Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize ''Majestic, informative and often delightful. insights on every page'' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, ...
We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power, and Profits, a few corporations now dominate entire sectors, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own ...
You don''t need to be university educated, have money, be creative, or even have an idea to get rich. You just need to be willing to break the rules. How to be a Capitalist Without Any Capital will teach you how to be a modern opportunist - investor, entrepreneur, or side hustler - by breaking these ...
They say John Maynard Keynes called gold a ''barbarous relic''. They say there isn''t enough gold to support finance and commerce. They say the gold supply can''t increase fast enough to support world growth. They''re wrong. In The New Case for Gold, James Rickards explains why gold is one of the safest ...
The New Psychology of Selling The sales profession is in the midst of a perfect storm. Buyers have more power more information, more at stake, and more control over the sales process than any time in history. Technology is bringing disruptive change at an ever-increasing pace, creating fear and uncertainty ...
This is an Evening Standard Book of the Year 2015. Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the ...
How do people of seemingly ordinary talent go on to achieve unexpected results? What can we learn from them? What are the ingredients for unreasonable success and how is it achieved? In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author Richard Koch charts a map of success, identifying the nine key attitudes ...
Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine''s cards to one''s pets? The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen. But if ...
Autor : Niall Ferguson, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : The Ascent of Money, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 546.
How was a brilliant physics professor tricked into carrying 2kg of cocaine across the Argentinian border? Why do doctors misdiagnose 10 to 15% of their patients? Why do Nobel Prize winners spread fake news? We assume that smarter people are less prone to error. But greater education and expertise can ...
A complete guide for beginning investors who want to understand how to invest like Warren Buffett. This is one of the first books to showcase both Warren Buffett''s Value Investing technique and his life skills and habits for beginning investors. Sustainable results often come from changes in lifestyle ...
''A superb book'' Financial Times, Books of the Year Adam Smith is now widely regarded as ''the father of modern economics'' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate ...
Do you want to reinvent the second half of your career?''Learn how to cultivate a beginner''s mind.and be the sage counselor'' - from the foreword by Brian Chesky, cofounder and CEO of Airbnb. In our increasingly accelerated world that venerates the new, bright and shiny, many of us in mid-career sense ...
From the New York Times bestselling author, a provocative book of hard-won wisdom for achieving a fulfilling career and life. How can you have a meaningful career, not just a lucrative one?Is a work/life balance really possible?What does it take to make a long-term relationship succeed?What can you do ...
Have you ever wondered why we can afford to buy far more clothes than our grandparents ever could... but may be less likely to own a home in which to keep them all? Why your petrol bill can double in a matter of months, but it never falls as fast? Behind all of this lies economics.; It''s not always ...
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"An intellectual excursion of a kind rarely offered by modern economics."-Foreign AffairsThomas Piketty''s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent years. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth ...
