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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi 9780241685556
RRP: £10.99£7.77'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written' Thomas Piketty'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Mariana MazzucatoKarl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is... -
Ideas, Political Power, and Public Policy by Daniel Beland 9780367029388
RRP: £43.99£38.44Through the last couple of decades, scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly emphasized the importance of political ideas in understanding processes of change and stability in politics and public policy. Yet, surprisingly, relatively... -
The Political Thought of Abdullah OEcalan: Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Ocalan
RRP: £14.99£9.80These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence. Abdullah Ocalan led the struggle for Kurdish... -
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents - the Definitive Edition by F. A. Hayek 9780226320557
£12.43An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, "The Road to Serfdom" has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944 - when... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty 9780674295469
RRP: £15.95£11.99A 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,... -
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £10.99£7.7710TH 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 Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance by Jamie Martin
RRP: £34.95£28.59"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... -
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
RRP: £20.00£15.89A 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... -
Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator by Gregory B Jaczko 9781476755779
RRP: £17.00£10.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476755779Author Gregory B JaczkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Cameron at 10: The Verdict by Anthony Seldon
RRP: £16.99£11.87The 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... -
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
RRP: £12.99£8.48THE 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... -
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers
RRP: £20.00£16.43Banks 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... -
Economics for the Many John McDonnell 9781788737449
RRP: £9.99£8.17Economics 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... -
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze 9780141995441
RRP: £12.99£9.09FINALIST 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 Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER 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... -
Prosperity and Justice: A Plan for the New Economy IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) 9781509534999
RRP: £12.99£11.94The 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... -
The Political Economy of International Relations by Robert Gilpin
RRP: £55.00£43.31After 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... -
From Greed to Wellbeing: A Buddhist Approach to Resolving Our Economic and Financial Crises Joel Magnuson (Portland Community College) 9781447318941
RRP: £15.99£12.85Despite 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... -
Global Problems, Smart Solutions: Costs and Benefits by Bjorn Lomborg
RRP: £28.99£26.02Every 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... -
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back by David Willetts
RRP: £10.99£7.32In 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 New Economics: A Manifesto by Steve Keen 9781509545292
RRP: £12.99£9.00In 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,... -
Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) by Nicholas Eberstadt
RRP: £12.99£11.77Nicholas 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,... -
Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice Ruth Dukes 9781509548996
RRP: £15.99£14.41In 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... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £20.95£17.36A 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 Case for Community Wealth Building Joe Guinan 9781509539031
RRP: £9.99£8.95Our 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... -
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
RRP: £17.99£15.52Neoliberalism - 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... -
The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam 9780199550227
RRP: £59.00£58.59Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid... -
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth by Jonathan D. Ostry 9780231174695
RRP: £28.00£21.80Inequality 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... -
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise by Richard N. Langlois
RRP: £42.00£33.04A 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,... -
Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being by Joseph E. Stiglitz
RRP: £12.99£8.63In 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... -
The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy by Christopher K Andrews 9781498543804
RRP: £37.00£32.66The 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... -
The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System by Henryk Grossmann 9780745304595
£30.33Henryk Grossmann's influential work provides the key to a fuller understanding of Marx's theory of crisis.About the AuthorHenryk Grossman (1881-1950) was born in Cracow and studied law and economics in Cracow and Vienna. In 1925 he joined the Institute... -
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
RRP: £9.99£8.17Today, 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... -
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire by Rebecca Henderson
RRP: £18.99£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541730144Author Rebecca HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth
RRP: £13.99£9.75Selected 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... -
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future - Lessons from the World's Limits by Richard Davies
RRP: £11.99£8.43*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 -... -
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton 9780861540280
RRP: £10.99£7.00'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 Billionaire Raj: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 by James Crabtree 9781786073808
RRP: £18.99£13.61SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year India's explosive rise has driven inequality to new extremes, with millions trapped in slums as... -
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity by Sandrine Dixson-Decl ve
RRP: £17.99£13.80The 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... -
Decision Advantage: Intelligence in International Politics from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar by Jennifer E. Sims
RRP: £39.99£35.23A 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...