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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... -
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... -
Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale by William Mitchell 9781784716677
RRP: £48.95£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... -
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)... -
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel C. Esty
RRP: £16.99£12.46From the Publishers Weekly review: "Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no... -
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... -
Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State by Cheikh Anta Diop 9781556520617
RRP: £16.95£10.22Apologies 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 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... -
The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization by Michael O'Sullivan
RRP: £29.00£18.07The world is at a turning point. While globalization benefited many, it produced extremes with drastic wealth inequality, indebtedness, and political volatility among the most important. As the ground underneath globalization undergoes tectonic shifts,... -
Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History by John McDonald 9780198285243
RRP: £56.00£55.72This book provides a new interpretation of the English economy between 1066 and 1086 by using methods not previously applied to Economic theory and statistical techniques to reappraise the information recorded in the Domesday book. It is the first major... -
Simply Economics by DK
RRP: £9.99£6.86Understanding economics has never been easier!Want to learn more about Economics but simply don't know where to start? Don't worry - DK has got you covered!Simply Economics is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but... -
The Crash Course: An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment, R evised Edition by Martenson
RRP: £21.99£15.23Discover how and why the world's crises are interconnected and what you can do to prepare for the next one The world is experiencing a series of crises. In The Crash Course: An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment,... -
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
£13.05Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the... -
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies 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 -
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results by Michael E. Porter
RRP: £30.00£22.62The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums--not to mention the stability of state and federal government... -
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis 9780393072235
RRP: £29.95£18.93When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC... -
Reformation to Industrial Revolution by Christopher Hill
RRP: £19.99£16.42In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 she possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialized power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and tries to explain how England won her unique... -
Political Economy of Growth by Paul A. Baran 9780853450764
£12.29One of the most influential studies ever written in the field of development economics, this book has, since first publication in 1957, bred a whole school of followers who are producing further works along the lines indicated by Baran. Concerned with... -
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency by Roger L. Martin
RRP: £22.00£16.63American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it?For its first two hundred years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with... -
The Rise of the Global Middle Class: How the Search for the Good Life Can Change the World by Homi Kharas 9780815740322
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815740322Author Homi KharasFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 237mm... -
The Great British Reboot: How the UK Can Thrive in a Turbulent World by Alex Brummer
RRP: £22.50£18.77An optimistic exploration of how, through radical economic reform, the United Kingdom can prosper and flourish in the new global economy Taking a refreshingly realistic approach, Alex Brummer outlines how our current moment can be reshaped into an... -
A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries by Pranab Bardhan
£18.74An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism's failure to deliver equality, and suggesting... -
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success by Ran Abramitzky
RRP: £25.00£15.55Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse-yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth, not facts. Using the tools of modern data analysis and ten... -
The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair by Carol Graham
£22.82Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that... -
Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £8.99£6.33The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming tax regime, created the 'Celtic Tiger' of the 1990s... -
Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History by Angus Maddison 9780199227204
RRP: £48.99£46.29This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have... -
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz 9780393345063
£8.29The 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... -
White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams 9781633698215
RRP: £10.99£8.67"It is really worth a read..." -- Former Vice President Joe Biden, interviewed on Pod Save America Now in paperback with a new Foreword by Mark Cuban and a new Preface by the author, White Working Class explains why so much of the elite's... -
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis 9781610397117
RRP: £18.99£12.05The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of... -
Islam and Capitalism by Maxime Rodinson
£11.28Islam and Capitalism is a learned, engaged rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and society of the Middle East by reference to some unchanging entity called 'Islam,' typically characterised... -
An Economic Spurt that Failed: Four Lectures in Austrian History by Alexander Gerschenkron 9780691616582
£22.82In 1900 the newly appointed Austrian prime minister, Ernest von Koerber, initiated a novel program of economic development designed to solve the political and economic problems of the Habsburg Monarchy. Ambitious and ingenious as the plan was, it proved... -
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis 9780393244663
£17.69Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post-financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big... -
Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath by Tom Clark
RRP: £10.99£10.06An analysis of the enduring social costs of the post-2008 economic crisis 2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s... -
The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal by Felix Salmon
RRP: £26.00£17.05An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis-drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture-of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy.We are living in a... -
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis 9780393338829
£8.68The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of... -
Complexity and the Economy by External Professor W Brian Arthur 9780199334292
£61.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199334292Author W Brian ArthurFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 20mm -
The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work by Richard Florida
RRP: £14.99£9.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062009050Author Richard FloridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income by Michael Cholbi
RRP: £39.99£36.71Technological advances in computerization and robotics threaten to eliminate countless jobs from the labor market in the near future. These advances have reignited the debate about universal basic income. The essays in this collection offer unique and...