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Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
RRP: $23.08$15.77THE 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,... -
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
$18.12From 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... -
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
RRP: $20.98$13.94Fully 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... -
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: $23.08$16.32**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... -
Uncharted: How to Map the Future by Margaret Heffernan
RRP: $20.98$13.46'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 Economics and Politics of European Integration: Populism, Nationalism and the History of the EU by Ivan T. Berend
RRP: $83.98$77.09The 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,... -
Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History by Matt Taibbi
RRP: $31.48$20.35Apologies 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 *... -
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
RRP: $35.68$24.09How 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... -
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson
RRP: $27.28$25.39Apologies 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 *... -
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $52.50$33.50Economic 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: $96.58$88.22One 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... -
Economic History of a Divided Europe: Four Diverse Regions in an Integrating Continent by Ivan T. Berend 9781032173665
RRP: $83.98$68.82This 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... -
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? by David G. Blanchflower 9780691181240
RRP: $52.50$41.12A 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: $31.48$28.62This 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... -
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows
RRP: $35.68$23.25Groundbreaking 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... -
Midnight's Grandchildren: How Young Indians are Disrupting the World's Largest Democracy by Mark Hannant
RRP: $69.28$64.11While the west has experienced multiple post-war economic, social and political revolutions, India by contrast has had two distinct moments of transformation in the past century: Independence in 1947 and the economic liberalisation that began in 1991... -
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future by Mervyn King
RRP: $27.28$17.18'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... -
Requiem For The American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Weath and Power by Kelly Nyks
RRP: $35.68$24.40Apologies 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. -
From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath by Eamon Maher
RRP: $41.98$30.49This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from a socio-cultural perspective. It focuses on how these financial developments have been reflected in writing, film and... -
The New Scramble for Africa by Padraig Carmody 9781509507085
RRP: $37.78$35.28Once 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... -
Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale by William Mitchell 9781784716677
RRP: $102.80$97.25Eurozone 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 Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It by Jon Danielsson
RRP: $52.50$45.99A 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... -
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995-98: Birth of the Age of Debt by Russell Napier 9780857199140
RRP: $81.90$54.16In 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... -
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends by Richard Dobbs
RRP: $29.38$18.38Our 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... -
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire by Rebecca Henderson
RRP: $39.88$26.67Apologies 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... -
40 Classic Crude Oil Trades: Real-Life Examples of Innovative Trading by Owain Johnson
RRP: $92.38$84.50The 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: $41.98$34.36Learn 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,... -
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel 9780691183251
RRP: $33.58$27.32Are 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: $48.28$31.90Born 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: $23.08$15.37A 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... -
The Escape from Balance Sheet Recession and the QE Trap: A Hazardous Road for the World Economy by Richard C. Koo
RRP: $65.08$44.84Compare 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... -
In Defence of Open Society: The Legendary Philanthropist Tackles the Dangers We Must Face for the Survival of Civilisation by George Soros 9781529343502
RRP: $23.08$14.81George Soros is among the world's most prominent public figures. He is one of the history's most successful investors and his philanthropy, led by the Open Society Foundations, has donated over $14 billion to promote democracy and human rights in more... -
Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how we put them back together again by Jon Yates
RRP: $25.18$17.70'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... -
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson
$52.58Robots 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... -
The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman
RRP: $23.08$16.32Paul 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... -
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose
RRP: $23.08$14.81A 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... -
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: $31.48$19.07Apologies 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)... -
China: The Bubble that Never Pops by Thomas Orlik 9780190877408
RRP: $54.58$38.39The 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: $35.68$25.79Apologies 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 -
Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) by Nicholas Eberstadt
RRP: $29.38$20.27Nicholas 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,...