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 Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental EthicsAs industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between progress and the earth's ability to provide for its inhabitants grows increasingly precarious as we attempt to achieve sustainable development. In...
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Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration"Not only a fine collection on Florida itself, but also a model of what edited state histories of labor might look like in the future. It is as multiracial (also moving well beyond black and white) and almost as gendered as the experiences of...
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Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented FloridaWhere America's wildest dreams came true"At Cypress Gardens--the original Florida theme park--movie stars, water-ski champs, and southern sweethearts created magic. More than anyone, even Walt Disney, Dick Pope Sr. invented Florida as America's dream vacationland. This journey back to the attraction in its heyday...
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Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Careerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-CongratulationAs the editor of Harper's Magazine, Lewis Lapham has enjoyed entr e to America's "cultural elite," a class distinguished by its talent for currying favor, licking boots, and kissing ass. Now, in this scathingly funny and politically incorrect self-help book, Mr. Lapham offers his...
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The Money Class: How to Stand in Your Truth and Create the Future You DeserveThe #1 New York Times bestseller, now revised and updated, filled with tools and advice that can take you from a place of financial fear to a place of financial security. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THE MONEY CLASS? How to find the courage...
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Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It BackNow includes "The Life Inc. Guide to Reclaiming the Value You Create" In Life Inc, award-winning writer Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. The resulting ideology, corporatism, has infiltrated all aspects...
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The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's ProfitsThe book that answers the most fundamental question in business: Where Will I Make a Profit Tomorrow? Why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year? Why are they always far ahead of their competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of...
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Capitalism's Hidden WorldsA dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries Observers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics. These most visible economic features, however, obscure a range of...
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China's Capitalism: A Paradoxical Route to Economic ProsperitySince 1978, the end of the Mao era, economic growth in China has outperformed every previous economic expansion in modern history. While the largest Western economies continue to struggle with the effects of the deepest recession since World War II, the People's Republic of...
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The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the MediterraneanIn The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives--and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco--in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at...
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Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War IIThey helped conquer the greatest armies ever assembled. Yet no sooner had they tasted victory after World War II than American generals suddenly found themselves governing their former enemies, devising domestic policy and making critical economic decisions for people they had just defeated in...
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Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American CapitalismAt the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other...
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Green Capitalism?: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth CenturyAt a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to green capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes...
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Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limits of PrivatizationThe fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. But the window of opportunity for creating this more...
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Principles of Housing Finance ReformIn the fall of 2008, the world watched in horror as the U.S. housing finance system shattered, triggering a global financial panic and ultimately the Great Recession. Now, nearly a decade later, the long and slow housing recovery has reached a critical moment. Though...
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic DevelopmentDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality...
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The Next Economic Disaster: Why It's Coming and How to Avoid ItCurrent debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks...
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Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and DebtThe practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive...
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Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War IIDuring World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the arsenal of...
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Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American LiberalismTaxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why...
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