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....

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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

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....

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....

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....

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....

If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....

The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. Every paragraph bursts with intellectual energy and the author's fiery passion....

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was....

This audiobook provides a synopsis of the original 1937 text of Hill’s masterpiece, Think and Grow Rich. It extracts the key principles, instructions, and examples....

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....

One of the most important works ever written on investment theory, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits lays out the fundamental principles of intelligent investing...

Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. The book, based on new sources, leads the listener from the poor, isolated China of the 1950s to the modern economic and military juggernaut of today....

Economic Facts and Fallacies is designed for people who want to understand economic issues without getting bogged down in economic jargon, graphs, or political rhetoric....

In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard....

These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues....

Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals....

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion....

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....

When it comes to doing good business, change is a very good thing. And effective business analysts are at the heart of identifying opportunities for growth and implementing the solutions that can transform an organization's foundation—and ultimately increase its profitability....

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer....

Robert Kiyosaki continues to challenge conventional wisdom and asks the questions that will help listeners sift through today's information overload to uncover ways to assess what's real and what isn't....

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement....

Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki are both concerned. Their concern is that the rich are getting richer, but America is getting poorer....

A timely investigation of the causes of technological and scientific stagnation, and a radical blueprint for accelerating innovation. From the Moon landing to the dawning of the atomic age, the decades prior to the 1970s were characterized by the routine invention of transformative technologies at breakneck speed. By comparison, ours is an age of stagnation. Median wage growth has slowed, inequality and income concentration are on the rise, and scientific research has become increasingly expensive and incremental.

H. G. Wells, one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers—author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man—wrote The Open Conspiracy to express his ideas about how a peaceful and cooperative world community could bring happiness and prosperity to all the inhabitants of the earth. Wars would no longer be fought and hunger would not rear its ugly head. Writing shortly after World War One, he writes of the horrible waste of life and immense suffering that extreme nationalism brought to Europe.

The Finance Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 6 classic works focused on the building of wealth, economics, and critiques of capitalism itself. Including works by authors as diverse as James Allen, George Samuel Clason, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx

Something's gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions-reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism. The problem is, none of this will make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change.

世界は、インフレの恐怖を忘れてしまった――。欧州最大の銀行ＨＳＢＣの上級経済顧問による、おカネの価値が減り続ける時代の経済サバイバルガイド。政府のインフレ容認は「絶望」の始まり？

Er ist empathisch, freundlich, bodenständig und damit nahezu einzigartig in seiner Branche. Er ist der Sympathie-Networker. Siggi Heyne setzt dabei zu 100 Prozent auf einen Faktor: Wonne! Mit Freude im Herzen anderen Menschen glückselige Erfüllung schmieden. Das ist seine Mission. Deshalb bezeichnet er sich selbst als "Wonneschmied". Im Ursprung als Stahlbau-Ingenieur ein Vollblut-Handwerker, ist er heute mit Leib und Seele ein Herzblut-Networker – der sein Handwerk wie kaum ein anderer beherrscht. Dabei schmiedet er Karrieren im glühenden Feuer der absoluten Überzeugung.

Increasingly, we are witnessing popular uprisings around the globe that, contrary to historical insurrections confined to less developed countries and poverty, now share common banners of struggle such as inflation, inequality, elite abuse, immigration, all at the heart of globalization and capitalism which, at the risk of losing its monopolistic and privileged position of the last four decades, requires equally dramatic adjustments.

During the twentieth century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already. In 1990, Vietnam was still one of the poorest countries in the world, while Poland was one of the poorest in Europe. But in the three decades since then, both countries have drastically improved their citizens’ standards of living and escaped the vicious cycle of national poverty.

En este libro Máximo E. Jaramillo Molina detalla cómo la narrativa meritocrática resulta funcional para legitimar la extrema acumulación a la par de la pobreza extrema. A lo largo de siete capítulos el autor busca desmontar los distintos mitos que sostienen la narrativa meritocrática en sociedades con desigualdad extrema y creciente, como la mexicana.

Descubra cómo las mujeres están transformando el mercado laboral en este estudio completo y detallado que explora su integración, importancia económica y lucha por la equidad de género. Este libro es una lectura esencial para entender las tendencias del empleo femenino a lo largo del tiempo, investigando las causas y consecuencias de la segregación ocupacional y las barreras a la movilidad profesional, como el techo de cristal y las prácticas discriminatorias.