Set Yourself Free: A Kiwi Guide to Financial Success by Lindsay Hay

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ - Reference

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman

$45.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law

We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world's wealth hidden in tax havens in countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands this wealth cannot be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world's assets are currently hidden until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world's money held in tax havens. And it's staggering. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. His research reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax havens has increased over 25% there has never been as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth accounts for at least $7.6 trillion, equivalent to 8% of the global financial assets of households. Fighting the notion that any attempts to vanquish tax havens are futile, since some countries will always offer more advantageous tax rates than others, as well the counter-argument that since the financial crisis tax havens have disappeared, Zucman shows how both sides are actually very wrong. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations he offers an ambitious agenda for reform, focused on ways in which countries can change the incentives of tax havens. Only by first understanding the enormity of the secret wealth can we begin to estimate the kind of actions that would force tax havens to give up their practices. Zucman's work has quickly become the gold standard for quantifying the amount of the world's assets held in havens. In this concise book, he lays out in approachable language how the international banking system works and the dangerous extent to which the large-scale evasion of taxes is undermining the global market as a whole. If we are to find a way to solve the problem of increasing inequality, The Hidden Wealth of Nations is essential reading. ...Show more

Rich Enough? A Laid-Back Guide for Every Kiwi by Mary Holm

$37.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law | Reading Level: very good

Read this one book, set up your money, and get on with your life! Find out what many in the financial world don't want you to know. Laid-back investing is not only easier, it can actually make you richer. Learn how to kill off debt, curb spending, find your best KiwiSaver fund, save painlessly, buy a ho use or be happy not buying one, and move confidently towards and through retirement (hint: you don't need $1 million). You'll also learn why it's best to 'set and forget' your investments. And why, beyond a certain point, having more money is not the key to happiness. Unlike many writers of finance books, Mary is not selling anything (except this book!). She just wants you to do well. She's on your side. ...Show more

Take Your Space: Successful Women Share Their Secrets by Rachel Petero and Jo Cribb

$34.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law

Take Your Space: the 2020 How-to book for all women, by Jo Cribb and Rachel Petero. Take your pick of how-to from real life experiences, there is something for everyone. Topics include: How to negotiate; finding your worth and your tribe; taking your physical space; owning your confidence; practising sa ying no; standing up to discrimination; know your rights; self-care and making space for other women along the way. Women still trail behind in the world of commerce and it is time this changed. Fourteen successful women were asked to share what they have learned as a helping hand to others. In Take Your Space we read of their failures and success, the lessons learned and the check list of action to take to be the best you can be. ...Show more

Rottenomics: The Story of New Zealand's Leaky Buildings Disaster by Peter Dyer

$40.00 NZD

Category: NZ - Current Affairs

For over 25 years our building industry, economy and Government have failed to provide this basic guarantee: new buildings will not rot. Leaky buildings are the result of an unfortunate confluence of industrial, legislative, historical and cultural factors. Collectively, these elements stubbornly contin ue to defy a full and final resolution. Featuring personal stories of homeowners faced with insurmountable repair costs of hundreds of thousands to their 'dream home', often leading to sickness, depression and financial loss. And revealed for the first time, withheld Government reports that estimate the total cost of leaky dwellings at $47 Billion. Rottenomics is an engaging expose into a national crisis that refuses to go away. ...Show more

How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace by Robert Glazer

$25.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law

The business world was already gravitating toward virtual workplaces, even before COVID-19 created the largest remote work experiment in history. Suddenly organizations as big as Twitter were learning their employees didn’t need an office in order to get great results. This is something Robert Glazer h as known for over a decade. In the highly actionable <i>How to Make Virtual Teams Work</i>, Glazer taps into his experience managing a virtual office – and winning twenty "best places to work" awards – while providing leaders with a step-by-step playbook on how to intentionally build a remote workforce and culture by developing core values that provide guidance in hiring talent who works well remotely, creating comprehensive onboarding plans, using technology to communicate and connect with remote employees, and more. This goes way beyond a typical HR strategy book. By employing these specific strategies, leaders can build a remote environment that thrives and make it one of their key competitive advantages. The remote work revolution is here – the leaders who will build the future are the ones who can lead top performing virtual teams. Learn how to build a world-class organization – office no longer required. ...Show more

The Path: Accelerating Your Journey to Financial Freedom by Peter Mallouk; Tony Robbins (As told to)

$33.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law

Accelerate your journey to financial freedom with the tools, strategies, and mindset of money mastery. Regardless of your stage of life and your current financial picture, the quest for financial freedom can indeed be conquered. The journey will demand the right tools and strategies along with the mind set of money mastery. With decades of collective wisdom and hands-on experience, your guides for this expedition are Peter Mallouk, the only man in history to be ranked the #1 Financial Advisor in the U.S. for three consecutive years by Barron's (2013, 2014, 2015), and Tony Robbins, the world-renowned life and business strategist. Mallouk and Robbins take the seemingly daunting goal of financial freedom and simplify it into a step-by-step process that anyone can achieve. The pages of this book are filled with real-life success stories and vital lessons, such as... * Why the future is better than you think and why there is no greater time in history to be an investor * How to chart your personally tailored course for financial security * How markets behave and how to achieve peace of mind during volatility * What the financial services industry doesn't want you to know * How to select a financial advisor that puts your interests first * How to navigate, select, or reject the many types of investments available * Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure! Financial freedom is not only about money--it's about feeling deeply fulfilled in your own personal journey "Want an eye-opening guide to money management--one that tells it like it is and will make you laugh along the way? Peter Mallouk's tour of the financial world is a tour de force that'll change the way you think about money." --Jonathan Clements, Former Columnist for The Wall Street Journal and current board member and Director of Financial Education at Creative Planning "Robbins is the best economic moderator that I've ever worked with. His mission to bring insights from the world's greatest financial minds to the average investor is truly inspiring." --Alan Greenspan, Former Federal Reserve Chairman "Tony is a force of nature." --Jack Bogle, Founder of Vanguard ...Show more

The Classical School - The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives by Callum Williams

$37.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law

A fresh and irreverent look at the founders of economics, showing how they lived and what they thought, why they thought it, and why they still matter.

Mission Economy - A Moonshot Approach to the Economy by Mariana Mazzucato

$40.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for the same level of boldness and experimentation to be applied to the biggest problems of our time. We must, she argues, rethink the capacities and role of government within the economy and society, and above all recover a sense of public purpose. Mission Economy, whose ideas are already being adopted around the world, offers a way out of our impasse to a more optimistic future. ...Show more

Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford

$28.00 NZD

Category: History

Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service A Financial Times and Bloomberg Business Week Book of the Year Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How di d the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down? The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? From the tally-stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, readers will start to understand where we are, how we got here, and where we might be going next. Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate. ...Show more

Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis

$37.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law

What would a fair and equal society look like? Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-Capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European cultur e from Plato to Marx to offer us a dramatic and tantalising glimpse of this brave new world, where the principles of democracy, equality and justice are truly served. But in setting out what would be needed to forge such a society, he identifies a painful but important truth- that the greatest obstacles to making such a vision a reality lie within each of us. This book offers answers to some of the most pressing questions of today. It also challenges us to consider how we might answer them in our lives. It is a book to return to, time and again, for ideas and provocation, for solace and inspiration.     ...Show more

The Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand by Kathleen Kuehn

$15.00 NZD

Category: Business and Law | Series: BWB Texts Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good

Only sustained public pressure can prevent the complicit submission and cultural amnesia that seems to follow every new revelation about surveillance in everyday life. Recent revelations about the nature and extent of global surveillance programmes have shocked many. But what are their implications in t he long-term - and for New Zealand? Mapping New Zealand's role in international intelligence gathering from World War Two to the present day, Kathleen Kuehn asks probing questions about the behaviour of both the state and corporations in our current 'surveillance society'. Ultimately these questions force us to confront the way we value our individual privacy and civil liberties, for - as we often hear - why should any of this matter if we have nothing to hide? ...Show more