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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are d...
Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell
An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities arise Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortuna...
Good Economics for Hard Times
Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time...
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Robert J. Shiller
From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events―and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses In a world in which internet troll...
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility** In his most provocative and practical boo...
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century...