Economics

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....

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....

In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West....

Buy as many lattes as you want. Spend extravagantly on the things you love. Live your rich life instead of tracking every last expense with Ramit Sethi’s simple, powerful, and effective six-week program for gaining control over your finances....

Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English....

Economic forces are everywhere around you. But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you....

The expanded edition includes a new epilogue in four parts, adding an extra hour to the audiobook. Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable....

There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won’t die....

Why is there so much inequality? In this short book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his 11-year-old daughter Xenia's deceptively simple question....

The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

Maverick thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb had an illustrious career on Wall Street before turning his focus to his black swan theory....

The long-awaited follow-up to the global best-seller Liar's Poker, The Big Short tells a story of spectacular, epic folly....

We've designed this income tax fundamentals course to be self contained, and we carefully explain any terminology that we use; no prior income tax or accounting knowledge is necessary....

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour....

The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971....

An absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history....

Lecturing Birds on Flying calls for the radical substitution of good old-fashioned common sense in place of mathematical decision-making....

Tim Harford reveals how supermarkets, airlines, and coffee chains, to name just a few, are vacuuming money from our wallets....

We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before....

Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have been working hard, uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from charity to terrorism and prostitution....

In these 36 engaging lectures, Professor Muller takes you deep inside the perspectives on capitalism, this most important and pervasive force....

The Prize is as much a history of the 20th-century as of the oil industry itself....

Supertrends: 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future is about how efficient futurists work and how we can expect the world to evolve in terms of demographics, general economics, technologies, business models, resources, environment, and lifestyles....

The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution, which has been hailed as the greatest advancement since the invention of the Internet....

In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar....

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story....

Uncertainty pervades the big decisions we all make in our lives....