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The Irrational Economist
Making Decisions in a Dangerous World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Of the twenty most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001. Is this an omen of what the 21st century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational?
A select group of scholars, innovators,...
The Culture Map (INTL ED)
Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.
Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the...
The Next America
Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past.
America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our...
by Jason Zweig
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall Street
The Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths...
by George Soros
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Never before have we stood to gain or lose as much from understanding the international economy. Scandals plague the world's largest corporations, the American trade deficit has soared to historic heights, and international organizations from the World Bank to the WTO are accused of being inefficient...
The Inner Lives of Markets
How People Shape Them-And They Shape Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
What is a market? To most people it is a shopping center or an abstract space in which stock prices vary minutely. In reality, a market is something much more fundamental to being human, and it affects not just the price of tomatoes but the boundaries of everything we value.
Reading the newspapers...
Peers Inc
How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
When Robin Chase cofounded Zipcar, she not only started a business but established the foundation for one of the most important economic and social ideas of our time: the collaborative economy. With this important book, she broadens our thinking about the ways in which the economy is being transformed...
The Attacker's Advantage
Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The phenomenon of uncertainty is not new; what is new is its intensity and potential to change industries and destroy companies. Business leaders can be on the defensive, or they can be on offense, prepared to lead decisively. The ability to deal with uncertainty is perhaps the paramount skill leaders...
The Mathematical Corporation
Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future*.*
We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar...
Understanding America
The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
The idea of an exceptional America remains controversial. In this dazzlingly comprehensive collection of essays, some of the nation's best scholars and thinkers take on the weighty task of sizing up Goliath in a way Americans and others can comprehend. These twenty studies in American exceptionalism...
by George Soros
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this collection of his recent writings on the global financial situation, George Soros presents his views and analysis of key economic policy...
Snitch
Informants, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Our criminal justice system favors defendants who know how to play the "5K game": criminals who are so savvy about the cooperation process that they repeatedly commit serious crimes knowing they can be sent back to the streets if they simply cooperate with prosecutors. In Snitch, investigative...
Pax Ethnica
Where and How Diversity Succeeds
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
In a world replete with stories of sectarian violence, we are often left wondering: Are there places where people of different ethnicities, especially with significant Muslim minorities, live in peace? If so, why haven't we heard more about them, and what explains their success?
To answer these...
A Place at the Table
The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Forty-nine million people-including one in four children-go hungry in the U.S. every day, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. Inspired by the acclaimed documentary A Place at the Table, this companion book offers powerful insights from those at the front lines...