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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, and why is what we call "efficient" is not efficient at all? Why should you write your resignation letter before starting on... | John Browne Uranium, carbon, iron, titanium, gold, silver and silicon - how seven elements are shaping the 21st century, for good and bad. |
| Joseph Stiglitz A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. |
Alex Brummer US food giant Kraft bought Cadbury in 2010, Dutch group AkzoNobel acquired ICI in 2007, and that's just the beginning. The truth is that hundreds of billions of pounds' worth... | Leigh Skene; Melissa Kidd Banking system collapses have annihilated credit markets and even the few borrowers with investment grade credit ratings cannot borrow. This book shows how the policies being followed by governments and... |
Daniel Kahneman Our minds have two ways of thinking: fast and intuitive, and slow and logical. This explains how we make decisions and how to use this knowledge to your advantage. | Ha-Joon Chang Turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works. In this book, the author destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us... |
Niall Ferguson Reveals the 'killer applications' that did it: competition - How Europe's small, piratical states built modern capitalism; science - How innovation gave the West the military edge; property rights -... | Michael Lewis Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as... |
Gordon Brown The much-anticipated book from former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the global economic crisis and the way forward | John Lanchester We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all paying for it. What went wrong? And will... |
Will Hutton An incisive look at how our society has fragmented into inequality and how to address this most crucial blight on our times | Nicholas Phillipson Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - such as... |
David Willetts This provocative and thought-provoking book argues that the baby boomer generation have thrived at the expense of their children. | Joseph Stiglitz When world economy went into freefall, so too did our unquestioning faith in markets. But what happens now? Are bailouts and stern lectures enough, or do we need a rethink... |