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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: The International Bestseller
Carlo M. Cipolla
Sort the intelligent from the stupid, and the helpless from the bandits ahead of the 2019 general election.'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times'This is brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be RightThe five laws that confirm our worst fe...
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
William K. Black
The catastrophic collapse of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, ImClone, and Tyco left angry investors, employees, reporters, and government investigators demanding to know how the CEOs deceived everyone into believing their companies were spectacul...
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...
Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity
Alex J. Pollock
While the recent economic crisis was a painful period for many Americans, the panic surrounding the downturn was fueled by an incomplete understanding of economic history. Economic hysteria made for riveting journalism and effective political theate...
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 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 ...
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 ...