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Climate Shock - The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing o...

The G20 Development Agenda - An Indian Perspective

This book focuses on major development themes in the G20's agenda in the provision of global public goods.

An Economic History of Australia

Originally published in 1930, this book provides an account of Australian economic development from 1788 up until the early twentieth cen...

The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Volume 2

Featuring contributions by leading practitioners, the handbook describes experiments in macroeconomics, charitable giving, neuroeconomics...

Becoming Steve Jobs - The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

The #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history. Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down t...

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 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...

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...

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 Fourth Industrial Revolution

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

How Money Works - The Facts Visually Explained

Simple explanations to hundreds of financial questions, from how financial markets work to how to maximise your income. Breaks down the j...

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.

Non-Extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series - National Accounts-Based Inverse Problems

Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series provides a new and robust power-law-based, non-extensive entropy econometrics...

Marcus, A: INVESTMENTS 11/E

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

Ukraine and the Empire of Capital - From Marketisation to Armed Conflict

Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critic...

Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction

Behavioural economics blends insights from economics and psychology to explain how people make everyday decisions. Analysing the forces t...

Empire of Things - How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

What we consume has become a central feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by o...

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...

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...

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...

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...

New England, Old and New: A Brief Review of Some Historical and Industrial Incidents in the Puritan New English Canaan, Still the Land of Promis

Worlds of Taxation - The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945

This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the re...

Digital Transformation of the Consulting Industry - Extending the Traditional Delivery Model

This book discusses the opportunities and conditions that digital technology provides to extend, innovate and differentiate the services ...

The Alchemists - Questioning Our Faith in Courts as Democracy-Builders

This book presents a searching critique of excessive reliance on courts as 'democracy-builders' in states emerging from authoritarian rule.

Loose Leaf for Urban Economics

Over the course of two decades, Urban Economics has achieved a worldwide audience, and has been translated into Chinese, Greek, Russian, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Contracts and Pay - Work in London Construction 1660-1785

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period. Drawing on extensive archival material from ...

Statistics for Business: Pearson New International Edition - Decision Making and Analysis

Were you looking for the book with access to MyStatLab? This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MyStatLab. Buy t...

Efficiently Inefficient - How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined

Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Le...

Collusion - How Central Bankers Rigged the World

On title page, the letter 's' in the title is represented by a dollar sign.

The Levelling - What's Next After Globalization

A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power...

Business Ethics - Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization

Award-winning, best-selling, and authoritative: the business ethics book of choice.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a globa...

Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the Nba, & American Business

As seen on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight! A deeply revealing memoir of big wins and hard lessons from a seasoned executive caught sma...

Problems and Possibilities of the Us Economy

After a description of the economic development in the US during 2000-2016 some key issues are discussed ; the increasing inequality amon...

Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks

This very readable book prepares students for professional exams and for real-world actuarial work in life insurance and pensions.

Unconventional Wisdom

The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How much does a ghost reduce a house's value? How are winemaker...

The Economist Guide to Project Management - Getting it right and achieving lasting benefit

Change is a powerful force, but one that must be directed if it is to have a positive and calculated outcome. It can be shaped according ...

The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics (International Edition)

Statistics is the science of data. The practice of Statistics for Business and Economics is an introduction to statistics for students of...

Negative Interest Rates - The Black Hole of Financial Capitalism

This volume of Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability titled Negative Interest Rates: The Black Hole...

Clean: The New Science of Skin - The New Science of Skin

A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practic...

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal ...

The Optimist's Telescope - Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR "How might we mitigate losses caused by shortsightedness? Bina Venkataraman, a former climate adviser to...

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 ...

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...

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...

Colour Motif in Adichie's 'Purple Hibiscus' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun' - A Peep into Semiotics, the Science of Signs...

From time immemorial, colours have been used for symbolic meanings. They have been used to symbolize wealth, status, lineage, age, social...

The Power of Difference - Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions

Learn how to create true diversity and inclusion by combining our differences, having open conversations and listening to all voices, not...

Speed & Scale - A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity's greatest challenge...

Electricity Cost Modeling Calculations - Regulations, Technology, and the Role of Renewable Energy

Reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the use of renewable energy continue to be critical goals for the power industry and electrical ...