Economics

From the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, lessons on harnessing the power of money to live a happier life Most of us don’t know how to spend money. We chase things that impress others but leave us cold. Or we save endlessly, afraid to spend on what would actually...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It is one of the best narrative histories I’ve read.” —The Wall Street Journal A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 by The Washington Post, TIME, The Economist, Air Mail...

Money expert Ramit Sethi offers no-holds-barred advice for managing your finances in this effective six-week program.

From veteran Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth, an epic history of the debt that built the modern world. Long considered the "boring" corner of finance, bonds are anything but. They have funded everything from the Crusades to climate tech, Netflix series to AI data centers. They are...

A Financial Times Business Book of the Year finalist “The book to read right now [is 1873] . . . All of us are reading this.” —Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, The Times (UK) “Superb . . . Ahamed thrillingly brings back to life a boom not unlike today's . . . In the process, he...

A sweeping account of how the Arctic became the next arena of global conflict as the great powers battle over trade routes, resources, and military dominance from Greenland to Siberia—by award-winning Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar. As polar ice melts and new sea routes open, the...

A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American, and Elle Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, NYPL Helen Bernstein Award, Whiting...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR BOOKS WE LOVE “A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for...

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific...

From two leading economists comes a groundbreaking new portrait of the hidden fortunes of Main Street business owners—ordinary Americans who built extraordinary wealth and are quietly rewriting the rules of money and power. Most people think the path to great wealth runs through Wall Street or...

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns in this New York Times bestseller that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light. Why is Miami ... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us...

Market Wizards: The Next Generation continues in the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular Market Wizards series, interviewing exceptionally successful traders to learn how they achieved their extraordinary performance results.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history’s first billionaire and the patriarch of America’s most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award-winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the...

A founding father of behavioral economics reveals the hidden logic of negative emotions with a clarity and humor that make our worst feelings strangely easier to bear. Every age has its illusions. Ours is that happiness is the natural human condition. Behavioral economist George Loewenstein...

“[Gouged] might be the book of the year.” —Matt Novak, Gizmodo “A thrilling true crime story about how the largest corporate monopolies in America have hatched a scheme to pick our pockets. Gouged is the book corporate America does not want you to read.”—Robert B. Reich, former U.S...

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The...

Visionaries have groundbreaking ideas. Integrators make those ideas realities. This explosive combination is the key to getting everything you want out of your business....

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. Hear the original story that was turned into an Oscar-winning film directly from the author, Michael Lewis, for the very first time.

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that...

Capitalism For All by John Hope Bryant presents a revolutionary framework for rebuilding American prosperity through economic inclusion rather than division. As the founder and CEO of Operation HOPE, America's first nonprofit social investment banking organization, and a former vice-chairman of...

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around...

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...

The classic Michael Lewis book that defined an era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune, available for the first time unabridged and read by the author....

The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everything | Read by author Stephen J. Dubner! Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common?...

The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are...

From two leading economists comes a groundbreaking new portrait of the hidden fortunes of Main Street business owners—ordinary Americans who built extraordinary wealth and are quietly rewriting the rules of money and power. Most people think the path to great wealth runs through Wall Street or...

“[Gouged] might be the book of the year.” —Matt Novak, Gizmodo “A thrilling true crime story about how the largest corporate monopolies in America have hatched a scheme to pick our pockets. Gouged is the book corporate America does not want you to read.”—Robert B. Reich, former U.S...

From veteran Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth, an epic history of the debt that built the modern world. Long considered the "boring" corner of finance, bonds are anything but. They have funded everything from the Crusades to climate tech, Netflix series to AI data centers. They are...

The untold story of DOGE: What really happened when outsiders took on Washington. Told by Tyler Hassen, the Houston business executive who became Acting Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Interior, this book reveals the first insider account of the Department of Government Efficiency.

A founding father of behavioral economics reveals the hidden logic of negative emotions with a clarity and humor that make our worst feelings strangely easier to bear. Every age has its illusions. Ours is that happiness is the natural human condition. Behavioral economist George Loewenstein...

The untold story of the nineteenth-century novelist who outearned Jane Austen and wove provocative theories into her fiction—changing economics forever “Smialek, with the analytical rigor and narrative drive that made her one of the finest economics journalists of her generation, has rescued...

Why fear of risk is holding us back, and how we can reclaim the confidence to thrive in unpredictable times Something is out of sync in today’s economy. People feel insecure and unable to reach their potential. We worry that the world has become too risky, that investing is only for the rich...

A “dazzling”* look at what drives even the smartest investors to make irrational choices and a practical roadmap for profiting when the market loses its mind—from one of the world’s leading finance professors “A stunning indictment of human weaknesses, with numbers attached...

The coast and its people help define our identity. Most Australians live in suburbia, but our hearts are elsewhere.From the winner of the ACT Book of the year Award for his first book, The River, comes this celebration of the Australian seascape, from its natural grandeur to the quirky individualism of those who live beside it. It is also the heartfelt and pertinent story of the issues facing our coast today and the resilience of communities at a turning point.

A must-listen book for every leader—and every American—who insists that their government deliver better results Broken. Ineffective. Dysfunctional. Those are the words Americans often use to describe the government they pay for and depend upon to meet some of their most basic needs. But what if governments routinely delivered better results? What if government leaders invested in more effective solutions that improved lives and saved taxpayer dollars? Do What Works shares stories of progress and impact from communities across the country where that's happening right now.

For fans of the beloved HBO series The Gilded Age, a definitive volume on life and thought in America during the era—now reissued with a beautiful new cover. With Season 3 of the hit Julian Fellowes HBO series The Gilded Age breaking records in summer 2025 with its highest ratings ever—and...

The updated edition of a bestselling classic, with a new introduction from award-winning author Chris Hammer. Australia's major river system is collapsing. Parts of it are dying; parts of it are already dead. Australia's most significant river no longer reaches the sea. I look out into the dim autumn light and wonder once again how it has come to this . . . Join award-winning author Chris Hammer on a journey through Australia's largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin.

The tariff is back, and it will not hold still. In less than two years, a president taxed goods from nearly every country on earth, the Supreme Court struck those tariffs down, the government began refunding more than a hundred billion dollars, and new tariffs rose in their place under laws written as far back as 1930. Businesses, farmers, and foreign governments are planning around numbers that change by the week. None of this is new. Americans have fought over the tariff since 1789, when the first Congress took three months to agree on one. In the 1830s, the fight brought a state to the ...

Twenty-four stories of the greatest traders who ever lived. What they knew, what they risked — and the science of what actually works. Seven nights. One old trader, ruined in the crash of 1987, and one young one who is up 41 percent on the year, with a third of his book in a single chip stock, and wants to double the position before the company reports. By the fire in a study full of books, the old man tells him about the men who made the greatest trades in history — and what each of them paid. This is the second edition, completely rewritten. Every chapter shows a famous trade working,...

THE OPTIMISTIC BOOK PEOPLE HAND TO SOMEONE WHO’S AFRAID OF AI. In 1920s England if you wanted to be woken up on time to get to your job at the factory, you had to hire a ‘knocker-upper’—a guy who drags a big wooden stick around town and knocks on your window. Then, the alarm clock arrived, and the knocker-uppers were left asking, ‘what are we worth now?’ Now, AI is here to do the same thing the alarm clock did to the knocker-uppers, but this time it’s the doctors, lawyers, accountants, designers, developers, teachers and business owners. It’s every job that can be done on a computer.

Daniel Kahneman’s Two Systems of Thinking: Fast and Slow Thought, Intuition, Bias, and Better Decisions introduces the core ideas behind one of the most important models in modern psychology: the difference between fast, automatic judgment and slow, effortful reasoning. It explains how people rely on mental shortcuts to navigate daily life, why those shortcuts often work, and why they also lead to systematic mistakes. Rather than treating the subject as theory alone, the book ties Kahneman’s ideas to familiar situations such as first impressions, risk-taking, planning, prediction, and ...

Wealth is not a pile. It is a claim. Most people think wealth is what someone has: the gold, the land, the balance on the statement. They are wrong. The pile is only the record. Wealth is what the record can make other people do. In Wealth: How Money Becomes Power, Joel Thomas examines wealth not as riches, reward, or a number on a statement, but as a structural force: a web of promises, enforced by custom and law, about who may command what, and whom. Across recorded history the form has moved from the herd to the land, from the land to the ledger, from the ledger to the loan, and from the...

Unlock the proven strategies that turned Asia’s greatest challenges into extraordinary success—and apply them to build your own lasting prosperity. The Asian Blueprint for Success by Lian Wu reveals the powerful, time-tested principles that fueled Japan’s postwar miracle, the rise of the Asian Tigers, China’s dramatic transformation, India’s entrepreneurial surge, and Korea’s industrial leap—while showing how Asian communities worldwide have achieved remarkable results through education, discipline, and strategic thinking. Inside you’ll discover: How Japan rebuilt from ...

Think about how much your life—and the world around you—has changed over the past ten years. Now imagine what the next ten might bring. Will artificial intelligence change the work you do? Will your money provide the security you expect? Will the home you live in today still suit your needs? How might longer lives, new technologies, and changing economic realities influence the choices available to you? These are not distant questions about some unimaginable future. These are practical considerations that may influence how you plan, what you prioritize, and which decisions you make over...

If you haven't followed the money, chances are you don't know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early America's dominant merchant trader, first bank president, and first central banker, Thomas Willing. In this book, Richard Vague shows how Willing bankrolled–and in the process helped save–the Revolution and then fundamentally shaped the financial architecture of the young Republic. So powerful was Willing that President John Adams complained that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were governed by him.

You went into the grocery store for milk. You came out with $63 worth of stuff you never planned to buy. That probably wasn't an accident. Grocery stores are carefully designed economic systems. Where products sit, how shelves are arranged, why certain items appear at eye level, why the milk is usually in the back, why sale signs are everywhere, and why the checkout is packed with impulse purchases—all of it is connected to economics. Why Is Milk All the Way in the Back? pulls back the curtain on the hidden forces shaping your everyday grocery trips. You'll discover: • Why grocery ...

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller—“the rare business history that reads like a thriller” (Publishers Weekly)—that tells the story of how we came to believe that financial markets knew best and how that belief steered us wrong, now updated to reflect the latest academic research and...

What if the job you have was never meant to define who you are? If you have ever felt trapped in work that pays the bills but leaves you wondering whether your life has a deeper purpose, The Job Was Never Mine invites you to rethink what work, success, and purpose really mean. A job can provide income, a position can provide recognition, and a career can provide direction. But none of them can fully answer the deeper questions: Who am I? What am I here to do? What makes my life meaningful? And what happens when employment ends? This book explores how to find purpose beyond employment, ...

We abolished aristocracy. We never abolished elites. Billionaires can influence governments. Politicians can shape the lives of millions. Celebrities can command audiences larger than entire countries. Elite universities reproduce powerful networks, while wealth, attention, credentials, and electoral success determine who rises to the top. But who prepares these people for the responsibility that comes with influence? In Aristocracy: A Necessary Evil?, philosopher Gharios El Chemor presents a provocative argument: modern society was right to reject hereditary superiority, legal privilege, ...

Discover the timeless ideas that changed the world. Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations – The Foundations of Free Markets and Modern Economics is your essential guide to one of the most influential books ever written. Whether you're a student, entrepreneur, investor, economist, or simply curious about how markets work, this book makes Adam Smith's groundbreaking ideas clear, engaging, and relevant to today's world. More than two centuries after its publication, The Wealth of Nations continues to shape governments, businesses, and economies across the globe. Yet many readers find Smith's ...