Economics

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

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....

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 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....

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....

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....

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

George Soros, called "a superstar among money managers" by The New York Times, shares the investment strategies he uses...

This unique and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money - earning it, spending it, and giving it away - can offer surprising insight into our lives....

Dave Ramsey's New York Times best-selling guide to better living through financial security, now completely revised and updated....

If this were 1923, this book would have been called "Why Radio Is Going to Change the Game"....

Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....

The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the "fraternity of geeks" who shaped it....

Behavioral economics is the study of decision making, and of the related themes of valuation, exchange, and interpersonal interactions....

China's Great Wall of Debt is a penetrating examination of the country's opaque financial system and the complex factors that have brought the country to the brink of crisis....

The innovative investor's guide to an entirely new asset class - from two experts on the cutting edge....

Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest....

The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history....

However much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous....

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

From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion 12 classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America....

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

Do you see tremendous leadership potential in somebody on your staff, but aren't quite sure how to bring out the leader in her? Do you wish you could provide your child with the right tools...

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

This reissue of Thomas Sowell’s classic study of decision making, which includes a preface by the author, updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Anointed....

Here, Buckminster Fuller takes on the gigantic corporate megaliths that exert increasing control over every aspect of daily life....

The world is facing a global leadership crisis. Seventy-seven percent of leaders think they do a good job of engaging their people, yet 88 percent of employees say their leaders don't engage enough. The Mind of the Leader offers a radical, yet practical, solution....

Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Drawing on a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects, Honig concludes that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery.  

It tracks the money machine of wealthy foundations and individuals who give instructions along with their money and explores how donors manipulate eco-ideology, attack selected industries, and influence government regulations by supporting agreeable experts as advisors to powerful agencies. Here are sound ideas to crack open the barriers that hide Big Green and its dangers to America's free society, our continuing achievements, and a desirable future.

For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit.