyanov
May 11, 2018
A critical analysis of Argyris’s Integrating The Individual and the Organization, which forms part of a series of essays and books considering how organisations should be run. The essay explores the lack of congruence between the needs and expectations of individual employees and the...
An Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Allan
May 11, 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition – ...
An Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across Nations
1st Edition
By Katherine Erdman
May 11, 2018
The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology – and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the foundation for strong thinking and understanding ...
An Analysis of Griselda Pollock's Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art
1st Edition
By Karina Jakubowicz
May 11, 2018
Vision and Difference, published in 1988, is one of the most significant works in feminist visual culture arguing that feminist art history of is a political as well as academic endeavour. Pollock expresses how images are key to the construction of sexual difference, both in visual culture ...
An Analysis of Hanna Batatu's The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq
1st Edition
By Dale J. Stahl
May 11, 2018
How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities that effectively side-stepped the conventional wisdom of the time. Historians had long held that Iraq – like other artificial creations of ex-colonial ...
An Analysis of Ikujiro Nonaka's A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation
1st Edition
By Stoyan Stoyanov
May 11, 2018
Ikujiro Nonaka’s A Dynamic Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation outlines the creation of organisational knowledge through the constant conversion of the two types of knowledge, tacit and explicit, which Nonaka believes has the potential to guide managers’ knowledge creation strategies. This ...