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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Издател: Plume
In her first notes for The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand describes its purpose as “a defense of egoism in its real meaning . . . a new definition of egoism and its living example.” She later states its theme as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul; the psychological motivations and the basic premises that produce
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt , Jeff Cox
Издател: Gower Publishing
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. The author has been described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius'. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors.
The Greatest Trade Ever
Gregory Zuckerman
Издател: Penguin Books
In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing. He had spent a career
The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve It
Henry Hazlitt
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Henry Hazlitt was not mainly a theoretician. He was a financial journalist, commentator, and interpreter of current events. In this sense, he was one of a kind: a learned economist with both feet in the real world of politics, financial markets, and the economics of everyday life.
The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve It , newly in print in
The Invisible Heart
Russell Roberts
Издател: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A romance from MIT Press? Yes, because it’s devoted to radical economic ideas delivered as marvelously inventive fiction. Business scholar and NPR commentator Roberts (The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism, 1993, not reviewed) hangs his debut novel on a trick, which of course we can’t give away, but think clever twists à la The
The Neoconservative Imagination
Christopher DeMuth , William Kristol
Издател: The AEI Press
A who's who of scholars and friends -- from Norman Podhoretz to Leon R. Kass, from Robert H. Bork to James Q. Wilson -- celebrates Kristol's ideas and ideals and his contributions to American life as the nation's leading neoconservative. The volume also contains passages and epigrams from the life work of Irving Kristol and a complete bibliography
The Quants
Scott Patterson
Издател: Random House Business Books
How would you feel if you outperformed the market, year after year? Would you become convinced that the good times were here to stay, that nothing could possibly go wrong? And how would you then feel if everything suddenly collapsed around you? Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths geniuses let loose in Wall Street's candy store, and
The Tyranny of Silence
Flemming Rose
Издател: Cato Institute
When Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed five years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech.
The paper’s culture editor Flemming Rose defended the decision to print the 12 drawings while the world went up in flames, and quickly he came to play a central
Three Plays
Ayn Rand
Издател: Signet
Published together for the first time, here are Ayn Rand's three compelling stage plays. Written in 1933, and a Broadway success in 1935, Night of January 16th is presented here in its definitive, final revised text—a superb dramatic objectification of Ayn Rand's vision of human strength and weakness, a play famous for the author's refusal to
Time Will Run Back
Henry Hazlitt
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism.
It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in that position only by accident, begins to rethink the economic basis of the system. He first begins
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