The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Designed to bring Europe closer together, the euro has actually done the opposite: after nearly a decade without growth, unity has been replaced with dissent and enlargements with prospective exits. Joseph Stiglitz argues that Europe's stagnation and bleak outlook are a direct result of the fundamental ...Show more
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us by Tim O'Reilly
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
'An indispensable guide.' Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn'Tech's most valuable teacher.' ForbesSilicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future - what he calls the 'next economy'.Tim O'Reilly's genius is to identif ...Show more
What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy by Tom Slee
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
A razor-sharp examination of the 'sharing economy'.Uber. Airbnb. Taskrabbit. Lyft. In recent years, companies like these have flooded the global market, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. They've styled themselves as disrupters of the 'old order', but this new wave of technology comp ...Show more
Troublemakers: How a Generation of Silicon Valley Upstarts Invented the Future by Leslie Berlin
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
THE GRIPPING TALE OF THE EARLY FRONTIER DAYS OF SILICON VALLEY FROM ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN LESLIE BERLIN. `Kaleidoscopic, ambitious, and brilliant, the book draws on a dazzling cast of characters to chart the rise of the five industries that have come to define technology today and, collectively, to remake ...Show more
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality--now available at a great value Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions abo ...Show more
Talking to my Daughter About the Economy - A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world. Why is there so much inequality?In this intimate and accessible book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answ ...Show more
Credit Code Red: How Financial Deregulation and World Instability are Exposing Australia to Economic Catastrophe by Brain, Peter; Manning, Ian
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Australia has been the lucky country for a long time. First, it rode off the sheep's back. Then it became a quarry for emerging economies. It deregulated its financial sector, abandoned manufacturing, has ridden an apparently endless urban-land boom, and has gone over 25 years without a recession. But i ...Show more
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Fifty Inventions that Made the Modern Economy paints the epic picture of economic change in an intimate way, by telling the stories of tools and ideas that had far-reaching and unexpected consequences.
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
Rise of the Robots Technology and the threat of mass unemployment by Martin Ford
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment ...Show more
The Great Multinational Tax Rort : How We're Being Robbed by Martin Feil
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
" Enough is enough,' Australia's tax commisssioner, Chris Jordon, told a Senate inquiry earlier this year. The Great Multinational Tax Rort explains what he was talking about. Multinational corporations have avoided trillions of dollars of tax over the past 25 years. Tax avoidance is legal, but its mass ...Show more
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich by Peter Schweizer, MD
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
READ THE BOOK DONALD TRUMP REFERENCED AND READ IN HIS MAJOR ANTI-HILLARY CLINTON SPEECH.In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they've earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume that the Clintons amassed their wealth through ...Show more