Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives by Satyajit Das
$29.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics | Series: Financial Times Series
a distinctly timely book ...Traders, Guns and Money, tries to reach out to the mathematically challenged to explain how the world of derivatives really works.' Gillian Tett, Financial Time ...a scalpel of a book that pulls back the skin on the derivatives and risk management industry to expose the blo ...Show more
Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in the Indian state of Maharashtra spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? In this book, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show why the p ...Show more
The Greed Merchants by Philip Augar
$26.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Early in the new millennium, the investment banks were on their knees. They are able to act simultaneously for buyers, sellers and themselves, and generate huge returns. This book explains how this transfer of wealth occurs, and answers questions such as: do the investment banks add value through their ...Show more
Supercrunchers: How Anything Can be Predicted by Ian Ayres
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
Companies used to rely on human experts and their years of experience to guide them. Now, cutting-edge organizations are mining the data and crunching numbers instead, to come up with more accurate, less biased predictions. As Freakonomics detailed, statistical analysis can reveal the secret levers of c ...Show more
Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation by Stanley Bing
$39.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
A history of the Roman Empire as a prototype of the multinational corporation? Likening Rome's development to that of a modern global company, forever seeking new markets and ruthless ways to squeeze out its competitors, Stanley Bing - whose satirical business books are as savagely funny as they are ins ...Show more
Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure by Glenn Beck
$49.99 AUD
Category: Personal Finance
THE FACTS. THE FUTURE. THE FIGHT TO FIX AMERICA-- BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. In the words of Harvard economist Niall Ferguson, the United States is "an empire on the edge of chaos." Why? Glenn Beck thinks the answer is pretty simple: Because we've turned our backs on the Constitution. Yes, our country is fin ...Show more
Your Money by ANITA BELL
$24.99 AUD
Category: Personal Finance
Anita's follow-on title from 'Your Mortgage and How to Pay it Off in Five Years' deals with money-management for everyone from 15 to 50. As well as being an excellent guide for school leavers who are just starting out, it shows how people with jobs and families can free themselves from debt and get back ...Show more
Your Mortgage and How to Pay it Off in Five Years: By Someone Who Did it in Three by Anita Bell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
We first met Jim and Anita Bell in 1999 when YOUR MORTGAGE AND HOW TO PAY IT OFF IN FIVE YEARS from Someone Who Did it in Three was first published. Over the last five years as property prices have gone through the roof, interest rates have come down - then gone up, and everyone went real estate mad, An ...Show more
The Boyer Lectures 2008 by Rupert Murdoch
$99.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics | Series: Boyer Lectures
In the Boyer Lectures 2008, Rupert Murdoch will illuminate our understanding of the rapidly changing media landscape, its impact on society today and in the future.