Business, Finance & Law Books

Book SynopsisAn inside look at the revolutionary business power of the platform—from the experts who helped discover how it works.Trade Review"Platform Revolution... is not the first book on the subject. But its clarity and fact-based analysis have made it a business bestseller for 2016." -- The European Magazine

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Book SynopsisA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston GlobeTrade Review"This book is the story of Chicago's progress in the 19th century, the rough seduction of the hinterland, and how at its zenith the city ruled the commercial life of a vast inland region more completely and ruthlessly and profitably than any czar ruled Russia…A marvelous book." -- Ward Just - Chicago Tribune"Thoroughly original…Illuminating…Brilliant." -- Donald L. Miller - New York Times Book Review"No one has ever written a better book about a city…No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity and intelligence than Cronon." -- Kenneth T. Jackson - Boston Globe"An intoxicating piece of scholarship and enterprise…It is really a work of biography: a look at the life of Chicago." -- David Shribman - Wall Street Journal"Nature's Metropolis is that rare historical work which treats nature and the moral force we derive from it seriously…The roots of the modern environmental predicament are plainly visible in the economic dynamism that brought about the rise of Chicago in the mid-nineteenth century, which is a captivating story in its own right." -- Verlyn Klinkenborg - The New Yorker"Magnificent…the best work of economic and business history I've ever read." -- Paul Krugman"William Cronon challenges many of the conventions of both urban and western history in this pathbreaking book, and does so with unusual intelligence and elegance. More important, he helps lay the groundwork for a vital new field of scholarship: the history of the natural environment and its relationship to human society." -- Alan Brinkley, Columbia University

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Book SynopsisSelections from great writings on economics, annotated and introduced by a distinguished economist and teacher.Trade Review"Judicious and generous selections from the key writings of masters of the economics game, complete with perceptive commentary." -- Kirkus Reviews"Heilbroner has come as close as a historian of economics gets to being a household name. . . . He makes hundreds of years of economic writings accessible and lively." -- Gina Neff - Nation"An easy-access guide to the seminal writings of the great economists, selected and annotated with the idea that 'economics is inextricably sociopolitical in nature.' . . . A welcome refresher course." -- New York Observer

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Book Synopsis"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." -ForbesTrade Review"The best book of the year, [Moneyball] already feels like the most influential book on sports ever written. If you're a baseball fan, Moneyball is a must." -- People"Lewis has hit another one out of the park…You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis's] thoughts about it." -- Janet Maslin - New York Times"Moneyball is the best business book Lewis has written. It may be the best business book anyone has written." -- Mark Gerson - Weekly Standard"By playing Boswell to Beane's Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years." -- Lawrence S. Ritter - New York Times Book Review"It’s a sports story that’s actually a business story that’s also a story about preconceptions. Plus, Michael Lewis’s writing is so clear, readable, and highly entertaining." -- Charles Yu - Literary Hub"Ebullient, invigorating…Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room." -- Lev Grossman - Time"A journalistic tour de force." -- Richard J. Tofel - Wall Street Journal"Michael Lewis's beautiful obsession with the idea of value has once again yielded gold…Moneyball explains baseball's startling new insight; that for all our dreams of blasts to the bleachers, the sport's hidden glory lies in not getting out." -- Garry Trudeau"I understood about one in four words of Moneyball, and it's still the best and most engrossing sports book I've read in years. If you know anything about baseball, you will enjoy it four times as much as I did, which means that you might explode." -- Nick Hornby - The Believer"Rarely has the lesson of a book...had such an enormous impact....[Moneyball] showcase[s] Lewis’s great gift of finding the perfect characters and narratives to animate big, complex ideas that have been hiding in plain sight." -- Daniel Riley - GQ

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Book Synopsis“I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”—Steven LevittTrade Review"It is an easy read and is written in a lively tone-which is not something I particularly recall from my lectures in the 1980s. Long live economics!" John Burns, The Times Higher Education "Unlike most of the ranks of management advice books which pad out bookshop business sections, here is one which is rigorous, fun and extremely useful all at the same time." The Economist

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Book Synopsis“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New YorkerTrade Review"As we face off against the Great Recession, the only book you need to understand the debate raging in the streets today: economic freedom versus government intervention. An essential primer on the two men who shaped modern finance." "I heartily recommend Nicholas Wapshott's new book, Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics... Many books have been written about Keynes, but nobody else has told the story properly of his relationship with Hayek. Nick has filled the gap in splendid fashion, and I defy anybody-Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted-to read his work and not learn something new." -- John Cassidy "Nicholas Wapshott's new book, Keynes Hayek, does an excellent job of setting out the broader history behind this revival of the old debates. Wapshott brings the personalities to life, provides more useful information on the debates than any other source, and miraculously manages to write for both the lay reader and the expert at the same time. Virtually every page is gripping, and yet even the professional economist will glean some insight..." -- Tyler Cowen "Mr. Wapshott has written an important book. It is compelling not only as a history of two distinctive thinkers and their influence, but also as a narrative of political decision-making and its underlying priorities. Underlying Mr. Wapshott's analysis are vital questions for this moment in American history: What kind of society do we want? And what do we owe to our fellow citizens and our collective future?" -- Nancy F. Koehn "Nicholas Wapshott's Keynes Hayek is a smart and absorbing account of one of the most fateful encounters in modern history, remarkably rendered as a taut intellectual drama. Wapshott brilliantly brings to life the human history of ideas that continue to mold our world." -- Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy "Nicholas Wapshott brings the Keynes-Hayek fight of the twentieth century back to life, making the clash both entertaining and highly relevant for understanding economic crises of the twenty-first century." -- John B. Taylor, Stanford University, Getting Off Track "In the fluency of his writing and his ability to make complex financial questions easily comprehensible, Nicholas Wapshott has done economics itself a great service, by opening the subject up to the general reader, as seen through the prism of one of the most important intellectual gladiatorial contests of modern times." -- Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

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Book SynopsisA New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman.Trade Review"Paul Krugman is stepping up to play the kind of role that John Maynard Keynes performed in the 1930s." -- Dissent"A thoroughly persuasive polemic against premature fiscal austerity in the wake of a deep recession." -- Financial Times"[Krugman] makes an urgent, even passionate case that our economic problems are, at root, fairly simple, and we have the knowledge and the tools to solve them." -- Rolling Stone"An important contribution to the current study of economics and a reason for hope that effective solutions will be implemented again." -- Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to the graphic presentation of information.Trade Review"An essential reference for anyone who needs to effectively convey quantitative information using graphs. Everyone will learn something from reading this book." -- Joseph Tracy, executive vice president and director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York"Dona Wong’s outstanding new book artfully blends lessons on data analysis and graphic design. She shows us how to make our complex, confusing graphs and presentations both simple and powerful." -- Peter Tufano, Coleman Professor of Financial Management, Harvard Business School"Dona Wong’s professional advice advances the art of information graphics." -- Gene Zelazny, director of visual communications, McKinsey & Company"We live in an increasingly data-driven world, and Dona Wong does a masterful job of explaining how to make data come alive and tell the truth in an engaging way." -- Mark Zandi, chief economist, Moody’s Economy.com

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Book Synopsis"Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about…the Coca-Cola system—past and present." —Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola CompanyTrade Review"[Elmore offers] unaccustomed perspectives on a company whose leading product is a household name around the globe…I doubt the Coca-Cola Co. will much like it." -- Marc Levinson - Wall Street Journal"What Elmore does best is analyze how Coke takes advantage of global public works and government interventions to boost its place in world markets…Citizen Coke began as a dissertation, and its points are lucid and logically presented; the language is accessible, and punchy chapter endings propel the story." -- Beth Macy - New York Times Book Review"As the soda wars heat up, this book is an indispensable resource." -- Michael Pollan"Coca-Cola is one of the most powerful economic institutions of our time, but its social and ecological impacts remain understudied. Now, in the hands of a talented young historian, corporate capitalism gets the attention it deserves in a careful dissection of the material underpinnings of the world’s most valuable brand. Citizen Coke will cause you to drink less and think more." -- Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York"Citizen Coke is a brilliant analysis of Coke’s empire in ecological, economic, and social terms. It allows us to see the contours of an economy based on partnerships between governments and corporations like Coca-Cola. It makes us conscious of the giant ecological footprint of the Real Thing, which impacts the real lives of real people. If you want a deeper understanding of our world today, read Citizen Coke." -- Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply"A fascinating, thought-provoking approach to Coca-Cola history through the drink’s primary ingredients—water, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, coca leaf, caffeine—and the glass, plastic, and aluminum that contain them." -- Mark Pendergrast, author of For God, Country & Coca-Cola

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Book SynopsisThe best-selling author of Naked Statistics takes us on a romp through the colourful world of monetary policy and history.

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Book SynopsisBen S. Bernanke’s rise to chair of the Federal Reserve, the massive financial crisis, and the Fed’s bold and effective response.Trade Review"It was a happy chance that this scholar, known for his work on the Great Depression, was chairman of the central banking system of the US during the biggest financial crisis since the early 1930s. His [Bernanke's] new book, The Courage to Act, provides a fascinating account of the effort to save the world from another such catastrophe." -- Martin Wolf, Lunch with the FT - Financial Times"Bernanke's memoir is a crucial document of record that will be invaluable to future historians. As far as any memoir can be, it is an honest and accurate account. There is no hubris or exaggeration: simply a telling of the tale of the most dramatic period in office of any Fed Chairman to date." -- Mervyn King - Prospect"The former chair has penned a lucid account of the crisis and its aftermath... Mr Bernanke’s narrative of his time in office is a lucid, analytical affair… the book provides a robust defence of the Fed’s response to the crisis. Mr Bernanke clearly sees himself as someone who did what was necessary to save the economy from disaster, in the face of a barrage of unwarranted criticism. The result is a book which compels..." -- The Economist"Bernanke was at the helm of the world's most important central bank during the financial crisis of 2007-08... Here he gives a compelling account of what he and the Federal Reserve did and why they did it... the defence of the Fed against its critics is compelling." -- Best Books of 2015 - Financial Times"It was Ben Bernanke, not Gordon Brown, who steered us through the 2008 financial meltdown...the book's most interesting chapters are those that deal with the crisis...Above all, [Bernanke] exuded calm, even when there was plenty of inner turmoil. The calmness comes over in this book, and so does plenty of the turmoil." -- The Sunday Times

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Book SynopsisAn inside look at the revolutionary business power of the platform—from the experts who helped discover how it works.Trade Review"Thorough and often provocative." -- The Wall Street Journal"Platform Revolution... is not the first book on the subject. But its clarity and fact-based analysis have made it a business bestseller for 2016." -- The European Magazine"... a number of options for entering the platform age." -- Summer reading list – 10 books you mustn’t miss! - Business Digest

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Book SynopsisThe Nobel Prize–winning economist, in partnership with a leading progressive European think tank, presents a bold new economic platform to restore prosperity in Europe.Trade Review"Rewriting the Rules is a powerful statement from a group of influential writers from both sides of the Atlantic, led by one of the most eminent economists, a Nobel Prize winner and global activist. The ‘rules’ are in opposition to the once-dominant Washington Consensus, but what is most important is that they are gradually making their way into mainstream economics and policy-making. If this continues, then we can really hope to rewrite the rules both in Europe and maybe even in the USA." -- Marek Belka, former prime minister of Poland and former president of the Polish National Bank

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Book SynopsisA compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden’s ideology keeps rising from the dead.Trade Review"Revealing and timely... Soufan writes with immense knowledge and authority... Anatomy of Terror not only tells a gripping story but is filled with insights that put today’s terror attacks by the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in perspective with the history and complicated geopolitics of the region." -- Michiko Kakutani - The New York Times"Into this moment of counterterrorism policy despair, Ali Soufan, one of America’s original terror warriors, has returned to help us take stock... Soufan retells the Qaeda story from the beginning, enriching that now oft-told tale with newer materials." -- Charlie Savage - The New York Times Book Review"Mr Soufan is at his most interesting in describing in detail the ambiguous role of Iran in the arrest, and then the release, of senior al-Qaeda figures fleeing Afghanistan—including Hamza bin Laden, Osama's son—to be used "either as leverage or as attack dogs"." -- The Economist"Ali Soufan is our most important chronicler of the rise and spread of Islamist terror movements... Anyone who wants to understand the world we live in now should read this book." -- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower and The Terror Years

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Book SynopsisFrom the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age, a leader’s guide to success in a rapidly changing economy.Trade Review"Machine, Platform, Crowd, by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson. Following on from The Second Machine Age in 2014, the authors are back with this title that analyses a new world of work and offers a toolkit on how to survive in it." -- FT business books of the month: June 2017 - Financial Times"For an astute romp through important digital trends, Machine, Platform, Crowd is hard to beat." -- The Economist"... Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson [use] their deep knowledge of the business and technology sectors to build a detailed, cogent and conversational guide to where we are and where we are going. The story is warmly and richly told... and amply supported by notes, references and links. This book is in many senses a primer, a thorough grounding for the digital warrior in the driving forces of the 21st-century economy." -- Book of the Week - Times Higher Education"The two academic authors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who became the pin-up boys of the Davos crowd for their previous book on The Second Machine Age (2014), do a neat job of scanning the technological horizon and highlighting significant landmarks. This is a clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy." -- Financial Times"Machine, Platform, Crowd is a forward-looking take on how business will interact with artificial intelligence and what that will mean for the transformation of industries." -- Business Books of the Year 2017 - The International New York Times"Throughout, they [McAfee and Brynjolfsson] are eloquent and informed... This is a long and complex book, but it is important." -- People Management"In their latest book, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson encourage you to adopt a much more global vision in order to enhance your digital transformation, which, in their opinion, must rest on 3 key trends: machine, platform, and crowd." -- 10 unmissable books from 2017 - Business Digest"Whether technology is moral or not, it is still changing the world—and business—in ways we are barely aware of, as Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson show in fascinating detail in Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future." -- Books of 2017 - Supply Management"For startups and established businesses, or for anyone interested in what the future holds, Machine, Platform, Crowd is essential reading." -- Five of the Best Business Books to Read in 2018 - The Gentleman's Journal"... a reliable guide to the most relevant technologies that will shape the future of business..." -- Business books to recommend - Financial Times

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Book SynopsisNaked Economics gives you the tools to engage with pleasure and confidence in the deeply relevant, not so dismal science.Trade Review"I recommend this book to anyone who wants to gain an understanding of basic economics with little pain and much pleasure." -- Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Prize winner in Economics

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Book SynopsisA sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society.Trade Review"An insightful history of giant factories... Mr Freeman rolls up his sleeves and delves into the nitty gritty of manufacturing. He successfully melds together those nuggets with social history, on the shop floor and beyond the factory walls, from union battles to worker exploitation and, in the case of Foxconn, suicides." -- The Economist"Freeman has written a superb account... The author’s sympathy, insight and exemplary anecdotes make this a marvellous book." -- The Guardian"... Behemoth is a tour de force, a powerful liberal retelling of the factory narrative at a time of Trump and all he represents, when it badly needs to be retold." -- Times Higher Education"Freeman does an essential service by publicising the continuance of a system whose foundations rest on a banal evil." -- The Spectator"... fascinating book..." -- The New Statesman"... [Freeman] lay[s] out two centuries of factory production all over the world in ways that are accessible, cogent, occasionally riveting and thoroughly new. The history of large factories, as Freeman outlines it, is the history of the modern world and most everything we see, experience and touch." -- International New York Times"Carefully researched and energetically written, Freeman’s book takes in the first factories in Britain and New England, the great mills of late-Victorian Pennsylvania, the rise of Fordism in the 1920s, the world of the industrial Soviet Union and today’s colossal factories in China and Vietnam." -- The Sunday Times"Rich and ambitious... More than an economic history, or a chronicle of architectural feats and labor movements, Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the national imagination." -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times"Fascinating... Freeman shows how factories have had an overwhelming influence on the way we work, think, move, play and fight." -- Scott W. Berg - The Washington Post"You may have no detailed knowledge of factories except that they can be converted into cool lofts. In that case, you’ll learn much from historian Joshua Freeman." -- Jonathan Rose - The Wall Street Journal"It is a book of epic scope." -- 5 Star Review - The Telegraph"... superb account... Almost every page contains a memorable fact or an intriguing thought... [Freeman's] sympathy, insight and exemplary anecdotes make this a marvellous book." -- The Guardian"[Joshua Freeman] handles his material 'with the seriousness it deserves' and if it 'can feel a little slow-going at times, that's partly because of the knottiness of the history Freeman lays out, as well as his honourable refusal to resort to simplistic notions of grand progress or portentous doom'." -- The Oldie

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Book SynopsisA leading social critic recounts capitalism’s finest hour and shows us how we might achieve it once again.Trade Review"Kuttner brilliantly brings together two strands of thought: explaining both the economics and politics of global capitalism and how our society has abandoned core principles of fairness and equality. The rise of inequality helped pave the way for Donald Trump—a figure out of step with basic American values. Kuttner reminds us of the urgency with which we need to get back to a more just society." -- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and best-selling author of The Price of Inequality"Conventional wisdom has it that our income disparities and dysfunctional politics are the consequence of inexorable and uncontrollable developments in technology, market competition, and globalization. As Robert Kuttner argues in this superb book, they are instead the result of our own policy choices." -- Dani Rodrik, Harvard University and author of Straight Talk on Trade and The Globalization Paradox"The problem is not liberal trade, but an out-of-control form of globalised capitalism. Democrats must confront this danger now, argues Kuttner, if the political system they treasure is to survive." -- Martin Wolf, The summer in books - Financial Times

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Book Synopsis“Extraordinary... seamless... astonishingly rich” (Sverker Sörlin, Nature)—an eye-opening environmental history of the Far North.Trade Review"In Floating Coast, Bathsheba Demouth has written a brilliant hybrid book about one of the most fragile and forgotten of Anthropocene front-line territories, the Bering Strait. Uniting ecology, anthropology, reportage and more, this is a superb work of environmental history, often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research, intense looking and listening, and its clear ethical vision." -- Robert Macfarlane"... Demuth has now herself written the history she calls for. Floating Coast is a historian’s Moby Dick, a great white whale of a book that spans centuries and links landscapes, living beings, and the flux of time, into a marvelously readable narrative." -- Amitav Ghosh"Floating Coast is an extraordinary piece of history writing, seamlessly weaving together disparate elements. It is astonishingly rich in ethnographic detail, ecological precision, economic circumstance and historical texture." -- Nature"Demuth, an environmental historian at Brown University, has reaped rich and fascinating material from the oral history of the indigenous Beringians recorded by ethnographers." -- Literary Review"Floating Coast is rich, well researched and illuminating. It keeps under readers’ feet the vastness of Demuth’s expertise, as solid as a land bridge." -- The International New York Times

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Book Synopsis"Packed with transformative insights, Dealmaking will help a new generation of business leaders get to yes."—William Ury, coauthor of Getting to Yes.Trade Review"This brilliant book exposes the connections between negotiations and auctions and will be indispensable for every professional involved in dealmaking." -- Robert Mnookin

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Book SynopsisThe most important book on government policy that I’ve read in a long time.”—David Leonhardt, The New York TimesTrade Review"Written by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman... it analyses how the super-rich dodge taxes, what this means and what to do about it... Theirs is a cogent, reasoned and practical argument against the “tax competition” that has sent so many corporate profits to Ireland or Bermuda and they give clear and compelling policy solutions to change the direction of society itself. It is a hope-inspiring book that should inform the manifesto of anyone keen to defend liberal democracy from the twin threats of inequality and multinational corporate power. Their recommendations would take back control, but for real, this time. The proposals put forward by Zucman and Saez deserve to be read in full, but are elegantly explained and well formulated." -- The Guardian"[T]he most important book on government policy that I’ve read in a long time." -- David Leonhardt - The New York Times"America is tired with inequality and oligarchy. Armed with eye-popping new data, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman reveal how tax injustice is fueling the oligarchic drift. But above all, they propose bold solutions to help America reconnect with its tradition of tax justice, from the taxation of extreme wealth and giant corporations to the funding of health care for all. This is a brilliantly argued book that is an essential contribution to the global economic and political debate of the twenty-first century." -- Thomas Piketty"Saez and Zucman are leading figures in the detailed empirical analysis of inequality. In this important book, they document the perverse characteristics of the US tax system, which is now “a giant flat tax [that becomes] regressive at the top”." -- Financial Times

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Book SynopsisAn urgent examination of how the political, economic and social volatility in Europe will affect the world.Trade Review"A compelling and urgent alert that Europe’s creation of a peaceful community in place of a warring continent, may be unraveling. Great Britain is leaving. Other EU members are suffering from political and economic stresses and the burden of refugees fleeing conflicts and migrants escaping poverty. For the United States, a diminished Europe creates an alarming risk." -- James Hoge, Senior Advisor, Teneo Intelligence"This is the best book I've read on the recent turmoil sweeping through Europe--excellent reporting, beautifully written and sensibly, carefully analyzed. Everything that I would expect from a journalist/scholar like Bill Drozdiak." -- Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice, Emeritus, Harvard University"Europeans and Americans alike would benefit from heeding Drozdiak’s warning: That European unification may go into reverse and unravel due to blinkered nationalism on both sides of the Atlantic." -- Politico.eu"A veteran foreign correspondent views Europe’s current dilemmas and power struggles through a series of chapters written from the key capitals, including Berlin, Moscow and London." -- Gideon Rachman, Politics Top picks of 2017 - Financial Times"... William Drozdiak’s fascinating book on Europe..." -- International New York Times"... a very good survey of what the European experiment is for and why we need to have an integrated Europe, both economically and politically." -- The best books on The European Union recommended by Giles Merritt - Five Books"Drozdiak’s book doesn’t read as an obituary but as a sombre plea to recognise the gravity and urgency of the problems facing Europe and, more broadly, the West." -- 8 best books on European politics - The Independent

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Book SynopsisAn acclaimed historian reveals how our culture became obsessed with working for ourselves and how it distracts us from real economic progress

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Book SynopsisThe perfect balance of readability and formalism.Table of Contents1) Introduction Part I: Representations and Basic Assumptions 2) The Extensive Form 3) Strategies and the Normal Form 4) Beliefs, Mixed Strategies, and Expected Payoffs 5) General Assumptions and Methodology Part II: Analyzing Behavior in Static Settings 6) Dominance and Best Response 7) Rationalizability and Iterated Dominance 8) Location, Partnership, and Social Unrest 9) Nash Equilibrium 10) Oligopoly, Tariffs, Crime, and Voting 11) Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium 12) Strictly Competitive Games and Security Strategies 13) Contract, Law, and Enforcement in Static Settings Part III: Analyzing Behavior in Dynamic Settings 14) Details of the Extensive Form 15) Sequential Rationality and Solution Concepts 16) Topics in Industrial Organization 17) Parlor Games 18) Bargaining Problems 19) Analysis of Simple Bargaining Games 20) Games with Joint Decisions; Negotiation Equilibrium 21) Unverifiable Investment, Hold Up, Options, And Ownership 22) Repeated Games and Reputation 23) Collusion, Trade Agreements, and Goodwill Part IV: Information 24) Random Events and Incomplete Information 25) Risk and Incentives in Contracting 26) Bayesian Nash Equilibrium and Rationalizability 27) Lemons, Auctions, and Information Aggregation 28) Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium 29) Job-Market Signaling and Reputation Appendices A) Review of Mathematics B) The Mathematics of Rationalizability and Existence of Nash Equilibirum Index

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Book SynopsisA supplemental book of problems and exercises keyed to the text. Workouts is a straightforward, proven solution for instructors who want to help students apply the tools of the course and for students who want extra practice developing these skills.

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Book SynopsisThe long awaited revision of a classic text by an expert author team.

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Book Synopsis"A true master class in the art of making the impossible possible." —Paul PolmanTrade Review"A must-read for anyone wishing to understand how to navigate the choppy and turbulent waters of the UN system and succeed. Just Business is the embodiment of the man who wrote it—sharp, intuitive, honest, pragmatic, witty, and humble—passionate in his resolve and commitment to human rights." -- Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever"By developing the ‘UN Guiding Principles,’ John Ruggie brought thoughtful and principled pragmatism to a topic of decades-long controversy. Just Business is a great guide for anyone taking on the task of reconciling interested and apparently irreconcilable parties and, indeed, for further progress in this field of business and human rights." -- Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, former chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell"Business and human rights challenges became permanently implanted on the global policy agenda twenty years ago. However, there was no universally accepted framework to address or reduce corporate-related human rights harm. John Ruggie took up the challenge to fill that gap and achieved a great deal in a short space of time. It is all too easy when looking at seemingly intractable problems to believe that nothing can be done or that only governments or political leaders can act. Just Business shows us the opposite and underlines how all segments of society must play their part to achieve results that benefit all." -- Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General (1997–2006)"Ruggie . . . provides a shining example to leaders that apparently insurmountable global issues are not lost causes." -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisEver since Edwin Mansfield pioneered the popular theory-and-application approach with the First Edition of Microeconomics, the text has been a perennial leader in the intermediate microeconomics course field.

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Book SynopsisBest-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents a full-color ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses that almost anyone can do. This unique guide features the startup stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban tour guide, an artist inspired by maps, a travel site founder, an ice pop maker, a confetti photographer, a group of friends who sell hammocks to support local economies, and many more. In 100 Side Hustles, best-selling author of The $100 Startup Chris Guillebeau presents a colorful idea book filled with inspiration for your next big idea. Distilled from Guillebeau's popular Side Hustle School podcast, these case studies feature teachers, artists, coders, and even entire families who've found ways to create new sources of income. With insights, takeaways, and photography that reveals the human element behind the hustles, this playbook covers every im

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Book SynopsisRobert McKee & Thomas Gerace's new book Storynomics translates the lessons of storytelling in business into economic and leadership success

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Book SynopsisThe last two hundred years have seen a massive increase in the size of the world economy and equally massive inequalities of wealth and power between different parts of the world. They have also witnessed the rise to dominance of the capitalist mode of production. Marxists, from Marx himself through to present day thinkers, have argued that these changes are profoundly interconnected. This book offers a unique account of Marxist theories of Imperialism. It has been fully updated and expanded to cover all the developments since its initial publication and will be essential reading for any student of Marxism.Trade Review`Brewer has performed an enormous service ... he writes extremely clearly, even when presenting complex and rigorous economic arguments ... and his work deserves a wide audience not only among students but also in trade union groups, evening classes and the like. It will stand for a long time as the obvious introduction to a very important topic.' - Marxism TodayTable of ContentsPreface, Anthony Brewer; Abbreviations, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 1 Introduction, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 2 Marx, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 3 Luxemburg, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 4 Hobson, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 5 Hilferding, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 6 Bukharin and Lenin, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 7 Baran, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 8 Dependency Theories, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 9 Emmanuel, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 10 Classes and Politics in the Third World, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 11 After Imperialism?, Anthony Brewer; S1 Index, Anthony Brewer;

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Book SynopsisConsumer Culture Reborn focuses on consumption as the point at which economy and culture combine. The book draws the often polarised discourses of political economy and cultural studies closer together in a historical context as a means of understanding our social situations as we approach the end of the millenium. Taking as its central theme the ability of the capitalist mode of production to transform the material and social world which sustains it, the book focuses on some of the ways in which this transformational impulse has altered the means by which ordinary people reproduce their life and their patterns of life. Neither a history book, nor simply a book of theory, Consumer Culture Reborn fuses elements of economic, social and cultural theory in an historical perspective.Table of ContentsPreface: The soul of things, Part I Preliminaries: perspectives on capital, consumption and culture, Part II The social transformations of capital, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of Contents1 PREAMBLE: THE ECONOMIC COST OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACK AMERICANS Part I Poverty, inequality and public policy 2 MYRDAL’S CUMULATIVE HYPOTHESIS: ITS ANTECEDENTS AND ITS CONTEMPORARY APPLICATIONS 3 GHETTO POVERTY: BLACK PROBLEM OR HARBINGER OF THINGS TO COME? 4 IS THERE A NEW BLACK POVERTY IN AMERICA? LESSONS FROM HISTORY 5 A FRAMEWORK FOR ALLEVIATION OF INNER CITY POVERTY 6 ARE THE CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST? STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN YOUTH UP-FRONT OR DEBILITATING COST AT THE REAR 7 GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION POLICY, AND THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS 8 IN THE MATTER OF RACE AND HOUSING 9 THE THEORY OF RESTITUTION: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CASE 10 DONOR POLICIES IN AFRICA: A REVIEW OF THE PAST, A LOOK TO THE FUTURE Part II Historical perspectives on race, economics and social transformation 11 THE EAST AFRICAN COAST DURING THE AGE OF EXPLORATION 12 TRADE AND MARKETS IN PRECOLONIAL WEST AND WEST CENTRAL AFRICA: THE CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS TRADITION 13 “OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND”: THE STRUGGLE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS AGAINST THE INVISIBILITY OF THE SLAVE[RY] TRADE IN WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY 14 PROMOTING BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: THE NATIONAL NEGRO CONVENTION, 1830–60 Part III Theory and method 15 UNRAVELING THE PARADOX OF DEEPENING URBAN INEQUALITY: THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS, RESEARCH DESIGN, AND PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM A MULTICITY STUDY 16 SOME HETERODOX MODELS OF INEQUALITY IN THE MARKET FOR LABOR POWER 17 A THEORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 18 INSTABILITIES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: THE ROLE OF EXPORT PRICE INSTABILITY 19 MACROECONOMIC POLICY, CYCLICAL FLUCTUATION, AND INCOME INEQUALITY: SOME COINTEGRATION RESULTS

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Book SynopsisAt the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter was working on his monumantal History of Economic Analysis. Unprecedented in scope, the book was to provide a complete history of economic theory from Ancient Greece to the end of the second world war. A major contribution to the history of ideas as well as to economics, History of Economic Analysis rapidly gained a reputation as a unique and classic work. As well being an economist, Schumpeter was a gifted mathematician, historian, philosopher and psychologist and this is reflected in the multi-disciplinary nature of his great endeavour. Topics addressed include the techniques of economic analysis, contemporaneous developments in other sciences and the sociology of economics. This inclusiveness extends to the periods and individuals who figure in the book. As well as dealing with all of the major economists from Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes, the book considers the economic writings of Plato and Aristotle, of

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Book SynopsisThe accelerating pace of global change demands that economies must be adaptable. Economies which are flexible flourish, as in Eastern Asia. Inflexible economies stagnate, as in Eastern Europe and Africa. However even though adaptability governs the long-term progress of economies, economists have had little to say about the nature and determinants of economic flexibility. This book redresses that situation. A prestigious team of contributors address the key theoretical and empirical issues, using a wide range of country studies.Table of ContentsPreface 1 RELEVANCE, MEANING AND DETERMINANTS OF FLEXIBILITY 2 FLEXIBILITY AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 3 FLEXIBILITY IN ECONOMIC THEORY 4 ECONOMIC ADAPTABILITY IN THE LONG TERM 5 ADAPTING THE ECONOMIES OF EASTERN EUROPE: BEHAVIOURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF FLEXIBILITY 6 ECONOMIC INFLEXIBILITY IN AFRICA: EVIDENCE AND CAUSES 7 EXPLAINING ‘FLEXIBLE RIGIDITIES’ IN EAST ASIA 8 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FLEXIBILITY IN THE RESPONSE OF NATIONAL ECONOMIES TO THE OIL[1]PRICE SHOCKS 9 INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 10 FLEXIBILITY IN FINANCE

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Book SynopsisThe vision of the original arhitects of the European Community was to create a Europe of economic prosperity and social harmony. Economic integration has come ever closer, but sustained growth and a reduction in social disparities seen as far away as ever. This book examines the prospects for the real cohesion in Europe and find that, far from promroting it, many of the Community''s current policies are divisive. The neo-liberal philosophy at the moment is producing policies which favour relatively wealthy regions and major corporations at the expense of less favoured regions and peoples.Table of ContentsList of Figure, List of Tables, The Contributors, Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: CONFLICT AND COHESION IN THE SINGLE EUROPEAN MARKET: A REFLECTION, Part I Macro-economic change, Part II Social cohesion, Part III Corporate restructuring, Part IV Towards cohesion, Index

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Book SynopsisThe role of small business enterprise in a mature market economy is one of the major issues in contemporary industrial organization, and is the focus of this book. Small Business Enterprise brings new standards of rigour and insight into the study of small firms by importing contemporary ideas from industrial economics and by using up-to-date statistical and econometric techniques. Based on a uniquely rich set of data, Small Business Enterprise focuses on the early period after start-up of the small firm. It investigates competitive niches and how they are established, determinants of growth and profitability, the factors fostering survivial, and many other central issues. This core of economic analysis is complemented by an innovative case profile approach, which considers the real behaviour of small firms in a competitive environment; and a section on the political economy of small firms, which looks at the ethics of competition and the enterprise culture.Trade Review`The book is rich in ideas and insight, and will be useful for reference. ... is accessible and lucidly written, ... Any economist with a shelf of books on small firms has to add this one.' - The Business Economist Vol 25 No 1 93`... a book combining empirical research, economic analysis and theory for SMEs is very welcome. And for a book of this quality, it is an event.' - Graham Bannock, Economic Affairs`With the publication of this book and the bold research agenda he proposes Reid single handedly moved the entire field of small business economics forward towards maturity.' - David B. Audretsh, Kyklos`Professor Reid is almost religious in his drive to persuade researchers to gather primary data, and devise estimation techniques to advance the frontiers of small business economics. With this I can hardly quibble. To my knowledge this is the finest work of its kind. It fills an important niche in our understanding of small firms, and the effort has to be judged a success.' - The Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of ContentsPreface Part I Introduction 1 Analysing the small business enterprise 2 The small firms relational database Part II Statistical analysis 3 The typical small business enterprise 4 Cost curves and scale economies 5 Rankings data on financial inception Part III Case studies 6 Enterprise profiles 7 Competitive and defensive strategies 8 The forces of competition Part IV Econometrics 9 Staying in business 10 Pricing asymmetries 11 Growth and its determinants Part V Political economy 12 Small firms and fair trade 13 Perceptions of the enterprise culture Part VI Conclusion 14 A small firms research agenda

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Book SynopsisStefano Guzzini''s study offers an understanding of the evolution of the realist tradition within International Relations and International Political Economy. It sees the realist tradition not as a school of thought with a static set of fixed principles, but as a repeatedly failed attempt to turn the rules of European diplomacy into the laws of a US social science. Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy concentrates on the evolution of a leading school of thought, its critiques and its institutional environment. As such it will provide an invaluable basis to anyone studying international relations theory.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Assumptions of a historical sociology of realism; Part I Realism from containment to détente; Chapter 2 Classical realism: Carr, Morgenthau and the crisis of collective security; Chapter 3 The evolution of realist core concepts during the second debate; Chapter 4 Realism and the US policy of containment; Chapter 5 The turning point of the Cuban missile crisis: crisis management and the expanding research agenda; Chapter 6 Epilogue: Soviet theories of International Relations; interlude Interlude The crisis of realism; Chapter 7 The policy of détente: Kissinger and the limits of concert diplomacy; Chapter 8 International Relations in disarray: the inter-paradigm debate; Part II Realist responses to the crisis of realism; Chapter 9 Systemic neorealism: Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics; Chapter 10 International Political Economy as an attempt to update realism; Chapter 11 International Political Economy at the convergence of realism and structuralism; Conclusion The fragmentation of realism; Chapter 12 Realism gets lost: the epistemological turn of the 1980s and 1990s; Chapter 13 Realism at a crossroads;

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Book SynopsisFoundations of Economics breathes life into the discipline by linking key economic concepts with wider debates and issues. By bringing to light delightful mind-teasers, philosophical questions and intriguing politics in mainstream economics, it promises to enliven an otherwise dry course whilst inspiring students to do well.The book covers all the main economic concepts and addresses in detail three main areas:* consumption and choice* production and markets* government and the State.Each is discussed in terms of what the conventional textbook says, how these ideas developed in historical and philosophical terms and whether or not they make sense. Assumptions about economics as a discipline are challenged, and several pertinent students' anxieties ('Should I be studying economics?') are discussed.Table of ContentsList of figures, List of tables, 1 Introduction, Part one CONSUMPTION CHOICES, Part two PRODUCTION AND MARKETS, Part three MARKETS, THE STATE AND THE GOOD

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Book SynopsisA clear an thorough introduction to political philosophy and political thought, inttroducing the reader to major political thinkers and complementary secondary readings.Trade ReviewThis book is well geared to the needs of courses introducing political philosophy by way of canonical texts.The quality of secondary literature represented is first rate and the quantity is nicely judged for a stimulating but realistic student workload. - THESTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Niccolò Machiavelli: 'The Prince' - Nigel Warburton, with readings from Quentin Skinner, Maureen Ramsey, Isaiah Berlin, C.A.J. CodyChapter 2. Thomas Hobbes: 'Leviathan' - Jon Pike, with readings from C.B. Macpherson, Quentin Skinner, Jean Hampton, Carol PatemanChapter 3. John Locke: 'The Second Treatise of Government' - Jon Pike, with readings from David Hume, Jean Hampton, Jeremy Waldron, A. John SimmonsChapter 4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' - Derek Matravers, with readings from John C. Hall, Brian Barry, N.J.H. Dent, Isaiah BerlinChapter 5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: 'The German Ideology (Part 1)' - Derek Matravers, with readings from Jonathan Wolff, Jon Pike, G.A. Cohen, Will KymlickaChapter 6. John Stuart Mill: 'On Liberty and The Subjection of Women' - Nigel Warburton, with readings from Isaiah Berlin, Gerald Dworkin, Janet Radcliffe, Richards, Mary Lyndon Shanley

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Book SynopsisThis broad-ranging collection assesses the links between targets and central bank independence, accountability and the transparency of monetary policy. Renowned experts contribute to this original and comprehensive text which will be of great value to professional economists and students of economics and banking alike.Monetary Policy Frameworks in a Global Context was named Book of the Year, 2000 by Central Banking journalTable of ContentsGeneral introduction PART I Key issues in the choice of monetary policy framework 1 Introduction 2 A historical examination of inflation stability under alternative monetary frameworks 3 The use of explicit targets for monetary policy: practical experiences in 93 economies in the 1990s 4 The devil in the detail of monetary policy frameworks: issues and measures of monetary framework characteristics 5 The devil in the detail of monetary policy frameworks (2): interpreting measures of framework characteristics 6 What does independence mean to central banks? 7 Redesigning the monetary policy framework: practical Considerations; 8 Conclusions and summary PART II Monetary policy strategies; Monetary policy objectives in emerging markets in light of the Asian crisis; The role of the Monetary Policy Committee: strategic considerations; Establishing a reputation for dependability by means of inflation; Targets; PART III Transmission mechanisms and monetary frameworks; Modelling the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in the Czech Republic; Setting monetary policy instruments in Uganda; Monetary policy in a dollarised economy: the case of Peru; The Balassa-Samuelson effect and monetary targets PART IV Country experiences with different monetary strategies; Lessons from the Bundesbank on the occasion of its early retirement; What can inflation expectations and core inflation tell us about monetary policy in Japan? Inflation and money goals: the recent experience of monetary policy in Mexico; Inflation targets and stabilisation in Chile; Monetary policy and disinflation in Israel; Inflation targeting in the Czech Republic PART V Specifying and using targets; Core inflation as an indicator in monetary policy rules Specifying an inflation target: the case of administered prices and other candidates for exclusion Exchange rate considerations in a small open economy: a critical look at the MCI as a possible solution

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Book SynopsisThe past decade has seen increasing focus on the importance of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called ''knowledge economy''. This is reflected in the popularity amongst practicing managers and organizational theorists of notions of learning, sense-making, knowledge creation, knowledge management and intellectual capital in organizations and more recently, of emotional intelligence as an important management skill. This insightful book: argues that the information processing view of knowledge creation held by systems thinkers is no longer tenable develops the alternative perspective of Complex Responsive Processes of relating, drawing on the complexity sciences as a source for analogies with human action places self-organizing interaction at the centre of the knowledge creating process in organizations. Learning and knowledge creation are seen as qualitative processes of power relating that are emotional as welTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Series preface, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: can learning and knowledge creation in organizations really be managed?, Part I. The foundations of mainstream views on learning and knowledge creation in organizations: systems thinking, 2. Mainstream thinking about learning and knowledge creation in organizations, 3. Different levels of learning and knowledge creation in organizations: the individual and the social, Part II. Toward a complexity perspective: the emergence of knowledge in complex responsive processes of relating, 4. The emergence of the individual and the social in communicative interaction, 5. Communicative action in the medium of symbols, 6. The organization of communicative action: rule-based or self-organizing knowledge?, 7. The emergence of enabling constraints: power relations and unconscious processes, 8. Organization as communicating in the living present: how knowledge emerges in complex responsive processes of relating, Part III. Systems thinking and the perspective of complex responsive processes: comparisons and implications, 9. Comparing systems thinking and the perspective of complex responsive processes, 10. The organizational implications of complex responsive processes of knowledge creation, Appendix: Autopoiesis: an inappropriate analogy for human action, Bibliography, Index

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