Business & Economics
Explore the best business and economics books, including top entrepreneur reads, finance essentials, and foundational texts. Browse our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended books in business and economics.
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Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United StatesListen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior...
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Supply Chain Management Best PracticesLearn what it takes to develop and have a best-in-class supply chain This new edition shows you how to build supply chains that work by illustrating how leading companies are doing it. Identifying world-class supply chains in more than a dozen different industries and...
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Project Management (MSEL)Lead change through strategic alignment of project and process performance Practical and filled with expert advice, Strategic Project Portfolio Management: Enabling a Productive Organization presents a clear framework for your organization to complete impactful strategic projects. Providing executive-level guidance to build a powerful and...
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The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic LeadershipLeadership is the habit of making good choices. Even in difficult and uncertain circumstances, the most effective leaders focus their attention and overcome entrenched patterns of behavior to push an organization to new heights of success. This capability is no fluke: the latest research...
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Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and ProfitIt's an insidious disease that is crippling companies, destroying our economy, and crushing potential. It's infecting the very roots of business performance, and it's spreading fast. It isn't the recession, market volatility, scandal, or greed. It's entitlement.And it may be killing your business. In...
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Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural OrderIt is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and...
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Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created CaliforniaIsaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances...
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Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared ProsperityInequality is a choice.The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story--the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations...
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Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals: Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary ResultsIn today's superheated business climate, executives and managers are under increasing pressure to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of their people. Built around inspiring stories from both the military and business worlds, Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALS outlines a step-by-step approach...
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Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal EmpireIn this unprecedented look at the culture of American lawyering, Lincoln Caplan shows us Skadden's origins in the white-shoe postwar legal world and its rise to preeminence in the era of Drexel Burnham Lambert - the firm's largest client in the eighties. Skadden is...
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The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind PowerIn the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas's latest boom, with...
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The People Principle: A Revolutionary Redefinition of LeadershipIn the last decade, billions of dollars have been spent on process improvement and reorganization, most of which generally failed to achieve the desired increases in productivity. Sadly, the result was fear, distrust, paranoia, and low employee and manager morale. Business's greatest blunder of...
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Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American WestIn the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose from lower-middle-class origins to become an enormously wealthy entrepreneur, building roads, bridges, dams, and housing. He...
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The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the WorldIf you've ever thought, There must be more to life than this, The Art of Non-Conformity is for you.Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto A Brief Guide to World Domination, The Art of Non-Conformity defies common assumptions about life and work while arming...
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Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our WorldIf you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi's jeans their iconic allure, look no further--in Cool, Steven Quartz and Anette Asp finally explain the fascinating science behind unexpected trends...
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The Broken Road to Mental Health: In Life and in BusinessI should be dead today. Instead, I am gifted with a life beyond my wildest dreams and have yet taken that for granted. It is my responsibility to pass it on, the future is now. As I continue to witness the rising amount of...
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The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494From a careful study of pertinent documents, including a set of libri segreti (confidential ledgers) discovered in 1950, Professor de Roover has reconstructed the details of the bank's organization and operating methods; its loan policies, which reflected the Church's doctrine on usury; its trading...
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The Three Worlds of Welfare CapitalismFew discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. G sta Esping-Andersen, one of the foremost contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and...
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Perfect Phrases for Meetings: Hundreds of Ready-To-Use Phrases to Get Your Message Across and Advance Your CareerEveryone wants to shine in business meetings-whether they are leading them or just participating. Perfect Phrases for Meetings provides hundreds of winning, ready-to-use phrases, arming you with the right words to say in eight crucial types of meetings. This book is a valuable tool...
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Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared ProsperityEurope is in crisis. Sluggish economic growth in many countries, widespread income stagnation, and recession have led to severe political and social consequences. Social protections for citizens have been cut back. Governments offer timid responses to deep-seated problems. These economic and political failures have...
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