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  • Mark Blyth explains through a very interesting examination of intellectual and natural history the idea of austerity. A very dangerous idea, indeed, that affects us all. Throughout the book, Blyth shows that there is not a single case of the country that would succeed in reducing its debt or solving the crisis by playing by the austerity instructio...

  • My abstract, titled Assessment of the geostrategic position and use of the TEN_T and branch railway lines in Slovenia and its border regions, got accepted to the 9th STS Italia Conference. Theme of the conference is Interesting Worlds to come. Science & Technology Studies facing more-than-human challenges....

  • Review by Marko Savić of the James Lovelocks's book The ages of Gaia: A biography of our living earth. Lovelock's second edition of The ages of Gaia is a response to the criticism of his Gaia theory, to the recognition of which he had to wait for 36 years. As a proud independent scientist, Lovelock followed his scientific instincts and intuition w...

  • Review by Marko Savić of the Mikael Colville-Andersen's book Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism. A modern view of urban spaces where significantly more space should be allocated to bicycles (again). It is not a question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, in terms of how to achieve a higher share of cycling. ...

  • Bijker was, according to his own statement in the book, drawn to the science-technology-society (STS) movement already back in the 1970s. The book itself was published in 1995 by the MIT Press. While Bikers was drawn to the STS movement because of its goal to “enrich the curricula of both universities and secondary schools by offering new ways to e...

  • The first thing that caught my attention was its title. Why the history of ‘development’, why not a history of ‘sustainable development’, that is such a buzzword these in last decades. After reading this book, I’m actually convinced that my subject at the doctoral program should use the word ‘development’ and not ‘sustainable development’. ...

  • The mission of this book, for which it is really hard to say that it is only a business book, is to: "make a difference in shaping organizations and leaders who consider broader responsibilities than the balance sheet." According to authors, to achieve a funky organization we must have the gifts and guts to imagine and work wonders. All this impli...

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow is the book of the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. My rating of the book is 4 out of 5 stars. Short review presents the psychodrama with the two characters, Sistem 1 and Sistem 2. Book shows us, that it’s easier to recognize other people’s mistake than our own, among many other very useful cases and examples. For busin...

Marko Savić

Business Coach and Consultant, Senior Lecturer in Design Management, and pro-bono Director of the Mobilitatis Omni institute on weekdays.

Author of the book, titled in Slovene Oblikovanje poslovnih modelov (English would be Business Model Design). Interdisciplinary doctoral student in Environmental Protection at the University of Ljubljana.

Events organizer and beach volleyball promoter for Cona.center on weekends. Professor of Physical Education, FIVB certified Beach Volleyball Coach, and veteran beach volleyball player. Former first league volleyball player.

Salsa dancer, newly regular morning runner and year-round cyclist.