2012 Penguin Book

In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western ...

2012 Penguin Book

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? ...

2011 Penguin Book

In this groundbreaking biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of the extraordinary Siegmund Warburg. A ...

2011 Penguin Book

In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism" one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the biggest myths about the world we live in. There's no such thing as a 'free' market. Globalization isn't ...

2011 Penguin Book

"The Penguin Dictionary of Economics" explains a host of economic terms, from acceleration principle to venture capital, Euro to X-efficiency, globalisation to zero-sum game. The eighth edition has been fully revised and updated to include ...

2011 Penguin Book

Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. The result is Superfreakonomics. ...

2011 Penguin Book

In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong. Financial crises are not unpredictable 'black swans', but an inherent part of capitalism. Only by remaking our financial systems to ...

2011 Penguin Book

In The End of Wall Street Roger Lowenstein unfurls a chronicle of the 2008 financial collapse. He looks to the roots of the crisis to reveal how America yielded to the siren song of easy ...

2011 Penguin Book

Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - such as the 'Invisible Hand' of the ...

2011 Penguin Book

'We fed the monster until it blew up ...' While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the ...

2010 Penguin Book

We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all paying for it. What went wrong? And will we learn our lesson – ...

2010 Penguin Book

Book One of the Century Trilogy. FALL OF GIANTS follows five linked families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. The story opens ...

2010 Penguin Book

How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently ...

2010 Penguin Book

In "Defence of Business in Developing Economies" is a view from developing countries on why corporations should stop appeasing their critics and promote the benefits of capitalism for the Global South Ann Bernstein's inspiration for ...

2010 Penguin Book

In the current financial crisis, Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard,dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can ...

2010 Penguin Book

Too good to put down It is the story of the actors in the mostextraordinary financial spectacle in 80 years, and it is told brilliantly'Economist.They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets ...

2010 Penguin Book

Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of ...

2010 Penguin Book

Depicting the daily struggle of the individual against a tyrannical dictatorship, We the Living shows the terrible impact of a revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue ...

2010 Penguin Book

Graduates of Harvard Business School run many of the world's biggest and most influential banks, companies and countries. But what kind of person does it take to succeed at HBS? And what do they learn ...

2010 Penguin Book

Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. The result is Superfreakonomics. ...