The first book of the next crisis. A history of interest rates by a leading financial commentator, updated with a new postscript... Zobraziť viac
They say John Maynard Keynes called gold a 'barbarous relic'. They say there isn't enough gold to support finance and commerce. They say the gold supply can't increase fast enough to support world growth... Zobraziť viac
Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer?... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency and a passionate call to wake up to our new reality from the bold thinkers behind tech giant Palantir. Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to... Zobraziť viac
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technology... Zobraziť viac
Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, "change the world" through a powerful search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.... Zobraziť viac
More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why... Zobraziť viac
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should... Zobraziť viac
Capturing the essence of history's most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today. We live in the economy - and we are part of it. Living... Zobraziť viac
Do you recall a time when the income of a single schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family? Robert Reich does - in the 1950s his father sold clothes to ... Zobraziť viac
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is... Zobraziť viac
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? sums up Lou Gerstner's historic business achievement, bringing IBM back from the brink of insolvency to lead the computer business once again. Offering a unique case study... Zobraziť viac
Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, ... Zobraziť viac
Tony Robbins, arguably the most recognizable life and business strategist and guru, is back with a timely, unique follow-up to his smash New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game. Market corrections are as constant as seasons are in nature... Zobraziť viac
The first no-holds-barred expose of the exploitative world of internships... Zobraziť viac
Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form... Zobraziť viac
A very valuable field manual for those who want to change our economies for the better' Ha-Joon Chang'A book of dark fears and bright hope . . . Excellent' Danny DorlingA provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway ... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of Kleptopia comes a true story about Cuckooland – a world where the rich can buy everything – including the truth. Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. The... Zobraziť viac
Vynálezy můžou být pro lidstvo požehnáním. A pro člověka katastrofou. V roce 2013 všechna světová média vydala zprávu o závěrech odborného článku — téměř polovinu současných ... Zobraziť viac
The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build ... Zobraziť viac
