"The Black Swan" explores the role of highly improbable events, known as black swans, in shaping History, economics, and human behavior. Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that such unpredictable and rare...
Why are some nations more prosperous than others? This book sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to...
Selected from the booksSapiensandHomo Deusby Yuval Noah HarariHow did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or...
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy’s masterwork begins in the year 1500,...
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how...
It's time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - we must abandon fearmongering and embrace visionary action.The real threat to liberal democracy isn't autocrats - it's the lack...
'Any investor with skin in the game needs to buy this book.' Niall FergusonFrom Wall Street to the White House, the fantasy of an eventual 'return to normal' is still...
Price Catalystsexplores the world of corporate special situations and demonstrates how savvy investors can profit from untapped investment opportunities in this niche sector of the market. The book is a...
'Revelatory and illuminating'New YorkerThe true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart ofSilicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants...
Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and international bestselling author ofPrinciples- whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide - shares his unique template for how debt crises work...
Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818,...