Economics

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....

The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men"....

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 specific...

Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human civilization. This makes economic history a vital lens through which to think....

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...

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

The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism....

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into 19 languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world.

Can you imagine even the poorest country in the world achieving the prosperity and quality of life of today's Switzerland—by 2100? Seems crazy, doesn't it? After all, we live in uncertain times. But we have pulled off marvels before. Human advances over the past 100 years have been unprecedented.

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...

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

Melissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead.

New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs. In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and...

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.

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....

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....

With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny.

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and...

The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our...

So much of the world revolves around economics, so why do most texts make it so dull and difficult to learn? But learning economics doesn’t have to be boring. In Economics 101, you’ll see how learning economics can be engaging. Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of economics...

Accounting for Dummies is the perfect place to start, whether you're operating a small business, just need help managing the family budget, or you're a rising star in corporate America. It's a financial blueprint for the everyday person....

Brought to you by Penguin. The Sunday Times Bestseller! Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work and a good education brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK. That’s what we were told – but the reality is that life chances and...

Crush It! 2.0: The Audiobook: Read by Gary Vaynerchuk, this audiobook version contains additional material not found in the bestselling hardcover edition. Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that...

This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....

Klickzahlen, Fitnesstracker, Bestsellerlisten, Politikerrankings: Unsere Gesellschaft ist besessen von Scores. Der Philosoph C. Thi Nguyen deckt auf, wie Scores zu einem der prägendsten Werkzeuge unserer Zeit geworden sind – und warum wir dringend ihre Wirkungsweise verstehen müssen. Nguyen demonstriert an lebensnahen Beispielen, dass diese scheinbar harmlosen Zahlen uns tatsächlich dazu verleiten, fremde Werte unhinterfragt zu übernehmen. Wenn aber in unserer Beziehung zu unserer Gesundheit, unseren Jobs oder Lieblingsbeschäftigungen nur noch Scores zählen, verarmt unser Leben.

Através de um acordo com o Instituto Liberal, o Instituto Mises Brasil tem a alegria de oferecer a mais radical defesa feita por F. A. Hayek em prol da completa privatização do dinheiro: Desestatização do Dinheiro. Esta obra foi escrita perto do fim de sua carreira, depois de Hayek ter analisado todos os argumentos econômicos de reformas monetárias e examinado a viabilidade política de inúmeras propostas. Hayek mostra a inviabilidade essencial da moeda estatal, e reivindica um mercado totalmente livre para a produção, distribuição e administração do dinheiro.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber teje los hilos de la mitología y la literatura, la etnología y la historia documentada en un rico tapiz, iluminando el papel vital que desempeñaban las mujeres en las sociedades preindustriales. De hecho, hasta la Revolución Industrial, las artes textiles eran una enorme fuerza económica que pertenecía principalmente a las mujeres.

You didn’t create it. You didn’t agree to it. But it controls your life. This is the story of credit, not as a convenience, but as a control system. Behind every mortgage denial, sky-high car loan, or job rejection, there’s a silent judge pulling the strings: your credit score. And it doesn’t just follow you. It defines you. In this book, JJ breaks open the black box. You’ll see how private companies like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion turned your financial behavior into a commodity.

In ihrem neuen Hörbuch konfrontiert Claudia Kemfert uns mit den heute neu gestellten klimapolitischen Fragen und deckt auf, wo Mythen gefährliche Realitäten verschleiern. Sie zeigt, welche Technologien noch funktionieren könnten und wie der Gasausstieg Deutschland zum Technologie-Weltmarktführer macht – wenn uns die Zeit bleibt. Ein Hörbuch für alle, die sich der Illusion verweigern, dass es noch einfache Antworten gibt. Klima und Wirtschaft lassen sich nicht gegeneinander ausspielen.

This powerful follow-up to How to Master the Art of Selling—with over 2 million copies sold—takes your selling capabilities to the next level. Perfect for evolving sales professionals, it provides the refined tools you need to stay mentally resilient, communicate with impact, and read the room like a pro.

In Economic Reality delivers a clear, no-nonsense guide to how the world actually works—not how we wish it worked. Inspired by the tradition of Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics, this book strips away ideology, jargon, and comforting myths to reveal the core principles that govern scarcity, incentives, trade, and human behavior.

For fans of Educated and Invisible Child, David Sussillo combines memoir and cutting-edge neuroscience to tell the story of his unlikely journey from group homes and drug-addicted parents to the scientific elite—exploring why, and how, he managed to succeed against all odds. David Sussillo has...

In Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem? Dr. Lisa Cooper shows how we can work together to eliminate the injustices that plague our health care system and society. The book follows Cooper's journey from her childhood in Liberia, West Africa, to her thirty-year career working first as a clinician and then as a health equity researcher at Johns Hopkins University. Drawing on her experiences, it explores how differences in communication and the quality of relationships affect health outcomes.

Die Generation Debts ist die Generation, die alles bezahlen muss. Es bauen sich in einer alternden Gesellschaft verdeckte Schulden in Billionenhöhe im Hintergrund auf. Die Boomer-Generation, die jetzt in Rente geht, hat diese Lasten aufgetürmt und will jetzt versorgt werden. Die Regierung und der Deutsche Bundestag schauen tatenlos zu.

Across America’s backroads, fields once plowed by calloused hands stand overgrown. Fence posts lean where generations once braced against the wind. Homesteads that echoed with cattle, hymns, and supper-time laughter now sit quiet beneath blinking red towers of green-energy deals, foreign investors, and promises that never came true.

Diffidate di chi propone soluzioni facili. Per i problemi seri ne esistono poche e la disuguaglianza economica alle stelle è senz'altro un problema serissimo. Eppure, se non soluzioni, almeno strade giuste da percorrere se ne intravedono rispetto a quelle sbagliate imboccate sin qui. Tra le più ovvie ci sarebbe quella di ripensare il sistema fiscale in modo che torni, come prevede la nostra Costituzione, a chiedere di più a chi ha di più per alleggerire il carico di chi ha di meno. Questo libro prova a raccontarla meglio per far capire che sarebbe nell'interesse di tutti, ricchi compresi.

To end homelessness, we don’t have to choose between faith and facts. For over a century, the primary Christian ministry model for the un­housed in North America has been gospel rescue missions that offer shelter and food but prioritize evangelism over proven solutions. This approach often perpetuates homelessness rather than ending it.

Two people named Jacob Reed never meant to write an economics book. One teaches AP® Economics. The other hosts an investigative comedy podcast and once mistook Jed Bartlet for his primary source of economic knowledge. Then they discovered that a third “Jacob Reed” had published a trilogy of AI-generated cryptocurrency books under their shared name. This book is their response. In This... Economy?!

"The best, the liveliest and most illuminating" account of Rockefeller, Morgan, and the other men who seized American economic power after the Civil War (The New Republic). John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick...

In the aftermath of Louis XIV's death, France teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. The nation's coffers were empty, its credit destroyed, and its future uncertain. Into this desperate situation stepped an extraordinary figure: John Law—mathematician, gambler, financial theorist, and perhaps the most audacious economic visionary in history.

This book reveals the uncomfortable truth: America's AI leadership is an illusion. We have the best chatbots, but China is building 50 nuclear reactors to power AI data centers. We have startups, but China produces twice as many engineers. We celebrate "asset-light" models, but China manufactures autonomous robots and military drones at scale we cannot match. The AI race will be won by whoever controls energy, manufacturing, and talent—not algorithms.

Geld anlegen wirkt kompliziert – ist es aber nicht, wenn du die richtigen Prinzipien kennst. Dieses Buch zeigt dir Schritt für Schritt, wie du ETFs und Indexfonds wirklich verstehst, Inflation schlägst und langfristig Vermögen aufbaust – ohne Finanzjargon, ohne hektisches Trading und ohne teure Fehler.

Your grocery bill has jumped 40% in the last decade. Your paycheck buys less every month. You work harder, earn more, and still seem to fall further behind. You've probably wondered — is this just the way things are? Is anyone actually in charge of this? And if so, why isn't anyone fixing it? The answers are hiding in plain sight, inside the banking system most of us were never taught to understand.

Conspiración del Crédito es una lectura obligatoria para quienes desean descubrir la verdad detrás del sistema crediticio moderno. Con la información más cruda y completa que jamás encontrarás sobre el crédito, este libro ofrece respuestas impactantes a preguntas que pocos se atreven a formular: ¿por qué las agencias de crédito quieren que tengas un mal puntaje? ¿Y por qué el crédito parece estar diseñado principalmente para las personas de bajos recursos?

Smart Strategies for Real Estate is a practical, insight-driven guide for investors seeking to build lasting wealth through informed and disciplined real estate decision-making. Designed for both aspiring and experienced investors, this book moves beyond speculation and shortcuts to focus on the strategic principles that drive sustainable success across changing market conditions. At its core, the book emphasizes that real estate investing is a business—one that requires clear goals, market understanding, and consistent execution.

From an award-winning professor of economics, an accessible and comprehensive introduction to what causes, and what can address, increases in the cost of living.

Loan notes are sold as safe, asset-backed investments promising stable, above-market returns. They are wrapped in professional language, overseen by trustees, drafted by lawyers, and promoted through glossy brochures and trusted introducers. Yet behind the façade, hundreds of millions of pounds have vanished.

The 1965 film Poverty in Rural America by the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers a documentary portrait of impoverished rural communities across the United States during the early years of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s "War on Poverty." The film highlights the economic and social hardships faced by families in isolated regions, including Appalachia, the rural South, Native American reservations, and agricultural areas in the Southwest.

In the early twenty-first century, environmental risks such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, large-scale migrations, and conflicts over critical resources have become our lived reality in a world where nearly 8 billion people struggle to thrive. These crises have proven impossible to address without fundamental transformations of our economic institutions—exactly as predicted in this groundbreaking work. First published in 1994, Taming the Dragon offers a careful investigation of the processes that have led to global environmental change.