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Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in sports to its applications to history, nature, politics, and business. A quarterback like Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers gambles with a Hail Mary pass...

The Law of Market Failure: Most new products will fail in the market, even if competently executed. Using his experience at Google, his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and consultant, and insights from his lectures at Stanford University and Google, Alberto Savoia’s The Right It offers...

Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really ""have to"" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood fail to...

How our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have. In many parts of life – jobs, housing, medical care, education, even a date on the internet – price is not the only determinant of who gets what. So how do the other processes that influence who gets which...

In a fast-moving world we’re often overloaded with differing opinions, conflicting data and changing advice. In this essential guide, Noreena Hertz offers practical steps to how to make better, smarter decisions. Most of us think we make decisions for the right reasons: we scour books, we talk...

"Dass ich den Dieselmotor erfunden habe, ist schön und gut. Aber meine Hauptleistung ist, dass ich die soziale Frage gelöst habe." Jeder kennt Rudolf Diesel (1858 - 1913) als Erfinder des gleichnamigen Motors. Doch weit wenigeren ist bekannt, dass er im Jahre 1903 mit seinem Werk "Der Solidarismus" das Bild einer neuen Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsordnung entwarf, das Konzepte wie Grundeinkommen und Crowdfunding praktisch einhundert Jahre vorwegnahm!

Human Action is more than a book about economics broadly construed. It is a guide to civilized social life which elucidates the laws of reality that apply if human persons are to engage in peaceful and prosperous social cooperation under the division of labor. For Mises, economics is a body of substantive truths about the institutional foundations of human society. Thus, what is at stake in formulating a well-founded and coherent structure of economic theory is not an incremental change in GDP or “social welfare” but the fate of humanity.

Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card at the grocery store, in looming student-loan debts, in the prices of things we want, and in our subconscious navigation of the modern world. Money is an invisible convenience that saves us, as a society, the hassle of bartering for goods and services—a reflection, in our pockets and on our phones, of the hard facts of scarcity and desire. Or is it something more?

Un relato único para entender el capitalismo como nunca te lo han contado No es fácil describir el capitalismo. Podría decirse, simplemente, que es un sistema en el cual se invierte dinero para conseguir un beneficio. Pero quienes han intentado definirlo —de Karl Marx a Adam Smith, de los...

Uno de los más clásicos e influyentes alegatos a favor del libre mercado La libertad económica es un requisito esencial para la libertad política. Esta es la tesis central de Libertad para elegir, escrito a cuatro manos por Milton y Rose Friedman. Al permitir a los individuos cooperar...

El capitalismo es un ideal moral En esta colección de ensayos, Ayn Rand y sus colegas definen una nueva visión del significado del capitalismo, su historia y sus bases filosóficas, y se proponen demoler muchos de los mitos que lo rodean. ¿Nos conduce irremediablemente el capitalismo a...

Un alegato a favor del libre mercado y del capitalismo laissez faire, por uno de los mayores teóricos del liberalismo de la historia En una época de nuevas tentaciones iliberales, cobran aún más relevancia aquellas voces que alertaron prontamente de los peligros que entraña la coacción...

A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in Latin in 1689. It was Locke's response to the problem of religion and government; he proposed religious toleration as the answer. For Locke, the only way a church gains genuine converts is through persuasion, not violence. Arguing that the government should not involve itself in spiritual matters, he offers three main reasons.

The Left has seized on our economic troubles as an excuse to “blame the rich guy” and paint a picture of capitalism and the free market as selfish, greedy, and cruel. Exactly the opposite is true, says Father Robert Sirico in his thought-provoking book Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy. Father Sirico argues that a free economy actually promotes charity, selflessness, and kindness. In Defending the Free Market, he shows why free-market capitalism is not only the best way to ensure individual success and national prosperity but also the surest route to a moral and socially just society.

Les grandes relations économiques sont aussi passionnantes qu'impressionnantes et restent pourtant accessibles à tous – et de plus, en tant que citoyen moyen, vous pouvez tirer d'énormes bénéfices de cette compréhension dans la vie quotidienne. Qu'il s'agisse de la structure du système économique et financier allemand, des théories fondamentales ou de sujets très actuels de l'économie mondiale, cette introduction systématique vous permet de vous orienter facilement dans la jungle économique.

This book argues that many financial failures are not technical, but conceptual. Markets are not mechanical systems governed solely by numbers. They are human systems—shaped by consciousness, confidence, narrative, trust, and time. Wealth, in this view, is not accumulation. It is the ability to direct resources.

A bold retelling of the story of capitalism that treats the core concepts of economics as living, breathing beings, blending fiction and fact to upend 250 years of economic orthodoxy For 250 years, a ghostly hand – bloodied and invisible – has scripted our lives. We call it economics...

The Death of Homo Economicus explores the origin of this oppressive myth in order to destroy it. The story begins with the creation of a fake persona labelled the "dollar-hunting man", invented by economists Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek. Today, this persona, driven by competition and ego, is used by politicians and managers to draw a veil over the terrible reality of work under capitalism.

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller—“the rare business history that reads like a thriller” (Publishers Weekly)—that tells the story of how we came to believe that financial markets knew best and how that belief steered us wrong, now updated to reflect the latest academic research and...

Die Welt steht an einem Scheideweg: Die alte internationale Ordnung zerbricht, doch statt einer gerechteren Alternative drohen sozialdarwinistische Machtkämpfe mit unvorhersehbaren Konsequenzen. Während westliche Staaten noch immer auf ihre überholten Regeln pochen, stellen sich die Länder...