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Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lav...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

"It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most ...

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that ca...

The Road to Success - Russian for everyday life and business communication - Course Book and Workbook

Course Book, Workbook, and Audio Materials on the website The Road to Success consists of two volumes and covers the levels A1 to B1 of t...

Steve Jobs - A Biography

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, ad...

The Accidental Billionaires - The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires." -The Ne...

The Ascent of Money - A Financial History of the World

The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson bring...

This Time is Different - Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

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Flash Boys

Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of inside...

Elon Musk - How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

Ashlee Vance is one of the most prominent writers on technology today. After spending several years reporting on Silicon Valley and techn...

The Economics Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

Bring economics to life with The Economics Book, an essential guide to more that 100 of the big ideas in economic theory and practice cov...

Working Backwards

In 2018 Amazon became the world's second trillion dollar company after Apple: a remarkable success story for a company launched out of a ...

Let My People Go Surfing - The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

In this newly revised 10th anniversary edition, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia...

Factfulness - Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most important books I've ever read-an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the wo...

The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

The personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as "The Oracle of Omaha"-for fans of the HBO documentary Beco...

Building Social Business - The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus looks more deeply into the concept of social business, an alternative to capitalism that channels the best ...

The Quest - Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global en...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity t...

The Prize - The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

Hailed by "The New York Times" as "a book that must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history," Yergi...

Irrational Exuberance

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned...

Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lav...

Basic Economics - A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics , Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on common sense economics, bringing the wor...

Little History of Economics

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great t...

A Man for All Markets - Beating the Odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street

A¿New York Times¿bestseller In a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card coun...

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning - Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

A New York Times Bestseller! 2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, bet...

Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exc...

The Ascent of Money - A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U...

Capitalism in America - An Economic History of the United States

From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from...

Rise of the Robots - Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A New York Times Bestseller Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes One of N...

Firefighting - The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons

From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnifi...

Adaptive Markets - Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and effici...

What We Owe Each Other

One of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st century This landmark study ...

How Charts Lie - Getting Smarter about Visual Information

Today, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. Although charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us wiser, they can a...

A Dictionary of Finance and Banking

The dictionary defines terms from all aspects of personal and international finance, including financial trading, foreign exchange, deriv...

Narrative Economics - How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help dri...

What Money Can't Buy - The Moral Limits of Markets

In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our soc...

The Deficit Myth - Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy

Kelton has succeeded in instigating a round of heretical questioning, essential for a post-Covid-19 world, where the pantheon of economic...

New Laws of Robotics - Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them-but only through wise ...

Great Escape - Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

"If you want to learn about why human welfare overall has gone up so much over time, you should read The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, an...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Professor Klaus Schwab is founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private C...

Taxtopia - How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game

In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the ...

Sold Out - How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy

Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now b...

Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

The Technology Trap is a sweeping account of the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of e...

Crypto Wars - Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption

Crypto is big news. You may be an existing user yourself or have friends that laud its promise of getting rich fast. Arm yourself with kn...

The 100-Year Life - Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

What will your 100-year life look like? A new edition of the international bestseller, featuring a new preface 'Brilliant, timely, origin...

More Money Than God - Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales." -Th...

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived - The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger

A colourful introduction to one of the most influential businessmen in history, Jacob Fugger, the Renaissance banker.

The Utopia of Rules

From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our l...

The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance - How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance

The U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has...

The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis

In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial cri...

Bare Essentials - The ALDI Story

What makes ALDI so special? Take a look behind the Curtain A retailer with an extremely limited assortment and the lowest prices in the m...

Slouching Towards Utopia - An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied. Befo...

The Myth of Private Equity - An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments

The Myth of Private Equity is a hard-hitting and meticulous exposé from an insider¿s viewpoint. Jeffrey C. Hooke¿a former private equity ...

Prediction Machines - The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

A strategic guide to employing the most-talked-about--and potentially most disruptive--technology of the decade. The authors' simple mode...

Bankers' New Clothes - What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It

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Tyranny of Metrics

Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the resu...

Investments

The integrated solutions for Bodie, Kane, and Marcus' Investments set the standard for graduate/MBA investments textbooks. The unifying t...

Why Information Systems Fail

Geld, Prestige, Verantwortung. - Bankiers und Banken als Akteure im wirtschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Netzwerk im (Nordost-)Europa des 16. - 20. Jahrhunderts.

Die in diesem Band versammelten dreizehn Beiträge erforschen, wie Bankiers und Banken in das politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle L...

Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics - Making Global Supply Chains Effective

This book is focused on the impact of ocean transport logistics on global supply chains. It is the first book solely dedicated to the top...