Economics

"Think and Grow Rich" is a motivational personal development and selfhelp audiobook written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from...

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand....

Money expert Ramit Sethi offers no-holds-barred advice for managing your finances in this effective six-week program.

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

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific...

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....

Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals....

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card...

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives....

One of the largest consumer markets of the world, India is made up of lots and lots of small consumers―each earning and spending just a little bit that adds up to a lot. It is served by millions of small suppliers oozing innovation and customer intimacy, and is powered by digital...

In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into 19 languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity—like all great breakthroughs—Porter’s analysis of...

'Passion, devotion, conviction, commitment - four words that can change your life.' A.M. Naik In 1964, A.M. Naik, a twenty-two-year-old engineering graduate, chanced upon a recruitment advertisement for Larsen & Toubro. Despite almost botching up his final interview, Naik was hired. 'I've sacked...

A story that proves that Indians when empowered can change the course of history... The targets were stupendous and considered unachievable by almost everyone. Slightly over two years to find a suitable partner, finalize all legal documentation, get governmental approval to these agreements as...

Acclaimed across the world, prescribed in over 100 universities and colleges, and included in part in The Century's Greatest Reportage (Ordfront, 2000), alongside the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Studs Terkel and John Reed, Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the established classic on rural...

From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible...

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As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and 2011, the period of our best growth, there was also a substantial decline in the number of people below the poverty line.Since 2011, however, there has been a marked retreat in the high growth...

Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle. There are no quick fixes but there is a playbook. The answer is in rewiring your business so hundreds, thousands, of teams can harness technology to continuously create great customer experiences, lower unit...

This book examines fifteen judgments that have influenced the financial destiny of India. With significant macroeconomic dimensions, these judgments, when explored, show a long-term impact on the economy. In doing so, judgments from different times of history have been examined to give the...

Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently....

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

Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

Crush It! 2.0: The Audiobook: Read by Gary Vaynerchuk, this audiobook version contains additional material not found in the bestselling hardcover edition. Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that...

L'ampleur démesurée de la dette publique menace-t-elle notre bien-être collectif? Jusqu'où ira-t-elle? Existe-t-il seulement une limite? Un grand pays, émetteur d'une monnaie de réserve importante comme les États-Unis, peut-il réellement faire faillite? Et si oui, à quoi cela ressemblerait-il? Depuis des décennies, responsables politiques, décideurs publics et investisseurs débattent de ces questions… sans parvenir à trouver de réponses claires.

In Song for a Hard-Hit People, Beth Howard shares her story of growing up in Appalachian Kentucky—the economic struggles, trauma, and ever-present sexism along with the loving care of her close-knit rural community. These complex people shaped Howard’s sense of justice and solidarity, and taught her about the inextricable bonds working-class people share, despite our differences. But her childhood also left her with emotional wounds that threatened to destroy the life she built for herself.

Across thousands of years of human history, most cultures have placed explicit social and moral restrictions on economic growth, with charging interest scorned as benefiting from another's hardship and profit-making as divisive. So how did interest rates, monetary gains, and return on investment come to rule our modern world?

Just six years after the Racial Reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, we are witnessing a full-scale assault on equality in America unparalleled since the overthrow of Reconstruction. Building on the urgency and clarity of his New York Times and Washington Post bestseller Brown Is the New White and his "spirited and persuasive" (Publishers Weekly) How We Win the Civil War, Steve Phillips now calls on the nation to go back on the offensive in the fight for racial justice.

In this book, Ryan Avent explores how an unswerving confidence in systems of liberal democracy and free market capitalism—which he terms the “Modern Faith”—has left many Western countries struggling to deal with democratic backsliding and social dysfunction. Those seeking the certainty of another technocratic solution, however, are searching in the wrong place. The true foundation of our prosperity, Avent argues, is not in an ability to reason our way to better policies and institutions but rather lies in the nature and distribution of our beliefs.

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Le grandi dinamiche economiche sono tanto affascinanti quanto impressionanti e, allo stesso tempo, comprensibili per chiunque – e inoltre, come cittadino medio, puoi trarre enormi benefici da questa conoscenza nella vita quotidiana. Che si tratti della struttura del sistema economico e finanziario tedesco, delle teorie fondamentali o dei temi più attuali dell'economia mondiale, grazie a un'introduzione sistematica ti orienterai con facilità nella giungla economica.

The major economic relationships are as fascinating as they are impressive, and yet understandable for everyone – and what's more, as an average citizen you can benefit enormously from this understanding in everyday life. With a systematic introduction, you'll find your way through the jungle of economics with ease. Entertaining and informative at the same time, this book provides you with the perfect overview of all economic topics and ensures that you'll be able to join discussions on monetary policy at any time.

Les grandes relations économiques sont aussi passionnantes qu'impressionnantes et restent pourtant accessibles à tous – et de plus, en tant que citoyen moyen, vous pouvez tirer d'énormes bénéfices de cette compréhension dans la vie quotidienne. Qu'il s'agisse de la structure du système économique et financier allemand, des théories fondamentales ou de sujets très actuels de l'économie mondiale, cette introduction systématique vous permet de vous orienter facilement dans la jungle économique.

De stora ekonomiska sammanhangen är lika fascinerande som imponerande och ändå begripliga för alla – och dessutom kan du som vanlig medborgare dra stor nytta av denna förståelse i vardagen. Oavsett om det handlar om uppbyggnaden av det tyska ekonomiska och finansiella systemet, grundläggande teorier eller högaktuella frågor inom världsekonomin, hjälper denna systematiska introduktion dig att enkelt hitta rätt i ekonomins djungel.

Exposes how companies like Visa, Chase, PayPal, Bank of America, and Mastercard use their power to silence dissenting voices and hurt democracy through the practice of financial censorship Civil liberties activist Rainey Reitman introduces readers to the concept of “financial censorship”—a...

Em Tudo ou nada, Malu Gaspar revela os bastidores, segredos e modus operandi do grupo X, de seu nascimento à bancarrota, e radiografa a excêntrica biografia de seu criador. Esta reedição do best-seller é acrescida de posfácio inédito. A história do império de Eike Batista, figura desde sempre controversa pela impetuosidade — ou temeridade — de seus projetos, é matéria de extensa investigação jornalística em Tudo ou nada.

We often assume that poor countries will bear the brunt of climate change, pandemics, and other exogenous shocks, but this book argues the opposite: western societies have more wealth and capital to lose, and are less inherently resilient. Icarus Economics shows how rich countries can help poor countries to decarbonise as they develop and, in the process, repair their own stagnating economies—as well as the planet.

The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general listeners through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterwork For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analyzed chapter by chapter—sometimes...

You know it's coming: a frozen computer, an office filled with blank screens, a printed message. The clock is ticking. Your colleagues have hours to strike a deal. Cybercrime is everywhere. From governments to airlines, hospitals to banks, institutions of every kind have paid out millions to...