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  • Viking Economics

    How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too

    by George Lakey ...
    Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too individualistic, or too . . . something.In Viking Economics George Lakey dispels these myths. He ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Founding Finance

    How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation

    Series series Discovering America
    The author of The Whiskey Rebellion “dig[s] beneath history’s surface and note[s] both the populist and anti-populist dimensions of the nation’s founding” (Library Journal).Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Paradise

    Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

    by Naomi Klein ...
    Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the ‘battle of utopias’ that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico” (Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)“We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Reversal

    How America Gave Up on Free Markets

    A Financial Times Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the Year“Superbly argued and important…Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the U.S. needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt and his energetic trust-busting. Is that still imaginable? All believers in the virtues of competitive capitalism must hope so.”—Martin Wolf, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Tyranny of Metrics

    How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government—and the quality of our livesToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Big Cheat

    How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family

    Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family.While the world watched Donald Trump’s presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking the oath of office, Trump began turning the White House into a money machine ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Capitalist's Lament

    How Wall Street Is Fleecing You and Ruining America

    by Leland Faust ...
    Leland Faust unmasks Wall Street’s unsavory tactics in powerful detail by giving readers a high-level view of how the financial services industry misleads them, overcharges them, and exposes them to needless risk. He documents the financial industry’s alluring come-ons, airbrushed risks, high-stakes gambling, half-truths, misleading statements, outlandish predictions, tricks to overcharge ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Fundamentos de BPMN

    Una guía básica para el diseño de procesos

    Muchas metodologías de trabajo se basan en el uso de "procesos", entendidos como una secuencia de acciones predefinida, que genera un resultado predecible. Pero diseñar e implantar procesos claros, comprensibles y aplicables por todo el mundo es una tarea terriblemente compleja en la que, quizás, lo más difícil sea encontrar una forma rápida y sencilla de documentar lo que quieres decir.BPMN es un ... Read more

    $3.50 USD

  • Antitrust

    Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

    by Amy Klobuchar ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today—and Amy Klobuchar, the widely respected senior senator from Minnesota, is leading the charge. This fascinating history of the antitrust movement shows us what led to the present moment and offers achievable solutions to prevent monopolies, promote business competition, and encourage innovation.In a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reinventing American Health Care

    How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

    The definitive story of American health care today -- its causes, consequences, and confusions.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • How to Write a Convincing Past Performance: A Guide to Winning Government Contracts

    Series series A Guide to Winning Government Contracts
    This eBook will introduce you to a simple process for developing a PAST PERFORMANCE that helps your company achieve the objective of winning government contracts. It provides proven strategies for creating a PAST PERFORMANCE that crushes the competition every time. This eBook takes the reader step by step through writing a PAST PERFORMANCE that is designed to convince the Government (buying ... Read more

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  • Dealing with China

    An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

    The New York Times bestselling author of Dealing with China takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism.Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a pivotal role in opening up China to private enterprise. Then, as Treasury secretary, he created the Strategic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Passion for Leadership

    Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

    From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity

    Leading economist John B. Taylor’s straightforward plan to rebuild America’s economic future by returning to its founding principles.Mired in a crippling economic slump and hamstrung by partisan political debates, America faces substantial economic challenges, from widespread unemployment to the government’s ballooning debt. These assaults on our prosperity reflect the unintended consequences of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Social Innovation

    Comparative Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation
    Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives investigates socio-economic impact. Since it is hard to establish causality and to measure social properties when investigating impact, especially at the level of society, the book narrows down impact to one priority aspect: social innovation – understood as organizations’ capacity to generate novel ideas, ways and means of doing things, of addressing ... Read more

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  • Keeping At It

    The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government

    The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the world's faith in central ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • El gobierno electrónico a nivel local

    Experiencias, tendencias y reflexiones

    En el marco de una clara necesidad de fortalecimiento democrático, las políticas públicas de gobierno electrónico, open data, transparencia y participación ciudadana aparecen cada vez más como un paso inevitable para los gobiernos locales.Sin embargo, la gestión local posee particularidades que deben ser tenidas en cuenta y coordinadas con las características propias de la gestión de la tecnología ... Read more

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  • Freedom Manifesto

    Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't

    From Steve Forbes, the iconic editor in chief of Forbes Media, and Elizabeth Ames coauthors of How Capitalism Will Save Us—comes a new way of thinking about the role of government and the morality of free markets.Americans today are at a turning point. Are we a country founded on the values of freedom and limited government, as envisioned by the founding fathers in the Declaration of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Exponential Age

    How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society

    by Azeem Azhar ...
    A bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data—and our ability to deal with its effectsWe are living in the first exponential age.High-tech innovations are created at dazzling speeds; technological forces we barely understand remake our homes and workplaces; centuries-old tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies. It all ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

    How the Financial System Undermined Social Ideals, Damaged Trust in the Markets, Robbed Investors of Trillions—and What to Do About It

    The legendary founder of Vanguard “presents an insider’s view of what’s wrong with corporate America and what can be done to improve it” (Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street).New York Times-bestselling author of Enough and The Little Book of Common Sense Investing John Bogle has seen firsthand the innermost workings—and grotesque abuses—of the financial industry, and is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Corporation

    How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy

    by Joel Bakan ...
    A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation.“A very important book, an arresting study directed to a central issue of the times” (Noam Chomsky), from the author of The ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sludge

    What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It

    The New York Times–bestselling author of Nudge reveals how we became so burdened by red tape and unnecessary paperwork—and why we must do better.“If nudges have a mortal enemy, or perhaps the equivalent of antimatter to matter, it’s ‘sludge’.” —ForbesWe’ve all had to fight our way through administrative sludge—filling out complicated online forms, mailing in paperwork, standing in line at the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

    Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

    A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality, liberty, democracy, and humanism.In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The War on Cash

    How Banks and a Power-Hungry Government Want to Confiscate Your Cash, Steal Your Liberty and Track Every Dollar You Spend. And How to Fight Back.

    by David McRee ...
    The War on Cash: How Banks and a Power-Hungry Government Want to Confiscate Your Cash, Steal Your Liberty and Track Every Dollar You Spend. And How to Fight Back is a wake-up call to everyone about the tactics being used by governments to restrict the public's use of cash and to abuse the laws for its own purposes.Powerful forces are threatening your financial freedom. All over the world, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD