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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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The Economic Approach to Human BehaviorSince his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this approach to various aspects of...
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Writing Great Speeches: Professional Techniques You Can Use (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)With endorsements from two of the largest and most influential public speaking groups -- the National Speakers Association and Toastmasters International -- this book is written by an expert speechwriter whose eloquent voice leads readers through the difficult process of writing a great speech....
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America's Largest Corporations? Updated EditionAt a time when women have more tools than ever before to help them break through the glass ceiling, including the government's Glass Ceiling Initiative and the 1991 Civil Rights Act, far too many remain trapped beneath it. Based on the ground-breaking three-year study...
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Smart Moves for People in ChargeWhether you're in charge of a small business, a big department, or a growing corporation, you face more challenges than most managers. Smart Moves for People in Charge answers the big questions for people with big responsibilities. Easy-to-use checklists explain how leaders motivate and...
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The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational ScholarshipPositive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is an umbrella concept used to emphasize what elevates and what is inspiring to individuals and organizations by defining and improving on the challenging, broken, and needlessly difficult. Just as positive psychology explores optimal individual psychological states rather than pathological...
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Managing Public Relations: Methods and ToolsFocusing on the day-to-day matters of running a PR operation, Managing Public Relations is the first book to balance both corporate and agency needs while addressing the management of a public relations function. Its unique approach stresses the function of PR within the larger...
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Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and BullyingResearch shows that as many as 37% of American workers have experienced workplace abuse at some time in their working lives. Mobbing, a form of abuse in which individuals, groups, or organizations target a single person for ridicule, humiliation, and removal from the workplace,...
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The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and EntrepreneurshipResearch-based investigations of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship have the potential to inform each other and enrich our knowledge of each of these areas, particularly with regard to cognitive processes and effective behaviors. Yet, while these research streams have increasingly received a great deal of...
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Rules for a Flat WorldTechnology and globalization are uprooting and reshaping daily life. Global supply chains are now deeply embedded, and digital platforms connect almost everyone in complex networks of data and exchange. This "flat world" is one of tremendous possibility, but it also poses challenges to stability...
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Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of MarketsFor many, markets are the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. But what about those markets we might label noxious--markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex? In Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale,...
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Oxford Handbook of Applied Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics and StatisticsThis volume, edited by Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su, and Aman Ullah, contains the latest research on nonparametric and semiparametric econometrics and statistics. These data-driven models seek to replace the classical parametric models of the past, which were rigid and often linear. Chapters by leading...
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The Impact of Incomplete Contracts on EconomicsThe 1986 article by Sanford J. Grossman and Oliver D. Hart titled "A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration" has provided a framework for understanding how firm boundaries are defined and how they affect economic performance. The property rights approach has provided a formal...
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Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007Originally written for a conference of the Federal Reserve, Gary Gorton's "The Panic of 2007" garnered enormous attention and is considered by many to be the most convincing take on the recent economic meltdown. Now, in Slapped by the Invisible Hand, Gorton builds upon...
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The Value of Risk: Swiss Re and the History of ReinsuranceReinsurance is an invisible service industry which enables insurance companies to insure more risks and to make better use of their resources. Until recently, reinsurers were only known to a small minority outside the insurance community. Major disasters, especially those caused by natural catastrophes,...
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Oxford Handbook of Health EconomicsThe Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health...
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Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough BrandsHow do we explain the breakthrough market success of businesses like Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry's, and Jack Daniel's? Conventional models of strategy and innovation simply don't work. The most influential ideas on innovation are shaped by the worldview of engineers and economists -...
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A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land ManagementThis brand new Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management addresses the increasing overlap between agricultural sectors and the demands of the management of rural land and property. It covers the main areas of agricultural management, husbandry, environment, estate management, rural recreation, woodland and forestry,...
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Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty IndustryThe global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book...
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Casino Capitalism: How the Financial Crisis Came about and What Needs to Be Done NowIn Casino Capitalism, Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets. Sinn argues that the crisis came about because limited liability induced both...
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Advertising: A Very Short IntroductionJohn Wanamaker famously observed that "half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." Indeed, though advertising is pervasive in our society, how it works (if and when it works) is not a question most of...
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