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"Most people invest in the usual assets: real estate, gold, mutual funds, fixed deposits and stock markets. It's always the same four or five instruments. All they end up making is a measly 8 to 12 per cent per annum. Those who are exceptionally unfortunate get stuck in the middle of a crash and...

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes can make us poor and unhealthy. We often make bad decisions about education, personal finance, health care, family, and the environment.

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton - one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty - tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal world.

Are you finding it tough to fund your start-up? Especially in the post-COVID-19 world, where money is scarce? Well, then, this book is for you. It takes you through stories of early-stage start-ups and how they successfully managed to raise funding. Even better, it takes you through stories of...

Beyond Retirement offers a practical, encouraging, and inspiring guide to help you navigate this powerful life transition. Instead of viewing retirement as an ending, you’ll begin to see it as a bold new chapter—one where you define what truly matters to you and pursue it with confidence. Unlike generic retirement guides, Beyond Retirement is packed with thoughtful strategies tailored for real people, real budgets, and real lifestyles. Whether you’re single, partnered, or expanding your social circle, you’ll find guidance that meets you where you are.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial...

This collection of Marianne Williamson audiobook includes her popular lectures on Spiritual Principles. Includes the lectures entitled: All Things Are Lessons/I Am As God Created Me Celebrating Yourself/Spiritual Practice Basic ACIM Principles/Only the Love Is Real Choose Once Again/How the Holy...

Society embraces regulations that limit physical harm to others, as when smoking restrictions are defended as protecting bystanders from secondhand smoke. But we have been slower to endorse parallel steps that discourage harmful social environments, as when regulators fail to note that the far greater harm caused when someone becomes a smoker is to make others more likely to smoke. In Under the Influence, Robert Frank attributes this regulatory asymmetry to the laudable belief that individuals should accept responsibility for their own behavior.

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and...

Even if you're just earning an allowance now, you can leap into a prosperous financial future—No Wall Street experience required. Are you a teenager overwhelmed by financial jargon? Or a parent eager to instill good money habits in your child but don't know where to start? Financial wisdom isn't taught in schools , leaving many young adults unequipped for the real world. Statistics show more than 74% of teenagers lack practical knowledge about managing money. As unsettling as it sounds, there's hope.

Do you find yourself constantly baffled by financial jargon? Are you worried about managing your money effectively as you step into adulthood? Do you wish there was a roadmap to help you achieve financial independence right from the start? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you're not alone. Many young adults feel the same way, but this can change when you apply the practical, easy-to-follow advice laid out in this book.

A series of books to give inspiration and opportunity to those middle-class persons who are not poor enough for charity, nor rich enough to afford things themselves. The author intended to inspire, with the kind of inspiration that makes a man go out and create his own opportunity. Yours is the world and everything in it!

Your Teenage Years Are Over (or Almost), Now What? Life Skills for Young Adults is an essential roadmap for young adults, older teens, and high school and college students navigating the challenging passage into independence. In this book, developing young adults will discover strategies for harnessing what can feel like a rollercoaster of unsettled emotions, while nurturing self-confidence, establishing autonomy, and investing in personal growth during this dynamic life stage.

A former CIA analyst draws on his experience combatting jihadi terror movements and the history of totalitarian regimes to show how citizens lose touch with reality. Some of history’s greatest empires have devolved into genocidal lunacy—often with shocking compliance from their own people...

John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet.

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts.

Most people prepare for the financial side of retirement. This is a critical piece of the puzzle, but does it leave out the biggest pieces of all? In this book, author Ben Taatjes shows how purpose and contribution work together to make retirement the best years of life — instead of the most disappointing ones.

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry. In this provocative book, Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution in health care to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices.

The book Decisions, Decisions: Practical Guide to Managing Your Health and Finances is aimed at providing new graduates, couples, elderlies, new migrants, and more, a simple and effective tool to guide them through the process of acquiring life insurance, health insurance, of understanding how social security works, how to buy a house, how to appreciate the importance of education, and how to prepare for retirement. Take the time to educate yourself and learn the basic principles you will need to make sound decisions about your life.

”Breaking the Chains: Reprogram Your Mind to Overcome Compulsive Spending” is a comprehensive guide designed to empower listeners on their journey towards financial health. This book is tailored for individuals grappling with compulsive spending, aiming to help them reshape their habits and gain control over their finances. It uncovers the psychology of spending, identifies the potential pitfalls, and explores the real-life consequences of unchecked financial behaviors.