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In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to the publicani of ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland and ‘stockjobbing’ in London's Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea...

For readers of Evicted, There Is No Place for Us, and When McKinsey Comes to Town, a devastating investigation of how corporate America turned bankruptcy into a weapon. Bankruptcy was supposed to offer a last resort for the insolvent: a way to manage failure, preserve value, and give debtors and...

A powerful handbook for thriving financially and personally in an age of political and technological volatility. The old playbook is dead. We have entered an era defined by non-linear dynamics, where AI startups outpace trillion-dollar giants and Bitcoin reshapes financial reality overnight. In...

Private equity buccaneers have generated untold wealth by plundering the worlds of commerce, defence and sport. In the process they have also destroyed jobs, hurt consumers, neglected environmental concerns and undermined public trust in share markets. In this book, Alex Brummer, City Editor at...

Globalisation promised a world of open markets, shared prosperity and peace through trade. Instead, it has delivered a new battle for wealth and power. In All the Money in the World , The Times Economics Editor Mehreen Khan argues that mercantilism – the centuries-old belief that economic...

The award-winning and Sunday Times-bestselling author of Material World tells the story of how one of humanity's greatest innovations took over the world. INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The story of trade is the story of humanity. From the copper in Mesopotamian ploughs to the silicon atoms...

Read by the author, NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez offers an urgent, necessary tale of on the precarious realities and politics of modern Puerto Rico, detailing the decade of alleged financial exploitation, federal negligence, and American ambivalence that pushed the...

How did we end up with a system that allows billionaires to pay so little income tax? In Make Them Pay, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger and his reporting partner Paul Kiel investigate the history of income tax avoidance and reveal how the system is abused today—based on the...

'The definitive retirement handbook of our age.' –Barry Ritholtz To save enough to retire comfortably and then make your money last is challenging. The good news is that it can be done and this book shows you how. It won’t be enough to put a small chunk of each paycheck into your retirement...

Envied by Lord Byron, admired by Jane Austen, read avidly by the British royalty: this is the story of ‘The Great Maria’. Maria Edgeworth, known to her contemporaries as 'the Great Maria', was one of the most important authors of the Regency era. Her work was the envy of Lord Byron, Humphry...

Renowned economic historian and "crisis whisperer" Adam Tooze (Crashed) tells the story of climate change as the first truly global crisis of our time—and the struggle that is shifting the center of power from the West to China For decades, climate change was framed as a Western drama...

This is a book about choices. Not the kind you make when you decide who to marry, whether to quit your job, or when to go for a hike. It’s about the kind that hardly existed a hundred years ago but now govern our lives. The kind that have architects. Choose Your Captivity exposes the hidden...

An eloquent, prize-winning historian chronicles the rise of Black enterprise in America. Entrepreneurs like Booker T. Washington and Madam C. J. Walker are familiar figures in the history of Black business. But from the hopeful dawn of emancipation to the crucible of Jim Crow, from rural Mound...

A riveting narrative account of how prediction markets are changing our world and transforming the very nature of democracy. “In The Big Bet, Michael Auerbach explores the past, present, and future of the prediction market ... This is a dazzling and entertaining book ... But it is also an...

What happens when democracy becomes another commodity? The first book on prediction markets - and how they are re-shaping the world. For many, Donald Trump’s decisive election victory over Kamala Harris in 2024 was a shock. Traditional polls had the race too close to call. But for those...

Perhaps voicing more dynamic, expressive, interesting and clearer voiced characters than previous 2023 versions, as this latest and much improved without sound effects audiobook version, should better compliment any ZZZ Part I VSV book or ebook edition of the screenplay.For this alike all...

For millennia, cinnamon has been treasured for its healing powers and warm unmistakable aroma. But behind its familiar scent lies a tumultuous past steeped in conquest and rebellion. In Cinnamon, acclaimed historian Nira Wickramasinghe traces the remarkable story of this 'queen of spices', from ancient Egyptian embalming tables and medieval Mughal kitchens to disastrous expeditions to mythical cinnamon lands in the Americas and the fierce imperial rivalries of the Portuguese, Dutch and British.

A bold, revelatory account of how the greatest conflicts, atrocities, and social advancements of our time have all hinged on the seizure of property, for readers of Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Why Nations Fail. Expropriation—the act of forcibly taking property—is usually...

Throughout history, economies have soared to euphoric heights only to be pulled down by the unforgiving force of financial gravity. In Greed & Gravity, David G. Stone unpacks seven of the most consequential economic disasters the world has ever seen. These were not merely accidents of policy or...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Most of the money in the world was never printed. A bank typed it into existence the moment someone signed a loan. That is not a conspiracy theory. It is how the system is designed to work, and almost nobody is taught it. Not at school, not at the bank...