Money and Government: Unsettled Issues in Macroeconomics
By: Robert Skidelsky
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in econom…
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1. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
2. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more
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"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
3. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz , Karl Polanyi , None
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and … 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. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
By: Brad Stone
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its d… 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. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
By: Matthew B. Crawford
4.00
Format: None pages,
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8. Anatomy of the State
By: Murray N. Rothbard
3.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"Em A anatomia do estado, Murray Rothbard explica o que o estado e e o que ele nao e. Ele mostra co… read more
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9. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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10. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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11. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
12. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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13. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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14. Stalingrad (Modern War Studies)
By: David M. Glantz
3.98
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
The long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi… read more
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15. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
16. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
17. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
By: Neal Ford
4.28
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult… read more
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18. Zo hadden we het niet bedoeld: De tragedie achter de toeslagenaffaire
By: Jesse Frederik
4.39
Format: 388 pages, Paperback
Tienduizenden families werden vermalen door de overheid. Relaties liepen op de klippen, banen raakt… read more
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19. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the f… read more
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"As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any."-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasma…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade were allowed to corrupt America and were later seen, as was the case in China a century and a half ago, as the beginning of a hundred years …"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists ha…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
20. What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
By: Linda Yueh
3.69
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A timely exploration of the life and work of world-changing thinkers--from Adam Smith to John Mayna… read more
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21. Money and Government: Unsettled Issues in Macroeconomics
By: Robert Skidelsky
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in econom… read more
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