Business and Economics

Recent books on business and economics.

Updated March 24, 2025
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Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy
Carola Binder
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 Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
Annette Kehnel
Paper Book
A fascinating blend of history and ecological economics that uncovers the medieval precedents for modern concepts of sustainable living.   In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel explores sustainability initiatives from the Middle Ages, highlighting...
Own Your Career: Break the Corporate Blueprint and Build Your Own Ladder
Michela Allocca
Paper Book
Imbue your career with purpose and meaning In Own Your Career: Break the Corporate Blueprint and Build Your Own Ladder, popular financial analyst and entrepreneur Michela Allocca delivers an exciting new discussion of how to break the corporate blueprint and forge your own...
Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak
Paper Book
"a fresh, thorough and practicable book for anyone who wants to sharpen their macroeconomic judgment, structured in an easily accessible and insightful manner. It offers an invaluable framework to better understand growth, the financial sector and the key trends shaping the global economy." --...
Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
Robert Jisung Park
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...
Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work (HBR Work Smart Series)
Harvard Business Review
Just be yourself, right? We're complex people. Professionally, we're recent graduates, employees, star performers, and first-time managers. But we're also best friends, devoted family members, sports fans, pet parents, social justice activists, or any other combination of these and...
Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good
Loretta Napoleoni
Paper Book
A fascinating look at howthe Space Barons and Techtitans-heads of companies like Uber, Amazon, Tesla-have hijacked technology, preventing it from being used on behalf of the common goodandprofitingfrom the politics of fear and consumerism. The respected Italian economist and...
Why Are We Here?: Creating a Work Culture Everyone Wants
Jennifer Moss
Paper Book
A deeply human exploration of how our relationship with work has evolved--and a guide for leaders who aim to make things right--from the author of The Burnout Epidemic. Work has recently undergone profound changes, not all for the better. AI's acceleration has led to...
Marketing with AI For Dummies
Shiv Singh
Paper Book
Stay ahead in the marketing game by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence Marketing with AI For Dummies is your introduction to the revolution that's occurring in the marketing industry, thanks to artificial intelligence tools that can create text, images, audio,...
Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career (HBR Work Smart Series)
Harvard Business Review
Build the career you want--on your terms. "Where do you see yourself in five years?" This question can make even the most ambitious of us feel a little nauseous. Starting out in the working world is hard enough, but thinking long-term about our careers--and whether we even...
Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty
Ali A. Allawi
Paper Book
A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a chasm of inequality between the Global South and the West. Development advice from richer...

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