
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: There's no...
View full detailsIn this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: There's no...
View full detailsNew technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...
View full detailsTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everyth...
View full detailsBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren...
View full detailsIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the be...
View full detailsIn this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve th...
View full detailsThe West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will...
View full detailsNo American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose advice has been sough...
View full detailsAre leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or does th...
View full detailsOver the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents' generation mig...
View full detailsThe dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more t...
View full detailsRemember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? And...
View full detailsOn 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule...
View full detailsWe all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power and Profits, a few corporatio...
View full detailsEurope is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from thos...
View full detailsFinancial malpractice, we're told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gami...
View full detailsA wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, 10 Rules is full of insights on signs of p...
View full detailsBased on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of bo...
View full detailsFrom the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the outrageous story of th...
View full detailsA 'dark knight' conflict between good and evil; control by elite puppet masters; nostalgia for a golden age: these are the core myths of populism. ...
View full detailsFrom their earliest meetings, activist David Graeber knew that the Occupy Wall Street movement was something different. From small beginnings its d...
View full detailsAccording to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the ...
View full detailsThe morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful...
View full detailsDeep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite ...
View full detailsWhy did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy we...
View full detailsWhether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Bar...
View full detailsIn The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate ...
View full detailsAround the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting blood...
View full detailsWho really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a ...
View full detailsTo work is human, yet the world of work is changing fast, and in unexpected ways. With rapid advances in information technology, huge swathes of th...
View full detailsThis is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over hal...
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