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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Maynard's RevengeIt is now widely agreed that mainstream macroeconomics is irrelevant and that there is need for a more useful and realistic economic analysis that can provide a better understanding of the ongoing global financial and economic crisis. Lance Taylor's book exposes the unrealistic assumptions...
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Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi ArabiaOil and water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil's abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom's ruling...
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Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative DestructionPan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland--all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic...
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Capital Rules: The Construction of Global FinanceListen to a short interview with Rawi AbdelalHost: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & CraneThe rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal...
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Free RidingOne individual's contribution to a large collective project--such as voting in a national election or contributing to a public television fund-raising campaign--often seems negligible. A striking proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a...
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New Foundations of Cost-Benefit AnalysisCost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been an important policy tool of government since the 1980s, when the Reagan administration ordered that all major new regulations be subjected to a rigorous test of whether their projected benefits would outweigh their costs. Not surprisingly, CBA has been...
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Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women ExecutivesThe wrenching decision facing successful women choosing between demanding careers and intensive family lives has been the subject of many articles and books, most of which propose strategies for resolving the dilemma. Competing Devotions focuses on broader social and cultural forces that create women's...
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China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation"Chinese people should consume Chinese products!" This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern "nation" with its own "national products." From fashions in clothing...
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Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational FormsThis collection examines the forces, both external and internal, that lead corporations to behave efficiently and to create wealth. Corporations vest control rights in shareholders, the author argues, because they are the constituency that bear business risk and therefore have the appropriate incentives to...
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Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce (Revised)This book explores the organization of creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with other, "humdrum" inputs. But the deals that bring these inputs together are inherently problematic: artists have...
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Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New EnglandIn this innovative study of the rise of the conservation ethic in northern New England, Richard Judd shows that the movement that eventually took hold throughout America had its roots among the communitarian ethic of countrypeople rather than among urban intellectuals or politicians. Drawing...
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Enlightened LeadershipBeing able to change to keep pace with a rapidly changing world is the key to business success in the '90s. Enlightened Leadership is a practical, hands-on guide to breaking through the barriers to organizational change. Doug Krug and Ed Oakley show why most...
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Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese about Quality the American Who Taught the Japanese about QualityDr. W. Edwards Deming, a household name in Japan, became the prime catalyst behind the incredible success of Japanese industry. In fact, since 1951, the Deming Prize has been the most coveted and prestigious award among Japanese corporations, similar to the Malcolm Baldrige Award...
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The Microsoft Edge: Insider Strategies for Building SuccessHow did the team at Microsoft pioneer, build, and shepherd the company through exponential growth in a constantly changing market? How can you apply what they've discovered to your own career? Microsoft veteran Julie Bick reveals all the insider strategies in this invaluable book,...
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Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop on the JobFrom Simon & Schuster, Lessons of Experience is Morgan McCall, Michael Lombardo, And Ann Morrison's guide to successful executives develop on the job. Lessons on Experience tells how to learn from job assignments, fellow workers, and hardships, shares the lessons of successful executives, and...
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Beleaguered RulersProfessionals today wield an enormous public power. Collectively, their decisions affect the patient's plight, the client's fate, the student's future, the city's scape, the Earth's sustainability, the worker's fair treatment, and the durability of institution's great and small. Yet professionals do not perceive themselves...
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The Online Copywriter's Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Write Electronic Copy That SellsThe Web has developed its own set of rules and attitudes for writing hard-hitting marketing copy. Robert Bly's The Online Copywriter's Handbook is the first practical and authoritative guide to what exactly those rules are and how they differ from writing for print audiences....
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Dropshipping And Ecommerce: Build A $20,000 per Month Business by Making Money Online with Shopify, Amazon FBA, Affiliate Marketing, Facebook AdveDropshipping And Ecommerce Do you feel like money is beginning to become a problem that is affecting the way you live your life?Do you feel like seeing these Instagram Profiles and YouTube success stories are just popping up way too much?Realising this means you...
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Interpersonal Communication at Work: How to communicate with customers, bosses, colleagues and subordinatesDo you have problems communicating with others? It might be that your personality gets in the way or you simply do not feel comfortable communicating with others. You may prefer to communicate in writing - sending emails, texts or letters or you may prefer...
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How To Be A Man: What Your Father Never Taught YouA guide for men in todays feminised worldManhood - what is a man? How to be a man.Women, relationships and sexMedia - manipulation and indoctrination via moviesHealth - food and exercise and why?Money - wealth what you need to know and what you were...
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