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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Exposed and Explained by the World's Two
Al Ries, Jack Trout
Two world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors present the definitive rules of marketing.
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
The 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, "animal spirits" are d...
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it w...
Breakdown of Will
George Ainslie
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged...
Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy
Bruce C. Greenwald and Judd Kahn
Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation's leading business professors, presents a new and simplified approach to strategy that cuts through much of the fog that has surrounded the subject. Based on his hugely popular course at Columbia Business School, G...
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Joel Mokyr
Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of ...
Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell
An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities arise Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortuna...
The ergodicity problem in economics
Ole Peters
Nature Physics, doi:10.1038/s41567-019-0732-0
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram G. Rajan
From an economist who warned of the global financial crisis, a new warning about the continuing peril to the world economyRaghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggle...
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
Scott Galloway
‘A fantastic, provocative book about where we are now and where we are going’ Phil Simon Huffington PostAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got ther...
The Functions of the Executive: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Chester I. Barnard
Most of Chester Barnard’s career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the bachelor’s degree, was followed by nearly forty years in the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. His career began in the ...
Good Economics for Hard Times
Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time...
HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case
Raymond Sheen and Amy Gallo
Get your idea off the ground.You've got a great idea that will increase revenue or boost productivity--but how do you get the buy-in you need to make it happen? By building a business case that clearly shows your idea's value. That's not always easy:...
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1
Adam Smith
First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith’s Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of lab...
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
Charles P. Kindleberger
The best known and most highly regarded book on financial crises Financial crises and speculative excess can be traced back to the very beginning of trade and commerce. Since its introduction in 1978, this book has charted and followed this volatile...
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-find managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge fund...
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Robert J. Shiller
From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events―and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses In a world in which internet troll...
The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich A von Hayek
Routledge Classics [1]: A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in ...
Saving Capitalism From the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity
Raghuram G Rajan, Luigi Zingales
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. In India, its critics have viewed it as intrinsically unstable, seeing signs of its collapse in every fall of the Mumbai stock market. Its supporters see it as ...
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility** In his most provocative and practical boo...
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century...
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World
Raghuram Rajan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization and how re...
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
Andrew Ross Sorkin
A brilliantly reported true-life thriller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington. In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin-a New York Times columnist and one of the ...
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Timothy Ferriss
The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the #1 * New York Times *best-selling author of * The 4-Hour Workweek *.From the author:“For the last two years, I’ve interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss S...
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman
Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made,...
Trades, Quotes and Prices
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Julius Bonart, Jonathan Donier
The widespread availability of high-quality, high-frequency data has revolutionised the study of financial markets. By describing not only asset prices, but also market participants' actions and interactions, this wealth of information offers a new ...
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Larry Harris
This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue trader...
Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferriss
We All Need Mentors. Here Are More than 100 of the World's Best. When facing life's questions, who do you turn to for advice? We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against us. For this book, best-selling author Tim Ferriss trac...
Volatility Trading
Euan Sinclair
In Volatility Trading , Sinclair offers you a quantitative model for measuring volatility in order to gain an edge in your everyday option trading endeavors. With an accessible, straightforward approach. He guides traders through the basics of optio...
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Yochai Benkler
With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping mar...
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
Longlisted for the National Book Award | New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.** We live in the age of the algorithm. I...
We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter
Celeste Headlee
“WE NEED TO TALK.” In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWSNPR's Best Books of 2017 Winner of th...
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Steven Johnson
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? In Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson, one of our most innovative popular thinkers, explores the secrets of inspiration. Steven Johnson has spent twenty ...
Who Gets What -- and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
Alvin E. Roth
A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities -- both mundane and life-changing -- in which money may play little or no role. If you've ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided you...
Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier
The “brilliant” and “daringly original” ( The New York Times ) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” ( London Evening Standard )—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy. Jaron Lanier is ...
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
Didier Sornette
The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic p...