John Steele Gordon “Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power"
Harper Perennial | 2005-11-01 | ISBN: 0060505125 | 496 pages | PDF | 1,3 Mb
Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nation's global influence: wealth and the capacity to create more of it.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
"Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth" by T. Harv Eker
Eker’s claim to fame is that he took a $2,000 credit card loan, opened “one of the first fitness stores in North America,” turned it into a chain of 10 within two and a half years and sold it in 1987 for a cool (but somewhat modest-seeming) $1.6 million. Now the Vancouver-based entrepreneur traverses the continent with his “Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar,” on which this debut motivational business manual is based. What sets it apart is Eker’s focus on the way people think and feel about money and his canny, class-based analyses of broad differences among groups.
The Wealth of Ideas traces the history of economic thought, from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, Léon Walras, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter and Piero Sraffa alternate with chapters on other important figures and on debates of the period. Economic thought is seen as developing between two opposite poles: a subjective one, based on the ideas of scarcity and utility, and an objective one based on the notions of physical costs and surplus. Professor Roncaglia focuses on the different views of the economy and society and on their evolution over time and critically evaluates the foundations of the scarcity-utility approach in comparison with the Classical/Keynesian approach.
Alchemy has been with us since the beginning of recorded history. It has been present in almost every culture, from Old Kingdom Egypt and the China of Lao Tzu; from the Greece of Alexander the Great to the era of Islamic conquest; from the islands of the Indonesian archipelago to the twilight world of Victorian occultism. It has been called ‘the mightiest secret that a man [or woman] can possess’, yet it has also been derided as ‘the history of an error’. It has often been portrayed as a fraudulent, delusional quest for wealth and worldly power through the attempt to transmute base metals into gold, but has also been regarded as a Divine art, the highest gift of God, one that should only be practiced by the sincere seeker and the pure of heart.
"On behalf of Merrill Lynch and Capgemini, we are pleased to present
the 2007 World Wealth Report. This is our 11th annual in-depth look at
changes in the high net worth marketplace, which includes our read of
macroeconomic factors shaping the behaviors of wealthy individuals
around the globe, and our insight as to what is driving growth in the
industry."
Driven by a strong global economy, the wealth of the world's
high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) increased 11.4 percent to US$37.2
trillion in 2006, according to the 11th annual World Wealth Report,
released today by Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) and Capgemini. The number
of HNWIs in the world increased 8.3 percent in 2006 to 9.5 million and
the number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals (Ultra-HNWIs) grew by
11.3 percent to 94,970.
Emerging economies proved resilient, with continued growth in their
HNWI populations and solid investor cash flow to riskier corners of the
market. The largest growth of the HNWI population occurred in Singapore
and India, where the increases over 2005 was 21.2 and 20.5 percent,
respectively. The Report suggests that economic growth will slow in
2007 as mature economies grow more moderately.
The Wealth of Ideas: 
