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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £10.99£8.02**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, writes to his daughter to teach her the hazards of capitalism.'Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father. Answering her questions in a series of accessible and... -
Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History by Matt Taibbi
RRP: £14.99£9.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385529969Author Matt TaibbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson
RRP: £12.99£12.47Apologies 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 *... -
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows
RRP: £16.99£11.32Groundbreaking call to action by Donella Meadows, the bestselling author of Thinking in Systems! Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse the Guardian The updated edition of the groundbreaking classic that kickstarted the... -
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £10.99£8.02THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer 'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times 'The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas' Guardian In Utopia for Realists,... -
Economic History of a Divided Europe: Four Diverse Regions in an Integrating Continent by Ivan T. Berend 9781032173665
RRP: £39.99£36.71This book presents the sharp regional diff erences within the integrating European continent. Four regions - Northwestern Europe, Southern Europe, Central Europe, and Eastern-Southeastern Europe - represent high, medium, and relatively less-developed... -
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
RRP: £9.99£6.89Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone. New technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism and scarcity. Automation, rather than undermining an... -
The Economics and Politics of European Integration: Populism, Nationalism and the History of the EU by Ivan T. Berend
RRP: £39.99£36.71The Economics and Politics of European Integration offers a comprehensive history of European integration, from the conceptualization of a United States of Europe, to the present day. The special role of the United States in this process of integration,... -
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
RRP: £16.99£11.47How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case that African... -
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... -
Understanding Housing Finance: Meeting Needs and Making Choices by Peter King
RRP: £45.99£42.01One of the biggest challenges for students of housing is understanding the financial principles which underpin the place of housing in the wider economy. By taking a political economy approach, Peter King's Understanding Housing Finance makes the basic... -
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? by David G. Blanchflower 9780691181240
RRP: £25.00£19.58A 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... -
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution by Emma Griffin
RRP: £14.99£13.63This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and... -
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future by Mervyn King
RRP: £12.99£8.43'A brilliant new book' Daily Telegraph'Well written . . . and often entertaining'The Times'A sparkling analysis'ProspectWhen uncertainty is all around us, and the facts are not clear, how can we make good decisions?We do not know what the future will... -
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends by Richard Dobbs
RRP: £13.99£9.00Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defences easily breached, or vast new markets are conjured from nothing. Trend... -
The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman
RRP: £10.99£8.02Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman... -
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
£8.89From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce programme in Texas, American employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the... -
Requiem For The American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Weath and Power by Kelly Nyks
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies 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. -
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson 9780198817826
RRP: £10.99£8.02Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot... -
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose
RRP: £10.99£7.30A New York Times bestselling author and tech columnist's counter-intuitive guide to staying relevant - and employable - in the machine age by becoming irreplaceably human.It's not a future scenario any more. We've been taught that to compete with... -
Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale by William Mitchell 9781784716677
RRP: £46.95£46.31Eurozone Dystopia traces the origin of the Eurozone and shows how the historical Franco-German rivalry combined with the growing dominance of neo-liberal economic thinking to create a monetary system that was deeply flawed and destined to fail. William... -
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... -
The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It by Jon Danielsson
RRP: £25.00£21.90A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world, but it also brings grave... -
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire by Rebecca Henderson
RRP: £18.99£12.93Apologies 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... -
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995-98: Birth of the Age of Debt by Russell Napier 9780857199140
RRP: £39.00£25.79In the space of a few months, across Asia, a miracle became a nightmare. This was the Asian Financial Crisis of 1995-98. In this economic crisis hundreds of people died in rioting, political strong men were removed and hundreds of billions of dollars... -
40 Classic Crude Oil Trades: Real-Life Examples of Innovative Trading by Owain Johnson
RRP: £43.99£40.24The day-to-day world of crude oil traders is not usually open to outsiders. Few non-specialists appreciate how oil traders approach the markets, what their backgrounds are and how they make money.This book brings the oil trading world to vivid life by... -
The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9781465473912
RRP: £19.99£16.65Learn about trade and global economic crises in The Economics Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Economics in this overview guide to the subject,... -
Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy--And How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them by Peter Schweizer 9780061953378
RRP: £14.99£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061953378Author Peter SchweizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel 9780691183251
RRP: £15.99£13.01Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows... -
Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con by Jared Bibler 9780857198990
RRP: £22.99£15.19Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful of years later. Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that brought the... -
Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we'll win them back by Rebecca Giblin
RRP: £10.99£7.57A 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... -
Uncharted: How to Map the Future by Margaret Heffernan
RRP: £9.99£6.66'An urgent read ... Karl Popper for the 21st century' Robert Phillips, former CEO, Edelman EMEA and author of Trust me, PR is Dead 'Heffernan is ... a deft storyteller. Uncharted is ... wise and appealingly human' Tim Harford, Financial TimesHow can we... -
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World by Raghuram Rajan
RRP: £12.99£8.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against... -
The Escape from Balance Sheet Recession and the QE Trap: A Hazardous Road for the World Economy by Richard C. Koo
RRP: £30.99£21.35Compare global experiences during the balance sheet recession and find out what is needed for a full recovery The Escape from Balance Sheet Recession and the QE Trap details the many hidden dangers remaining as the world slowly recovers from the balance... -
Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how we put them back together again by Jon Yates
RRP: £11.99£8.68'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.' David Lammy MP This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly... -
How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty by Hilary McD. Beckles
RRP: £48.95£40.51"The modern Caribbean economy was invented, structured and managed by European states for one purpose: to achieve maximum wealth extraction to fuel and sustain their national financial, commercial and industrial transformation." So begins How Britain... -
Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State by Cheikh Anta Diop 9781556520617
RRP: £14.95£10.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520617Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Lawrence Hill & Co.Publisher Lawrence Hill & Co.Weight(grams) 181g -
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon 9780691175805
RRP: £22.00£17.39In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But... -
The Perils of Prosperity 1914-1932 by William E. Leuchtenburg
£21.26Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and U.S. entry into World War I and closing with the Great Depression, The Perils of Prosperity traces the transformation of America from an agrarian, moralistic, isolationist nation into a liberal, industrialized power... -
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani 9781786632623
RRP: £16.99£11.47The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream remains the same. Against the confines of this...