Business & Economics

"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....

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...

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...

A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to...

A short anatomy of neoliberalism that shatters its founding myths and points the way to an alternative system This book is dynamite' - Caroline Lucas | 'Fantastic' - Mark Ruffalo...

The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world in this Sunday Times bestseller All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of...

A radical examination by a leading financial analyst, commentator and investor of the ills of capitalism and how they can be fixed What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma's explanation...

A world-leading expert in inequality makes the case for a hard limit on personal wealth We all notice when the poor get poorer- when there are more rough sleepers and...

The explosive expose of the billion-dollar company that has often made our world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. **A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR...

An eye-opening investigation into life below the poverty line that turns received thinking on its head Winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 Why...

The surprise bestselling tour de force from a former president of the Royal Statistical Society- the essential guide to statistical science in the age of big data Statistics has played...

A revelatory account of the past, present and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from...

From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19 'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert reveals how climate battles and energy revolutions are mapping our future A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and...

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time...

A dramatic and powerful call for a new approach to society and government, using the determined co-ordination of the moon landings as a blueprint for change The extraordinary efforts that...