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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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Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global FinanceWhy our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning...
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The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It - Updated EditionWhy our banking system is broken--and the reforms needed to fix it The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and economic growth....
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil WarHow America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel,...
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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the WorldWhy are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make...
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Ministerial Ethics and EtiquetteA classic guide to ethics since 1928. Nolan Harmon studied the ethical codes of conduct of five major denominations and secured the opinions of eighty-six leading pastors. Harmon uses this wisdom to show ministers how to conduct themselves ethically in virtually every phase of...
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The Economic Intstitutions of CapitalismAn extraordinarily impressive achievement and must reading for all serious students of law, economics, and organization. --Paul L. Joskow, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts of Technology From Simon & Schuster, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism is Oliver E. Williamson's new perspective on the structure of...
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Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in HollywoodHit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two Hollywood film packagers went on a campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives -- at Sony's expense. Veteran reporters Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters chronicle the rise of Jon Peters, a...
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Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top SalespeopleThe most powerful system for sales success--from the author of the bestselling audiobook, The Psychology of Selling. Strategy, tactics, and mental preparedness separate superior salespeople from the average--and with technological advances evening the competition, the selling edge is now more important than ever. Drawing...
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American MythThey began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America-ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock-relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history. In an age when...
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Routes of Power PThe fossil fuel revolution is usually rendered as a tale of historic advances in energy production. In this perspective-changing account, Christopher F. Jones instead tells a story of advances in energy access--canals, pipelines, and wires that delivered power in unprecedented quantities to cities and...
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From Steel to SlotsBethlehem, Pennsylvania, was once synonymous with steel. But after the factories closed, the city bet its future on a new industry: casino gambling. On the site of the former Bethlehem Steel plant, thousands of flashing slot machines and digital bells replaced the fires in...
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The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New GlobalizationBetween 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new...
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Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the DepressionJust as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasionis an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin...
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So You Want To Be A Writer: How to get started (while you still have a day job)The ultimate all-in-one guide to making your writing dreams come true Want to publish a novel or earn an income as a writer, but not sure how to go about it? In this book, authors Allison Tait and Valerie Khoo -- co-hosts of the...
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Help! I need to master critical conversations: How to communicate what you really think without ruining the relationshipHave you ever worried about delivering truthful feedback at work? If you water down the message, the real issues do not get aired or understood. On the other hand, if the brutal truth is delivered, you may risk damaging your work relationships.This book provides...
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Moments in TimeStories of men whose Moments in Time changed everything. What are the moments that have shaped the direction your life has taken? Can you pinpoint them? Can you recall the decisions made that altered your path? What lessons did they teach you? What patterns...
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Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's InvestorWall Street Words is an essential guide to the words spoken on "the Street." This updated edition has 4,500 entries -- more than 700 of them newly added to reflect key developments in national and world markets -- and covers everything from investment fundamentals...
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How I learned to Trade like Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista: Book One, Trade MechanicsThis series of books will help beginning & advanced traders and investors, improve their trading & investing skills, by raising their probability of success, helping them take control of their own money. Book one, is a more basic book, we touch on the fundamentals...
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Lessons Learned From Leading Entrepreneurs: Case Studies in Business and EntrepreneurshipLESSONS LEARNED FROM LEADING ENTREPRENEURS provides the reader with an opportunity to learn from some of the most successful entrepreneurs of our generation. The book provides a benchmark for readers through a step-by-step process based on famous entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Apple, Warren...
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Secrets of a Pivot Boss: Revealing Proven Methods for Profiting in the MarketSecrets of a Pivot Boss offers the most comprehensive collection of pivot-related trading ideas and concepts available to traders. Whether you are a real-time trader, swing trader, position trader, or investor, you will find great value in this book, regardless of the markets you...
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