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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Steven Levitt, Stephen J Dubner
Economist Steven Levitt is a popularizer in the best sense of that term, and his reality-based view of economics encompasses both how it touches our daily lives (though we may not always see it) and how it can help bring clarity to that messy world we live in. In FREAKONOMICS, written with journalist Stephen J. Dubner, Levitt casts his ...
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The 48 laws of power
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Robert Greene
Inspired by Machiavelli's instructional book for young princes, this modern guide for business and everyday life tells how to gain, keep, and distribute power.
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim N Taleb
Taleb delivers a groundbreaking look at the role played by the unexpected in life and history, and a fascinating examination of why we know less than we think we do--and what to do about it.
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
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Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L Hunter Lovins
This challenging analysis examines the environmental and cultural costs of industrialization and forecasts a transition to a new economy that succeeds by working with natural resources, instead of depleting them.
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Thinking Strategically
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Avinash K Dixit, Barry Nalebuff
The international bestseller-don't compete without it!
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General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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John Maynard Keynes
In 1936, Keynes published the most provocative book written by any economist of his generation. Arguments about the book continued until his death in 1946, and still continue today. This new edition, published 70 years after the original, features a new introduction by Paul Krugman, which discusses the significance and continued relevance of The ...
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
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Charles MacKay
'Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation,' said author Charles Mackay in 1841. It was true then, and it is certainly true now. This intelligent, humorous collection of popular delusions, from money mania to ...
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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
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Thomas Sowell
Now revised and updated - this is the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful "Basic Economics", by one of America's most revered economists. The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems - housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations - is the theme of this important book which ...
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Globalization and Its Discontents
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Joseph E Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz served as chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers for seven years, and he was also chief economist at the World Bank. In this book, Stiglitz recounts his experiences in such places as Ethiopia, Thailand and Russia. He finds repeatedly that the International Monetary Fund puts the interests of its "largest ...
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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David S Landes
An economic historian examines reasons for the economic success of some nations over others. While acknowledging the role of geography, he falls on the side of culture as a determining factor. Landes focuses on the Industrial Revolution and the primacy of the West in this study.
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New ideas from dead economists : an introduction to modern economic thought.
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Todd G. Buchholz
'Outstanding ...Fun to read' - "Wall Street Journal". Would Karl Marx have to revise his theories since the collapse of the Soviet Union? What would Adam Smith make of the Japanese economic miracle turning into an economic morass? The great economists of the past 200 years may no longer be with us, but their ideas are very much alive - and they ...
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Small is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered
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E F Schumacher
As relevant as when it was first published, Small Is Beautiful is an eloquent exploration of economic programs that take the average person into consideration.
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Macroeconomics
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N Gregory Mankiw
Mankiw's text covers the field of macroeconomics accessibly and concisely, emphasising the relevance of both its classical roots and its practice at the beginning of the 21st century. It is updated to deal with the economic slowdown of 2001, due to the end of the stock market boom and the events of September 11, which has again put business cycle ...
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Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith
Political economy had been studied long before Adam Smith. But "Wealth of Nations" (1776) established it for the first time as a separate science. Smith based his arguments on vast historical knowledge, and developed his principles with remarkable clarity. What set this work apart was its statement of the doctrine of natural liberty. Smith ...
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The worldly philosophers; the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
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Robert L. Heilbroner
The final revision of this classic bestseller, the 7th edition defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. Hailed by Galbraith as a "brilliant achievement", "The Worldly Philosophers" with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, not only enables us to see more deeply into ...
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Management Challenges for the 21st Century
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Peter F Drucker (Introduction by)
Aiming to define ways of delivering success, this text takes a look at the future of management thinking and practice. It argues that the biggest challenge is knowledge-worker productivity and explores what it is and how it can work.
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
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Hernando de Soto, Hernando de Soto
The world-famous Peruvian economist examines why some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail. As evidenced in the development of the West, economic success, he argues, is less determined by cultural differences than by the legal structure of property and property rights. 25 charts & tables.
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Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?: A Fast, Clear, and Fun Explanation of the Economics You Need for Success in Your Career, Business, and Investments
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Rick Maybury
Presents an explanation of economics especially as it pertains to money, inflation, recession, and wage and price controls.
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The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas
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Robert H Frank
Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world--which ...
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Competitive Advantage of Nations
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Michael E Porter
'Professor Michael Porter [is] one of the world's most influential authorities on corporate strategy...[the book] stands to become a standard text for the analysis of relative national economic performance.' - Independent on Sunday 'Michael Porter builds up an all-embracing view of economic change that amounts in the end to a powerful analytical ...
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Principles of Microeconomics
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Karl E Case
Written by an award-winning educator and a highly respected macroeconomist, this best-selling introduction to economics succeeds in getting students to think like economists. All points of theory are presented through "stories, graphs, and equations," a pedagogical tool that accommodates the students' varied styles of learning. Known and respected ...
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The Road to Serfdom
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F. A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly that, while socialist ideals may be ...
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Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
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David Ricardo
Written in 1817, this famous treatise lays the groundwork for the principles of the market economy. It established the guiding ideas behind the economic concepts of diminishing returns and economic rent. As a leading master of economic principles of his time, Ricardo developed the theories now identified as distribution theory and international ...
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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
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Margaret J Wheatley
"Leadership and the New Science" is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science (the recent discoveries in science that change our understanding of how the world works) to organisations, and our lives. As a new edition to this classic text, Wheatley shows how examples of non-linear networks and ...
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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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Milton Friedman, Rose D Friedman
Milton Friedman, author of "Capitalism and Freedom", here examines the relationship between economics and freedom, aiming to make a case for the free market. Friedman concludes that interventionist governments have almost invariably done more harm than good.
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