Business & economics / Economics

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

von Richard D. Wolff

A new manifesto for gaining democratic control of our workplaces.

Capitalism Hits the Fan

von Richard D. Wolff

A breathtakingly clear analysis that breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis

“With unerring coherence and unequaled breadth of knowledge, Rick Wolff offers a rich and much needed corrective...

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

von Charles Eisenstein

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and...

SuperFreakonomics

von Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt

The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen...

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

von Nate Silver

"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century."

—Rachel Maddow, author of Drift

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted...

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

von Henry Hazlitt

A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the type...

Introduction to Marketing - Principles of Wholesale and Retail Distribution

von Paul D. Converse

INTRODUCTION to MARKETING PRINCIPLES OF WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DISTRIBUTION by Paul D. Converse. Preface: THIS BOOK has a definite objective to combine a treat ment of general marketing methods and principles...

Executive Economics: Ten Tools for Business Decision Makers

von Shlomo Maital

What do economists know that business executives find useful? Economics ought to be indispensable for business decision-makers because it deals with the issues executives face daily: what to pro duce, how and...

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

von Michael E. Porter

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: Economic Theory

von Hyman Minsky

This chapter comes from Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, the seminal work by Hyman Minsky. It reveals his groundbreaking financial theory of investment, one that is startlingly relevant today. He explains why...

The Aig Story

von Maurice R. Greenberg & Lawrence A. Cunningham

Selected as one of Motley Fool’s  "5 Great Books You Should Read"

In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham...

The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World

von Greg Ip

An accessible, thoroughly engaging look at how the economy really works and its role in your everyday life

Not surprisingly, regular people suddenly are paying a lot closer attention to the economy than ever...

Stone Age Economics

von Marshall Sahlins

This book addresses a central problem of anthropology: the nature and appropriate analysis of economic life. It consists of a set of detailed and closely related studies of tribal economies: of domestic production...

30-Second Economics: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Economic Theories, Each Explained in Half a Minute

von Donald Marron

Keynesian Economics, Free Market Capitalism, Monetarism, Game Theory and the Invisible Hand. Sure, you know what they mean. That is, you’ve certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about these economic...

MARKETS IN FASHION

von Patrik Aspers

Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this...

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

von Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman

The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls....

Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

von Robert B. Reich

America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make...

The Origin of Financial Crises

von George Cooper

In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently...

Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

von Ludwig Von Mises

Economic Policy contains six lectures Ludwig von Mises delivered in 1959 for the Centro de Estudios sobre la Libertad in Argentina. This volume serves as an excellent introduction to what Mises sees as the...

The Forgotten Man

von Amity Shlaes

In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and...