Economics

The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's 20th-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 'Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.'....

In this fascinating audiobook, read by Ray Porter, Timothy Ferriss details his road to financial success and the steps he took along the way. His plan is simple to follow, easy to apply and relevant for anyone looking to make a change.... 

An examination of history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....

From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, something has gone wrong with the workings of the world....

If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer....

Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law's ill-fated Mississippi scheme, to the global credit booms of the twenty-first century....

This easy-to-follow guide starts with the search for your personal why, and then expands to helping your colleagues find your organization's why....

Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down....

Buy as many lattes as you want. Spend extravagantly on the things you love. Live your rich life instead of tracking every last expense with Ramit Sethi’s simple, powerful, and effective six-week program for gaining control over your finances....

Economics is broken. It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies....

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications....

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....

In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....

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....

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was....

Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard....

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled....

In today's digital age, the traditional sales funnel-marketing at the top, sales in the middle, customer service at the bottom - is no longer effective. To be successful, businesses must obsess over the questions, concerns, and problems their buyers have....

Bounce shows how competition provides a master key with which to unlock the mysteries of the world....

Tim Harford reveals how supermarkets, airlines, and coffee chains, to name just a few, are vacuuming money from our wallets....

It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx....

Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail....

From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most.... 

What is a market maker? Market makers are the liquidity providers with a significant role to serve as intermediaries in the sell or purchase of the currency. The market makers provide the liquidity needed to make a profit to a small elite group of trained traders to trade on their behalf. Such traders are called "dealers". In order for them to make profit, they have to take you out. Objective of the market makers: to induce you to take a trade, to create fear and panic by using quick moves, news, and spikes, to hit your stop loss.

Charmain Bynoe, a council housing officer for the London borough of Southwark, inspired the nation when she appeared on the TV series Council House Britain. Now, in The Estate, she shines a light on the challenges faced by so many of our citizens and provides heartwarming and inspirational stories of how they have been helped to help themselves.

Discover how you can use your purchasing power to create and encourage sustainable change. Not sure what sustainability actually means? This eye-opening book walks you through the products and industries that come with huge hidden price tags. Sustainability shouldn't be a dirty word, but rather an open educational conversation about how the unrestrained usage of raw materials and natural resources doesn't work in the long term and why that should matter to every consumer. Join the conversation about how to change your buying habits to save the world one decision at a time.

Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone. Told through the stories of friends, activists, and teachers, Dr. Thrasher brings the listener with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings.

From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch, a deeply reported look at the broken state of college in America, arguing that access to college is the defining political issue of our time, propelling everything from Occupy Wall Street to the election of Donald Trump to the George Floyd protests.

It's not always easy to grasp the complex forces that are shaping our lives. But by following a dollar on its journey around the globe, we can start to piece it all together. From a shopping trip in suburban Texas, via China's central bank, Nigerian railroads, the oilfields of Iraq and beyond, The Almighty Dollar reveals the economic truths behind what we see on the news every day. Why is China the world's biggest manufacturer—and the USA its biggest customer? Is free trade really a good thing? Why would a nation build a bridge on the other side of the planet?

Going Public is a character-driven narrative centered on the last five years of unparalleled change in how technology startups sell shares to the public. Initial public offerings, or IPOs, are typically the first time retail investors can own a piece of the New Economy companies promising to rewire economic rules. Selling IPOs is also one of the most profitable businesses for Wall Street investment banks, who have spent the last 40 years protecting their profits. 

Ancient Futures is a lyrical and moving portrait of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet", as it was once known. The book is also an engaging critique of the global economy and a call for economic localization. When author Helena Norberg-Hodge first arrived in Ladakh in the 1970s, she found a pristine environment and a people who exhibited remarkable vitality and joy. Not long after, came economic growth and development, and Norberg-Hodge watched how a whole range of problems began to appear for the first time.

Behavioral economics is everywhere – whether used by governments to shape our judgement and decision making, advertisers and marketers to sell products, or even politicians to sell policies, its insights are important and far-reaching. Behavioral Economics: The Basics is the first book to provide a rigorous yet accessible overview of the growing field that attempts to uncover the psychological processes which mediate all the economic judgements and decisions we make.

We're all chained to the unforgiving arrow of time. We're born, we live, and we get old. At least, that's what we hope will happen. Then we die. None of us humans are millionaires in terms of hours, yet we sacrifice our most valuable and scarce asset just to stay alive in the hamster's wheel one more day. In pursuit of saving time, Satoshi stumbled upon a discovery of a new, weightless, absolutely scarce element. The showstopper for each and every time thief. Element zero. Bitcoin.

With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries. Exposing the ways in which normally sane people display reckless behavior in pursuit of profit, Galbraith asserts that our "notoriously short" financial memory is what creates the conditions for market collapse. By recognizing these signs and understanding what causes them we can guard against future recessions and have a better hold on our country's (and our own) financial destiny. 

Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, though, we fail to address the greatest risk—the peril posed by our own behavior. Jon Danielsson argues that critical risk is generated from within, through the interactions of individuals and perpetuated by their beliefs, objectives, abilities, and prejudices. 

More and more business is being conducted online, so online payment solutions are an increasingly accepted and desired transaction. Money can be transferred in real-time, where in the past, someone might have to wait days for a check to arrive, hoping it would arrive at all and not get lost in the mail, and then take it to the bank to deposit and wait for funds to clear. Now, because of the strict regulatory measures that protect online payments, transfers are often available to the recipient immediately or within a few hours of transfer. 

As an aspiring entrepreneur, you have fallen into a trap that many others like you fall into—the trap of over-analysis paralysis. And even though your high level of planning is crucial for startup success, it has made taking action overwhelming. While there may be many things keeping you stuck in the planning stage, a significant barrier that could stand in your way is fear. Fear of what? The fear of failure, experiencing financial difficulties or having to rebuild your professional network.

This is volume two—what Henry George called "the Solution to the Problem". This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement and many others of great influence: Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Friedrich Hayek, H. G. Wells, Clarence Darrow, and Leo Tolstoy, to name but a few. His analyses and proposals are referred to as "Georgism".