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By using true tales of thieves, swindlers, and fraudsters at work, Financial Serial Killers: Inside the World of Wall Street Money Hustlers, Swindlers, and Con Men illustrates how these perpetrators get their hooks into investors’ wallets, savings accounts, and portfolios—and never let go. The worst financial crisis since the great depression revealed that thousands of Read More …
After a 30-year wait, the author of the legendary bestseller Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, social psychologist Robert Cialdini has written a sequel, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade. Cialdini is recognized worldwide for his inspired field research on the psychology of influence. He is a New York Times bestselling author. His books, Read More …
When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2008. The author, Mohamed El-Erian has the global perspective of an Egyptian long resident in the US, whose area of greatest expertise is Latin America. His success, as an academic who came relatively Read More …
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2015. In this book, Martin Ford explains how computers can now work things out for themselves, proceeding by trial and error to develop their own programs according to their needs – in “a Read More …
Poor Economics, A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2011. Having worked for more than 15 years with the poor in dozens of countries of all the continents, pioneering hundreds of randomized control trials with their lab, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee’s Read More …
Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2009. In Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed illustrates with a compelling narrative, accessible economics and vivid insights that the Great Depression was not the result of mysterious forces that governments Read More …
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed contributor was the winner of the first edition of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2005. The World is Flat is an essential update on globalization, its discontents Read More …
The Financial Times FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017 aims to identify the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics. The judges will give preference to those books whose insights and influence are most likely to stand the test of time. The Read More …
When you wish to learn option trading strategies, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. We would like to clarify that options trading can be as simple – or as complicated – as you make it: if your goal is to be successful in your options trader job, there’s no need to make it Read More …
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis shows the way the friendship between the two gifted young psychology professors Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky laid the foundations of what we now call behavioural economics. Their ideas are everywhere; it’s almost impossible to find a book in the “smart thinking” section Read More …