Economics Books

This was my dad's book. He passed away 3 years ago.

If you're fascinated by how economies take shape, "A History of Money in Singapore" could be just the book for you. It's more than just a timeline; it weaves the story of Singapore's financial development with global events, showing how currency is more than just money—it's a narrative of national identity, innovation, and power. Plus, it's accessible whether you're a history buff or just curious about the modern financial world.

This book is a must-read for anyone looking to maximize their brand's financial value. With its clear and concise roadmap to brand-building, it provides rigorous metrics that can accurately measure and manage brand-building investments. Additionally, it offers a thorough guide for implementing a successful metrics-based brand management program, making it an indispensable resource for investors, senior managers, brand managers, sales forces, and employees alike. Overall, this book offers a unique insight into how brands are built and destroyed and why they should be managed as financial assets.

This book provides practical solutions and exposes investing's Seven Deadly Temptations. It proposes adopting commonly overlooked and less expensive investment options for a stronger self and economical position. It also encourages readers to resist complicated, overpriced and risky options preferred by Wall Street wolves.

This book offers a comprehensive coverage of operations and supply chain management, from managing people to applying technology. With Connect, an integrated learning system, students learn precisely what they need to know in an engaging and effective way. The book is ideal for anyone seeking to learn about supply chain management in a resourceful company.

"Management Redeemed" would be a great read for individuals seeking to learn about prevalent but misconceived management practices. The author, Lex Donaldson, takes a comprehensive look at several global companies and debunks the myths they have adopted. The book focuses on the notion that a strong management system can improve an organization's performance contrary to popular beliefs that the opposite is true. Donaldson's expertise in organizational design comes through in his writing style, making the book an enjoyable and informative read for anyone interested in debunking corporate myths.

The past twenty years have been an era of economic disappointment in the United States. They have also been a time of intense economic debate, as rival ideologies contend for policy influence. Above all, they have been the age of the policy entrepreneur - the economic snake-oil salesman, right or left, who offers easy answers to hard problems.It started with the conservative economists - Milton Friedman at their head - who made powerful arguments against activist government that had liberals on the defensive for many years. Yet when Ronald Reagan brought conservatism to power, it was in the name not of serious thinkers but of the supply-siders, whose ideas were cartoon-like in their simplicity. And when the dust settled, it was clear that the supply-side treatment not only had cured nothing, but had left behind a $3 trillion bill.Meanwhile, the intellectual pendulum had swung. In the 1980s, even while conservatives ruled in Washington, economic ideas that justified government activism were experiencing a strong revival. But the liberals, it turns out, have their own the strategic traders, whose simplistic vision of a U.S. economy locked in win-lose competition with other countries proved far more appealing to politicians than less-dramatic truth. And it seems all too likely that the new patent medicine will do as much harm as the previous one.In this provocative book, Paul Krugman traces the swing of the ideological pendulum, from left to right and back again, and the strange things that happen to economic ideas on their way to power.

"Winners and Losers" tells the stories of the creators - and the casualties - of the age of the internet. It shows how a handful of businesses were born and rose to enormous heights and how others fell from them, in a new, networked, ferociously competitive economy. Kieran Levis reveals how a few innovative, far-sighted entrepreneurs and companies succeeded in creating entirely new markets and dominating them, while so many others failed. He shows how Amazon and Google rose from nothing to revenues of billions, whilst IBM, Kodak and AOL suddenly faced disaster; how Nokia and Sky bounced from near-bankruptcy to global leadership; and charts the incredible rise, fall and rise again of Apple. Levis explains why the digital revolution has involved so much creative destruction; how unfamiliar competitors, disruptive technologies and unique business models have brought down apparently unassailable market leaders; how some winners got such a grip on their customers that they took almost all; and how meteoric success has led to hubris, and often to nemesis. Told with clarity, wit and pace, these dramatic stories show what it was about a handful of winners that enabled them to hold onto their prizes, whilst the absence of these qualities crippled the losers.

This classic work by the late Professor Wong Lin Ken (1931-1983) has been acclaimed highly for its meticulous research and penchant for detail and is widely recognized as making a valuable contribution to Southeast Asian economic history. It was written when the author was only 24 years old and submitted as part of his Master's thesis at the University of Malaya, then in Singapore. This study was first published as an MBRAS monograph in 1961, and has since been out of print. At a gathering of historians of Southeast Asia in Singapore in October 2002, a warm tribute was paid to Wong Lin Ken's scholarship and several requests were made to the MBRAS for a reprint of his classic study. The current reprint of his monograph was meant as a tribute to this elusive yet brilliant scholar. The current reprint comes with a short preface by Professor Wang Gungwu about the author, whom he first knew when they were both undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Malaya in Singapore in the 1950s.