Economics books

Standard models in economics and finance usually assume that people are rational, self-interested maximisers, effectively co-ordinated via the invisible hand of the price mechanism. Whilst these approaches produce tractable,...

Emanuel Derman was a quantitative analyst (Quant) at Goldman Sachs, one of the financial engineers whose mathematical models usurped traders' intuition on Wall Street. The reliance traders put on such quantitative analysis was...

A vivid history of the economics of greed told through the stories of those major figures primarily responsible.
Age of Greed shows how the single-minded and selfish pursuit of immense personal wealth has been on the rise...

#1 bestselling author, Robert Ringer, explains what it takes for an entrepreneur to succeed in an environment that has become increasingly hostile towards small businesses under the Obama adminstration.

As the progressives now...

Examines the role of communication in influencing the ways in which we perceive the environment as well as what actions we and others take in our relations to the natural world. This book provides a description of the concrete...

Organize! links local organising with global struggles to make a better world. In over 20 chapters written by a diverse range of organisers, activists, academics, lawyers, artists and researchers, this book weaves a rich and...

Though it never went away, State capitalism is back en-vouge. This book looks at it's role in Europe and Asia.

Breger Bush argues that derivatives markets work in the development context as engines of inequality and instability, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting some of the dangers of neoliberal...

This book, an updated version of Sheahen's original 1983 work, is a comprehensive look at a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) and what it would mean for the United States today.

This book describes the Basic Income proposal as a model to reform policies of income transfers in Latin America. A study that covers many topics and many countries, looking back at both the genesis and support of current...

Why do some export activities succeed while others fail? Here, research teams analyze export endeavors in Latin American countries to learn how export pioneers are born and jump-start a process leading to economic transformation....

In the memorable words of Ragnar Frisch, econometrics is 'a unification of the theoretical--quantitative and the empirical--quantitative approach to economic problems'. Beginning to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s, econometrics...

Exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy. This title also exposes the role played by Fannie Mae...

Part memoir, part financial detective story, and part expose, this is the account of a microfinance insider who joined the industry in the early 2000s with a newly minted MBA and the intention to do good in the world. But over...

A dynamic, brilliant exploration of income inequality in America, and the dangers it poses to our democracy, based on Timothy Noah's award-winning articles from Slate.