How do the one percent keep getting richer despite financial crises and the myriad of taxes on income, capital gains, and inheritance? Brooke Harrington interviewed professionals who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world’s richest people: wealth managers. To gain access to their tactics and mentality, she trained to become one of them.
The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory—arguably the most important
book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century.Max Weber’s Economy and Society is the foundational text for the social sciences of the twentieth ...
Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the SummerNeoliberals hate the
state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg ...
In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that
contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that economists have tried to solve through general equilibrium and rational expectations theory. Powerful ...
The rewards of carefully chosen alternative investments can be great. But many investors don’t know
enough about unfamiliar investments to make wise choices. For that reason, financial advisers Larry Swedroe and Jared Kizer designed this book to bring investors ...
“I wish every Democratic candidate would read this book. It is a highly intelligent, fact-based
defense of the virtues of an open, competitive economy and society.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNNWith the winds of trade war blowing as they have not done in ...
A financial advisor recounts an interview with a recently retired physician who planned an enjoyable—and
costly—retirement. The doctor wanted his entire portfolio in bonds, which was far too conservative to maintain the lifestyle he and his wife had planned. In ...
Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the
social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don’t act ...
The Universal Product Code (U.P.C.)—a small rectangle of black and white bars—adorns virtually every retail
item we purchase. Yet twenty-five years ago, the U.P.C. was a mere kernel of an idea shared by a small cadre of manufacturing and chain ...
