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The Long and the Short of It (International edition)

A guide to finance and investment for normally intelligent people who aren’t in the industry

by John Kay ...

The follies of finance have threatened the stability of the global economy, and the world of finance has become increasingly complex and sophisticated, but also greedy, cynical and self-interested. The Long and the Short of It provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance and explains how to put your finances in the only hands you can confidently trust - your own.In this new, wholly ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The follies of finance have threatened the stability of the global economy, and the world of finance has become increasingly complex and sophisticated, but also greedy, cynical and self-interested. The Long and the Short of It provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance and explains how to put your finances in the only hands you can confidently trust - your own.In this new, wholly
... Read more
Radical Uncertainty

Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

by John Kay, Mervyn King ...

Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we need instead robust narratives that give us the confidence to manage uncertainty.“An elegant and careful guide to thinking about personal and social economics, especially in a time of uncertainty. The timing is ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we need instead robust narratives that give us the confidence to manage uncertainty.“An elegant and careful guide to thinking about personal and social economics, especially in a time of uncertainty. The timing is
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century

Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong

by John Kay ...

A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business—what it is for and how it works**“A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism.”—Andrew Hill, Financial Times, “Best Books of 2024: Business”Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and ... Read more

$25.19 USD

A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business—what it is for and how it works**“A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism.”—Andrew Hill, Financial Times, “Best Books of 2024: Business”Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and
... Read more
The Long and the Short of It

A guide to finance and investment

by John Kay ...

This book provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance. It describes the basics of investment and the sophisticated innovations of the modern financial system. It explains how the follies of finance have threatened the stability of the world economy, and describes an environment that is complex and sophisticated, but greedy, cynical and self-interested. This book explains how to put your ... Read more

$12.79 USD

This book provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance. It describes the basics of investment and the sophisticated innovations of the modern financial system. It explains how the follies of finance have threatened the stability of the world economy, and describes an environment that is complex and sophisticated, but greedy, cynical and self-interested. This book explains how to put your
... Read more
The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front

by Sonya Winterberg, Kerstin Lieff, John Kay ...

If this doesn't move you, I suggest you check your pulse.' –John Kay, frontman of Steppenwolf (born in East Prussia in 1944) Told by the children who survived, these stories could well be the last eyewitness report of the aftermath of the Second World War. As the land where they once lived was integrated into the Eastern Bloc, their accounts remained hushed until after the Iron Curtain fell. Now, ... Read more

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If this doesn't move you, I suggest you check your pulse.' –John Kay, frontman of Steppenwolf (born in East Prussia in 1944) Told by the children who survived, these stories could well be the last eyewitness report of the aftermath of the Second World War. As the land where they once lived was integrated into the Eastern Bloc, their accounts remained hushed until after the Iron Curtain fell. Now,
... Read more
Other People's Money

The Real Business of Finance

by John Kay ...

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to
... Read more

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Greed Is Dead

Politics After Individualism

by Paul Collier, John Kay ...

Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit. These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those ... Read more

$11.59 USD

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Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit. These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those
... Read more

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Other People's Money

The Real Business of Finance

by John Kay ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

11 hours 55 min

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to ... Read more

$34.99 USD

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The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to
... Read more

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Obliquity

Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

by John Kay ...

Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt ...

Unabridged

4 hours 49 min

A leading economist charts the indirect road to happiness and wealth.Using dozens of practical examples from the worlds of business, politics, science, sports, literature, even parenting, esteemed economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and deeply commonsensical: The best way to achieve any complex or broadly defined goal-from happiness to wealth to profit to preventing ... Read more

$24.98 USD

A leading economist charts the indirect road to happiness and wealth.Using dozens of practical examples from the worlds of business, politics, science, sports, literature, even parenting, esteemed economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and deeply commonsensical: The best way to achieve any complex or broadly defined goal-from happiness to wealth to profit to preventing
... Read more
Audiobook

Radical Uncertainty

Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

by John Kay, Mervyn King ...

Narrated by Roger Davis ...

Unabridged

15 hours 50 min

Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we need instead robust narratives that give us the confidence to manage uncertainty.Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry’s actuarial tables and the gambler’s roulette wheel both yield to the tools of ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we need instead robust narratives that give us the confidence to manage uncertainty.Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry’s actuarial tables and the gambler’s roulette wheel both yield to the tools of
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Greed Is Dead

Politics After Individualism

by Paul Collier, John Kay ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

Brought to you by Penguin.The idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives, and that prosperity and good societies come from top-down leadership, has dominated politics for the last thirty years (from some perspectives, much longer). This book shows that the age of homo economicus and centralisation is coming to an end. Instead, Collier and Kay argue that ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Brought to you by Penguin.The idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives, and that prosperity and good societies come from top-down leadership, has dominated politics for the last thirty years (from some perspectives, much longer). This book shows that the age of homo economicus and centralisation is coming to an end. Instead, Collier and Kay argue that
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Corporation in the 21st Century

Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong

by John Kay ...

Narrated by Peter Wicks ...

Unabridged

14 hours 19 min

In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen,
... Read more

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The Long and the Short of It (International edition)

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The Long and the Short of It

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Other People's Money

Greed Is Dead

Other People's Money

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Greed Is Dead

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