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Books like The affluent society

Loved The affluent society by John Kenneth Galbraith? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from business & economics, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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    Moneyball

    Michael Lewis · 2003 · Business & Economics

    How a cash-strapped baseball team used data to beat richer rivals; a gripping story about questioning everything.

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    The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries · 2011 · Business & Economics

    Build, measure, learn: the method that reshaped how new ventures are run; essential for founders.

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    The Practice of Management

    Peter F. Drucker · 1954 · Business & Economics

    "This classic volume achieves a remarkable width of appeal without sacrificing scientific accuracy or depth of analysis. It is a valuable contribution to the study of business efficiency which should

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    Imperialism [and] Social classes; two essays

    Joseph Alois Schumpeter · 1951 · Business & Economics

    Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empi

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    Effective Executive

    Peter F. Drucker · 1967 · Business & Economics

    The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unprodu

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    The Intelligent Investor

    Benjamin Graham · 1949 · Business & Economics

    This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people

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    Management information systems

    Kenneth C. Laudon · 1945 · Business & Economics

    Laudon’s essential case-based text for the study of IS in business today. Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm provides the most comprehensive overview of information systems, whi

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    The horse's mouth

    Joyce Cary · 1944 · Business & Economics

    Painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drun

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    International business

    John D. Daniels · 1976 · Business & Economics

    Resource added for the Global Business program 101381.

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    Collins Robert French English Dictionary

    Beryl T. Atkins · 1978 · Business & Economics

    "The richest resource for lovers of the French language everywhere. Key features: it's comprehensive and authoritative, with all the words and phrases you need, including specialist vocabulary from ev

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