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Xinde (Cinder) Zhang: AI FINANCE:
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - AI DRIVER™ SERIE

AI FINANCE: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - AI DRIVER™ SERIES

The first analysis of how AI, robotics, and genetic engineering converge to reshape civilization Most analyses of technological disruption examine AI, robotics, or genetic engineering in isolation. A Perfect World: The Unintended Consequences of the AI, Robotics and Biotech Revolution is the first work to analyze their inevitable convergence and the societal consequences it creates. William Nobrega, a Deloitte alumnus and Army Special Forces veteran who advises Fortune 500 companies on disruption strategies, introduces what he calls the "holy trinity of disruption." Drawing on extensive research, expert interviews, and historical analysis spanning 50,000 years of human development, A Perfect World examines where these three technologies stand today and where expert consensus places them in fifteen years. Nobrega applies basic economic principles to reveal how their interaction effects will create impacts far exceeding what each technology produces independently, potentially yielding a bifurcated world. Readers will also find: <ul> <li>A framework for understanding how AI, robotics, and genetic engineering convergence will reshape industries and global labor markets</li> <li>Analysis of how genetic engineering may enable designed physical characteristics, disease elimination, and IQ augmentation within the coming decades</li> <li>Exploration of both utopian and dystopian outcomes grounded in military, corporate consulting, and academic research perspectives</li> <li>Historical parallels including examination of modern connections to Orwell's 1984 and the origins of human communication</li> <li>Analytical tools for business leaders and policymakers navigating what robotic labor replacement means for low-skilled workforces globally</li> </ul> Written for business leaders, policymakers, and informed citizens seeking to understand how the convergence of AI, robotics, and genetic engineering will transform their industries and society, A Perfect World provides the frameworks and analytical tools necessary to navigate the most consequential technological transformation in human history.

The Unintended Consequences of the AI, Robotics and Biotech Revolution

A Perfect World

A step-by-step guide to AI-native analytics systems for BI practitioners Building Business Intelligence Apps with AI provides a step-by-step guide for data analysts, data engineers, and BI developers who need to integrate AI into their analytics workflows. Written by Ryan Dolley, a data industry veteran with fifteen years of experience across BI development, consulting, and data vendor roles, this book shows how to partner with AI to deliver better data models, dashboards, and business queries while building AI-native experiences for end users. The book addresses data foundations, outsourcing repetitive tasks to AI, and scaling autonomous analytics systems that maintain accuracy and data governance. Readers learn practical steps for increasing individual and team effectiveness using AI while avoiding common pitfalls such as hallucination, data inaccuracy, and user abandonment. It delivers operating models that data departments need, covering everything from data blending and dashboard creation to personalization and responsiveness. Readers will also find: <ul> <li>Practical techniques for partnering with LLMs to accelerate data modeling, querying, and dashboard development across BI workflows</li> <li>Strategies to outsource repetitive analytics tasks to AI while maintaining rigorous data governance and accuracy standards</li> <li>Operating models for individuals and data departments to scale AI-native analytics systems that end users adopt</li> <li>Methods for building autonomous, personalized analytics experiences that address user expectations for speed and responsiveness</li> <li>Guidance on avoiding AI pitfalls including hallucination, data inaccuracy, and user abandonment in production analytics environments</li> </ul> Data analysts, data engineers, BI developers, and their managers will find in this book the specific skills and operating models needed to integrate AI into daily analytics work. It equips practitioners to build accurate, autonomous analytics systems while strengthening data governance and accelerating delivery across their teams.

Building Business Intelligence Apps with AI

Preya Bhattacharya offers the first full-length assessment of the impact of microfinance on post-conflict women's empowerment in the Balkans. In so doing, she provides vital new insights into what women's microfinance contributes to macroeconomic development in the former Yugoslavian countries of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo. At the same time, she develops a uniquely clear, concise approach to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), which she uses to make sense of an extensive, exhaustive raw set of available data and research. This methodology not only offers a way of using both micro and macroeconomic data to revisit Amartya Sen's theory of development as freedom, but also provides a framework for other researchers to assess the impacts of microfinance on women's development throughout the world, and particularly in the Global South. For its original focus, its clear and streamlined methodological approach, and its global implications, this book provides a go-to source for researchers, students, and practitioners of international development, gender studies, and economics and finance.

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Microfinance and Post-conflict Women's Empowerment in the Balkans

Independent, inflation-targeting central banks were supposed to deliver stable prices, financial stability and lasting prosperity. Instead, they have presided over financial crises, stagnant growth, rising inequality and the return of inflation. Yet policy makers and politicians have proved remarkably reluctant to challenge the orthodoxy. Why has this model proved so resilient-and what should replace it? In The Gods That Failed, economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that today's macroeconomic policy framework rests on five powerful myths that have shaped economic thinking since the 1980s. From the "natural" rate of interest and the management of inflation expectations to efficient financial markets and the taboos surrounding fiscal dominance and credit policy, these ideas continue to constrain policymakers even as the evidence against them becomes overwhelming. Blending colourful economic history, cutting-edge research and vivid real-world examples, Ryan-Collins opens-up the often opaque and technocratic world of monetary and financial policy for a wide readership and illustrates its fundamental flaws. At a time of repeated economic and financial shocks, ecological breakdown and geopolitical instability, The Gods That Failed argues that rebuilding our economies will require a wholesale rethinking of how central banks, governments and financial institutions work together to manage money, credit and the macroeconomy.

Rethinking Central Banking and Macrofinancial Policy for the Age of Polycrisis

The Gods that Failed

Understand the psychology that drives investor decisions and raise capital on your terms&nbsp; In&nbsp;Beyond the Pitch: The Psychology of Raising Venture Capital, Allison Baum Gates, General Partner at&nbsp;SemperVirens&nbsp;and Lecturer at Columbia Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, reveals why founders with similar backgrounds and financials receive vastly different valuations. Drawing on experience deploying more than $350 million into over 100 startups, she decodes the hidden dynamics behind fundraising outcomes.&nbsp; Beyond the Pitch&nbsp;features real-life stories and interviews with founders who have successfully and unsuccessfully raised venture capital, alongside candid insights from the investors who chose which companies would win. Readers learn how to read investor signals, navigate VC personality types,&nbsp;leverage&nbsp;the fear-of-missing-out psychology that drives decisions, and exploit hidden biases to their advantage.&nbsp; Readers will also discover:&nbsp; <ul> <li>How to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;whether a venture capitalist is genuinely interested in your company or simply gathering market intelligence&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Why VCs ghost founders and proven strategies for re-engaging investors who have gone silent after&nbsp;initial&nbsp;meetings&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The specific personality types common among venture capitalists and how to tailor your approach to each one&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Where and when founders can seize control of the fundraising process to negotiate terms more favorable to them&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>How fear-of-missing-out psychology shapes investor decision making and practical techniques for triggering it ethically&nbsp;</li> </ul> A vital resource for startup founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and business school students,&nbsp;Beyond the Pitch&nbsp;equips anyone preparing to raise VC funding with the psychological insights and tactical knowledge needed to navigate the fundraising process and secure investment on favorable terms.&nbsp; &nbsp;

The Psychology of Raising Venture Capital

Beyond the Pitch

A financial planning guide built specifically for adults living without children&nbsp; In&nbsp;But Who Will Take Care of You When You're Old?: Financial Planning for Life Without Kids, CPA and CFP® Kelley C. Long draws on over 20 years of client-facing financial planning experience to address a reality facing more than 20% of U.S. adults: how to finance later-life and end-of-life care without children to help.&nbsp; Long provides a step-by-step approach to life and financial planning that moves beyond the traditional model built around raising children,&nbsp;saving for&nbsp;retirement at 65, and leaving a legacy. The book includes exercises to address internal blocks around counter-cultural lifestyle choices alongside practical personal finance strategies for achieving financial independence on your own terms.&nbsp; Readers will also find:&nbsp; <ul> <li>Guidance on funding later-life care independently, without relying on family members to coordinate or provide support&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Strategies for pursuing meaningful goals like career changes, travel, or starting a business while&nbsp;maintaining&nbsp;financial security&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Exercises designed to build confidence in lifestyle decisions that diverge from conventional expectations around family and finances&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Practical approaches to personal finance that do not assume legacy planning or dependent-centered savings as primary objectives&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A framework for balancing present-day fulfillment with long-term planning to ensure you can afford care when needed&nbsp;</li> </ul> Written for Millennial and Gen X adults who are child-free by choice or circumstance, whether single or partnered, this book provides the financial planning tools and mindset shifts needed to live fully now while preparing to fund your own care later in life.&nbsp;

Financial Planning for Life Without Kids

But Who Will Take Care of You When You're Old?

Identify strategic bottlenecks that concentrate wealth and learn to invest in them&nbsp; Choke Points: Investing in the Origins of Wealth, by Barron's Hall of Fame advisor Dryden Pence, reveals how great fortunes arise from controlling strategic bottlenecks where economic activity must flow. Drawing on three decades managing institutional capital and a decorated military intelligence career, Col. Pence translates elite investment philosophy into a narrative-driven framework that teaches ordinary investors to recognize pricing power before it becomes obvious.&nbsp; Built around the registered PENCE Choke Point framework, the book uses case studies spanning Rockefeller's railroad rebates, Apple's App Store, NVIDIA's AI infrastructure grip, and a four-company jet engine oligopoly to reveal how structural advantages create durable wealth. Readers learn to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;persistent margins, limited alternatives, controlled access, and unwavering demand, the characteristics that separate companies worth owning from the rest.&nbsp; Readers will also find:&nbsp; <ul> <li>A tested method for recognizing where money concentrates, drawn from institutional investment strategies rarely made accessible to individual investors&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Real-world stories showing how founders from Standard Oil to pharmaceutical dynasties identified and controlled strategic commercial bottlenecks&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A framework for distinguishing companies with durable pricing power from those lacking structural advantages in their markets&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Pattern recognition techniques adapted from military intelligence analysis, applied to reading the economic landscape for constraint and opportunity&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Guidance&nbsp;on&nbsp;participating&nbsp;in choke point economics through equity ownership without needing to build or manage businesses yourself&nbsp;</li> </ul> Choke Points&nbsp;is written for retail investors, high earners not yet rich, registered investment advisors, and financial advisors seeking a structural framework for wealth-building. It serves anyone who has followed conventional advice and wants a tested lens for&nbsp;identifying&nbsp;where real pricing power&nbsp;resides.&nbsp;

Choke Point Investing

The clear guide to private equity Private equity and private credit have become powerful forces shaping how companies grow, restructure, and operate-yet most people encounter them without fully understanding what they are. Private Equity For Dummies breaks down these complex financial topics in friendly, accessible language, so you can understand how private markets work, why they matter, and what they mean for your career, investments, or business. This book walks you through how private funds invest, how returns are generated, and what risks come along for the ride. Discover what it means to work for, sell to, or invest alongside private market players, and wrap your head around the structures and incentives driving this fast-growing world. Inside this book: <ul> <li>Learn what private equity and private credit are and how they differ from public markets</li> <li>Explore how private funds generate returns and what risks investors should understand before getting involved</li> <li>Discover what happens when a private equity firm acquires a company and what it means for employees</li> <li>Find out how private credit fills lending gaps left by traditional banks </li> <li>Get the context you need to navigate private markets as an investor, employee, or business owner</li> </ul> Whether you're an employee at a private equity-backed company, a business owner exploring financing options, or an investor looking beyond public markets, this Dummies guide gives you the knowledge to make sense of it all.

Private Equity For Dummies

Artificial intelligence has crossed the liability Rubicon. It is no longer a backend IT experiment governed by soft ethics, voluntary frameworks, and vague policy statements; it is a material financial asset driving enterprise revenue and unprecedented legal exposure. As we transition into Industry 5.0, algorithms are making autonomous, consequential decisions at machine speed. Yet, corporate boards and risk committees are attempting to govern these gigahertz systems using static compliance checklists designed for a slower, simpler era. The result is a looming crisis of algorithmic discrimination, regulatory friction, and catastrophic reputational decay. When an opaque, black-box model hallucinates financial advice or leaks proprietary trade secrets, the ensuing failure cascade can destroy billions in market capitalization overnight.AI Governance and Risk Management provides the definitive, boardroom-ready blueprint for surviving the fragmented global regulatory dragnet. This book dismantles the illusion of traditional "Human-in-the-Loop" oversight, proving that true algorithmic safety requires hard, architectural constraints. Drawing on decades of technology operations and academic leadership, the text translates classical financial auditing principles into executable machine logic. The author brings unparalleled practical experience-from supporting six Silicon Valley startups in client-facing roles to develop computer vision use cases, to leading over 30 continuous improvement projects for Cisco Systems. Having authored foundational texts on Segregation of Duties (SOD) and Hierarchical SOD two decades ago, and backed by 15 years of teaching financial risk management, this expertise culminates in the AI Integrity Framework (AIIF). This Hamiltonian approach empowers organizations to embed continuous improvement cycles and strict SOD directly into their deployment pipelines.Readers will discover how to engineer automated "Build Breaks," architect deterministic kill switches, and secure the unstructured data supply chain against copyright contamination and intellectual property theft. By shifting from reactive public relations to proactive "Governance as Code," Chief Risk Officers, legal counsel, and audit committees can mathematically prove fiduciary control to regulators across overlapping jurisdictions, from California to the European Union.Authored by a veteran industry practitioner, creator of five previous Wiley &amp; Sons texts, and current developer of the Industry 5.0 and AI curriculum at Santa Clara University, this release is not a theoretical ethics manual. It is an uncompromising operational survival guide. It provides the exact structural tools necessary to transform artificial intelligence from an unquantified off-balance-sheet liability into a fully auditable, legally defensible, and highly profitable enterprise asset.

The AI Integrity Framework (AIIF) for Enterprise Control and Regulatory Compliance

Auditable AI Governance and Risk Management

**This edition will be released in March 2027. If you want to get a copy ahead of then, have a look at our hardback edition, released in May 2026.** 'If you're worried about wasting your life, read this book.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind A ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling and impactful career in an age of AI. You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. This means your choice of career is the most important decision you'll ever make. Choose well, and you can have a more rewarding, interesting life, and also help solve some of the world's most pressing problems. Choose poorly, and you could waste decades. So what should you do? Most advice is based on no research, instead offering (misleading) platitudes like 'follow your passion'. It's surprisingly out of date, focusing on traditional paths rather than those most likely to thrive in an age of AI. And if you want to help others, the advice is even more simplistic: telling you to choose careers like nurse or doctor, when there are paths in which almost anyone can save more lives. In fact, some careers have hundreds of times more impact than others, but most of us have no idea which ones. Benjamin Todd is the founder of 80,000 Hours, a non-profit that's spent over ten years researching how to have a meaningful and impactful career. Here he introduces a tried-and-tested toolkit framework that has already led thousands of people to change their path. It covers:<ul><li>What really makes for a dream job, and why finding it probably doesn't involve 'following your passion'.</li><li>How to identify which global problems are most pressing, and why they might involve AI as much as climate change.</li><li>Which roles are likely to be automated, and how to ensure yours isn't among them.</li></ul> It's also full of practical tips and tools. You'll come away with a plan to use your 80,000 hours in a way that's rewarding and fulfils your potential to make a difference. 'This career guide is among the most thoughtful and grounded I've seen.' Cal Newport, author of Deep Work 'A remarkably rigorous guide about how to find that perfect career for you.' Ali Abdaal, author of Feel-Good Productivity 'Based on evidence and good sense, not platitudes.' Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature 'The most informative book you can read if you're stuck trying to make one of life's most important decisions.' Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World

How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good

80,000 Hours

Useful & Usable

'Excellent' Aaron Bastani 'Provocative ... An entertaining, sweeping read' Financial Times Every leader comes to power promising growth: think back to the campaigns of Boris, Truss, Sunak, Starmer, Trump. Yet real-term income hasn't improved in the UK since 2008. Across the West, growth has stagnated for well over a decade, leading to cost of living crises, political instability and rising social tensions. Is real economic growth still possible? And with the climate emergency accelerating beyond repair, should we still be pushing for it? In Icarus Economics, acclaimed economist John Rapley argues that the problem of growth is inherently tied up with the climate crisis. We often assume that poor countries will bear the brunt of climate change, pandemics, and other exogenous shocks, but this book argues the opposite: western societies have more wealth and capital to lose and are less inherently resilient. In this book, he shows us how rich countries can grow their own economies by helping poor countries to decarbonise - and in the process, mitigate the effects of climate change.

Growth, Degrowth, and the Future of the West

Icarus Economics

AI FINANCE: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - AI DRIVER™ SERIES

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