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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Marx 200 - a review of Marx's economics 200 years after his birthMarx's economic theories 200 years after his birth in 1818. Marx's main ideas about the development of capitalism as the dominant mode of social organisation globally. And the critics of Marx's ideas over the last 150 years. Finally whether Marx's predictions about the future...
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Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879-1940) was a maverick entrepreneur--at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to source magnesium carbonate, and published...
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Concepts and Categories: Foundations for Sociological and Cultural AnalysisWhy do people like books, music, or movies that adhere consistently to genre conventions? Why is it hard for politicians to take positions that cross ideological boundaries? Why do we have dramatically different expectations of companies that are categorized as social media platforms as...
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Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow NeighborhoodsWhite supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential...
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In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global SouthIn the early 2000s, Chinese demand for imported commodities ballooned as the country continued its breakneck economic growth. Simultaneously, global markets in metals and fuels experienced a boom of unprecedented extent and duration. Meanwhile, resource-rich states in the Global South from Argentina to Angola...
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Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and DebtWhile serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state...
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Social Value Investing: A Management Framework for Effective PartnershipsSocial Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society's most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world's problems may seem too great and too complex to solve -- inequality, climate change, affordable housing, corruption, healthcare, food insecurity -- solutions...
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Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to HeirloomChopped in salads, scooped up in salsa, slathered on pizza and pasta, squeezed onto burgers and fries, and filling aisles with roma, cherry, beefsteak, on-the-vine, and heirloom: where would American food, fast and slow, high and low, be without the tomato? The tomato represents...
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A Theory of ImperialismIn A Theory of Imperialism, economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and...
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Reset: Business and Society in the New Social LandscapeAs consumers, our access to--and appetite for--information about what and how we buy continues to grow. Powered by social media, we scrutinize the companies behind familiar products and are disappointed when their actions do not meet our expectations. With citizens acting as 24/7 auditors...
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Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil PricesAs OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s...
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Designed LeadershipGreat leaders aspire to manage "by design"--with a sense of purpose and foresight. But too few leaders incorporate the proven practices and principles of the design disciplines. Lessons learned from the world of design, when applied to management, can turn leaders into collaborative, creative,...
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Economic Thought: A Brief HistoryIn this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars...
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Genealogy of American FinanceIn this unique, well-illustrated book, readers learn how fifty financial corporations came to dominate the U.S. banking system and their impact on the nation's political, social, and economic growth. A story that spans more than two centuries of war, crisis, and opportunity, this account...
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Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in AmericaThe first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life--yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are...
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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What WorksIn Designing for Growth: A Manager's Toolkit, Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie provided managers with guidance on using design as a powerful tool to boost the innovation needed to grow profitable businesses. This new book emphasizes the relevance of design thinking to business outcomes...
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Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South AsiaSiddharth Kara's Sex Trafficking has become a critical resource for its revelations into an unconscionable business, and its detailed analysis of the trade's immense economic benefits and human cost. This volume is Kara's second, explosive study of slavery, this time focusing on the deeply...
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The Robin Hood Rules for Smart GivingThe Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization focused on alleviating poverty in New York City. Michael M. Weinstein is the foundation's senior vice president. In that role he developed its metrics-based approach, called "relentless monetization," to ensure that the money the foundation receives...
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The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative JournalismIn this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He locates the roots of the problem in the origin...
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The Origins of Business, Money, and MarketsTo understand business and its political, cultural, and economic context, it helps to view it historically, yet most business histories look no further back than the nineteenth century. The full sweep of business history actually begins much earlier, with the initial cities of Mesopotamia....
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