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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The Millionaire's Secrets: Life Lessons in Wisdom and WealthThe Millionaire's Secrets: Life Lessons in Wisdom and Wealth is a powerful parable about an encounter with an eccentric but wise millionaire whose mysterious words and probing questions open the door to financial prosperity and a rich, fulfilling life. The path to wisdom and...
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The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy TimesOrganized into more than 200 thought- and action-provoking elements--from the importance of clean trucks and bathrooms to conversations with entrepreneurs creating new markets--Tom Peters, bestselling management guru offers a practical guide to impractical times. In The Pursuit of Wow , Tom Peters offers readers...
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The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of RooseveltThis bold new analysis of the New Deal dramatically revises our vision of the Roosevelt legacy -- and of the new relation between government and business it made a central fact of American life. With impressive scholarship and narrative brio, Jordan A. Schwarz persuasively...
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Through the Brick Wall: How to Job-Hunt in a Tight MarketHere is a unique, business-oriented approach to job hunting which provides the reader with step-by-step instructions in finding a new and/or improved position. Wendleton explains why the " tried and true" techniques no longer work and includes up-to-the-minute job-hunting techniques and astute lessons on...
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The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century CapitalisThere is no longer such a thing as an American economy, say Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book. What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders? What skills will be the most valuable...
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Globalization and InequalityOne of the world's leading experts on international trade explains that we must look beyond globalization to explain rising inequality. Globalization is not the primary cause of rising inequality. This may come as a surprise. Inequality within nations has risen steadily in recent decades,...
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Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860-1937China's status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal relations with multiple powers, secured through a system of treaties rather than through colonization, has invited debate over the degree and...
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Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil WarPitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco's Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance--a clear instance, it seemed, of like-minded regimes joining...
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China Under Mao: A Revolution DerailedChina's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976--an epoch of...
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Society and Economy: Framework and PrinciplesSociety and Economy--a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology--is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined. The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities,...
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Corporations and American DemocracyRecent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars...
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Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and PresentCurators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our...
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Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam SmithScholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial...
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American BusinessThe role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big...
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The Economic Structure of Tort LawWritten by a lawyer and an economist, this is the first full-length economic study of tort law--the body of law that governs liability for accidents and for intentional wrongs such as battery and defamation. Landes and Posner propose that tort law is best understood...
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Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, with a New Preface by the AuthorWhy is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Annalee Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but...
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Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a SpectacleA lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest business tycoons. Although dinosaur fossils were...
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The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big BusinessFrom a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisticated global businesses have targeted the human brain's reward centers, driving us to addictions ranging from oxycodone to Big Macs to Assassin's Creed to Snapchat--with alarming social consequences. We live in...
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From Mainframes to Smartphones: A History of the International Computer IndustryThis compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950s mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s. It concludes with the Internet's explosive growth since 1995. Across these four periods, Martin...
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What Unions No Longer DoFrom workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in ten, and just one in twenty...
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