Edition: Spiral
Publication date: 1999-12-01
Dewey code: 370
RRP: £48.00
Price: £52.87
Review Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate Muda (Lean Enterprise Institute) / Lean Enterprise Institute,US:
Authors
- Donald J. Trump
- Meredith McIver
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 658.4
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.64
Review Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know about Success, Real Estate, and Life / Ballantine Books:
Creator: David McLellan
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-04-29
Dewey code: 305.5620942
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.09
Review The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford World's Classics) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2001-09-17
Dewey code: 330.94107
RRP: £21.99
Price: £20.00
Review The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (Foundations of modern Britain) / Longman:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-08-12
Dewey code: 333
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.64
Review The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia / Atlantic Books:
Authors
- Erik Portanger
- Charles Drazin
- Ernst Malmsten
Publication date: 2002-06-06
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.48
Review Boo Hoo: A Dot Com Story / Random House Business Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-04-13
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.08
Review Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey - Profits with Principles / Anita Roddick Books:
Publication date: 1991-12-31
Dewey code: 330.904
RRP: £14.95
Price: £9.85
Review Essays in Persuasion / W W Norton & Co Ltd:
Authors
- Wim Van der Stede
- Kenneth Merchant
Publication date: 2007-03-29
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £46.99
Price: £39.76
Review Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives / Financial Times/ Prentice Hall:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-11-01
Dewey code: 330
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.12
Review The Mystery of Capital / Black Swan:"People with nothing to lose are trapped in the grubby basement of the pre-capitalist world. " This is the nub of The Mystery of Capital. Read just that one sentence and you catch a glimpse of the reason why, as the author puts it, four-fifths of humanity lack the ability to turn dead assets into live capital. A great deal of the power of legal property comes from the accountability it creates, argues Hernando de Soto, from the constraints it imposes, the rules it spawns and the sanctions it can apply. The lack of legal property thus explains why citizens in developed and former communist nations cannot make profitable contracts with strangers, cannot obtain credit, insurance or utilities services. Because they have no property to lose, they are only taken seriously as contracting parties by their immediate family and neighbours. To put it another way, while most western homeowners dream about paying off their mortgage, their counterparts in the less developed countries could transform their existence if they could only access such sums. It's rare to come across a book about such an arcane subject that is simultaneously interesting and illuminating, entertaining and thought-provoking. The Mystery of Capital is all these and more. De Soto paints a procession of vivid pictures, from Cairo to the Wild West, from the Andes to the Urals. [+]"The cities of the Third World and the former communist countries are teeming with entrepreneurs," he says, dismissing the notion that entrepreneurialism is the exclusive preserve of the west. "You cannot walk through a Middle Eastern market, hike up to a Latin American village or climb into a taxi in Moscow without someone trying to make a deal with you. The inhabitants of these countries possess talent, enthusiasm and an astonishing ability to wring a profit out of practically nothing. " In The Mystery of Capital, de Soto believes he points to a way in which capitalism can be used to help developing nations. In his vision, the poor are not the problem. They are the solution. -Brian Bollen.
Publication date: 2008-09-26
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.16
Review Start and Run a Successful Cleaning Business: The Essential Guide to Building a Profitable Company (How to) / How To Books Ltd:
Authors
- Lynne Pepall
- Dan Richards
- George Norman
Publication date: 2008-01-17
Dewey code: 658.1
RRP: £34.99
Price: £28.82
Review Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Empirical Applications / Blackwell Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-04-15
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.73
Review My Life and Work - An Autobiography of Henry Ford / WWW.Therichestmaninbabylon.Org:
Publication date: 2002-01-31
Dewey code: 330
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.29
Review The Penguin History of Economics / Penguin:
Publication date: 2008-09-12
Dewey code: 330.156
RRP: £19.95
Price: £12.00
Review Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren / The MIT Press:
Creator: David McLellan
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-04-29
Dewey code: 305.5620942
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.09
Review The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford World's Classics) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2008-09-25
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.07
Review Dragons or Angels? What investors in business are really like (Dragons Den) / Crimson Publishing:
Edition: 1st edition
Publication date: 2008-05-26
Dewey code: 332
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.00
Review The Fall of Northern Rock / Harriman House Publishing:
Authors
- Eric Ripert
- Christine Muhlke
Dewey code: 647.957471
RRP: £20.00
Price: £13.99
Review On the Line: How One Great Restaurant Made It to the Top and Stayed There / Artisan Division of Workman Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-08-02
Dewey code: 330
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.29
Review Road To Riches / Phoenix:The leitmotif of Peter Jay's great Road to Riches is a three-stage economic waltz. He describes the first dance step as an economic advance enabling more wealth to be created or more mouths fed or fed better. The second step finds administrators or kings or presidents (what Jay calls "external raiders") plundering the fruits of the creators. In the final stage, social or political solutions emerge to square the dance. The 383-page book forms a partnership of sorts with the BBC series of the same name, which was also produced by Jay; however, The Road to Riches is so chalk-full of historical research that the television series bears only a passing resemblance to the book's content. Jay's work spans the entire civilisation and focuses on the creation of wealth by man over the ages. Jay has unearthed massive amounts of information the reaction from the reader to typically be, "Wow, I didn't know that". For example, evolutionary changes in man allowed him to stand erect, wield tools for capturing and preparing food, that then allowed for smaller teeth and the emergence of the voice box. This set the stage for the "perfection of the voice-box and hence for the anatomical basis of modern language on which the exercise of human creativity is so dependent". While the book ostensibly is about the rise of money, it is really a broad sociological survey of developments in mankind which led to various forms of political organisation and in turn led to various means of creating wealth. [+]However, he sticks to his guns, and the three-step waltz is continually recurring, whether he is discussing the Roman and Greek empires, the transformation of the world through shipping, or the industrial revolution of the 18th century. Jay has a flair for writing that makes dipping in and out of the book a pleasure. Even more important is Jay's tremendous ability to provide supporting anecdotes to prove his point without being overly scholarly or even worse, dull. -Bruce McWilliams.
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