Economic Reader

From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a “fascinating” (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the...

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Boston Globe, and Entertainment Weekly A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape―from high to low to lower than low―by the award-winning young star of...

A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us "A riveting read. . . . Overturns widespread assumptions about...

From one of the world’s most celebrated literary publishers, a beautiful and candid meditation on the art of being a partner to creative greatness For 40 years, Companhia das Letras, the Brazilian publishing house founded by Luiz Schwarcz, has stood for a steadfast and imaginative commitment...

Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land speculation is the root cause of wealth disparities, advocating for a single tax on land value to promote fairness and reduce poverty. This influential work is critical for understanding economic and social theories regarding land reform and taxation.

Would you like to discover, together with your kids, the secrets to smart economical choices in life? Ask Aiden the brave sailor. When his boat sinks off the shores of a distant kingdom, Aiden is captured by the guard and becomes the king's prisoner. The kingdom is going through difficult economic times, and the king is left helpless. Will Aiden's economic advice help the king to save his kingdom? Will Aiden win his freedom back? A must-have intriguing tale for children and their parents that will explain how simple economics really works.

Bettina Bien Greaves put this volume together as a one-stop primer in economics that includes the best economic writing she had run across. In some ways, the choices are brilliant. They are arranged by topic to cover the division of labor, prices, profits, property, competition, saving and investment, environment, antitrust, money and banking, advertising and marketing, and more. Authors include Read, Mises, Bastiat, Greaves, Kirzner, Watts, Hazlitt, and many other writers. Each essay is short and to the point. It still makes a great primer!

Economics Explained: Markets, Incentives, Growth, Inequality, and Public Policy for Thoughtful Readers is a clear, accessible guide to understanding how modern economies actually work. Designed for curious readers who want economic ideas without jargon or rigid ideology, this book breaks down essential concepts such as scarcity, supply and demand, competition, money, banking, economic growth, inequality, taxation, and global trade in plain language. Whether you are a student, professional, entrepreneur, or engaged citizen, this book provides the tools to think more clearly about everyday ...

A plain‑language operating manual that updates behavioral economics for an AI‑shaped decision world, teaching leaders to evaluate choices, evidence, bias, and algorithmic advice with a durable framework they can use in every meeting. Behavioral economics taught a generation of leaders a shared language for how people actually decide, and it changed the way managers, clinicians, and policy analysts read the world. That language now needs an update. Chatbots and recommendation systems have moved from a niche tool to the ordinary interface for searching, drafting, planning, and choosing at...

Ludwig von Mises truly was an intellectual giant among men. He was perhaps the greatest economist of the 20th century and a tireless advocate for political liberalism and laissez-faire. Human Action, his magnum opus, stands among the truly great works of social science. But his work, based on the study of human action, transcends both economics and social theory.

The most complicated machine you will touch today is the one you think about least. Sometime this morning you turned a knob roughly the width of a bottle cap, and within minutes you had boiling water. The whole transaction took about four seconds of your attention. Behind that knob is a valve. Behind the valve, a pipe or a wire. Behind those, a distribution network, a transmission system, a generating fleet or a compressor chain, a processing plant, a mine or a wellhead — and, at the far end, a formation of rock laid down before anything with a spine walked on land. Controlled Burn is the...

In one corrupt town, three honest kids are balancing the books. Everybody in Brightwater knows the town is crooked. They just stopped doing anything about it. Pip Whatley counts every cent, because in her house you have to. So when the junior tournament starts going wrong in ways the scores can't explain, she's the only one who works out that the real story isn't on the field. It's in the money. Somebody is getting rich off the losing. Cracking it will take more than arithmetic. It'll take Marcus, who can talk his way into anywhere. And Nadia, who never forgets a single page. Three kids, ...

The revelatory guide to getting a better deal, at work, at home and in life - published in the USA with the title HAVING IT ALL 'I have given it to every one of my female friends.' LUCY MANGAN 'Revelatory...rigorous...exhilarating' IRISH TIMES 'I loved it, my husband loved it, and I've sent...

A daring, charming, and timely engagement with one of the most influential books of all time, Karl Marx’s Capital, by Oxford scholar Michael Mayo Why does it seem like everything is getting worse? Most of the students Michael Mayo encounters at Oxford, the university where he teaches, arrive...

A finance-literate walkthrough of federal spending, deficits, the debt ceiling, Treasury auctions, reserve currency status, debt to GDP, trade balances, and the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy for readers who want plain mechanism over cable-news framing. The federal budget shapes daily life, and almost none of it is explained clearly on a screen or a phone. This book walks you through the mechanism, in plain language, without political spin. You will see how the pieces connect, what each headline actually measures, and how to read the next alert like a claim you can check instead ...

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT Why were the world's first known bankers women, running loans and interest from their temples four thousand years ago? Peer-reviewed scientific journals and official records back every fact. This True Verified Facts book delivers 300+ secrets about money, each one built to educate, entertain, and arm you with knowledge worth sharing. Real history and science, from the first clay banks to the psychology of your own wallet. Inside This Book: The trained cats that ancient Egyptian tax collectors used to guard their gold How one shell species from a single island ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book. “A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public...

Achieve True Mastery in French Can you read advanced French about politics, law, economics, philosophy, literature, and formal argumentation with confidence? If you completed Books 1 through 8, you have moved from beginner French to professional competence. Now Book 9 takes you into the final stage of B2: sophisticated mastery. French Vocabulary Builder B2.2: Advanced Mastery Constructeur de vocabulaire français B2.2 : Maîtrise is the ninth book in the French Vocabulary Builder series. This is where French becomes precise and intellectual. You will understand political discourse, follow ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book. “A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public...

This program includes a prologue and epilogue read by the author. Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of...