Commerce


Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Accountancy Class- XI
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
The 4-Hour Workweek
Outliers: The Story of Success
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Cambridge O Level Commerce Coursebook (Cambridge International Examinations)
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
The Alchemist's Daughter by Mary LawrenceThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareMurder is Binding by Lorna BarrettQuentins by Maeve Binchy
Shopkeeper, Innkeeper, Merchant
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The Long Tail by Chris AndersonNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyRace Against The Machine by Erik BrynjolfssonThe Rise of the Naked Economy by Ryan CoonertyRemix by Lawrence Lessig
Digital Economy
23 books — 21 voters

Betty  Smith
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. ...more
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

For the sake of wealth there're 7 types of commerce: perfume trade, moneylending, cow related trade & activities, serving known customers (because he wouldn't use foul language), false pricing of products (buying at less & selling at higher prices), underweighing, importing. Of all saleable products, perfume trade is the best, which is incomparable to gold etc; and which can be sold for 100 times its cost ...more
Vishnu Sharma, Panchatantra

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