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  • Willful

    How We Choose What We Do

    by Richard Robb ...
    A revelatory alternative to the standard economic models of human behavior that proposes an exciting new way to understand decision'Ć'Äòmaking"Willful is a breakthrough in economics. Richard Robb's tremendously insightful book shows how much of our behavior is not explained by existing theories of human action and explains in sparkling prose why understanding decisions made seemingly without ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Value of Others

    Understanding the Economic Model of Relationships to Get (and Keep) More of What You Want in the Sexual Marketplace

    by Orion Taraban ...
    If everyone is looking to secure a relationship with their perceived best option, then the perception of value must be at the heart of human coupling. In this groundbreaking work, psychologist Orion Taraban sets forth his economic model of relationships and exposes the often uncomfortable laws that govern the sexual marketplace. After reading The Value of Others, you'll never look at relationships ... Read more

    $14.97 USD

  • Betterness

    Economics for Humans

    by Umair Haque ...
    Betterness: Economics for Humans is a powerful call to arms for a post-capitalist economy. Umair Haque argues that just as positive psychology revolutionized our understanding of mental health by recasting the field as more than just treating mental illness, we need to rethink our economic paradigm. Why? Because business as we know it has reached a state of diminishing returns-though we work ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Geometry of Wealth

    How to shape a life of money and meaning

    by Brian Portnoy ...
    Joint Gold medallist of the Axiom Business Book Award 2019 - Personal Finance/Retirement Planning/InvestingHow does money figure into a happy life?In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioral finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an inspired answer, building on the critical distinction between being rich and being wealthy. While one is an unsatisfying treadmill, the other is the ability to underwrite a ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Soros Lectures

    At the Central European University

    by George Soros ...
    Five lectures George Soros recently delivered at the Central European University in Budapest - which he founded in 1991 - distill a lifetime of thinking on finance, capitalism and open society In a series of lectures delivered at the Central European University in October 2009, George Soros provided a broad overview of his thoughts on economics and politics. The lectures are the culmination of a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Course in Behavioral Economics

    by Erik Angner ...
    This textbook looks at decisions – how we make them, and what makes them good or bad. In this bestselling introduction, Erik Angner clearly lays out the theory of behavioral economics and explains the intuitions behind it. The book offers a rich tapestry of examples, exercises, and problems drawn from fields such as economics, management, marketing, political science, and public policy. It shows ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • A Helping Hand: Mediation with Nonviolent Communication

    by Liv Larsson ...
    IS IT POSSIBLE TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE SOLVE THEIR CONFLICTS WITHOUT GETTING SUCKED IN YOURSELF? YES! And there is a specific set of skills which makes it much more likely that your efforts will be successful. This book teaches you step by step how to become an effective mediator. Add practice, practice, practice (and some self-reflection) and you will soon celebrate your first successes in helping ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bullshift

    How Optimism Bias Threatens Your Finances

    People are unwittingly taking risks with their investments by entrusting them to advisers who are biased but don’t know it.Does your financial adviser tell you to hold on and never sell? That markets recover in the long run? Does your adviser seem to always have an optimistic disposition? Do they tell you not to worry, no matter what is going on in the outside world?In Bullshift, John J. De Goey ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ray Dalio: Principles of a Billionaire Mind

    Ray Dalio is one of the most influential investors of the last half-century-but the true story behind his success is not about markets, money, or algorithmic trading. It is the story of a mind engineered through failure, humility, and an obsessive pursuit of truth.Born to a middle-class family and working as a teenage caddy, Dalio's earliest lessons in wealth came not from textbooks but from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Investor's Paradox

    The Power of Simplicity in a World of Overwhelming Choice

    by Brian Portnoy ...
    "Portnoy has produced the first great text on picking fund managers . . . one of the best written investment books you'll ever find." —Don Phillips, MorningstarA paradox we all face is the natural desire for more choice in our lives, yet the more we have, the less satisfied we become—whether we're at the grocery store, choosing doctors, or flipping through hundreds of TV channels. So, too, with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Big Ideas in Macroeconomics

    A Nontechnical View

    An accessible description of modern macroeconomics, and a defense of its policy relevance.Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik Athreya draws a truer picture, offering a nontechnical description of prominent ideas and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Specialization and Trade

    A Re-introduction to Economics

    by Arnold Kling ...
    Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like the Federal Reserve Board. It turns out they were wrong. Their equations do not hold up. Their policies have not produced the promised results. Their interpretations ... Read more

    $3.99 USD