Economics for the Common Good
By: Jean Tirole
3.91
Format: 576 pages, ebook
From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in soci…
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1. Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
By: Alvin E. Roth
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities -- both … read more
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2. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
By: Robert B. Cialdini
4.01
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from Robert Cialdini—“the foremost … read more
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"In large measure, who we are with respect to any choice is where we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice."-Robert B. Cialdini, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
"There's a critical insight in all this for those of us who want to learn to be more influential. The best persuaders become the best through pre-suasion - the process of arranging for recipients to b…"-Robert B. Cialdini, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
3. The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast
By: Josh Kaufman
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Forget the 10,000 hour rule-- what if it's possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hour… read more
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4. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
5. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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6. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By: Richard H. Thaler
4.16
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more
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7. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more
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8. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more
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9. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more
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10. Circo Máximo: La ira de Trajano (Trajano, #2)
By: Santiago Posteguillo
4.01
Format: 532 pages, Hardcover
Circo Maximoes la historia de Trajano y su gobierno, guerras y traiciones, lealtades insobornables … read more
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11. Capitalism and Freedom
By: Milton Friedman
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more
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12. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
By: Daron Acemoğlu
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more
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"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
13. Le dedico mi silencio
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
3.55
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
LA NUEVA NOVELA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA La historia de un hombre que soñó… read more
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14. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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15. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
By: Gregory Zuckerman
4.03
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the … read more
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16. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee
4.23
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more
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"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
17. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
By: Mariana Mazzucato
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to in… read more
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"Governments and central banks were quietly admitting something they were still reluctant to announce publicly: the extraordinary power of private-sector banks lending to determine the pace of money c…"-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
"In essence, we behave as economic actors according to the vision of the world of those who device the accounting conventions. The marginalist theory of value underlying contemporary national accounti…"-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
18. The Common Good
By: Robert B. Reich
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed… read more
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19. Economics for the Common Good
By: Jean Tirole
3.91
Format: 576 pages, ebook
From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in soci… read more
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