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Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

The acclaimed author of Minimalista offers an entrepreneurial roadmap for building—and sustaining—a deeply satisfying, purpose-driven small business that leverages your unique talents while creating more freedom, ease, and focus. With a desire for financial freedom, creative fulfillment, and meaningful purpose, home organizing expert, speaker, and business strategist Shira Gill built a thriving, globally recognized business from the ground up—and now she shares the practical wisdom behind it. Work/Life is her strategic yet accessible guide to creating a small business that supports the life you want, on your own terms. You’ll learn how to focus your energy, simplify decision-making, and build systems that support both creativity and consistency. Rather than defaulting to hustle culture and risking burnout, Work/Life offers a more grounded approach: one that honors real life, shifting seasons, and limited time and energy. It’s about building something meaningful without losing yourself in the process. With a clean, elevated design and inspirational guidance, Work/Life blends the beauty of a lifestyle book with the substance and practicality of a business manual. Inside you’ll find checklists, prompts, action steps, and real-world examples designed to make the work feel both doable and aligned. Whether you’re just starting out, evolving an existing venture, or reimagining what success looks like, Work/Life gives you the tools to build a business—and a life—you’re proud of.

Design a Business for the Life You Want

Work / Life

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

What lies underneath digital platforms—their invisible architecture and governance that determine everything visible. Every time you unlock your phone, stream a show, or start your car, you’re entering a world shaped by thousands of engineering decisions you’ll never see. Most platform conversations fixate on their visible canopy—business models, user experience, competitive strategy—the “leaves,” in a sense. Platforms by Amrit Tiwana excavates their roots. The book begins with a simple DNA test that separates authentic from faux platforms, then traces the forces turning tractors, pacemakers, and elevators into platforms. Using the platform trinity, the author explores principles behind why platforms behave so differently, why superior technology doesn’t always win, and why—unlike products that reach a final form—platforms never stop evolving. From there the book explains platforms’ two hidden root systems: The first system, architecture, shows how Lego-like “modular” design, frozen interfaces, and prefab building blocks let thousands of outsiders contribute pieces that snap into colossal systems. The second system, governance, describes where architecture confronts human behavior. Elegant architecture flails with poor governance, so both demand discipline.

What lies underneath digital platforms—their invisible architecture and governance that determine everything visible. Every time you unlock your phone, stream a show, or start your car, you’re entering a world shaped by thousands of engineering decisions you’ll never see. Most platform conversations fixate on their visible canopy—business models, user experience, competitive strategy—the “leaves,” in a sense. Platforms by Amrit Tiwana excavates their roots. The book begins with a simple DNA test that separates authentic from faux platforms, then traces the forces turning tractors, pacemakers, and elevators into platforms. Using the platform trinity, the author explores principles behind why platforms behave so differently, why superior technology doesn’t always win, and why—unlike products that reach a final form—platforms never stop evolving. From there the book explains platforms’ two hidden root systems: The first system, architecture, shows how Lego-like “modular” design, frozen interfaces, and prefab building blocks let thousands of outsiders contribute pieces that snap into colossal systems. The second system, governance, describes where architecture confronts human behavior. Elegant architecture flails with poor governance, so both demand discipline.

Platforms

The action guide to building serious financial power.For too long, women have worked twice as hard to earn less than men, and women have felt emotionally broke and financially stressed. It's time for a change and time for women--especially women of color--to make bank.In her first book, We Should All Be Millionaires, Rachel Rodgers--Black woman, mother of four kids, and self-made millionaire--shared her personal story. How she climbed from crushing debt and financial stress to wealth and abundance, running a multi-million-dollar company, and owning a blissful 57-acre horse ranch.Her book inspired thousands of readers and listeners to construct a new attitude about money, claim their power, and build the financial security that we all need and deserve. Now, with Hello Seven, Rachel provides a practical framework to achieving seven-figure wealth. This is the book that makes it happen. Rachel lays out the Hello Seven Growth Scale so you can identify where you fall on one of seven levels -- from $0 to 7 figures -- and map out the specific action steps you need to take to grow from one level to the next.

The action guide to building serious financial power.

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Earning a Million Dollars in Annual Income

Hello Seven

Make better high-stakes decisions in uncertainty by developing the 3 agilities (emotional, cognitive, and navigational) needed to lead when no clear answers exist. Today's leaders face a difficult challenge: They must make high-stakes decisions before they have enough information to know whether those choices will succeed. Organizations operate in a BANI world, one that is brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and increasingly difficult to predict. Yet many leaders continue to make strategic decisions using mental models built for a more stable era. This book reveals why leaders often narrow their options under pressure, mistake activity for impact, and seek certainty when ambiguity demands something different. Executive coach Karin Blair shows that the quality of strategic decisions depends less on what leaders know and more on what they can hold without reacting, oversimplifying, or forcing premature resolution. Through a powerful framework built around 3 interconnected agilities, readers learn how to <ul><li>build emotional agility to stay grounded under pressure,</li><li>develop cognitive agility to hold competing perspectives and challenge assumptions, and</li><li>strengthen navigational agility to sustain commitment when results remain uncertain.</li></ul> Filled with practical leadership insights and real-world examples, this book helps leaders expand their decision field, choose coherence over relief, and create strategies that compound into meaningful long-term impact.

3 Agilities for Strategic Decisions

Capacity Under Pressure

A blunt, accountability-driven road map for anyone ready to stop being broke and start building real financial stability, from Financial Audit host and personal finance guru Caleb Hammer You don’t have a money problem; you have a discipline problem. You've been swiping, hoping, and avoiding your bank app like it’s going to personally insult you. In Financial Audit, Caleb Hammer brings the same raw, no-excuses energy of his wildly popular YouTube show straight to you. Now anyone can get the audit they need—privately, and step-by-step. There's no sugarcoating, coddling, or millionaire fantasy talk here. Instead of vague motivation or complicated investing theory, you get a clear plan: Track your money, face the truth, fix the leaks, kill the debt, and build real savings. You’ll learn how to: <ul><li>Stop spending money you don’t have</li><li>Build a budget you’ll actually follow</li><li>Destroy high-interest debt</li><li>Stack a real emergency fund</li><li>Start investing in your future</li></ul> You don’t need a miracle, and you certainly don't need to "manifest abundance." You need the audit. So let’s get to work.

A blunt, accountability-driven road map for anyone ready to stop being broke and start building real financial stability, from Financial Audit host and personal finance guru Caleb Hammer You don’t have a money problem; you have a discipline problem. You've been swiping, hoping, and avoiding your bank app like it’s going to personally insult you. In Financial Audit, Caleb Hammer brings the same raw, no-excuses energy of his wildly popular YouTube show straight to you. Now anyone can get the audit they need—privately, and step-by-step. There's no sugarcoating, coddling, or millionaire fantasy talk here. Instead of vague motivation or complicated investing theory, you get a clear plan: Track your money, face the truth, fix the leaks, kill the debt, and build real savings. You’ll learn how to: <ul><li>Stop spending money you don’t have</li><li>Build a budget you’ll actually follow</li><li>Destroy high-interest debt</li><li>Stack a real emergency fund</li><li>Start investing in your future</li></ul> You don’t need a miracle, and you certainly don't need to "manifest abundance." You need the audit. So let’s get to work.

The No-Excuses Guide to Getting Out of Debt and Finally Taking Control of Your Money

Financial Audit

A practical, clever, down-to-earth guide to making decisions big or small, fast—from writer, journalist, and nationally acclaimed decision coach Nell McShane Wulfhart. We are drowning in choices—from major life decisions like whether to move, marry, or change careers, to relentless daily dilemmas about what to wear, eat, say, or do. In a world that glorifies optimization and “smart” choices, we’ve wound up paralyzed, deferring, deliberating, and overthinking to the point of exhaustion.&nbsp; Decision-making has become a source of stress instead of empowerment. Nell McShane Wulfhart is here to change that. In Decide in an Hour, she tackles the epidemic of indecision head-on and offers readers a lifeline: the tools to make better choices quickly, without feeling guilty, spiraling, or second-guessing. In this book, Wulfhart teaches us how to: <ul><li>identify the decision we’re actually making (a shockingly common obstacle)</li><li>eliminate noise and make the call—fast</li><li>follow through with confidence, even when others disagree</li><li>make the most common major life choices (career, relationships, kids, where to live) through the use of a decision-making field guide</li></ul> Equal parts wise, warm, and no-nonsense, Decide in an Hour offers clarity and momentum for how to start making smart, confident decisions today.

A practical, clever, down-to-earth guide to making decisions big or small, fast—from writer, journalist, and nationally acclaimed decision coach Nell McShane Wulfhart. We are drowning in choices—from major life decisions like whether to move, marry, or change careers, to relentless daily dilemmas about what to wear, eat, say, or do. In a world that glorifies optimization and “smart” choices, we’ve wound up paralyzed, deferring, deliberating, and overthinking to the point of exhaustion.&nbsp; Decision-making has become a source of stress instead of empowerment. Nell McShane Wulfhart is here to change that. In Decide in an Hour, she tackles the epidemic of indecision head-on and offers readers a lifeline: the tools to make better choices quickly, without feeling guilty, spiraling, or second-guessing. In this book, Wulfhart teaches us how to: <ul><li>identify the decision we’re actually making (a shockingly common obstacle)</li><li>eliminate noise and make the call—fast</li><li>follow through with confidence, even when others disagree</li><li>make the most common major life choices (career, relationships, kids, where to live) through the use of a decision-making field guide</li></ul> Equal parts wise, warm, and no-nonsense, Decide in an Hour offers clarity and momentum for how to start making smart, confident decisions today.

The Handbook for Making Better Decisions Faster

Decide in an Hour

'Michael Auerbach has one of the most original minds I've ever encountered . . . This is a dazzling and entertaining book . . . But it is also an urgent warning' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of Empire of Pain A brilliant exploration of the phenomenon of prediction markets that asks: what happens when democracy becomes another commodity? Prediction markets are sweeping the world, fundamentally changing the nature of gambling - and the very ways in which we attempt to divine the future. Posed as binary 'Yes/No' questions about future events, prediction markets allow any difference of opinion - whether on pop culture or politics, wars or assassinations - to be financialised. A regulatory minefield with moral implications that divide nations, governments and bettors, they have proved as effective at accurately predicting the timing of missile strikes as they have at calling the outcomes of elections.But are these markets really a new phenomenon? And what does it mean when those tasked with safeguarding democracy hold financial stakes in its volatility?From Renaissance Rome, where merchants wagered on papal conclaves, through nineteenth-century London's wartime coffee house gossip, to the Pentagon's ill-fated terrorism futures exchange and blockchain-based betting on Polymarket today, The Big Bet tells the gripping five-hundred-year story of a permissive regime that no one designed and no one voted for.Drawing on deep expertise, Michael Auerbach examines how these markets are changing our world, and what they mean for the future where democracy becomes just another commodity to be priced and traded. Because prediction markets are not an anomaly - they are the logical endpoint of a society that has applied market capitalism to every aspect of life. And in a world where everything is a wager and nothing is off limits, knowing where the chips will fall matters more than ever.

Prediction Markets and the Future of Democracy

The Big Bet

A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. The renowned co-author of The Spirit Level shows us the way.'An uplifting vision for solving inequality that benefits everyone' ANDY BURNHAM'Poverty and inequality are at the heart of all our problems. Kate Pickett's book shows how tackling them must be at the heart of our solutions too' ZACK POLANSKI'Just what these times are crying out for' KATE RAWORTHHow do we ensure that everyone has good health and receives the care they need? How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish? How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all?In this inspiring book, world-leading social scientist Kate Pickett shows that to make a good society - in which everyone has what they need to be well, and everyone would be better off - we must prioritise the health, care, education and rehabilitation of those who have the least and suffer the most. Drawing on decades of evidence and pioneering success stories from across the globe, The Good Society cuts to the essence of the challenges we face and presents us with a practical, galvanising, perspective-shifting vision for how to tackle them.'Genuinely transformative. A powerful and deeply humane vision that focuses on what really matters' DANIEL CHANDLER'Daringly optimistic' FINANCIAL TIMES'Electrifying' POLLY MORLAND'Vital ... shines a light for hope' INDEPENDENT

And How We Make It

The Good Society

Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism

“While American conservatives and classical liberals have long been preoccupied with defending the American political system against those who wanted to transform it, their defense rested on a deep misunderstanding. The tragedy occurred when “defenders of the Constitution” entered into alliances with groups that rejected the constitution's principles, leading to the anti-democratic takeover of the Republican Party. Gus diZerega’s book is an indispensable guide to the historical origins of political polarization in the United States.”
 
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 David Emanuel Andersson
 , National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
 &nbsp;This short, concise book offers a theoretically grounded reinterpretation of American political development, integrating political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. Drawing on James Madison and the Scottish Enlightenment, and informed by Austrian economic thought, it argues that the U.S. Constitution is best understood as a spontaneous order: an emergent framework coordinating diverse actors through procedural rules, overlapping majorities, and checks and balances rather than fixed policy outcomes.Set against this perspective, the book examines how European-derived frameworks – particularly classical liberal interpretations associated with Lord Acton – misread the American system and influenced modern conservatism. It distinguishes between constitutional conservatism rooted in rule of law and a Southern conservatism grounded in hierarchy, tracing their convergence through late twentieth-century political realignment. In extending Hayekian analysis to democratic institutions, the book contributes to debates in political economy, American political development, and complex adaptive systems.&nbsp;Gus diZerega
 is an independent scholar of political theory whose work focuses on democracy, spontaneous order, and complex adaptive systems. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Persuasion, Power, and Polity, an early application of Hayekian theory to democratic systems. A founder and editorial board member of Cosmos + Taxis, his research spans political theory, environmental politics, institutional analysis, and metaphysics.

This short, concise book offers a theoretically grounded reinterpretation of American political development, integrating political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. Drawing on James Madison and the Scottish Enlightenment, and informed by Austrian economic thought, it argues that the U.S. Constitution is best understood as a spontaneous order: an emergent framework coordinating diverse actors through procedural rules, overlapping majorities, and checks and balances rather than fixed policy outcomes.Set against this perspective, the book examines how European-derived frameworks – particularly classical liberal interpretations associated with Lord Acton – misread the American system and influenced modern conservatism. It distinguishes between constitutional conservatism rooted in rule of law and a Southern conservatism grounded in hierarchy, tracing their convergence through late twentieth-century political realignment. In extending Hayekian analysis to democratic institutions, the book contributes to debates in political economy, American political development, and complex adaptive systems.

The Tragedy of American Conservatism and Classical Liberalism

Democracy as a Spontaneous Order

Written by a successful entrepreneur who has guided hundreds of clients to six- and seven-figure breakthroughs,&nbsp;this book offers&nbsp;a grounded, spiritually aligned path to prosperity—so your&nbsp;income, your values, and your purpose finally&nbsp;match. Heal Your Money Karma is for yogis, seekers, and spiritually curious entrepreneurs who consult their astrological chart, know their dosha, or pull oracle cards for guidance—yet still feel stuck when it comes to money. Vedic astrologer and business coach Paula Crossfield reveals how inherited beliefs, ancestral patterns, and karmic imprints quietly shape your income, your career choices, and your sense of worth.&nbsp; Drawing on Indian philosophy and the psychology of money, Paula shows you how to bring your financial life into alignment with your values—without sacrificing prosperity. Weave ancient remedies like honoring Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, and work with planetary influences, with concrete tools like budgeting, tracking, and mindset work.&nbsp; You’ll learn how to:&nbsp; <ul><li>Spot the karmic patterns and ancestral stories that keep repeating in your finances&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Use simple Vedic remedies (mantra, puja, charity, and timing) to shift stuck money karma&nbsp; </li><li>Work consciously with planetary influences on wealth and opportunity&nbsp;&nbsp; </li><li>Clarify your soul-level desires so you stop undercharging, overgiving, or playing small&nbsp; </li><li>Build practical systems—budgets, tracking, and structures—that feel supportive&nbsp; </li><li>Rewrite limiting money beliefs so your income reflects your gifts, not your fears&nbsp; </li></ul> Get ready to transform your relationship with money into one that is clear, empowered, and spiritually grounded—so your prosperity finally reflects the truth of who you are.​

Written by a successful entrepreneur who has guided hundreds of clients to six- and seven-figure breakthroughs,&nbsp;this book offers&nbsp;a grounded, spiritually aligned path to prosperity—so your&nbsp;income, your values, and your purpose finally&nbsp;match. Heal Your Money Karma is for yogis, seekers, and spiritually curious entrepreneurs who consult their astrological chart, know their dosha, or pull oracle cards for guidance—yet still feel stuck when it comes to money. Vedic astrologer and business coach Paula Crossfield reveals how inherited beliefs, ancestral patterns, and karmic imprints quietly shape your income, your career choices, and your sense of worth.&nbsp; Drawing on Indian philosophy and the psychology of money, Paula shows you how to bring your financial life into alignment with your values—without sacrificing prosperity. Weave ancient remedies like honoring Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, and work with planetary influences, with concrete tools like budgeting, tracking, and mindset work.&nbsp; You’ll learn how to:&nbsp; <ul><li>Spot the karmic patterns and ancestral stories that keep repeating in your finances&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Use simple Vedic remedies (mantra, puja, charity, and timing) to shift stuck money karma&nbsp; </li><li>Work consciously with planetary influences on wealth and opportunity&nbsp;&nbsp; </li><li>Clarify your soul-level desires so you stop undercharging, overgiving, or playing small&nbsp; </li><li>Build practical systems—budgets, tracking, and structures—that feel supportive&nbsp; </li><li>Rewrite limiting money beliefs so your income reflects your gifts, not your fears&nbsp; </li></ul> Get ready to transform your relationship with money into one that is clear, empowered, and spiritually grounded—so your prosperity finally reflects the truth of who you are.​

Making Peace with Money and Honoring Your Soul's Purpose

Heal Your Money Karma

The pocket MBA for entrepreneurial moms and women of color&nbsp;who want to build a business from scratch, overcome financial obstacles, and shift the trajectory of their life, from a globally recognized entrepreneur, business coach, and digital educator. While starting a new business is hard for everyone—half close their doors within the first five years—it’s even harder for female entrepreneurs. Ellie Diop, founder and CEO of Ellievated Academy, Fully Funded Co., and Mommy to Millionaire, intimately knows the barriers that historically have kept women from economic freedom. She also knows how to overcome them.&nbsp; From starting her business with a single $1,200 stimulus check in 2020, to becoming a self-made millionaire in her very first year, Ellie has mastered the art of life changing entrepreneurial success—and now, with Girl, Start that Business!, she’s ready to share those secrets.&nbsp; The strategies within these pages are battle tested: Ellie has turned thousands of her clients into profitable business owners. And she’s done so by meeting them where they are. Ellie knows many women are starting from zero—no money, no business plan, no customers. What they do have is a great idea, hustle, heart, and street savvy. This non-judgmental, sassy, and whip-smart pocket MBA is what female entrepreneurs need to turn their dreams into life-changing reality.&nbsp; Let’s go, girl, start that business today!

The pocket MBA for entrepreneurial moms and women of color&nbsp;who want to build a business from scratch, overcome financial obstacles, and shift the trajectory of their life, from a globally recognized entrepreneur, business coach, and digital educator. While starting a new business is hard for everyone—half close their doors within the first five years—it’s even harder for female entrepreneurs. Ellie Diop, founder and CEO of Ellievated Academy, Fully Funded Co., and Mommy to Millionaire, intimately knows the barriers that historically have kept women from economic freedom. She also knows how to overcome them.&nbsp; From starting her business with a single $1,200 stimulus check in 2020, to becoming a self-made millionaire in her very first year, Ellie has mastered the art of life changing entrepreneurial success—and now, with Girl, Start that Business!, she’s ready to share those secrets.&nbsp; The strategies within these pages are battle tested: Ellie has turned thousands of her clients into profitable business owners. And she’s done so by meeting them where they are. Ellie knows many women are starting from zero—no money, no business plan, no customers. What they do have is a great idea, hustle, heart, and street savvy. This non-judgmental, sassy, and whip-smart pocket MBA is what female entrepreneurs need to turn their dreams into life-changing reality.&nbsp; Let’s go, girl, start that business today!

The Foolproof Plan to Turn Your Idea into Income and Change Your Life

Girl, Start That Business!

A collection of eye-opening natural experiments, showing how economists uncover cause-and-effect relationships and reveal insights about our world. Does having a daughter change how a congressperson votes? How did a nineteenth-century doctor help discover germs? Is it better to go first or second in a penalty shootout? Why don’t diplomats pay their parking tickets? Do leaders really matter? These are all questions economists ask. Some of these questions are serious, others less consequential. But all are interesting—and can be answered by way of the natural experiment. A natural experiment is an event in the real world that neatly divides people into a treatment and control group—and it is one of the greatest tools in the economist’s toolkit. In Daughters, Diplomats, and Death, Patrick Gourley discusses why and how economists have leveraged this powerful method to answer questions that were long thought unanswerable. In the vein of Freakonomics, Nudge, and The Tipping Point, the book takes the reader on a lively and engaging tour of some of the most fascinating natural experiments, explaining how they work, how they help social scientists answer questions, and what conclusions they reached. The experiments illuminate a wide range of timely issues in health, education, reproductive issues, and the environment, lending rich and much-needed nuance to the complex debates that shape today’s headlines.

A collection of eye-opening natural experiments, showing how economists uncover cause-and-effect relationships and reveal insights about our world. Does having a daughter change how a congressperson votes? How did a nineteenth-century doctor help discover germs? Is it better to go first or second in a penalty shootout? Why don’t diplomats pay their parking tickets? Do leaders really matter? These are all questions economists ask. Some of these questions are serious, others less consequential. But all are interesting—and can be answered by way of the natural experiment. A natural experiment is an event in the real world that neatly divides people into a treatment and control group—and it is one of the greatest tools in the economist’s toolkit. In Daughters, Diplomats, and Death, Patrick Gourley discusses why and how economists have leveraged this powerful method to answer questions that were long thought unanswerable. In the vein of Freakonomics, Nudge, and The Tipping Point, the book takes the reader on a lively and engaging tour of some of the most fascinating natural experiments, explaining how they work, how they help social scientists answer questions, and what conclusions they reached. The experiments illuminate a wide range of timely issues in health, education, reproductive issues, and the environment, lending rich and much-needed nuance to the complex debates that shape today’s headlines.

How Economists Use Natural Experiments to Decipher Our World

Daughters, Diplomats, and Death

The Wealth of Nations

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