Make Money Myself

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“Entertaining…both Adam Smith and Horatio Alger would find something to like in the rise of T. Boone Pickens.”—Wall Street Journal
“The latest memoir from the Texas oilman…Pickens’ sauciness does entertain.”—Time magazine
“Sassy…breezes along…salted with earthy aphorisms.”—Bloomberg.com
“Self-deprecating and audacious…overall, it’s decidedly informative about the machinations of business.”—Dallas Morning [...]

History of the Standard Oil Company: Ida M. Tarbell
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“Muckrakers” was the name that Theodore Roosevelt gave journalists of the early part of the 20th century who exposed abuses in American business and government. Ida Tarbell, one of the original muckrakers, was able [...]

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“Spellbinding…irresistible…monumental…must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history.”– The New York Times
“A masterly narrative…The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies.”– James Schlesinger, former [...]

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In this concise and timely work about the movement toward a common currency for Europe, Overturf (international economics, Whittier Coll.) probes the thesis that Europe is integrating around money, which explains why many member nations of the European Union (EU) have agreed to [...]

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In recent years governments have increasingly given their central banks the freedom to pursue policies of price stability. In particular, the German Bundesbank and the U.S. Federal Reserve have been widely considered models of autonomous policymaking. This book traces the origins of their success to the political struggle to adopt monetarism [...]

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This book brings together the papers presented at a seminar held in Beijing, China, in August 1995 and sponsored jointly by the IMF’s Monetary and Exchange Affairs Department and the People’s Bank of China. The papers were written by central bankers from China, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and Turkey. The Chinese [...]

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Daniel Yergin’s first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, [...]

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Despite their shared preference for keeping a low profile, Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton, his former employer, gained notoriety in the aftermath of the war in Iraq thanks to a series of lucrative government contracts awarded to Halliburton, for which they never had to bid. Business journalist Dan Briody sheds [...]

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This book has vastly more impact on world commerce than columnists like Buckley, Goodman and Safire. — Douglas Perret Star, Journalism Professor at Texas A&M University

The primary colors of oil today are money (lots of it), technology (basic but demanding) and [...]

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This second report in the series provides a detailed analysis of the European Central Bank’s actions and alerts the public to the main issues raised by the policies pursued by the Bank during its first year. It also provides an assessment of the key concerns in the implementation of European monetary [...]