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A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty 9780674295469
RRP: $31.10$24.24A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it,... -
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity by Sandrine Dixson-Decl ve
RRP: $35.08$26.91The economic operating system keeps crashing. It's time to upgrade to a new one. Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes... -
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: $21.43$15.1510TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE'Superb ... At a time when government action of any kind is ideologically suspect, and entrepreneurship is unquestioningly lionized, the book's importance cannot be understated' GuardianAccording to... -
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
RRP: $37.03$28.84A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthWhat is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth? Katharina Pistor explains how, behind closed doors in the offices of... -
Cameron at 10: The Verdict by Anthony Seldon
RRP: $33.13$23.15The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson. Spanning the early... -
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: $21.43$15.15WINNER OF THE 2019 MADAME DE STAEL PRIZE AND THE 2018 LEONTIEF PRIZE FOR ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of... -
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
RRP: $25.33$16.54THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly... -
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance by Jamie Martin
RRP: $68.15$54.70"The Meddlers is an eye-opening, essential new history that places our international financial institutions in the transition from a world defined by empire to one of nation states enmeshed in the world economy."-Adam Tooze, Columbia UniversityAn... -
Global Problems, Smart Solutions: Costs and Benefits by Bjorn Lomborg
RRP: $56.53$50.74Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises... -
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze 9780141995441
RRP: $25.33$17.73FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve... The world is unlikely to be treated to a better account of the economics of the pandemic' The Times... -
The Transformation of British Welfare Policy: Politics, Discourse, and Public Opinion by Tom O'Grady 9780192898890
RRP: $157.95$143.44Since 2010 the UK has enacted radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty, homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European countries experiencing similar economic and social trends, who have not enacted such... -
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? by David G. Blanchflower 9780691181240
RRP: $48.75$38.18A candid assessment of why the job market is not as healthy as we thinkDon't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine-it isn't. Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage-the... -
Economics for the Many by John McDonnell
RRP: $19.48$12.95Economics for the Many, edited and with an introduction by Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, features contributions from the participants in his New Economics conferences, including Barry Gardiner, Ann Pettifor, Prem Sikka, and Guy... -
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers
RRP: $39.00$26.01Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our... -
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
RRP: $37.03$27.32Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist... -
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back by David Willetts
RRP: $21.43$14.27In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth and power at the expense of its children. Today's young people will pay heavier taxes, work longer hours for less money and... -
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise by Richard N. Langlois
RRP: $81.90$63.24A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism,... -
The Political Economy of International Relations by Robert Gilpin
RRP: $101.40$78.57After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these... -
Prosperity and Justice: A Plan for the New Economy by IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) 9781509534999
RRP: $25.33$23.28The Final Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice The UK economy is broken. It no longer provides rising living standards for the majority. Young people face an increasingly insecure future. The gap between rich and poor areas is widening... -
Blowback by Professor Chalmers Johnson 9780751530803
$22.27This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be a payback... -
Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
RRP: $38.98$26.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539678Author Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
From Greed to Wellbeing: A Buddhist Approach to Resolving Our Economic and Financial Crises by Joel Magnuson 9781447318941
RRP: $31.18$25.06Despite our fitful attempts over decades at reform, the global financial system seems caught in cycles of boom and bust, instability, and scandal. In this timely new book, Joel Magnuson builds on the classic works of E. F. Schumacher and other kindred... -
The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization by Jostein Hauge 9780198861584
RRP: $68.25$58.70For centuries, industrialization and factory-based production have been core ingredients in economic growth, development, and innovation. This symbiotic relationship between industrialization and economic prosperity is now changing. 'Megatrends' - trends... -
The New Economics: A Manifesto by Steve Keen 9781509545292
RRP: $25.33$24.67In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church's internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later,... -
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
RRP: $33.13$28.68Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
RRP: $40.85$32.49A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year... -
The Black Boom by Jason L Riley
RRP: $27.28$19.56Economic inequality continues to be one of America's most hotly debated topics. Still, there has been relatively little discussion of the fact that black-white gaps in joblessness, income, poverty and other measures were shrinking before the pandemic... -
Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice by Ruth Dukes 9781509548996
RRP: $31.18$28.10In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should... -
Requiem For The American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Weath and Power by Kelly Nyks
RRP: $33.13$22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807368Author Kelly NyksFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case 9780691217079
RRP: $29.23$21.63A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom... -
The Case for Community Wealth Building by Joe Guinan 9781509539031
RRP: $19.48$17.45Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? Joe Guinan and Martin O'Neill argue for an approach that uses the power of... -
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth by Jonathan D. Ostry 9780231174695
RRP: $54.60$41.65Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve... -
Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being by Joseph E. Stiglitz
RRP: $25.33$16.83In 2009, a group of economists issued a report challenging gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of progress and well-being. Now, in Measuring What Counts they - propose a new, 'beyond GDP' agenda. This book provides an accessible overview of the... -
Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled the White House and Saved the Economy by Nick Timiraos
RRP: $48.75$32.72By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into... -
Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England by Sebastian Payne 9781529067392
RRP: $19.48$13.40Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour's red wall from Sebastian Payne - an award-winning journalist and Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times.The Times Political... -
The Fed Unbound: The Trouble with Government by Central Bank by Lev Menand
RRP: $23.38$15.60Do the Fed's efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality? The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking... -
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
RRP: $19.48$12.95Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. But we cannot replace it without a positive vision, one that reengages people in politics and... -
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton 9780861540280
RRP: $21.43$13.88'Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' The Times 'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' Guardian The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image. Its decades-long infiltration of the... -
The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy by Christopher K Andrews 9781498543804
RRP: $68.25$63.69The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans' feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on... -
Money in One Lesson: And Why it Doesn't Work the Way We Think it Does by Gavin Jackson
RRP: $21.43$14.64'Superb' - Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up Money is essential to the economy and how we live our lives, yet is inherently worthless. We can use it to build a home or send us to space, and it can lead to the rise and fall of empires...