Beating the Business Cycle
How to Predict and Profit From Turning Points in the Economy
Written by Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-50953-4 (0-385-50953-7)

In Beating the Business Cycle, Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji, the directors of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) demonstrate how businesses can predict and profit from the inevitable booms and busts of the economy.

Beating the Business Cycle reveals how decision makers at all levels can see into the economy’s... Read more >

Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-80540-6 (0-553-80540-1)

"In the past, one could get by on intuition and experience. Times have changed. Today, the name of the game is data. Ian Ayres shows us how and why in this groundbreaking book Super Crunchers. Not only is it fun to read, it just may change the way you think."
—Steven D... Read more >

The Number
How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America
Written by Alex Berenson
Foreword by Mark Cuban

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6625-1 (0-8129-6625-2)

In this commanding big-picture analysis of what went wrong in corporate America, Alex Berenson, a top financial investigative reporter for The New York Times, examines the common thread connecting Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Computer Associates, Tyco, and other recent corporate scandals: the cult of the number.

Every three months, 14,000 publicly traded companies... Read more >

How We Compete
What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy
Written by Suzanne Berger

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-385-51359-3 (0-385-51359-3)

Based on a five-year study by the MIT Industrial Performance Center, How We Compete goes into the trenches of over 500 international companies to discover which practices are succeeding in today’s global economy, which are failing –and why.
There is a rising fear in America that no job is safe. In industry... Read more >

Co-Opetition

Written by Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: December 29, 1997
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-47950-9 (0-385-47950-6)

Insightful and instructive, Co-opetition describes a business strategy that goes beyond the old rules of competition and cooperation to combine the advantages of both. Co-opetition is a pioneering, high profit means of leveraging business relationships. Intel, Nintendo, American Express, Nutrasweet, American Airlines, and dozens of other companies have been using the... Read more >

Hot Property
The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization
Written by Pat Choate

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40212-8 (0-375-40212-8)

The problem of pirating and counterfeiting has grown from small-scale imitations of Levi’s jeans and Zippo lighters to a phenomenon that costs the United States an estimated $200 billion dollars per year. Pirated DVDs, computer software, designer clothes, and machinery flood global markets, inflicting heavy losses on U.S. businesses, while counterfeit... Read more >

Saving Capitalism
Keeping America Strong
Written by Pat Choate

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47483-4 (0-307-47483-6)

In this urgent dissection of the U.S. financial system, well-known economist and bestselling writer Pat Choate demonstrates the true gravityof our currentcrisisand forcefully argues for bold action to repair a capitalist systemin desperate need of reform.

A long-time critic of the free-market absolutism that brought about the current financial crisis, Choate puts... Read more >

The Origin of Financial Crises
Central Banks, Credit Bubbles, and the Efficient Market Fallacy
Written by George Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 29, 2008
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47345-5 (0-307-47345-7)

In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the very foundations of today's economic philosophy and adds a compelling... Read more >

Economic Literacy
What Everyone Needs to Know About Money & Markets
Written by Jacob De Rooy

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-517-88683-0 (0-517-88683-9)

Gross domestic product, business cycles, Consumer Price Index, prime rate: terms we read in the newspapers, but possibly don't fully comprehend. With humor, clarity, and a deft touch for simplifying complex ideas, Jacob De Rooy explains the basic concepts of economics in language anyone can understand. Written in accessible question-and-answer format... Read more >

How Capitalism Saved America
The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present
Written by Thomas DiLorenzo

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: August 23, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8331-2 (1-4000-8331-1)

In How Capitalism Saved America. DiLorenzo, a professor of economics, demonstrates how capitalism has made America the most prosperous nation on earth—and how the sort of government regulation that politicians and pundits endorse has hindered economic growth, caused higher unemployment, raised prices, and created many other problems. He propels the reader... Read more >

Meadowlark Economics
Collected Essays on Ecology, Community, and Spirituality
Written by James Eggert

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-767-0 (1-55643-767-6)

Alarmed by the disappearance of meadowlarks from the fields near his home, James Eggert embarked on a close study of the economic and ecological factors behind the loss. His inquiry led him to conclude that the meadowlark's survival is a metaphor for ours—that our future is intimately linked to the same... Read more >

The 21st Century Economy--A Beginner's Guide

Written by Randy Charles Epping

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38790-5 (0-307-38790-9)

A comprehensive guide to understanding today's global economy from the author of the bestselling A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy.

While reporting on today's world, business and mainstream media alike use terms and mention trends that even the savviest consumer may find baffling. In his latest book, Randy Charles Epping... Read more >

A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy
Eighty-one Basic Economic Concepts That Will Change the Way You See the World
Written by Randy Charles Epping

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72579-1 (0-375-72579-2)

In the past decade of rapid change in the world economy, Randy Charles Epping’s Beginner’s Guide to the World Economy has been the most reliable tool for keeping track of what’s happening. The third edition updates the information in previous editions and explains many new concepts.

What is the new economy? What... Read more >

The Moneymakers
How Extraordinary Managers Win in a World Turned Upside Down
Written by Anne-Marie Fink

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-39630-3 (0-307-39630-4)

When real money is at stake, it tends to clarify the mind, and for over a decade, Anne-Marie Fink has had literally billions of dollars resting on her assessments of companies. As an equity analyst and professional investor, she has been charged with understanding whether businesses are solid, long-term moneymakers–or rotten... Read more >

One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Written by Thomas Frank

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49504-2 (0-385-49504-8)

In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go ‘90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.

Frank’s target is “market populism”–the widely held belief that markets are a more... Read more >

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

Written by Benjamin M. Friedman

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9571-1 (1-4000-9571-9)

From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that broadly distributed economic growth provides benefits far beyond the material, creating and strengthening democratic institutions, establishing political stability, fostering tolerance, and... Read more >

The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Understanding Globalization
Written by Thomas L. Friedman

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 2, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49934-7 (0-385-49934-5)

From one of our most perceptive commentators and winner of the National Book Award, a comprehensive look at the new world of globalization, the international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world affairs today.

As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled the... Read more >

Only the Paranoid Survive
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Written by Andrew S. Grove

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: March 16, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48382-7 (0-385-48382-1)

Time magazine's 1997 "Man of the Year" and cofounder of Intel, the world's largest computer chipmaker discusses the meaning of his personal motto "only the paranoid survive" and the difference it can make in a company's survival during times of radical change.

A tough, savvy, contemporary classic of leadership skills, the... Read more >

Why We Make Mistakes
How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Written by Joseph T. Hallinan

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2805-2 (0-7679-2805-9)

Human beings have design flaws. Eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the retelling, and most of us are fairly sure we’re way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error—how we think, see, remember, and... Read more >

The Logic of Life
The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Written by Tim Harford

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7787-5 (0-8129-7787-4)

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent?

In this... Read more >

The Whuffie Factor
Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business
Written by Tara Hunt

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-40950-8 (0-307-40950-3)

Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. And they’ve heard about someone who has used them to grow a huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grass roots and interactive. But what does this mean? And more to the point, how do you do it?... Read more >

Cities and the Wealth of Nations

Written by Jane Jacobs

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72911-4 (0-394-72911-0)

"Learned, iconoclastic and exciting...Jacob's diagnosis of the decay of cities in an increasingly integrated world economy is on the mark." --The New York Times Book Review
"Not only comprehensible but entertaining...Like Mrs. Jacobs' other books, it offers a concrete approach to an abstract and elusive subject. That, all by itself, makes for... Read more >

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Written by Jane Jacobs

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74195-4 (0-679-74195-X)

A direct indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what... Read more >

The Nature of Economies

Written by Jane Jacobs

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70243-3 (0-375-70243-1)

Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused her singular eye on the natural world in order to discover the fundamental models for a vibrant economy. The lessons she discloses come from fields as diverse as... Read more >

Biography of the Dollar
How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Written by Craig Karmin

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-33987-4 (0-307-33987-4)

Will the sun set on the greatest currency in the history of the world?

For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It’s not only the currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel of global prosperity. As the superengine of the world’s only superpower, it’s accepted... Read more >