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Why Nations Fail by James Robinson

2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Trade Paperback, 544 pages | Crown Business | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Policy | $17.00 | 978-0-307-71922-5 (0-307-71922-7)

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:

   - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West?
   - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?
   - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More
philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.

La Gran Apuesta by Michael Lewis

2013-07-16T00:30:00-05:00

La Gran Apuesta
Written by Michael Lewis

Trade Paperback, 336 pages | Debate | Business & Economics - Economic History | $20.00 | 978-84-9992-233-1 (84-9992-233-3)

Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman

2013-07-02T00:30:00-05:00

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Written by Arthur Herman

Trade Paperback, 432 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Military - World War II; Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - Industries | $18.00 | 978-0-8129-8204-6 (0-8129-8204-5)

SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty.

In Freedom’s Forge, bestselling author Arthur Herman takes us back to that time, revealing how two extraordinary American businessmen—automobile magnate William Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser—helped corral, cajole, and inspire business leaders across the country to mobilize the “arsenal of democracy” that propelled the Allies to victory in World War II.

“Knudsen? I want to see you in Washington. I want you to work on some production matters.” With those words, President Franklin D. Roosevelt enlisted “Big Bill” Knudsen, a Danish immigrant who had risen through the ranks of the auto industry to become president of General Motors, to drop his plans for market domination and join the U.S. Army. Commissioned a lieutenant general, Knudsen assembled a crack team of industrial innovators, persuading them one by one to leave their lucrative private sector positions and join him in Washington, D.C. Dubbed the “dollar-a-year men,” these dedicated patriots quickly took charge of America’s moribund war production effort.

Henry J. Kaiser was a maverick California industrialist famed for his innovative business techniques and his can-do management style. He, too, joined the cause. His Liberty ships became World War II icons—and the Kaiser name became so admired that FDR briefly considered making him his vice president in 1944. Together, Knudsen and Kaiser created a wartime production behemoth. Drafting top talent from companies like Chrysler, Republic Steel, Boeing, Lockheed, GE, and Frigidaire, they turned auto plants into aircraft factories and civilian assembly lines into fountains of munitions, giving Americans fighting in Europe and Asia the tools they needed to defeat the Axis. In four short years they transformed America’s army from a hollow shell into a truly global force, laying the foundations for a new industrial America—and for the country’s rise as an economic as well as military superpower.

Featuring behind-the-scenes portraits of FDR, George Marshall, Henry Stimson, Harry Hopkins, Jimmy Doolittle, and Curtis LeMay, as well as scores of largely forgotten heroes and heroines of the wartime industrial effort, Freedom’s Forge is the American story writ large. It vividly re-creates American industry’s finest hour, when the nation’s business elites put aside their pursuit of profits and set about saving the world.

Praise for Freedom’s Forge

“A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits of the marketplace.”—The Wall Street Journal

“A rarely told industrial saga, rich with particulars of the growing pains and eventual triumphs of American industry . . . Arthur Herman has set out to right an injustice: the loss, down history’s memory hole, of the epic achievements of American business in helping the United States and its allies win World War II.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Magnificent . . . It’s not often that a historian comes up with a fresh approach to an absolutely critical element of the Allied victory in World War II, but Pulitzer finalist Herman . . . has done just that.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From the Hardcover edition.

A Nation of Deadbeats by Scott Reynolds Nelson

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Written by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Trade Paperback, 368 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - Banks & Banking; History - United States | $16.95 | 978-0-307-47432-2 (0-307-47432-1)

Pundits will argue that the 2008 financial crisis was the first crash in American history driven by consumer debt. But in this spirited, highly engaging account, Scott Reynolds Nelson demonstrates that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. From William Duer’s attempts to profit off the country’s post-Revolutionary War debt to an 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the 1857 crash: in each case, the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that separated borrowers and lenders made it impossible to distinguish good loans from bad. Bound up in this history are stories of national banks funded by smugglers, fistfights in Congress over the gold standard, America’s early dependence on British bankers, and how presidential campaigns were forged in controversies over private debt. An irreverent, wholly accessible, eye-opening book.

Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner

Hardcover, 352 pages | Knopf | Political Science - Economic Policy; Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International | $26.95 | 978-0-307-95980-5 (0-307-95980-5)

One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic crisis like ours or Europe’s, now in its fifth year.

Since the collapse of September 2008, the conversation about economic recovery has centered on the question of debt: whether we have too much of it, whose debt to forgive, and how to cut the deficit. These questions dominated the sound bites of the 2012 U.S. presidential election, the fiscal-cliff debates, and the perverse policies of the European Union.

Robert Kuttner makes the most powerful argument to date that these are the wrong questions and that austerity is the wrong answer. Blending economics with historical contrasts of effective debt relief and punitive debt enforcement, he makes clear that universal belt-tightening, as a prescription for recession, defies economic logic. And while the public debt gets most of the attention, it is private debts that crashed the economy and are sandbagging the recovery—mortgages, student loans, consumer borrowing to make up for lagging wages, speculative shortfalls incurred by banks. As Kuttner observes, corporations get to use bankruptcy to walk away from debts. Homeowners and small nations don’t. Thus, we need more public borrowing and investment to revive a depressed economy, and more forgiveness and reform of the overhang of past debts.

In making his case, Kuttner uncovers the double standards in the politics of debt, from Robinson Crusoe author Daniel Defoe’s campaign for debt forgiveness in the seventeenth century to the two world wars and Bretton Woods. Just as debtors’ prisons once prevented individuals from surmounting their debts and resuming productive life, austerity measures shackle, rather than restore, economic growth—as the weight of past debt crushes the economy’s future potential. Above all, Kuttner shows how austerity serves only the interest of creditors—the very bankers and financial elites whose actions precipitated the collapse. Lucid, authoritative, provocative—a book that will shape the economic conversation and the search for new solutions.

Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner

eBook, 352 pages | Knopf | Political Science - Economic Policy; Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International | $13.99 | 978-0-307-95981-2 (0-307-95981-3)

From the Hardcover edition.

A Disposition to Be Rich by Geoffrey C. Ward

2013-04-23T00:30:00-05:00

A Disposition to Be Rich Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward

Trade Paperback, 464 pages | Vintage | History - United States - 19th Century; Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws; Business & Economics - Economic History | $16.00 | 978-0-345-80469-3 (0-345-80469-4)

A New York Times Notable Book

The compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of finance—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.

Ferdinand Ward, the son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor, moved to New York at twenty-one and, in less than a decade, made himself the business partner of a former president and established himself as the “Young Napoleon of Finance.” In truth, he was running a massive pyramid scheme. Drawing from thousands of family documents never before examined, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his great-grandfather’s rapid rise to riches and fame, and his even more dizzying fall from grace, in a narrative populated with mistresses, crooked bankers, corrupt New York officials, and a desperate kidnapping scheme. Here is a great story about a classic American con artist.

Billionaires' Ball by Neil Brooks

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Trade Paperback | Beacon Press | Business & Economics - Business Ethics; Business & Economics - Economic History; Political Science - Economic Conditions | $18.00 | 978-0-8070-0343-5 (0-8070-0343-3)

A society top-heavy with billionaires may seem like a paradise of upward mobility, but it actually more closely resembles a boneyard of broken dreams for all but a lucky few. Between 1980 and 2008, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans grew by a meager 1 percent compared to a whopping 403 percent for the top .01 percent. We tend to regard these large fortunes as proof of a meritocracy, yet there is no evidence that members of today’s super-rich are any more talented or hardworking than were the elite of a generation ago. Via vivid profiles of billionaires—ranging from philanthropic capitalist Bill Gates and the infamous Koch brothers to brazen private equity baron Stephen Schwarzman—Billionaires’ Ball debunks the notion that they “deserve” their grand fortunes, when such wealth is really a by-product of a legal and economic system that’s become deeply flawed and is now threatening the quality of life and very functioning of our democracy.

Debt by David Graeber

2012-11-27T00:30:00-05:00

Debt The First 5,000 Years
Written by David Graeber

Trade Paperback, 544 pages | Melville House | Business & Economics - Economics - Theory; Business & Economics - Economic History; History - Social History | $22.00 | 978-1-61219-129-4 (1-61219-129-0)

Now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

A Nation of Deadbeats by Scott Reynolds Nelson

2012-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Written by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Hardcover, 352 pages | Knopf | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - Banks & Banking; History - United States | $27.95 | 978-0-307-27269-0 (0-307-27269-9)

The story of America is a story of dreamers and defaulters. It is also a story of dramatic financial panics that defined the nation, created its political parties, and forced tens of thousands to escape their creditors to new towns in Texas, Florida, and California. As far back as 1792, these panics boiled down to one simple question: Would Americans pay their debts—or were we just a nation of deadbeats?

From the merchant William Duer’s attempts to speculate on post–Revolutionary War debt, to an ill-conceived 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the Panic of 1857, Scott Reynolds Nelson offers a crash course in America’s worst financial disasters—and a concise explanation of the first principles that caused them all. Nelson shows how consumer debt, both at the highest levels of finance and in the everyday lives of citizens, has time and again left us unable to make good. The problem always starts with the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that separate borrowers and lenders. At a certain point lenders cannot tell good loans from bad—and when chits are called in, lenders frantically try to unload the debts, hide from their own creditors, go into bankruptcy, and lobby state and federal institutions for relief.

With a historian’s keen observations and a storyteller’s nose for character and incident, Nelson captures the entire sweep of America’s financial history in all its utter irrationality: national banks funded by smugglers; fistfights in Congress over the gold standard; and presidential campaigns forged in stinging controversies on the subject of private debt. A Nation of Deadbeats is a fresh, irreverent look at Americans’ addiction to debt and how it has made us what we are today.

A Nation of Deadbeats by Scott Reynolds Nelson

2012-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Written by Scott Reynolds Nelson

eBook, 352 pages | Knopf | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - Banks & Banking; History - United States | $14.99 | 978-0-307-96105-1 (0-307-96105-2)

The Einstein of Money by Joe Carlen

2012-07-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Einstein of Money The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Written by Joe Carlen

Hardcover, 368 pages | Prometheus Books | Biography & Autobiography - Business; Business & Economics - Economic History | $25.00 | 978-1-61614-557-6 (1-61614-557-9)

Warren Buffett—widely considered the most successful investor of all time—has repeatedly acknowledged Benjamin Graham, a man he personally studied and worked under, as the primary influence on his investment approach. Indeed, there is a direct line between the record-shattering investing performance of Buffett (and other value investors) and Graham’s life. In six books and dozens of papers, Graham—known as the "Dean of Wall Street"—left an extensive account of an investing system that, as Buffett can attest, actually works! This biography of Benjamin Graham, the first written with access to his posthumously published memoirs, explains Graham’s most essential wealth-creation concepts while telling the colorful story of his amazing business career and his multifaceted, unconventional personal life. The author distills the best from Graham’s extensive published works and draws from personal interviews he conducted with Warren Buffett, Charles Brandes, and many other top US and global value investors as well as Graham’s surviving children and friends, weaving Graham’s transformational ideas into the narrative of a momentous life and legacy. Warren Buffett once said, "No one ever became poor by reading Graham." By the same token, no one will ever become uninspired by reading Carlen’s lively account of Benjamin Graham’s fascinating life and time-tested techniques for generating wealth.

The Einstein of Money by Joe Carlen

2012-07-17T00:30:00-05:00

The Einstein of Money The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Written by Joe Carlen

eBook | Prometheus Books | Biography & Autobiography - Business; Business & Economics - Economic History | $12.99 | 978-1-61614-558-3 (1-61614-558-7)

Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick

2012-06-12T00:30:00-05:00

Age of Greed The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
Written by Jeff Madrick

Trade Paperback, 480 pages | Vintage | Social Science; Business & Economics - Economic History; History - Modern | $16.95 | 978-1-4000-7566-9 (1-4000-7566-1)

A vivid history of the economics of greed told through the stories of those major figures primarily responsible.

Age of Greed shows how the single-minded and selfish pursuit of immense personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States over the last forty years. Economic journalist Jeff Madrick tells this story through incisive profiles of the individuals responsible for this dramatic shift in our country’s fortunes, from the architects of the free-market economic philosophy (such as Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan) to the politicians and businessmen (including Nixon, Reagan, Boesky, and Soros) who put it into practice. Their stories detail how a movement initially conceived as a moral battle for freedom instead brought about some of our nation's most pressing economic problems, including the intense economic inequity and instability America suffers from today. This is an indispensible guide to understanding the 1 percent.

Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman

2012-05-08T00:30:00-05:00

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Written by Arthur Herman

Hardcover, 432 pages | Random House | History - Military - World War II; Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - Industries | $28.00 | 978-1-4000-6964-4 (1-4000-6964-5)

Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman

2012-05-08T00:30:00-05:00

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Written by Arthur Herman

eBook, 432 pages | Random House | History - Military - World War II; Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - Industries | $13.99 | 978-0-679-60463-1 (0-679-60463-4)

A Disposition to Be Rich by Geoffrey C. Ward

2012-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

A Disposition to Be Rich How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward

eBook, 432 pages | Vintage | History - United States - 19th Century; Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws; Business & Economics - Economic History | $11.99 | 978-0-307-95944-7 (0-307-95944-9)

Ferdinand Ward was the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. Through his unapologetic villainy, he bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and ran roughshod over the entire world of finance. Now, his compelling, behind-the-scenes story is told—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.
Ward was the Bernie Madoff of his day, a supposed genius at making big money fast on Wall Street who turned out to have been running a giant pyramid scheme—one that ultimately collapsed in one of the greatest financial scandals in American history. The son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor with secrets of his own to keep, Ward came to New York at twenty-one and in less than a decade, armed with charm, energy, and a total lack of conscience, made himself the business partner of the former president of the United States and was widely hailed as the “Young Napoleon of Finance.” In truth, he turned out to be a complete fraud, his entire life marked by dishonesty, cowardice, and contempt for anything but his own interests.
Drawing from thousands of family documents never before examined, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his great-grandfather’s rapid rise to riches and fame and his even more dizzying fall from grace. There are mistresses and mansions along the way; fast horses and crooked bankers and corrupt New York officials; courtroom confrontations and six years in Sing Sing; and Ferdinand’s desperate scheme to kidnap his own son to get his hands on the estate his late wife had left the boy. Here is a great story about a classic American con artist, told with boundless charm and dry wit by one of our finest historians.

A Disposition to Be Rich by Geoffrey C. Ward

2012-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

A Disposition to Be Rich How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward

Hardcover, 432 pages | Knopf | History - United States - 19th Century; Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws; Business & Economics - Economic History | $28.95 | 978-0-679-44530-2 (0-679-44530-7)

Billionaires' Ball by Neil Brooks

2012-03-27T00:30:00-05:00

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Hardcover, 280 pages | Beacon Press | Business & Economics - Business Ethics; Business & Economics - Economic History; Political Science - Economic Conditions | $26.95 | 978-0-8070-0339-8 (0-8070-0339-5)

The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. As McQuaig and Brooks illustrate, it's no accident that the United States claims the most billionaires but suffers from among the highest rates of infant mortality and crime, the shortest life expectancy, and the lowest rates of social mobility and electoral political participation in the developed world.

In Billionaires' Ball, McQuaig and Brooks take us back in history to the political decisions that helped birth our billionaires, then move us forward to the cutting-edge research into the dangers that concentrated wealth poses. Via vivid profiles of billionaires—ranging from philanthropic capitalists such as Bill Gates to hedge fund king John Paulson and the infamous band of Koch brothers—Billionaires' Ball illustrates why we hold dearly to the belief that they "earned" and "deserve" their grand fortunes, when such wealth is really a by-product of a legal and economic infrastructure that's become deeply flawed.

Billionaires' Ball by Neil Brooks

2012-03-27T00:30:00-05:00

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

eBook | Beacon Press | Business & Economics - Business Ethics; Business & Economics - Economic History; Political Science - Economic Conditions | $26.95 | 978-0-8070-0340-4 (0-8070-0340-9)

Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Economic History

Why Nations Fail by James Robinson

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyWritten by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

La Gran Apuesta by Michael Lewis

La Gran Apuesta Written by Michael Lewis

Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War IIWritten by Arthur Herman

A Nation of Deadbeats by Scott Reynolds Nelson

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial DisastersWritten by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus PossibilityWritten by Robert Kuttner

Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus PossibilityWritten by Robert Kuttner

A Disposition to Be Rich by Geoffrey C. Ward

A Disposition to Be Rich Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded AgeWritten by Geoffrey C. Ward

Billionaires' Ball by Neil Brooks

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic InequalityWritten by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Debt by David Graeber

Debt The First 5,000 YearsWritten by David Graeber

A Nation of Deadbeats by Scott Reynolds Nelson

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial DisastersWritten by Scott Reynolds Nelson

A Nation of Deadbeats by Scott Reynolds Nelson

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial DisastersWritten by Scott Reynolds Nelson

The Einstein of Money by Joe Carlen

The Einstein of Money The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin GrahamWritten by Joe Carlen

The Einstein of Money by Joe Carlen

The Einstein of Money The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin GrahamWritten by Joe Carlen

Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick

Age of Greed The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the PresentWritten by Jeff Madrick

Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War IIWritten by Arthur Herman

Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War IIWritten by Arthur Herman

A Disposition to Be Rich by Geoffrey C. Ward

A Disposition to Be Rich How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United StatesWritten by Geoffrey C. Ward

A Disposition to Be Rich by Geoffrey C. Ward

A Disposition to Be Rich How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United StatesWritten by Geoffrey C. Ward

Billionaires' Ball by Neil Brooks

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic InequalityWritten by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Billionaires' Ball by Neil Brooks

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic InequalityWritten by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

La Gran Apuesta
Written by Michael Lewis

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Written by Arthur Herman

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Written by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner

A Disposition to Be Rich Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Debt The First 5,000 Years
Written by David Graeber

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Written by Scott Reynolds Nelson

A Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Written by Scott Reynolds Nelson

The Einstein of Money The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Written by Joe Carlen

The Einstein of Money The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Written by Joe Carlen

Age of Greed The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
Written by Jeff Madrick

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Written by Arthur Herman

Freedom's Forge How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Written by Arthur Herman

A Disposition to Be Rich How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward

A Disposition to Be Rich How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks