"Blake Clayton uses four historical case studies to document claims about the future of the U.S. oil supply and discuss their impact on the market and policymaking"--
Ubel (medicine and psychology, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, U. of Michigan) argues that restricting certain kinds of freedom can help preserve health and well-being. He det
Market Insanity: A Brief Guide to Diagnosing the Madness in the Stock Market is an engaging and accessible primer which applies modern behavioral finance to equity markets. It helps readers understand
America’s black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risque video, or pay our kids’ nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-sell
An all-ages Spider-Man comic book written especially for the younger end of the market. Spinning out of the pages of the award-winning Spectacular Spider-Man magazine and featuring the villain of the
Reefer Movie Madness is the perfect follow-up to Halperin and Bloom’s big-selling Pot Culture. It’s the most extensive guide ever to movies for the stoner audience, a real market that has proven its m
When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her
"The market never ceases to befuddle and beguile. These two venerable works are fixtures on the short lists for most valuable books on the securities markets, and investors continue to cherish them."
Sarah Daniels is "a writer with a natural talent for disturbance"—ObserverSet in the gutting sheds of the slaughterhouse at the Cattle Market in late Victorian Deptford, The Gut Girls shows how
"The market never ceases to befuddle and beguile. These two venerable works are fixtures on the short lists for most valuable books on the securities markets, and investors continue to cherish them."
A Street economist's strategy for managing market madness "The Cost of Capitalism is a must-read and a thoroughly enjoyable one—for those who want to understand the Crisis of 2008 and hammer out a ne
... 2006), and Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature is at Odds with Economics—and Why It Matters (Harvard Business Press, 2009). Neil S. Wenger, MD, MPH, ...
Describing bizarrely popular Victorian street slang, the madness of crowds, stock market mania (from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip fever), popular fashions, fads, crazes, schemes and scams, this brill
