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Golden State: The Making of California
From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...
How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this...
Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis- and Europe - Can Be Fixed
The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the half-built currency has brought...
Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet
Global warming has been described as the biggest environmental threat facing humanity. From drought to hurricanes, global warming has various effects on our lives, some positive but most are negative....
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was
"A tour de force...prepare to be amazed." --John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group Why didn't the Florentines invent the steam engines and flying machines that Da...
The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better
The real world is messy, circular and aggressive. It's full of 'wicked problems' that are not easy to solve in the neat, theoretical ways that game theory or chess challenges...
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The"Irish Economic...
Barbarians of Oil: How the World's Oil Addiction Threatens Global
An engaging look at the global oil industry and how to navigate the price volatility and new policies associated with it Oil is a constantly changing industry, and with the...
Africa's Moment
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty...
Banksters
1929... On Wall Street, during the worst financial crisis the world had ever seen, the word Banksters was coined to describe those ruthless individuals who had gambled away the country...
Age of Greed: the Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970
A vividly told history of how greed bred America's economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. As Jeff Madrick makes clear in...
A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures
These lectures, delivered at the London School of Economics between 1979 and 1981 and tape-recorded by Robbins's grandson, display his mastery of the intellectual history of economics and his enthusiasm...
Wall Street
Fraser brilliantly traces the imaginative history of Wall Street through novels and plays and political polemics, in the great prose of Twain and Wharton, Melville and James and a host...
Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain: 1750 -1990
First published in 2002.The aim of this book is to analyse and dispute a widely-held theory of Britain's 'economic decline' since the mid-nineteenth century, and to offer an alternative view...
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
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There are no more respected voices in the environmental movement than Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands...
The British Economy at the Crossroads
"In policy and prospect, Britain has reached a crossroads. She may go forward, she may go back, or she may simply go sideways. Political, economic and business leaders face a...
The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of American Life
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Despite a half-century of ill-conceived federal policies, John Norquist believes that the American city is on the verge of a renaissanceas long as urban leaders and citizens alike take responsibility...
Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life
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The book titled Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life by the author Independent Scholar Editor Steve Fraser (--). This is a secondhand book. Please...
Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel
*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that...
Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family
In "Dynasties", award-winning historian, David Landes scrutinizes powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America to determine what factors can cause a dynasty to flourish or fail. Drawing on his...
Power Play: The Fight for Control of the World's Electricity
Noted author Sharon Beder argues persuasively that the track record of electricity privatisation and the deregulation around the world indicates that it is a confidence trick.
The Umami Strategy: Stand Out by Mixing Business with Experience
Creating a unique value for your customers is crucial if you want to differentiate in an overcrowded market. To do so, you need to define a powerful strategy that determines...
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship
'Thrilling, meticulous and wondrously original' PHILIPPE SANDS A jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over the last fifty years told through the many lives of a single ship. At 94...
The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities, 1945-50
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In 1945 Britain emerged triumphant and victorious from the Second World War. On 26 July, after a landslide Labour victory, Clement Attlee became Prime Minister and the nation looked forward...
The Modern Money Manifesto: The No-Nonsense Guide to Boosting Your
Written for Millennials and Gen Z readers looking to change their attitude toward money management, The Modern Money Manifesto is a savvy and no-nonsense guide to navigating every step of...
Wall Street
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The book titled Wall Street by the author Kenneth Lipper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the
The system that governs how money works, with its brokers and middlemen, has stayed roughly the same for centuries. Now there's an alternative, and it puts us on the cusp...
Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data
The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the...
The Truth About Money
The book titled The Truth About Money by the author Ric Edelman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us
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 market-based...
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES B ESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK Selected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as...
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and
Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALE is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review), revealing how a young social...
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
From an 'indispensable voice on China' (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China...
I Want It Now: Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World
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In today's world of mega-stores and shop-til-you-drop mentality, people are spending more money than ever in an attempt to find fulfillment in their lives--and children are no exception. In fact,...
Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a
Barack Obama approaches the US presidency at a critical moment in American history - facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, and healthcare, but most especially in the economy. If...
Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive
This book addresses deregulatory policies that threaten to reduce or destroy the value of private property in network industries without any accompanying payment of just compensation, policies that are termed...
Malinowski in Mexico: Economics of a Mexican Market System
The book titled Malinowski in Mexico: Economics of a Mexican Market System by the author Bronislaw Malinowski. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Myth of the Asian Century | A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin
It's time to peel away the layers of a cliche that is not just useless, but harmful. The claim that the twenty-first century will be Asian, just as the twentieth...
War and Power: Who Wins Wars - and Why
A bold, revisionist study which challenges modern misconceptions about the creation of power and the operations of war, from a Professor of Strategic Studies War and power are two of...
How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
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A maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor---and how rich countries make sure to keep it that way. Throughout history, some combination of government...
A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition
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The book titled A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition by the author Michael J Ritt, Jr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America
The 1980s opened with the prime interest rate at an astonishing 21.5 percent, leading to a severe recession with unemployment reaching nearly 11 percent. Depression-like conditions befell the agricultural sector,...
Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan's Masayoshi Son
The real story behind the mercurial Masayoshi Son, who has three times lost and made tens of billions of dollars Gambling Man is the biography of one of the world's...
Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad
Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling...
Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right
A revelatory exploration of how today's right-wing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within it After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in...
Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality...
