A spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society today. In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out... Zobraziť viac
Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year “An exceedingly important book!” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA “Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare.” Zobraziť viac
How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us. The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to... Zobraziť viac
Since the publication of the first edition of this seminal textbook, the tourism economics landscape has undergone many changes. In this concise revised edition, the authors have incorporated new approaches and ideas influencing tourism economics... Zobraziť viac
Mirovoy bestseller po psikhologii, napisannyy v 1984g. teper' pererabotany i dopolneny novymi issledovaniyami, ideyami, primerami i onlayn-prilozheniyami. Chto mozhet zastavit' kazhdogo cheloveka skazat' da? Kak ubezhdat' lyudey i izbezhat' nezhelatel ... Zobraziť viac
The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publication... Zobraziť viac
Historie nám ukazuje různé cesty, jak správně a efektivně postupovat vpřed při hledání nových řešení. I současné ekonomické problémy jsou v mnohém velmi podobné problémům z minulosti, lze se z nich poučit. Již několik let evropské země a jejich... Zobraziť viac
The world is changing. It's time for a new financial playbook. In this must-have guide to optimizing your life for wealth, success and happiness, you'll learn... Zobraziť viac
Who are you? Why are you, you? What kind of person do you want to be? ... Zobraziť viac
A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worseessential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust... Zobraziť viac
Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, ... Zobraziť viac
In 2020, the prominent Danish feminist Emma Holten read an article stating that women were a net ‘deficit’ to society. Women took more than they gave, ‘draining’ the public purse by giving birth and taking parental leave. They contributed less than... Zobraziť viac
In this groundbreaking book, renowned global economist David McWilliams unlocks the mysteries and the awesome power of money: what it is, how it works and why it matters. Money is an epic, breathlessly entertaining journey across the world through... Zobraziť viac
The nature of globalization has changed but our thinking about globalization has not. The renowned economist Richard Baldwin argues that the New Globalization is driven by knowledge crossing borders, not just goods... Zobraziť viac
One of today's most original thinkers turns our view of the world upside down... Life can be baffling and chaotic, and sometimes it's hard to make sense of it all. The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics ... Zobraziť viac
Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of Abbasid Baghdad came algebra and modern... Zobraziť viac
One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problems.In Slow Down or Die, French economist Timothée Parrique brilliantly challenges this myth, demonstrating how... Zobraziť viac
The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical ... Zobraziť viac
First published in her pioneering treatise Statecraft, the opinions and projections of the former Prime Minister on Europe remain potent and resoundingly prophetic... Zobraziť viac
Thomas Piketty—whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate—wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in ... Zobraziť viac
