Books tagged with: economics

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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Vintage)

by Robert B. Reich


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From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. …
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller


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From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. This book aims to challenge the economic wisdom that got …
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

by Ian Ayres


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Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a …
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner


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The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. …
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The Pirate's Dilemma: How Hackers, Punk Capitalists, Graffiti Millionaires and Other Youth Movements Are Remixing Our Culture and Changing Our World

by Matt Mason


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Tells the stories of youth culture uncovering, what it is that transforms underground scenes into global industries. This book unravels some of our basic assumptions about business and society and …
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Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner


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"In an age of too much wishful, faith-based conventional wisdom on the right and left, and too much intellectual endeavor squeezed into prefab ideological containers, Freakonomics is politically incorrect in …
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein


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In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. …
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Freakonomics

by Stephen J. Dubner


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