The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
By: Angus Deaton
3.57
Format: 160 pages, ebook
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Y…
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1. The Undercover Economist
By: Tim Harford
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economic… read more
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2. Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
By: Johan Norberg
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
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3. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
By: John Maynard Keynes
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that … read more
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4. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
By: Angus Deaton
3.57
Format: 160 pages, ebook
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5. Development as Freedom
By: Amartya Sen
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework fo… read more
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6. 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
7. 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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8. 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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9. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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10. 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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11. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.00
Format: 136 pages,
In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more
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12. Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
By: Branko Milanović
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
One of the world s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account o… read more
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13. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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14. The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
By: Scott Galloway
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unconventional book of wisdom and life advice from renowned business school professor and New Yo… read more
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15. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more
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"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
16. Liberalism and Its Discontents
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.93
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more
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"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
17. The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
By: Oded Galor
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress from one of the world's pre-eminen… read more
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"У 1579-му міська рада Гданська наказала непомітно втопити винахідника нового верстата для плетіння тасьми, який загрожував традиційним виробникам цієї продукції."-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"Дуже часто рекомендації західних держав щодо розвитку політики в бідніших країнах мало відрізняються від «ритуалів відновлення» в жителів острова Танна. Вони передбачають зовнішню імітацію інститутів…"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"У 1958 році американський політолог Едвард Бенфілд сформулював впливову теорію, відповідно до якої низький рівень економічного розвитку в цьому регіоні пов’язаний з міцними родинними зв’язками. За йо…"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"Після Великого повстання проти Римської імперії, яке спалахнуло в Юдеї 66 року н. е., римляни знищили Єрусалим і Єрусалимський храм. Кілька основних течій юдаїзму зникло, зокрема садукеї (священники …"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
18. The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedo… 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
