Author: Michael Lewis The Big Shorttells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made...
Authors: Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal
Shares strategies for achieving success, reaching mental and spiritual harmony, establishing attainable short-term goals, and using mood imagery to improve performance
Authors: Ian Dorton, Jocelyn Blink This course book has been specifically designed to support the student through the IB Diploma Programme in Economics. It supports the course content and provides...
Author: Dan Roam Tries to enhance analytical skills by building up one's intrinsic abilities in a primer for business leaders on how to develop ideas and enable faster results using...
Author: Karl E. Case For the 1 semester principles of macroeconomics course. Reviewers tell us that Case/Fair is one of the all-time bestselling POE texts because they trust it to...
Author: Michio Morishima This book, by a distinguished Japanese economist now resident in the West, offers a new interpretation of the current success of the Japanese economy. By placing the...
Author: James M. Fallows The author of the highly acclaimed "Blind Into Baghdad" reports firsthand on the momentous changes taking place in China and what it means for America. Photographs...
Author: Beng Huat Chua While the economic miracle of Singapore is widely known, the ideas that have underpinned it remain to be documented and critically examined. The single political party...
Authors: Peter G. Peterson, John W. Smith The former Secretary of Commerce and author of the best-selling Running on Empty presents a cautionary analysis of America's national debt while outlining...
Author: Tyler Cowen The creator of the marginalrevolution.com economics blog demonstrates how to use hidden economic principles behind everyday situations to reach one's personal goals, from reading a classic novel...
Author: Peter L. Bernstein In all of history and in all fields of intellectual endeavor, a tension has existed between theory and practice. Those of us who earn a living...
Author: Janet Lowe A rare perspective on the personal philosophy, business savvy, and future of the chairman of the most admired company in the world Jack Welch, chairman of General...
Author: Loretta Napoleoni This books propels the reader into the center of illegal organizations, and explains how they fund their activities. From the PLO to Al-Qaeda to the IRA, Loretta...
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz The 1990s promised prosperity for the world: a new ara of unprecedented economic growth, with capitalism American-style reigning supreme. So where did it all go wrong?...
Author: Martin K. Dimitrov
Addresses the durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I.
Authors: Fischer, Stanley, Startz, Richard, 1952- Synopsis: "Dornbusch, Fischer, and Startz" has been a long-standing, leading intermediate macroeconomic theory text since its introduction in 1978. This revision retains most of...
Authors: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner...
Author: John Sloman
Written from a European perspective, this text acquaints students with basic microeconomics, macroeconomics and EU institutions and policy.
Author: Gungwu Wang For the past century, all kinds of Chinese people seemed to have tried to be ?modern?. At the same time, the standards of modernity have been set...
Author: Ellis Wayne Hawley The massive depression of the 1930's detonated the crisis between harsh reality and the vision of material abundance and economic security created by the American industrial...
Authors: Jeffery Sng, Kishore Mahbubani The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations-especially Islam and...
Author: Dieter Helm Hard-hitting recommendations for what must be done to manage global natural capital and reverse environmental destruction Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables--like...
Author: Thom Hartmann The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before-including during the Great Depression and the Civil War-because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming...
Author: Michael E. Porter In this pathbreaking book, Michael E. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into powerful analytical tools to help management interpret market signals...
Author: Mervyn King The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more...
Author: Charles R. Morris "Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."--The Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy...
Author: Edmond Conway What exactly is a credit crunch? Why do footballers earn so much more than the rest of us? Which country is likely to be the world's leading...
Author: David S. Siegel Synopsis: UPDATED February, 1997. A comprehensive guide to over 750 used, out-of-print and antiquarian book dealers in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island....
Authors: Costanza, Robert, Kubiszewski, Ida Synopsis: “The book is a compilation of thoughtful articles from a broad range of academics, research scientists, policy specialists, politicians and others - thinkers all.”...
Author: Ruchir Sharma The new "breakout nations" will probably spring from the margins, even from the shadows. Sharma, one of the world's largest investors in emerging markets for Morgan Stanley,...
Author: Alan Greenspan Synopsis: The Age of Turbulence 2007 publication Review&colon In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board,...
Author: Martin Mayer A timely, inside look at America's Federal Reserve System reveals how the Fed has reinvented itself in response to changes in the new economy, explaining how it...
Author: Faizal bin Yahya Synopsis: The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and...
Authors: Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-Benedict E.M Steenkamp World class marketing experts, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict Steenkamp set out a cutting-edge plan for emerging market brands to achieve success in international markets....
Author: Thomas Petzinger An expose of the airline industry covers such events as the rise of Southwest Airlines, Pan Am's attempt to take over National, and the battle between British...
Author: Rodolfo Severino Describes the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the impact it has had on the region. Discusses how it helped bring peace and stability to the region...
Author: Noah Feldman A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the...
Author: Zhao Hong This book examines the energy resource relations between China and ASEAN countries. It addresses the following issues: as the world energy demand shifts East because of the...
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz presents this thought-provoking analysis of the problems inherent in the world economic order, and how they can be solved.
Author: James Dale Davidson The authors foresee that the 1990s will be even more difficult than the 1987 crash with the bankruptcy of the welfare state; the breakup of many...
Authors: Yiannis G. Mostrous, Elliott H. Gue, Ivan D. Martchev Asia is now the world's #1 growth story. Farsighted investors will realize enormous profits by investing in companies that benefit...
Author: Daniel Levitin What if the best was yet to come? Recent studies show that our happiness levels peak at age 82, and that our decision-making skills improve as we...
Author: Thomas L. Friedman The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization...
Author: Michael Lewis Synopsis: While Michael Lewis worked as a bond dealer at Salomon Brothers he began his second career as a journalist and helped to record a real-life "bonfire...
Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. The book is...
