SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Pa...
Steven D. LevittThe New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Supe...
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 in the modern sense...
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive...
Chip HeathA groundbreaking resource for those who need to deliver a memorable message introduces six key principles that help make messages stick--simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories--and explains how to...
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use In...
Tyler CowenIn Discover Your Inner Economist, one of America's most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage—often when you least expect it to...
What Got You Here Won't Get You There...
Marshall GoldsmithAn executive coach presents a straightforward, effective program for achieving success in the business world, identifying important habits and behavioral problems that are keeping one from reaching the top, while offering helpful sugg...
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Mo...
Charles R. MorrisThe sub-prime mortgage crisis is only the beginning; a more profound economic and political restructuring is on its way. According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks with their hedge fund and private e...
b*Winner of the 1980 Law and Economics Center Prize/b 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. Sow...
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology ...
George A. AkerlofThe global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "a...
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Econom...
John CassidyBehind the alarming financial headlines is a little-known story of bad ideas. For over fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories of how markets work. What about when markets don t work? What about when they lead to...
The Little Book of Common Sense Inves...
John C. BogleJohn C. Bogle’s The Little Book of Index Investing is a power-packed explanation of why outperforming the market is an investor illusion. Instead, the founder of The Vanguard Group—the man who’s been called “th...
The Logic of Life: The Rational Econo...
Tim HarfordLife sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neig...
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology ...
George A. AkerlofThe global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "a...
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use In...
Tyler CowenIn Discover Your Inner Economist, one of America's most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage—often when you least expect it to...
The New Elite: Inside the Minds of th...
Doug HarrisonWe are all fascinated by them - that enigmatic class of people often referred to as the rich. With all the emphasis on the rich and famous in America, we would think we know everything about them. In reality, very few of us truly unde...
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Powe...
Daron AcemoglubBrilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail ianswers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? i/Is...
Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surpr...
Daniel AltmanRather than focus on economic forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter, Altman analyzes what the global economy will look like in the years to come, which is determined by deeper factors than those that move markets from moment ...
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Econom...
John CassidyBehind the alarming financial headlines is a little-known story of bad ideas. For over fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories of how markets work. What about when markets don t work? What about when they lead to...
Rise of the Robots: Technology and th...
Martin FordIn a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. Though all these nifty devices and programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on ...
Blood Covenant: The Michael Franzese ...
Michael FranzeseA sworn member of the Colombo crime family in New York City, Michael Franzese was considered the biggest moneymaker in the mob since Al Capone. PAt age 35, he was number eighteen on Fortune magazine's list of the fifty most wealthy an...
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Globa...
Chrystia FreelandThere has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Alarmingly, the greatest income gap is not between the 1 percent and the 99 percent, ...
b#10 on National Review's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century/b Milton Friedman argues that the appropriate role of competitive capitalism occurs when the majority of our economic activity flows through private...
The Map and the Territory: Risk, Huma...
Alan GreenspanLike all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic d...
Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong w...
Robert B. ReichAmerica's economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us. In thi...
The Soros Lectures: At the Central Eu...
George SorosFive lectures George Soros delivered at the Central European University in Budapest---which he founded in 1991---distill a lifetime of thinking on finance, capitalism, and open society.
Applied Economics (second edition): T...
Thomas SowellApplied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations...
Applied Economics, Second edition: Th...
Thomas SowellApplied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations...
Basic Economics, Fourth Edition: A Co...
Thomas SowellA fully revised (4th) edition of the classic introduction to economics from Thomas Sowell, one of America's leading economists. The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. A new chapter on the history of ec...
Basic Economics, Fourth Edition: A Co...
Thomas SowellA fully revised (4th) edition of the classic introduction to economics from Thomas Sowell, one of America's leading economists. The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. A new chapter on the history of econo...
When to Rob a Bank CD: ...And 131 Mor...
Steven D. LevittWhen Freakonomics was initially published, the authors started a blog—and they've kept it up. The writing is more casual, more personal, even more outlandish than in their books. Now, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the landm...