Business and Economics

Recent books on business and economics.

Updated December 25, 2024
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Career confidence : no-BS stories and strategies for finding your power
Storey, Robynn
Paper Book
Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career path In Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power, recruitment, hiring, and job search industry veteran Robynn Storey delivers a detailed roadmap you...
HBR's 10 must reads on strengthening your soft skills
Harvard Business Review Press
Paper Book
Strengthen your soft skills and reach your leadership potential. If you read nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you...
Slow Burn : The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
Park, Robert Jisung.
Paper Book
How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun--from lower test scores to higher crime rates--and how we might tackle them today It's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending...
Build, baby, build : the science and ethics of housing
Caplan, Bryan Douglas 1971-
Paper Book
In this exciting new graphic novel, economist Bryan Caplan examines how changes to housing regulation can lead us to a vastly better world. Why are housing prices in America so unbelievably high, especially in the country's most desirable locations? The superficial answer is "supply...
The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America
Graetz, Michael J.
Paper Book
How the antitax fringe went mainstream--and now threatens America's future The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards--and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in...
The greatest of all plagues : how economic inequality shaped political thought from Plato to Marx
Williams, David Lay 1969-
Paper Book
How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems...
Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy
Binder, Carola Conces.
Paper Book
How inflation and deflation fears shape American democracy. Many foundational moments in American economic history--the establishment of paper money, wartime price controls, the rise of the modern Federal Reserve--occurred during financial panics as prices either inflated or deflated...
The economy of promises : trust, power, and credit in America
Carruthers, Bruce G.
Paper Book
A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America--and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots The Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing and surveying...
One day I'll work for myself : the dream and delusion that conquered America
Waterhouse, Benjamin C. 1978-
Paper Book
"One day I'll work for myself." Perhaps you've heard some version of that phrase from friends, colleagues, family members--perhaps you've said it yourself. If so, you're not alone. The spirit of entrepreneurship runs deep in American culture and history, in the films we watch and the books we...
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
Williams, Kyle Edward.
Paper Book
Recent controversies around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and "woke capital" evoke an old idea: the Progressive Era vision of a socially responsible corporation. By midcentury, the notion that big business should benefit society was a consensus view. But as Kyle Edward...
Innovation for the masses : how to share the benefits of the high-tech economy
Lee, Neil (Economist)
Paper Book
An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better foster innovation and equality.   From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of the world's most innovative places are highly unequal, with the benefits going to a small few. Rather than simply...
Bounce Back from Debt
Khalfani-Cox, Lynette
Paper Book
In Bounce Back, veteran financial coach and bestselling author Lynnette Khalfani-Cox explains how she slayed six figures of consumer debt in a mere three years and went on to build a seven-figure personal net worth. The author shows you how to take on--and defeat--the most common and...

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