Welcome to Basic Venture

We publish experts at the heart of the national and global conversation in business and economics—our authors are the go-to authorities in their field, sought after by media and organizations looking to change the way they do business.

Basic Venture builds on the foundation of PublicAffairs’ two decades of business and economics publishing excellence and the 75-year legacy of Basic Books. Books on the Basic Venture list cover topics including management, leadership, prescriptive business, and economics.

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The Dark Pattern

From the creators of the theory of ethical blindness comes an investigation into how corporate scandals happen, revealing the common pattern behind them and how your organization can avoid them

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