Math In Minutes
Posted May 25, 2021
Both simple and accessible, Math in Minutes is a visually led introduction to 200 key mathematical concepts. Each concept is described by means of an
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Posted May 25, 2021
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century. When it first appeared the New English Weekly predicted
The Road to Serfdom
Posted May 25, 2021
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general
The New Industrial State
Posted May 25, 2021
With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America’s perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The
The Political Economy of International Relations
Posted May 25, 2021
After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Posted May 25, 2021
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the “great transformation” of
Autobiography, by John Stuart Mill
Posted May 25, 2021
One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of
Adventures of a Bystander, by Peter Drucker
Posted May 25, 2021
Regarded as the most influential and widely read thinker on modern organizations and their management, Peter Drucker has also established himself as an unorthodox and
Baruch: My Own Story
Posted May 25, 2021
Bernard M. Baruch – one of the most remarkable men of our time – was an office boy at nineteen, a Wall Street partner at
Baruch: The Public Years
Posted May 25, 2021
Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965) was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward
Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life, by Eric Hobsbawm
Posted May 25, 2021
Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm’s life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions
The Education of Henry Adams
Posted May 25, 2021
This autobiography was immediately hailed as a masterpiece upon publication and has even been called the greatest nonfiction book ever written. Henry Adams, whose great-grandfather
A Life in Our Times, by John Kenneth Galbraith
Posted May 25, 2021
The richly adventurous memoirs of one of the most dazzling public figures to dominate the American scene over the last decades. John Kenneth Galbraith who
Personal History, by Katharine Graham
Posted May 25, 2021
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Graham’s book is populated with a cast of fascinating characters, from 50 years of presidents (and their
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Complete Three Volume Set: 1 Years of Adventure 1874-1920, 2 The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933, 3 The Great Depression 1929-1941
Posted May 25, 2021
Hoover’s “Memoirs” constitute his political statement. The third volume in the series, forthright and devastatingly critical of the New Deal, is the culmination of that
Hayek: A Biography
Posted May 25, 2021
This book tells the story of one of the most important public figures of the twentieth century. It is the first full biography of Friedrich
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Posted May 25, 2021
Sebastian Mallaby’s magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest
Ten Great Economists: From Marx to Keynes
Posted May 25, 2021
Brilliant evaluations of the men most influential in shaping economic thought: Marx, Walras, Menger, Marshall, Pareto, Bohm-Bawerk, Taussig, Fisher, Mitchell and Keynes, In he Appendix:
Irving Fisher: A Biography
Posted May 25, 2021
Irving Fisher was one of the greatest and certainly one of the most colorful American economists. Widely acknowledged as the chief architect of modern neo-classical
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Posted May 25, 2021
Described by John Kenneth Galbraith as “the most sophisticated conservative” of the twentieth century, Schumpeter made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. His