Economic Conditions

Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the best seller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century....

China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite....

In Selling in a Crisis, the world's most sought-after sales trainer Jeb Blount delivers an essential blueprint for staying motivated, keeping your pipeline full, increasing sales, retaining your customers, and advancing your career in times of uncertainty and change....

The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it....

An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period....

George Lakey explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world's happiest, most productive workers....

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society - beyond work, scarcity, and capitalism....

This book isn’t just for one kind of entrepreneur—it’s for every kind. Whether you're thriving with purpose or struggling to grow your business and battle self-doubt, No One is Self-Made offers solutions and encouragement you need to push forward with the right community.

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America....

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and more stable nations....

Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change....

With narration by Anu Anand, who tells the story of how Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution....

The authors explore when to expect the next bull market to begin and why, how the 2008 financial crisis has been "papered over" and what to watch for going forward....

What would actually make America great: more people. From one of our foremost policy writers, One Billion Americans is the provocative yet logical argument that if we aren’t moving forward, we’re losing....

China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon....

Political economist Nicholas Eberstadt shows that while "unemployment" has gone down, America's work rate is also lower today than a generation ago....

From the bestselling author of Kleptopia comes a true story about Cuckooland – a world where the rich can buy everything – including the truth....

Here they are, the 2000s, and Barbara Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career....

In his engaging memoir Street Smarts, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years....

The IMF and World Bank were created to help countries survive financial crises and to help them develop into prosperous economic actors. But their 75-year track record shows the opposite.

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the great transformation of the Industrial Revolution.

A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal....

The classic introduction to economic thought, now updated in time for the publication of New Ideas from Dead CEOs....

We need strong financial institutions - but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse. The Finance Curse is the explosive story of how finance got a stranglehold on society and how we might release ourselves from its grasp....