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Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang 9781739424312
RRP: £12.99£7.46The extraordinary story of China's spectacular but ultimately short-lived attempt to transform its society through Western-style capitalism. Drawing on four decades of experience living and working in China - from the roaring '80s when it first opened to... -
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
RRP: £10.99£6.17***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.' The TimesEmerging... -
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje
RRP: £18.99£12.36Perfect for readers of James Rebanks, Wendell Berry and Thomas Piketty, A Small Farm Future is a refreshingly new outlook on the way forward for society. A vital resource for activists, students, policy makers and anyone looking to enact change. In a... -
Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim
RRP: £22.00£16.63Blue Ocean Strategy, the #1 global bestseller, forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Now W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.Disruption dominates... -
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W.Chan Kim
RRP: £23.00£17.33OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLDWALL STREET JOURNAL AND BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLERRECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC AND IMPACTFUL STRATEGY BOOKS EVER WRITTENThe global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 47... -
Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation by Donald E. Stokes
RRP: £18.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815781776Author Donald E. StokesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)... -
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman 9780008303631
RRP: £16.99£11.47Foreword by Bill Gates From the authors of New York Times bestsellers, The Alliance and The Start-up of You, comes a smart and accessible must-have guide for budding entrepreneurs everywhere. Silicon Valley... -
The Theory of Economic Development by Joseph A Schumpeter
RRP: £17.99£16.80Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most fascinating and influential economists of the twentieth century, renowned for his brilliant and unorthodox insights into the nature of capitalism. His students include leading economists such as Paul... -
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang 9780197689363
RRP: £22.99£22.85An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party--that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming... -
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson
RRP: £12.99£12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832722Author James Dale DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 566gDimensions(mm) 140mm *... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: £14.99£13.63A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times "[A] masterly analysis."-Joshua... -
The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors: Generating Social and Environmental Value through Capital Investing by Jed Emerson 9781783088614
RRP: £19.99£18.81"The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors" offers an introductory overview for investors interested in generating financial returns with the creation of social and environmental impact. In addition to discussions of portfolio structure and strategy, the... -
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £25.00£15.95Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics. Others believe that those who are... -
How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction by Rebecca Campbell
RRP: £12.99£6.65Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives - people and mutts alike. There are... -
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab 9780241609507
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Nobody who comes away from reading The Bill Gates Problem will look at him in the same way' - The TimesYou know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world... -
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our... -
Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day by Abhijit Banerjee
RRP: £10.99£7.77FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS'Refreshingly original, wonderfully insightful . . . an entirely new perspective' GuardianWhy would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television?Why do the poorest people in India... -
Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton
RRP: £12.99£11.99An "enlightening and persuasive" (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian power The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking... -
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: £10.99£7.77Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid... -
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success by Morgan Brown
RRP: £15.99£11.61'a compelling methodology... to increase market share quickly' -- Eric Ries, bestselling author of THE LEAN STARTUP'a must-read for anyone in business' -- James Currier, managing partner, NFX Guild'will teach you how to think like a marketer of tomorrow'... -
AngelThink: The founder's guide to how business angels think and how to raise money from them by Phil McSweeney
RRP: £15.00£10.96AngelThink gives business founders and startups a distinct competitive advantage when it comes to raising funds or getting business angels to invest. Founders need to make investors love them; to want them, the team and the business proposition more than... -
The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization by Jostein Hauge 9780198861584
RRP: £35.00£30.10For 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 Essential Guide to the Dubai Real Estate Market by Michael Waters
RRP: £43.99£40.24This is the first book to fully present, analyse and interpret the Dubai real estate market. Dubai is fast becoming one of the world's most attractive places to invest in real estate and this book examines the market from three interlinked sectors that... -
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai
RRP: £10.99£7.77In this urgent yet optimistic new work, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai provides a unique perspective on the fate of Africa. Informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy, The Challenge for Africa... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £20.95£16.66A 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... -
Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy by Darryl Cunningham 9781908434432
RRP: £14.99£11.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908434432Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad EditionsDimensions(mm) 228mm * 160mm * 20mm -
Political Corruption in Africa: Extraction and Power Preservation by Inge Amundsen
£103.55Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in contemporary studies. Chapters argue that political... -
How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction by Rebecca Campbell 9780861546183
RRP: £9.99£7.11Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives - people and mutts alike. There are... -
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good by William Easterly
RRP: £13.99£10.15We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this... -
The New Scramble for Africa by Padraig Carmody 9781509507085
RRP: £17.99£16.80Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part in this story has loomed particularly large in recent years, and the American military footprint on the... -
In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South by Nicholas Jepson 9780231187978
RRP: £25.00£19.18In the early 2000s, Chinese demand for imported commodities ballooned as the country continued its breakneck economic growth. Simultaneously, global markets in metals and fuels experienced a boom of unprecedented extent and duration. Meanwhile,... -
Stakeholder Capitalism – A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet by K Schwab
RRP: £18.99£13.33Reimagining our global economy so it becomes more sustainable and prosperous for all Our global economic system is broken. But we can replace the current picture of global upheaval, unsustainability, and uncertainty with one of an economy that works for... -
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... -
GO BIG: How To Fix Our World by Ed Miliband
RRP: £9.99£7.11How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?How do we tackle the climate crisis? How can all of us play a part in making change happen? For the past four years, Ed Miliband has been discovering and interviewing brilliant people all around the world who are... -
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanovic 9780674264144
RRP: £27.95£20.41A Financial Times Best Book of the Year.A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures."How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do... -
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Vaclav Smil 9780197696750
£15.23From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The... -
Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets by Paula DiPerna 9781119913801
RRP: £22.99£15.87An exciting exploration of the new frontier of finance, to value the planet and protect what has too long been treated as free and taken for granted--the natural assets we need and love most In Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to... -
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz
RRP: £16.99£13.49A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the WestThe Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe?... -
Parallax of Growth: The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy by Ole Bjerg 9781509506248
RRP: £17.99£16.80Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent debt drive , whereby the creation of money... -
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang 9781843310273
RRP: £14.99£14.35How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for...