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  • The Fixer

    My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics

    by Bradley Tusk ...
    The famed political advisor to Uber, FanDuel, Lemonade, Tesla and other startups reveals what really happens at the intersection of politics, tech and businessMost new startups today are in highly regulated industries with strong incumbents - transportation, hotels, drones, energy, gaming, education, health care, cannabis, finance, liquor, insurance. The more startups try to snatch a piece of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Managing Modern Healthcare

    Knowledge, Networks and Practice

    Series series Routledge Studies in Health Management
    Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best practice; and how these processes are all influenced both by the organisations in which managers act and by the professional communities of practice ... Read more

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  • The Great Deformation

    The Corruption of Capitalism in America

    A New York Times bestsellerThe Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington's craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state -- especially the Federal Reserve -- has fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • House of Debt

    How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again

    “A concise and powerful account of how the great recession happened and what should be done to avoid another one . . . well-argued and consistently informative.” —Wall Street JournalThe Great American Recession of 2007-2009 resulted in the loss of eight million jobs and the loss of four million homes to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Equal Is Unfair

    America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

    We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.But what ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out

    The World's Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again

    Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Once a culturally repressed land shadowed by terrorism and on the brink of economic collapse, Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in Europe, with the typical citizen enjoying a higher standard of living than the average Brit. Just a few years after celebrating their newly-won status ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Summary: Economic Facts and Fallacies

    Review and Analysis of Thomas Sowell's Book

    The must-read summary of Thomas Sowell's book: “Economic Facts and Fallacies”.This complete summary of "Economic Facts and Fallacies" by Thomas Sowell, a renowned economist and social theorist, presents the author's exposure of some of the most popular economic myths that are often disseminated by the media and politicians.Added-value of this summary:• Save time• Understand how and why economic ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finance and the Good Society

    The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Occupy Handbook

    by Janet Byrne ...
    Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators - from Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gillian Tett, Scott Turow, Bethany McLean, Brandon Adams, and Tyler Cowen to prominent labor leaders and young, cutting ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bandit Capitalism

    Carillion and the Corruption of the British State

    by Bob Wylie ...
    “Comparable with Michael Lewis’ The Big Short or indeed Ian Fraser’s Shredded, Bob Wylie has done a forensic job . . . a powerful book.” —Talk Media PodcastThe collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great financial scandals of modern times. When it folded it had only £29 million in the bank and debts and other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 矽島的危與機:半導體與地緣政治

    面對地緣政治帶來的風險,台灣半導體產業如何再創奇蹟?半導體與供應鏈為台灣與國際接軌最重要的戰略武器,而在COVID-19 疫情期間,半導體供需失衡受到前所未有的關注,聚焦台灣的樞紐角色更甚以往。然而,台灣的半導體產業到底是懷璧其罪,還是護國神山?近年國際局勢的瞬息萬變,顛覆了全球的地緣政治,對企業帶來的影響力甚至可能遠大於技術創新與經營變革。本書兩位作者分別為超過30餘年資歷的科技產業分析師,並為身經百戰的跨界創業與產業專家,另曾主持及帶領過多項政府企業顧問研究專案計劃,以及亞洲供應鏈研究分析團隊,他們透過本書深刻回望半導體的產業變遷,如何在張忠謀、蔡明介等多位時代英雄帶領之下,成就台灣半導體產業的世界地位,並分析競爭對手如美國英特爾、韓國三星等代表性企業的經營戰略,如何影響著各自發展的腳步。今時今日,面臨美中兩國的利益衝突,不僅讓位處前線的台灣再聞煙硝味,也必須在與日韓的競合 ... Read more

    $8.80 USD

  • The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

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    $14.99 USD

  • Beyond the Crash

    Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization

    by Gordon Brown ...
    The international financial crisis that has held our global economy in its grip for too long still seems to be in full stride. Former British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown believes the crisis can be reversed, but that the world’s leaders must work together if we are to avoid a decade of lost jobs and low growth.Brown speaks both as someone who was in the room driving ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The 4% Solution

    Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs

    **Foreword by President George W. BushWith contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America’s economic health**The United States is reaching a pivotal point in its economic history. Millions of Americans owe more on their homes than they are worth, long-term unemployment is alarmingly high, and the Congressional Budget Office ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Hostile Takeover

    How Big Business Bought Our Government and How We Can Take It Back

    by David Sirota ...
    Do you ever wonder if there’s a connection between the corruption scandals in the news and the steady decline in the quality of life for millions of Americans?Do you ever wonder what corporations get for the millions of dollars they pour into the American political system?Do you ever think the government has been hijacked by forces hostile to average Americans?Do you ever want to fight back ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

    by John Perkins ...
    Los Angeles Times **BestsellerHow do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover?The riveting third edition of this** New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy.In this shocking expos, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Money Mafia

    A World in Crisis

    Exposing perceived fault lines in our banking and financial systems and explaining how unemployment could be cut in half in two years and worldwide prosperity restored, this book argues the existence of exotic energy sources to replace fossil fuels and consequently recommends an immediate end to fracking and offshore drilling for oil. It further urges an immediate worldwide mobilization to replace ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fateful History of Fannie Mae

    New Deal Birth to Mortgage Crisis Fall

    “A lucid and meticulously reported book by one of the Wall Street Journal’s ace reporters” (George Anders, Forbes contributor and author of The Rare Find).In 1938, the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a small agency called Fannie Mae. Intended to make home loans more accessible, the agency was born of the Great Depression and a government desperate to revive housing construction ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cases in Public Policy and Administration

    From Ancient Times to the Present

    Writing the perfect complement to their bestseller, Introducing Public Administration, Shafritz and Borick highlight the great drama inherent in public policy -- and the ingenuity of its makers and administrators -- in this new casebook that brings thrilling, true life adventures in public administration to life in an engaging, witty style.Drawing on a unique assortment of literary, historic, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • American Kleptocracy

    How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

    by Casey Michel ...
    A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers an explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known."An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bitter Pills

    Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs

    by Stephen Fried ...
    We take our medicines on faith. We assume our doctors are well-informed, our drug companies scrupulous, our FDA diligent—and our medications safe. All too often we're wrong. Just how wrong is documented in this critically acclaimed portrait of the international pharmaceutical industry by one of our most highly respected investigative journalists.According to the Journal of the American Medical ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Every Nation for Itself

    What Happens When No One Leads the World

    by Ian Bremmer ...
    G-Zero — \JEE-ZEER-oh\ —nA world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. What happens when the G20 doesn’t work and the G7 is history.If the worst threatened—a rogue nuclear state with a horrible surprise, a global health crisis, the collapse of financial institutions from New York to Shanghai and Mumbai—where would the world ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

    Based on the Book by George Packer

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Unwinding tells you what you need to know—before or after you read George Packer’s book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America includes:Historical contextChapter ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy – and What We Can Do About It

    Why a return to sound money is our only hope for a true recovery and a healthy global economy“Money clearly illustrates that sound money is an essential foundation for a free and prosperous society and that the Federal Reserve’s current policies are a greater threat to the economic future of the U.S. than government deficit spending. This is an important book well worth reading.” -- John A. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD