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A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China by Dale C. Copeland 9780691172552
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.76An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace. Yet today the United States finds itself... -
Winner-take-all Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S Hacker 9781416588702
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416588702Author Jacob S HackerPage Count 357Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Finance Curse: How global finance is making us all poorer by Nicholas Shaxson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31This is a book that none of us can afford to ignore - an agenda-setting, campaigning investigation that shows how global finance works for the few and not the many.** A Financial Times Book of the Year **'Essential reading' YANIS VAROUFAKISWe need... -
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped Garry Kasparov 9781782397892
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81For readers of Putin's People by Catherine Belton comes the stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship led by Vladimir Putin - and how the world is now paying the price. 'Brave, trenchant and convincing' Sunday Times'Ferocious and... -
Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar by Jill Crystal 9780521466356
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.94This book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a remarkable political continuity. Professor Crystal investigates this apparent anomaly by examining the impact of oil on the formation and... -
Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction Brian D. Taylor 9780197516027
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.68Russia is rarely out of the news. This has been particularly true since it launched the largest war in Europe since World War II when it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Yet Russian politics can be difficult to understand. It is powerfully shaped by large,... -
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be by Diane Coyle
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.89How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure,... -
Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History by Domenico Losurdo 9781349706624
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.37Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within Marx and Engels' thought. As Losurdo argues, class struggle is often misunderstood as exclusively the struggle of the poor against the rich, of the humble... -
The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a... -
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian... -
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang 9780241534649
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.29RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland... -
The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism by Tim Rogan 9780691173009
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £34.00A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lens What's wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted... -
Capital: Volume I by Karl Marx
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.92'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, GuardianOne of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it... -
Democracy in Chains: the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America by Nancy MacLean
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74An explosive expose of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy - and succeeded. Libertarian billionaires are using their wealth and power to drastically curtail the US democratic process, disempowering ordinary citizens whilst entrenching... -
Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? by Walter E. Williams 9780817912451
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.10Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of... -
Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis by David M. Kotz 9780521442503
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £59.69The social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach seeks to explain the long-term fortunes of capitalist economies in terms of the effect of political and economic institutions on growth rates. This book offers an ideal introduction to this powerful... -
Understanding the Private-Public Divide: Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons by Avner Offer
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.99Markets are taken as the norm in economics and in much of political and media discourse. But if markets are superior why does the public sector remain so large? Avner Offer provides a distinctive new account of the effective temporal limits on private,... -
The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Charles S. Maier 9780674290143
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £29.97A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear:... -
Property: The myth that built the world by Rowan Moore 9780571350094
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.10A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent... -
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.99In response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks worldwide have deployed tools that past policymakers and economists might have considered radical. Programmes like large-scale securities purchases... -
The Political Economy of Dictatorship by Ronald Wintrobe
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.92Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice... -
The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World by Ian Bremmer 9781982167516
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.21New York Times BestsellerRenowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years-including the pandemic-to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory,... -
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich, A. Hayek
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.20This is a condensed edition of 'The Road to Serfdom' republished in this edition with 'The Intellectuals and Socialism' (originally published in 1949). In 'The Road to Serfdom' F. A. Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the... -
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck
Booksplease Price: £21.01After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst... -
Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.08Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long 9781399803434
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.53AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world's leading economists, a... -
Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Laleh Khalili
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.44On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities-iron ore, coal, oil-arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in all directions. The oil that fuels... -
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased... -
The Economics of an Aging Society by Robert L. Clark 9780631226161
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £41.95Written by leading thinkers in the field, this text provides an in-depth analysis of the economic and policy issues associated with individual and population aging. The text has a strong policy focus based on demographic and economic analysis, making... -
The New Age of Catastrophe by A Callinicos
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.55The world is entering a new age of catastrophe. The exceptional is becoming normal. The last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust. Now humankind faces fresh existential threats - the... -
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 9781905641260
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.06"The Wealth of Nations" is a treasured classic of political economy. First published in March of 1776, Adam Smith wrote the book to influence a special audience - the British Parliament - and its arguments in the early spring of that year pressed for... -
The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration by Martin Ruhs
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.59Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for... -
You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back by Carol Roth
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £17.19The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing-and yet you are somehow happy. When Carol Roth first heard that... -
Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital by Søren Mau
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital's paradoxical expansion and entrenchment amidst crisis and unrest, Mute Compulsionoffers a... -
Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676400Author Kohei SaitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408536Author Wendy BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek
Booksplease Price: £21.23"The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It's the public itself. it's us." In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy - rail,... -
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader by Kevin Anderson 9781583671030
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.21Among the major Marxist thinkers of the period of the Russian Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one who speaks to our own time. Her legacy grows in relevance as the global character of the capitalist market becomes more apparent and the critique... -
Cloudmoney: Why the War on Cash Endangers Our Freedom by Brett Scott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.45Who really benefits from a cashless society?Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests: the... -
Fiat: The Secrets of an Epoch by Giorgio Garuzzo 9783319047829
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £37.89This book is an authentic historical document, supported by extensive analytical information, in which former Fiat top manager Giorgio Garuzzo passionately recounts his experience within Fiat between 1976 and 1996. It is a narrative from the inside that...