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Ayn Rand

Издател: Signet

Selfishness — a virtue? Ayn Rand chose this book’s provocative title because she was on a mission to overcome centuries of demonization. “In popular usage,” Rand writes, “the word ‘selfishness’ is a synonym of evil; the image it conjures is of a murderous brute who tramples over piles of corpses to achieve his own ends . . . and

Lee Berton,

Издател: Dow Jones-Irwin

This compilation of articles from The Wall Street Journal translates the accounting issues affecting both the business and personal lives of accountants in clear and concise fashion. This quick reference helps decipher annual reports and find out what's happening to investments. Readers learn how the professionals who set the standards in

Niall Ferguson

Издател: Penguin Press

Harvard historian Niall Ferguson offers a significant new perspective on the events of the 20th century, recasting the Cold War and the two World Wars as one continuous, racially motivated "Hundred Years' War." Ferguson also examines a central paradox: With its unparalleled advances in science and communications, why was the 20th century the most

Henry Hazlitt

Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute

What a thrilling little treasure this is, a completely rediscovered book by Henry Hazlitt from 1922 This is Hazlitt before he became an advocate of the Austrian School, and here he is not writing on economics but personal ethics as informed by ancient principles. But the pre-Austrian in him shines through, because it is an application of the

Adam Smith

Издател: Bantam Classics

"It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence. In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services.