5 Economics and Business eBooks

Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World by Bruno Roche, Jay Jakub
Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015 By Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Flat World Navigation : Collaboration and Networking in the Global Digital Economy
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 6 edition (University Edition) by McKinsey & Company Inc. and Tim Koller
Nathaniel Popper, "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money"

*Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World by Bruno Roche, Jay Jakub
English | May 1st, 2017 | ASIN: B01NBN3MM5, ISBN: 1626569274 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1.04 MB
For the past fifty years, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. In this analytically rigorous and eminently practical book, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub offer a more complete form of capitalism, one that delivers superior financial performance precisely because it mobilizes and generates human, social, and natural capital along with financial capital.
They describe how the model has been implemented in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed financial capitalism's shortcomings, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, field-tested alternative.

*Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015 By Leandro Prados de la Escosura
English | PDF | 2017 | 400 Pages | ISBN : 3319580418 | 4.95 MB
This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts.
The author splices available national accounts sets over the period 1958–2015 through interpolation, as an alternative to conventional retropolation. The resulting national accounts series are linked to the historical estimates providing yearly series for GDP and its components since 1850. On the basis of new population estimates, the author derives GDP per head, decomposed into labour productivity and the amount of work per person, and placed into international perspective.
With theoretical reasoning and historiographical implications, Prados de la Escosura provides a useful methodological reference work for anyone interested in national accounting.
‘This book stands among the classics for the Kuznetian paradigm in empirical economics. This is the definitive study of Spain's transition to a modern economy.’
—Patrick Karl O'Brien, Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford, UK, and Professor Emeritus of Global Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
‘The definitive account of Spanish economic growth since 1850, based firmly on a magisterial reconstruction of that country’s national accounts and an unrivalled knowledge of both Spanish and global economic history of the period.’
—Stephen Broadberry, Professor of Economic History at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford, UK

*Flat World Navigation : Collaboration and Networking in the Global Digital Economy
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0749473932 | 289 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
Flat World Navigation introduces the new future of work in the 'flattened world' of the new digital attention-based economy, where real connections can be made in seconds across departments, businesses, cultures and countries. Combining the best elements of networking, social media outreach and collaborative techniques, flat world navigation is an essential capability to build and maintain relationships between colleagues, customers and partners. Employees who can transform themselves into flat world navigators, experts in mediating these powerful relationships and bringing the customer into the conversation, will mean the difference between success and failure in business. Flat World Navigation includes exclusive insights and interviews with international business leaders who successfully use flat world navigation skills, such as the Emmy-winning former NBC and Wall Street Journal reporter Kare Anderson, Sandy Carter at IBM, Gordon Feller at CISCO Systems, Aria Finger at DoSomething.org, Louise Guido at ChangeCorp, Jeffrey A. Finkle at the International Economic Development Council and Carolyn Lawrence, CEO of Women of Influence. This book is grounded in real-world experience with insights and advice to build your skills base and empower the next generation of business people. Additionally, it is of great use to business owners and managers looking to effectively leverage the skills of these flat world navigators, whose critical role brings attention to ideas, products and services and, as such, must be part of a successful business strategy.

*Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 6 edition (University Edition) by McKinsey & Company Inc. and Tim Koller
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1118873734 | 896 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
McKINSEY'S TRUSTED GUIDE TO TEACHING CORPORATE VALUATION, NOW IN ITS 25TH YEAR
Valuation, University Edition, Sixth Edition, is filled with the expert guidance from McKinsey & Company that students and professors have come to rely on. New to the fully revised and updated Sixth Edition:
New case studies that clearly illustrate how vital valuation techniques and principles are applied in real-world situations
Expanded content on advanced valuation techniques
New content on the strategic advantages of value-based management that reflect the economic events of the past decade
For twenty-five years Valuation has remained true to its core principles and offers a step-by-step approach to valuation, including:
Analyzing historical performance
Forecasting performance
Estimating the cost of capital with practical tips
Interpreting the results of a valuation in light of a company's competitive situation
Linking a company's valuation multiples to the core drivers of its performance
The University Edition contains End-of-Chapter Review Questions, helping students master key concepts from each chapter.

*Nathaniel Popper, "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money"
ASIN: B00P6TZLOU, ISBN: 0062362496 | 2015 | AZW3 | 421 pages | 689 KB
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.
Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper’s brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.
The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments. More than just a tech industry fad, Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society’s most basic institutions.
An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold charts the rise of the Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the movement’s colorful central characters, including an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin’s elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already, Bitcoin has led to untold riches for some, and prison terms for others.