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The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab 9781524758868
RRP: £22.50£11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524758868Author Klaus SchwabFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 by Maggie Mahar
RRP: £17.99£15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060564148Author Maggie MaharFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 408g -
The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536 by Matthew Stevens 9781786834843
RRP: £24.99£18.80This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536. Key themes include the evolution of the agrarian economy; the foundation and growth of towns; the adoption of a money... -
Signals: Charting the Direction of the Global Economy by Jeff Desjardins
RRP: £28.00£18.59Discover the trends shaping our world, and explore the data underlying them, in this fascinating, visual journey. In Signals, Visual Capitalist founder and editor-in-chief Jeff Desjardins and his team explore the 27 most important trends shaping the... -
The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface by Philip Mirowski
RRP: £25.95£20.64Although modern neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, a partisan "thought collective," in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1947. Its original membership was made... -
Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England by Dr Elizabeth Spencer 9781837650347
RRP: £80.00£76.61Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century. Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in... -
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2: Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present by Roderick Floud
RRP: £38.99£34.26A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late... -
A History of the Global Economy: 1500 to the Present by Jorg Baten
RRP: £27.99£24.67Why are some parts of the world poor today, while others are rich? At which point in time did they diverge, and what were the reasons? These core questions are addressed in a concise and accessible introduction to global economic development since 1500... -
Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics: From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson by Ludo Cuyvers 9781032254821
RRP: £39.99£35.06Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson, both iconic Cambridge economists, were highly influenced by the economic theory of Karl Marx, and integrated important elements of Marx's economic system into their theories. This book argues, based on published and... -
The Theory of Economic Development by Joseph A Schumpeter
RRP: £17.99£16.04Joseph 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... -
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times by Nancy Koehn
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A close analysis of five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history . . . a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic!'Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of GritTen years in the writing, Forged in Crisis, by... -
The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £16.99£12.28Modern history shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, Niall Ferguson offers a bold and original analysis of the evolution of today's economic and... -
The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Richard von Glahn 9781107615700
RRP: £30.99£27.17China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to... -
Capitalism: A Short History by Jurgen Kocka 9780691178226
RRP: £16.99£12.00In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early... -
Ghana: A Political and Social History by Jeffrey Ahlman 9780755601561
RRP: £21.99£18.33Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century... -
The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort by Perry Mehrling
RRP: £42.00£33.04Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system... -
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
£27.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807056431Author Karl PolanyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel 9780691172187
RRP: £30.00£24.29The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations by Maria Pia Paganelli 9781138686151
RRP: £25.99£22.63Adam Smith (1723-1790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics, and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians, business leaders, economists, and philosophers. However, considering his fame, few people have actually... -
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini
RRP: £10.99£7.77In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong. Financial crises are not unpredictable 'black swans', but an inherent part of capitalism. Only by remaking our financial systems to acknowledge this, can... -
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn
RRP: £12.99£9.09Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of the Seven Years War - the British defeated the French in... -
Hayekian Systems: Research into the Structure of Social Interaction by William N. Butos 9781032372730
RRP: £125.00£107.86The central theme in the work of F.A. Hayek was the problem of order in society, and his focus was epistemological: he was concerned with the constraints on knowledge, the problems associated with its distribution, the structures in which it inheres, and... -
The Economics of the Stock Market by Andrew Smithers 9780192847096
RRP: £34.99£32.01The current consensus economic model, the neoclassical synthesis, depends on aprioristic assumptions that are shown to be invalid when tested against the data and fails to include finance. Economic policy based on this consensus has led to the financial... -
Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 by Richard S. Grossman 9780691139050
£62.92Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled... -
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein 9780471121046
RRP: £58.00£37.71A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and... -
The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present by Marvin Suesse 9781108831383
RRP: £30.00£26.35Nationalists think about the economy, Marvin Suesse argues, and this thinking matters once nationalists hold political power. Many nationalists seek to limit global exchange, but others prioritise economic development. The potential conflict between... -
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford 9781408712665
RRP: £20.00£13.75'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford' BILL BRYSON'Entertaining . . . A lively introduction to some of the most ingenious, yet often overlooked inventions that have changed the way we live' The... -
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us by John Quiggin 9780691154541
RRP: £13.99£11.42In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For... -
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran 9780674237476
RRP: £17.95£12.83"Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work." -Ta-Nehisi Coates"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."-The... -
Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction by Susan Ferguson
RRP: £24.99£20.27Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair working conditions, abortion laws, and sexual violence. They are demanding decent wages, better schools and free childcare. But why do some... -
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen 9780691199542
RRP: £25.00£20.59An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair... -
The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £22.00£17.71In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the... -
Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? by Steve Keen 9781509513734
RRP: £9.99£8.95The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been found... -
Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato by Rebecca Earle 9781108484060
RRP: £18.99£15.65Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato's global history reveals the... -
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit by Jim Tomlinson 9780198786092
£93.77This study offers a distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War, focussing upon the ways in which successive governments, in seeking to manage the economy, have sought simultaneously to 'manage the people': to try and... -
Makers And Takers by Rana Foroohar
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553447255Author Rana ForooharFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown BusinessPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism by Hannah Holleman 9780300230208
RRP: £27.50£26.93A profound reinterpretation of the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the... -
No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975 by Michael O’Sullivan 9780674271906
RRP: £41.95£33.60A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia.During the nineteenth century, three Gujarati Muslim... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780198757917
RRP: £31.49£22.94With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious... -
Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges 9781568586793
RRP: £15.99£11.61For decades the liberal class was a defence against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class, the press, universities, the labour movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions,have collapsed. In its absence,...