Niall Ferguson's, The Ascent of Money, is an informative account of the history of the one thing that makes the world go around - money. He discusses the co...
Since 9/11, the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq, the West has been fighting a ‘War on Terror’, through force and through the building of...
On the evening of March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-five-year-old institution in the financial world, sold itself for an outrageously low pri...
Here at last is the long awaited sequel to the international bestselling phenomenon, Freakonomics. Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and St...
Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements of the modern world; at the height of its influence over a third of the world's ...
Why are financial markets and housing markets so prone to bubbles? Why doesn't rising prosperity make people happier? Why do many people contribute generous...
The current global financial crisis carries a "made-in-America" label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains h...
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2010
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment , account of how the greates...
There's probably a word in German for that feeling you get when you can understand something while it's being explained to you, but lose hold of the exp...
A bold and visionary tour of the most important, and least understood, countries shaping the future of the global order
At the end of the Cold War, we found ...