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Economic Statecraft: New Edition by Ethan B. Kapstein 9780691204437
RRP: £100.00£77.01A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policyToday's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military ones. David Baldwin's Economic Statecraft presents an... -
Augmented Exploitation: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work by Phoebe Moore
RRP: £22.99£15.17Artificial Intelligence is a seemingly neutral technology, but it is increasingly used to manage workforces and make decisions to hire and fire employees. Its proliferation in the workplace gives the impression of a fairer, more efficient system of... -
Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction by Ivan Ascher
RRP: £22.00£16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408741Author Ivan AscherFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
RRP: £75.00£65.90From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and... -
The Political Economy of Inequality by Frank Stilwell 9781509528653
RRP: £17.99£16.04During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age. In this book, leading political economist Frank... -
Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: £13.99£12.11What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power-it is not difficult to list capitalism's myriad injustices. But is... -
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz 9780393345063
RRP: £8.99£7.93The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation's wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is not inevitable. Rather, in recent years well-heeled... -
The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream, Second Edition by Jacob Hacker 9780190844141
RRP: £13.99£13.00[Please note this is placeholder text from the previous edition] America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health... -
Money Code Space: Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation by Jack Parkin
RRP: £25.49£22.37Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic... -
Morbid Symptoms: An Anatomy of a World in Crisis by Donald Sassoon
RRP: £20.00£13.34The deadly coronavirus spread across societies already riddled with political ills: rampant xenophobia and corruption, privatisation run amok, Brexiteer vainglory of 'a global Britain', a Euroland dominated by self-proclaimed nasty parties, and in... -
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back by Donald Cohen 9781620977972
RRP: £13.99£9.26NOW IN PAPERBACK The book the American Prospect calls "an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern," by America's leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian "An essential read for those who want to fight the... -
Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality by Vito Tanzi
RRP: £26.99£23.20In Termites of the State, renowned public economist Vito Tanzi presents a sweeping account of the industrialized world's economic development during the twentieth century to today. In the tradition of grand economic histories, Tanzi connects the biggest... -
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang 9780521898102
RRP: £30.99£25.86Presents a story of two Chinas - an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 1990s, urban China triumphed. In the 1990s, the Chinese state reversed many of its rural... -
Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela by Raul Gallegos 9781640122130
RRP: £18.99£16.36Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude-the world's largest reserves-an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its... -
Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong by Yukon Huang
RRP: £33.49£30.68China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China... -
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown by Philip Mirowski 9781781683026
RRP: £28.99£25.04At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that-post-apocalypse-we've awoken into a second nightmare more ghastly than... -
Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014 by L. Elliott 9780230392540
RRP: £24.99£22.37With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. This book examines how the leader of the industrial revolution came to exhibit the features of a 'developing country'; chronic debt, volatile growth and vulnerability to external... -
A Patriot's History of Globalism: Its Rise and Decline by Larry Schweikart 9781648210051
RRP: £20.00£12.86Larry Schweikart has won wide acclaim for his number one New York Times bestseller, A Patriot's History of the United States. Now, with A Patriot's History of Globalism, Schweikart shows that globalism, or the attempt to form a one-world government is... -
How to Democratize Europe by Stephanie Hennette
RRP: £31.95£24.67An all-star cast of scholars and politicians from Europe and America propose and debate the creation of a new European parliament with substantial budgetary and legislative power to solve the crisis of governance in the Eurozone and promote social and... -
Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy by Mark Pennington 9781849807654
RRP: £34.95£31.69This important book offers a comprehensive defence of classical liberalism against contemporary challenges. It sets out an analytical framework of 'robust political economy' that explores the economic and political problems that arise from the phenomena... -
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives by Jesse Eisinger 9781501121371
RRP: £19.99£13.44Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, "a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange... -
Beyond Technology: Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture by David Buckingham 9780745638812
RRP: £17.99£16.04Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers a... -
Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It by Robert B Reich
RRP: £9.99£7.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804372Author Robert B. ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The World After GDP: Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era by Lorenzo Fioramonti 9781509511358
RRP: £15.99£14.41GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the... -
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
£12.89A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very... -
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowrey 9781524758776
RRP: £19.00£9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781524758776Author Annie LowreyFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Asset Economy, Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality by L Adkins
RRP: £40.00£35.07Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion's share of wealth growth going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach. What exactly are the economic shifts that have driven the social... -
Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall
RRP: £44.99£40.49Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) - Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant textbook in economics for a long time and it is considered to be his seminal work.About the AuthorAlfred... -
Why Can't You Afford a Home? by Josh Ryan-Collins 9781509523252
RRP: £40.00£35.07Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh... -
Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect by David Goodhart 9781982128463
RRP: £17.99£10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982128463Author David GoodhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 25mm -
Economic Cold War: America's Embargo Against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963 by Shu Guang Zhang
£69.01Why would one country impose economic sanctions against another in pursuit of foreign policy objectives? How effective is the use of economic weapons in attaining such objectives? To answer these questions, the author examines how and why the United... -
Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails by Christopher J. Coyne
RRP: £29.99£25.99In 2010, Haiti was ravaged by a brutal earthquake that affected the lives of millions. The call to assist those in need was heard around the globe. Yet two years later humanitarian efforts led by governments and NGOs have largely failed. Resources are... -
The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
RRP: £13.99£12.11As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has become as central to sustaining our economy as profitmaking. Enter the new prophets of capital:... -
Economic Principles of Commodity Taxation by Vidar Christiansen
RRP: £17.00£15.24The authors provide a broad overview of economic aspects of commodity taxation, focussing in particular on theory and on policy applications in OECD countries. Some major papers in public economics have discussed whether these taxes should be levied at a... -
Democracy Administered: How Public Administration Shapes Representative Government by Anthony Bertelli
RRP: £30.99£19.99How does representative government function when public administration can reshape democracy? The traditional narrative of public administration balances the accountability of managers, a problem of control, with the need for effective administration, a... -
SOS Alternatives to Capitalism by Richard Swift 9781780263748
RRP: £9.99£6.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780263748Author Richard SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
Recovery: How We Can Create a Better, Brighter Future after a Crisis by Andrew Wear
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800313408Author Andrew WearFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone by Heiner Flassbeck
RRP: £9.99£6.64On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems... -
The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis by Nate G. Hilger 9780262046688
RRP: £27.00£18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046688Author Nate G. HilgerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation by Peter B. Evans
RRP: £58.00£44.37In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in...