Economics & Finance
Economics & Finance
In Risky Is the New Safe, Randy Gage suggests that in today’s brave new world, the most dangerous action is inaction. The economic models and systems of the past are no longer relevant. Conventional...
With The Essential Controller, Steven M. Bragg has provided a primer for the new controller. The world of accounting has changed, and with it the role of the controller. A once isolated profession,...
Most Americans assume that the economy will continually operate in a way that is both effective and orderly. However, recent economic, environmental, and energy-related trends have emerged which challenge this...
In The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks details his own investment philosophy based on his experience as founder and chairman of Oaktree Capital Management and a successful money manager. His overall...
Since 2007 food prices have risen rapidly worldwide, creating hunger and unrest. In Endless Appetites, Alan Bjerga contends that deregulated commodities trading is the cause for the hunger and unrest....
In the investment world, the term “alpha” refers to returns in excess of expected risk, earned by fund managers who succeed in accurately forecasting the behavior of financial markets and other “beta” macroeconomic...
Leverage is nothing more than the use of debt as a replacement for capital in a transaction. It may sound innocent, but it has been used over the years as a means of amassing ill-gotten wealth. In Leverage...
The recent financial crisis has caused many people to ask fundamental questions about the way the economy is organized and the way it fits in with the kind of society people want to live in. In The Economics of...
Identity Economics by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton discusses a new way to understand people’s decisions—at work, at school, and at home. The book brings identity and related norms to...
Fault Lines is economist Raghuram G. Rajan’s endeavor to explain what enabled and triggered the global financial crisis. He draws surprising connections and conclusions that show how many forces...
