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Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future - Lessons from the World's Limits by Richard Davies
RRP: $23.38$16.44*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019**Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019*'Extreme Economies is a revelation -... -
Decision Advantage: Intelligence in International Politics from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar by Jennifer E. Sims
RRP: $74.08$65.46A history of winning intelligence practices from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar that offers timeless, practical lessons we ignore at our peril. According to conventional wisdom, strategic surprise and other intelligence failures are both inevitable... -
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter 9781526634306
RRP: $25.33$17.12'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today?... -
A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures by Nick Bernards
RRP: $38.98$30.73'The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the... -
Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All by Costas Lapavitsas
RRP: $44.83$38.40Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy in the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing defines financialization in terms of the... -
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival by Charles Goodhart 9783030426569
RRP: $48.73$44.40This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends - it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. "Whatever the... -
Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South by Joseph Hanlon 9781565493339
RRP: $46.70$38.01Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to... -
The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All by Mary Childs
RRP: $42.88$28.39From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad,... -
In Defense of Public Debt by Barry Eichengreen
RRP: $50.68$36.43A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their... -
Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we'll win them back by Rebecca Giblin
RRP: $21.43$14.27A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now... -
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth
RRP: $25.33$17.73Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of... -
Why the New Deal Matters by Eric Rauchway 9780300252002
$39.00A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today"A must-read for those who've read nothing about the New Deal before, those who've read everything about it, and anyone in between. With timeless prose and... -
The New Case for Gold by James Rickards
RRP: $50.70$29.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101980767Author James RickardsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 145mm *... -
Winner-take-all Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S Hacker 9781416588702
RRP: $35.10$22.85Apologies 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 Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas
RRP: $31.18$28.10Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic,... -
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of the Treasury Since 1976 by Aeron Davis
RRP: $33.13$23.95The Treasury is one of Britain's oldest, most powerful and secretive institutions, one that has played a central role in shaping the country's economic system. But all too often it has escaped public scrutiny when it comes to investigating the ups and... -
Economics Rules: Why Economics Works, When It Fails, and How To Tell The Difference by Dani Rodrik 9780198736905
RRP: $23.38$16.44The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Economists are widely reviled and their influence derided by the general public. Yet their services have never been in greater demand. To... -
The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation by James Bessen
RRP: $39.00$33.11An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn't break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge "Bessen is a master of unpacking the nuances of a complex array of interrelated trends to build a... -
Haiti: The Tumultuous History - from Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation by Philippe Girard
RRP: $27.28$23.36In the aftermath of January's horrific earthquake, the world's attention is focused on Haiti. In this full narrative history of the Caribbean nation, historian Philippe Girard offers insight into Haiti's complex and layered past, showing that its... -
Almost Perfekt: How Sweden Works And What We Can Learn From It by David Crouch
RRP: $29.23$18.25'Engaging' Money Week'A sharp-eyed account of what makes Sweden modern, resilient and rather different' Professor Jonas HinnforsSWEDENA country that defies the laws of economic gravity. A land with high wages, strong unions and generous welfare. A... -
Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England by Sebastian Payne
RRP: $39.00$28.65Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour's red wall, by Sebastian Payne - an award-winning journalist and Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times.The Times Political... -
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson
RRP: $39.00$26.79No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its... -
Reclaiming the Revolution: Extraordinary Adventures in Politics and Leadership at the Inflection Point of Industry 4.0 by Stephen Barber 9781915643773
RRP: $33.13$24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643773Author Stephen BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about It by Julia Cage
RRP: $62.30$48.89Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it.One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power... -
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges
RRP: $31.18$22.09Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have... -
China: The Bubble that Never Pops by Thomas Orlik 9780190877408
RRP: $50.68$35.65The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy. A banking system more than twice the size of the U.S. and an economy still... -
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
RRP: $42.88$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181119Author Tyler CowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227g -
Who Really Owns Ireland?: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it by Matt Cooper 9780717196012
RRP: $37.03$26.54Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownership - who really controls the valuable land where we live, work and play and how did they acquire it? Who are the new foreign investors and why are they... -
The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline by Russell Jones 9781913019792
RRP: $48.73$42.04The performance of the British economy over the past fifty-odd years does not make for comforting reading. Indeed, the story is a depressing catalogue of misapprehensions, missteps, wasted opportunities, crises and humiliations, with all-too-familiar... -
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be by Diane Coyle
RRP: $39.00$30.30How 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,... -
The New Economics: A Manifesto by Steve Keen 9781509545292
RRP: $25.33$17.55In 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,... -
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein
RRP: $25.33$22.35Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers"The authors weave a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies... -
Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) by Nicholas Eberstadt
RRP: $27.28$18.82Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and "full or near full employment" conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet,... -
Why We Can't Afford the Rich by Andrew Sayer 9781447320869
RRP: $21.43$16.98As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others,... -
China's Economic Dialectic by Enfu Cheng 9780717808878
RRP: $58.48$57.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808878Author Enfu ChengFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S... -
Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the New Order by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $27.28$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888363821Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 167g -
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek
RRP: $17.53$11.74"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 Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin 9781250766113
RRP: $27.28$18.92A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the potential to... -
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income by Anton Jäger
RRP: $48.75$40.79A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty-now known as basic income-is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income's modern... -
Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sara Roy 9780745322346
RRP: $54.58$36.25Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people - especially in the US - understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. This book provides an indispensable context for...