NEW BUSINESS BOOKS THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN
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ohamed El-Erian, “one of the most astute financial analysts of our time” (Walter Isaacson), explains how our central banks have become the essential actors in the current global economy but cannot remain so, and where we can go from here. “This is hardly just a book about central banks. Instead, El-Erian offers a grand tour of the challenges we face, along with ideal solutions and more likely outcomes. . . . We desperately need a system in which the central banks are no longer the only game in town.” —The New York Times Book Review Random House • HC • 978-0-812-99762-0 • 320 pp. • $28.00
GOOD PROFIT How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World’s Most Successful Companies by CHARLES G. KOCH
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IT engineer Charles Koch walks the reader through the five dimensions of Market-Based Management to show how anyone can apply its framework to generate more good profit (or the earnings that follow when long term value is created for everyone).
“[E]xtraordinarily thoughtful and comprehensive. . . . A must read for those who want to take their enterprise to the next level.” —Richard B. Myers, General, USAF, Ret., 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Crown Business • HC • 978-1-101-90413-8 • 288 pp. • $28.00
THE UTOPIA OF RULES On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by DAVID GRAEBER
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nthropologist David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, traces the unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives. “[A] fizzing, fabulous firecracker of a book… Our contemporary bureaucrats are revealed, in fact, as none other than you and me, forever administering and marketing ourselves.” —The Literary Review Melville House • TR • 978-1-612-19518-6 272 pp. • $16.95 ALSO BY DAVID GRAEBER:
DEBT: The First 5,000 Years Melville House • TR • 978-1-612-19419-6 • 560 pp. • $22.00
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