Business & Economics

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....

"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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

*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...

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...

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.

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...

'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 book titled Wall Street by the author Kenneth Lipper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

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 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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, comes a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the most infamous stock market crash in history In 1929, the world watched in shock...

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

In Termites of the State, renowned public economist Vito Tanzi presents a sweeping account of the industrialized world's economic development during the twentieth century to today. In the tradition of...

The conventional wisdom that only large corporations can do business in China is a thing of the past. Small and medium-sized businesses today enjoy the same opportunities in China once...

Very little is known on the Australian underground economy. Only speculation has offered estimates of its size - around ten per cent of GDP. This book provides comprehensive research on...

The Republic of Ireland, described variously as "The Emerald Tiger", "The Celtic Tiger" and "The Tiger Economy of Europe", is apparently one of the great success stories of 20th-century Europe....

The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the behavior of supply, demand, and prices by showing that supply and demand exist in balance...

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...

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...