Economics

The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications....

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...

Money expert Ramit Sethi offers no-holds-barred advice for managing your finances in this effective six-week program.

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives....

John C. Bogle's The Little Book of Index Investing is a power-packed explanation of why outperforming the market is an investor illusion....

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a...

Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....

Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand....

Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller 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...

Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers -- including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of...

The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and...

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century.

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that...

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

We live in an extraordinary time. Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them. In a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still. These advances bring efficiency and abundance and are profoundly deflationary....

Most Americans — and people worldwide — understand that despite our remarkable technological advances, something is deeply wrong with the direction of our country and world.

Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work....

Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently....

The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated....

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes....

In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below....

Napoleon Hill interviewed and studied the 500 greatest wealth-makers of his time.

La riqueza de las naciones ofrece una mirada profunda y accesible sobre los fundamentos del pensamiento económico. En esta obra clave de la economía moderna, Adam Smith analiza cómo elementos como la división del trabajo, el comercio y el libre mercado han moldeado la forma en que entendemos la economía hoy en día.

While working for the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse's mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers....

When in their lives are innovators most creative, and why? This book summarizes more than two decades of research prompted by this question. The result is an authoritative statement of a new unified theory of creativity, that overturns both popular and scholarly beliefs about the sources of human inventiveness. David Galenson shows that there are two distinctly different kinds of creativity in virtually every discipline.

Peter F. Drucker may be best known as a writer on business and management, but these subjects were not his foremost intellectual concern. Drucker's primary concerns were community, in which the individual has status, and society, in which the individual has function. Here he has assembled selections from his vast writings on these subjects. This collection presents the full range of Drucker's thought on community, society, and political structure and constitutes an ideal introduction to his ideas.

How do you value your private data? What about your job? The truth is someone is selling your data, and your job may be among the countless others being lost to AI at record rates. Because of this abuse of technology among many others, most people have lost all agency over their technology, devices, and information. But technologist William Welser IV has a plan to help us regain control. Enter The Story Economy, a guide that provides fresh purchasing power in a world where opportunity feels harder and harder to grasp.

This is sequel to another volume by Andy Blunden, The Capital/Logic Debate. In this book, the author provides a systematic presentation of the Hegelian structure of the three volumes of Capital. It is shown that Capital contains three distinct layers of structure, originating from Marx’s reading of Hegel’s Logic and his Philosophy of Right. Capital reflects Marx’s critique of the Political Economists, his unique appropriation of economic history and an application of the method outlined by Hegel in his Logic and applied to his Encyclopaedia.

Widely recognized as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, Vilfredo Pareto helped to develop Microeconomics and established a number of theorems that bear his name. He is perhaps best known for the Pareto Principle or the 80/20 Principle, Pareto Index, and Pareto Efficiency. Following Léon Walras as Chair of Political Economy at the University of Lausanne, Pareto was one of the first to incorporate sociology and mathematics into the study of economics, thus bringing rigor to the discipline and solidifying it as a science.

For nearly seventy years, America’s housing market has run on one basic formula: growth. We built bigger, farther, and faster — fueled by cheap land, cheap energy, and the Baby Boom generation’s demand for space. That system worked for decades. It created wealth, jobs, and a powerful cultural story: the American Dream as a house on the edge of town. But that dream is now running in reverse. Our demographics have flipped. Fertility rates are at historic lows. The average household size has shrunk dramatically. More Americans live alone than ever before.

This book is a companion to The Mystery of Wealth (Ridley, 2020a) — the first complete economic theory of entrepreneurship. The path to widespread and accelerated entrepreneurship. The purpose of these two books is to demystify the causes of wealth and poverty like never before done. The Mystery of Wealth was the seminal comprehensive presentation of the CDR index. The CDR index is a mathematical model that shows how capitalism (C), democracy (D) and rule of law (R) jointly with natural resources and geography explain almost all economic growth.

How Capitalism’s spirit and individualism’s power combine into a practical philosophy for everyday life. It’s not about abstract economics or political theory. It’s about you—your choices, your character, your prosperity. We live in a culture that too often encourages envy, dependence, and conformity. Capitalism flips the script. It reminds us that the path to thriving is not through group sacrifice or government control, but through self-responsibility and creative production. Each chapter offers practical ideas you can use immediately: Break free from limiting mindsets.

In a world drowning in copycat “thought leaders” and AI-generated noise, the worst thing you can be is forgettable. This is the ultimate playbook for CEOs, founders, and experts who want to escape “best kept secret” syndrome and grow revenue exponentially by earning the visibility, credibility, and brand preference that you deserve. You'll become the trusted face of your firm, the respected voice in your field, and the magnet that pulls in perfect-fit clients, partners, talent, investors, and media without chasing, convincing, or begging them.

Tariff Nation is both a map and a manual. Patrick J. Meyers takes you inside the forces that broke the postwar order—geopolitical rivalries, pandemic shocks, resource wars, and the rise of rival economic blocs. You’ll see why semiconductors are now a national security priority, why “just-in-time” has given way to “just-in-case,” and why tariffs are no longer relics of the past, but weapons of the present. Drawing on history, policy analysis, and real-world case studies, Tariff Nation reveals how nations, companies, and individuals can turn trade wars into opportunities.

México inició el milenio con viento favorable para ser una nación de éxito: había conquistado la democracia, tenía una economía abierta al mundo y su población joven le daba una oportunidad demográfifica única. Un cuarto de siglo después el panorama es, al menos, decepcionante: avanza la erosión de la democracia, la economía está sumida en un largo estancamiento y su población padece la desigualdad, la precariedad y la violencia.

What’s the Biggest Money Myth Holding You Back? is a raw, real, and reflective short listen that gets to the heart of your financial beliefs—and challenges the myths that are keeping you broke, stuck, and stressed.

Are today’s financial struggles really that different from the challenges of the past? Dive into The Wealth Almanac by Michael Kelly, a thought-provoking journey through financial history that reveals lessons and insights from key economic turning points—from the post-World War II boom to the technology-driven markets of today’s era. In this unique journey, Kelly unpacks how the economic shifts of past decades continue to influence our world and shows listeners how they can use these insights to make informed decisions today.