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.
-
The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and JapanA long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies....
- ¥19,517 JPY
- ¥19,517 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Methods for Applied Macroeconomic ResearchThe last twenty years have witnessed tremendous advances in the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools available to applied macroeconomists. This rapidly evolving field has redefined how researchers test models and validate theories. Yet until now there has been no textbook that unites the latest...
- ¥35,465 JPY
- ¥35,465 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Mathematical Theory of EvidenceBoth in science and in practical affairs we reason by combining facts only inconclusively supported by evidence. Building on an abstract understanding of this process of combination, this book constructs a new theory of epistemic probability. The theory draws on the work of A....
- ¥15,968 JPY
- ¥15,968 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It MattersWhat does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist,...
- ¥14,174 JPY
- ¥14,174 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic InteractionGame theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games. This book marks the first substantial and authoritative effort to...
- ¥46,131 JPY
- ¥46,131 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity...
- ¥17,724 JPY
- ¥17,724 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Japan's Policy Trap: Dollars, Deflation, and the Crisis of Japanese FinanceAuthor: Akio Mikuni, R. Taggart MurphyPublisher: Brookings Institution PressPublished: 08/13/2002Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.42h x 6.14w x 1.07dISBN: 9780815702221About the AuthorAkio Mikuni is one of the most universally respected analysts of the Japanese economy in the global financial community. He is the president...
- ¥14,545 JPY
- ¥14,545 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Course in Microeconomic TheoryDavid M. Kreps has developed a text in microeconomics that is both challenging and "user-friendly." The work is designed for the first-year graduate microeconomic theory course and is accessible to advanced undergraduates as well. Placing unusual emphasis on modern noncooperative game theory, it provides...
- ¥46,131 JPY
- ¥46,131 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Political Economy of International RelationsAfter the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions--the General Agreement on...
- ¥21,291 JPY
- ¥21,291 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent SocietyCounter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed, Jerry Muller shows that the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations maintained that markets served to promote the well-being of the populace and that...
- ¥14,174 JPY
- ¥14,174 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
High Tech Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech CompaniesThis revised and updated edition of Nesheim's underground Silicon Valley bestseller incorporates twenty-three case studies of successful start-ups, including tables of wealth showing how much money founders and investors realized from each venture. The phenomenal success of the initial public offerings (IPOs) of many...
- ¥13,074 JPY
- ¥13,074 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Exposé of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children Believe They Are What They Own. (USA Today)Marketing targeted at kids is virtually everywhere -- in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at Girl Scout meetings, slumber parties, and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television. Drawing on her own survey...
- ¥4,480 JPY
- ¥4,480 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict Into CooperationIn this groundbreaking work, famed social scientist and world-famous public opinion expert Daniel Yankelovich reinvents the ancient art of dialogue. Successful managers have always known how to make decisions and mobilize coworkers. But as our businesses continue to expand, conversations and discussions just aren't...
- ¥3,822 JPY
- ¥3,822 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Power Principle: Influence with HonorThe principles you live by today create the world you live in: if you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. In the life-changing tradition of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Power Principle teaches the core principles...
- ¥5,734 JPY
- ¥5,734 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Competitive Intelligence: How to Gather Analyze and Use Information to Move Your Business to the TopIn the first book designed for businesses of all sizes and managers at every level, Larry Kahaner explains the increasingly vital practice of competitive intelligence and how American companies can use it for success. Competitive Intelligence: How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to...
- ¥5,007 JPY
- ¥5,007 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for SuccessFor the people who know Stedman Graham as one of the nation's most quietly active community business leaders, it may be hard to envision the time when he was held back by considerable self-doubt. He was. He grappled, also, with his share of daunting...
- ¥4,446 JPY
- ¥4,446 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Strategic PlanningIn today's complex business world, strategic planning is indispensable to achieving superior management. George A. Steiner's classic work, known as the bible of business planning, provides practical advice for organizing the planning system, acquiring and using information, and translating strategic plans into decisive action....
- ¥6,204 JPY
- ¥6,204 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Managing to Have Fun: How Fun at Work Can Motivate Your Employees, Inspire Your Coworkers, and Boost Your Bottom LineWhat's the best way to revolutionize the workplace? Forget restructuring and reengineering. Have a little fun Imaging sendig a pizza to your assistant's home after keeping her late at the office...or writing a thank you note to her spouse for being so understanding It's...
- ¥3,822 JPY
- ¥3,822 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
To Do Doing Done: A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters MostTo Do...Doing...Done : A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters Most focuses on the skills required to manage any project without getting bogged down in conflicts or sidetracked by unexpected changes or developments. In this book are proven techniques for...
- ¥4,062 JPY
- ¥4,062 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Leader's Edge: How to Use Communication to Grow Your Business and YourselfIn The Leader's Edge, Sandy Linver, the well-known consultant and president of Speakeasy Inc., shows how her clients have used effective communication skills to reach their high leadership positions. The Leader's Edge isn't a how to book -- it's a where to book, about...
- ¥3,334 JPY
- ¥3,334 JPY
- Unit price
- per
