Everyone's Guide to the South African Economy (9th edition)
Zebra Press, December 2007. Paper Back. More
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Tragedy of the Euro
Ludwig von Mises Institute, January 2010. Paper Back. Clean, sound. Like new. More
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
Crown, July 2021. Hardcover. WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - "If I had to make a list of top five business books of all time, this would be on it. It's just so damn engrossing."--Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journal tech columnist The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and..... More
Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm
Wiley, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Before reading The Panic of 1907, the year 1907 seemed like a long time ago and a different world. The authors, however, bring this story alive in a fast-moving book, and the reader sees how events of that time are very relevant for today's financial..... More
Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research
The MIT Press, February 2002. Trade Paperback. The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the economic implications..... More
How Markets Fail: The Rise and Fall of Free Market Economics
Picador, June 2021. Paper Back. In How Markets Fail, veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 2008 financial crisis--now with a new preface addressing how its lessons remain unheeded in the present. A Pulitzer Prize Finalist An Economist..... More
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
Penguin Press, September 2021. Hardcover. A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics "Max Chafkin's The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most..... More
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, September 2016. Paper Back. As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating..... More
Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life
University of Georgia Press, October 2018. Hardcover. Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He..... More
Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life
University of Georgia Press, October 2018. Hardcover. Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He..... More
Seeing Digital: A Visual Guide to the Industries, Organizations, and Careers of the 2020s
DXC Technology, July 2018. Cloth. Seeing Digital is like a GPS guide to the 2020s. The Post-Cloud era has already begun. A powerful wave of new technologies, including machine learning, smart products, software agents, wearables, blockchains, speech/facial recognition, robotics, augmented realities, algorithms, and 5G wireless bandwidth is creating a digital..... More
The principles of political economy and taxation (Everyman's library, no. 590)
E.P. Dutton / Everyman's Library, January 1933. Cloth. 12mo. Mild slant to spine; red cloth with sunned spine, gilt lettering. Jacket with sunned spine, edgeworn with tears. 'EL' end page design: The repeating script 'EL' pattern was used in the larger format binding Style 4 from 1953-1970. More
The rich: A study of the species
Franklin Watts, January 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. First U.S. edition in dustjacket. Black paper covered boards stamped with gold foil lettering on spine & front board. Tightly bound. Clean, unmarked internally. (267 pages). More
Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul
Henry Holt and Co., May 2021. Hardcover. "Fast-paced and impressively researched, this detailed account sings." --Publishers Weekly, starred review A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Summer (2021) A propulsive, eye-opening work of reporting, chronicling the rise of Juul and the birth of a new addiction It began with..... More
Nigeria, the economy and the people: The political economy of state robbery and its popular-democratic negation
New Beacon Books, 1984. Paper Back. More
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
Custom House, February 2020. Hardcover. #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany "A jaw-dropping financial thriller" --Philadelphia Inquirer..... More
The Devil's Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation
Crown, May 2021. Hardcover. Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this "deeply reported and illuminating" (The New York Times Book Review) corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided--and the vaping epidemic was born. "The best business book I've read since Bad Blood."--Jonathan Eig, New..... More
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
Basic Books, February 2002. Trade Paperback. Does money make the world go round, as Cabaret's Master of Ceremonies sang to us? In The Cash Nexus, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical and surprising answer-No. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change..... More
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
Mariner Books, November 1990. Trade Paperback. The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index. More
The Great Crash 1929
Mariner Books, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said: Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping..... More
Sketch of the Finances of the United States
William A Davis, 1796. Leather. A solid calf binding with typical shelf wear. Foxing throughout, including on the four fold-out folding tables in rear, all present. A rival of Alexander Hamilton's Federalism, in fervent opposition to public debt, Gallatin eventually served as Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury. He composed..... More
Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom
Verso, June 1997. Cloth. With compelling clarity, Henwood dissects the world's greatest financial center, laying open the Intricacies of how, and for whom, the market works. The Wall Street which emerges is not a pretty sight. Hidden from public view, the markets are poorly regulated, badly managed, chronically myopic and..... More
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Doubleday, August 2021. Hardcover. *A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller* "A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride." --Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review Power Play is the riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car--from award-winning Wall Street Journal..... More
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
Hachette Books, September 2021. Paper Back. From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS.? 35-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's..... More
European Dream
Tarcher, August 2004. Hardcover. Examines the decline of the American Dream as Americans are increasingly overworked and underpaid and describes its alternative as exemplified in the lifestyle of the New Europe, one that is more leisurely, healthy, and sustainable. Rifkin delves deeply into the history of Europe--and eventually America--to show..... More
