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The ultimate success of any organisation comes down to its ability to consistently hire the best talent and to retain that talent. Richard Triggs, one of Australia's top executive search...

From the peasant revolts to the Great European Witch Hunt- the crushing of occult traditions and women's reproductive freedom in the transition to capitalism A cult classic since its publication...

When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective,...

A bold challenge to accepted ideas about the need for regulation of world financial markets In a controversial new book sure to spark debate throughout the world financial community, British...

A history of interest rates and the first book of the next financial crisis, shortlisted for the 2023 Hayek Book Prize All economic and financial activities take place across time....

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism - the theory that markets...

Look out for Tim's next book, The Data Detective . Throughout history, great philosophers have been answering profound questions about life. But do they know why your socks keep disappearing...

In a book that boldly predicts "The Great Reckoning" for Japan, Christopher Wood points to economic and social upheaval on a staggering scale for our Asian competitor--and unprecedented opportunities for...

Are you tired of struggling with the complexities of business finance? Is it time to break free from the cycle of financial struggle and uncertainty? Financial literacy in business is...

This text questions the abilities of the economists who influence political decisions on the economy. Ormerod aims to show that traditional economists view the world in a way which ensures...

Popular imagination has made the pub an enduring cultural icon in Australian life. Since colonisation the pub has played a quintessential part in Australian life, both socially and economically. In...

"Ashes to Ashes" is a monumental history of the American tobacco industry: its awesome and ironic success in developing the cigarette, modern society's most widespread instrument of self-destruction, into America's...

Huge corporations are acting like nations, global wealth is going to billionaires and ordinary people are suffering. It's set to be a rocky decade - but we can fix it....

Behaviour is important. Whether this be the behaviour of those who saw it coming, or of those who constantly berated them. The behaviour of those who rode the boom and...

An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us...

The definitive guide to the science of scalability- how to make good ideas great, and great ideas scale Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take...

A curated collection of the most readable economics blog on the planet from the phenomenally successful Freakonomics authors Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how...

Which lines on the map matter most? It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We're accelerating into a future shaped less by countries than by connectivity....

Drawing on more than three decades of first-hand observations and interviews with politicians, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, Naisbitt identifies eight principal trends that are shaping Asia into a new network...

Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards...

With in-depth surveys on business trends and waves of industrial progress, this series offers a critical look at the practices and evolution of the business world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it...

Since the 2008 financial crisis the price of gold has sky-rocketed, from around $800 an ounce in August of that year to a peak of around $1700 an ounce. Fortunes...

A riveting, revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside out It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth....

What big business has taught the drug lords. Everything drug cartels do to survive and prosper they've learnt from big business - brand value and franchising from McDonald's, supply chain...

The revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals, reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic to mark the 50th anniversary of its publication This brilliant account of working-class society in its...

The final revision of this classic bestseller, the 7th edition defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. Hailed by Galbraith...

'A passionate and informative demonstration of how mitigating climate change can be compatible with economic growth' - Professor Ross Garnaut, the Garnaut Climate Change Review 'Humanity's greatest challenge is to...

WOW Your VIP Guests And Boost Your Business Whether you run a casino, resort, club, hotel, restaurant or conference centre, it has never been harder to compete for your guests'...

The business world seems to have given up on loyalty: many major corporations now lose--and have to replace--half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half...

"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." - Wall Street Journal Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes...

"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." - Wall Street Journal Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes...

A collection of one-on-one discussions with 40 of the world's greatest thought and action leaders and prominent philanthropic figures. THE BUSINESS OF PHILANTHROPY features diverse insights into the power of...

This second edition retains the positive features of being clearly written, well organized, and incorporating calculus in the text, while adding expanded coverage on game theory, experimental economics, and behavioural...

Essential Microeconomics is designed to help students deepen their understanding of the core theory of microeconomics. Unlike other texts, this book focuses on the most important ideas and does not...

Game theory is concerned with strategic interaction among several decision-makers. In such strategic encounters, all players are aware of the fact that their actions affect the other players. Game theory...

Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, The Epic of Latin America is once again revised and brought...

Establishes an economics in which men and women are not ceramic spheres subject only to cold, mathematical forecasts, but free human beings who are responsible for their actions and can...

This work describes how corporate powers have erected a rapacious system of intellectual property rights to confiscate the benefits of creativity in science and culture. This legal system threatens to...

The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers something of...

"The Chinese" explores the impact that a quarter-century of economic reform has had upon the Chinese people, offering an insider's look at the issues which affect and shape China today,...

A leading legal scholar offers a compelling new theory to explain the meteoric rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and their impact on art, business, entertainment, and society, and explains how...

'The work of women is excluded from our national accounting and overlooked in economics in general...Now this splendid work goes far to fill this appalling gap. No concerned woman (or...