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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are...
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
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A renowned complexity scientist promotes a revolution to make economic predictions more scientific, allowing us to build a better world We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating...
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
"Timely... a crucial foundation for building a more empathetic and informed society." - Daniel H. Pink "An important book for those who want to understand... the increasingly complex world." -...
Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock
Who's really to blame for America's catastrophic financial meltdown and devastating national recession? Contrary to what the "Occupy Movement" might tell you, it's not just greedy Wall Street executives (though...
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero
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A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the...
Who Runs Britain?: ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're
On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the Bank...
The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down
How do you plot a safe course through the next financial crisis? How do you plot a safe course through the next financial crisis? In the global bestseller The Great...
The Keynes Mutiny
THE KEYNES MUTINY explores the secrets behind the incredible stockmarket success of John Maynard Keynes. Keynes - the acclaimed economist, statesman and writer - was one of the few men...
Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered
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Sometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, using LEGO--which experienced one of the most remarkable business transformations in...
The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars...
The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats - and Our Response - Will
New York Times Bestseller Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years-including the pandemic-to show how we can respond to three great crises...
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities...
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionising both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and...
Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
Karl Marx (18181883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication...
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television...
End This Depression Now!
The Great Recession is more than four years old-and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge-all the ingredients for...
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick
National Bestseller CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year It's the biggest revolution you've never heard of, and it's hiding in plain sight. Over the past...
The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it
The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can't afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the future will...
The Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded: A Proven Plan for
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A Trusted Plan for Becoming Debt-Free with Over 8 Million Copies Sold. Do you want to build a budget that actually works for you Are...
Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe...
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and FT BUSINESS BOOK
The real threat to liberal democracy isn't autocrats - it's the lack of effective action by progressives. In Abundance , veteran journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson reveal the structural,...
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's
Winner of the 2020 Davitt Award for True Crime/Non-fiction. Against all the odds, Australia held a royal commission into the banking and financial services industries. Its revelations rocked the nation....
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering The Legacy Of Poverty In America
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you...
The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars...
Hormegeddon: How Too Much of a Good Thing Leads to Disaster
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"Hormegeddon" is the term coined by entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author Bill Bonner to describe what happens when you get too much of a good thing in the...
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
A reissue of Niall Ferguson's bestselling book with a major new chapter on the first ten years of the Financial Crisis Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you...
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why
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Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to...
The Business of Philanthropy: Perspectives and Insights from Global
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...
Why We're Getting Poorer: A Realist's Guide to the Economy and How We
An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. 'A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us...
Game Theory Basics
Game theory is the science of interaction. This textbook, derived from courses taught by the author and developed over several years, is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to the mathematics of...
What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists
From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists...
Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and
Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies...
Globalization and Money: A Global South Perspective
Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways that empower themselves and their families. Supriya Singh...
Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention
Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will...
Between Friends: Perspectives on John Kenneth Galbraith
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Fifteen original essays by eminent personalities in public life, journalism, economics, and the arts, written to honor the ninetieth birthday of one of the world's most famous economists The wide...
Megatrends Asia: The Eight Asian Megatrends That are Changing the
While the attention of the West has been fixed on the USSR and Eastern Europe, a quieter, cumulative revolution has been taking place in Asia which may have even more...
The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret
'The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.' James Patterson 'This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of...
Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong
When Economyths was first published in 2010, David Orrell showed how mainstream economics is based on key myths such as fair competition, rational behaviour, stability and eternal growth - and...
Governance in Pacific Asia: Political Economy and Development from
This book examines the political economy of the states of Pacific Asia, stretching from Japan to Burma since the end of WWII. "Governance in Pacific Asia" offers a comprehensive account...
For Profit: A History of Corporations
We have long been suspicious of corporations recklessly pursuing profit and amassing wealth and power. But the story of the corporation didn't have to be like this. For most of...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel...
How to Write a Good Ad - Masters of Marketing Secrets: A Short Course
"Most advertising copywriters know their fundamentals. Many of us practice them. Some of us should get back to them. "Whether one is now studying to go into the field of...
A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian
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The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an award-winning investigative journalist...
