Economics Alternative

Edwin Black, award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust, has mined scores of corporate and governmental archives to assemble thousands of previously uncovered and long-forgotten documents and studies into this dramatic story. Black traces a continuum of rapacious energy cartels and special interests dating back nearly 5,000 years, from wood to coal to oil, and then to the bicycle and electric battery cartels of the 1890s, which created thousands of electric vehicles that plied American streets a century ago.  

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?...

“One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen King From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them. A bleak moon...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As Indigenous scientist and author of...

Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed in this provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of...

From the author of the acclaimed book Fierce Conversations comes the antidote to some of the most wrongheaded practices of business today. · “Provide anonymous feedback.” · “Hire smart people.” · “Hold people accountable.” These are all sound, business practices, right? Not so...

Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster. Based...

Entrepreneurial communities based on contracts among individuals are the most natural organization of a free society. So say Spencer Heath and Spencer MacCallum. They argue that such organizations are superior to coercion-based States. Among other advantages, they show how entrepreneurial communities would be the most efficient vehicles to supply consumers with what in economics are called "public goods."

The ultimate curriculum of control has been hiding in plain sight for 5,300 years. In first-century Judea, the world is ruled by a flawless, crushing machine. The Roman Empire enforces absolute compliance through the brutal discipline of its iron legions, while the elite religious class in Jerusalem extracts the wealth of the common people through a rigged merchant exchange. Bound by heavy taxes, complex religious laws, and the crushing debt of the Temple economy, the laity are trapped in a system designed to keep them dependent, poor, and terrified. Then, a carpenter from Nazareth walks ...

Previously Published as A Field Guide to Lies We’re surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track...

Fourteen great-power rivalries have already passed into history. America and China are the fifteenth pair. Their ending is unwritten. Why does power keep settling into pairs-and why do those pairs so often believe their contest has no precedent? From Athens and Sparta to Rome and Carthage, Britain and Germany, and the United States and the Soviet Union, Why Two? traces seven recognizable historical doors across twenty-five centuries of rivalry. Some pairs provide the clearest examples. Others show a door recurring, changing form, or approaching without fully opening. Alongside those ...

A successful career awaits—no college degree required! This indispensable resource guides you through alternative routes to prosperity and fulfillment, from a renowned CEO who did it herself. Most people believe a degree is the price of admission to a meaningful, high-paying career. Without it...

The story of the Exodus was not just a miracle. It was a calculated, surgical strike against the world’s first financial matrix. For centuries, the Egyptian empire has operated as an unstoppable, mathematically perfect machine of human extraction. Built upon the ancient blueprints of Babylon—centralized banking, compound interest, and hoarded scientific knowledge—the elite priest class holds absolute power. Deep within the suffocating heat of the Iron Furnace, the unlearned Hebrew slaves are ground into dust, serving as the biological fuel to build eternal tombs for a living God-King....

🌍 BRICS Future: The Rise of a New Global Order Discover the Emerging Power Bloc Redefining the World's Economic, Financial, and Political Landscape Are you ready to understand the most significant global shift of the 21st century? BRICS Future: Alternative Business Economic World is a must-read eBook that unveils the bold ambitions and transformative potential of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa—and now the expanding BRICS+ alliance. In a world facing geopolitical tension, economic fragmentation, and a digital revolution, the BRICS nations are reshaping how the global game is...

Back in 2009, a group of people came together to try to create a currency that would change the economic system for the better. They called it the Bristol Pound. By 2015 it was one of the world’s most prominent local currencies, featured in the Financial Times and Time Magazine, and even covered by Chinese state television. However, the Bristol Pound stopped circulating in 2021, and in 2023 the organisation finally wound up.

There is a point past which growth destroys more than it creates. We passed it decades ago. On the tenth of January, 2026, the richest one percent of humanity finished spending their share of the year's carbon. Seven of the nine planetary boundaries that keep the Earth habitable have now been crossed. Twelve people hold more wealth than the poorest half of the human race. One in four people faces food insecurity. And by the single number that governs economic policy in every country on Earth, the world economy is performing well. OPTIMALISM argues that this is not the system failing. It is ...

This novel contains a possible adjustment to fractional reserve banking and other structural modifications that society should consider to achieve maximum benefit from our ever-on-going forward progression. It seems naive to believe our societal structures have reached maximum potential. The concept first came to me in early 2012. I wrote this book as discovery writing in 2018 to develop my concept, and in return, I was left with an economic model for society, that I call a needs-based money supply system. I have written largely from self-study, and am in no way an expert in some of the ...

Most business owners think their company has one real value. They are wrong. A business is not worth the same amount to every buyer. A lender, appraiser, private equity firm, strategic acquirer, competitor, family office, and corporate buyer may all look at the same company and reach different numbers. They are not always making mistakes. They are often answering different questions. What Your Best Buyer Would Pay explains why EBITDA valuation fails so many good businesses and introduces Economic Value Metrics, or EVM, as a better way to measure what a modern company is actually worth. ...

Are you living in a world that no longer makes sense? Feeling like a frog in a slowly boiling pot of economic decline, political madness, and digital overload? Welcome to Downsizing: Missing the Collapse of Empire, a sharp, no-BS manual for reclaiming your freedom before the wheels come off the global machine. George Ure—veteran journalist, futurist, and founder of Peoplenomics.com—pulls back the curtain on the rigged systems, fake growth, and financial smoke-and-mirrors keeping everyday Americans enslaved by debt, noise, and narrative. Blending decades of economic insight with rural ...

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life and offer solutions to them, too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: the Midwest USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them and the processes that shape their lives, their families, and their futures. He shows how economics uncovers these processes, finds explanations for them, and how it forms policies and solutions.